O’Reilly: Fox News Doesn’t Report Stories That Will ‘Hurt Anybody’
O’Reilly: Fox News Doesn’t Report Stories That Will ‘Hurt Anybody’
Last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized the partisan political environment, saying, “Can you imagine writing the Constitution today?” Graham asked, speculating that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly would complain of “Ben Franklin giving in on something.” Last night on Fox News, Bill O’Reilly playfully confronted Graham about the accusation and attempted to defend the integrity of his network. O’Reilly said that unlike the New York Times, Fox News doesn’t break stories that hurt people:
O’REILLY: And I think you raise a very interesting point in what you said. And you said — I’m glad you mentioned me because that got attention And then people to think about this. We don’t break stories that are going to interfere with President Obama or President Bush or whoever’s in office if we feel that the story is going to hurt anybody, our military, our policymakers. We’ll hold it back. Okay? We’re not The New York Times. We’re not trying to do that.
Watch it:
Fox News and O’Reilly may not “break stories” that directly “hurt anybody,” but they certainly haven’t made great efforts to take targets off anyone’s back either. In fact, O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters regularly stalks and ambushes anyone O’Reilly and his goons disagree with (like TP’s own Amanda Terkel), even if it means following them home and confronting them in places such as their garages.
In May, a radical anti-choice crusader gunned down Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas physician who administered abortions. Prior to this incident, O’Reilly regularly singled out Tiller on his show, referring to him as “Tiller the Baby Killer,” saying that he “has blood on his hands” and that he “executes babies.” After the murder, O’Reilly stood by all his claims and even lied that he never called Tiller “Dr. Killer.”
Other hosts, such as by Glenn Beck, have attempted to scare the American public by calling the President a “socialist,” saying that he has ties to communists (or fascists), or that he’s even a “racist” who hates “white culture.” Beck regularly fears that the country is being “stolen” and has even said that the Obama administration had created concentration camps.
Indeed, other major conservative media figures have noticed this constant incendiary rhetoric, and one CNN host noted that “Americans are scarfing up guns and ammunition at an alarming rate.”
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Yea right – it’s a wonder a bolt of lightning didn’t strike billo and turn him into a steaming pile of ashes right then
October 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pmif we feel that the story is going to hurt anybody, our military, our policymakers. We’ll hold it back. Okay?
Well, aside from being a blatant lie, Bildo also acknowledges that “journalism” is not the primary driver of what Faux News does.
The end result is what matters to them. But since they’re conservatives, that much could have been presumed.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pmO’Reilly: I’m glad you mentioned me because that got attention…
For ME!
October 7th, 2009 at 5:03 pmHow about when Glenn Beck said on air that he’d like to kill Michael Moore? Does that qualify?
October 7th, 2009 at 5:04 pmI find it difficult to find any story of Nox Fuze that doesn’t hurt my sense of propriety.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:08 pm… and if you rub my nose, a magic fairy will appear and grant you any wish….
October 7th, 2009 at 5:11 pm“O’Reilly: Fox News Doesn’t Report Stories That Will ‘Hurt Anybody’”
Please…. TP’s headline says it all. Typical BS from the Loofah pervert. Pass the popcorn please…
October 7th, 2009 at 5:11 pmFox doesn’t bother to “break” stories.
They just make them up.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pmBillo is so full of s*it his breath stinks.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:18 pmraynman says:
… and if you rub my nose, a magic fairy will appear and grant you any wish….
with BillOPervert it would be some other body part to be rubbed, for sure.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:19 pmSo the falafel stalker pervert BillO thinks they don’t break stories that hurt people…
…maybe he doesn’t count killing them as hurting them.
Besides when has Fox put any Truth to any of their news(yeah, news)
October 7th, 2009 at 5:19 pmFOX News: Where Truth Is Elastic
October 7th, 2009 at 5:19 pmSOMEONE NEEDS TO CHECK HIS MEDS
October 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pmMy guess is he doesn’t bother to watch Foxup News/Opinion. To busy studying in the library, or stalking someone.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:27 pmOh REALLY? What about Dr. Tillman? What about that poor census worker who was found dead after Bachman’s rants? These guys are delusional.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:34 pmWell, by ‘anybody’ he meant torturers and corporate thieves… you know, ‘REAL AMERICANS’
October 7th, 2009 at 5:34 pmO’Reilly should ask the family of Dr. Tiller, and perhaps the family of the poor census taker. God, there’s so many and FOX is complicite in their deaths.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:48 pmginslinger says:
Great! Then you won’t complain when we ask them to broadcast an advisory before their shows then?
Something along the lines of: WARNING, what follows is not actual news.
I mean, if it’s good enough for FAMILY GUY, right?
October 7th, 2009 at 5:48 pmHow could I leave out the victims of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, or of the close to 2,000 killed and injured private contractors that aren’t counted in casualty reports.
