O'Reilly denies "go[ing] after" Soros -- doesn't explain prior comment that "[t]hey ought to hang" him
On the October 12 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, guest and fellow Fox News host Bill O'Reilly falsely claimed he does "not go after" billionaire philanthropist George Soros. In fact, O'Reilly has repeatedly attacked Soros, as Media Matters for America has noted. O'Reilly has declared, among other things, that "[t]hey ought to hang this Soros guy." Most recently, O'Reilly compared Soros to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and alleged that Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest, believes that "we're Nazis" because of U.S. policies on Iraq and torture. During his appearance on Your World, O'Reilly also claimed that "I was tough on [Defense Secretary Donald H.] Rumsfeld when I interviewed him," a characterization with which Cavuto agreed. Yet as Media Matters noted, O'Reilly was anything but "tough on Rumsfeld" -- he has used past interviews with Rumsfeld as an opportunity to attack Democrats and stoke a feud with CBS Late Show host David Letterman.
Also during his appearance on Your World, when O'Reilly claimed that Cavuto's use of the word "dichotomy" indicates that he doesn't know how to "talk to the folks," Cavuto replied: "[D]on' t do the thing like 'you're the folks,' and -- you went to Harvard, so stop the nonsense, please, you're killing me." O'Reilly insisted: "I paid my own way through Harvard." Cavuto also noted that O'Reilly has "always been an angry guy," a charge that O'Reilly denied, claiming it was possible to "be passionate without being angry." O'Reilly added: "If I were angry, I would slap you."
From the October 12 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO: You go after a lot of folks in this book. And I always wonder: When you do that, are you afraid of the backlash?
O'REILLY: Am I afraid? What do you think? You've been working with me for 10 years. Am I afraid? They can't do anything more than they've done to me, so I never, ever think about the unintended consequences; I just tell the truth. You had George Soros on here last week, you know, and then we had you on my show to talk about it. Now, you say I go after George Soros. I don't go after him. I tell you what exactly George Soros is doing. All right? And then I back it up with facts. But I don't say George Soros is evil or he's a terrible guy -- what did he call me on your show?
CAVUTO: Well, you know, in your book -- your book, you all but do.
O'REILLY: No, I don't. I basically say --
CAVUTO: So he supports causes --
O'REILLY: Here's his vision --
CAVUTO: He supports causes you hate, right?
O'REILLY: Well, no, he wants a different America. He wants an America that has income redistribution, which means that you tax the affluent way up to your eyebrows and you give the money to other people without any strings attached. He wants legalized narcotics in this country. He wants an open border --
CAVUTO: But you lump him in with Barbra Streisands and George Clooneys.
O'REILLY: No, no, it's a -- Streisand is insignificant. George Soros is huge player --
CAVUTO: She puts on a much better show.
O'REILLY: Than George does.
CAVUTO: Right.
O'REILLY: Yes. George Soros is a dangerous man if you are a traditionalist. Because George Soros is pumping so much money into the secular progressive cause that those things are actually becoming reality. Think back when you were a little kid --
CAVUTO: All right, but let's get away from Soros for a second. Let's talk about your bigger picture because you argue that we are losing some of the Americana by going after Christmas, by dismissing the things that made our country great. What is your biggest fear? What are we becoming?
O'REILLY: My biggest fear is that we become Holland, all right? That we're the Netherlands, because that's the vision that Soros and the press and the ACLU have. They don't want America to be founded on Judeo-Christian philosophy. They hate that. They feel that we're a flawed nation. The premise of Culture Warrior is traditionalists like me, and I believe you as well, think we are noble country. We make mistakes, but we're a good country. We free people, we provide opportunity for hundreds of millions of people. Look, why are all the illegals coming here? For opportunity. So we think it's good. The S-P's, secular progressives, think the country is flawed. They want huge changes along the lines of what Western Europe has --
CAVUTO: But you recognize the country as flawed in lot in a lot of ways, right?
