O'Reilly named "Worst Person" runner-up for equating Daily Kos and David Duke
On the July 26 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host Bill O'Reilly the "runner-up" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for, as Media Matters for America documented, asking "[w]hat is the difference between" white supremacist David Duke and the blog Daily Kos. Olbermann stated that, according to blogger Mike Stark, "the Secret Service is now investigating" comments on BillOReilly.com regarding Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), including one -- noted by Americablog.com -- that read: "If she wins which hopefully she won't. My guns are loaded for the revolt are yours??" Olbermann went on to address O'Reilly: "So, Bill, you're complaining about hate speech on a website while the Secret Service is investigating your website for hate speech and death threats?" As Media Matters noted, O'Reilly has ignored the objectionable comments on his website while repeatedly attacking the Daily Kos in recent weeks.
On July 18, Olbermann named O'Reilly the "winner" of his "Worst Person in the World" segment for defending his earlier comparison of Daily Kos to the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. As Media Matters has documented (here, here, here, and here), Olbermann frequently names O'Reilly in his "Worst Person" segment.
From the July 26 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: Our runner-up, Bill-O, who is now losing his death match with the website the Daily Kos. The latest foot in mouth: "What's the difference between David Duke and the hate stuff that he puts on his website with his bloggers and this? What is the difference?" Well, there's no premium membership at the Daily Kos, say, like at BillOReilly.com, where a veteran member posted about Senator Clinton, quote, "If she wins which hopefully she won't. My guns are loaded for the revolt are yours??"
Blogger Mike Stark, once Bill-O's target in the "Fox security" episode, reports that the FBI was advised of that and other threats against the senator's life on Bill-O's website, and that the Secret Service is now investigating. So, Bill, you're complaining about hate speech on a website while the Secret Service is investigating your website for hate speech and death threats? Bill-O, you were a punter. Punt!
Did you guys watched O'Reilly last night? I was laughing my ass off because Jane Hall brought up the same issue that Olbermann highlighted, and in classic O'Reilly style, he turned her mic off! I hope Media Matters has a clip of that, it was too funny.
I did see that and her last statement was only her mouth moving with no sound. Classic O'Reilly scrambling moment.
He needs to drop this little vendetta, he is appearing more foolish every day.
I personally don't have any problem with the Olberman items, except that I have to be exposed to Jeter and Sueeeeeld flirting shamelessly for the rest of the thread.
Bill also said something "big" is coming Monday that will really cement his case. Stand by.
Hey! Last time he forewarned us of something coming on Monday, we got "The Graph"!!!
Ooooweee!!! I can hardly wait!!!! Just look at all the exclamation marks!!!!!
Don't worry, Tommy & Neondesert, I'm a Factor Premium Member, and got an early look at THE NEW CHART !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have I said anything about this thread yet? Or is this another attempt to smear me? also if you read my comments yesterday on BO i did say I felt he has no credibility becuase of the hateful comments on his website. Nice try to smear a fellow poster.
Hey SueEld can I pour you a glass of wine? Mmmmm? :-)
BTW, this is me flirting...
Just kidding,SueEld. You and Jeter both seem to comment on the perceived redundancy of the MM/ KO items,I just thought I'd get in ahead of you two.
Saying that Jeter is going to flirt with you is now a smear? Yowza. Someone feeling a little touchy today perchance?
Is that 'bad touchy' or 'good touchy'... careful, you may have a suit on your hands.
I don't think O'Reilly was expecting her to hit him back like that, he probably thought she would be the sycophantic commentator that he usually has on his program to stroke his ego (i.e. Michelle Malkin, Kristen Powers, Bernard Goldberg and Dennis Miller). But we have to remember that he did something similar like that to Jane Hall when she defended Bill Moyers’ documentary a few months back. (O’Reilly felt that Moyers painted him falsely as one of Bush’s bootlicking cheerleaders when we first went into war.)
I have to respectfully disagree, Tommy, that he should let this vendetta go. Watching him fumbling to explain himself and cutting commentators’ mics off is some of the best, unintentional funny moments I've see in cable news in quite some time.
