Boston newsman protests Bill O’Reilly’s Emmy Award.
Boston newsman protests Bill O’Reilly’s Emmy Award.
Barry Nolan, a local Boston news reporter, is mounting a campaign to protest the fact that Bill O’Reilly will be awarded an Emmy Award by the Boston/New England Chapter next month. Nolan insists that O’Reilly is “a mental case” who shouldn’t be held up as an example of journalistic integrity:
“I am appalled, just appalled,” Nolan told the Track. “He inflates and constantly mangles the truth…and his frequent target is the ‘left-leaning’ media - the ones who do report the news fairly. And those are the same people who will be sitting in the room honoring him.” […]
“I hope people will express their displeasure to the board of governors and they’ll rescind their decision,” he said. “It’s morally unacceptable.”
Nolan plans to attend the May 10 ceremony, and he’s invited Keith Olbermann as his date.
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Nolan plans to attend the May 10 ceremony, and he’s invited Keith Olbermann as his date.
Priceless!
April 11th, 2008 at 11:38 amNolan plans to attend the May 10 ceremony, and he’s invited Keith Olbermann as his date.
- - Sounds like an upcoming Oddball segment.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:39 amAbsolutely agree, Falafel Stalker Pervert Bill is a piece of human garbage, and should not every even slightly be considered for this.
Up yours alafel Stalker Pervert Billdo.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:50 amHow about the “Lemmy Award?”
April 11th, 2008 at 11:51 amBillo getting an Emmy? For what? His comedy schtick?
Yeah, that would be appropriate.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:51 amApparently, the Boston chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has a Brown Circle Award for Lifetime Achievement as an Asshat. Congratulations, Bill; they’ll probably name a toilet stall after you.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:52 amO’Lielly gets an Emmy? Sheeeesh! What’s next…rabies shots for the Easter Bunny?
April 11th, 2008 at 11:54 amIt would be more appropriate for him to get the enema award.
Ahhh, now we know what gets the slumbering media off it’s arse: hold up Billo as an example of journalistic integrity!!
Hey, give Sean Hannity, Dr Laura, Rush Limbaugh, et al prizes too!
April 11th, 2008 at 11:54 amYou interpret it as hate because it is convenient to your agenda. Is it hate to indict a criminal, is it hate to say so when somone is lying when it is easily proven and the lie is destructive?
You offer no discussion, just judgement based on a right wing myth.
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April 11th, 2008 at 11:55 amBill-O will just tell everyone there to Shut-up and they they’re all morons who are all against him. He’ll then take his award and display it on his gay show and do nothing but tell everyone that he has won it. They will change his intro to show that he has an Emmy.
Lord just strike him dead now.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:55 amGee, Uncle Ho… are we feeling a little… **SNARKY**… this morning???
April 11th, 2008 at 11:56 amTed Baxter is getting an Emmy???
April 11th, 2008 at 11:56 amVA voter, I take it you are a BO fan? Have you bought the Billo signature Loofa collection? You like falafels?
VA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Left wing guy hates. That’s new.
Right-wing guy like O’Dildo LIES and HATES.
Right-wing WAR CRIMINAL like MURDERER Bush the COXUCKER punk TRAITOR tells LIES.
That’s NOT new. Just more of the TREASON against the USA that the right-wing COMMITS TO and LOVES…
April 11th, 2008 at 11:57 amO’Reilly is slated to receive an Emmy? DOUBLEPLUSGOOD
/snark off
There goes any remaining credibility that awards carries with me.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:57 amSNARKY?
Did someone say SNARK?
April 11th, 2008 at 11:59 amVA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I have no agenda.
“Fair tax” is an agenda, dingleberry.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:59 amThe moon is right for strong snark today…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pmHe’s getting an Emmy for “Best use of a Dildo” or something?
April 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pmI have no agenda.VA Voter Says
April 11th, 2008 at 12:01 pmYou have no brain.
You have no soul.
You have no honor.
You have no ability to think for yourself.
VA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Razster Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Lord just strike him dead now.
Would you call that hate?
Yeah, I’d call that hateful — and it’s flagged. But you were pissing and moaning about hate long before that one showed up.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:01 pmWould you guys like it better if a left wing reporter like Keith Olbermann got it?
