Bill O'Reilly: CNN has joined Media Matters "on the Dark Side"
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Sep 25, 2007 8:38am
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Oh, Falafel Boy is TOO predictable. When confronted with his racist comments regarding eating out in Harlem with Al Sharpton, does he take a step back and do a personal inventory and consider the possibility that some deep-seated racism may lie within him and make an honest attempt to apologize for any offense taken (however unintentionally it may have been caused)? *snort* Nahhhh...Billo lashes out against the people who point out that he is racist. Now CNN has joined Media Matters (and "NBC News", hmmm...wonder who he meant there) over on "the Dark Side." And why? Because they're jealous of Billo's success.
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what a loser
Yeah they are jealous that they aren't an ignorant racist pighead.
I'm still not watching Bill'O Video.
He keeps talking about "defamation". Hey Bill-- Defamation is actionable. Why not sue CNN for defamation? Put your money where your mouth is. If you don't put up, then shut up.
If he would just shut up about it, this would probably blow over. But no, he insists on digging his way out of the hole.
Keep digging Bill!
oh, hell. This guy is just...bizarre.
hahahahaahahahaahahhahahhaahahhahahaahahhahhahahaaha
Hmm, "have to work on the dark side, if you will...." Where have I heard that used before....?
So is Media Matters, et al part of the secret wing of the US Gov?
He's like that horrid loudmouth uncle that ruins every family get-together. Imagine having to sit through Thanksgiving dinner with this obnoxious no-nothing lecturer.
Emm.. that's "know-nothing".
...and I'm sure Soros had something to do with it as well.
Wow... a lot of people here of C&L called it yesterday that he'd bash CNN over this. So predictable... I could set my watch by this guy.
Success?!? Didn't they put him on after sesame street in an attempt to find an age demographic that could understand him? :D
I never watch this ridiculous cretin and no one I know watches him. In fact when I mention him to people in reference to the articles I read here most of them don't even know who he is. I've shown clips of him to people who assume he's some kind of failed comedian from a forgotten sketch news show.
Irrelevant doesn't even begin to describe this guy. He's lost so far back in the dust there are fossils covering him.
I look forward to the day that he "Decides to leave to spend more time with his family" Translation: "Show Canceled"
Billo just love to blame the mirror for making him look ugly.
Louise @ 9:
glad i dont have a family member like that in my family.
This man masturbates to a picture of himself.
Let me understand what he is saying, because of low ratings on other stations, he's not a racist? What a big cry-baby dicwad.
How come repugs keep labeling the truth as far left?
The last part of the video is Bill bragging about his ratings. It's sad that people equate higher ratings as being better news source. The truth is, most of the idiots watching fox are simply entertained by all the flashing lights, moving text and pretty colors.
So ratings are not an excuse for lying-then what is HIS excuse?
Stephen A Smith (ESPN Radio Host an A-A) defends Billo saying that Billo meant that people in general are surprised that people at Sylvia's acted civil. But that does not explain why Billo said: "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference ....".
If Smith thinks his interpretation is correct, then why is Billo talking for a large part of the community. He certainly wasn't talking for me .... EVER!
So CNN is now on "the dark side"?
So they have joined the extreme-far-left nefarious plot of George Soros, Media Matters and the United Nations to take over America? By eliminating America's super-hero and only savior, Billo? By dropping pills into his Irish Coffee to make him say those loony things about black people, no doubt...
We must come to Billo's defense against this conspiracy to take him down!
Bill O’Reilly: CNN has joined Media Matters “on the Dark Side”
What better place to be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ7O5LHRYrw
Doesn't sound the same without the headphones, and neon green shag carpeting.
MargeAggedon @ 12:
Actually, his demographic is more likely to be watching Lawrence Welk reruns. His viewership is down because they are dying off.
Bill who?
I think it's safe to say there'll be some awkward moments at the next BillO/Sharpton brunch.
Maybe O'LIELY can have on a spanish interpreter and discuss this on his show..
