From BradBlog:
And that’s what America really looks like. Which is why you normally don’t get to see it on TV.
Turns out the man in the video above is a Catholic priest by the name of Rev. Michael Pfleger, and apparently Bill O’Reilly did use a part of the interview above on his show. Approximately 5 seconds of it. On April 2. And yet, despite how well Pfleger deflects the nonsense tossed at him by O’Reilly’s ambush reporter (as seen in the above, not on his show) O’Reilly has been flogging the same “racist, hate-monger” nonsense for weeks.
As if that’s not bad enough, after the 5 seconds shown from the above interview, O’Reilly went on to do a full 6 minute segment discussing whether or not…wait for it…Pfleger should be sanctioned by the Catholic Church!
I wish I was kidding. (Watch the Bill O’Reilly video over at BradBlog)
That’s what I’m talking about. Talk about showing up for a match of wits unarmed.
No Trackbacks To “Priest Pwns Bill O’Reilly’s Minion On Rev. Wright“
First of all, was Bill O’Reilly a Marine? Touché.
Rev. Michael Pfleger is very well known in Chicagoland. Much more so than Rev Wright, who I’d never heard of until the Obama stuff started.
Catholic priest as hero on C&L! Wonders never cease!! :oP
Seriously though this guy is great. This is a lesson in how to handle the worst interview tactics with politeness and restraint, and still smack down the Fox peon.
Let’s stop calling these people reverend, even when they make sense. Imaginary gods all over the place.
I love that he straight told Bill’O’s knucklehead that he was lying and they guy couldn’t say anything but “Fair enough!”
Another clip the mainstream media wants to keep hidden!
Oh my god. This guy is amazing.
Let’s stop calling these people reverend, even when they make sense. Imaginary gods all over the place.
God or no God I believe everyone has a right to free speach in America and Reverend Wright and Bill’O-job are no exception…however I also believe you should be called on your bullshit when you spew it as Bill’O-job does in public on a regular basis.
The difference is Bill’O-job spews his hate on a national level and would be happy if everyone could hear is message, Reverend Wright was speaking to his congragation and any one of them could leave and find a new church if they didn’t like what he said.
I might agree with him on Wright, but not Farrakhan. Especially since even Malcolm X would probably shun Farrakhan if he were still alive.
In the spirit of curmudgeonliness, I nominate “pwns” and all its derivatives as over-used and underwhelmingly communicative. Bah!
I saw this tape weeks ago ad I am surprised it has taken so long to get out. I am also surprised that Fox left the video up for so long, the one I saw was 12 minutes long.This is a great example of how to handle all of the bogus questions.
thank you for posting this- we have a WHOLE summer of this silliness to face…and we should start really seeing it for what it really is….trying to make Something out of Nothing….No9 is right- Farrakhan would not have been embraced by MLK or Malcom X…and the insinuations being thrown this election are taking us back to the 60’s - it is absurd….
Faux Noes, Lawd Han Han & Will O’Gobbles
Testify brother! OMG, Rev. Michael Pfleger took that FOX News shill apart at the seams. Nicole nailed it, this guy was totally out of his league in the battle of the wits. Right is right and Rev. Michael Pfleger is right so it would hard to beat him anyway but that little FOXaganda punk was way out of his league. The FOXaganda shill proved himself to be a right wing shill by getting emotional at the end he did not even pretend to be a reporter. I am not Catholic or religious but after this exchange if Rev. Michael Pfleger’s church were in NYC I would go to my first church sermon in 20 years!
Go Rev, go!!!
Dahgrostabphri @ 8:
I don’t know why politicians don’t slam some people with lawsuits. I would assume it’s a bad thing to do politically but I’d still like to see them do it and maybe make people think before they just started spewing out lies about them. The swift boat BS with Kerry was a prime example. Some things you can let slide but I wouldn’t have let the swifties get by.
Definitions of Slander, Libel and Defamation:
http://www.expertlaw.com/libra.....ation.html
Obama’s staff:
Employ him. Borrow him. Somehow make him an official surrogate!! He had a correct answer to everything that little punk had to say.
Get him on the talk show circuit, plz!!!
Father Pfleger is a good man and Bill O’Reilly is not a good man. Father Pfleger is well known in the Chicago area as a man who stands tall for the rights of all he serves. I am not a Catholic, but if I were, I would want Father Pfleger to be my priest.
It’s amazing the way these right-wing freaks try to reverse this. So if an African American calls America out for embracing the KKK for decades, while they denied black people their rights, then that person is a racist! What kind of fucked up logic is that?!?
Way to speak truth to the idiot faction, Reverend. This dork from Fox Ooze brought a knife to a gunfight.
BOOOOYAH!
holy McJebus, this guy needs to be on TV, this video needs to be number one on youtube.