Absolutely.
Olbermann is a JOURNALIST who TELLS THE TRUTH and uses FACTS. Which in the eyes of you FASCIST nutjobs, makes him “left wing”.
O’Dildo is a fascist mouthpiece who uses LIES, HALF-TRUTHS and INNUENDO to spew his garbage.
And MURDERER Bush the COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA is going to BURN FOR ETERNITY for his WAR CRIMES.
Praise God and Jesus!
April 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pmVA Voter Says:
Would you guys like it better if a left wing reporter like Keith Olbermann got it?
Since Keith doesn’t lie, doesn’t try to incite people to violence, and doesn’t assign his staff to stalk people, then yes he would be a much more appropriate recipient of such an award. The fact that this organization is awarding O’Lieley, someone who constantly lies, obfuscates and shows definitely racist tendencies is a joke. Then we can also bring up his wonderful journalistic-communication techniques via telephone sex with an employee who sued him for sexual harassment. Yep, that’s surely someone who should be given an award for journalistic integrity.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pmWould you call that hate?VA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pmNo,I would call that KARMA!
VA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I would like to see the fair tax passed because it would be good for America. I try to let people know about it and let them make ther own minds up about it.
Right — it’s your AGENDA.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pmwhen I look at the above picture of Brillo on this thread, I can’t help but think of projectile shit-vomiting.
sorry about that graphic description folks.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pmUncle Ho Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
when I look at the above picture of Brillo on this thread, I can’t help but think of projectile shit-vomiting.
He’s even giving it a direction. :D
April 11th, 2008 at 12:05 pmva voter, virginia have a poor public school system or did you just not pay attention?
The discussion is about someones negative opinion of oriley getting rewarded for lying…..
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April 11th, 2008 at 12:05 pmI didn’t say anything about the fair tax untill it was posted by you.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pmWould you guys like it better if a left wing reporter like Keith Olbermann got it?
Absolutely.
Olbermann is a JOURNALIST who TELLS THE TRUTH and uses FACTS. Which in the eyes of you FASCIST nutjobs, makes him “left wing”.
O’Dildo is a fascist mouthpiece who uses LIES, HALF-TRUTHS and INNUENDO to spew his garbage.
And MURDERER Bush the COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA is going to BURN FOR ETERNITY for his WAR CRIMES.
Praise God and Jesus!
April 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pmVA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Right — it’s your AGENDA
I didn’t say anything about the fair tax untill it was posted by you.
Christ on a cracker, look it up. I’m done.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm“You may not agree with him, but you can’t say he hasn’t increased the political conversation in this country with his style of broadcasting,” Egan said.
No, he has debased political conversation you frackin dope.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pmVA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I have no agenda.
I know of at least one. Wave your cursor over ‘VA Voter’ and click.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pmHate was all you talked about until then……no one else brought that up….hate is your agenda and you are not even capable of being subtle about it…..
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Nicky Barnes AKA Trajan, flagged also.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pmNicky Barnes Says:O’Reilly must be silenced!
April 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pmSorry TROLL, you have to have a brain to play here. No one has said anything about silencing loofa boy. Just that he doesn’t deserve awards for bloviating.
Zooey Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
VA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Right — it’s your AGENDA
I didn’t say anything about the fair tax untill it was posted by you.
Christ on a cracker, look it up. I’m done.
I don’t blame you, Zooey.
But this is, of course, EXACTLY what va_vermin wants. The TREASONOUS DoD has declared WAR on the Internet and the TRUTH.
http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/
P.S. MURDERER Bush is a COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA!! I know you guys wanted me to post this a few days ago…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm# VA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Right — it’s your AGENDA
I didn’t say anything about the fair tax untill it was posted by you.
You’ve spammed virtually every other thread on TP for weeks, always totally off topic, yapping away about the “fair tax”. I’d say that pretty much exemplifies the word “agenda.”
April 11th, 2008 at 12:22 pmExactly right. In addition I would add that his rantings have done no such thing as increase the political conversation in this country.
