O'Reilly attacked liberal Gabler -- but not conservative Thomas -- for defending Colorado teacher
Bill O'Reilly called liberal media writer Neal Gabler a "bomb-thrower" and a "left-wing Kool-Aid drinker" for arguing, on Fox News Watch, that the controversy over comments that Colorado high school teacher Jay Bennish made about President Bush resulted from the exploitation of the incident by the conservative media. But O'Reilly had no harsh words for fellow Fox News Watch panelist Cal Thomas, a conservative syndicated columnist, who said on the same program that he agreed that the conservative media had over-hyped the incident.
During the March 13 edition of his syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called liberal media writer Neal Gabler a "bomb-thrower" and a "left-wing Kool-Aid drinker" for arguing, on the March 11 edition of Fox News Watch, that the controversy over comments that Colorado high school teacher Jay Bennish made about President Bush resulted from the exploitation of the incident by the conservative media. O'Reilly added: "If a teacher ever went in there [to a classroom] and said, 'Adam and Eve is real,' Neal Gabler would have a noose around his neck." But O'Reilly had no harsh words for fellow Fox News Watch panelist Cal Thomas, a conservative syndicated columnist, who said on the same program he agreed that the conservative media had over-hyped the incident. As Media Matters for America noted, Thomas said that he was "very suspect" of what the student who taped Bennish's comments -- and his father -- had done by "immediately going to the conservative media to make some big point rather than go through the system in the educational department."
O'Reilly also attacked Gabler on the February 20 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, labeling Gabler a "rabid dog" and declaring that, if it were up to him, he would "fire" Gabler from Fox News Watch "in a heartbeat" for his comments on Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of hunting partner Harry Whittington. At the time, O'Reilly also advised Fox News Watch host Eric Burns to "come down hard on this Gabler guy" for promoting "an idiot conspiracy theory" from a "far-left blog" when he said it was "not bad PR" for the administration to drag out the story of Cheney's hunting accident to deflect attention from the more substantive news of the week.
From the March 13 edition of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: And we have that sound -- let's use that sound bite. Can you get that sound bite from that Gabler guy on Fox News, that left-wing bomb-thrower? Let's get that cued up. Tell me when you have it, and I'll play that. That will tee you off. This guy Gabler -- he's on this Fox News program, Media Watch. Right, is that the name of it, Media Watch? Whatever it is. And this guy -- News Watch. This guy is just -- oh, and I mean, it's my own network. I just, oh boy -- I dislike his policies and him. Cause, you know, he's just a bomb-thrower. Roll the tape.
GABLER (audio clip): This is the case -- it's very instructive -- a case of a non-story becoming a story because the parent, the, the father went to a right-wing blog. Then they gave the audio tape to a right-wing radio show. The right-wing media flogged this story as another example of left-wing infiltration into our schools. Then the mainstream media were bullied by the right-wing media into picking up the story. And therefore, something that is of no interest really to anyone outside of this small school district is now a national story on the Today show. We're talking about it here.
O'REILLY: All right, so a left-wing Kool-Aid drinker. Yeah, it's OK -- let the teacher go in there, indoctrinate the students. If a teacher ever went in there and said, "Adam and Eve is real," Neal Gabler would have a noose around his neck.
E.D. HILL (co-host): But the other thing is, that they try to paint this parent as going to the right-wing, you know, media. This parent went to the school first. And it was only after nothing happened --
O'REILLY: So Gabler, he's just a Kool-Aid drinker. All right. And for those of you who think Fox News is, you know, unfair -- this guy is on Fox News.
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If a teacher said "Adam and Eve is real" I would support sending the teacher to a remedial grammar class.
Upon their return, if they said "the story of Adam and Eve is real" or if they said "Adam and Eve were real", I would support a decision that restricted them to teaching classes in mythology or theology only.
......and Intelligent Design is not very intelligent..................
... is a fool.
"This parent went to the school first. And it was only after nothing happened (that the parent went to the right-wing media) --"
Well, it looks like E.D. Hill may have been hanging out on planet mars during this whole idiotic event. Because the Rocky Mountain News has a much different timeline (3/2/06):
"The school district did not learn about Bennish's lecture until last Wednesday, when it received an e-mail about it from an out-of-state person who had seen an online column on it written by Walter Williams on www.townhall.com, Amole (spokeswoman for Cherry Creek Schools) said. That same day, Allen's father also called the principal of Overland High School to complain about the teacher, and the complaint was forwarded to the district, which began its investigation." --- and suspended Bennish.
