Nicole predicted that O’Reilly would come after NBC after the Bill O’Reilly Puppet Theater earlier this week. On Thursday, O’Reilly went one better and upped his long-standing obsession with NBC to their parent company, General Electric, by ranting about a former NBC correspondent’s allegations that G.E. has ties to the bin Laden family and is doing business with Iran (I don’t know but wouldn’t be surprised if the allegations are or were true. So what’s that say about the Bush family, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney or Haliburton? Or for that matter, what about Billo’s boss Rupert Murdoch’s doing business in Cuba among a ton of other questionable business practices? Glass houses much, Billo?).
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When GE CEO/Chairman Jeffrey Immelt did not respond to his show’s questions regarding the matter, Billo got his falafel in a bunch and did the same thing he has done so many times before and sent his goons out to ambush him. This time, they caught their victim while he was seated at a table having dinner and the minions (apparently taking lessons in bully journalism from Billo) have to push and shove their way in past the restaurant staff so they can poke the mic and camera in his face.
Immelt’s in a totally different league than your average run-of-the-mill Billo ambush victim. Methinks the Big Giant Head just might have bitten off a bit more than he can chew with this stunt. * Note to Immelt - until you launch a hostile takeover bid to acquire News Corp so you can have your revenge, you might want to learn the three magic words that are guaranteed to keep Billo’s stalker Mini-Mes at bay and their footage off of the TV next time.
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The Bush family has strong business ties to the Bin Laden family.
Does BillO hate the Bush family?
First! But not to say BillO sucks, cause I’d be like the gazillionth to say that. Luffa!
GE also has ties to pharmica (supply vcaccine manufacturing equipement) and Autism Speaks which is used control the message about autism being associated with vaccines.
Billo using some Michael Moore tactics.
Time to send BillO on a nice vacation to Bellvue in a peaceful padded room with a view.
News Corp, GE, the Bush Family, Cheeee-knee, the Carlyle Group, et al have ties to doing business in Iran, Cuba–you name it, but they also have protocols between them.
5′ll get you 10 that Billbo will have to apologize on-air.
You’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’, Bildo.
I couldn’t keep up with the rebuttals I was able to think of as he continued to spew his ridiculous “accusations.” However, Halliburton was foremost in my mind, and of course he never mentions the extent of the bin Laden family and its very strong ties to the bushes.
What a sanctimonious chucklehead.
To me that whole story was a wtf? story. Who the hell cares if they do business with anyone during a war “on terror”? At this point, I could care less. Like everyone here has said, the bush family, cheney, they are all in the same boat.
BillO is pathetic. That’s the kindest word I can think of to describe him. He just isn’t relevant in any way. He’s more like a chimp tossing fecal matter out of his cage hoping to hit someone.
That was so rude. Interrupting the man at a dinner party. Immelt should have suck him in the forehead with a shrimp fork.
Wow. It’s one thing to chase after lower level media figures or executives. Ambushing the CEO of one of the largest corporations in the country? Not a good idea.
Not that I condone it, but O’Reilly is going to meet the fate that every bully faces eventually. He’s going to meet up with someone who is going to put him down hard and then he’ll be crying like the bitch that he is.
Flamethrower @ 4:
Come to think of it your basically right. Though Moore does it himself instead of sending minions.
and we all know that bush’s granddaddy prescott bush supplied hitler and nazi germany with OVER HALF of their wartime iron and steel…..
are we gonna see billdo go after bush?
Take notice that bill himself doesn’t go out and do these interviews, he sends his little camera soldiers. If anyone is going to get hurt at one of these deals, it won’t be him. He’ll be safely at home playing with his “toys”.
Hey, Bill-O may have found a new calling… corporate muckracking! Now, that would be sweet! Go after the military industrial complex! You tell ‘em Bill!
CafeenMan @ 11:
Exactly. It is not like I have any sympathy for GE. In fact if BillO can get the conversation started about what these multinationals are actually doing the so much the better. I have a feeling that investigation would be shut down by his bosses rather quickly though.
While he’s at it why doesn’t he have Halliburton explain it’s ties with Iran also. Or that George hw bush having strong ties to the Bin Laden family and how they were the only ones allowed to fly out of the country days after September 11th (St. Rudy’s holiday)
Bill-O. A sad man becoming an old, sad man.
Funny how it took him 4 months to broadcast this “story”, no? (the video is clearly dated SEPT 2007). It’s quite obvious that he’s just digging up old dirt in retaliation to recent NBC stories.
I’m kind of hoping that this insult will be that one step too far for b’orly and his minions.
There will be blow back on this one.
Here’s hoping it’s enough to really hurt the giant head.
“independent” O’Reilly attacking NBC for employing people to the left of Pinochet
Actually I find it fairly delightful to see all these right wing wackos come unhinged and start eating their own…
It is like a mafia war, as long as there are no innocent bystanders hurt in the process, it is only a good thing when this trash go at it against each other. It keeps them busy screwing each other, and in the end the number of them standing will be reduced dramatically…
Now if we had a Reservoir Dogs type of ending in which all of them expire…
What Michael Moore practices is the “Ambush Interview” - pioneered by CBS/60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace.
What Bill-O practices is, in fact, bullying, as demonstrated by his treatment of Obama’s staff member last week. It’s a good bet neither Moore nor Wallace approach their subjects by shoving people out of the way and calling ‘em sunzabeeches.
And beyond the three words, the defense for an ambush interview is to say, “I will not talk to you,” … and then end the conversation. Respond to nothing further - if you so much as turn around to answer even an ‘unrelated’ question, you effective ‘re-open’ the conversation. This was covered in a 60 Minutes’ piece by Ed Bradley, IIRC.