Bush avisó a Aznar de que estaría en Bagdad en marzo con o sin resolución de la ONU
Spanish Daily: Transcript of Private 2003 Bush Talk Promising Iraq Invasion
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Aznar/Bush/Estamos/cambiand...
In English: Secret Transcript: Bush Promised War to Spain's PM
El Pais has posted what it says is a transcript of a conversation between President Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on February 22, 2003. In the discussion, Bush promises that --> "We'll be in Baghdad by the end of March."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...
U n b e l I e v a b l e far left propaganda!
This is too funny. :lol:
“O v e r to the dark side….”
More as I listen
CNN has joined Media Matters “on the Dark Side”
They're working for Darth Chaney?
He's creepier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M32wTjksZs
"NBC news parrots Media Matters all the time...."
NBC and Media Matters tells the truth about you and you do not like it no matter how you phrase it, Billy.
John @ 4:
Because it's slightly different for a public figure who likes to play in traffic as opposed to you or I.
And, of course, there's the small matter of having to prove that his reputation or his business has suffered in a significant manner because of the defamation, which would have to be untrue.
If it's something he actually said on the air, no dice. If he's still pulling in ratings, no dice.
Bill O'Racist.
-GSD
Orally plays the victim card again - what a surprise.
“We respect CNN. We didn’t attack them in any way …...” this time.
Douchebag extraordinaire!
Tom (not Tom) @ 32:
Just like all reichwingers do!
Bill O'Racist is playing the "I'm Not A Racist" card.
-GSD
It seems EVERYBODY is irresponsible here BillO! Except you of course. :lol:
Typical rightwing bullshitter. When you get caught with your pants down, blame the resulting problem on the guy who caught you.
Matt Lauer (Today Show) hosted a segment on this subject this morning. He was defending Bill-O the best he could. Media Matters guy was on, and some NBC expert / Republican strategist (black dude, of course). NBC had the black republican guy saying Media Matters was smearing Bill-O, and Matt was taking his side and ganing up on MM.
See what happens when you try to complement the Negroes? Well, no good deed goes unpunished, I guess. I try to give them some of the "respect" they are always demanding, and look what I get? And leave it to the Liberal Media to join in the "gang banging" and "put a cap in my ass."
Oh Really exemplifies the paranoid mind set.
Hey, baby. Put that crack pipe down and get my pipe up.
Nasty, cretinous, moronic.
MargeAggedon @ 12:
Actually, Teletubbies is a better demographic... it's babbling for those under the age of 3.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
So, other media outlets criticize him because they're "jealous of his success"? Sounds like the same rationale that claims that terrorists will attack us because they "hate freedom". Idiocy, and a complete lack of self-awareness.
Bill nobody needs to attack you, all they have to do is broadcast what you say. If you can't keep your own feet out of your mouth, then shut the fuck up!
You know, when I heard that I could just see all the old quietly spoken racial stereotypes and prejudices coming out in his 'why, they're almost human like us white folk' comment. All we needed was a "they're so cute when they're young" comment, like the red-neck deputy in Mississippi Burning, and Billo would have won first prize.
Interesting.
I actually got sick the last time I watched a clip of this guy on here. For the past few months, I havent watched a single clip.
Does anyone remember that episode of "The Simpsons" (I know....FOX) where the way to stop the giant advertising monsters ruining the city was to simply turn your back on them?
Can we please try that with this guy?
Come to the dark side.
We have cookies.
What better than CNN and Move On meeting in the Dark Side,
A French chick's armpit?
Orally's ride.
John @ 4:
To quote billo "JUST SHUT UP". (as he so often tells his guests)
Maybe O'LIELY can help analize this on "his show"...
Studio will produce movie about U.S-funded Cuban terrorist, who Chavez calls "Osama Bin Laden of Latin America." Hugo Chavez to fund Venezuelan movie studio.
