Bill O'Reilly's Goons Ambush GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt
By Bill W. Thursday Jan 10, 2008 8:36am 
Nicole predicted that O'Reilly would come after NBC after the Bill O'Reilly Puppet Theater earlier this week. On Thursday, O'Reilly went one better and upped his long-standing obsession with NBC to their parent company, General Electric, by ranting about a former NBC correspondent's allegations that G.E. has ties to the bin Laden family and is doing business with Iran (I don't know but wouldn't be surprised if the allegations are or were true. So what's that say about the Bush family, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney or Haliburton? Or for that matter, what about Billo's boss Rupert Murdoch's doing business in Cuba among a ton of other questionable business practices? Glass houses much, Billo?).
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When GE CEO/Chairman Jeffrey Immelt did not respond to his show's questions regarding the matter, Billo got his falafel in a bunch and did the same thing he has done so many times before and sent his goons out to ambush him. This time, they caught their victim while he was seated at a table having dinner and the minions (apparently taking lessons in bully journalism from Billo) have to push and shove their way in past the restaurant staff so they can poke the mic and camera in his face.
Immelt's in a totally different league than your average run-of-the-mill Billo ambush victim. Methinks the Big Giant Head just might have bitten off a bit more than he can chew with this stunt. * Note to Immelt - until you launch a hostile takeover bid to acquire News Corp so you can have your revenge, you might want to learn the three magic words that are guaranteed to keep Billo's stalker Mini-Mes at bay and their footage off of the TV next time.
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The Bush family has strong business ties to the Bin Laden family.
Does BillO hate the Bush family?
First! But not to say BillO sucks, cause I'd be like the gazillionth to say that. Luffa!
GE also has ties to pharmica (supply vcaccine manufacturing equipement) and Autism Speaks which is used control the message about autism being associated with vaccines.
Billo using some Michael Moore tactics.
Time to send BillO on a nice vacation to Bellvue in a peaceful padded room with a view.
News Corp, GE, the Bush Family, Cheeee-knee, the Carlyle Group, et al have ties to doing business in Iran, Cuba--you name it, but they also have protocols between them.
5'll get you 10 that Billbo will have to apologize on-air.
You're cruisin' for a bruisin', Bildo.
I couldn't keep up with the rebuttals I was able to think of as he continued to spew his ridiculous "accusations." However, Halliburton was foremost in my mind, and of course he never mentions the extent of the bin Laden family and its very strong ties to the bushes.
What a sanctimonious chucklehead.
To me that whole story was a wtf? story. Who the hell cares if they do business with anyone during a war "on terror"? At this point, I could care less. Like everyone here has said, the bush family, cheney, they are all in the same boat.
BillO is pathetic. That's the kindest word I can think of to describe him. He just isn't relevant in any way. He's more like a chimp tossing fecal matter out of his cage hoping to hit someone.
That was so rude. Interrupting the man at a dinner party. Immelt should have suck him in the forehead with a shrimp fork.
Wow. It's one thing to chase after lower level media figures or executives. Ambushing the CEO of one of the largest corporations in the country? Not a good idea.
Not that I condone it, but O'Reilly is going to meet the fate that every bully faces eventually. He's going to meet up with someone who is going to put him down hard and then he'll be crying like the bitch that he is.
Flamethrower @ 4:
Come to think of it your basically right. Though Moore does it himself instead of sending minions.
and we all know that bush's granddaddy prescott bush supplied hitler and nazi germany with OVER HALF of their wartime iron and steel.....
are we gonna see billdo go after bush?
Take notice that bill himself doesn't go out and do these interviews, he sends his little camera soldiers. If anyone is going to get hurt at one of these deals, it won't be him. He'll be safely at home playing with his "toys".
Hey, Bill-O may have found a new calling... corporate muckracking! Now, that would be sweet! Go after the military industrial complex! You tell 'em Bill!
CafeenMan @ 11:
Exactly. It is not like I have any sympathy for GE. In fact if BillO can get the conversation started about what these multinationals are actually doing the so much the better. I have a feeling that investigation would be shut down by his bosses rather quickly though.
While he's at it why doesn't he have Halliburton explain it's ties with Iran also. Or that George hw bush having strong ties to the Bin Laden family and how they were the only ones allowed to fly out of the country days after September 11th (St. Rudy's holiday)
Bill-O. A sad man becoming an old, sad man.
Funny how it took him 4 months to broadcast this "story", no? (the video is clearly dated SEPT 2007). It's quite obvious that he's just digging up old dirt in retaliation to recent NBC stories.
