December 01, 2007 06:03 PM
Bill O'Reilly's Blockbuster Interview With --- ALF?!?
This is what passes for news on Fox's top ranked show?
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We have two foreign occupations costing American lives daily with no end in sight, the economy is teetering, we're about a month out from the first Presidential primaries, there's even a war on Christmas for Pete's sake.
Okay, that last one's a total bunch of BS, but even that would have been better than interviewing a PUPPET!!!!
Falafel . . . loofah . . . Alf.
You connect the dots! :D
A sock puppet interviewing a real puppet. I don't have any problem with that.
Don't be so critical. This is the best Fox has ever done. It's not easy, being that dense.
O'Reilly is desperate to regain the lost ratings from his target audience dying of old age. By interviewing a puppet. How clever...
Ailes should just send Billo back to the mental institute he hired him from. Get a refund.
Putin's party is winning Russia election.
MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin's party won more than 60 percent of the vote with nearly half of precincts counted Sunday in a parliamentary election that could pave the way for him to remain the country's leader even after he steps down as president.
Bush and Cheney and their radical right wing dictatorship is fuming now I can guarantee you that.
While silly, everybody needs a break, lets not hold a double standard here.
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You're at the bottom of the slippery slope where you move from criticizing Bill O'Rielly to simply nitpicking about it. Unfortunately, this crap hurts the substance of the real criticisms.
All networks do crap like this from time to time.
I'm pretty sure Kermit the Frog has been interviewed by every news anchor at least once.
Of the puppets they could find, they selected Alf? I'm 23 and the only time I ever saw Alf on TV was as part of an anti drug cartoon. Does Alf have a political agenda that makes him a better guest for the Factor?
You know things are bad for FOX/O’Reilly when they can't do better than ALF.
Guess Kermit must have canceled. Good for him!
Doesn't Bill have have enough puppets from this century without going back to the 80's
A puppet that had a hit TV show in... 1986! Is it just me or does Alf's nose look like giant penis in the above pic?
Jon Stewart did something with Kermit the Frog.... but the Daily Show isn't news.. or even try to pass itself off as it.
So is Alf planning a comeback? Usually when puppets are interviewed there is some PR reason behind it. Or is it just that Alf reminds Bill of the Reagan years.
O’Reilly's audience is almost dead, so he's shooting for the kiddies.
Darrel @ 13:
It must be, look how Bill is leering at it!
I dunno what he thinks he's doing. This is for the kids?
I don't think so. I only know Alf from a Simpsons episode, so nope.
Stupidity? Schizophrenia? Bill O'Lielly talking puppet-to-puppet?
We report, you decide.
But Alf is new and fresh and current and is popular with the young crowd!
A L F = america loves falafels
Huh???!!! {scratching my head}
billo has gone around the bend. Will faux news take him off the air now?? PULLEEEAASSSEEEE???!!!!
What's this hubbub about interviewing a puppet? I thought it was Standard Operating Procedure at Fox?
Will Alf take BillO back to Melmack to rule, or something?
At least it wasn't Elmo (although he has been on TV since Reagan left office).
Hey, Olbermann does a Brittney Spears story every other day while two wars are raging. I'd rather the Falafel man talk to ALF that try to have a serious discussion with another right wing flack about politics.
Tou're absolutely right. I'm surprised ALF would waste his time with an ass like O'Reilly in times like these. There must be a back-story here that we're not aware of.
Could O'Reilly and ALF be distant cousins, and some relative died?
I remember back in 1986 as I lay in the hospital and the white trash idiots in the next bed monopolized the TV I was paying for, switching it to ALF... and one asked "Is that like a puppet?" and the other replied in all seriousness "no, it's actually a little guy in a costume!" "Oh, wow, that's cool!"
I bet they're O'Reilly viewers now.
Poor ALF. First those phone ads, and now this. Gay prostitution would be less degrading for him than dealing with O'Reilly.
The question is---Did Bill O'Reilly threaten to, or, turn of the microphone of ALF?
I mean all the other interviews O'Reilly has are all fakes and frauds anyway. Perhaps, this is the type of interview O'Reilly should do anyhow.
I am glad Putin is winning and also rooting for Chavez. Despite American propaganda, Chavez is not a dictator and the CIA and other U.S. agencies are instituting propaganda and lies about both Putin and Chavez inside the CIA-controlled U.S. media/press.
The difference between the two is one is a hairy puppet with a hand up its ass and the other is ALF.
But ALF is an ILLEGAL ALIEN!
O'riely is such piss ant weak little half sissy... He doesnt' even add up to whole sissy!