He has done all in his power to stifle political conversation by dominating what the discussion is about and the direction it is allowed to follow.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:27 pmIt’ll be the most ironic Emmy ever awarded, in that BO will end up with more bad press on it than good.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pmHere is the link to the Boston Chapter:
http://boston.emmyonline.org/
I will be sending them an email. To ask them what could have come over them to think Bill O’Reilly is worth anything other than distain.
Journalist everywhere should have a revolt when they hear this one. I agree it is Morally Unacceptable.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:30 pmAnyone know what this regional Emmy Award is for?
I scanned the list of nominees in the link, and O’Reilly doesn’t appear to be listed.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pmWell now we know how much the Emmy means don’t we. Who in the hell decided this nut job was going to get one? This guy is one degree away from being a psychotic killer. Good work Emmys??
April 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pmLook, we all know faux is not a news channel so without the fairness doctrine they have become the propaganda channel. They don’t even try to pretend to be anything else.
When other organizations, those who claim to know what journalism is supposed to be about, when they honor just a propagandist, well it is just wrong and they have embarrassed themselves and now the award becomes something akin to a carnival prize…..pretty much worthless.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:33 pmDidn’t OWrongly say he’ll “lynche” a black mans wife for doing something?
Jus askin
April 11th, 2008 at 12:38 pmVA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Left wing guy hates. That’s new.
Neocon troll prjects. That’s new.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pmLooks like O’lielly wore out his pie hole on the eXXXtra large glory-hole he’s been frequenting…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pmAre we sure he’s not going to receive a “regional enema”?
April 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pmThose are your words, you and I agree on…..well, probably nothing.
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April 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pmThe Boston/New England Chapter is dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television, the fostering of creative leadership in the television industry, and the encouragement of excellence in artistic, educational, cultural and technical progress.
Creative leadership in the television industry, this doesn’t describe Bill at all. Maybe, lack of artistic excellence and Cultural progress.
Do you think he bribed some of the members on the panel?? Or maybe it is Mass Delusion.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm“Would you call that hate?”
WTF, HAte? No way, asswipe. I’d call it ‘justice.’
April 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pmNicky Barnes Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Fred,
I agree Fox News should be shut down.
Sorry dudette, this isn’t one of those right-wing sites you visit, and run, where all opposing views are censored. No one has said oreilly should be silenced.. No one said faux news should be silenced. Except you of course. troll.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:42 pmWTF? With all do respect to Keith Olbermann, and the service he performs, there is only one journalist left with a nightly news show. Yet, how many people even know Jim Lehrer’s name?
As for BillO, he’s a hateful buffoon who belongs in an institution. One which doesn’t allow shoelaces. While there he can be instructed in the use of plastic “sporks”.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pm“No one has said oreilly should be silenced..”
i dunno…i think he should appear every night in a ball-gag and nipple clamps…mebbe the shrill whine wouldn’t exactly qualify as ’silencing’ him, but it would be a signal improvement over what usually issues from his feculent gob…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pmVA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Left wing guy hates. That’s new.
Right wing moron attempts to defend another GOP backing lying sack of crap.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pmQuite astonishing.
Pete, when I read your comment, for some reason it brought to mind the image of a drugged-out O’Reilly trying to stab himself in the eye with a spork, and the disappointment that crossed his face when it broke, and he realized he wasn’t going to get the attention he thought a bleeding eye socket might provide.
Sometimes my imagination goes weird places.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pmI couldn’t agree more. Bill O’reily is a “Nut case”, who is so fake, it makes me sick to my stomach. This guy doesn’t have a core at all, he’s racist, sexist, and a sexual harrassing Ahole. Why would any organization want to dishonor itself by giving an award to a man who tried to take sexual advantage of a lower level employee? Here he is a millionaire and he has to try to force some poor producer to sleep with him.
I mean come on man, I’m old, I’m ugly, fat, going bald and I could pick up any women I want if I put my mind to it. If I added 20 million dollars to all those qualities I’m positive I wouldn’t have to be, “hitting on the help”. Come on Bill tell us that you’re not really a sick little individual whose so desperate that any employee with do in a pinch? If I had a quarter of your money and so called fame, I’d be a international payboy, not some loser who resorts to trying to harrass a co worker into bed.