O'REILLY: No.
CAVUTO: You want to help it and make it better, right?
O'REILLY: No. We're a noble country. I don't think the country is flawed. I don't think our Constitution is flawed or our Judeo-Christian heritage is flawed; I don't. We make mistakes. We make mistakes, and we need to correct those mistakes. But the S-P's say we're fundamentally flawed. We have to change our economic system, our social system.
CAVUTO: So they hate themselves, and they hate us.
O'REILLY: No more Christmas -- yeah. No more pledge of allegiance to God. No more Christmas. This is pulling us down because it's too judgmental. Were making judgments about behavior. S-P's don't want judgments.
CAVUTO: But let me ask you this, and I've known you now for better than 10 years. In fact, you would come on my show at CNBC before you were this superstar and, uh, you have always been an angry guy.
O'REILLY: Angry guy -- are we back to that?
CAVUTO: No, no, no, no, no --
O'REILLY: Can't you be passionate without being angry? Can't you --
CAVUTO: I -- I -- don't start dissing me, you know, don't get nasty -- but you are angry, right?
O'REILLY: No, I'm passionate.
CAVUTO: How do you --
O'REILLY: If I were angry, I would slap you.
CAVUTO: Well, you have.
O'REILLY: OK, no --
CAVUTO: But how do you --
O'REILLY: Passionate --
CAVUTO: Something is always ticking you off, right?
O'REILLY: No. Something is always in my eye line that I'm confronting. You haven't even seen me angry. You don't want -- I beat up a cell phone the other day.
CAVUTO: I see you talk to your staff --
O'REILLY: Oh, my staff loves me. We haven't had one change on the staff. You have people in and out of there all the time.
CAVUTO: They are shuddering there, they're sweating, they're sweating --
O'REILLY: Shuddering, my butt.
CAVUTO: They're sweating. Let me ask you this. Ten years into this, would you have predicted, you know, the number-one books, the number-one show, the money, all of that? Would have actually seen all of that was coming?
O'REILLY: No, because I'm not in it for that. I never was in it for that. I was always in it to do good work. What I was a reporter, I wanted to be the best reporter, and I think I was, because I'm a conceited guy. I but I reported at ABC and CBS, and then I did that, and then I did Inside Edition, and we made a success out of that syndicated program, made King World gazillions of dollars. Eh, enough of that, go back to school, learn a little bit more, designed the Factor, brought it here, they took it, and now we're a success here. But I was never in it for money or power. I was in it for the work, doing good work.
CAVUTO: Here's where I see some dichotomies with you.
O'REILLY: Is that -- what does "dichotomy" mean?
CAVUTO: I love --
O'REILLY: What does that word mean?
CAVUTO: Let me ask you this --
O'REILLY: Can't you talk to the folks?
CAVUTO: In your Harvard -- don' t do the thing like "you're the folks," and -- you went to Harvard, so stop the nonsense, please, you're killing me.
O'REILLY: I paid my own way through Harvard.
CAVUTO: Let me ask you about where it seems strange. You're OK with Rumsfeld, you're not OK with Cheney.
O'REILLY: I'm not OK with -- look, I'm not OK with losing, all right? I mean, Iraq is a mess. It's a mess. So let's not -- let's acknowledge --
CAVUTO: But that's just as much Cheney's responsibility, right?
O'REILLY: I don't -- look, I don't care. It doesn't matter to me whose responsibility it is.
CAVUTO: But you like -- you seem to give Rumsfeld a pass, but not Cheney.
O'REILLY: Not really. Not really. I was tough on Rumsfeld when I interviewed him.
CAVUTO: Yes, you were, and to be fair, your interviews are very tough.
Since he loves to use the term "S-P" so much, I made up a "S-P" term for him. Salacious and Perverted. He is definitely an "S-P" in that sense. Or he is a "Soros-Projector." Like when he calles George Soros a charlatan and all that. He is clearly projecting his own character flaws onto someone else that he is clearly insanely jealous of.