So, Billo interviewed ALF. I hope this doesn't mean his TV program will devolve in a Keith Olbermann fiasco. Olbermann devotes entire nightly segments to goofy videos of squirrels on water skis, roping skipping dogs, and rabbits on trampolines.
and frankly a has-been puppet at that. Just BOR's speed.
Relax,I can't stand Bill either,you know if Olbermann did it you'd consider it funny.This is where you lose me,nail them on the relevent stuff,when you go ape shit over this stuff it seems petty
I am a delivery driver for the local meals on wheels program in Suburban Chicago .
We do lunch for 5 senior centers. In every center there is a TV in the common area. They are always on and there is always an audience glued to them. Last week I decided to take notice of what they were watching. You guessed it. Fox news at every single center everyday of the week. I assume they leave it on all day long too. Everyday I see these transfixed zombies staring at Fox news I get the feeling I am living in a horror movie. Just walking by I am starting to get brainwashed. I think I will quit my job.
Yes, when Keith Olbermann starts doing "Oddball" and his nightly celebrity news on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, he loses me to be honest.
George Carlin said that "Countdown" in its first 35 minutes was his favorite news program of the day. I agree with Carlin. At 8:41 EST, the best of "Countdown" is over...the rest is geared towards nonsense...one can make fair criticisms of "Countdown" and still like the show just the same.
Alf is looking for work, and wants to host a show on Fox News.
Fox has already deemed Alf worthy of appearing on its highest rated show.
I believe Fox News now has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to fire Billo and give Alf the show at a much lower salary.
Conservatives trying to be clever or funny is always a pathetic sight. They always grab material at least 20 years old and think they are being hip.
Olbermann would most likely talk directly to the man behind ALF, not through ALF itself. billo is interviewing a puppet in front of his huge majority elderly viewers, not to 12 year olds.
mrogi @ 32:
Your comment fits the description of the typical rightwing troll crap.
BOR uses an old talk radio technique. Say something stupid and every one will phone in. Ratings soar but eventually most people catch on and the host is dumped ( a good example is Tucker Carlson). The routine is probably related to snake oil salesmen routines or vaudville but it is BS. But 20% of the population will follow anything.
oreilly's finally hit rock bottom.
i love it.
Yeah, let's be fair here--there are considerably bigger things to prod Bill O for than this. Not like every Olberman show is 100% serious, either. It's not like Bill's show is exactly supposed to be "news" even by Fox's rather loose definition of the term anyway.
So I'm not going to complain about it on that count. What I will say is: ALF?! Are you KIDDING me?! There's a pop culture icon from, oh, say, two DECADES ago. Seriously, is Bill that far gone into his "Remember the 80s" mode? I mean, pining for those glory days of trickle down economics, waning Russian paranoia, screwups in the Middle East that we're paying for now, and financial implosion in the face of Japanese competition is one thing, but interviewing Alf is just going way too far.
Besides, isn't Alf an undocumented illegal alien? Seriously, Bill, at least interview Ms. Piggy or Big Bird. Actually, I take that back, please don't.
(And for reference, though I could probably determine exactly how far into retro-love-mode Bill is by watching the clip, I absolutely refuse to watch Bill open his mouth. I'll read transcripts, but listening to him makes my skin crawl, and I'd prefer not to submit myself to that.)
Meals on wheels @ 35:
Night of the Living Mouthbreathers.
-GSD
I remember Stewart interviewing Kermit, and Kermit getting some good ones in, and Stewart looking at the camera saying something like, "I can't believe it - the frog's running circles 'round me." That was funny.
As for this, Bill is just trying to broaden his audience out of the 55-years-old and up category and go for the 35-ers like me who actually remember Alf.
The sad thing is that I remember watching Alf religiously back then, but I couldn't tell you what a single episode was about. The Muppet show, which I watched when I was even younger though, I still hold many strong memories of that.
Meals on wheels @ 35:
Mr. XXXX @ 36:
hahaha. Every time we go to my inlaws there is ol'daddy Ray watching Fox news. He only gets up to go to the bathroom and eat. Every visit for the last 5 years. FOX NEWS....and nothing else.
O'Reilly and Olbermann enjoy success they are broadcasters not narrowcasters. If those two guys targeted their entire TV programs to the relatively small demographic of political geeks like us; their ratings would plummet and they would be fired in less than a week.
I'm confused.
Which one was the puppet???
Kyle @ 29:
One looks like he's speaking through old geezer's ugly wrinkled penis, and the other is ALF.
Otay @ 49:
This is great fun................
i look st the pictue and i see two has beens with something stuck up their .....
oh Culture. Alf is what I want to see as a cultural legacy of this civilisation...
Thanks, Culture Warrior, for saving our iconz. But name tags please! I can't tell which is which.