Can you say lawsuit?
kimbutgar @ 17:
Bah ha ha ha ha!!! It’s SO TRUE! Ruby Ghouliani, patron saint of 9-11.
I love how he says “Humanitarian stuff”. His tone suggests he doesn’t deem the Iranian people worthy of the projects GE is “guilty” of being a part of. Perhaps I missed it but is there an embargo on doing business with Iran?
He also neglected to mention those Iranian weapons wouldn’t be killing Americans in Iraq if his boy Bush hadn’t put the soliders there to fight his ficticious war. Start telling the whole story Billo not just the bits you like.
Isn’t it only a matter of time before Billo goes “postal” on someone? Nobody will be able to say “we didn’t see it coming”.
Falafel boy is poking a sleeping tiger, there will be a call from money-lord Immelt to money-lord Murdoch, then the liver-spot will be muzzled.
All I can say is that O’Reilly could really stand to start being a bit more careful for his own sake — because by the look of things, his ego is starting to write checks that his wallet may not be able to cash. If nothing else, he should make certain that he has one *hell* of a good defense attorney on his side. He might very well find himself slapped with a massive lawsuit for libel, harrassment, or defamation of character one of these days if he persists on going after fish as big as Immelt — especially if he continues to believe, as he quite obviously does, that he need not give any thought to the rules of ethical and legitimate journalism because the power of his name alone is strong enough to withstand any sort of legal attack.
falafel guy is really upset with olberman and now going after nbc, ge.
As Billo exposes GE, we have groups trying to shut down websites.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/252.html
Billo is clueless.
GE rules the world.
They also conduct their own foreign policy.
Generous Electric was instrumental in calming India/Pakistan tensions during their nuclear flirtation.
Why? Bidness in India.
As head of GE, Immelt could definitely do to O’Reilly what the Kingpin did to Daredevil in the series authored by Frank Miller :)
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Billo better be careful as he is opening a “THIS IS HUUUUUUUUGE” (To quote Brian Killme(ade)) can of worms. If you want some gut-wrenching insight into corporate influence in the Middle East over the last 100 years, go pick up a book called Cronies - I can’t remember who authored it, but it is about Texas businesses and government influence dating back to the days when oil was discovered in East Texas. It talks about Brown & Root before it was KBR or Haliburton, also the law office of Baker Botts (James Baker III) and their dealings with Sadaam, Bin Laden, the Saudi Family, the Shah, etc. It turned my stomach to read it, but it is clear and convincing evidence that several ‘corporations’ have acted against US interests for years and members of the government (mostly republicans, but some democrats), have been in on the deal.
Watch it Billy, you will expose not only the Bushies and your boss, but practically your entire party’s leadership and the past leadership.
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We’ve spent 5 year and a trillion dollars on a facade of war that isn’t ending, and this is what o’racist is worried about?
[please take it to the last open thread, that’s fine. thanks.]
Tired of the falafal boy, I can’t wait until he is Imus’d.
Unless these guys are the targets of legal action, say for instance in the manner in which Falafel’s homers entered the property of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer publisher, they won’t stop. If they trespassed on my property, I’d sue them if that an even marginally plausible legal recourse. And if I was GE-not that I’m a big fan of them either-but they have a legal right against harassment-if one of Falafel’s guys did anything to me, laid a hand on anyone in my party or violated any sort of laws, I’d consult legal counsel right away, coz you know GE has some good lawyers.
They deserve each other.
Doggiebobo @ 38:
It’s all about Billo’s and fox’s war againt truth.
“by ranting about a former NBC correspondent’s allegations that G.E. has ties to the bin Laden family and is doing business with Iran”
Never though I say this….. Good for O’Reilly!
Article by John Hockenberry is here:
http://www.technologyreview.co.....x?id=19845
Hockenberry confirms everything we knew about the corporate media!
There has to be some subsidiary of G.E. that produces loofahs or loofah related products, right? There must be endless possibilities for what to do with the excess or defective stock.
well, i say thanks to billo for looking out for our interests. oh wait, forgot to take my meds today. nevermind.
I didn’t see it posted anywhere here yet, but did anyone else check out Morning Joe this morning where they showed a clip from The View wherein they call out Chris Matthews’ misogyny with his remark about Hillary only being in office “because Bill messed around on her”? Joe then had Matthews on the phone who goes through great pains to try and defend his comment as an explaination of “fact”. C&L should really post that segment, it was rather telling of the poor state of affairs with our news media and the cognitive dissonance that they seem to be experiencing with the whole NH poll fiasco.
Ron @ 42:
Ron: Yes I realized that, but on many, many previous C&L posts, I have on occassion
added an “OT” to a thread and they were not deleted by Sitemonitor. I feel that the
Faux Noise Republican debate last evening is worthy of input by us and am hoping
that a new thead will be posted so that those of us who want, can post there..
I hate firewalls!!!!
Google cach of Hockenberry is HERE:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q.....&gl=us
Well, thanks a lot. Now I’m going to have an upset stomach all day. Making me look at Billo this early in the morning is cruel and unusual punishment.
I get the feeling that I’ve seen this one before.
Hmm, a Don Quiote sending out Sancho Panza to skewer another GE nuclear power plant.
Well not quite the same.
I’m not sure why you’d be defending GE, since they like murdering Iraqis as much as Blackwater.
counter-coulter @ 46:
Sitemonitor: How is this posting any different than my OT that you deleted? Just asking