The only thing I can give you is that “chic” Andrea was kind of sexy, but she’s on my level, not yours jerk. I could see myself going out with her, she’s too good for you.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:53 pmAn Emmy for hysterical tabloid infotainment? How novel…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:53 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Ouch! I don’t see him as one into that type of self-harm. Though I imagine (I wish I didn’t) he would be king of the compulsive masturbation ward.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pmBill O’Reilly will be awarded an Emmy Award by the Boston/New England Chapter next month
For 1,001 ways to use a falafel ……….
April 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pmVA Voter Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I would like to see the fair tax passed because it would be good for America.
Miss Molly had you DEBUNKED on the previous thread(s) where you brought up that crappy proposal OFF-TOPIC. Stop repeating your lies.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:55 pmI can’t find O’Reilly or his show on the list of nominees. Odd. I wanted to check to see what catagory and story was nominated. Comedy? Best use of hot air?
http://boston.emmyonline.org/nominationlist.pdf
April 11th, 2008 at 1:10 pmonoclea Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I can’t find O’Reilly or his show on the list of nominees. Odd. I wanted to check to see what catagory and story was nominated. Comedy? Best use of hot air?
Most Vivid Imagination for believing a 20-something year old producer would ever be interested in his loser self ………
April 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pmIs that before or after he calls them a pinhead and tells them the shutup?
April 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pmOn a related note…
C&L has a clip from The Daily Show that pretty much sums up Faux Newz. Enjoy!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2008/ 04/ 11/ daily-show-the-rise-and-fall-of-fox-news/
April 11th, 2008 at 1:27 pmI don’t care what your political ideology is - when you honor people who routinely tell people to “shut up” and call people “pinheads” you’re really lowered the bar.
It would be like giving an Emmy to some of the trashy comments that have appeared thus far.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pmWhile all of you are busy trashing O’Reilly and each other just spare a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re acting as a sad manifestation of his malignant legacy.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:31 pm?????
April 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pmronlawhouston Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I don’t care what your political ideology is - when you honor people who routinely tell people to “shut up” and call people “pinheads” you’re really lowered the bar.
It would be like giving an Emmy to some of the trashy comments that have appeared thus far.
boreas Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
While all of you are busy trashing O’Reilly and each other just spare a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re acting as a sad manifestation of his malignant legacy.
No one here has a nation-wide forum with no dissenting opinion(s) when they choose so……………..
BTW
If you believe it’s “wrong” to “trash someone” using documented facts/proof , that is your opinion/belief , alone ; that isn’t exactly O’Lielly’s M O over the past few years , is it ?
April 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pmI do find it somewhat ironic that Bill O’Reilly won an Emmy Award for entertainment, while Stephen Colbert won a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pmboreas Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
While all of you are busy trashing O’Reilly and each other just spare a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re acting as a sad manifestation of his malignant legacy.
Shut up, pinhead.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:49 pmboreas Says: While all of you are busy trashing O’Reilly and each other just spare a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re acting as a sad manifestation of his malignant legacy.
ralph the wonder llama Says: ?????
Read through all these posts again if you can stand it. Most of them consist solely of insulting or hateful remarks about O’Reilly or about a poster whose opinion differs from that of the respondent. There is very little of substance. In that way this thread is a pretty fair example of O’Reilly’s style of discourse. That’s what I meant.
Oh, and you were great in the Holy Grail.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pmboreas Says: While all of you are busy trashing O’Reilly and each other just spare a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re acting as a sad manifestation of his malignant legacy.
hussein toasterhead Says: Shut up, pinhead.
Well, somebody gets it. ‘-)
April 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pmAnd O’Reilly invented that, did he?
No, he just mainstreamed it into the newsmedia. None of the posters here have access to public airwaves for these views nor do we have national forums.
If you want to equate the responsibility of journalists (real and faux) to tell the truth and inform the public with that of people sitting around a bar or standing around a water cooler, that’s great. Just be prepared to live with the world to which it leads.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pmAnd somebody doesn’t get irony or sarcasm.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:03 pmronlawhouston Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I don’t care what your political ideology is - when you honor people who routinely tell people to “shut up” and call people “pinheads” you’re really lowered the bar.