I'm kind of hoping that this insult will be that one step too far for b'orly and his minions.
There will be blow back on this one.
Here's hoping it's enough to really hurt the giant head.
"independent" O'Reilly attacking NBC for employing people to the left of Pinochet
Actually I find it fairly delightful to see all these right wing wackos come unhinged and start eating their own...
It is like a mafia war, as long as there are no innocent bystanders hurt in the process, it is only a good thing when this trash go at it against each other. It keeps them busy screwing each other, and in the end the number of them standing will be reduced dramatically...
Now if we had a Reservoir Dogs type of ending in which all of them expire...
What Michael Moore practices is the "Ambush Interview" - pioneered by CBS/60 Minutes' Mike Wallace.
What Bill-O practices is, in fact, bullying, as demonstrated by his treatment of Obama's staff member last week. It's a good bet neither Moore nor Wallace approach their subjects by shoving people out of the way and calling 'em sunzabeeches.
And beyond the three words, the defense for an ambush interview is to say, "I will not talk to you," ... and then end the conversation. Respond to nothing further - if you so much as turn around to answer even an 'unrelated' question, you effective 're-open' the conversation. This was covered in a 60 Minutes' piece by Ed Bradley, IIRC.
Can you say lawsuit?
kimbutgar @ 17:
Bah ha ha ha ha!!! It's SO TRUE! Ruby Ghouliani, patron saint of 9-11.
I love how he says "Humanitarian stuff". His tone suggests he doesn't deem the Iranian people worthy of the projects GE is "guilty" of being a part of. Perhaps I missed it but is there an embargo on doing business with Iran?
He also neglected to mention those Iranian weapons wouldn't be killing Americans in Iraq if his boy Bush hadn't put the soliders there to fight his ficticious war. Start telling the whole story Billo not just the bits you like.
Isn't it only a matter of time before Billo goes "postal" on someone? Nobody will be able to say "we didn't see it coming".
Falafel boy is poking a sleeping tiger, there will be a call from money-lord Immelt to money-lord Murdoch, then the liver-spot will be muzzled.
All I can say is that O'Reilly could really stand to start being a bit more careful for his own sake -- because by the look of things, his ego is starting to write checks that his wallet may not be able to cash. If nothing else, he should make certain that he has one *hell* of a good defense attorney on his side. He might very well find himself slapped with a massive lawsuit for libel, harrassment, or defamation of character one of these days if he persists on going after fish as big as Immelt -- especially if he continues to believe, as he quite obviously does, that he need not give any thought to the rules of ethical and legitimate journalism because the power of his name alone is strong enough to withstand any sort of legal attack.
falafel guy is really upset with olberman and now going after nbc, ge.
As Billo exposes GE, we have groups trying to shut down websites.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/252.html
Billo is clueless.
GE rules the world.
They also conduct their own foreign policy.
Generous Electric was instrumental in calming India/Pakistan tensions during their nuclear flirtation.
Why? Bidness in India.
As head of GE, Immelt could definitely do to O'Reilly what the Kingpin did to Daredevil in the series authored by Frank Miller :)
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Billo better be careful as he is opening a "THIS IS HUUUUUUUUGE" (To quote Brian Killme(ade)) can of worms. If you want some gut-wrenching insight into corporate influence in the Middle East over the last 100 years, go pick up a book called Cronies - I can't remember who authored it, but it is about Texas businesses and government influence dating back to the days when oil was discovered in East Texas. It talks about Brown & Root before it was KBR or Haliburton, also the law office of Baker Botts (James Baker III) and their dealings with Sadaam, Bin Laden, the Saudi Family, the Shah, etc. It turned my stomach to read it, but it is clear and convincing evidence that several 'corporations' have acted against US interests for years and members of the government (mostly republicans, but some democrats), have been in on the deal.
Watch it Billy, you will expose not only the Bushies and your boss, but practically your entire party's leadership and the past leadership.
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We've spent 5 year and a trillion dollars on a facade of war that isn't ending, and this is what o'racist is worried about?
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Tired of the falafal boy, I can't wait until he is Imus'd.
Unless these guys are the targets of legal action, say for instance in the manner in which Falafel's homers entered the property of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer publisher, they won't stop. If they trespassed on my property, I'd sue them if that an even marginally plausible legal recourse. And if I was GE-not that I'm a big fan of them either-but they have a legal right against harassment-if one of Falafel's guys did anything to me, laid a hand on anyone in my party or violated any sort of laws, I'd consult legal counsel right away, coz you know GE has some good lawyers.
