Blogosphere Responds To O’Reilly’s Baseless Attacks On The Netroots
Blogosphere Responds To O’Reilly’s Baseless Attacks On The Netroots
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly dedicated a segment to disingenuously attacking the upcoming YearlyKos convention, its namesake DailyKos, and one of the event’s sponsors, JetBlue. The Fox newsman who has encouraged terrorists to target San Francisco is now claiming that DailyKos is “one of the worst examples of hatred America has to offer.”
O’Reilly went on to compare the YearlyKos blogger convention to “a David Duke convention” while calling DailyKos “hatemongerers” like “the Ku Klux Klan” and “the Nazi Party.” Watch it:
Not only is O’Reilly’s “report” a textbook example of shoddy journalism — passing off an extreme minority of reader comments and diaries as representative of the site itself — but it also reveals his own intellectual dishonesty and ignorance.
As BooMan points out, one of the “hateful” comments O’Reilly parrots — “the Pope is a primate” — isn’t actually an insult. The prime definition of “primate,” the seemingly offending word, is actually:
pri·mate -noun
1. Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
Furthermore, when Business Week Senior Writer Diane Brady notes that DailyKos is “an open forum” and anyone, even “lunatics,” can post there, O’Reilly dismisses her, saying “I have my own website. Open forum is bull. You can regulate what’s on your website.” O’Reilly doesn’t mention, however, that his website doesn’t have a public forum and the message boards are available only for a $50 annual membership fee.
Voices across the blogosphere have weighed in on the “report,” responding to different portions of O’Reilly’s disingenuous attack:
- McJoan points out that it’s not news that individuals “say stupid things on the Internet.”
- BarbinMD notes the many positive contributions DailyKos makes to the public discourse, such as the I Got The News Today series honoring fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Noting the irony, Kos posts some of the hateful email he has received as a result of the O’Reilly segment.
- Jeffery Feldman shows how O’Reilly has hosted “hateful” voices on his show numerous times in the past.
As Cenk of the Young Turks points out, thanks to O’Reilly’s declaration that he’ll never fly on JetBlue again, passengers can fly in comfort knowing their flight won’t be interrupted by Papa Bear.
UPDATE: O’Reilly has previously said that he’d like to “go in” to the blogosphere “with a hand grenade.”
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NO place in America…
…should be safe for conservative right wing talking heads and…
…their TREASONOUS, corrupt political masters and supporters…
July 17th, 2007 at 3:06 pmFaux outrage that the pope was maligned.
Why would libs be irate about snarly comments against the pope? Its not as if they embrace Christians anyway, I would have figured the libs would cheer O’R for doing so.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:08 pmI’ll file Bill O in the IDGAF file & move on…Primate
July 17th, 2007 at 3:09 pmNO place in America…
…should be safe for conservative right wing talking heads
All yours libs, papa here is all yours. If you dont like what the opposition says, just shut them down or kill them.
Nice.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:09 pmPope & Circumcision, eh, Backwater?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:10 pmKos nails part of the reason for this latest diatribe from O’Fathead: Democratic candidates will show up for the Kos convention and not for the FoxNoose “debate”. Heh.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:10 pmBlackwater, do you even bother to read, or do you just pull comments out of thin air? The whole point is, no one made snarly comments about the Pope, which is what Bill O’Hole was on a tear about. Someone called the Pope a Primate. What’s snarly about that? Read, and try to comprehend.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:12 pmWell, JetBlue gets MY business — and actually, it already has because of its support for YK2007. Although I’m not going to be able to get to the conference this year, I had seen on the website that JetBlue was a sponsor.
And since I had a trip to Chicago for a trade show coming up, I flew JetBlue.
Disclosure – it was already my favorite airline, but it just became my more-favorite.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:12 pmWhy ARE the dems so afraid of Fox, what a chance for the largest cable news audience to hear their views.
This is news?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:13 pmHello?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:15 pmFrom your article: “The Fox newsman…”
O’Reilly is not a “Newsman”. Walter Cronkite is a “newsman”. BO is a git.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:15 pmComment by Blackwater #4
…you know what you are…
…and you’ve metatstisized to the point where you’re a threat to…
…American democracy…
…that’s the truth…
July 17th, 2007 at 3:18 pm“The Pope Is A Primate” cover of Free inquiry that the commentor referenced was indeed an insult and a play on words to the two definitions of “primate.” This is because the Catholic Church denied evolution for so long, one may say a they have the thinking capacity of primates.