—
April 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pmSort of like when you drop the F-bomb within the walls of the legislative body of the greatest nation…. Way to lower the bar Dick!!!
ralph the wonder llama Says: If you want to equate the responsibility of journalists (real and faux) to tell the truth and inform the public with that of people sitting around a bar or standing around a water cooler, that’s great. Just be prepared to live with the world to which it leads.
If the civility and substance in discourse that I hope for derives from within each of us as opposed to being imposed from the outside (which is what I think you’re alluding to) then I’d love to see that world.
How many people do you suppose O’Reilly ever swayed to his point of view with his endless stream of lies and abuse? I think - I hope - not too damned many. All his bigoted bloviating can really do is widen the gulf between those who feel as he does and those who don’t. That’s the world that scares the shit out of me and we’re already living in it.
And somebody doesn’t get irony or sarcasm.
I guess not if you mean seeing it when it’s not there. I took your “Shut up, pinhead” remark to be ironic but maybe it wasn’t.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:19 pmI have no idea what you’re trying to say in your first paragraph. I tried to follow it but lost three times.
As for your second paragraph, if you don’t think O’Reilly has much influence on what people think, then why would he have any more influence on the way they treat each other?
It wasn’t my comment. And yes, it was meant to be ironic, I believe. Your rant led me to conclude that you were using it as an example of your argument.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pmAnyone interested in protesting the Orally Emmy?
I found this contact info and Jill answers her own phone! ;)
I asked for Tim Eagan since he’s the one quoted and she said that he doesn’t work in that office but she can get him a message. as soon as I mentioned Orally and emmy she got real cold and said we aren’t commenting on that!
But I could send and email (below also)
Get the word out!
Jill D. Jones
April 11th, 2008 at 2:48 pmNTA Boston/New England
P.O. Box 1332
Newport, RI 02840
natasne@aol.com
617-787-6576 (o)
617-283-6314 (c)
401-848-9278 (f
There is obviously still some debate here about Bill-o’s influence and relative merit, but from a global perspective let’s not forget that he single-handedly revived France’s teetering economy by lifting that powerhouse boycott that he’d mobilized. And Ralph - please tell Milt Q. Llama I said hello.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:49 pmralph the wonder llama Says: I have no idea what you’re trying to say in your first paragraph. I tried to follow it but lost three times.
I’m saying that I’d like to live in a world where civility and respect for one another, as well as a reliance on substantive dialog, was more or less organic, not imposed by some sort of “Thought Police” which is what I took your warning to be about.
As for your second paragraph, if you don’t think O’Reilly has much influence on what people think, then why would he have any more influence on the way they treat each other?
I never said O’Reilly lacks influence. Quite the contrary. He radicalizes both those who agree with him and those who disagree. He promotes intolerance of opposing views or dissent. The hatred - literally - expressed by the Right Wing trolls on this board, toward liberal politicians and their supporters and it’s mirror image from some of us on the Left is ample proof of this.
Then I wrote: I guess not if you mean seeing it when it’s not there. I took your “Shut up, pinhead” remark to be ironic but maybe it wasn’t.
It wasn’t my comment. And yes, it was meant to be ironic, I believe.
See #74.
Your rant led me to conclude that you were using it as an example of your argument.
Rant?? Well, be that as it may, I recognized it for what it was: Using a typical “O’Reillyism” as an ironic response to criticism.
April 11th, 2008 at 3:06 pmGET ME SOME ICED TEA, M— F—ER!!!
April 11th, 2008 at 5:03 pmThe Emmy Award will loose its weight… like the ‘freedom medal’… if you are pro-war, you get it, if you are against the ilegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afegahnistan… they don’t mention you. Go ahead… award this right wing pundit. And when the war is over the people will remember. Shame on who ever decided this award to o’reilly… shame!
April 11th, 2008 at 10:23 pmboreas wants to sit in judgment but only selectivly. If the things said here are that offensive to you then how can you live on this earth after hearing the kinds of things said by the right wing?
Also consider that slander from orily and the right are usually lies made up to distort the truth…..
progressives not so much…..we tend to pin your own actions on you and that seems to piss you off…..too bad.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pmO’Reilly is a total ass. But give the man credit where credit is due. His boycott brought the French to their knees when they didn’t go along with Dumbya’s Iraq War….says so right here in the Paris Business Review.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 am