They deserve each other.
Doggiebobo @ 38:
It's all about Billo's and fox's war againt truth.
"by ranting about a former NBC correspondent’s allegations that G.E. has ties to the bin Laden family and is doing business with Iran"
Never though I say this..... Good for O'Reilly!
Article by John Hockenberry is here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19845
Hockenberry confirms everything we knew about the corporate media!
There has to be some subsidiary of G.E. that produces loofahs or loofah related products, right? There must be endless possibilities for what to do with the excess or defective stock.
well, i say thanks to billo for looking out for our interests. oh wait, forgot to take my meds today. nevermind.
I didn't see it posted anywhere here yet, but did anyone else check out Morning Joe this morning where they showed a clip from The View wherein they call out Chris Matthews' misogyny with his remark about Hillary only being in office "because Bill messed around on her"? Joe then had Matthews on the phone who goes through great pains to try and defend his comment as an explaination of "fact". C&L should really post that segment, it was rather telling of the poor state of affairs with our news media and the cognitive dissonance that they seem to be experiencing with the whole NH poll fiasco.
Ron @ 42:
Ron: Yes I realized that, but on many, many previous C&L posts, I have on occassion
added an "OT" to a thread and they were not deleted by Sitemonitor. I feel that the
Faux Noise Republican debate last evening is worthy of input by us and am hoping
that a new thead will be posted so that those of us who want, can post there..
I hate firewalls!!!!
Google cach of Hockenberry is HERE:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:44KewKPm4GAJ:www.technologyreview.c...
Well, thanks a lot. Now I'm going to have an upset stomach all day. Making me look at Billo this early in the morning is cruel and unusual punishment.
I get the feeling that I've seen this one before.
Hmm, a Don Quiote sending out Sancho Panza to skewer another GE nuclear power plant.
Well not quite the same.
I'm not sure why you'd be defending GE, since they like murdering Iraqis as much as Blackwater.
counter-coulter @ 46:
Sitemonitor: How is this posting any different than my OT that you deleted? Just asking
I believe Richard Clarke admitted to issuing that clearance in his book, Against All Enemies.
And Bush appropriated 9/11 as Patriot Day. May 1st (the day he announced 'Mission Accomplished') is now 'Loyalty Day.' We're acquiring holidays with strong nationalist overtones, but moreover, they are positioned such that if you criticize the government, especially on 9/11, you're not a patriot. If you complain about 'Mission Accomplished,' you're obviously not loyal.
Sadly, far too much of the country accepts this in appropriate zombie servility.
More fake outrage from a fake journalist on a fake news network.
Doggiebobo @ 47:
I know, I responded to your comment this morning and was deleted also.
Maybe Jeff Immelt is "big" enough to start the wheels rolling to get a "class Action" restraining order against Bill O'Reilly, for all of us!
webslinger @ 35:
Webslinger,
My opinion, only still very much a rookie at the history your talking about, but your right about all the corruption of polticians and American cororations have been in the Middle East. Another book on the market, is called "Secrets of the Kingdom" by Gerald Posner. Years ago I saw him on a C-Span book review talking about the very same issues you bring out here. Your right it is a big issue "Huge" and I personally hope and pray it is debated and the fall out addresses and convicts everyone no matter who it is. Clearly the Bush family and the Republicans along with some in the Democratic side will be destroyed in public. Likely dismissed from politics from this point forward for generations.
When you look at the history of Prescott Bush to our present George Bush any American could vision Political profiteering and corruption run in their blood. The only way America will ever move forward sucessfully is when all those in volved in corruption are brought to justice and convicted and serve jail time no pardons. If Bush and Company get off free clear America will be stained with a horrble scare from this time forward and struggle in the world. Truely a dark time in our history.
Careful Orally - you might have taken it too far this time. Those upper crust CEOs are off-limits.
Here's hoping you get smacked down hard for picking on someone bigger than you. I just hope GE doesn't take this out on KO because of his riff with Orally.
I wonder how Billo knows where anyone can be at any given time. Scary.
It has to be Murdoch behind this assault on G.E. Orally isn't that stupid is he? Secomd thought. Forget what I just said. But Murdoch does have the media tools.