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considering what happened with Andrea Mackris, Bill O'Reilly should be called another "S-P" term--Sexual Predator.
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O'REILLY: Oh, my staff loves me. We haven't had one change on the staff.
Andrea Mackris is still working for him?
Yeah, that was a blatant lie. And of course he knows that Cavuto knows about Mackris, so he knowingy lied right to his face.
Just who is he kidding? Does he not realize we're listening and recording his crap? He must think we're stupid (or at least the Cavuto viewers) if he thinks we don't know he's going after Soros.
Speaking of going after, the word is he's going after Oprah because she had Frank Rich (who he hates with a passion) on her show without someone from the conservative camp onstage. Keep in mind that he's mad because Oprah won't have him on her show. This could be his way at getting back at her because he thinks she's snubbed him. If he can't get more fame being on Oprah, he's willing to get the fame by smearing her. Oprah is one of America's favorite women. He may be making a huge mistake.
O'Reilly is a classic narcissist. It all about him. His motives are transparent here. Last week he was griping about Oprah refusing to have him on her show, and now he's hyping his plans to attack her on Monday. It's all about personal grudges with him. And he's apparently incapable of realizing how obvious all this is to everyone else.
O'REILLY: "I'm not OK with -- look, I'm not OK with losing, all right?"
That's from the item, his take on Iraq. He'd say he means the U.S., but I think it's all about him being a loser.I don't know what O'Reilly did for most of his life, but I bet there was a lot of failure, probably harsh Mom and Dad pointing it out.
Now he's rich and famous, but he's a shriveled old man.Probably born after the depression (what is he, 75?), dad told him how easy he had it, never made it on his own til he decided on the last resort job of selling his credibility and shilling for Corporate America and the GOP.
Finally gets the confidence to get his tough talk on, and he's a weak old cadaver. He's gotta be a sad old cat.I know many here would call Billdo Heartless and without emotion, but I bet he cries for himself most nights.
O'Lielly's father... an accountant for an oil company... often abused him when he was a child. Little Billy could never measure up to his father's expectations & would frequently be bullied & degraded by the heavy-drinking & raging old man. O'Lielly's pathology is pretty textbook. Its a pathology that is found frequently in authority-worshipping right wingers. It produces a profound level of narccisism, & has turned him into a classic sociopath. He identifies with the appearance of strength, & now employs the same tactics that his father used on him to bully & degrade those who challenge his ego.
It's hard not feel sorry for the abused child, but you'd think a man as wealthy as O'Lielly would bring in a phalanx of therapists in order to achieve some level of inner peace. Unfortunately, O'Lielly considers relying on therapy to gain some measure of self-knowledge & insight as a sign of weakness that blustering machomen such as himself must deny themselves. The only acceptable expression of inner feelings is that of rage.
In other words... he's f*cking nuts
about the O'Reilly stuff? I was just goofing on his personality, based on people I've known personally.
Here i am wasting my time in construction, when psychoanalysis is like breathing for me.
Where's my P H stinkin' D?
This is information that I;ve culled from O'Lielly's interviews. It shouldn't be a surprise, though. If you look closely, you can see similar pathologies in a whole host of wingnut media personalities, as well as historical authoritarian figures such as Hitler, Stalin, et al. I'm sure there's something equally as twisted in Crazy Annie's background.
You just don't get this profoundly f*cked up as a result of a happy, loving childhood.
On the other hand, they do manage to get good ratings.
Go figure.
It's just not possible. Karl Rove would kick his ass.
He KNOWS his listeners are stupid. He's a typical neocon republican, he'll say whatever they want to hear while he snickers about them behind their back. Laughing, all the way to the bank...
is really nice.
I've watched that clip twice and... nope, Bill didn't use the words "culture warrior." He's slipping.