--> Chavez has long demanded that the United States extradite Posada to stand trial in the 1976 Cuban jetliner bombing, which killed 73 people.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGZmkKQz7R5DJAmwoobgYoQDePmQ
Who knows... Maybe O'LIELY can also analize and finally report and put an end to the controversy of why Bush did not go after Bin Laden and finally put to rest the story that the CIA did not create Osama bin Laden.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1245.htm
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/465/25199
TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised @ 48:
And the advertising company had the name, McMahon and Tate, Darren Steven's old company in Bewitched.
I reviewed the clip on Media Matters and I think that making a big deal of the restaurant comment is a misstep. For once, Bill could be right. His 'shock' seems to be taken out of context with the rest of his commentary, which was geared to the idea that everybody is the same.
What was subtler, but far more important were the points that he was attempting to make, which were:
- Racism exists, but is defined as O'Reilly as personal comments that get made to black people from time to time.
- Black leaders like Jackson, Sharpton..., etc., are trying to lead black people into creating a racist nation.
- Everybody is the same, blacks are like italians, and everyone has the same opportunities and lives.
O'Reilly is an excellent bellweather - when he does something that seems accomodating, you know that the elites are scared. This is an excellent example. By admitting that racism exists and then very narrowly defining it as a personal matter, O'Reilly has retreated and dug in, creating a bulwark against the rising awareness of institutional racism that causes day to day tragedies like the more public Jena 6 situation.
BILL O’REILLY: ‘I COULDN’T BELIEVE JEWS WERE SO POLITE AT CHINESE RESTAURANTS’
Bill O'Really's a nappy-headed ho.
WHY is Sharpton taking this in stride?
So upset over Imus' comment on the "nappy headed hos", but hearing O'reilly's summation that equals "I was surprised blacks aren't savages, and can use forks" Sharpton lies down and rolls over.
Wtf?
Eugenicist Bill thinks anyone that knows how to use tivo is "on the dark side"
Josh @ 57:
O'Reilly picked up the tab?
I agree with Kelly Logan @ 54. I think the "M-fer/iced tea" remark is being used against him unfairly. I don't think O'Reilly himself expected the patrons of Sylvia's to be acting like racist caricatures; I think he knew his audience would expect that, and he was telling them they're wrong.
The bigger problem is the fact that, in 2007, it is actually necessary to explain to a fairly large group of white people that racist caricatures do not accurately represent black people.
Josh @ 57:
Because there isn't any way for him to benefit from it yet.
If it's not racist, why would Bill-O assume that it's common practice for 'black people' to yell, "Yo, Mo-Fo! I want some more iced tea!"?
The Smiths Go To Washington @ 25:
Maybe O'LILEY can have Condaleeza Rice on "his show" ..
and swear her in and find out why Rice is: Interfering With Iraq Investigations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/26/congress-to-rice-stop-in_n_6590...
Bill O'Rielly's comments betrays not only his fundamental flaw but also the flaw of many right wing pundits. Bill has no idea what black people are like because he has never allowed himself to be exposed to them. He has no idea what war is like because he has never been in one. No idea what not having health insurance is like, no idea what poverty is like.
In his opinion, that makes him an expert.
I am surprised and shocked that C and L would not take Mr. Bill, who has demonstrated time and again that he is clearly a sensitive and introspective person, at his word that his words were not racist in the least.
Someone needs to send Billo a "Racism for Dummies" or "Racism for the Clueless" book.
The "dark side"? How telling and amusing that he uses that phrase to respond to his critics.
Billo's the the MAN - for the mouth breathers.
You Know how to really hurt Bill. Just do not watch his show.
Rusty Shackleford @ 60:
Isn't this like Glenn Beck defending his asking Rep. Keith Ellison about his loyalty by saying, 'some people want to know'?
I think BillO was secretly disappointed that he didn't get to call the maitre d' an M-Fer.
And to think he watched all those Shaft movies for nothing.
Stop giving that fool the attention he craves. Nobody watches him anymore, except bloggers like yourself and a few insane reich wingers.
xoites defends Constitution @ 64:
well put, xdc.
I don't think I can watch another Bill'O clip without my head exploding.
