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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly recently told his television audience recently that John Edwards was wrong to assert that there are 200,000 homeless U.S. military veterans. He told his viewers “there’s not many of them out there,” and said he would intervene to help veterans sleeping under bridges.
On the facts, not surprisingly, Edwards was right and O’Reilly was wrong. The real entertainment came a day later, when O’Reilly insisted that Edwards apologize for using “class warfare.”
The story more or less faded from public view, but it appears poised to make a comeback. Jason Linkins has the story.
This afternoon in New York City, some of that work will resolutely continue, as a group of homeless veterans - one of the segments of the population of forgotten Americans that Edwards spoke of so often on the stump - will swarm FOX News Channel’s Studios to bring their fight to Bill O’Reilly, the millionaire celebrity host of The O’Reilly Factor. […]
Now, a group from Fitzgerald House, an “organization representing homeless veterans,” plans to bring their fight for recognition to Fox’s doorstep. They plan on visiting the Fox News Channel Studios today at 3:00 pm, and will come carrying a petition signed by 17,000 people demanding an apology from O’Reilly for his ignorance and abuse. In a press release, Brave New Films and Fitzgerald House say thay “have found that it is very easy to locate homeless veterans and are willing to help O’Reilly find them if his desire to help homeless vets is sincere.”
I have a hunch his stated intention to help was probably less than sincere, but I suppose we’ll find out soon enough.
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If O’Reilly doesn’t see homeless veterans, then it is because he has not stepped foot in any city park in America in the past 25 years. Believe me, that elderly gentleman sitting on the park bench next to you could very well be a homeless vet.
those guys do not exist. this must be some liberal media scam cooked up to make billy the o look bad
I don’t recall Bill ever saying he would help, I thought it was a indirect statement that could be perceived that his intention was to help. We all know Bill will never help anyone but himself. That’s how he got to the position he’s in.
Only an idiot would mess with a war veteran much less 200,000 of them.
Oh, Bill O’Rielly said it.
Never mind.
“3 Pawn Says: I don’t recall Bill ever saying he would help, I thought it was a indirect statement that could be perceived that his intention was to help. We all know Bill will never help anyone but himself. That’s how he got to the position he’s in.”
Yes, knee high to a snake.
It’s amazing that reich-wingers like O’Racist never get sick of being on the wrong side of every issue.
BillO’s definition of ‘help’ was that if any homeless veteran contacted him, he’d make sure that that vet was safely delivered to John Edwards’ mansion. You’d think it couldn’t get worse than that, but you’d be wrong… He then came out and said that after he put out this request for homeless vets to contact him, only one… ONE… did. Staggering. Ummm, Bill, could it be the fact that no other homeless vets contacted you was because… wait for it… they’re HOMELESS???? The words I have for this clown would get my post deleted, so I’ll refrain.
Toolbag.
Actually many homeless vets marched on his office yesterday and delivered a petition. One of Bill’s flunkies took the pettition and said, “We’ll call you.”
I’m one of those that signed the petition and I’m a veteran. BillO needs to go down to a local VA hospital, food stamp office or something similar and he will see a lot of homeless vets. They are there but BillO and his “high and mighty” attitude refuses to look at them. Personally, I hope BillO gets an ear full but then again, he probably won’t even confront those veterans. He is and always will be a chicken.
Homeless Vets Attempt to Deliver Petition to Bill O’Reilly:
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/.....l-o-reilly
Billo claims that John Edwards lied when he tried to link the homeless vet problem to the economy. According to Billo there are over 150,000 beds available to vets every night. He also claims $37 billion is allocated to the vets. Billo insists the vets are homeless because of mental and drug problems. Billo says, “We cannot physically drag them off the street if they refuse to seek treatment.”
This should be an interesting ongoing debate.
Sweet. Thanks for the video link Xoites!
Wouldn’t it be simple for him to go down there at 3:00, meet the vets, tell them he was wrong, and get involved in helping them? But he can’t do that. That is tragic.
Good, yes very good.
I think Olbermann said last night that Edwards got his info from a Bush admin. report. So, yeah, it’s probably not true. If anything, the number of homeless vets is substantially higher.
How long before O’Reilly starts taking credit for “bringing this issue to light”?
Isn’t this windbag’s 15 minutes over YET?
My God.
