OReilly: Media shouldn't support candidates

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I know I only heard one sound bite that You-Know-Who selected to put on his show on the You-Know-What channel. I'm going to see if I can download the entire thing now. Would have done it sooner but unlike TSM's old slogan, this is not better than sex.

 

Interesting. Just read Time's quickie article on You-Know-Who and came across this:

 

<<< http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...-490678,00.html

 

WOULD YOU EVER WRITE ANOTHER MYSTERY?

Absolutely. Mel Gibson optioned [my novel] Those Who Trespass a few years ago, long before the Passion controversy. If Gibson can get this movie made, I have a sequel 75% written. >>>

 

 

Mel has been on his show and Bill is a big-time defender of Gibson making this movie, as I am as well. However, he should have disclosed this information, in my opinion, in his Mel interview...

Edited October 9, 2003 by kkktookmybabyaway

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I know I only heard one sound bite that You-Know-Who selected to put on his show on the You-Know-What channel. I'm going to see if I can download the entire thing now. Would have done it sooner but unlike TSM's old slogan, this is not better than sex.

Well, the copy on freshair.com is better than the radio in quality and streams really well (they got a lot of bandwith, I guess) but if you can't get to it try billoreilly.com because he's got the thing on his site too appearantly.

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I know I only heard one sound bite that You-Know-Who selected to put on his show on the You-Know-What channel. I'm going to see if I can download the entire thing now. Would have done it sooner but unlike TSM's old slogan, this is not better than sex.

Well, the copy on freshair.com is better than the radio in quality and streams really well (they got a lot of bandwith, I guess) but if you can't get to it try billoreilly.com because he's got the thing on his site too appearantly.

He just has the last six minutes of it, while the other site has the entire forty minute interview.

 

You don't miss much by not listening to the entire thing though, just exactly what he is bitching about at the end of the interview. I happen to agree with him also, I can't believe he actually went on that show in the first place.

 

I fucking can't stand NPR, they all talk with no feeling at all.

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Actually, Terry Gross is pretty darn impartial for NPR.

 

Also I just got sent this while talking about it on AIM. LMAO. Regarding the "Shut Up" thing:

 

Bill O'Reilly Wants You To Shut Up

Also, Al Franken, Tom Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Rosie O'Donnell, gay people who talk about their sexual orientation, atheist Scouts, peaceniks, both parties …

 

Fox News channel talk show host Bill O'Reilly says "shut up" the way other people say "um."

 

On his daily show, The O'Reilly Factor, he uses it as a place-holder for an idea still formulating in his brain. As a way to begin a sentence, end it, or punctuate it. Sometimes he says "shut up" with fury, eyes bulging. When he's being dismissive, he delivers it offhandedly and without real malice. Other times he says it gently, with a minxlike twinkle in his eye, signaling to all the world that he's just being frisky.

 

O'Reilly wants specific individuals to shut up, and he names them. He would like all gays and lesbians to zip it—even though he's invited them on his show to talk about … homosexuality. He's even heaved this impolite language at entire nations, demanding they recuse themselves from the international conversation.

 

In the half-decade his top-rated show has been on the air, he's called for the muzzling of practically everybody. At the rate O'Reilly is going, he'll be the only person allowed to speak in a couple of years. Which, I suppose, is his master plan. Here are excerpts from his show:

 

Two-for-One Bank Shot

"Already the two parties are blaming each other [about the power blackout]. And I have two words for them—shut up."

—Aug. 15, 2003

 

On Location at the Los Angeles Book Fair

[To Al Franken]: "Hey, shut up! You had your 35 minutes! Shut up!"

—June 1, 2003

 

Where O'Reilly Learned To Say "Shut Up"

"My father didn't tell me anything. My father just said: 'Shut up. Eat your food. There are people starving in Korea,' but he didn't—he didn't offer a lot of career counseling, but he never discouraged me."

—Sept. 17, 1999

 

No-First-Amendment Zone

"All of these spin-meisters on both sides should just shut up until all the [Florida] votes are counted."

—Nov. 9, 2000

 

That Means You, Sid Blumenthal

"There is no victory for any American in the impeachment trial. The president should be ashamed of himself, and his partisans should shut up."

—Feb. 4, 1999

 

Hollywood Sissy

"He has dodged this program, Alec Baldwin has, for years. Bottom line: If you're going to sling it, Alec, then stand up to some fire. If not, shut up and don't be ridiculous."

—Jan. 2, 1999

 

Bill's Amen Corner

"Anyway, Kelsey Grammar and Robert Duvall were at this dinner, and [they] both said, hey, Dixie Chicks and all—these people should just shut up."

—April 28, 2003

 

Military Immunity

"I would never tell a general to shut up under any circumstances."

—April 3, 2003

 

Shut Up for Freedom

"And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless—unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam."

—Feb. 27, 2003

 

To Our Brothers and Sisters in the Great White North

"Canada shouldn't have any say [about the Guantanamo prisoners] at all. I mean, just shut up about it."