[link to www.rockymountainnews.com]
Again BOR seems to be lacking any facts on which to base his comments. I guess one can applaud his consistency.
...you attack O'Reilly's source of income. That must NEVER be allowed to happen, so you become a "Kool-Aid drinker."
Gabler's messing with BO's livelyhood. It's not cheap to keep yourself in loofahs and fallafel.
Despite his assurances that "We don't do personal attacks", O'Reilly attacks FNC colleague Gabler, not once, but twice. Then he complains because Keith Olbermann attacks him. If nothing else, you gotta love O'Reilly for his entertainment value.
Plato
Bill O'Reilly said Gabler should be fired.
Since he fancies himself a "man of the people," I find it interesting that he has made it his mission to have people (Olberman, Bennish, Gabler) with whom he disagrees released from their sources of livelihood. There are many unemployed people out there who cringe when they see somebody - no matter what their political stripe - in danger of losing their job because a self-professed pinhead doesn't like their politics.
That is because most people have what Bill O'Reilly doesn't: empathy, tolerance and a sense of fair play.
O'Reilly is a fascist, pure and simple. Well, simple.
Bill O'Really is as useful as a glass of sand in the middle of the desert!
Ok....I haven't said this in here before....but I have said it.......
Is it any wonder that Billy's ratings are going in the toilet..... even his fan base are slowly starting to turn their collective backs on him......
I'm sure he will lose a few more for this one......Cal Thomas says pretty much the same thing as Gabler, but no word of this to his audience......hmmm
I'm guessing here but slowly people that are conservative are waking up to the fact that this clown and basically all of Fox Opinion and those that run the greater DC area don't represent them at all!
Soon, Average Joe Conservative will stop drinking right-wing laced Kool-Aid and begin to find that elusive political middle that has been missing since about 1996-97
Of course.....these ex-Kool Aid drinkers will need a shoulder to lean on and help getting over their past addiction to right-wing bullcrap........
As a progressive liberal who is truely compassionate to those in need....I would offer my shoulder and $5.00.....
So they can get me a coffee and donut at D&D........
They can keep the change........ :)-
Bill says: "I dislike his policies and HIM."
How much more 'personal' does it get?
This bozo has such an inflated opinion of himself that he probably believes that every word he spews should be taken as the absolute final word on everything. "Fire Olbermann." "Fire Gabler." Delusions of grandeur... and delusions period. What a horse's ass.
Every time O'Reilly talks, a kitten dies.
Think of the kitties, Bill, and stop talking!
Since you seem to know what is said on this site about you, I assume you either read it or someone who works for you does, so you will probably be interested in this.
You need serious help. Now. You have delusions of power and authority which are not real. If they go unchecked it could be harmful.
Please seek psychiatric help as soon as possible.
No you will not be able to stay on the air during this process. It will be painful to you but not for the rest of us. Yes, it must be done.
Of course B O is a slanderizier but I believe that "adam and eve is real" is right because I think that one is supposed to base the plurality of the verb upon the closer of the subjects but i am not sure about that And i agree that BO is not a very inteligent person.
I am not sure your are write about his grammer being wrong
Of course B O is a slanderizier but I believe that "adam and eve is real" is right because I think that one is supposed to base the plurality of the verb upon the closer of the subjects but i am not sure about that And i agree that BO is not a very inteligent person.
No, "Adam and Eve is right" is NOT correct (I make my living as an editor). You have a plural subject--Adam and Eve--and therefore you need a plural verb, which in this case would be "are." This would be a big deal if it were a written communication, but we often speak with poor grammar, poor sentence structure, poor parallel construction, and more.
So I'm not overly concerned about his grammar--I just want to get him off the air. How do we do that?
He's already a laughing stock, but he still makes money for Fox. And as long as he makes news (and therefore money) by being such a fool, I guess they'll keep him. How do we neutralize him?
Word Cop
When you're not sure, try the substitution method - use "they" in place of "Adam and Eve" - and see if that sounds correct: "They is real." doesn't sound correct, does it?
It's "grammar", not "grammer".
Oh Fox is fair because it has one genuine articulate Liberal out of the multiples of Murdoch flying monkeys as Keith Olbermann refers to them. Bill O'rielly the general of Murdoch's monkeys wants Gabler fired because he doesn’t like his views, things that make you go mmmmm. BTW, isn't referring to someone as a "rabid dog” an example of a personal attack that BO says he doesn’t do?