The only way to combat the lies is to make the truth visible. Bill O’Rielly is in touch with his inner idiot when he goes after veterans. The number of people in this country who do not know or are not related to a veteran would not fill the Super Bowl.
last night he was at it again. According to Billo there is no housing issues in NOLA as a result of Katrina. Those people living under bridges there are suffering from mental illness according to his big giant headness. So if I follow his logic you don’t deserve proper housing if you suffer from mental illness. What a dick
What a photo op!
Hundreds of homeless vets storming the Fox studios in protest, while we’re right in the middle of ?????(several) wars.
Hillary and Obama, hie thy asses to Fox, and do a couple of campaign spots with the vet protest as a backdrop.
Just in case any of the ‘Support the War’ republicans are deluded enough to think they’re sane.
10 xoites defends Constitution Says:
Homeless Vets Attempt to Deliver Petition to Bill O’Reilly:
Excellent video! I’m glad they didn’t just had our petitions over to that clown with the mic. On the other hand though, my gut feeling tells me that as soon as Fox News got the binder they threw it in the trash. Nothing has really changed. BillO and those like him spit on the veterans and always will.
Here is the Administration report on Homeless Vets. If anything it is an under count.
http://www1.va.gov/homeless/
BOR would most likely sell the vets some of his product. Like a culture warrior jacket to keep them warm, a hat to cover their scars and his books so they can burn them for fire to also keep warm and heat some food.
Bill looked at those vets and thought they are drug addled and mentally deficient and therefore he can’t help them. He is looking for “real vets” that can eat civil like in a restaurant.
Joe O, it does not matter what they do with it. They recieved it. Actions like this affect people inside and outside of Fox News. We may never hear about who decided to leave today or next year because of things like this but it has an effect.
O’Reilly, after claiming that there’s not that many homeless vets out there, did say something to Schultz about how he’d see that vets sleeping under bridges wouldn’t do that anymore. But I don’t think O’Reilly thought it would really come to anything because he didn’t believe it in the first place. Now that he’s been proven to be completely wrong and, as per the challenge by Olbermann and Rieckoff, he has to come up with something to save face.
O’Reilly announced that he supposedly has something in the works with FNC’s Colonel Hunt to help vets. According to O’Reilly, it should be revealed in the next couple of weeks (with the PR being in time for the February ratings sweeps?). There won’t be complete sincerity in it on O’Reilly’s part though as he’ll use it as a means to try and make himself look good and to continue attacks on Edwards and liberals in general. In other words, he’ll manage to shape it to fit his agenda instead of admitting he has been wrong.
Faux Noise have no standards of decency nor journalistic integrity.
If Fox were smart, they’d save a lot of money because of this vet protest.
Instead of paying someone to scroll through all of O’Reilly’s scripts on a teleprompter, they could just repeat
‘STFU…STFU…STFU…STFU…STFU……….(endlessly)’
abob @ 11:
Not to mention all the unoccupied toxic FEMA trailers left over from Katrina.
C’mon vets — get with the program!
He’s got to have a warehouse full of copies of “Those Who Trespass”. Those books alone would burn nicely.
Joementum Says: I think Olbermann said last night that Edwards got his info from a Bush admin. report. So, yeah, it’s probably not true. If anything, the number of homeless vets is substantially higher.
Edwards got his info right from the VA itself. It’s on their website. What makes O’Reilly look like even more a fool is that his military advisor Col Hunt thinks the homeless vets number may be as high as 500,000. Rather sad considering O’Reilly said he doesn’t even believe the VA’s number of nearly 200,000.
I’m positive if Billo ever has to defend himself on this, he’ll fall back by insisting that he was pointing out that specifically the 200000 vets aren’t living under ‘bridges’.
I visited the Edwards campaign headquarters yesterday in Chapel Hill. I’m pretty cynical, but I didn’t realize how badly I would feel. I think I was too hard on him.
Let’s see if Clinton & Obama keep their promise to him.
Meanwhile, I’d like to see anyone, anyone really discuss class warfare in this country. It didn’t start with this administration.
Looking forward to seeing the big giant moron deflated. Although I suppose that’s optimistic. He’ll apologize in usual faux fashion….
“I’m sorry you losers can’t take a joke.” or some similar back handed comment.
If you really want to hurt him, take his money.