Next thing you know they’ll pay somebody to say he was molested by Pfleger when he was a kid.
did he ever school bill o’s attack dog
Tequila @ 9:
farrakan is probably a good man.
but he may have ordered malcom x’s murder.
we know our president is guilty of murder….
i am a hardcore atheist and think anyone who believes in “god” is a little flaky, but i liked that priest!
You Suck Bill. You Truly Suck. Please invite me to say it right to your face in person.
Ahhhhhh Fox News.
Non-stop lectures on patriotism, from a TV station own by an Australian who became an American so he could buy a TV station….
did he ever school bill o’s attack dog
Yeah, and with the truth. No name calling, no shouting, just…the truth! Sweeeeeet!
I can’t stop marveling at self confessed atheists who can’t stop judging others on account of their not being atheist themselves. Crying babies.
Ruthless People @ 14:
we finally got to hear ‘chris’ in all his croaking teenygopper glory, sadly didnt get to see his face pizza.
SOMEBODY GOT SPANKED!!!
True American Hero! Thats all there is to it! And all along I thought religion was a force of division, antipathy, and resentment.
I Love this brand of religion and gospel.
Nice!
Beelzebud @ 18:
Faux News logic, good old fashioned appeasement logic to their drooling fading audience.
Leonel @ 28:
Kind of judgmental, don’t you think?
Brilliant!
Tequila @ 9:
Do you have a direct line to Malcolm X? How is it you know what he would do if he was alive. Really pompous, and an educated guess is you are white like me. I’m so sick of white people who make these stupid remarks.
In 10 minutes, the priest could not get to that punk. He kept repeating the hater racist crap, even after the priest laid waste to his argument. To the questioner, Bill O’Windbag and the phd on bills show: How many times have you heard Wright speak? (Or any other black preacher in church for that matter) So you, without even having sat once in that church, know better than this priest or Obama, what Wright is all about. Even tho Obama and the priest knew Wright for 20 years, these fat asses can better judge this minister more accurately.
You racists need to read all of MLK’s speech, not just cherrypick what you think is his message. MLK was very poliitcal and not popular when he was alive, with these racists, just like Wright isn’t popular with them.
Alice (formerly Hussein) @ 1:
No, Rev. Wright was. Bill’s askeerd.
In other news: Candy and flowers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....97571.html
CafeenMan @ 15:
The final paragraphs of your link answer your question. It is very problematic for a politician to bring suit for defamation.
The only bigot shown in this clip is OReilly. Of course we didn’t get a look at the idiot interviewing Rev. Pfleger.
As a journalist, I would be sooooo embarrassed to be a Fox News propaganda boy like that guy. How does the clown in that video live with himself? There would be more dignity in selling handjobs for $10 a throw at a truck stop.
Alice (formerly Hussein) @ 37:
Looks like it. As far as politicians go, I think they can afford the costs easily enough even if they don’t get it back when they win, but like the article says, it’s hard to win and if they don’t it looks like the lies aren’t lies after all.
DMS @ 39:
Actually, he does more than that and only charges a nickel. (Some people say)
Bill O’Reilly is Fox News’ resident father Coughlin, he has made many a hateful and racist remark directed at Gays, Jews, blacks and Hispanics. It’s beyond hypocrisy for him or his rabid followers to level the claims or hatred or prejudice at anyone else.
groucho @ 35:
He stated that Jeremiah Wright was a Marine then asked the interviewer ‘First of all, was Bill O’Reilly a Marine?’.
To me that is an excellent retort.
To my knowledge he wasn’t.
It has been said that BillO is a Chicken Hawk. Most but not all of the War Monger’s are Chicken Hawks.
McCain is the exception, he is still in Vietnam.
I first heard of Rev. Michael Pfleger because he was mentioned in an article about Rev. Wright. These two men have done a lot of work in their communities. The interesting thing is that Rev. Michael Pfleger is currently in a fight with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago because he wants to remain in his current church and not be transfered elsewhere. He feels that there is a lot of work to be done in his area and does not want to lose the in-roads his church has made into making his community better.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....3019.story
I can’t find his email, but here’s the Reverend’s address (I think it’s the church address), for anyone who wants to send him a note congratulating him on his smack-down of Bill O’Reilly’s minion…
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Snowball @ 42:
Of course it is beyond hypocrisy. That has never stopped them.
The talking heads are paid huge amounts of money to do what they do.
When ones paycheck depends on being a hypocrite, then hypocrisy abounds.
Coolest. Priest. Ever.
“i am a hardcore atheist and think anyone who believes in “god” is a little flaky, but i liked that priest!”
I second that motion!
This priest rocks!!
The flunkie got spanked. Bad.
I’m an agnostic Jew, but it gives me hope to hear from people of good faith such as Rev. Wright and Rev. Michael Pfleger. If their belief gives them the strength to speak truth to power and stand forthright for justice and equality, more power to them.
DMS @ 39: