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O'Reilly on Media Matters: "Any of the presidential candidates who can deport those swine -- I'm voting for them"
Summary: On his radio program, Bill O'Reilly called the "people" at Media Matters for America "the worst Americans in the country" and stated, "If I could, I would deport them." O'Reilly also asserted: "But this Media Matters, this disgusting, despicable, far-left website, they do it all the time. And MoveOn and all these people, that's what they do. They disagree with you, and they brand you a racist."
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Posted by mefirst
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:21:57 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by socal7425 in reply to mefirst
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 7:44:24 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by ufleirx
Do you fell like we are being unfair to you Bill-O?
Good then we are doing our job.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:28:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by carlileb5935 in reply to ufleirx
I love how O'Reilly has been confusing MMFA with every other group he hates, or how he always conflates it with Kos.
Lately, he's been bashing these 'hate groups' for bashing Hillary-- but he doesn't seem to know that MMFA has been very fair to her-- they are hardly in the same category..
yet, he continues.....
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 8:06:39 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to carlileb5935
It's kinda like the way you confuse Obama supporters for idiots, so yeah I can see what your saying.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 8:34:55 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by carlileb5935 in reply to roundhouse
Say what? Does BOR not conflate the two? What's your point?
Problem is, O'Reilly indeed confuses MMFA with the Daily KOS. And many Obama supporters are-- as displayed right here, right above me now-- obvious idiots. Why? They make no sense.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 2:18:21 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to carlileb5935
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 8:23:14 AM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted Friday March 21, 2008 3:54:07 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted Friday March 21, 2008 6:29:26 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by solon in reply to greatjob
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 11:37:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:33:03 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to wzwriter
I love when I catch BilldO's show and he's talking about MMFA. He looks so frustrated, knowing that he can't cite anything specific against the site, and everything he's saying is going to be added to his stoopid list.
Yet he can't stop himself.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:37:13 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by worrierking in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:48:57 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by carlileb5935 in reply to worrierking
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Posted by worrierking in reply to carlileb5935
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 8:43:28 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by stevensm in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders
I love when I catch BilldO's show and he's talking about MMFA. He looks so frustrated, knowing that he can't cite anything specific against the site, and everything he's saying is going to be added to his stoopid list.
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I do too. He's never able to give specific examples where MM has smeared him. It's always vague comments about MM attacking him (or calling him a racist which they have not) or some other such thing. MM doesn't attack; they put up his exact words in context for people to read. I get to decide for myself what to think.
But then O'Reilly knows just how despicable and inaccurate what so much of what he says is and all he's got to respond with is to lash out in self-defense. I think he's been totally taken aback that the internet does not let him get away with saying whatever he wants without also taking responsibility for it. MM does an excellent job of recording his words and O'Reilly can't handle it.
Posted Saturday March 22, 2008 9:25:21 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by mr. l
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:43:25 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by snoopy
O'REILLY: No. I want Media Matters deported.
Racist bigot.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:44:25 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by thedailyphosdex in reply to snoopy
Deported to where, might I ask?
And aren't we forgetting the past suggestion of Mr. "No-Spin Zone" that high-school students not achieving an arbitrarily-defined pass score on civics and American history tests be shipped off to Canada (even if it means dumping busloads thereof along the 401 freeway in Ontario under cover of darkness)?
And how do we know such would not violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions on "cruel and unusual punishment"?
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 1:31:17 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by mefirst in reply to thedailyphosdex
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 7:12:21 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by mr. l
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:45:57 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by snoopy
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:54:20 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by MickD in reply to snoopy
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:58:15 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by dbeden4153 in reply to MickD
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 10:45:04 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by greatjob in reply to MickD
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 3:54:42 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Limit Corp. Ownership
Billy is such a moron...
I almost feel sorry for him. He's a complete joke.
The fact that he has a fairly large (though shrinking) audience is a perfect explanation for the state that America is in.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 6:59:37 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by eweston8542983
So Bill how bout if we're made to wear blue and white stars. That way patriotic americans can properly identify who its ok to be violent with. Cut down on collateral damage maybe.Probably not. Having the ok to be violent on specific population is weird because despite the most homicidal efforts, the population of targets never seems to decrease. At least thats been the historical model so far.
Bill O'Rielly, a Grout Hamerican.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 7:04:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by snoopy
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 7:19:22 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by solon
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 8:39:34 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by worrierking
Bill O'Reilly, the last, best hope for racial tolerance in America.
He's just going to ignore any non-white person that speaks to him.
That's mighty white of you, Bill.
Is there any way we could disown Bill? I know this rile up Finafan or whoever he was, but Bill makes me ashamed to be white. Christ, he makes me ashamed to be human.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 8:55:43 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to worrierking
WK, BilldO didn't say he'd ignore the person, just that he wouldn't answer questions. He can talk for an hour without answering any questions, so this might be bizness as usual.
I caught the end of his show tonight, the email segment where he gets to deliver his pithy responses. One T-Warrior in training wrote that some loon called BilldO a racist, asking the wise one if an attempt should be made to reason with the moonbat.
"No!" said Bill, "just tell them they're making a fool of themselves, and walk away".
So it appears even BO is aware that the party's over, and his clown act is out of gas. They're cutting off all communication. It seems to be working for Grampa McCain, avoid any discussion and the ratings go up.
I've seen some teasing and promising hints of it here, the realization that the wingnut arguments are being shot down more quickly, and a cut & run under the pretense of not wanting to engage in nasty arguments is the easy way out.
Those must be the smarter ones. I noticed CompliantConsent has suddenly become really wordy. He's the wingnut's wingnut, maybe.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 1:04:27 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Lorelei in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders
I have noticed that when the right cannot win the argument they either 1. resort to name calling or 2. run.....
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 10:36:32 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by magnolialover
It's pretty easy you lunkhead. Stop saying really idiotic stupid ignorant and sometimes racist things, and you won't be on here. No really, it's that easy. Stop lying your pants off, and you won't be on here. Stop misinforming the country, and you won't be on here. I mean, it really is THAT easy.
How is this a bad site, if what they put on here are your OWN words. So by your own assertion, you're a bad person, because you disagree with this website, and since they use your own words, well, you suck. But hey, any rational normal human being can actually see that for themselves, because you can't keep your big mouth shut, or at least not say something that is, once again, super stupid.
Poor Bill. Ingrained with the stupid...
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 9:09:14 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by jawill11
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 9:14:06 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by eweston8542983
Somewhere in the south of France, with per-deim? Spend all day peeling grapes and cooking dinner.
Is he willing to put his money where his mouth is?
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 9:30:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse
F U B O.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008 10:42:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by hurricaneyankee52983
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Posted by hurricaneyankee52983
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 12:05:28 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by FNC Liberal
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 1:13:36 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pete592
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 1:26:49 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by dbeden4153 in reply to pete592
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 10:49:16 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by fawltylogic
Oh noes... Billdo isn't going to tell stories of his adventures in Harlem anymore? Say it ain't so, it was great comedy.
I'd love for Billdo to say exactly what the lies are here at MMFA.
these people at Media Matters -- these are the worst Americans in the country. There are no worse Americans than this
That should be MMFAs new slogan!
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 1:57:48 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by loislap
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 2:10:36 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by cpinva
bill o'reilly wants pigs deported now? geez, shouldn't they at least get a fair trial first, see if they really are terrorist pigs or not? it would be the right thing to do.
if found guilty and sentenced to death, i want the baby-back ribs!
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 2:16:51 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Clevenative
I strongly disagree with what BiiO says here - and he is a racist. LOL
He's also a hypocrite, sexist, pervert, homophobe, (that's just the short list) who HATES the fact that a website that could expose him for who he REALLY is, is even be allowed to exist.
He knows there are websites that paint him in even far worse light and with a much greater frequency (Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly, International, oreilly-sucks.com, and News Hounds, to name a few) but he only focuses on MMFA because they are the site that encompasses the total "big picture" of conservative misinformation - Besides the obvious reasons that he's not about to mention and expose these other sites on his own shows.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 7:53:23 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by political_left-religious_right in reply to Clevenative
I'm not as sure about the rest, but he's definitely farm-animalist. Calling us swine, indeed. How adult can you get?
But I'd like to step back a bit and look at O'Reilly's charge--that MMFA has accused people of being racist.
First of all, is it true? I doubt it, especially in the case of Alan Colmes. Now, has MMFA pointed out when media figures make racist (or what can be readily perceived as racist) comments? Of course.