Cupid1d @ 26:
Cupid1: Two good points you make here! Yeah, he may as well have said "Humanitarian crap", as that is what the scumbag was inferring. Nor does he mention that half the weapons Iranian insurgents in Iraq might be using were gifts from the U.S. to Iran to help them fight the Soviets in the 80's.
Tequila @ 51:
The context is both Bill-O's antics and convenient blind eye regarding OTHER companies and notables with questionable business practices, not just GE. And that Bill-O thinks going after GE is patriotic, or defending the constitution, because GE owns NBC who is a partner in MSNBC and therefore the reason Keith Olbermann is there to haunt him.
Nobody's saying GE is pure as the driven snow.
Y'know, until G.E. stops fighting the cleanup of PCBs it dumped in rivers and even schoolyards all across the nation (e.g the Hudson River and Pittsfield, Mass.), I can't help feeling that Immelt and O'Reilly deserve each other.
Methinks someone should investigate the corporate holdings of Rupert Murdock ... I am sure they will find a few proverbial skeletons in the closet ... surely bILLo will be happy to report the results!
Grab a copy of the Ge Annual report for the stock holders,it all runs through the Ge CANADA sub,as a stock holder,I marvelled how jumpin jack flash was such a traitor.
Shadowgm @ 53:
Ironically May 1st, is Labor Day every where in the world. The holiday was established to celebrate an American Labor revolt in Pullman, PA I believe.
So, everywhere in the world May 1st is used to celebrate a landmark victory of American organized labor... except in... America! And not only that, but now the holiday in America will be hijacked as "loyalty day." If that is true, I don't think that even Orwell could have come up with this shit.
An nation of sheep and morons... no other way to tackle it anymore. Sigh...
Malmody, loofa, and Macris (sp?). LOL. Just keep repeating them.
Funny that for all the bile he directs at Michael Moore he's co-opted Moore's signature move; the ambush interview.
Billo is DESPERATE...so he trys to make any kind of splash. (It get's him on NBC/MSNBC.)
Somebody should tell O'Reilly that Immelt was a big donor to the Bush campaign back in the '99 primaries when no one knew who Dubya was. Or, maybe how much money GE makes when NBC and FOX come together and sell a war.
But Immelt has ties to Iran and Bin Laden, TOO?
Connect the dots Billy O...
Never thought 50 Cent would be a relevant quote:
You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house
and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouf
cause i'll break your face
I bet Bill'O himself does business with the Bin Ladens. They own Citicorp now.
What's in your wallet?
I watched BillO yammer on and kept thinking of the McCarthy trials. Making ties between his perceived personal enemies and enemies of state. Only now instead of the red scare/commie scare we have a trumped up Iran/terrorist scare.
So now instead of GE being commie sympathizers they are funders of terrorist nations? BillO, Bite me. Go back to the hole you crawled out of. I wanted to laugh and say that he was stealing Michael Moore's mo, but his kind of hateful fearmongering goes much farther back! McCarthy Hearings part deux.
I don't understand why he wasn't suspended or forced to issue a apology when he pushed someone. I don't understand it in the real and reasoned world I live. It is revolting to thing that a man who writes books for children gets the basic information wrong and then is proud he is a bully.
He was proud last night that his crew followed someone into their garage.
I also heard the phone call from Chris Matthews and it was revolting. I am moving to Mars or Venus. I forget what planet are men from?
Interesting. Bush declared Loyalty Day in April of 2001 ... it still hijacks May Day as a labor-related event, but the name still gives me the creeps.
In a healthy state, loyalty is not something that needs be questioned. As Murrow once remarked, we should not confuse dissent with disloyalty. It's a sign of weakness that we need to name a special day - more common for fascist and communist regimes of past eras - to tout our loyalty. But more and more, we're protecting image over substance, as with amendments against flag burning (if y'all were so concerned about America's image and its preeminent symbol, there's lots of other things you could be paying attention to), and resolutions to recognize the 'significant contributions' of Christianity.
And there you have it!
J.P. Morgan took over Murdoch while Murdoch's on the shithouse to take a dump!
RECESSION!!
Lets Dance?
Çum on baby light my fire!?
I'm not a WAR-CRIMINAL said George the Wanker 'SHOCK $$ AWE Bush', see me at YAD VASHEM, commemorating the hundreds of thousands, maby more than a million CIVILLIAN DEATHS IN IRAQ!
And now the dollars are fawning?
In COMPARISON;
HITLER KNEW (BACKED UP BY PRESCOT BUSH AND J.P. MORGAN) TO GO AHEAD WHILE HE HAD MOMENTUM!