—April 16, 2003

 

To an Anti-War Protester Whose Father Died on 9/11

O'Reilly: "Shut up. Shut up."

Jeremy Glick: "Oh, please don't tell me to shut up."

O'Reilly: "As respect—as respect—in respect for your father, who was a Port Authority worker, a fine American, who got killed unnecessarily by barbarians—" 

Glick: "By radical extremists who were trained by this government—"

O'Reilly: "Out of respect for him—"

Glick: "—not the people of America."

O'Reilly: "—I'm not going to—" 

Glick: "—the people of the ruling class, the small minority." 

O'Reilly: "Cut his mic. I'm not going to dress you down anymore, out of respect for your father. We will be back in a moment with more of The Factor."

Glick: "That means we're done?"

O'Reilly: "We're done."

—Feb. 4, 2003

 

Presidential Gag Order

"What Jimmy Carter should do is privately give Mr. Bush his opinion and shut up publicly."

—Feb. 18, 2003

 

Diplomatic Gag Order

"But if the Bush administration wants to attack al-Qaida in Yemen, the Swedes should shut up, because basically it's our people who are dead, they killed our people, and we have to run them down."

—Nov. 20, 2002

 

He Even Talks Like This to Colleagues

"I'm going to give you a plug, so shut up for a minute, Dick [Morris]. Here we go. You've got the State of the Union address coming up."

—Jan. 27, 2000

 

Don't Tell Me To Shut Up!

"You're going to say, 'Shut up, O'Reilly! You—you're a sadist with your guests all the time!' "

—Nov. 21, 2002

 

Special Guest Invective by Sitcom Star ALF

ALF [to O'Reilly]: "They've got a talking Bill O'Reilly doll. It's only $19.95, but it's $50 worth of batteries. The thing doesn't shut up."

—June 25, 2002

 

Enough To Make O'Reilly Shut Up

"If Congress would pass that [air safety] bill, then I would shut up for a little while."

—Nov. 13, 2001

 

And He Wonders Why Daschle Won't Appear

"Believe me when I tell you The Factor goes out of its way to get Democrats on this broadcast. But Daschle has been and remains too frightened to appear. So with all due respect, senator, shut up."

—May 17, 2002

 

O'Reilly Delegates Authority to Sen. Evan Bayh

"If you see [sen. Tom Daschle] for me, senator, tell him to shut up. For me. You can be nice."

—March 17, 2003

 

Scout's Honor

[To an atheist Eagle Scout, Darrell Lambert]: "I want to quote this—'On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and to my country and obey Scout law,' on and on and on and on. I mean, God's in the first 10 words. So why did you have to tell them you were an atheist if you didn't have any trouble reading the oath? Why didn't you just shut up?"

—Oct. 30, 2002

 

Welcome to My Show To Talk About Sex. Now, Please Put a Cork in It.

"My thesis, you may know, is that nobody should ever talk about their sexuality in any—in any regard ever. You should not define yourself that way. It just makes life a lot rougher. So, therefore, I would probably say, if you're a gay celebrity, shut up."

—March 21, 2001

 

"I am in favor of having equal treatment for everyone. But I'm also in favor of having everybody in the military shut up about their sexuality. All right. Not discuss it, it's not germane. It's irrelevant."

—Dec. 20, 2000

 

"You can do whatever you want. Just shut up about it. Little kids don't need to know whether you're homosexual, heterosexual, a cross-dresser, whatever. Don't discuss it. That's reasonable."

—Sept. 28, 2000

 

"I don't want the Scout master to tell my boys if he's gay, if he's straight, if he's a bigamist, if he's anything. I don't think that has any place in Scouting, so therefore I don't think the Scouts are wrong in saying shut up. We just don't want to hear about this."

—Aug. 29, 2000

 

"Why didn't you just—why—why didn't you just not say anything? This—I never can get this for you guys, and I—and I don't mean to be arrogant or anything like—I just don't get it. Just shut up about it. Who cares what you do? That's what the Air Force is asking you to do. Shut up."

—June 8, 2000

 

"If I were Rosie O'Donnell and I didn't want to get married, I'd shut up. The same thing with Madonna. Have the kids if you—you know, obviously, they have money. They can support the kids. But I'd shut up."

—Dec. 14, 1999

 

"I'm asking you to shut up about sex."

—Sept. 23, 2002

 

O'Reilly: "I don't go running around telling everybody about my sex life, and I don't think you do either, do you?"

Hugh Downs: "No, you don't have to—"

O'Reilly: "So just shut up about it."

—July 2, 2001

 

Shut Up, Pinhead!