But let's suppose it is true, that MMFA has directly accused the people on O'Reilly's little list of being racist (and good luck finding the links to those!). Is this enough to get people deported? Leaving aside the pesky fact that people get deported only to the country they came from (so it wouldn't work with MMFA, whose contributors are probably all Americans), it doesn't happen--or certainly shouldn't happen--when the "crime" is exercising a basic American right, that of free speech.
Furthermore, could anyone actual argue that MMFA has posted things more incendiary that O'Reilly himself has? If MMFA is in line for deportation, what does O'Reilly deserve?
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 11:04:19 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by August Heat in reply to Clevenative
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 12:51:41 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by foghornleghorn
we have a deeply anti-American movement growing worldwide - Ingraham
And guess who's to blame for that, Laura. Here's a mirror to help you out.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 7:54:19 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Clevenative
This screen graphic from BillO needs a little work…
First off, change the title to “OUR RACIST GUESTS:” – then reduce the font size in the list to allow Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, et al to fit. Oh wait – if they reduced the font size enough to include everyone who belongs in the list, it would look like the print at the bottom of a Capital One Credit Card commercial.:)
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 8:11:01 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by nonbearing137 in reply to Clevenative
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 9:48:17 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by rwmacdonald67802
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:[1]
has a grandiose sense of self-importance
is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brillance, beauty, or ideal love
believes that he or she is "special" and unique
requires excessive admiration
has a sense of entitlement
is interpersonally exploitative
lacks empathy
is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
People who are overly narcissistic commonly feel rejected, humiliated and threatened when criticised. To protect themselves from these dangers, they often react with disdain, rage, and/or defiance to any slight criticism, real or imagined [7]. To avoid such situations, some narcissistic people withdraw socially and may feign modesty or humility.
Though individuals with NPD are often ambitious and capable, the inability to tolerate setbacks, disagreements or criticism, along with lack of empathy, make it difficult for such individuals to work cooperatively with others or to maintain long-term professional achievements [8]. With narcissistic personality disorder, the person's perceived fantastic grandiosity, often coupled with a hypomanic mood, is typically not commensurate with his or her real accomplishments.
The exploitativeness, sense of entitlement, lack of empathy, disregard for others, and constant need for attention inherent in NPD adversely affect interpersonal relationships.
*****Billo must pay cash for his sessions cause there's not an insurance company in the world that would reimburse the doc for such a long term project. ******
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 10:46:58 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by shaggles
I love the way O'Reilly, Savage, et al accuse Media Matters of "attacking" them when it simply repeat what they have said. I wonder if any of them have ever even looked at Media Matters. They are damned by their own words not by Media Matters.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 11:36:10 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by billie789
O'REILLY: Well, it hasn't been helpful to Barack Obama.
INGRAHAM: No, but I think --
O'REILLY: I mean, Barack Obama's candidacy is now on the rocks.
INGRAHAM: Right, but the larger question --
O'REILLY: Now, he could come back.
INGRAHAM: Right.
O'REILLY: He could come back.
INGRAHAM: And I think the --
O'REILLY: Go ahead, go ahead.
Wow! Now there's some cutting-edge political commentary. Ingraham's a fool and O'Reiily's a pervert wrapped in a flag.
Disgusting excuses for Americans.
At what point in our history did we turn the microphones over to the worst of our species?
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 11:37:15 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by dbeden4153 in reply to billie789
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 11:45:42 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by SadOldVet
I would be pleased to vote for anyone who would promise to expel Bill-O & Rush & Laura & Glen Beck...
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 1:19:44 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by writingindependence
O'Rye Cracker's fluoridation buddies need to be deported, to Gitmo. A cell is waiting.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 2:17:24 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by moe
"Talking Points" does not believe you are a racists BillO but "Talking Points" does agree that you are an idiot.
"Talking Points" hopes that settles the issue.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 3:00:39 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by john174541842
Jackson: "I'm struggling, as others are, to put the focus on the war"
What? Well, sorry pal, you were just asked if you condemn the statements by rev. wright. By the way, not if you condemn the rev. or the church or the people who attend it....simply the statements being played on the news. Any decent person should quickly condemn those particular statements. Jackson avoids, and refuses to answer, exposing himself completely to be what we all know he is: a race-hustler, a racketeer, and a fraud.
Posted Friday March 21, 2008 3:44:14 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by mescal in reply to interestingobserver
Interestingobserver?
Is that you?
I can hardly recognize you any more. :o)
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