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID SOMETHINGS ABOUT THAT IN HIS MEMOIRES!!!
And even sir Winston was a CROOK & a LIAR when it came to HUMAN THINKING AND RACIAL ABUSES!!!!!!!!!
And now we're in the realy deep HUMAN shit because of this NEW-BORN APE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEO-CON-NIVING SHIT.
I've just heard/listened about a nurse who's working in DAFUR who's rescue:ing an AFRICAN woman who gave birth in appalling conditions.
By now, I'm from The Netherlands, by now, I Realy hope that THE USA SHALL GO TO SHAMBLES, ECONOMICLY AND OTHERWISE, KILL YOURSELVES IN EVEN NUMBERS AS YOU KILLED PEOPLE ALL OVER THIS WORLD! YOU HAVE THE HOME MADE fire and assault WEAPONS (200.000.000) AND THE KILLING MORALL'S TO YOUSE THEM, SO PLEASE GO AND KILL YOURSELVES!
OR OTHERWISE, GO AND FUCK YOU!
He's going to bring PEACE???????? ON EARTH?????????
Will someone please send Billy boy the first chapter from Craig Ungers' "House of Bush House of Saud." What's truly sad here is that not only is Billy such and ignoramus but his audience is sitting at home drinking it all in as The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth. He and his audience deserve each other.
Whatever happened to the requirement to sign releases before broadcasts?
[feel free to bug out any time.]
Hey Billo, your reporter could not find any member of the Bin Laden family in Saudi right after 9/11 was because they were here in the US being pretected by the Bush family. Remember, they were being secretly flown out of the US by the administration and Shafeen B Laden was having breakfast with G H W Bush the morning of 9/11? You should have called the WH and asked for interview OBL's family. lol
O'Reilly is truly an ugly human being.
Excuse me if I am wrong BillO, but wasn't it members of the Bin Laden family who were perhaps THE ONLY FAMILY ALLOWED TO FLY OUT OF THE USA on the morning of (or shortly after) 9-11-01 by orders of the Whitehouse you suck up to? You are SUCH an idiot most of the time...
Hey, you're missing the best part. Guess who owns the fourth largest stake in News Corp., corporate parent of Fox News? That would be these guys:
www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
You can read more about that here:
www.forbes.com/2005/09/06/alwaleed-murdoch-billionaires-cx_gl_0906autofacescan02.html
And here you can read about how the good Prince Whalid has publicly boasted of manipulating Fox News coverage:
www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=%7B1DFD9B8D-C4D4-43E3-BAB5-0B18563D7C7B%7D
The more I hear from the neocon right wing (aka GOP) the more I wonder if Osama Bin Laden is not a member of that cabal.
#79, Billo finally reporting about something important? lol Where the hell am I and what year is this? lol And you are asking for balance in the same sentence with Billo? Who are you BTW? lol
the real problem.....
Fox News / News Corp: a major contributing factor in lowering the cognitive level of the human species.
...globally.
Surprise..... It was Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. that was responsible for
--> placing the 202(h) media ownership rules language in the 1996 Telecom Act.
http://www.democraticmedia.org/mediaownership/courts_supremecourt_break
BY NOW I THINK ALL OF "THE PEOPLE ARE FULL OF SHIT"
GO FIGURE IT!
DEMOCRAZY, CORPORACRAZY, JUST CRAZY!!
DRST @ 10:
Seriously. I smell a hostile takeover of News Corpse as well. Maybe not the whole company, but a good chunk of their subsidiaries.
When O'Reilly comes up with yet another rant against someone who has stuck a hair up O'Reilly's behind, I chalk it up to another O'Reilly conspiracy theory.
Monie @ 6:
Hopefully this'll take him down! G'Bye BillO
Michael @ 16:
That conversation was started long ago, and O'Douchebag contributes nothing to it. He his pumping up and pandering to the illiterates who actually think that this million-buck-corporate-bloviator is "On Their Side".
ysbaddaden @ 78:
I believe that's if you actually enter a studio. If you're in a public area, such as a restaurant or on the sidewalk, there's no specific prohibition against being taped. However, if you then approach the cameraman/reporter and ask them not to show you, they must, in good faith, comply.
We generally don't show minors (children in schoolyards, etc.) without prior permission, either. If we do shoot a schoolyard, it's often slightly off-focus, so you can't make out details, or 'neck down' shots - where you can see kids running and playing, but not actual faces.
