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O'Reilly says Palin has been "hammered worse than anybody maybe with the exception of Nixon"

November 18, 2009 8:21 pm ET

From the November 18 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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    • Author by DAWUSS (November 18, 2009 8:22 pm ET)
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      In what respect, Bill-O?
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    • Author by Max Credits (November 18, 2009 8:37 pm ET)
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      Ridiculous. Palin is a celebrity. She holds no office and seeks no office. She's but an opinion celebrity; the kind of person Bill O'Reilly hammers every day of the week.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 18, 2009 8:45 pm ET)
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        She's making a very good living off of her appeal to gullible idiots. This requires her being in the public eye, where those not in her cult will naturally have some laughs at her expense, and point out her failures.

        Brittany Spears gets "hammered" quite a bit too, but she, like Sarah of the North, has decided it's worth it. Spears doesn't whine or play the victim as much as Palin does, but they're pretty similar.
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        • Author by foghornleghorn (November 19, 2009 11:32 am ET)
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          And when you enter the realm of celebrity, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
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        • Author by fairliberal (November 19, 2009 10:15 pm ET)
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          "She's making a very good living off of her appeal to gullible idiots"

          That statement reminds me of Al Gore, but the money he is making dwarfs anything Palin is making. But the part about the idiots is comparable.
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          • Author by Tbone Slickens (November 20, 2009 10:57 am ET)
               
            The dangerous part is Al is effecting policy with his looting of these idiots. His is the kind of hoodwinking that robs all our pocketbooks.
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      • Author by DAWUSS (November 18, 2009 8:54 pm ET)
           
        IDK about "seeks no office"
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      • Author by williamf (November 18, 2009 9:18 pm ET)
           
        The pit bull with lipstick her words not mine, is a republican right wing celebrity, no-one outside the US cares what she says or does, she makes the ignorant look intelligent.
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    • Author by thundavolt (November 18, 2009 8:44 pm ET)
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      When you have nothing else to say just talk about God being on your side.
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    • Author by Barry Bonds (November 18, 2009 8:48 pm ET)
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      I guess he forgot the 24 hour hatchet job the Right has been doing on Obama since June 3, 2008.
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      • Author by wookie (November 18, 2009 10:51 pm ET)
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        Yup, like Prejean she and her followers never acknowledge any mistakes and turn all criticism into religious persecution.
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    • Author by gg (November 18, 2009 8:52 pm ET)
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      As Flip Wilson would have said it "The devil made me do it"
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    • Author by thebigsheister (November 18, 2009 8:58 pm ET)
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      I don't know if holding somebody up against Nixon is the best way to paint them as a victim.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 18, 2009 9:08 pm ET)
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      Does Bill ever consider thaT Sarah Palin deserves to get hammered...that she brings it on herself?
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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (November 18, 2009 9:09 pm ET)
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      O'Reilly and a whole lot of others like him had NO PROBLEM accusing Bill Clinton of being a mass murderer and drug runner and rapist.

      They had NO PROBLEM accusing Hillary Clinton of being a killer, too.

      They accused Al Gore of being a serial liar, actually making up quotes and attributing them to him in a character assassination the effects of which are still being felt.

      They accused John Kerry, a veteran of two tours in Vietnam and a recipient of the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with "V" for valor and three Purple Hearts, of being a coward who faked his wounds and lied about his heroism, despite the eyewitness testimony of dozens of people who witnessed his service and insisted that his exploits were real and his awards earned.

      They accused Max Cleland, a decorated combat veteran who was lost an arm and both legs in an accident after he volunteered for one last combat mission even though he was due to head home, of causing his own injuries by being drunk.

      They accused Barack Obama of being a KenyanIndonesianMuslimCommunistSocialistTerrorist, and they not so subtly call for his assassination.

      Trust me -- when it comes to being "hammered" the treatment Sarah Palin has received pales in comparison. She SHOULD BE called a shallow, ignorant, superficial, uninformed, self-centered habitual liar. Instead she's treated like a real author and a serious candidate for the presidency. She WROTE a book? Hell, she doesn't even READ them!

      O'Reilly knows this, of course, but birds of a feather...
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      • Author by my4cents (November 18, 2009 9:59 pm ET)
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        Please do not put too much thought into the ravings of fools like Reilly and Beck. They are in it for the money.
        Plain derision will rile them up into making even bigger fools of themselves.

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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (November 18, 2009 9:22 pm ET)
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      Well if what BILLO said is true then PAILIN deserves it.Every time she opens her mouth she puts her foot in it.
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    • Author by WildcatProgressive (November 18, 2009 9:27 pm ET)
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      Just wondering: was BillO out of the country from 1993 - 2001? You know, when Bill Clinton was president? When Hillary got called a bitch regularly? When the right-wing tore into a 13-year-old girl?
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (November 18, 2009 9:33 pm ET)
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      Hammered ??? I see no evidence, physical or psychological.
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    • Author by mcnairbo6573 (November 18, 2009 10:13 pm ET)
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      O'Reilly might wanna go to his public library and do some research on the treatment Bill Clinton recieved from the right wing media, hate radio and the mainstream media if he thinks poor Sarah's been savaged worst than anyone else in history.
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    • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 18, 2009 10:16 pm ET)
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      Bill O'Really is the Emperor of Hyperbole. (Irony intended)
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    • Author by ProgLib (November 18, 2009 10:42 pm ET)
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      wow... how about hillary clinton all those years during the 90's? did you forget about that already, billo? and she's a woman, too... is that sexism? we're just asking "fair and balanced" questions, right?
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    • Author by shaggles (November 19, 2009 12:21 pm ET)
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      Bill neglects to mention that the people doing the hammering are mostly on the right. Other than that she's treated pretty mildly. No comparison to the treatment Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Dan Quayle, GHW Bush, Mike Dukakis, Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford received in their respective days.
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    • Author by tman418 (November 19, 2009 4:53 pm ET)
         
      Forget Palin. Why did Nixon NOT deserve to be hammered?
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