Bill O'Reilly is mad at Markos today. Apparently, Markos is David Duke. Or Neville Chamberlain (no, that's Obama, sorry). Or an illiterate gay. Or something. It's difficult to tell. It's also hy-sterical.
Per Politico, CBS is yanking copies of O'Reilly's meltdown, from his Inside Edition days, off of YouTube. CBS has done this before. They don't get it. YouTube is helping to bring CBS viewers, helping to showcase its shows. Comedy Central also has a hard time dealing with this concept - publicity good, strong-armed thuggery bad. Anyway, C&L still has it. Watch it here.
(As an off-topic aside, has anybody else noticed how sucky Firefox has gotten? Just me, or is it hogging more and more CPU, or something, as it "improves" to higher and higher numbered versions?)
Last month, AMERICAblog exposed yet another act of hypocrisy from Bill O'Reilly. We also showed he's a wimp who is afraid of his own boss:
Earlier this year, arm chair terrorism fighter Bill O'Reilly blasted the chair of General Electric for doing business with terrorist countries like Iran. Bill was in rare form when he took on this issue. But, Bill needs to have on another guest and blast him for cavorting with Iranians and Syrians, possibly even aiding in the recruitment of terrorists and certainly facilitating the spewing of hatred against Israel.
That guest would be Rupert Murdoch, the head of FOX News.
Murdoch owns FOX, for whom O'Reilly works. Murdoch also owns MySpace.com. Therein lies the problem. An astute observer pointed us to some of the users of Mr. Murdoch's site. There are numerous users of MySpace.com in states that sponsor terrorism, like Iran, Syria and Sudan. That alone should warrant intervention from O'Reilly using his own standards for doing business with terrorist nations. But, that's not the biggest problem. It's the Web sites honoring terrorist organizations that give us pause. There is the self-described "Offical Hezbollah MySpace" page.
That post includes links to several of the other terror sites hosted by Murdoch's company. You'd think that would set off Bill O'Reilly. You'd be wrong. Last night, O'Reilly again went after companies doing business with Iran. Again, he failed to mention Murdoch. This is a link to the video, which includes the following exchange:
Millions of Americans hold GE stock in good faith, but this is a bad company. Doing business with people killing American soldiers and Marines is simply unacceptable, and paying a guy $20 million to run a company into the ground is simply breathtaking.
There are more than a few villain CEOs in this country, but Jeffrey Immelt could well be the worst. And that's the memo.
Now, General Electric isn't the only concern doing business with Iran. The government of Switzerland and the French company Total, the oil company, are among other big offenders.
Actually, Bill, Rupert Murdoch is another big offender. Really big offender. Big tough Bill O'Reilly doesn't dare to go after Murdoch.
Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "
Then again, I understand the customers were surprised that O'Reilly wasn't screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more loofahs.'
You can hang your coat on the Pinocchio schnozz of Bill O'Reilly, who made Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" (yet again), this time for asserting mythical Pew Research poll results O'Reilly claimed showed "most Americans won't vote for you if you get an endorsement by a gay rights group."
A Media Matters for America search turned up no Pew Research Center poll on the topic nor any poll asking a nationwide sample whether respondents would be more or less likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by a gay rights organization. However, as the News Hounds blog noted in response to O'Reilly's claim, an August 6-8 Quinnipiac Poll of voters in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania found that a majority of voters in each state responded that support for a presidential candidate by "gay rights groups" "doesn't ... make a difference" in their level of support for the candidate.
The Faux News Factor 'bot, when called on his lack of any documentation of polling statistics, tried to cloud the issue, but never admitted his "mistake."
During the August 15 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly read an email from Cindi Creager of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation that criticized him for "erroneously report[ing] that a poll found most Americans would not vote for a presidential candidate endorsed by a gay rights organization."
...While O'Reilly noted that the [Quinnipiac] poll was taken "in a few states," not nationally as he had earlier suggested, he did not acknowledge that his original assertion that the result applied to a "majority" of respondents was false. Rather, he simply cited the Quinnipiac poll results from Florida -- which found that 28 percent of respondents would be "less likely" to support a candidate endorsed by a gay rights group, while 60 percent said it "would make no difference," and 10 percent said it would make them "more likely" to support such a candidate -- and added, "That's what I was referring to."