Like the Beatles' first Newsweek cover
All I want to know is which one is talking about the 14 military bases in Iraq that we are building. The Naval Base we are building there, and the largest U.S. Embassy being constructed? Anyone talking about this or the fact that we aren't going after Bin Laden or any of the criminals that are supposedly destined and determined to destroy us? Pakistan is too great to go into? What is going on. That is all I care about.
But I'm glad we can have fun from time to time as well. I just like the real truth mixed in as well. Peace y'all.
DoctorFunkopolis @ 30:
LOL!!!
Liberal AND Proud @ 54:
That's why Lou Dobbs isn't interviewing him.
Alf has been off the air for what, a half a century? BO is interviewing not just a puppet, but a has-been puppet.
What? Everybody who goes on FOX is a puppet. The only people making shows with more puppets is the Children's Television Workshop
O'Racist claims he won't cover the "war" because it's not real news. Enough said....O'Racist is irrelevant.
mrogi @ 32:
mrogi/dennis makes her daily apology for O'Racist.
Wow. Really, words fail.
Wow.
Finally someone worthy of an interview by Bill'O-job. Alf is about as real as anything Bill'O-job has ever said! I say Fox should hire Alf as a co-host.
oh shucks. I thought you were referring to the Animal Liberation Front; an interview that would most likely be interesting.
Alf--today's worst puppet in the world!
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BILL!!!!!!
STOP.
STOP.
HURTING.
AMERICA.
Puppet to puppet scripted chatter perfectly describes most FOX news segments.
Seems like a step up for Billo.
I thought it would be funny.
The obvious manipulation from outside sources did not convince me of the character's independant existance & turgid, flat dialogue conveyed no insights or relevance.
An anachronistic puppet with a grown man's fist up it's velvet sleeve.
Crooks & Liars:
Here's an Olbermann video which takes on the same Billo attempt at gaining the demographic of the young'uns. Or at least, Tom Tomorrow's perspective of it.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/2/21552/6171
Who cares? Olbermann does his share of useless oddball stories too.
But... but... Alf?? The studio must have stunk of mothballs. Might as well interview the guy who played "Potsie" fer chrissakes.
Its cheesy, but Larry King has done interviews with Kermit the Frog before.
Kermit the Frog not only has been interviewed, he actually guest-hosted Larry King one evening. I can't remember for certain who the guest was, but I'm pretty damned sure it was not somebody off the "C" list. Colin Powell, maybe?
That's our Billy Boy, finger firmly on the pulse of 1986.
Could this be Bill O'Reilly's "Jump The Shark" moment? Maybe this foolish little bloated bully will fall out of fashion when the Bush era ends...
Bill has much experience interviewing puppets...
Once I heard an interview with the guy behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He was telling that when he did the interview with Bill O'Reilly he did is usual shtick, complimenting his target then turning it on it's head with an insult, like "Bill, you are the greatest newsman on TV... For me to poop on."
Turns out when they aired the interview the Fox producers kept the compliments and edited out the jokes!
That O'Reilly is the reincarnation of Margaret Dumont from the Marx Brothers.
Oh and Kermit the Frog is cool. Interviewing Alf is pathetic, it's a joke in itself but Bill O is not in on it.
Alf?
people are losing their homes from subprime and he's talking to a puppet. This is what 8 figure earners have to do to avoid seeing the war on the middle class that their Hoovernomicist in chief has caused
I don’t think that was really ALF. It didn’t sound like his “real” voice. Plus, you know how all those aliens look alike.
So, when does BillO interview Pinocchio?
John @ 70:
I completely agree. Showing this video on Crooksandliars is fine, and rather amusing... but the second you criticize Bill for not focusing on other issues means that you are now obligated to criticize all of the instances when people like Keith Olbermann have their trivial "down time" as well.
ALF--Animal Liberation Front
He's a terrorist, and smarter than O'Really.
Too bad, I thought Alf was kind of cool when I was 10 years old. Turns out he's a wingnut. He's even got that conservative talk radio host sounding voice.
The war on christmas may be BS but that's BOR's life agenda now, would you rather him talking to a fake puppet (as opposed to all the human ones on his show) or going on his annual crusade of lunacy? At least in talking to ALF you hear BOR at his most intelligent and tolerable, ironically to something that is supposed to be an illegal alien.
Why was my comment deleted? #26 was calling someone who liked Alf white trash idiots and I called the racist prejudiced idiot on his statement and I got deleted? What the heck is going on with this site? My comment most certainly was on topic, just as much as that one was. How can one person get away with being so offensive about someone who watched Alf and another can't call them on it? A friend of the monitor perhaps?
