Bill O'Reilly cites Fred Phelps as his example of Right wing hate for "balance"
By John Amato Thursday Jul 19, 2007 9:15am
After O'Reilly bashed Kos again, he said he would expose an example of Right Wing haters after he compared Markos to the Nazis and the KKK to be "fair and balanced." cough...cough...
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Would it be Malkin, Savage, Stormfront, or maybe Little Green Footballs? Nope, it was the insane Fred Phelps of the WBC, a nut who stages protests at our fallen solder's funerals... and death to gays. While Phelps is a hater, Bill knows all too well what's he's doing and is a true---major league propagandist. Phelps just so happened to criticize O'Reilly by the way....
Jane Hall did a pretty good job of trying to stand up to O'Reilly's lame smear job and tells him basically that he's being an idiot. She told him to put his researchers on right wingers, but Bill would have none of it...
David Neiwert takes Bill to town:
As someone whose work involves tracking the activities of neo-Nazis, the Klan, and other elements of the extremist right, it's time that someone pointed out the profound damage that O'Reilly is inflicting on our national discourse by promoting the notion that somehow, DailyKos is comparable to hate groups like the Klan and the neo-Nazis...read on
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His guest host Michelle talks about "anchor babies" but Kos is the "hater"
Bill O is a merely a hemorrhoid on the asshole of history.
Smear some Preparation H on him and move on.
Could we please put this fool in the dustbin with certain blonde and dark-haired harpies who should not be given attention on which to feed, and move on?
Two Righty haters criticize left hate. Hmmmmmmm
It's kind of difficult to take someone seriously when they are playing a role.
O'Reilly is a right-winger like I'm the Tidy Bowl Man; meaning, just 'cause I like toilet humour doesn't mean I am.
O'Reilly makes a ton of money doing what he does. He's merely a puppet. He doesn't believe what he says, but he'll say it if the price is right.
He should've just looked into a mirror.
BillO is like a old has been entertainer. He's screaming for attention and the spot light one more time. He'll say or do anything to get his name in the headlines again. He's over and he knows it, but he hopes the rest of the world doesn't know it. We do.
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The Pope is a primate?!!!!
The Pope is a primate?!!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Bill, you've outdone yourself. All I hear is Keith Olberman doing that Ted Baxter impersonation of you when you talk.
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Good lord, why does anyone even remotely sympathetic to the left appear on this asshole's show? As far as 'hate speech', didn't that doushbag Goldberg publish a few nasty books attacking folks on the left?
Responding to this douchebag is a complete waste of attention. He is pure entertainment for the intellectual lightweights that tune in to Faux News
Doesn't this pasty-faced little turd look like Karl Rove's bastard kid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_W9H4_08o
What with his love of bloggers, lefties, women, gay people, etc, I'm sure Bill would be delighted to learn he got a mention in the latest Carnival of the Feminists. We were really impressed with his panic-piece about violent lesbian gangs. Really - he did a piece on that. Really. I know.
Finally, Fred Phelps and I can agree on something.
O'Reilly is a true patriot and a heroic American citizen of the United States. Y'all should be ashamed of the things you said to him, about the turds and douches and whatnot. If it wasn't for him, speaking the truth for the power, Al Qaeda would have occupied your houses and taken your stuff and other assorted misdeeds would be committed by them. Let me make this absolutely clear; Bill O'Reilly is worth more than all of you combined, divided in half, and doubled. Yeah, that's right.
The more this site talks about O'Reilly, the more he thrives. Just stop discussing his antics and he'll fade into oblivion.
At least Jane Hall tried. I gotta give her points for that. But my question to her would be, what in the hell were you thinking when you decided to go on his show?
George W. Bush @ 14:
George... comon guy. You know you can't add, divide or double. Karl does that and gives you the answer and you still get it wrong. Please... for your own dignity, stop trying to sound like you have an ounce of intelligence and stick to being a humorous beer commercial. We like you better that way.
Sincerely,
The Entire Population of Earth
The Pope is a primate. Unless of course Billo now doesn't believe in the use of a dictionary.
Primate
1. Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
2. any of various omnivorous mammals of the order Primates, comprising the three suborders Anthropoidea (humans, great apes, gibbons, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys), Prosimii (lemurs, loris, and their allies), and Tarsioidea (tarsiers), esp. distinguished by the use of hands, varied locomotion, and by complex flexible behavior involving a high level of social interaction and cultural adaptability.