No need to be apologists for religion when ever the right brings up a blog comment that might offend someone.
The Papcy should be insulted regularly for their regressive, homophobic, mysoginyst thinking.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:19 pmO’Reilly can’t have an open forum…. he would have to shut the thing down with all the people that would call him out on his BullSh*t.
He prefers his fee based forum where people will only agree with him.
As for me… I’m gonna fly in comfort on Jet Blue next time I fly… Jet Blue, Thanks for supporting open forums. You have a new customer. Unless of course, you back down to Billo’s pressure.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:20 pmsince bill has labeled jet blue, does that also imply that the 26% wont fly it either?
now that is peace of mind.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pmOnly people who are on television news networks or write for major papers should be considered legitimate sources of news.
All bloggers are partisan hacks, unlike O’Reilly.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:24 pm“The Pope Is A Primate†cover of Free inquiry that the commentor referenced was indeed an insult and a play on words to the two definitions of “primate.â€
Comment by Matt Bors
I don’t necessarily see it as an insult, but more as a political statement related to evolution and the Church. Decent play on words that made a point. I certainly didn’t see it as hate speech directed personally at the Pope as Bill O claims.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:25 pmAs long as Pope Benedict keeps coming up with dumbshit tenets like the Catholic church is really the only “church”, I’ll not insult the rest of the primates by lumping him in with them.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pmBill O doesn’t fly JetBlue – there is no 1st class when he can sneer at the peasants.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:32 pmBill O is terrified of the blogosphere — and he is right to fear it.
We will be the downfall of him and his kind.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:33 pmBetween Bill O and Novak, vicious lib bloggers must be today’s meme. Wonder who sent out the memo.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:33 pmRegarding the primate play on words, I’m reminded of a Seinfeld episode when Kramer got into an argument with a chimp, and Kramer insisted that the chimp started it. The zookeeper said, “Mr. Karmer, he’s an innocent primate.” Kramer repleid, “So am I.”
July 17th, 2007 at 3:34 pmAll bloggers are partisan hacks, unlike O’Reilly.
Uh, that would be U 2.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:34 pmWow — BillO actually encouraged terrorists to hit San Francisco back in 2005?? I missed that! And the DHS let him get away with that? If I encouraged terrorism in any form, I would be in Guantanamo right now.
But on a different note — I am amused that Bill and other right wingnuts, for all their bluster and noise, seem to be scared sh!tless of a progressive blogsite. But this is Bill. His ability to debate is so poor that he has to cut the microphone of anybody who give any kind of intelligent response to his prepared talking points.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:34 pmBill O doesn’t fly JetBlue – there is no 1st class when he can sneer at the peasants.
Comment by Powkat — July 17, 2007 @ 3:32 pm
I think O’Reilly only flies Low Class.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:34 pmYeah, OReally has taken it to a new level, like an artisan Hack.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pmAnd thus the liberal blogosphere (god I hate that word) gets trolled big time…
July 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pm#18 As long as Pope Benedict keeps coming up with dumbshit tenets like the Catholic church is really the only “churchâ€, I’ll not insult the rest of the primates by lumping him in with them.
Comment by RUCerious
July 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pmI was so taken back by Pope B that I wrote a letter to the catholic church. NO response of course. This man is on the same bent as Bush.
O’Reilly is a pathetic blowhard.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:37 pm“Why ARE the dems so afraid of Fox, what a chance for the largest cable news audience to hear their views.
This is news?