Why doesn't some one have the nerve to ask Billo why he was fired from a teevee affiliate, years ago, in CT? Billo is certifiable.
appnzllr @ 67:
sp: Malmedy, loofah, and Mackris, although a variety of alternatives to loofah are acceptable.
Of course, all you should need are the phonemes.
Flamethrower @ 4:
Poorly.
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Could you post a link to where Billo does some reporting? All I have access to are myriad clips from his show, such as the one starting this thread. Thanks.
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O'Reilly exists largely in thanks to Murdoch's News Corp. Prior to that, he was the washed-up host of a tabloid news program ("Inside Edition"), which even then purported to have 'the real story' or 'all the facts'.
I'm really surprised that there are people who can't see the irony in Bill-O going after GE, when Murdoch has equally shady investments (not that one excuses the other).
O'Reilly has also promoted himself as some kind of guardian of the truth, protector of freedom, let us sing 'Praise Bill-O From Who All Blessings Flow' (and can I have an AMEN! brothers and sisters, AMEN!). Yet, here he is, being every bit as selective and 'biased' as he routinely accuses the mainstream media of being.
As for the falafel, O'Reilly's claim to being a 'Culture Warrior' standing in defense of all good things becomes not only hollow, but rather warped when you consider he settled a sexual harassment suit, has written cheap pornography disguised as a detective novel.
Summed up, Bill-O is a fraud. A sham. C&L is rather Shakespearean in this regard; they come not to praise crooks and liars, but to bury them.
This has less to do with, who does business with who, and more with Iran funneling weapons into Iraq. Which is a just MIC propaganda. Most of the terrorist there come from Saudi Arabia as reported by the NYT.
Orally is not a well person.
BillO is gonna end up like Hoffa at this rate. Go BillO!!!!
I hope they all keep fighting like this. America needs to get this type of information cause they're too stupid to get it themselves.
Oh my! Thank you Billybob for pointing out that american corporations are working for countries that FoxNoise says are terrorists. Next week on the No Spin Zone Halliburton and Blackwater how companies are able to prosper during these bleak times.
In this instance, O'Reilly is right and I hope he continues with his corporate muckraking. Dig deeper -- implicate the Carlyle Group, Halliburton, and everyone in the military industrial complex who skirts the rules and profits off of death, terror, and destruction. Too bad it took puppet theater to get Billo to do some real journalism.
pissed off patricia @ 8:
Love this comment, dear. Bloviating Billo IS a chimp desperately throwing fecal matter in every direction, hoping some of it sticks. As his numbers plummet, his rants get more and more ludicrous. Pathetic just about sums it up.
Weaseldog @ 1:
Right...and WHO was it that flew the bin Laden family out of the US after the attacks???
carol @ 5:
Actually, I hope that view is unobstructed by any windows or bars, and it's high up ... "You can fly, Bill, you can fly!"
Things aren't as strained between GE/NBC and News Corporation/Fox as you might think. They are about to launch a joint venture, I think they are going to call it "HuLu.com", that is suppossed to be an on-line gethering place for the gullible tobe manipulated by the corporatist/ neocon message. Like Facebook or any of the others. An attempt to further control the national dialogue.
It is a mistake to expect that the big media companies, controlled by only 5 people are going to do anything other than serve the corporatist goal of irreversibly placing corporations in control of our government. They do not serve America. They serve only themselves, and they expect all others to serve them. Their media operations exist solely as instruments of manipulation.
furiepuppielover. @ 97:
You've been playing with too many Chinese-made toys.
Fuck, C&L should change it's name to: O'Rielly Watch
equilibrio @ 110:
Yes, and if we spent all our time excoriating Bush, I'm sure you'd suggest we name the place 'Bush-Hater Central'.
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How many wars can this country fight all at once? Terror war, culture war, crusade. It's no wonder they try to make them all the same thing. It's hard to remember them all.
Billo is actually just doing research for his new book.
yellow dog @ 100:
Oh I dunno, he'll probably end up in a well
With cement galoshes.
Phrases that will scare off Billy "Looking Out For You" O'Liely and his perverse minions should include Sean Hornbeck and Stockholm Syndrome. Bill O'Reilly has a lot of money and big balls but he is mean and base and ignoble.
MikeinMD @ 107:
LMAO!!!
goatsage @ 81:
Ugly is an understatement and human being is stretching it just a BIT.
Forget about bush and halliburton. Does NewsCorp or any of it's affiliates accept advertising dollars from GE or any of it's affiliates??
:-) Me thinks yes....
