If O'Reilly doesn't see homeless veterans, then it is because he has not stepped foot in any city park in America in the past 25 years. Believe me, that elderly gentleman sitting on the park bench next to you could very well be a homeless vet.

I don't recall Bill ever saying he would help, I thought it was a indirect statement that could be perceived that his intention was to help. We all know Bill will never help anyone but himself. That's how he got to the position he's in.

"3 Pawn Says: I don’t recall Bill ever saying he would help, I thought it was a indirect statement that could be perceived that his intention was to help. We all know Bill will never help anyone but himself. That’s how he got to the position he’s in."

Yes, knee high to a snake.

BillO's definition of 'help' was that if any homeless veteran contacted him, he'd make sure that that vet was safely delivered to John Edwards' mansion. You'd think it couldn't get worse than that, but you'd be wrong... He then came out and said that after he put out this request for homeless vets to contact him, only one... ONE... did. Staggering. Ummm, Bill, could it be the fact that no other homeless vets contacted you was because... wait for it... they're HOMELESS???? The words I have for this clown would get my post deleted, so I'll refrain.

Toolbag.

I'm one of those that signed the petition and I'm a veteran. BillO needs to go down to a local VA hospital, food stamp office or something similar and he will see a lot of homeless vets. They are there but BillO and his "high and mighty" attitude refuses to look at them. Personally, I hope BillO gets an ear full but then again, he probably won't even confront those veterans. He is and always will be a chicken.

Billo claims that John Edwards lied when he tried to link the homeless vet problem to the economy. According to Billo there are over 150,000 beds available to vets every night. He also claims $37 billion is allocated to the vets. Billo insists the vets are homeless because of mental and drug problems. Billo says, "We cannot physically drag them off the street if they refuse to seek treatment."

This should be an interesting ongoing debate.

Wouldn't it be simple for him to go down there at 3:00, meet the vets, tell them he was wrong, and get involved in helping them? But he can't do that. That is tragic.

I think Olbermann said last night that Edwards got his info from a Bush admin. report. So, yeah, it's probably not true. If anything, the number of homeless vets is substantially higher.

Isn't this windbag's 15 minutes over YET?

My God.

last night he was at it again. According to Billo there is no housing issues in NOLA as a result of Katrina. Those people living under bridges there are suffering from mental illness according to his big giant headness. So if I follow his logic you don't deserve proper housing if you suffer from mental illness. What a dick

10 xoites defends Constitution Says:

Homeless Vets Attempt to Deliver Petition to Bill O’Reilly:

Excellent video! I'm glad they didn't just had our petitions over to that clown with the mic. On the other hand though, my gut feeling tells me that as soon as Fox News got the binder they threw it in the trash. Nothing has really changed. BillO and those like him spit on the veterans and always will.

BOR would most likely sell the vets some of his product. Like a culture warrior jacket to keep them warm, a hat to cover their scars and his books so they can burn them for fire to also keep warm and heat some food.

Bill looked at those vets and thought they are drug addled and mentally deficient and therefore he can't help them. He is looking for "real vets" that can eat civil like in a restaurant.

O'Reilly, after claiming that there's not that many homeless vets out there, did say something to Schultz about how he'd see that vets sleeping under bridges wouldn't do that anymore. But I don't think O'Reilly thought it would really come to anything because he didn't believe it in the first place. Now that he's been proven to be completely wrong and, as per the challenge by Olbermann and Rieckoff, he has to come up with something to save face.

O'Reilly announced that he supposedly has something in the works with FNC's Colonel Hunt to help vets. According to O'Reilly, it should be revealed in the next couple of weeks (with the PR being in time for the February ratings sweeps?). There won't be complete sincerity in it on O'Reilly's part though as he'll use it as a means to try and make himself look good and to continue attacks on Edwards and liberals in general. In other words, he'll manage to shape it to fit his agenda instead of admitting he has been wrong.

If Fox were smart, they'd save a lot of money because of this vet protest.

Instead of paying someone to scroll through all of O'Reilly's scripts on a teleprompter, they could just repeat

'STFU...STFU...STFU...STFU...STFU..........(endlessly)'

He's got to have a warehouse full of copies of "Those Who Trespass". Those books alone would burn nicely.

I'm positive if Billo ever has to defend himself on this, he'll fall back by insisting that he was pointing out that specifically the 200000 vets aren't living under 'bridges'.

Looking forward to seeing the big giant moron deflated. Although I suppose that's optimistic. He'll apologize in usual faux fashion....
"I'm sorry you losers can't take a joke." or some similar back handed comment.
If you really want to hurt him, take his money.

C'mon Bill(ious) - Put up or SHUT UP!

I hope this blows up in his ugly fat face (beauty is as beauty does) and he his finally held accountable and taken to task.

BO: Ed, Ed. If you know where’s a veteran, sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/16/oreilly-to-schultz-if-you-know-where%e2%80%99s-a-veteran-sleeping-under-a-bridge-you-call-me-immediately-and-we-will-make-sure-that-man-does-not-do-it/

Olbermann: “Well, Bill, you’re right. This homeless vet is not living under a bridge tonight…..he’s dead.”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/23/countdowns-worst-persons-knoblauch-clark-co-gop-billo/

What a coincidence...

abob @ 11:

Billo claims that John Edwards lied when he tried to link the homeless vet problem to the economy.