Comment by Xhodg — July 17, 2007 @ 3:13 pm”
It’s not that they are afraid of them. It’s more about not wanting to legitimizing Fox.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pmI’ve ntoiced a roughly parallel path followed by Bildo and by our trolls here. Both seem to sense, subconsciously, that their worldview is losing its grip on power. They don’t seem to realize that it’s also losing its grip on reality.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pmI don’t know why TP even reports O’Really. Is there a bigger bigot and ass in all of television?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pmlc ~ I was born and raised a Catholic. Grade and high schooled. After attaining the age of reason, it somehow lost its shine.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pmNO place in America…
…should be safe for conservative right wing talking heads and…
…their TREASONOUS, corrupt political masters and supporters…
Comment by big papa
And that comment puts you in the same category as O’Reilly.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:40 pmYup, I just checked Michelle Malkin, who will never pass on an opportunity to jump aboard a mindless issue. It’s all Jet Blue all the time over there now. Funny how she’s decrying the hate on the left yet posting mashups comparing JetBlue and Kos to Hitler and Mussolini. I guess these are people who have forgotten what fascism is really about.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:42 pmHi Guys! Remember the days when these spinmeisters could get away with saying anything they pleased? No longer! Thanks to the blogosphere, the hypocrites and charlatans are being outed daily. It’s keeping them honest.
Bill O does have reason to hate the blogosphere. It’s responsible for his imminent undoing.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:42 pmSo can I go to bill oliellys web site and freely make any post I like so that KOS can use it to characterize olielly? What? Bill don’t let people post freely? Isn’t this the guy that paid his way out of a sexual discrimination law suit? I just don’t get it. His listeners think it is ok to abuse women but not OK to allow free discussion? What am I missing here?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:43 pmSgt. Higgins: Truth in reporting along with professional ethics once guided them. Now they’re all sycophantic propagandists, save for a few.
They’re now making themselves easy targets for americans to see who the real traitors are to this democracy. Soon, thanks to the blogosphere it will not be safe for conservative talking head who have nothing to spin but lies, smoke and mirrors. They’re all frauds.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:45 pmMaybe Bill O can go back to “loofah diving”? I hear it’s his specialty sport.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:46 pmAll yours libs, papa here is all yours. If you dont like what the opposition says, just shut them down or kill them.
Nice.
Comment by Blackwater
Sorry, free speech and all.
I know you fascist Bush supporters do not understand, we do not kill people for speaking their mind, even if their minds are very tiny and limited like yours.
If that were the case, trolls like Patrick1 and Mr. President/PiP would have been dead long ago.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:46 pmReid on Republican denial on discussion
July 17th, 2007 at 3:47 pmlc ~ I was born and raised a Catholic. Grade and high schooled. After attaining the age of reason, it somehow lost its shine.
Comment by RUCerious
July 17th, 2007 at 3:47 pmI understand what you’re saying. I am still a Christian, but I also understand the age of reason. I’ve read Any Rand. I feel that there is reason and faith. But, I won’t go into here. I’m not perfect and will always sin.
Interesting point: Patrick1, Mr. President, and PIP all begin with the letter “P” – for “pea brain”. Good one.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:48 pmAnd that comment puts you in the same category as O’Reilly.
Comment by SGT Higgins #35
…This ain’t “politics as usual”, nephew…
…conservatism is DESTROYING our way of life…
…when YOU get your bill…
…and YOUR children and grandchildren are SLAVES to the corporate masters…
…think back on this “fair and balanced” bullsh*t you posted…
…I’d like to kill it (conned’self-serving corporate facism) …
…before it grows any bigger…
July 17th, 2007 at 3:49 pmAll bloggers are partisan hacks, unlike O’Reilly.
Comment by Patrick1
And you are the biggest hack, or the product of a **hack* rather, the part spit on the ground
July 17th, 2007 at 3:49 pmJet Blue will get my business, it’s called the first amendment O’lielly. You are the biggest hypocrite on earth, look in the mirror.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:50 pm#
Reid on Republican denial on discussion
Comment by ccokz — July 17, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
ccokz: Thanks for the url! It looks like a good one. Is it your blogsite?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:50 pmWow! JetBlue is a bunch of Islamo-Stalinists!!!
July 17th, 2007 at 3:50 pmAnybody who holds one party responsible, conservative or liberal for the downfall of America is not in the real world. People destroy nations, not parties.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:51 pmOh and Sarge (Higgins)…
…stop taking everything so “literally”…
…think…
…metaphorically…
…if that’s possible…
July 17th, 2007 at 3:52 pmGreat Job OReilly on exposing the left for what they really are!
Comment by stanman #50
TRUE American Patriots!
July 17th, 2007 at 3:53 pmYou TP Lefties should thank us True Patriots (trolls) for saving the image of this webpage!!!