Wasn't the Bush family (Carlisle Group) meeting with the Bin Ladin Family that very week that the attack on 9/11 happened? Then bush (lower case intended) help to spirit them and a bunch of other Saudi's out of America when all other flights were frozen.
Will bill_O send his minions after the bush's?
Jesse is a regular Edward R. Murrow.
What a gernalist.
When were his postings in Eyeraq and Eyeran?
Dumbass just stepped over the line. The real power in this country sits on the boards of companies like GE. If he doesn't offer some kind of apology in the next week, I'll be shocked.
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I meant criticism.. sorry
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below_me @ 13:
Now I knew that Prescott Bush was majorly in bed with Hitler during WWII. I did not know he was responsible for supplying over half the iron and steel to the Nazi army. Don't you think this would be an important topic for our electorate to be educated on? Hahahahahahaha! I'm laughing at my own ridiculous thought.
Come to think of it, when I contemplate the fact that this Bush mobster was responsible for helping Hitler slaughter thousands of allied troops millions of innocent people, and the fact that the goobers in this country put this asshole's son and grandson into the presidency, that really FUCKING PISSES ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
122 curt spang
Oh boo hoo...so you got censored. We all do. Just the other day I was censored while ragging on to a Ron Paul zealot. The trouble was the thread was about the economy.
curt spang @ 125:
So, take it in stride and move on. The monitors aren't going to have a sudden religious conversion.
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curt spang @ 124:
Here's the deal. Criticizing media personalities is important. If we ignore O'Reilly, we give him a free pass to behave like the ass he is and indicate to others that his behavior is acceptable as well. I, for one, have had it with dumbassery everywhere and strongly feel that it needs to be confronted at every turn. Yes, it takes a bit of time and energy to confront O'Reilly's dumbassery (given the quantities it comes in), but it's a worthy endeavor. Bush, O'Reilly, the 700 Club all need to be put in the glare of the public spotlight...especially by those who disagree with them.
slag @ 121:
I hate Bill and the others and love to see them made a fool. BUT my point is that you don't ignore the story to make fun of a person. That is what BILL O does. Hannity Does. Rush Does. It is creepy that C&L does. The story basically defends GE, that is NOT necessary or helpful.
It is like the stupid "hillary cried" or "Hannity ran". Hillary got a little chocked up as PEOPLE do, and Hannity walked fast to get away from an out of control and agressive mob. I lost respect for Obermann for laughing at Hannity and basically condoning the Paul supporters terrorizing him. Just as I think the FOX people making a todo about Hillary "crying" was stupid and irresponsible.
No fan of GE here, so let the two (both bankrupt of morals and ethics) go at each other.
If this dude must explain his dealings with the Bin Laden family.. then Bush must explain why all the Bin Laden family members that were in country on 9/11 were allowed to leave aboard a plane AFTER the skies had already been cleared because of the attacks.
curt spang @ 122:
I can appreciate that, but what O'Reilly has done throughout his entire career has made his personality the issue. I mean, that's his whole job--to be a media personality. Hillary is running for president, and while that does have a personality component to it, the problem with her media coverage is that it's thoroughly overemphasized, at the expense of issues. O'Reilly doesn't really have issues here (unless you want to talk about how GE is supporting terrorism, which I would agree with but not in the way O'Reilly portrays it). He's got his personality and that's kind of it. That's his entire source of credibility. And I agree that making GE the saint at the expense of making O'Reilly the devil is not the way to go. But I am not necessarily getting that here. Perhaps it's because I already look at GE as another devil and assume that others do as well.
O'Reilly's suicidal complex is getting out of control.
Though, I must admit, I'm enjoying it, while it lasts.
I think it will culminate the day he rushes up to Putin, jams a tripod up Putin's ass, and insists on posing him for 'an intimate interview'.
G.E. has some explaining to do? But Bush, the most corrupt leader in modern times who is responsible for the slaughter of thousands of innocent Americans doesn't? Bill O' Riley, the fat guy with the big bald spot, is the biggest hypocrite since Joseph McCarthy. Bill continues to defend the war criminals who attacked a country that had nothing to do with 911, while going after any legitimate media that is reporting the facts.
curt spang @ 132:
Hillary's little show of emotion was about as calculated as you can get. I don't buy that she was just getting a bit choked up. She's already played the, 'They're picking on me because I'm a woman' card, and this was just another draw from the same deck.