Perhaps Mr. O'Reilly needs a better research assistant. Falafel boo-yah!
Mike Stark of Calling All Wingnuts gives Billo hell for his bluster over YKos. Nothing feels better than seeing "O'Reilly is a pervert" signs on the bully's lawn...
Left wing mafia...smear web sites...assassins...radical left...
O'Reilly hurling these terms about a progressive bloggercon is absurd. He's jumped the shark big time.
[Some of you said in the comments that the video didn't work. I've repasted it (and the link). Let me know if it's still giving you trouble. It's working over at my pad.]
Bill O'Reilly has a problem with "hate sites" like, he says, FreeRepublic.com. Then why doesn't O'Reilly call out White House spokesman Tony Snow who posted on FreeRepublic.com for years?
I was going to post an open thread, which is Joe's tradition at this hour, but then I figured you all could really use a pick-me-up first thing in the morning. This video is it. Once you click through, you have to then click the video on the right hand side to view it.
You really have to watch this video. It's wonderful. Senator Dodd (D-CT), who is running for president, goes on O'Reilly to talk about DailyKos and O'Reilly's own hate speech. Dodd was simply amazing. I really like the guy. Always have. Like him even more now.
Best part: O'Reilly denying that he welcomed al Qaeda blowing up San Francisco. Dodd called him on it, and O'Reilly, as always, denied saying exactly what he actually said. Here is what O'Reilly actually said about al Qaeda and San Francisco:
And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.
You want to blow up the Coit Tower, go ahead? Imagine had any Democrat said such a thing. BMW and jetBlue would pull their relationships pronto. Yet BMW and jetBlue have no problem associating themselves with those who would welcome al Qaeda terrorism.
The Freepers are in a tizzy because Billo declared the swamp of Free Republic is a haven of hate speech. "You've got some pretty sick people posting," sayeth O'Reilly about FreeRepublic. Gee, ya think?! From the leader of the Freepi, Jim Robinson:
I'm not going to call Bill O'Reilly a liar... yet, but... on his TV show today, he read off a laundry list of ridiculous "hate" statements like "I hate blacks," "Hillary should be assassinated" and "homosexuals are dogs" that he said he personally found on Free Republic and claims that they were posted here today. I do not believe that. I doubt that he personally logged on to FR and I doubt he found any such thing posted here today.
Who knows what we may have missed and is buried deep in our archives of millions of posts, but our readers do a pretty good job of alerting us to anything out of bounds that is posted and we pull it.
No, not exactly, Jim. Bill might have made up those pathetic statements, but I have a ton of outlandish, offensive Actual Freeper Quotes stocked up over at my pad, complete with links to the threads. Click here and here for a sampling of the swill. The Pensito Review has rounded up some choice ones as well.
Extreme hatred of gay people: Homosexuals have a behivior which is based on a sexual fetish. ANYTHING done via civil/marriage unions is just a manipulation to sanction the sexual behavior of a man playing with another mans genitials (and vice versa for two females).
Society has absolutly no reason whatsoever to sanction such sexual recreation. Homosexuality contributes NOTHING to society. ZERO. Society rewards the institution not the individual. Homosexual are only concerned with individual orgasm recreation, not the benefit of society.
A deviant engaging in such behavior is not an ethnic minority, but a deviant, sodomite, queer, fecal-obsessionist, faggot, etc, but certainly not an ethnic minority.
On Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress: Ellison is little more than a pimple on Mohammed’s faggy butt, waiting to be popped by the devil Allah. He is a fine representative of the Democratic Party.
GOP frontrunner Rudolph Giuliani is hated officially: Are you still here defending that damned liberal RINO scumbag Rudy Giuliani!?! I thought we flushed all the turds that were stinking up this site with their pro-liberal, pro-abortionist, pro-radical gay agenda, pro-gun control, pro-illegal alien stench. If you support Giuliani, then you support all of the above. Don’t like the labels or being associated with them? Then stop supporting a liberal, pro-abortionist, pro-radical gay agenda, pro-gun control, pro-illegal alien, serial adulterer POS for President.