July 17th, 2007 at 3:53 pmI am constantly amazed by what I see here.
Bill, like Ann C, is a real-life equivalent of a net troll and your reaction to him is the same. Just look at this article. It’s an itemized list of meticulously researched points debunking Bill’s attack. Well done, but what’s the point?
Let’s face it. Us trolls spout a lot of cr@p here, mostly because we like to stir up sh1t and get a reaction. Bill is a pro – he does it for money. Bill knows he’s spouting talking points. Heck, his pal Rush recently told the public that he’s tired of carrying water for the neocons. Trolls here aren’t taking themselves seriously or believe much in what they post – that’s why I find posts like #32 hilarious and at the same time perplexing. We know that we’re not fighting for some cause.
So who cares about all your meticulously researched and referenced replies?
Bill doesn’t care. Trolls don’t care. Conservatives don’t care. Neocons don’t care. Public doesn’t see your response and even if they did, only an insignificant fraction of them would understand or care.
I mean what’s the point?
No-one at least on our side of the aisle is interested in a debate, because there is nothing to talk about. We have our agenda, like you have yours, and the rest of the public discourse is just a show and exercise in talking points.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:54 pmJetBlue is an enemy of America!
July 17th, 2007 at 3:55 pmHey Bob!
July 17th, 2007 at 3:55 pmHow’s it going, Prez?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:57 pmHey Bill:
By all means, let’s only allow those thing that FOX NEWS produces to be seen by the masses.
I KNOW you’re going to want to cover this as a classic example of the type of Nazi/KKK propaganda you mentioned in your piece last night….but please…pretty please…attack this story “live” on your show:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm
Your producer can probably even order up video clips from your own archives, provided they haven’t been burned.
After all, it was produced by FAIR & BALANCED Fox – who can never be wrong!
RIGHT?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:57 pmConsidering the biological definition of a “primate” is “any of an order of mammals comprising humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers)” also accurately describes the Pope, O’Reilly just shows his total ignorance. I don’t really see how being called a “primate” (even in this sense) could be construed as an insult.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:59 pmWhy can’t these pinheads comprehend that holding your country to a higher standard than the mongrols, is not “hating it”?
Do parents who scold their children for doing things the parents disapprove of, “hate” their children?
July 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pm#43, LC, someday we’ll compare notes and have a discussion!
July 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pmWhy ARE the dems so afraid of Fox, what a chance for the largest cable news audience to hear their views.
This is news?
Comment by Xhodg — July 17, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
The shows on the Fox “Bush Propaganda” Channel have ratings between one to two million viewers and most of the viewers are in the “close to death” demographic. It really doesn’t make any sense for the Democrats to debate in front of an audience of one to two million people who will never vote for them and who are in that “close to death” demographic. They should focus their attention on younger people and getting them registered to vote.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pmNot bad, Bob.
You?
July 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pmFine, thanks. Just being lazy, watching TV and having fun.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:04 pmYou guys realize Mr. President is also Boudin Bob, and is just talking to himself, right?
July 17th, 2007 at 4:06 pmThe nutroots are a great target for anyone with a brain & some knowledge of issues. The hysteria level of the fruitpies on this thread makes suicide bombers envious. The Kossacks are a joke and should be exposed as agitpreppie twits.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:08 pmBartles, yeah. It’s sad that he has to resort to having conversations with himself. Lonely. Pathetic, a couple of loser other words schmuck come to mind.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:08 pmClassic ‘Fair and Balanced’
July 17th, 2007 at 4:09 pmO’Reilly debating the sock puppet on his leftist hand.
will someone PLEASE explain to me why the weblog response to fox/oreilly has been for weblog’s to defend weblogs?
for christ’s sakes,
why not ATTACK.
ATTACK o’reilly,
including attacking with specific examples from his long history of vicious commentary.
the weblogs focus should bring into sharp public focus this extraordinary history of oreilly’s,
together with the well-honed right-wing tactic
of calling others names that apply in spades to wing nut behavior.
why isn’t daily kos attacking oreilly,
heaping example on top of example of oreilly hate speech?
when will progressives learn to fight?
instead of counter-punch.
learn from sen webb!!