Dave Neiwert accurately pinpoints why O'Reilly is wrong: the occasional hateful comment on Kos is an aberration, a bug, in what is generally a mainstream liberal political website. For Phelps, the KKK, Stormfront, etc., on the other hand, hate is their entire raison d'etre. For them hate is not a pimple on an otherwise healthy body; it's the entire body.
Is there anyone as hateful around as that bitch - Michelle Malkin? No. And Bill O proudly lets her sub for him.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
That's exactly what I used to ask about every seemingly intelligent person who appeared on any fox "news" or pundit show. I wonder why left wing sites give these people so much attention. They are irrelevant. It's obvious that anyone who listens to these clowns wants to hear what they want to hear. They can't be swayed and the rest of us know. It's past redundant already.
In the interest of fairness, I should say that I have heard him condemn savage in the past. Not coulter or malkin though.
Bill says "jesus is sick and tired of living in his fathers shadow"
But Bill can say anything and the fools still watch his looney crap. It's embarrassing that there are so many who watch him.
George W. Bush @ 14:
CafeenMan @ 21:
It's all about money.
lol -- It's like Lenin trying to name someone whose a little too Bolshevik! The pickin's are pretty slim.
Bill O'Reilly is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Keith Olbermann is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Ann Coulter is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Michelle Malkin is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Sean Hannity is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Rush Limbaugh is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Jon Stewart is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Stephen Colbert is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
Michael Savage is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.
They're all paid by the same big-money interests. Their main goal is to divide us and keep us from having real discussions on the matters of the day.
It's vitriol over debate, and they all add to the former while suppressing the latter.
George W. Bush @ 14:
Bill O'Reilly speaking 'truth to power?' No, nobody's done that since Cindy Sheehan camped out in front of Commander Chimpy McFlightsuit's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Bill O'Reilly is a dirty old man who says whatever Rupert Murdoch and Roger Aisles tells him to see. You, sir, are a horse's ass! Now go slap your mommy for raising you to be such a dimwit!
O'Reilly must be sending thousands of people to go check out Kos. There, they may be discovering how mild-mannered and gentle a site it truly is, loaded with meek and modest progressives, not the para-Nazis O'Reilly sees. What must these viewers then think of O'Reilly, and of anything else he has to say?
Lies that are easy to check define you.
Posing as a classical Irish Charactor actor, red-nosed and opinionated, O'Reilly stumbles from lamppost to lamppost. Does he know how much of the world is online and can check his words?
At least he did admit that Fred Phelps is right wing. Didn't Hannity refer to the Phelps group as liberal once?
I always thought freddy phelps was a Comedian . . .
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8682089528957352638&q=fred+phelp...
Does the right want us to LOVE their death; stupidity; ignorance; regressiveness and celebrate it? Yes we hate people who do stupid crazy ignorant things.
Dan McIntyre @ 29:
I think he's counting on the fact the demographic he panders to has limited exposure to the internets. If those geezers knew how to operate one of those new-fangled computers, he'd lose half his audience. Heck, if they knew how to operate a remote, the bottom would drop out entirely.
I think this is hilarious. Yes. Calling on God for the death of Billo is hilarious. Deal with it.
This just in from Larry Flynt:
NATIONAL PRAYER DAY - PRAY FOR THE DEATH OF BILL O'REILLY
HUSTLER Magazine invites you to join us in prayer.
On Tuesday, August 5th at 12:45pm, we have organized a special gathering to pray to God for Fox News Channel blowhard Bill O'Reilly's death.
The service will be held in Los Angeles at Cornerstone Plaza, 1990 S. Bundy Drive. Located on the corner of Bundy Drive and LaGrange Ave.
DISCLAIMER: This serious gathering will truly take place, however if O'Reilly dies, it must be God's will.
For more information, please contact: Sean Carney 323-651-5400 ext. 7361
O'Reilly is pure evil
Chris @ 30:
I bet they paid Phelps to say that.
I'm a Catholic and I knew what they meant when they used the word "primate". BO still doesn't get it. I have to admit some of the things this Pope has said does sound like it could be coming out of a mouth of a monkey.
Immigrant @ 20:
Malkin has an Ann Coulter Complex. Not a pretty sight.