And is rhetoric is the most self-serving nonsense I've ever heard.
Funny though. He claims to back himself up with facts. MMFA and a dozen other pages have challenged nearly any/everything he's said. But the rhetoric keeps coming.
He doesn't go after Soros? Look at "Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly," a fine book. And note too that when he doesn't state it, billy implies that he's a victim. He chops at everyone who doesn't say the same things he does, yet becomes the victim. ??????????????
Oh, and the "I'm not in it for the money" line? More horse dung. And anyone even remotely sane knows it. One reviewer of "Sweet Jesus" wisely points out that the biggest mistake we can make is to take the likes of o'lielly and Coulter seriously. They're selling a product to a hungry market, while saying nothing of substance.
Oh, yeah, and the SP thing--his latest "book" is full of it. That's why I call him a McCarthyist. If this were 1952, he'd be calling all those SPs Communists. (On a well known web page, I reviewed o'leilly's book and called him buzzword bill. The page, incidentally, did not show my review, despite the 271 other reviews they do show.)
For the first time I'm willing to thank someone of Fox. Cavuto pretty well exposed o'leilly for the FRAUD he is. Oh, and did anyone see Olberman recently? I covered the numbers, and his are higher then o'leilly when the latter is on.
Eat that one up, billy.
Anyone: Bill, you're a bully, a narcississt, you call people names, and threaten them with violence. Bill: No I don't. Anyone: Well, I 'm glad we cleared that up. Bill: Me too. Anyone: You're a superstar Bill: I know
you are right. BillO is a narcissist. Not in ageneric sense, I think he probably has NPD Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He's a classic case. He regresses to a two year old at the drop of a hat. And he's grandiose, paranoid and plays victim when he gets challenged. And he needs constant attention, whether good or bad. He thrives on it. And he lacks empathy. And these people are very prone to not seeking treatment.
In fact he may have more than one personality disorder. In any case he's a very disturbed person.
Personality disorders such as O'Lielly do offer up quite a paradox, don't they?
On the one hand, its these self-same disorders that apparently provided O'Lielly with the tools neccisary to do the job that he does. They allow him to lie at the drop of a hat, to launch visciuos smear campaigns against all percieved 'enemies', & to play the victim card, shamelessly courting the sympathy of an audience that has witnessed his repeated savaging of others. Really, his entire act (as well as his life) is built around seeking revenge against those who have angered him. This allows his audience to vicariously experience revenge against whoever it might be who they believe has harmed THEM at one time or another. The specifics are unimportant. It still manages to fill (if only for the moment) an emotional void. It is no different than the orgasmic pleasure that ancient Romans experienced watching slaves, criminals & gladiators being slaughtered for their entertainment.
It feeds the beast.
So, in a very strange way, it is O'lielly's psychic maladies that have provided him with wealth, fame & power.
On the other hand, which of us would really be all that anxious to trade places with O'Lielly? At the end of the day, he's still a miserable, conflicted, & aching little boy. He can't truly enjoy the bounty that his success bring him, because a happy man could never do what he does.
Maybe this is why progressives have no parallels to the O'liellys, the Coulters, the Wieners, the Limbaughs, etc.
Anyway, that's my uncredentialled opinion.
Y'know, I really think Bill O's problems really started right after he failed to lead his division in punting for a second straight year when he was at Marist University College of the Almighty. This clown has a history of saying off the rails stuff and then denying he ever said it. He and the rest of the goon squad are a sad commentary on the modern media in this Republic; overpaid, under curious, doing whatever the corporate masters tell them to do. Our media is failing us and the powers that be that run this country are taking advantage of it. Bill o is a sympton and the cause of the disease.
many of these N types are very successful in their fields and many are considered gurus. Academia is filled with N types as is the authoritarian regime of the Bush administration. They are some scary people.
O'REILLY: If I were angry, I would slap you.
With a loofah, I bet...