July 17th, 2007 at 4:09 pmReality Check:
The left now represent the overwhelming majority of public opinion. Wake up trolls!
July 17th, 2007 at 4:12 pmCheney = Pinata in this thread:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/cheney-invited-to-testify-about-politicizing-interior-dept/#comment-3942050
July 17th, 2007 at 4:12 pmI understand what you’re saying. I am still a Christian, but I also understand the age of reason. I’ve read Any Rand. I feel that there is reason and faith. But, I won’t go into here. I’m not perfect and will always sin.
Comment by leftcoast
Yes, we’re well aware that you’re not perfect. You admit to having read Ayn Rand–we’ll even forgive you the misspelling. ;-)
July 17th, 2007 at 4:13 pmIn an IDEAL world, faith will be enhanced by reason and reason will be enhanced by faith. Unfortunately, this isn’t an ideal world and far too many of the “faithful” simply refuse to use reason to better understand their faith. (Any use of reason in Bible study is discouraged since the Book of Genesis alone is rife with contradictions, and that’s JUST the first installment of the whole. When the first two chapters of that Book disagree on something as simple as a creation story, you know the whole Bible can’t stand up to much rational scrutiny.)
O’Reilly is exposing the intolerance of the Left.
I emailed him examples of Jew and Christain bashing on TP!
Comment by The Joker — July 17, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
And Freerepublic won’t allow opposition points of view, unlike TP, which allows Cro-Magnons like yourself to post.
Go back and read Bibles and Ann Coulter, and keep yur noses up firmly positioned between Cheney’s Ass Cheeks.
Oh, I almost forgot, the “Jews” TP goes after are actually Zionists/Likuds, not orthodox Jews. That is like saying “If you attack GW Bush, you hate Americans”.
And……The Christians attacked are the Inquisitional “Christians” that would burn witches (or liberals/Pagans), not the True Essene/Gnostic Christians, of which Jesus was.
O’Reiily is a Big Bag of Crap, and really nothing he says is of any importance except to Fundementalists and Crackpots.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:16 pmTP bloggers, DailyKos bloggers, Huffington Post bloggers, DemocraticUndegroudn bloggers as well as posters are constantly comparing Bush to Hitler, constantly spew hate against anyone on the right. Constantly spit on and speak with great vile and hate against Christianity.
Only the left wing in America would claim that they are saints that are not full of hate.
The left wing in America is intolerant, and very closed minded to any point of view and to anyone that doesn’t agree with their Liberal ideologies.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:19 pmYou TP Lefties should thank us True Patriots (trolls) for saving the image of this webpage!!!
Comment by Mr. President
So, you, who have never served, while veterans like me are not according to you?
Yeah right, you chickenhawk, who smears dead Soldiers
July 17th, 2007 at 4:21 pmNazis and the KKK? NAZIS and the KKK? I’m a little offended, but not as much as I would be if this came from someone whose mind, good concious, and credibility were still in tact.
Dear Bill O, you have serious psychological problems. The least of which is the consistency with which you project your own limitations/racism/hate on others.
Please get some help.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:30 pmThe a$$hole is here, talking to himself again, and now smearing yet ANOTHER veteran. What a class act. C-L-ASS.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:31 pmTo orionATL: It does no good to “attack” O’Reilly when those being attacked by O’Reilly can’t get the attention of the SCLM to press that attack. O’Reilly (unfortunately) has a corporate launching pad (courtesy of Murdoch) as well as a radio program from which to launch his hate-filled spiels. The SCLM DOESN’T FRICKIN’ CARE about the slime that man spews–he’s one of them.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:36 pmThe bloggers, however, don’t have that advantage. The SCLM will only report the lies that O’Reilly and the rest of the neocon agendists spout, using THEIR words and attacks. (If O’Reilly says “the leftie bloggers are anti-American”, the SCLM will report “recent stories have found that left-wing bloggers are more likely to be anti-American”–just adding that slight modifier allows the SCLM to maintain their “neutrality” and avoid any outright claims of slander or libel.) IF a “left-wing” blogger actually is interviewed by the SCLM, it’s a good bet the interviewee will be one of the most extreme bloggers who’ll simply “prove” the original report. (It’s not much different from the way most SCLM coverage of a gay pride parade focuses on the more extreme paradegoers rather than the more mainstream-looking participants.)