THe only problem with that rant is that it's not true.

"34 Joe O. Says: 24 xoites defends Constitution Says:
“Joe O, it does not matter what they do with it. They recieved it. Actions like this affect people inside and outside of Fox News. We may never hear about who decided to leave today or next year because of things like this but it has an effect.”

I certainly hope that is the case. It just gets on my nerves that people like BillO treat us veterans in such a manner. Its worse than a slap in the face. Now I’m not a homeless veteran but I am a veteran none the less and I could very well have ended up like many of those that are homeless. I will say one thing, the veterans in the video were civil. I can not say that I would be the same if I were there."

I am positive you would be. I worked with and buried homeless vets for a very long time.

http://junerevolution.blogspot.com/2006/04/cost-of-war.html

I'm sure BOR will label them a "hate group" funded by George Soros and go about his merry way.

Preacher Boob @ 43:

Bush, with McCain's synchophantic support, is taking the right action.

Today he declared a 'War Against Homeless Veterans'.

(I think the wording needs a bit of work)

Homeless Swift-Boat Veterans for the Truth?

BLO will never learn that sometimes its best to just "loofah it alone"...

flatearth friedman Says: those guys do not exist. this must be some liberal media scam cooked up to make billy the o look bad

Are you serious? The administrations have always neglected the military. I don't know what the Pentagon does with all that money, but they didn't use it for vests for our guys in Iraq, or the "safe" vehicles the brass ride in.
As for the injured, they are not so good. They are sending guys with brain trama back to fight. As for Post tramatic stress disorder, these guys don't get enough attention. I would ask how you would feel if you had to kill people and watch your buddies die, but you sound like a Republican so it probably wouldn't bother you.

i read one post on here where a poster said hed visited john edwards headquarters and said something about how hard the campaighne must have been on him! in my opinion john edwards sold out his supporters ! he collected money for his campaghn right up to his capitulation,this after he prommised us he would stick all the way to the national convention, he lied to us , thoes of us who can see thru the shallowness of the two candidates that are left to vote for, and thiers nothing nobel in the reason he gave for selling us out, in my oppinion he was bought off by both clinton and obama with the promiss of the position of attorny general by who ever won the election, im thru being fooled by any of these slocks promisses, and i wont vote for any of these warmongers that promiss change when they dont intend to change anything but where they live , the whitehouse , i dont believe any of them will do anything for homeless vets , right now the bush administration is shucking all of us veterans off of thier va clinic care they can, when you need a home adress and a phone how do they get help or thier meds ? after your sent to kill others by these criminals and your usefullness is over , were all throw aways homeless or not!

Cupid1d Says: last night he was at it again. According to Billo there is no housing issues in NOLA as a result of Katrina. Those people living under bridges there are suffering from mental illness according to his big giant headness. So if I follow his logic you don’t deserve proper housing if you suffer from mental illness. What a dick

Bill suffers from mental illness.

BillOnite grows by 25%:

Makris, Malmedy, loofah, Homeless Vets...

hey sheeple the left is going to be our undoing . continue to follow and the end of our society will not be so far behind . lets get some real facts on actually how many homeless vets are out there and how we as a country can help them. if a lack of jobs is the reason take a look around at all the illegals working not fair is it ? remember this Olbermann is a pawn for the left he cries in bed every night hoping to be half of what o'reilly is . careful out there kiddies

Time will take care of the 'Homeless veterans sleeping under bridges' problem.

The way bridges are collapsing.................

56 kx80kid

I bet you could get a job on Bill O'Rielly's show. You have all the qualifications: You don't know what you are talking about and you don't make any sense.

What exactly is half of what O'Reilly is? Sexual harasser, horrible erotic fiction writer, unapologetic blowhard, egotistical self-promoter, out of touch old man, poor fact checker, employer of hack producer Jesse Watters, jowly, deluded, narcissistic? I think anyone in their right mind would want to be at LEAST half of that...

57 xoites defends Constitution Says
Really? So you have “seen” homeless vets…

How many have you talked to? How many first names can you give me?

You know nothing about this subject but you sure think you do.

No xoites....I've met and chatted with homeless people. Most have mental illnesses. They could care less what someone on television says about them. THEY HAVE NO TELEVISIONS! Quit being so damn ignorant to posters. You think only Americans have Vets? Think only Americans have Vets treated like shit? Do you think it's only American Vets that are homeless? Our country treats our vets like shit as well.

60 xoites defends Constitution Says:

Why do you think nobody else knows what they are talking about? I don't understand your logic and anger. If you are pissed at your own nation for what it does to the Vets, do something about it!! I have. I am a paid member to the Canadian Legion, and fundraise for them, as well as assist them in all their projects. What do you do for your Vets?

With the coming of the 2nd republican depression, it's about time decent american's (liberals) everywhere began to expose the completely disastrous effects of trickle down poverty on 90% of the country (including our veterans).

