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O'Reilly slams op-ed by MMFA's Frisch, declares his "married a duck" comments "a satirical jest"

June 22, 2009 9:20 pm ET

From the June 22 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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Previously:

Frisch: Top Ten list for Letterman's conservative critics

O'Reilly again claims that if gay marriage was legalized, "you could have married a duck"

O'Reilly's Ark: Gay marriage could lead to goat, duck, dolphin, and turtle marriage

CNN's Moos highlights quackery from Robertson, O'Reilly

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    • Author by snoopy (June 22, 2009 9:29 pm ET)
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      Way to go Karl! If O'Reilly's slamming you, then rest assured you struck a nerve. Good job!
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    • Author by dimes (June 22, 2009 9:31 pm ET)
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      O'Reilly wouldn't know a satirical jest if it slapped him upside the head.

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    • Author by TheThief672 (June 22, 2009 9:32 pm ET)
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      So, O'Reilly is doing satire now.....O'Really?
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      • Author by stevensm (June 23, 2009 9:08 am ET)
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        O'Reilly likes to call himself a satirist when he gets called out for saying some disgusting or ridiculous. It's a defensive mechanism he sometimes uses to deny the meaning behind something he's said (as in this case). He was not using satire. He made the duck comment in all seriousness and now he's trying to weasel out of it. Guess O'Reilly isn't willing to stand behind his own words.

        But he has tried his hand at satire in the past. Read his archived columns when he was writing for Marist's college paper, The Circle, where he occasionally tries to use satire. It's some bad stuff for sure. O'Reilly's humor and quality of writing leave a lot to be desired.
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    • Author by budrykzp9226 (June 22, 2009 9:36 pm ET)
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      "What? It was a JOKE!" is a billion times worse when it's done by someone who thinks he's a genius.
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (June 22, 2009 9:40 pm ET)
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        I know many conservatives won't like the idea, seeing it as more unnecessary government interference, but I think it would be in the public interest to require some sort of license to perform satire.

        Just a basic competency test, nothing too complicated. That stuff is really a mess when it falls into the wrong hands.
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        • Author by snoopy (June 22, 2009 9:48 pm ET)
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          Just make the joke test sound like a right to vote test and the right wing will support it en masse, HBL!
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        • Author by robyn20094113 (June 23, 2009 12:29 am ET)
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          ROTFL..Thanks Col. I really needed that tonight. Had a bad day.
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    • Author by harley (June 22, 2009 10:14 pm ET)
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      Typical reich-wing teabag fall back position. It's either 1) I was taken out of context, or 2) I was joking!
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    • Author by rkallen09 (June 22, 2009 11:09 pm ET)
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      No Bill. I'm afraid that doesn't cut it. You were not attempting a 'satirical jest', sir. You were attempting to make the point that a union of same sex couples is as absurd an idea as the union between human and animal. That is the sinister nature of the comment, regardless of what may have been your intent.

      Your repeated attempts at trying to compare homosexuality to various perversions demeans real people in real loving and committed relationships. Real people who dream of making a formal decloration of that commitment to life long companionships, family, and love. Real people, sir, who's only "crime" is that the object of their love happens to be someone of the same sex. You not only deny them their union, Mr O'Reilly, you also deny them their dignity.

      Your comments marganilizes the entire homosexual community to the unspeakable level of beastiality and then you pass them both off as absurd thoughts. Now you have the audacity to claim that it was in jest. Your jest cut deep, Mr O'Reilly, and though you may not have wished to do real harm when you wielded your razor sharp wit, the wound you have inflicted upon them will take time to heal, and there will forever remain a scar.
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      • Author by dimes (June 22, 2009 11:24 pm ET)
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        But, but... Bill O'Reilly is apparently in fact an authority on perversion.

        Hours after Bill O'Reilly accused her of a multimillion dollar shakedown attempt, a female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies. Below you'll find a copy of Andrea Mackris's complaint, an incredible page-turner that quotes O'Reilly, 55, on all sorts of lewd matters. Based on the extensive quotations cited in the complaint, it appears a safe bet that Mackris, 33, recorded some of O'Reilly's more steamy soliloquies. For example, we direct you to his Caribbean shower fantasies. While we suggest reading the entire document, TSG will point you to interesting sections on a Thailand sex show, Al Franken, and the climax of one August 2004 phone conversation.