I dunno. This may be an improvement, because it shows how pathetic, shallow and pandering O'Reilly is. I mean, come on, he's trying to be hip by resurrecting a long-dead sitcom puppet?
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog would have been much better, though. ;-)
When I was little I was teased mercilessly by a group of kids who made jokes that I look identical to Alf.
I forever hate that show.
I guess this proves that O'Reillys show is all about entertaining his audience rather than intelligent political debate- he wants to be the Leno of Fox News.
Where was ALF's "dad", Joe Lieberman?
That huge brown donkey dick nose of Alf has O'Reilly hot.
I don't get why C&L posted this as anything out of the ordinary since O'Reilly interviews Coulter every week.
FOX hiring an undocumented alien, that is interesting.
Mr. XXXX @ 28:
Are you seriously nuts?
The guy who has pretty much all journalists critical of him murdered? The guy who keeps up the ethnic cleansing of Chechnya due to lack of journalists and international condemnation? The guy who makes claims to all resources in the Arctic? The same who commit massive voter fraud to ensure complete control of Russia? Who blackmails and extorts his neighbouring countries (former Soviet) to bend to his political will?
Now, I do realise, that after all your country has been dragged through the last 6-7 years, it is tempting to cheer on anyone who appears to be against your current regime, whether its Ron Paul because of his anti war stance, and (to our knowledge) far greater honesty than most of your politicians, or Vladimir Putin, but get a hold on yourself, please. If you feel forced to choose between plague or cholera, this world troubles will not diminish the coming years.
At least Bill is finally interviewing someone on his intellectual level. And, Bill doesn't even have to swell up his giagantic head and scream at this guest.
Tyler @ 6:
Exactly. Win.
Next up, maybe he'll in vite "Webster" for an interview!
ok, this video is stupid, Bill O'Reilly is stupid, Alf is stupid, and Fox news is stupid. But, it's unfair to bash Billo for interview Alf, everyone enjoys a little comic relief and this is just what Republicans call comedy. His coverage of Iraq and Iran is subpar at best, so having this in lieu of that has little to no impact.
At least when Jon Stewart interviews puppets, it's because they're promoting something. Alf isn't even doing commercials anymore!
Why does Alf have that big, shriveled penis stuck on his face?
I think that was his best segment ever.
shhhhhhhhhhhhh...Billo thinks Alf is a real person.
Maybe Alf is thinking of throwing his name in the race. Alf for President....
At this point, what could it hurt?
Fuck, at this pointl, I'd vote for him....
Bill likes that nose on Alf....just saying.
“Remember Alf? He’s back! In pog form!” — Milhouse
It's almost as if C&L is a surrogate for BillO's web marketing team...
I haven't seen it yet, but I'll download it and watch it.
I think the idea itself is brilliant! Two completely out of touch tv personalities stuck firmly in an 1980's tv mentality debate issues from 2007! What fabulously bassackwards insights might we glean! Cant wait to see it.
Gary @ 89:
heheh this one had me laughing :)
This is the problem with the "press" as a whole. Its all about entertainment and ratings, not actually news coverage. Thats why I depend on this blog and other internet resources to get the real story. Real people have taken back the press...but you won't find it on TV. I think Kermit the frog needs a gig, maybe Chris Matthews can ask him why women don't want to vote for Hillary or some other useless nonsense.
Poor O'Falafel. Just when you thought he couldn't get any more delusional and pathetic, he does.
Alf is O'Lielly's sex toy.
Is it because of some nostalgia for the Reagan era? Wasn't that one of the Reagan era propagandist shows?
Had to be ALF all the later puppets have been designated as queers
For deciding to go on that program, i have lost a great deal of respect for ALF. Even puppets should have more self-respect than to go on a show led by a man with Roger Ailes' hand up his arse.
One is a wrinkled dick-faced has-been puppet, and the other is Alf.
AndrewK @ 8:
This is like criticizing Jello if you want to criticize substance. If Bill O is going to debate a puppet, I don't think anyone needs to hand the man more rope.
I thought that was Joe Lieberman he was interviewing,Joe Lieberman has a dick shaped nose.I think he sticks it up Bushs ass.
Well, well well.
Karl R is quite the puppet master! To have his arms up two asses at one time. The wonder of it all!
Inquiring minds want to know....Which puppet held the loofah?
And what has happened to Alf's journalistic credibility? Appearing with the giant head.
For shame, Alf. For shame!
pfeh...
Commentators;
Most of you are giving the world a litle ray of hope. There really are Americans who are thinking, which is surprising in view of what you are letting your Government do to the world, now you only have to get rid of your administration and impeach the lot. Then send the shrills broke, do not buy any products/services they are advertising.
We tossed out Bush's little mate here in Aussie, so follow us.
Mallee.
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