Olbermann awarded O'Reilly "Worst Person" "bronze" for asserting "there's no difference" between Arianna Huffington, Goebbels
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann awarded Bill O'Reilly the "bronze" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for O'Reilly's claim that, in Olbermann's words, "there's no difference between Arianna Huffington and Joseph Goebbels."
On the March 3 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded Fox News' Bill O'Reilly the "bronze" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for asserting, in Olbermann's words, that "there's no difference between Arianna Huffington and [Nazi propaganda chief] Joseph Goebbels." As Media Matters for America documented, on the February 28 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said: "When Arianna Huffington allows people to say that Nancy Reagan should suffer terribly and then die, that is completely unacceptable and no different than what Dr. Joseph Goebbels and others were putting out way back then." On Countdown, Olbermann asserted that O'Reilly "compare[d] HuffingtonPost.com [the website Huffington founded] to the Nazis. Then, when a family member of Holocaust victims writes to him, quote, 'the meaning of their deaths means more than a comparison to a meaningless blog,' O'Reilly says he's wrong. And quote, there's no difference between Arianna Huffington and Joseph Goebbels." On the February 28 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said: "There's no difference. When Arianna Huffington allows people to say that Nancy Reagan should suffer terribly and then die, that is completely unacceptable and no different than what Dr. Joseph Goebbels and others were putting out way back then."
Olbermann added: "[T]his is Bill O'Reilly, whose personal website last year had a post about assassinating Hillary Clinton. So if he really is convinced there's a comparison between Joseph Goebbels and Arianna Huffington, then what he's also saying is there's a comparison between Joseph Goebbels and himself."
As Media Matters also documented, during the February 27 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly attacked Huffington over comments (since removed) that readers posted to a Huffington Post item reporting the hospitalization of former first lady Nancy Reagan after a fall. O'Reilly said: "I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis. ... I don't see any difference."
From the March 3 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: A catch in the throat and a weary admission might have helped her win New Hampshire. Could a cameo on Saturday Night Live do the same for Ohio and Texas? That's next. But first, our number-two story, Countdown's "Worst Persons in the World."
O'REILLY [video clip]: And I don't want to go on a lynching party ... unless --
OLBERMANN: The bronze to Bill-O. First, he compares HuffingtonPost.com to the Nazis. Then, when a family member of Holocaust victims writes to him, quote, "the meaning of their deaths means more than a comparison to a meaningless blog," O'Reilly says he's wrong. And, quote, there's no difference between Arianna Huffington and Joseph Goebbels, because a message of hate was posted about Nancy Reagan on HuffingtonPost.com and then removed.
Again, this is Bill O'Reilly, whose personal website last year had a post about assassinating Hillary Clinton. So if he really is convinced there's a comparison between Joseph Goebbels and Arianna Huffington, then what he's also saying is there's a comparison between Joseph Goebbels and himself.
We could simply say that America is far away, with a big ocean separating us. What do we care about what they think, write, or say about us? That was quite OK as long as America's highly developed hate campaign against Germany kept within certain bounds. But when it infects even official circles rather than merely newspapers and radio stations, it becomes more serious.
This campaign reached unbelievable heights after 10 November 1938. American public opinion, influenced by the Jews, is trying to interfere to an unacceptable degree in German domestic politics. They think that can use methods against Germany that are normally unheard of in relations between civilized nations.
We know very well who the instigators and beneficiaries are. They are mostly Jews, or people who are in their service and who are dependent on them.
quote by Goebbels? Nope...from Project for a New American Century, the neo-con blueprint for empire.
You just don't talk like that in public. The only guys that should be worrying about that sort of thing are military types and those in their charge and then only verbally and privately. They can raise tensions---hey maybe that's their intent. Everybody, left, right or center, should condemn and shun these people.
Well done Mary...
Very chilling. But very important for us to hear.
"Again, this is Bill O'Reilly, whose personal website last year had a post about assassinating Hillary Clinton."
I didn't know that! The hypocrisy of this man truly knows no bounds.
Arianna Huffington's HuffPo website/forum is among the worst of the worst, but any comparisons to Joseph Goebbels is of course ridiculous.
I look forward to the day when throwing around the word Nazi & comparing folks to Nazis ceases.
Jeter dos...
Why don't you send an e-mail to Billy? Let him know of your objections to his filth.
Ohhh, I see ... Olbermann himself can portray O'Reilly as a Nazi (and get cited by the ADL in doing so), but when O'Reilly makes a Nazi comparison, he is the "world's worst."
Double standard? Of course!
Arianna Huffington's HuffPo website/forum is among the worst of the worst...
I disagree. The absolute WORST site out there is Free Republic, with Sean Hannity's and Bill O'Reilly's cybersewers a close second and third. Even the harshest comments posted on Ariana's site pale in comparison to the garbage spewed by the Freepers and the Hannitized on a daily basis, and the offensive posts get taken down on Ariana's site (they stay up on conservative sites).
Obviously, your only objection to the Huffington site is the political slant - not the tone of the posts. Because in order to be honest, you have to admit that the most hate-filled comments on the web are consistently posted on conservative web sites.
Wiz,
For starters I didn't say it was the worst, I said it was AMONG the worst. And I stand by that opinion.
Obviously, your only objection to the Huffington site is the political slant - not the tone of the posts.
Not at all. If I had a problem with the slant, would I be here posting on a Liberal/Progressive forum? I couldn't care less if HuffPo goes after Republican/Conservatives. They don't pretend to be a neutral political site.
Now as far as their posters go...heck they make us posters here at MMFA look like saints. And it's not that the HuffPo posters attack only Conservatives or Republicans, which I'd expect, but how they go at each other. Talk about hate-filled posts...the fighting over there between the Obama & Clinton supporters is brutal. And HuffPo's personal bias against Hillary is glaring. The majority of the articles are either not so subtle hatchet jobs or hint at some deficiency about Clinton. Obama does not receive that type of treatment.
I read very little of the Right-Wing forums, but some are as bad as HuffPo, while others reflect more of what you see here.
"Arianna Huffington's HuffPo website/forum is among the worst of the worst,"
Worst of the worst of what?
"I look forward to the day when throwing around the word Nazi & comparing folks to Nazis ceases."
Amen. Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann both.I do have a question though.
Which currency is accepted at Bill's premium site?
The Reichsmark or the Deutsche Mark?
Wow. If you read the about section on this website, it states "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media".
I am not sure how promoting Keith Olbermann's echoing a story this site already covered meets that criteria.
Just their thing to do, in case you missed it the first time...
Wow. If you read the about section on this website, it states "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media".
I am not sure how promoting Keith Olbermann's echoing a story this site already covered meets that criteria.
You call it promoting. I call it reporting. I for one never watch network TV and wouldn't know about KO's awards were it not reported here. Thanks MMFA for letting me know know that others like KO share and promote your observations.
I never understand this objection when I read it here. Do you not want such stories repeated? What's the beef? Bad news for conservatives should only be reported once? If you are a donor or sponsor of this site and object to the content please notify the management.
As for her website, I confess that I don't bother with the forum. I enjoy the headline section of the site, however; they have some pretty good editorials.
These guys hate Arianna because she turned on them after the "Republican Revolution" devolved into a Congressional spending spree that put Democrats to shame. Before that, if I remember correctly, she was a relentless critic of Bill Clinton.
That's right. People like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh equate Arianna Huffington to Benedict Arnold.