The sponsorship of the YearlyKos by Jet Blue spurred an outburst of hate between O’Reilly and the DailyKos website, both guilty of “hating†on one another. Instead of fighting with each other about hate why don’t these two very influential mediums team up to promote the issues. Global poverty is an issue that needs to be addressed. The Millennium Development Goals were implemented as a way to cut global poverty in half by 2015, but the program is horribly under funded. Organizations like the Borgen Project spend time bringing political attention to global poverty. Perhaps the DailyKos and O’Reilly factor should rethink their strategies.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:37 pm55. Boudin Bob
Thanks Bob for articulating what I’m all about. I’d have to be batsheet crazy to actually believe ANY of the stuff I type here. It’s just fun to fan the flames of people who are fanatically (but rightfully) pissed off.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:37 pmWatch out for a JetBlue jet, crashing into a building near you.
/sarcasm
July 17th, 2007 at 4:39 pmYou guys must be vets of the Cuban rEvolution if anything!
A bunch of traitors you internet geeks are!
Comment by Mothra #75
You sh*t-fer-brains, TREASONOUS, inbred Bushite cultist b*ch…
…if we WERE “vets of the Cuban rEvolution “…
…we’d STILL be more PATRIOTIC and certainlymore courageous…
…than your chickenhawk punk a*s…
…if you used your head for more than a freakin’ hat rack…
…you’d KNOW hich side really supports VETS and the troops…
…get your head out of Bush’s a*s…
…and maybe it’ll afford you a different view…
…and what’s up with that moniker “Mothra”…
…what do you fancy yourself as some kinda prehistoric…
… irradiated “butterfly”?
July 17th, 2007 at 4:40 pmrepublicans support the communistic party?
yes virgina, it’s sad they do
proof positive, our big bush govt and skyrocketing deficit
July 17th, 2007 at 4:48 pmYea not commies like you!
Comment by Mothra #84
…and to think…
…your Mommy and Daddy…
…french kiss that filthy mouth of yours…
July 17th, 2007 at 4:51 pmbah, 1983 to 1991
July 17th, 2007 at 4:56 pmDamn typos when I get pissed….
I have never yet heard O’Reilly describe another person or another entity, which which he disagreed, in terms which would not be better used to describe O’Reilly.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:59 pmoh Frackin Chit , ok slower this time, 2nd correction 1982 to 1991
Hope someone has reported this slimeball is back again, reporting to TP also.
Wish I could reach out and touch this guy, with a bat.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:01 pmDamn I am pissed
Wayne, ignore the motherf*cker. Freeze ‘em the f*ck out. Force them to make up other IDs and pretend to have a conversation. That’s the only time when they’re amusing anyway. Otherwise, they’re just pathetic.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:03 pmWhy can’t these pinheads comprehend that holding your country to a higher standard than the mongrols, is not “hating it�
Do parents who scold their children for doing things the parents disapprove of, “hate†their children?
Comment by BARTLEBEE
________________
Exactly what I have been saying about the “faux patriotism” stuff that burns me (thus, my screen name).
July 17th, 2007 at 5:03 pmWayne, ignore the motherf*cker. comment by spit take
Yeah, i shouldn’t let the worms get to me.
Funny, I responded to Mr.Pee and imediately Mothra shows.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pmI do believe Mr. Pee is the veteran trashing troll now.
the scumbag.
so the Orally hates the poop? Now don’t cha be tellin’ me that orally isn’t a catholic boy whaddya say? has orally done a show about the abuse by priests? sounds like a connection there unless he just hates germans?
July 17th, 2007 at 5:23 pmFor O’Reilly to call others hateful is beyond surreal. Indiana University researchers found that O’Reilly called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds.
I created an interactive artwork that illustrates O’Reilly’s unique abuse of language:
Bill O’Reilly: Propaganda Pimp
July 17th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
#95 Oldtree,
I wonder if the Pope came on his show, if he would shut off the microphone if the discussion got away from billo?
July 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pmI emailed him examples of Jew and Christain bashing on TP!
Comment by The Joker
And what about your endless Lirul/Dem/Dhimmi/Moslem bashing?