Court of Progressive Justice @ 24:
The Faux News handlers should just stick the Loon Squad (Billo, Bernie, and Michelle) back in their closets and find someone else to make the "case" for "extreme" "hateful" web sites. Bill is associated with the kind of unhinged conspiracy theories associated with the militia type far-right fringe groups (and as noted, these far-right fringe groups consider Billo's show great for referencing their views ;) ) and just plain creepiness.
In short, if I ran Faux, Billo would be the last person I would go to to promote the Faux party line.
C&L please...no more Bill O'Reilly.
The man is a nothing. His shows are nothing. His "guests"...the Malkins and Coulter's of the world are NOTHINGS.
I can appreciate that "some" of what occurs on his program may be reportable, particularly if specific and clearly inaccurate assertions of "fact" are made or direct character assassination is engaged in. However, his "spinning" of liberals into monsters and right wingnuts as bastions of virtue are simply getting "old".
It is the reason his numbers dropped and have now "leveled off". His viewership believes everything he says. They're trapped in the echo chamber, nay...they are comfortable in it, and like babies in their safe cribs have no desire to step out and expand their horizons. It's just "too hard" as GWB so often says.
Enough with this putz. I don't watch him, and I have no interest in seeing his ugly face. I can turn him off on my tv, but I can't turn him off here, unless I simply don't come here. It's the same as watching Countdown. I have to briefly suffer the image of Bill O, in order to watch one of my few favorite show.
I can't control what appears on Countdown. I also can't control what appears on C&L, but the beauty of this medium is I know that my message will at least get read.
Old Bill Orielly must not be getting enough "phone sex" from his female underlings, anyone note how "Michelle "anchor baby" Malkin is one of his favorite shills on his show? Maybe if one knew the real connection they have nightly hot phone sex exchanges, how ironic he uses a woman too shill for him and his anti-immigrant issues, anchor babies, and she is the very thing, he rants and raves on about, since her parents being on work visas did the very thing she rants and raves with old bill about, anchor babies..., immigrants having a baby inside the USA, too solidify their status, as her parents did, not surprising she is a hypocrite, she wrote the infamous article justifying the "internment in concentration camps of japanese americans", cheered how good it is too do same too moslem born americans, it is funny how birds of a feather do flock together, equal opportunity racist/bigots do seem too have a common issue, but how ironic this is like the pot calling the kettle black...!
Targa @ 34:
Whheeeee!!! I think all C&L readers & commenters should organize a local gathering to participate!!
Court of Progressive Justice @ 31:
That guy is a riot, I have to say I agree with what he says about O'Really(?). I never thought I would say that! All the going to Hell talk gets a little annoying though, what he fails to realize is that we are all in Hell here and now. His hell is to hate fags, my Hell is Bill-O, Phelps, Bush, Cheney, and a never ending list of torments!
Liberal AND Proud @ 41:
Thank you. There are things going on that are actually significant that we may be able to affect. Nothing on Fox fits those categories.
So what the heck precisely is the Pope if he's not a primate? Or is this part of the anti-evolution debate that I'm not aware of?
I always thunk it funny that both bishops (the Pope is the Bishop of Rome) and apes are called primates.
However, it's my understanding that Catholics accept evolution.
So those who would require disclaimers in biology textbooks are minority religions that strangely have majority support in the polls.
That's what you get when you don't think with your brain, but your pole instead.
#43...
Can they throw Bush into the mix? Pat Robertson is not the only one with exclusive rights to God.
#46..1often capitalized : a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation
2archaic : one first in authority or rank : leader...definition of Primate by webster.
There's that famous liberal tolerance.....:-)
How hypocritical. If the National Review called for the death of Keith Olbermann, this site would go bonkers...
Yes, Fox News, Fred Phelps is one of your own.
Just like O'Reilly says.
Jay @ 49:
At least you understand that National Review occupies the same moral plane as Hustler.
CafeenMan @ 45:
I agree, maybe if we on on the sane side of the political spectrum ignored his BS, he'd become insignificant. (That goes for Malkin,Hannity,etc as well)
Bill O's like the kid in high school who always did and said outrageous things in grade school, to get attention. By the time high school rolled around, people grew tired of him, and he became a nobody.
Jay @ 49:
Well, you can't say ALL liberals don't believe in god. You also can't say that all non-believers are liberals.
But you CAN say that morality is not exclusive to right-wing republican hacks. Nor can you say that understanding and acknowledging a disclaimer without throwing in your own bias is not being hypocritical.
