O'Reilly: "A sad day for America. Al Franken becomes a U.S. Senator," and "this country is in deep trouble"
July 06, 2009 9:38 pm ET
From the July 6th edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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What the hell am I talking about? Franken WON! Heads are either going to roll or explode over this.
Also, you think the current economy started suffering in 2007!? And was caused by the minumum wage increase? What do you do for a living? I have to know.
By the way, a lot of the economic crisis stems from the housing market crash, which started when Bush and his party were in power.
Riiiight . . . 'cause raising the minimum wage -- and the standard of living for millions of Americans -- is SOOOO MUCH WORSE than spending $12 billion/month looking for nonexistent WMDs in Iraq.
Wingnuts: they LOOOVE America; they just hate Americans.
Hilarious.
It's deceitful for BillO to not tell his viewers the REAL reason he hates Franken and that his hate goes way back to Franken's reprinting BillO's actual voter registration that proved BillO was a registered Republican and Franken's calling him out on the supposed Peabodys BillO said he won. Throw in what happened at the book show and it becomes clear that BillO would hate Franken no matter what he did.
This isn't about politics as BillO would have the viewers believe. It's all personal and petty with BillO. Franken had guts enough to put himself out there for the people to vote on and they chose him. He is giving back by serving his country while BillO is doing what serves his own best interests.
Of course, this all relates to his Narcissism. It drives him nuts that his sworn enemy was able to achieve something that he so dearly wanted for himself. I for one and thankful for Andrea Mackris, because the last thing we ever needed in Washington was another conservative pervert.
I too remember hearing BillO make some comments that sounded like political aspirations but poor choices with regards to his own personal behavior have spoiled that for him. He, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and others of their ilk do not have the guts to do what Franken has done. Franken put himself out there and the voters said yes. BillO could never do that so now he sulks and lashes out at Franken and the MN voters while Franken rises to the occasion.
Anyone have any idea what 'lies' Franken told that Bill O 'debunked' in his book? I'm sure it's a stretch to say he disproved anything.
oh and GO AL!!
MMFA talks about page 96 of O'Reilly's book here.
Not sure if this will copy and paste well, but here it is...
Page 96: O'Reilly falsely attacks Al Franken:
As Franken began speaking, I simply couldn't believe it. The guy told the audience that I was a pathological liar and had even lied about where I grew up. His presentation was based on a passage in his book. ... But far worse than Franken's deliberate lie about my upbringing was his reference to my mother. She has, tragically, been suffering from dementia for years and for that reason has round-the-clock supervision. Al Franken never talked with my mother or to anyone else who knows my background.
O'Reilly is referring to a passage from Franken's book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Dutton, 2003), regarding O'Reilly's repeated claims that he grew up in Levittown, New York, a working-class Long Island town (Pages 73-74, hardcover). Franken, however, was not simply citing "a passage in his book." In Lies and the Lying Liars, Franken noted that O'Reilly's mother was cited in the Washington Post in December 2000 as saying that O'Reilly grew up in Westbury, New York -- a wealthier community a few miles away from Levittown. O'Reilly, in attacking Franken for making this claim without speaking to his mother, ignores the fact that Franken was citing a source that had, in fact, apparently spoken with O'Reilly's mother.
When Uncle Rupert gave you a Tee Vee show.
Bill-o IS TED!!
Thanks.. I can't stop laughing!
The voice with which Olbermann reads the BillO rants on his Worst Person Segment was modeled after the Ted Baxter character, as Keith has said several times.
At least Bill isn't playing the Victim card, like many of his cohorts... although when it comes to Al Franken, I'm sure he feels like one.
In 2003 Fox News (reportedly bullied by Bill-O) sued Penguin Publishing and Al Franken for putting the term "Fair and Balanced" on the cover of his book... "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them." I think the best new slogan for Fox News and Bill-O is a quote from the court prelimary rulling... "wholly without merit!"
(It like Tom Cruise, in the last scene from A Few Good Men: "I'm a lawyer. And an officer in the United States Navy."
Ugh....
And by the way, doesn't the sordid legal history between Fox and Franken make your views kind of... oh, I don't know... biased?
Congratulations Al.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200609220010
O'Reilly references page 96 in his book, Culture Warrior, as his defense of his scurrilous attacks on Franken. MMfA debunked that.
Page 96: O'Reilly falsely attacks Al Franken:
As Franken began speaking, I simply couldn't believe it. The guy told the audience that I was a pathological liar and had even lied about where I grew up. His presentation was based on a passage in his book. ... But far worse than Franken's deliberate lie about my upbringing was his reference to my mother. She has, tragically, been suffering from dementia for years and for that reason has round-the-clock supervision. Al Franken never talked with my mother or to anyone else who knows my background.
O'Reilly is referring to a passage from Franken's book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Dutton, 2003), regarding O'Reilly's repeated claims that he grew up in Levittown, New York, a working-class Long Island town (Pages 73-74, hardcover). Franken, however, was not simply citing "a passage in his book." In Lies and the Lying Liars, Franken noted that O'Reilly's mother was cited in the Washington Post in December 2000 as saying that O'Reilly grew up in Westbury, New York -- a wealthier community a few miles away from Levittown. O'Reilly, in attacking Franken for making this claim without speaking to his mother, ignores the fact that Franken was citing a source that had, in fact, apparently spoken with O'Reilly's mother.
O'Reilly, you are the person who traffics in hate. That's undeniable. Put down the mirror, Bill. Just put it down.
So none of those mentioned are either "conservative" or "right wing" at all. Both parties have merged, since Obama is just as much a "big business" neocon as John McCain, and supports Wall Street, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and their interests and also big corporate unions.
So nothing changes, that's a simple fact. And won't until the entire illegal Supreme Court granting "corporate personhood" rights under our Constitution is seen for the hijacking of it that it was. And the legal profession and their lobbying and influence also banned as violating the separation of powers, since they are inherently members of the judiciary.
So these type articles and moves are what the media loves, and does. Creates the "fiction" that there are two separate parties, when there are not. Both are "corporate" global socialists.
I also think he needs to adjust his quote:
With people like Franken on the hill, this country has shown nothing. With him on the hill, Minnesota has shown that they favor him over Bill O'Reilly's banter.
Hurts, don't it?
When Franken, an intelligent, accomplished individual, wakes up tomorrow, he will be a full-fledged member of what's known as "the most exclusive club in America", able to shape and dictate policy in the USA and influence much of the world.
When Bull OhReally wakes up tomorrow, he'll still be what he is: a lying, bloviating, sexual harassing, condescending individual who has to resort to citing nonexistent periodicals to make him appear as some sort of "expert" -- and one who's not even good enough to host Inside Edition anymore.
That's what sticks in his craw.
His Logic professors must be wearing paper bags over their heads about now.
Has there ever been a more transparently thin-skined bloviator than Bill O'Reilly?