Certainly you jest.
Oh, any examples of your bad spelling while you’re at it?
July 17th, 2007 at 5:48 pm“Not only is O’Reilly’s “report†a textbook example of shoddy journalism — passing off an extreme minority of reader comments and diaries as representative of the site itself — but it also reveals his own intellectual dishonesty and ignorance.”
Wow, now there’s the pot calling the kettle black! For the perfect example of shoddy, one-sided journalism, just read the crap “news stories” posted here on TP.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:58 pmNo one has ever said more hateful and despicable things against the Pope and the Catholic Church than Swift Boat Liar Jerome Corsi, who posted his hate speech on the FreeRepublic.com website.
Has O’Reilly ever mentioned Jerome Corsi and FreeRepublic.com’s anti-Catholic bigotry and hate speech?
No.
Why is that?
Because O’Reilly is a right wing ideologue/hypocrite, that’s why.
***********************************************
Here is just a fraction of Corsi and FreeRepublic.com’s anti-Catholic hate speech:
On Catholics and the Pope
CORSI: Maybe while he’s there he can tell the UN what he’s going to do about the sexual crimes committed by “priests” in his “Church” during his tenure. Or, maybe that’s the connection — boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn’t reported by the liberal press. (03/03/2003)
CORSI: So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the laywers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that’s probably about it. (12/16/2002)
http://mediamatters.org/items/200408060010
July 17th, 2007 at 6:06 pmI agree with Bill O’Reilly, to a point.
DailyKos does thrive on hatred.
And, it is NOT an open forum. They are censoring posts over there all day and night long. There is a rating system that allows the board monitors to make any post disappear that they feel is not aligned with the DailyKos ideology.
The fact that the hate posts quoted by O’Reilly were not made to disappear only confirms his point that it is a site of hatred.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:17 pmbout time some exposes the liberal hate sites
July 17th, 2007 at 6:21 pmComment by chasemonster — July 17, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
Comment by crimedog — July 17, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
This is an open forum, and yet you two are still b*tching. Amazing.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:26 pmit’s funny, the “representativeness” issue can be judged by the “troll rating” mechanism attatched to every diary, post and comment. this allows the community to set what sentiments they identify themselves with, and not one of the comments mentioned was rated down. progressives hate in the weirdest way. they hate people for not thinking exactly like them.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:50 pm#100 and #101
It’s not so much “hate” (well, yeah, I guess it is) but whining and conspiracy theories as well.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:51 pmI wonder if the trolls think it’s “hate” to name-jack a fallen soldier and accuse his comrade of lying about his service to the country?
July 17th, 2007 at 6:58 pmi think it’s probably “hate” for progressive democratics of the social justice movement to “support the troops” by stalking them to their homes between deployments and shoooting them point-blank in the chest, leaving behind a suicide note filled with dkos-like ramblings about “boosh” and “neocons”.
but as one kos supporter wrote in response to the o’reilly piece, just because someone might aknowlege that an expression is ugly doesn’t mean that they don’t agree with it.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:21 pmIt’s not so much “hate†(well, yeah, I guess it is) but whining and conspiracy theories as well.
Comment by Mr. President
You’re the chief whiner.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:28 pmoh ok
Comment by chasemonster — July 17, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
Comment by crimedog — July 17, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
This is an open forum, and yet you two are still b*tching. Amazing.
Comment by Zooey
July 17th, 2007 at 7:40 pmI will be planning all my flights on JetBlue. Thanks Billo for reminding me to support that airline.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:13 pmit’s funny, the “representativeness†issue can be judged by the “troll rating†mechanism attatched to every diary, post and comment. this allows the community to set what sentiments they identify themselves with, and not one of the comments mentioned was rated down. progressives hate in the weirdest way. they hate people for not thinking exactly like them.
Comment by jummy — July 17, 2007 @
Bwahahahahahaha. Sure. That’s it.
July 17th, 2007 at 9:34 pmPlease stop referring to O’Reilly as “… a newsman.” He is a bloviator; a liar; a racist; a lunatic; and a bloviating lying racist lunatic. He is definitely NOT a “newsman.” Indeed, he is anything BUT a “newsman.” Thank you.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:06 pmBillo is a prime example of the Faux NoNooz approach to entertainment; put an ego-maniac who spends more time shilling his goofy pens and t-shirts then he does actually preparing for a story, since he already has his mind made up.