What a touch of class. Lazy O'Reilly obviously didn't surf much to find actual examples of the filth at FR. Robinson continues...
Also, one of our readers found a couple of the quotes he alleges, and if they are the ones O'Reilly is complaining about, he took them way out of context. They were simply quotes in the articles posted not statements posted by FReepers.
As soon as he provides me a list of the alleged posts and their URLs, I'll believe him. If he doesn't... then... well, guess he'll deserve to be known as what he is.
O'Reilly taking things out of context? A liar? Oh my goodness.
Bonus: Jesus' General has a letter to Fox's Roger Ailes about O'Reilly that will have you rolling.
BillOReilly.com says that American Muslims are "freakin idiots," and that you should "never trust a Muslim!!!!!" Does BMW agree with the hate that BMW is sponsoring? Ask them. Then ask them why Lowes and Home Depot have dumped this hate, but BMW hasn't.
BillOReilly.com says Islam is a cult. Does BMW agree with the hate that BMW is sponsoring? Ask them. Then ask them why Lowes and Home Depot dumped this hate, but BMW hasn't.
No? Then what do they have to say about BillOReilly.com, and their sponsorship of Bill O'Reilly's TV show? BMW can't have it both ways - either they agree with the hateful, bigoted views on BillOReilly.com or not. Does BMW agree that we need to load our weapons to take on Hillary, that maybe its time to launch a terrorist attack against the US Capitol, that Rosie O'Donnell should be dead, and that Islam is a cult, or they don't.
So which one is it, BMW? Do you think Hillary needs to be shot or not? Lowes and Home Depot have pulled their advertising because of this hate - why haven't you?
During the segment, O'Reilly stated: "What is significant is that this website [DailyKos] and the others mentioned have intimidated the entire Democratic presidential field, with the exception of [Sen.] Joseph Biden [DE], who will not go to that convention [YearlyKos]. And we respect the senator for that." In response, Biden's campaign posted a diary entry on Daily Kos describing O'Reilly's comments as "reckless" and "a total misrepresentation." Biden's campaign further stated:
The simple truth is Joe Biden would be at YearlyKos if he could, but adding a book tour to all the demands of a campaign meant some things had to change. But we won't stand by and let Bill O'Reilly try to drive a wedge between the progressive online community and us to make a false point on behalf of his half-baked theories.
While not always agreeing with all members of the DailyKos community, Joe Biden respects what the YearlyKos convention -- a diverse assembly of activists and organizations -- represents as a vehicle for progressives to organize and advocate on behalf of democratic ideals and the Democratic Party.
The "big scoop" that FOX News' Bill O'Reilly was going to reveal last night, the photo that he found on the DailyKos blog that was going to "destroy" Markos utterly and totally? It's a doctored photo of Joe Lieberman fixing George Bush's zipper. I've seen this photo before, it's mildly amusing. But for O'Reilly to bill this as a shocker that the audience isn't going to believe, something so outrageous that it is going to "destroy" Daily Kos, is the kind of totally unmerited bluster that you'd expect from a desperate first year journalism student, not from a wannabe-major network. To say that there is no "there, there" is an understatement.
I'm posting this to show you, to show the real journalists who read our site, the kind of thing that passes for "news" on FOX. Not that it would shock anyone that FOX is simply yellow journalism at its worst, but still it's useful to be reminded in glaring detail just how silly and pathetic FOX's standards truly are.
Let me remind you again. O'Reilly's own Web site contained death threats against Hillary Clinton, suggestions that someone ought to launch a terror strike against the US Capitol, a death wish against Rosie O'Donnell, slurs against Muslims (including calling Islam a cult), and more. But that's okay. What's REALLY hateful isn't all of that, it's a picture of Joe Lieberman fixing George Bush's zipper.
Home Depot seems to have had a change of heart. They're now unequivocally telling their customers that they will not advertise on Bill O'Reilly's show. Oddly, however, they're now also claiming that they never advertised on O'Reilly's show.
From: Jarvis, Ron @homedepot.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:00 PM To: JH Subject: RE: PULL SUPPORT FOR OREILLY
Thank you for your email , we will not and have not advertised on the Bill O’Reilly show.