Media Matters doesn't have a clip yet, but crooks and liars does!
Whats the difference between Oreillys show and professional wrestling?
I can't say I watch either, but when I was a kid, I did enjoy the often zany, usually wild and hopefully ostentatious rants that the "rasslers" went on.
Oreilly seems to engage in the same type of hyperbole, probably even more ridiculous. And just like rasslin', there are a certain percentage of ppl watching that take him deadly serious.
And don't we all snicker at them? I'd rather be bound with razor wire, and have bamboo shoots hammered into my nails, and gasoline thrown into my eyes at regular intervals while being forced to listen to William Shatners greatest hits...than watch Oreillys show for 5 minutes.
I already called Fox security BILL-O...and I told them they could STICK IT.
Who the heck cares about Olbermann? He's nothing but a vapid idiot, devoid of any political acumen other than parroting liberal jibberish.
Correction: he's a "smart" liberal.
<>I'll bet that even a stoopid liberal can spell gibberish.
As opposed to a smart conservative like you.
More than pay any attention to a complete moron like you. My tropical fish show more intellect than any of your stupid posts
This is Priceles!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/26/16183/
"Please, Bill O'Reilly, spare us from your savage and inexplicable rage. We can't take any more of it. Being defended by Keith Olbermann... being roundly and sternly publicized by Stephen Colbert... it's all too much. The extra traffic, the publicity, the footage of your narcissistic tantrums... the subsequent exposure of hate speech and death threats on your pay-to-post blog. How can any liberal website withstand such a well-planned assault?Please, Bill, I am personally begging you: stop your organized Fox News effort to promote us to wider and wider audiences. Between you and your Fox News compatriot Bill Kristol, we can't take it anymore. How are we supposed to compete with a man whose written punditry has led to the deaths of tens of thousands? How can we sustain ourselves when attacked by a talk show host well known for his fabrication of facts and stories? Our imaginary lesbian street gangs have been decimated already: what more havoc will Fox News wreak upon us in our hour of despair?"I read that at Kos this morning. Some of the best liberal hate I've seen. LOL
That was funny, Monk! Thanks for that.
O’Reilly is being pretty stupid here because his constant whining about this is only making Daily Kos a bigger website. He’s giving them relentless free promotion and it’s backfiring on him badly. Loved the joke about their “imaginary lesbian street gang,” priceless!
Looks like the article isn't there anymore. Can you elaborate a bit on what it was about?
Well I just can't believe there's another Keith/O'Reilly/Kos thread here.
Man, you could have knocked me over with a feather.
Feather, right, a feather.... What kind of feather?
This kind:
http://vintagesewing.info/1920s/28-mhd/illus/11-03-fig3.jpg
;-)
If ostrich's is all you got then I suppose thats what you have to use. I'm partial to emu feathers myself.
If Kos is a hate site, I'm sure
That those pointing fingers are pure
It just stands to reason
They wouldn't be wheez'n
Just for to spread some manure.
Do not take this the wrong way, but you are no Julia.
And you are no Lloyd Bentsen.
Sounds like a good time to do a little sonny and cher!
CHORUS:The beat goes on, the beat goes onDrums keep pounding a rhythm to the brainLa de da de de, la de da de daCharleston was once the rage, uh huhHistory has turned the page, uh huhThe mini skirts the current thing, uh huhTeenybopper is our newborn king, uh huhChorusThe grocery store's the super mart, uh huhLittle girls still break their hearts, uh huhAnd men still keep on marching off to warElectrically they keep a baseball scoreChorusGrandmas sit in chairs and reminisceBoys keep chasing girls to get a kissThe cars keep going faster all the timeBums still cry "hey buddy, have you got a dime"Chorus
aaargh! the preview lies again. I hate that...
Snoop I've always hated that song.
Thanks for sticking it in my head. It'll probably be rolling around in there for the rest of the afternoon!
Grrrrrrrrr
Quick somebody print the lyrics of a different tune!!!!