I went to the YearlyKos homepage to look for the Jetblue logo, but I couldn't find it....
any thoughts?
[...] Bill O’s wingnuttery July 20, 2007 Posted by Evil Bender in wingnuts, bigotry, News and politics. trackback Crooks and Liars has the story: [...]
Don't forget those super duper awesomiest ratings that Bill-O has.
Only the truly inodoctrinated and brainwashed would equate irony with hypocricy.
Jay @ 49:
The National Review sheeple DID call for the death of prominent liberals.
How about Ann Coulter, BillO, the woman who called for someone to put poison in a Supreme Court Justice's creme brulee? Isn't she your best bud? How about rightwing sites like Little Green Footballs, where the hatred against anyone who's not white, male, Republican and straight just drips from the posts. I mean, come on, when you have an open forum on any web site, left OR right, all the nuts come out, but none of that is explained by BillO. He just cherrypicks left-leaning hateful comments, not real posts, and stirs up the national discourse because it sells. Hatred sells. Hitler knew all about this and used it well.
On a lighter note, what's with BillO's eyebrows? They just don't look real.
Anais @ 59:
LGF seems to concentrate their boundless hatred pretty specifically on people who aren't Judeo-Christian. More precisely, I think the organizing principle of that site and its disturbed posters is seething hatred of Muslims.
Didn't Bill wish the whole city of San Fransisco to die by the hands of the terrorist?
What about the right wing terrorists who shoot abortion providing doctors, their receptionists, and security guards, and bomb clinics?
John Bolton suggested blowinig up the top ten floors of the UN.
Johnboy @ 4:
Two wrongs don't make a right....but these two rights are always wrong
Okay, obviously Markos Mule-Eats-es has never shown up to the funerals of dead soldiers or school shooting victims, or 9/11 victims... telling them they deserve what they got.
But here my question: Is Bill O'Reilly saying that Daily Kos is as far left as Fred Phelps?
or,
Is he saying that Fred Phelps is only as slightly far right as he in fact knows Daily Kos is left?
Whether Bill will admit it or not, he knows that Daily Kos is mainstream culture... Markos has been on many a TV news show as a guest... it's a blog read by some half a million people, if I'm not mistaken. He knows this. So what he has really said is that Fred Phelps is a legitimate voice in the culture.
He defended a pedophile just a few months back. Do you put it past him?...
"as Fred Phelps is right" is how that should read... you know what I meant.
Ironically, Phelps and his gang are religious nuts...NOT liberals or progressives! So, it's religious nuts who are doing those protests at fallen soldier's funerals, and O'LIEly is blaming "libruls"!
It's like they suddenly called the Duke/LaCrosse DA a "librul". Anyone who does anything nutty, they "Noise Machine" "libruls" throughout the CMSM!
Hannity blamed "anti-war left" for protest at soldier's funeral actually organized by anti-gay church
http://mediamatters.org/items/200508310004
Hannity did this SAME EXACT SMEAR against "libruls", BEFORE O'LIEly did it!
"Six members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, picketed outside Neal and Summers Mortuary during Staff Sgt. Jeremy Doyle’s funeral services, chanting messages that members of the military are being punished by God for not opposing homosexuality, and that their deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are America’s punishment."
NOTICE: "PUNISHED BY GOD"...THAT is not the "Libruls"!
Orwell's Illegitimate Son @ 27:
...the most insightful comment re: this post yet. Ratings are the mother's milk of broadcasting...no matter what side their on...it's ALL about the money!
More misleading by the self-proclaimed "conservatives", who are not "conservative".
"Keith Olbermann is, first-and-foremost, an entertainer, not a journalist.".........but who tells the truth!
ANOTHER tactic by the "right/wrong", is to lump TRUTH-TELLING progressive with LYING self-proclaimed conservatives. Sure, they might all be entertainers, but WHO'S LYING AND WHO'S TELLING THE TRUTH?
Read 20 comments on Hotair. At least 2 of them will have an undercurrent of violence.
Bill knows that. But he wants his senior, non computer saavy viewers to vote Republican based on bullshit like this. What an asshole.
Hicks: "Yeah! That Olberman! He's a liar just like O'Reilly!" Nice try!!!!!!!!!!