And here's another:
From: Defeo, @homedepot.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:07 AM To: JH Subject: FW: PULL SUPPORT FOR OREILLY
Good morning, Thank you very much for your message. The Home Depot has a policy that prohibits the running of its advertising on programs that express strong opinions or political views. Please note that this includes Bill O’Reilly’s program. Thank you, Ron
Funny, though, that Home Depot already admitted to advertising on O'Reilly's show in the hateful email they sent customers just a few days ago - you know, the one where they blamed you for hurting the environment:
Dear C (me),
Thank you for contacting The Home Depot Customer Care.
We appreciate you taking the time to forward your concerns regarding The Home Depot's sponsorship of Bill O' Reilly's show on FOX.
The Home Depot has a strong passion for being environmentally responsible both in the Company's operating principles and in responsible retailing through our industry-leading Eco Options initiative, a program that allows customers to easily identify products that have less of an impact on the environment and empowers them to help make a difference in their own homes. We have led many initiatives with interest groups to develop standards and set environmental goals for ourselves and suppliers. Some of these at great expense and sweat equity to the company.
Our advertising campaigns have one simple objective to communicate with audiences in the most effective way possible. The Company is receptive to many forms and styles of media as we seek a balanced representation of programming to reach our customer base.
Unfortunately campaigns like this one cause us to take time away from our sustainability goals and address a variance of political views.
Sincerely,
Atul Customer Care
Gee, Atul, it seems that your story is changing fast.
Perhaps Home Depot is doing "run of network" ads that appear across the FOX networks, with FOX choosing which shows the ads run on. A lot of companies like to use this kind of advertising to claim that they don't advertise on particular shows - it's a smoke screen and a lie. If this is the case here, then Home Depot needs to specifically inform us that they have asked FOX not to run any Home Depot ads on The O'Reilly Factor.
Having said that, Home Depot has some explaining to do if it thinks Hannity is any better than O'Reilly. FOX, across the board, smears gays, blacks, attacks the environment, and more. Home Depot needs to dump the hate network now, across the board.
From: Defeo, Ron [mailto:Ron_DeFeo homedepot.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:07 AM To: JH Subject: FW: PULL SUPPORT FOR OREILLY
Good morning, Thank you very much for your message. The Home Depot has a policy that prohibits the running of its advertising on programs that express strong opinions or political views. Please note that this includes Bill O’Reilly’s program. Thank you, Ron
"He is a Muslim. He will say anything, He will do anything. No oath of office means anything to him. History is irrelevant.... He is a Muslim, It is what they do."
Wow, do jetBlue and Home Depot agree with their good friends at BillOReilly.com that their Muslim-American customers will say anything, do anything, because "it is what they do"?
Wow, wouldn't everyone love an employer like this? No matter how badly you perform and no matter how much money the company loses, you get paid a few hundred million dollars, case closed. The Home Depot board eventually fired former hotshot CEO Bob Nardelli after six years of misery but Nardelli probably could care less since the board, the folks still running the company and supporting Bill O'Reilly, dished out one of the fattest work agreements without any connection to performance and left Nardelli $200+ million richer.
So the next time you are looking for supplies, think about the lack of common sense or spirit of American fairness that Home Depot gives to their execs. When you look out at some of the most extreme cases of CEO-worship, the kind that infuriate hard working Americans who have to work for a living and prove themselves at their jobs every day, Home Depot and the infamous contract with Nardelli always is right up there in the top tier, just below Lee Raymond of Exxon who retired with $400m. Why can't Home Depot understand average Americans who believe in fair pay based on success instead of showering mediocre CEOs with millions despite a lack of success?
It comes as no surprise that Home Depot supports Bill O'Reilly in this fiasco because they seem to have great experience with disastrous PR campaigns. No wonder they are so rude to working Americans who have honest values and who are upset with this smear campaign. So while we are waiting for Home Depot to explain their biased support for O'Reilly, maybe they can also tell Americans why they are part of the problem in America of giving handouts to CEOs regardless of their successes or failures. Is Home Depot really supporting American values?