        Ahem.
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      • Author by robyn20094113 (June 23, 2009 12:38 am ET)
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        razor sharp wit.....surely you jest??
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 23, 2009 9:26 am ET)
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        EXACTLY! They think that becasue "they're joking" that somehow means that their POINT should not be taken seriously. When you make satirical comment, there is a PURPOSE that's behind it! Comedy is a serious business! And the lesson that any GOOD comedian (I'm talking Carlin & Black now, not O'Rielly and LImbaugh) is trying to convey should ABSOLUTELY be taken to heart! So either he thinks his own position is absurd, or he think allowing gay marriage is! At the end of the day, it's not the WORDS, the the POINT BEHIND THEM that we take issue with.
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    • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (June 23, 2009 12:22 am ET)
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      The cowardice of conservatives is once again on full display.
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      • Author by shaggles (June 23, 2009 11:17 am ET)
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        Yep. I forgot to put that in my post but every time O'Reilly or Coulter or Beck or any of the rest of them claims something is 'just a joke' after being criticized they are displaying what cowards they really are.
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        • Author by Leftym0m79 (June 23, 2009 11:47 am ET)
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          But when it is an actual comedian telling a joke, then its all "OMG! I can't believe he said that, he must be fired!"
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    • Author by Bad News (June 23, 2009 2:04 am ET)
         
      Bill O'Reilly's dislike of gays is well documented.

      Thank you Media-Matters.


      Mr. News
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ NUTS (June 23, 2009 6:34 am ET)
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      how can anyone tell the difference between oreilly's satirical moments compared to his serious moments where he points fingers and yells? they all blend in together and he still looks like a moron.
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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 23, 2009 7:42 am ET)
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      My pet duck was glad to hear that O'Reilly's ardor toward her was all a joke. She is once again walking without holding her legs crossed.
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      • Author by vysotsky (June 23, 2009 7:53 am ET)
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        I don't think she's out of the woods yet. Tell your duck not to answer the late night calls when O'Reilly drunk dials her with fantasies of intravenous bordeaux and steamy falafel showers.
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        • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 23, 2009 8:41 am ET)
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          Well, when he first asked her out, she wasn't sure if it was for dinner or as dinner.
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    • Author by Dem02020 (June 23, 2009 8:39 am ET)
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      Despite o'reilly being just a ridiculous clown, I never consider the disgusting things he says to be "satire" or "jests"...

      Satire and jests tend to make me laugh, or at least smile... but the disgusting things this pervert o'reilly says, they never make me laugh, or smile.
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    • Author by Victor Colorado (June 23, 2009 10:07 am ET)
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      Oh, NOW I get it... he was JOKING when he called Dr. Tiller a "baby killer" all those times.
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (June 23, 2009 11:52 am ET)
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        Context, Victor. Context.
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        • Author by Victor Colorado (June 23, 2009 11:56 am ET)
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          My comment (much like the bullets O'Reilly loaded into Scott Roeder's gun) was satirical jest. Gosh, some people just don't "get" good humor.
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    • Author by shaggles (June 23, 2009 11:13 am ET)
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      It's always "just a joke" when someone calls them on their bullsh!t. But when an actual comedian makes an actual joke (eg: David Letterman) they are all outraged. What a bunch of losers.
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (June 23, 2009 11:54 am ET)
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        Letterman's comment was aimed at someone in particular and he later apologized. O'Reilly's comment was aimed at no one and was clearly absurd.
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        • Author by Victor Colorado (June 23, 2009 12:08 pm ET)
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          O'Reilly's multiple comments that gay people are subhuman may not be aimed at someone in particular (and he sure as heck aint gonna apologize), but I'd say his so-called "jest" is worse than Letterman's. Gay people are not no one.
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        • Author by shaggles (June 23, 2009 12:46 pm ET)
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          I disagree. O'Reilly's comment was aimed at gays in general. As VC says that's not "no one." As for it being absurd-you're right but it's hard for me to determine which absurd things the right say are jokes and which are their true beliefs. It wasn't that long ago that someone (it may even have been O'Reilly-I don't recall) highlighted a story about a woman in India marrying a snake as an example of where we were headed with the marriage equality issue. Was that just an absurd jest? Since they used a real world example I don't think it was intended to be.
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        • Author by LuvLuLu (June 23, 2009 1:42 pm ET)
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          Letterman's joke was aimed at Sarah Palin. Not at her daughters.
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