Alright stop.
Collaborate and listen.
Ice is back with a brand new invention.
Thank you Magnolia
I'll take Ice Ice Baby anytime :-)
it's a small world after - all,
it's a small world after - all,
it's a small world after - all,
it's a small, small world!
You bastard!
;-)
Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy.
Now now lets not be obscene
There'll be no calls for MacAuther Park then?
come and knock on our door
we've been waiting for you
Where the kisses are hers and hers and his
Threes company too
Everyone's a critic.
Here's my effort. I can't quite get the last rhyme.
O'Reilly has always been quick
to say that liberals are sick.
Bill's such a buffoon,
I hope sometime soon
that somone will cut off his mike.
Why doesn't O'Reilly just go ahead and condemn CNN for teaming up with YouTube: a site that hosts actual Nazi and white supremacist videos. YouTube refuses to delete those messages, so by O'Reilly's logic, shouldn't its CNN be criticized to at least the same degree as JetBlue if not greater?
Probably because he can't label YouTube as a "far left outfit" yet. If that can be even hinted at in anyway, O'Reilly would then haul them out for the scurrilous creatures they are and anybody that gets into bed with them at all is also a far left loon.
What's even funnier about that, is that Nazi's (neo Nazi types), and the KKK, and other such hate groups are more typically, or are what most would consider the extreme far right of the political spectrum. Now, if BO wants to call Kos a left wing radical group, wouldn't it be better to equate them with commies? But then again, communism was nothing but a red herring anyway.
It's classic O'Reilly - find a left wing website he hates, and then conflate it with a wacko right wing boogey man - and then he appears "fair and balanced", and "no spin"......skewers all with equality.
He is a piece of work.
True enough. Bill O and his "boycotts" are kind of famous for, well, not accomplishing much at all. I remember the whole Ludacris episode back in the day. Not only did it make Luda more popular, it didn't affect his core group of fans that's for sure.
On another note. Does it appear the BO is becoming more and more unhinged as time moves forward? I mean, he was always off the wall, at least in my opinion, but now he just seems to be lacking for anything, well, serious to discuss and or talk about. I mean, this latest little dig at people who comment on a website is just the latest in inane ramblings from a crazy man. Pretty soon he'll be co-hosting a show with Savage.
He does appear more unhinged, but his ratings are steady eddy, so his popularity isn't decreasing, despite his recent embarassments and his flailing inconsistencies.
I think he has found a niche in his programming and that is to highlight some fringe lunacy somewhere, and then extrapolate that into some bigger societal ill - his viewers get their "far left craziness" red meat, he appears mainstream, and he sells his dumb book and cements his ratings on Fox. It's all very clever.
But I do believe he is also becoming more cartoonish and irrelevant at the same time. This narrow focus of his as he goes on these vendetta tantrums may make him popular with his "crusading" viewers, but at the risk of getting more popular or increased credibility, nah.......he's losing it.
I think the seams in Bill O'Reilly's act began to rip apart beyond repair earlier this year when he accused Colonel Ann Wright, a 29-year veteran of the U.S. Army, of "turning against her country" because she refused to agree with him. After questioning her loyalty to the United States, she asked "How many years have you served your country?" and he cut her mic.
But that's not the basis of his objection -- at least, not ostensibly. This is the reason he tries to draw equivalences between DailyKos and the KKK: he's claiming that he opposes hate speech of all ideological stripes, right?
Ya, his claims and his actions are usually at odds.....which is why he is a walking inconsistency.
Weird part is, there's already a "conservative alternative" to YouTube. Apparently, to some wingnuts, even something as you-make-it-what-it-is as YouTube is "liberal".
And don't forget the Conservapedia.
That one is my favorite. Rates right up there with the Creation Museum.
A conservative encyclopedia you can trust. The truth shall set you free....wow that gave me the willies...truth, work...whatever...
Yeah, Lewis Black kinda tore that one apart on The Daily Show. He showed the site and said it featured conservative videos linked from what they posted on YouTube....