Hannity is Mr. Big Talk, so it's absolutely laughable that this guy who goes on the air to bash liberals as weak-kneed cowards runs from a handful of people. And Olbermann has been honest enough to call foul on stunts like Mike Stark (Calling All Wingnuts) turned the tables on Bill-O.
I've got the Bill - O'Reilly - blues...
I like to watch his neck wiggle - when he chews...
In all truth, the story is pissy about Billo. Sure, I don't care for much of Bill's reporting, but so what if he tries to push cameras where people don't want them or like them. All sides do this. We want our press to do this.
Bill's catch or take on the GE Iran issue is poignant no matter what position you have on Billo.
If GE is selling to Iran and Iran is a U.S. recognized terrorist state list, our country has long standing laws to boycott these states. That's makes GE's commerce with them a news issue, regardless of whether it's a wrong or right policy.
But, instead of analysis of all of that, which is important to discourse, we get hits on Bill, Bill's producer, his attack on GE, his warmongering, and anything but the real discourse that should be taking place.
The longer those of us on the left whine about personality issues and tactics, the longer we're losers. Get back on task and mind the real issues why don't you.
Bill O might be right on this one.
During the 2002 GE shareholders meeting, the pension fund of NY PD and Firefighters asked GE to stop selling radioactive materials to Iran via their Canadian health care subsidary. Their answer? No. It's not illegal in Canada to sell radioactive materials to Iran, so we're going to do it anyway.
GE is by no means the poster child for this type of activity, no should they be, but this is just one example where $$$ trumpets all else, something that our leaders in DC take to heart.
What's the big deal? IBM sold the counting machines for the Jewish population to Hitler. Nothing surprising here.
It's one thing lunging for an interview in public, but in a restaurant? Isn't that private property? Seems like trespassing charges and assault and battery on the staff charges are in order.
ThePromenader @ 139:
I've got those Bill O'Reilly/FOX Blues
Those Bill O'Reilly/FOX Blues
That come from a-watchin' the neocon news
It's like a root canal without the novocaine
It's O'Reilly, it's FOX, it's insane ...
::: blues harmonica riff :::
I've got those Bill O'Reilly/FOX Blues
Those Bill O'Reilly/FOX Blues
The more he opines, the more laughter ensues
Complainin' 'bout smears on Soros' dime
It's O'Reilly, it's FOX, it's just slime ...
I've got those Bill O'Reilly/FOX Blues
Those Bill O'Reilly/FOX Blues
Can't tell if their evil, dumb or confused
They're tough guys till the tables all get turned around
It's O'Reilly, it's FOX, they're clowns ...
Hell, IBM sold them the entire system of accounting that was used on the Jews by the Germans. They invented it just for Germany. Wasn't it also Prescott Bush, in his dealings with Germany during the war, that helped come up with the idea of concentration camps? DIdn't he also get them the recipe for synthetic rubber that made the war drag on almost an addition year? Read this some time back.
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
Don't know what all in it is true, but what a fucked up buch of bastards the entire Bush familly is...
Charles @ 141:
If they were x-ray machines, stuff for cancer treatment, etc. what the hell. How do you practice medicine without them?
Jeez Bill-keep it up and you may not have to lie about winning a Peabody Award.
If it takes slights on that great greasy ego of yours to pull some serious investigative journalism out of you,then so be it.That said,sending this idiot out to do your dirt digging is laughable.
So what if GE or anyone else does business with Iran?? It´s a democratic state, hasn´t attacked anyone etc. etc. And the statement that "iranian weapons are killing US soldiers in Iraq"... come on, american weapons and policies as well are killing americans in Iraq. What are they gonna do to stop that? Raid US weapons producers and shoot them through the head?
And so what if people do business with the Bin Laden family? It´s hundreds of people, why curse them if a relative does X, Y or Z. It´s far from a fact that he engineered 9/11 anyway...
Not to get off the subject, but people ask why Edwards isn't mentioned. Talk to the ceo of GE. Isn't GE a defense contractor? Wouldn't they have influence on the news? And wouldn't they hush anything that is said that might interfere with their billions? This has been been the problem with the major networks for about 25 years. And guess what, they intentially try to dumb the public. After all, isn't O'rielly on TV? I can assure back in the sixties and seventies when news was reported more accurately, O'Rielly would be considered a madman and not taken seriously. Dumbing the public..... Rockie and Bullwinkle movie said it all and it has come true.
slag @ 135:
OK, ok good point. Maybe this story IS good, it just smacks of wingnutism. maybe 2 stories are here.
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