Very sad that Jetblue has wilted under the foggy gaze of Fox News and their viewers. Rupert Murdock and his propaganda machine aim to marginalize in their viewers' minds any sources of information that might snap them out of their trance. It amounts to a circle the wagons mentality where the Cons will keep riding out the storm for as long as possible while continuing to ruin the country and then stay together once they lose power so they can try to gain it back. Thus there is the necessity to attack Hillary, George Soros, Move On, Daily Kos and others who are looking to create the future beyond Bush's disastrous tenure. Karl Rove's wagon circle's perniciousnes is matched only by its tenaciousness. Fortunately, the wagon circle is not very big. Unfortunately, they control the Executive Brach of our government and have done so much damage that simply cannot be undone, starting with a war that has resulted in hunreds of thousands of casualties etc. etc. etc. Forgive me for my president. Tomorrow is not soon enough to have his administration replaced.
BULLSHIT! Lumping Olberman with O'LIEly, Malkin, Limbaugh and Hannity...BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
The problem with giving a reasoned response to the big O'Lie is that it treats him as being in some way sensible. He is not. He is a gasbag propagandist for the far right who has no respect for the truth. Call him what he is. Don't dignify the liar by arguing with his lies.
Blue Rose @ 39:
This is a classic O'Reilly clip. I'm only surprised that he lets his "liberal" guest speak as much as he does. He lies, slanders and talks over as usual. Plus, Goldberg offers two lies - one, that the left is 20 times as "hateful" as the right, and two, that he's actually conducted a study. I guess we can wait for him to post that and his methodology. This is a standard rightwing hit and run job.
Biily just continues to try and promote his personal reputation by clouding the facts and omitting some of the truth. While he promotes free speech of others to be squelched. Billy feels he alone has the divine right to speak and spew.
He always needs help to put guests down on his show. Using his staff obscure the facts to mold to Billy's opposition of people he judges from his FOX bench.
Billy only gets all the air time for spewing right ideology. Many of his advertisers as Viagra don't care he spews hate. many other advertisers of Billy want his hate speech.
"Fair and Balanced" For FOX is "Fair" =hard right conservative views and "Balanced"=hard core neo conservatives. Everyone else to FOX is jihadist or criminals. For them America is not big enough for Americans that disagree with the likes of Billy.
Big Dan @ 73:
Yet, Olbermann has a press pass, while O'Reilly has a dildo.
Did anyone notice the FOX News Scroller when it gets to Fred Phelps calling Bill O. the Prodigy of Satan. subliminal (subliminable) propaganda rolls by. stating "FBI Says Most Dangerous Terror Groups Might Not Be Islamic Extremists " then "Americans Can Expect Attacks From "Single Issue" Groups."
this means
christain
anti-abortion (only late term aloud, gotta wait till they are 18 years old to you know)
PETA
Green Peace
Tax Relief Organizations
anti-war
anti-nwo
anti-bush
Anti-anything is now a likely terrorist organization.
The Blue and the Red is a Brave New World paradigm for you all.
rotylee @ 85:
I love this notion that disagreeing strongly with another persons politics somehow makes one a "Nazi", or like the KKK.
Take a look at the POLICIES Daily Kos posters are supporting. They're speaking out against a police state. They're angry about things like our Constitutional right to things like a fair trial and illegal government warrantless searches being destroyed. They're speaking out against war, and calling for peace. They want a media that doesn't just spread party propaganda, but actually tells the truth to the people. They feel like people should not be discriminated against based on their skin color, or sexual preference. They don't think people should be viciously tortured. They disagree with secret prisons. They disagree with anyone being held without a fair trial. They're against the state having the right to just declare anyone an enemy of the state.
Now, can some Bill-O fan please explain to me how these beliefs make one a "Nazi"??? It sounds to me like they're advocating the exact OPPOSITE positions of the Nazis on every single issue, yet somehow propagandist O'Lielly wants to paint them as "Nazis".
Now, contrast what the Kos bloggers advocate versus what Bill-O-Falafel advocates on a daily basis, and you'll see exactly who the real supporter of Nazi policies is.
Did BOR include himself, and his threat against the Coit Towers?
And what did happen to his FAUX goon squad?
If Goldberg is correct and the left opposition speech on the internet is 20-1, or 10-1, or even 5-1, it would be because the left bloggosphere has much more to complain about.
And because MSM airwaves are clogged with right wing propoganda the left would create a new media source that is beyond the control of the 2% that subsidize right wing hate speech.
BTW Bildo, Fred Phelps IS one of yours,as is David Duke, Pat Buchanon,Tom Delay etc....etc...