24 xoites defends Constitution Says:
“Joe O, it does not matter what they do with it. They recieved it. Actions like this affect people inside and outside of Fox News. We may never hear about who decided to leave today or next year because of things like this but it has an effect.”
I certainly hope that is the case. It just gets on my nerves that people like BillO treat us veterans in such a manner. Its worse than a slap in the face. Now I’m not a homeless veteran but I am a veteran none the less and I could very well have ended up like many of those that are homeless. I will say one thing, the veterans in the video were civil. I can not say that I would be the same if I were there.
C’mon Bill(ious) - Put up or SHUT UP!
I hope this blows up in his ugly fat face (beauty is as beauty does) and he his finally held accountable and taken to task.
Keith had a segment on this….
My favorite part….
‘Man up’….the vet asks O’Reilly to come out and meet them and ‘man up’…
Now…keep in mind its the ‘con-servatives’ that came up with this ‘cowboy up’ nonsense…pseudo-macho phrase to emulate how ‘tough’ they are…and O’Reilly uses it often.
One of their (con-servative ‘macho’ mouthpieces) boys…exposed for the coward he is….gotta love that..
O’Reilly….haven’t met an Irish person yet that likes him….go figure…
BO: Ed, Ed. If you know where’s a veteran, sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....not-do-it/
Olbermann: “Well, Bill, you’re right. This homeless vet is not living under a bridge tonight…..he’s dead.”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....gop-billo/
What a coincidence…
Proud2bHumble @ 37:
Coincidence? You saying BillO had the vet whacked in order to not be wrong?
I wouldn’t put it past him.
abob @ 11:
THe only problem with that rant is that it’s not true.
We have allowed the arrogant,fake strong, angry people of our society to dicate our nation’s daily agenda. They embarrass us worldwide with awful, ignorant, bigoted comments that appeal to our lowest common denomenator. At my office in Chicago, I hear people repeating O’Reilly, Savage, Coulter talking points. This sewer media is having a negative effect in our country
“34 Joe O. Says: 24 xoites defends Constitution Says:
“Joe O, it does not matter what they do with it. They recieved it. Actions like this affect people inside and outside of Fox News. We may never hear about who decided to leave today or next year because of things like this but it has an effect.”
I certainly hope that is the case. It just gets on my nerves that people like BillO treat us veterans in such a manner. Its worse than a slap in the face. Now I’m not a homeless veteran but I am a veteran none the less and I could very well have ended up like many of those that are homeless. I will say one thing, the veterans in the video were civil. I can not say that I would be the same if I were there.”
I am positive you would be. I worked with and buried homeless vets for a very long time.
http://junerevolution.blogspot.....f-war.html
Blo’Reilly’s Clear Bridge Initiative posters for underpasses:
“Free Falafel Showers - 1st Served, 1st Come -
- 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York -”
“… we will make sure that man does not do it.” - Sound of One Mouth Flapping
BO’s face is visual mace,
Sure to creep anyone out of any place…
-Loofah Makris Malmady
I’m sure BOR will label them a “hate group” funded by George Soros and go about his merry way.
Bush, with McCain’s synchophantic support, is taking the right action.
Today he declared a ‘War Against Homeless Veterans’.
(I think the wording needs a bit of work)
Preacher Boob @ 43:
Homeless Swift-Boat Veterans for the Truth?
If I recall correctly, BillO did not say he was going to help the vets sleeping under bridges, he said that he would make sure they ‘wouldn’t do that’.
I assume that he means he will send his Brown Shir- uh, er, FAUX News security to roust them and force them to move on courtesy of the venerable ‘bum’s rush’? (Snicker) Riiiiiight. Roust combat vets? (Wolf’s grin) I’d really like to see that. This won’t be like what happened to the Bond Army of the 1930’s; these guys will fight back, as they’ve got nothing left to lose and are mad as Hell, especially the latest crop of Iraq vets.
BillO, go ahead, send your goons. Just rescind their life insurance policies before they step out the door, or you may find this gets expensive in more ways than one…
BLO will never learn that sometimes its best to just “loofah it alone”…
The war on homeless veterans has been going on for quite some time. The way Bush wages war if he declares war on our vets they may stand a chance.
flatearth friedman Says: those guys do not exist. this must be some liberal media scam cooked up to make billy the o look bad
Are you serious? The administrations have always neglected the military. I don’t know what the Pentagon does with all that money, but they didn’t