But then they pander to the lowest common denominator in his audience, the low IQ, mouth-breathers.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:13 pm#109: I will be planning all my flights on JetBlue. Thanks Billo for reminding me to support that airline.
Ditto that.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:29 pmwell, now you can’t say you don’t know where to turn when you need a good laugh in the ‘no spin zone.’
July 17th, 2007 at 10:39 pmThe Nazi comparison was ridiculous. I’m sure he would take that back. But the Daily Kos does attract a goodly number of disaffected youths and middled-aged losers who’ve never found happiness. They come off like an angry lynch mob, tearing down anything they can sink their claws into while creating nothing of importance themselves.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:38 pmIf Bill O and his fellow neocons boycott Jet Blue, the rest of us will finally be able to fly without primates. Those of us who have evolved should do a reverse boycott and give Jet Blue some netroots business.
July 18th, 2007 at 12:17 amBO is overly generous,
every time he opens his fat mouth,
he shares his ignorance with the World.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:22 amLetter sent to Bill tonight.
Bill, a little honesty is in order here, don’t ya think?
You’ve read Man Coulter’s material of hate, and sponsored it on your show so many times.
Could you possibly be a bigger fucking hypocrite? Could you possibly be a bigger fucking hack?
Bill, Bill. The bloggers on the Kos said they wouldn’t mind if Baghdad Bob, I mean Tony Snow, and Dick Cheney were to die. Bill, Bill, how many people’s death’s are those guys responsible for??? How many American troop deaths, how many innocent Iraqi deaths? How many death’s are they responsible for against Iraqi guys who can’t help but feel the moral obligation to defend their country against the occupying foreign troops and ‘accidental’ slaughterings, the ‘collateral damage’ that they wrought on their wife’s and children and families? Huh Bill? And all you can do is get huffy and pissy over a few bloggers who, in a mathematically honest way, suggest that many lives may be spared at the expense of a few? Isn’t that just another form of your ‘collateral damage? Yes, of-fucking-course it is, you itsy bitsy minded aristocrat.
By the way, are you having any luck with your tin foil hat protecting yourself from George Soros’ black helicopters?
Also by the way, humans are, by scientific classification, primates. Are you a knee-jerk hack like you always accuse others of being? Right, rhetorical.
Sincerely,
July 18th, 2007 at 3:46 amJoey
LA area
BO should be held accountable he’s the most hatemonger in the media and he should be terminated immediately.
July 18th, 2007 at 6:13 amI have a favorite uncle who is a big fan of O’Lielly. I believe he’s going senile.
July 18th, 2007 at 8:29 amSorry Billy boy but you are a primate too. Just as the Pope and all the rest of the people at this site; along with apes, monkeys and lemurs.
July 18th, 2007 at 2:35 pmWhy does everyone want to insult apes, monkeys and lemurs?
At least they care for each other, take care of their babies, dont lie constantly, and have not been stupid enough to ever kill each other over religion.
Who is the evolved species? I think they are the ones who wouldnt want to be associated with us.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:56 pmSure you can make fun of YK. What other national gathering requires you to grab a room in the spring but doesn’t tell you that programming starts at 8 am on the first day until July? While most conventions would still be registering stragglers, YK will have already had about 30 workshops, caucuses, films and roundtables by noon, or just about the time I’ll finally arrive at the hotel after fighting my way in through Chicago commuter traffic.
And that oh so important Sunday that I took a $149 room for an extra night? A prayer group meeting and a brunch (no speakers). Period. Needless to say I’d like to trade that Saturday night reservation for Wednesday, but it’s too late as the hotel was booked up ages ago.
Max, don’t deprive us of your insights on YK, please. ActBlue has done a really bizarre job of setting up a convention unlike any other, and they need encouragement to rethink their schtick before YK08.
July 20th, 2007 at 3:41 pmThe only thing Bill has done here with his smear campaign is to give publicity the DailyKos.com within american popular culture. Over the past month, their traffic has doubled – Check this out!. The republican’s dirty tactics are starting to backfire.
August 20th, 2007 at 4:02 am