To Mike McGough of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial page, who accuses O'Reilly of exploiting a murder victim's sister who appeared on O'Reilly's show:

 

"Hey, Mike, shut up. I resent the fact that you said that we exploited this woman. We gave this woman a voice. That's something that you and your stupid newspaper would never do, you pinhead. You would never do that. "

—Nov. 13, 2002

 

A Viewer Protests the Treatment of McGough

"Paula Evans, Winston-Salem, N.C. [writes]: 'Bill, if you are so concerned about public figures being bad role models for children, please stop interrupting your guests and telling them to shut up!' "

 

"Well, the 'shut up' line has happened only once in six years, Ms. Evans, and that's because the editor from Pittsburgh was filibustering, after accusing me of exploiting the families of the murder victims. The no-spin zone is a tough place, and lies and unreasonable discourse will be stopped in their tracks."

—Nov. 15, 2002

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Well, I just heard the interview.

 

First 20 minutes were spent talking about Al, a certain cable news network and how mean You-Know-Who is.

 

Next 10 or so minutes were spent actually talking about parts of the book and religion, which I zoned out of because I don't care.

 

Next 10 minutes had the host asking why he called out book critics on his show (I guess it's OK for a reviewer to let their opinion be known but not let the subject of their review counteract).

 

I laughed, I cried, I peed, I followed the MLB playoffs on my desktop.

 

I would also be interested in seeing how Al's interview was treated in Fresh Air...

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http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1419191

 

There is a link to the Al Franken interview on "Fresh Air" which Bill kept talking about.

 

Let's compare them.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Well, I just heard Al's interview.

 

I'm probably in the wrong here in the eyes of many, but if I was in You-Know-Who's position I wouldn't have gone off on What's his/her(?) Name.

 

I would have lost my temper earlier.

 

What a pitiful interview. I guess you don't ask serious questions when interviewing a satirist. I swear Al was getting a blowjob when the host wasn't talking or laughing through this love-fest.

 

I wish I could go to an academic university, get a dozen or so fact-checkers, write a book called "Al Franken is an Ugly Piece of Shit Whose Wife Deserves the Medal of Honor for Allowing Him To Stick His Dick in Her and Other Stuff I Notice," make a bunch of Mikey Moore fat jokes, and then go on "Fresh Air" where the she-man will laugh at my stupid jokes and perform interview fellatio.

 

After all, it will be in the name of satire...

Edited October 9, 2003 by kkktookmybabyaway

[Guest MikeSC]

Well, I just heard Al's interview.

 

I'm probably in the wrong here in the eyes of many, but if I was in You-Know-Who's position I wouldn't have gone off on What's his/her(?) Name.

 

I would have lost my temper earlier.

 

What a pitiful interview. I guess you don't ask serious questions when interviewing a satirist. I swear Al was getting a blowjob when the host wasn't talking or laughing through this love-fest.

 

I wish I could go to an academic university, get a dozen or so fact-checkers, write a book called "Al Franken is an Ugly Piece of Shit Whose Wife Deserves the Medal of Honor for Allowing Him To Stick His Dick in Her and Other Stuff I Notice," make a bunch of Mikey Moore fat jokes, and then go on "Fresh Air" where the she-man will laugh at my stupid jokes and perform interview fellatio.

 

After all, it will be in the name of satire...

I'd buy it.

 

Heck, I'd help write it.

-=Mike

...Couldn't we just title it "OMG!FAUX NEWS2003!LOL!"?

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What a pitiful interview. I guess you don't ask serious questions when interviewing a satirist. I swear Al was getting a blowjob when the host wasn't talking or laughing through this love-fest.

Franken doesn't accept every question as an attack on his character. When she asked him about the Peabody thing he gave a calm answer.

 

Also, Franken hasn't done nearly the number of outrageous stuff ("SHUT UP FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FATHER") that O'Reilly has, and thus there's not a lot of that kind of thing to ask. She opened the show by saying this would be a forum for him to respond to what Franken said about him. He went on fine for 30 minutes in a "Franken says that (x) is (y). Your response?" kind of thing, making reasonable responses and making himself seem like a much less confrontational guy then he usually is, but then just went into his normal overdrive.

 

Was she trying to "trap" him? Maybe. Certainly with NPR's reputation that's not entirely out of the question. But was his eruption appropriate? No. He challenged her repeatedly and then stormed off in a huff making sure he had the final say. Savage, Hannity, et al tend to do this a lot, too. He fit the exact description from Franken's book that was quoted earlier.

 

The critics are correct, for O'Reilly has spoken and proved them all right.

 

Now I gotta find out which is funnier, him or you.

[Guest JMA]

[controversial statement]It is WRONG to be a Bill O'Reilly fan.[/controversial statement]

 

I think Marney summed it up pretty well: the man is a bully. Nothing more. He can never accept being wrong and tries to intimidate those who do not share his views. And his "don't talk about sexuality" thing is bullshit as well. Keep in mind this is the guy who wrote trashy romance novels with gratuitous sex in them. The only thing more sad than O'Reilly are the people who follow him with an almost slavish devotion.

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SOURCES: AL FRANKEN BACK AT #1 NYT -- KNOCKS OFF O'REILLY AFTER ONE WEEK IN 10/19/03 LIST...

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Oh Christ, so this is what Drudge is going to post for the next few months?...