I challenge C&R to post BillO's comments in context [in trancript or audio].
I will not hold my breath, so here it is:
http://www.billoreilly.com/blog?action=viewBlog&blogID=-514007249730622364
Go to the 11 minute mark [it downloads fast] and you'll understand what he was talking about. This little manufactured scandal is pure BS.
Toliver @ 73:
So let me get this straight: we are to listen to what he said in the eleventh minute and nothing else? Yeah, that will put it into context!
Tom Sawyer @ 66:
Indeed. Until this week, the "dark side" for BillO was anything north of Central Park.
Hey Bill... blah, blah, blah... STFU!
Toliver @ 73:
What you don't seem to grasp is that his shock that black people behave in ways he never experienced before tells us that at his age he has not yet experienced their company. How insulated can one be?
At 1:14 into the clip he says not one of his radio listeners complained. Was that because there were no listeners?
At 3:06 into the clip he says he had 6 times the viewers at 8 pm. What was the number at 8:05?
Can't we PLEASE ignore O'Falafel? Sexual harassers make me want to puke.
It's only a matter of time until he's found naked on the side of a road, covered in blood, carrying the skins of two puppies and coming down from a PCP load.
Dietrich @ 80:
I don't even think the PCP is necessary. He's beginning to exhibit, more and more, all of the signs of psychosis (narcisism, paranoia, etc.). He's moving rapidly from latent to manifest.
"dark side" what the .... what do you mean by that BillO?!
Well, if CNN is on the dark side, then Fox is on the brown side. The shit brown side.
It's probably better to be on the dark side than the not too bright side.
Even if one has never attended a black owned restaurant, why would you expect it to be any different than any other restaurant unless you had a negative preconceived notion of black behavior in general? He is the one who said he was surprised, not that someone else told him they were surprised. He loses this argument no matter how he tries to spin it.
it's fun when billy goes into panic mode :)
Doug @ 15:
Well he's having sex with someone he loves!
why is it these right wing wingnuts never admit to making a mistake?
I haven't read every post, but has anyone considered that this may just be some pathetic PR stunt on his part to get his name out and drum up his ratings?
Toliver @ 73:
I am SO glad you mentioned the full hour of his show. I just gave it a listen. Imagine my surprise to hear (in minute 32) a caller taking issue with O'Reilly's position:
And yet in the clip posted by C&L here, O'Reilly claims, "We didn't hear one complaint about the show." Really?
Apparently he made that claim without listening to his own show. But I can't blame him for that, really, since I could barely make it through just one hour.
yet another weapon of mass distraction. Blackwater and Petreaus cause problems for the GOP, so they march out idiot-boy O'Reilly to say something to grab our attention. O'Reilly is the political/pr equivalent of the guy distracting a salesperson while his buddies rob the store.
"on the Dark Side"
You think after CNN portrays him as making racist comments towards blacks that he would not use the term "Over to the Dark Side" as a way of portraying CNN. Does this mean they have joined his stereotypical view of dark people?
Inappropriate use, especially in this instance. I am surprised no one else has noticed this.
StirFry @ 82:
You know, I was having dinner at a restaurant on the dark side the other day and I couldn't get over how courteous and respectful everybody was...
Billo Reilly is right about one thing. He is the king of cable news. CNN and MSNBC will get a ratings bump this week only because people who normally don't watch those two networks will tune in for coverage of the O'Reilly controversy.
My favorite part of this was when he talked about Christiane Amanpour's report. "We could have gone after them, but we didn't."
Akin to saying, "Well, I would tell you to f#@k off, but I'm not going to."
This guy can't think his way out of a wet paper bag, and for that matter, for a "news commentator" he seems to talk about his ratings an awful lot. That's not news. That's self-aggrandization.
Okay, everybody together now, let's show O'Really the dark side of our moons!
Toliver @ 73:
I'll be near the front of the line when it comes to calling out anyone who manufactures outrage out of context. But could you provide a short summary in text of the proper