"So the conservative answer to YouTube is ... YouTube!!!"
I'm contemplating constructing a shrine with which to worship Jane Hall. Finally someone confroned this insanity.
Classic fascist tactic: cut the mic before the facts get through!
Only someone who cuts mics would find an open forum for commentary so troubling.
Bill O'Rielly was born in the United States. Terrible things happens to other countries too.
My apologies for the redundancy, but Joe Conason has written an interesting piece at truthdig.com about this Rupert Murdoch funded smear campaign. Nothing that shudders one's foundations, just a tight, quick jab.
[link to www.truthdig.com]
"In truth, the bloggers share the values of most Americans, who also want to end the war in Iraq, establish universal health insurance, reduce global warming, increase the minimum wage and preserve Social Security. It is the ideologues such as O’Reilly and Kristol whose opposition to those values locates them on the fringe, despite their loud megaphones and corporate backing. And what the Murdoch bullies prove whenever they try to stigmatize the citizen bloggers is just how much they fear a fair (and balanced) fight."
That sums it up very well. Thanks
"My apologies for the redundancy, but Joe Conason has written an interesting piece at truthdig.com about this Rupert Murdoch funded smear campaign."
Conason accused someone else of engaging in a smear campaign? If Conason was not allowed to smear, I don't think he could put a 700-word column together. He's not a decent man.
Waahhh! Joe told the truth about Rupert Murdoch.
And if you didnt spew BS you wouldnt post at all. You are a worthless poster
I love how Colbert summed it up a few nights ago. He had Jimmy put the URL on the screen so "viewers know where not to go."
Have many of you noticed that BO is looking older. Even the makeup can't hide it.
olberman needs to have david broock on once or twice a week to chronicle orielly and limbaugh and hannity. he will show them to be the hate mongers and liers that they are.
Does Keith Olbermann ever have on guests who disagree with him?
Uusually, Olbermann gives a two-minute monologue in which he attcks Bush and/or Cheney, and then has a guest on, just as Bruce Fein or Jonathan Turley. What follows goes a bit something like this:
Olbermann: So, do you agree with me that Bush is more evil than Hitler and Stalin combined.
Turley: Yes, you're absolutely correct, Keith. Excellent points.
Olbermann: That was Jonathan Turley, ladies and gentlemen, agreeing with me that Bush is more evil than Hitler and Stalin combined. In our next Countdown segment, Rep. Dennis Kucinich and I will discuss impeaching Mr. Bush.
As the old saying goes, when two people agree, one of them isn't necessary. That helps explain why O'Reilly has three times more viewers than Olbermann. Viewers want to hear both sides, and they don't get that from Olbermann.
Uhhh... Kevin?
Allow me to point out to you the simple fact that it really is pretty hard to 'hear both sides' when your boy O'Lielly is shouting over his opponent, or ordering that their mic be cut.
Just a thought, son.
The reason O'Falfel has so many viewers is if you want actual information there are many outlets and Olbermann is just one of them if you want pure unadulterated nonsense, propaganda and lies FOX is where to find it. Your take on Olbermann is as delusional as we have come to expect from you.
Bill Oreilly and Fox news and my Favorite Ann Coulter are the only media outlets that tell the viewers, the truth about the daily news, the Networks and CNN are brainwashing there viewers to believe the same liberal ways that they believe, in
Bill Oreilly is the best and will be because he tells it like it is
And if they can't get Obermann, where is a like minded source of information on MSM?
You left-wing pinko commies want the terrorists to win! I personally want to thank Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. I'd heard of The Daily Kos before but hadn't really checked it out until Bill-O started his psychotic ranting about it. Now I read it daily.
Likewise, I wasn't a regular viewer of "Countdown" until the right-wing potted plants here on MMFA started their incessant whining about it. Now it's a preset on my DVR.
My basic rule of thumb is this: If Bill O'Reilly doesn't like you, you've got to be doing something right.
So you see...Fox News and their simple-minded, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, bottom-feeding viewers actually do serve a purpose after all. Wait! Was that hate speech?