Fox ne Murdoch have blood on their hands.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:49 pmI look at it this way. If you are a paranoid bigot, Faux News is for you you. You want REAL news, watch Keith and Rachel. Remember the flack Beck caused when he claimed that band dissed him? From what I heard, he made it up. Just like when he accused the woman of ‘The View’ of being rude. He friggin lied! Why? To get sympathy? Beck and the Repugs LOVE to claim they are victims. It’s always the ‘Liberals’ or the ‘Femimists’ or better yet, the ‘Media’. Lord knows, Sarah Palin plays the victim all the time. And the Righties eat it up.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:50 pmP.D. @ 15, you beat me too it.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:51 pmDepends how you define “hurt”.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:08 pmThey don’t hurt anybody? Fox was a nonstop running commercial for starting the war in Iraq. O’Reilly is a beach cheerleader next to a sea of blood.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:22 pmWords fail me on how blatantly false Faux’s claim is.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:22 pmFOX News doesn’t really ‘break’ stories, it makes stories (its reporting however has been broken from the start).
October 7th, 2009 at 6:24 pmUhhhh…all I can say to this story is
WTF?
October 7th, 2009 at 6:25 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Hi conservative guy.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:39 pmYou’re an oddball aren’t you?
come to think of it, did FOX ever report on Ensign?
Because when cuckold Doug Hampton just cold handed them a sexy story about his ‘WELF’ they didn’t report it, so I’d call that an example of ‘non-hurty’style news-breaking, I guess.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:40 pmMr. Duke. It matters little what’s in the tackle box if you don’t know how to use it…
October 7th, 2009 at 6:43 pmIt’s quite true that they don’t report stories. What they do is propagandize.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:50 pmConservative guy: “Keith and Rachel wouldn’t know real news if they saw it.”
I don’t know about Keith, but Rachel Maddow has a PhD from Oxford in Political Science.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:01 pmFaux=The opposite of truth.
OT: did everyone see Michael Moore on Inshannity?
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/michael-moore-vs-sean-hannity-watch
October 7th, 2009 at 7:09 pmBut? The real kicker is that FAUX hurts the GOP. Just look at the last two elections.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:16 pmO’Reilly is delusional. He must be drinking the same things Beck is.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:19 pmJesse Waters has those voices inside his head always screaming at him to do the right thing. So he cradles and pulls at his hair, while going “No, no, no!” to silence them so he can fill his pockets with the Faux News Monopoly money.
The voices can’t hurt him in the silence, with the booze and sleeping meds working in concert with the Best of Jimmy Swaggart running nonstop.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:25 pm“Bill? Bill O’Reilly? This is Reality calling. We’d like you to visit us once in a while. Thanks!”
October 7th, 2009 at 7:48 pmHey Billo, I fixed it for you.
BTW, when are you going to send that long overdue apology to Ms Terkel.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:51 pmWhy can’t you act like a real man for once in your life?
ginslinger says:
Not many believe that Oreally, Beck or Hannity are “news Shows”. They are like Olbermann and Maddow except that they have an actual audience.
Well, thank you for not smearing Olbermann and Maddow’s names, at least.
However, I do wish that people would stop pointing at audiences as being monitors of how good a show is. I’ve said it before–the New York Post and the National Enquirer have close to the same weekly readership, yet there is more actual news in the Post (although some might argue this) than the Enquirer.
And why include Maddow in this comparison? Yes, Olbermann can be a blowhard, but Maddow uses intelligence in her arguments and I have never heard her raise her voice to a guest in protest.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:06 pmArctic Ghetto@24 said,
October 7th, 2009 at 8:53 pmSo true it bore repeating.
Much like Broadway;
October 7th, 2009 at 10:36 pmFox News is gay;
The new S.A.;
Have a nice day.
Yeah, right.
The “Tiller the Killer” stories never hurt anyone.
Bildo, your hands are drenched with blood.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:13 pmO’REILLY: We don’t break stories that are going to interfere with President Obama or President Bush or whoever’s in office if we feel that the story is going to hurt anybody, our military, our policymakers. We’ll hold it back. Okay? We’re not The New York Times. We’re not trying to do that.
So…a “news organization” promotes censorship. Why do I get the feeling that if they covered a story other news refused, they’d argue it’s the *other* guys who are wrong.
October 8th, 2009 at 2:13 amginslinger
Yeah they have an audience made up of the stupidest most gullible morons on the planet. Like YOU.
October 8th, 2009 at 7:52 amConservaTROLL
Why havent you killed yourself yet? Have you no decency? At long last have you no shame? Stop torturing decent human beings and go kill yourself
October 8th, 2009 at 7:54 amFox doesn’t report, they construct the dialogue they’d like to present. yüz estetigi
October 13th, 2009 at 7:01 amThank you for your sharing.!
October 14th, 2009 at 9:51 am