Let the Reagan/Bush legacy of self-centered criminal greed, be the clarion call of opposition for the next 70 years worth of election cycles - to all who truely care about this country, and their fellow citizens.

Let all of america know what the Orwellean blowhards like O'Rally and the MSM did, to enable this second gilded age of Marie-Antoinette style aristocracy.

I have a dream: That soon, when rich white men talk about tax cuts across the board, the people will stone them (or tar and feather them)!

Read the transcript! You are taking info out of context as usual. Bill says the economy is not the reason these vet are homeless. Not that there aren't any homeless vets.

Not to worry everyone Billo will declare these to be 'not the REAL vets' but some radical secularist vets and call Bloomberg's Brute Squad to come and haul them off to jail.

Props to the Fitzgerald House! The fact that out country has a homeless population at all is disgusting, but when you add that there are so many that have a history of service to the country, you'd at least expect some sort of extra support for them since they've served the country as enlistees... note: I'm not saying that a homeless vet is more important than any other homeless person, it's just that you'd expect vets to be taken care of by the government they served and represented. It's all a shame, as is Bill O.

"They'll get back to us"

Bwhahahhaaaa

"What a load of liberal crap- Drug and alchohol addiction is NOT a disease"

Ah yes spoken like a true blind fool ....... I wonder what country you're from.

Tod Candon....get real. There was a homeless vet in our office the other day. A veteran of Panama, Gulf War, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. He has a college degree and cannot find a job. He was also very ill with the flu. 70% of all homeless work. They work for minimum wage and cannot afford first, last and security deposit and they'll never get there. Yes there are alcohol and drug abusers among the homeless. PTSD is a major cause of homelessness among veterans. They self medicate with alcohol and drugs. Divorce and alienation from the family cause their homelessness.
Do yourself a favor, visit a soup kitchen...talk to the homeless.
I asked Bill O'Reilly for 3 million to build our veterans homeless shelter.

drew @ 76:

is it just me or is it a little strange that one of those "homeless" people had an ipod?

What makes you think "one of those" were "homeless"?

drew @ 76:

is it just me or is it a little strange that one of those "homeless" people had an ipod?

Strange that a homeless vet would listen to music? Or be able to afford an iPod for $99 and not rent for $900? Or that he hasn't had it stolen while he was asleep under a bridge?

Strange questions sometimes provide unsolicited answers re the asker...

If ya don't know, ya better ax sumbuddy!

Coming from a military family I feel very much for these Veterans. The Government uses them like disposal paper towels and discards them afterwards. O'Reilly is such a useless human being that even the person who is so far down on their luck is still a far person better person than O'Reilly. Oh yeah, and f@ck Bush too, that lazy useless piece of sh!t in his little flyboy uniform acting like he made a difference.

Proud2bHumble @ 37:

BO: Ed, Ed. If you know where’s a veteran, sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it.

See, that's the point: he didn't offer to help. He pretended to commit to making sure the veteran wouldn't do it anymore. It's not as if the idea of running the homeless out of town or out of their sleeping spots is unknown in this country.

The Fitzgeral "HOUSE"! Then how can they be homeless?!

Why are ANY vets homeless? They should be pampered by the government for the rest of their lives.

Of course, in the Corporatocracy they are disposable.

Way to use homeless veterans to make your political point guys. You're no better than O'Reilly.

Rob @ 94:

Liberal liars.. what edwards said was, " they are homeless due to the economy". Oreilly said that's hogwash, which it is. Oreilly stated that they are homeless due to other reasons ie, drug abuse and alcihol and mental illness.. The reporter and the responders should do their homework before making absurd comments.

I recall Edwards saying:

… and tonight, 200,000 men and women who wore our uniform proudly and served this country courageously as veterans will go to sleep under bridges and on grates. We are better than this.

And then O'Rielly went on dismissly saying the "only thing sleeping under a bridge" was Edwards' brain.

Got something to back up that that was what Edwards said? Because I think you are remembering what O'Rielly said.

Let me tell you what an "apology" from Bill O'Reilly would be like.
"I'm sorry...that you're so stupid."
"I'm sorry that you're so poor and I'm so rich."
"I'm sorry I got caught in another lie."
In case you haven't noticed, the only time Bill O'Reilly stops smirking is when he's yelling.
O'Reilly's brand of arrogance never stops, not even at the Nuremberg Trials.

Rob @94,

When you call someone a liar, being a repuke, make sure you are lookin' in the mirror.

What dim bulbs like you can't understand, is that liberals don't have to lie. They are not the ones trying to screw 95% of the american people, on behalf of imbred, trust-fund morons like the Bush family crime syndicate.

You people are loonies. OReilly never said what you say he said. The segment had an interview which include government figures showing that the vast majority of homeless are either drug addicts, mentally impaired, or both. Its not an economic or military service problem. The point was its not that veterans are some large proportion of the homeless, its that other factors are the cause of the problem. The Edwards quote was that he said there was a local bridge with "hundreds of pepople living under it;" a complete fabrication. Instead, all the unemployed idiots with high speed internet ramble on about how OReilly slammed veterans. Why do you people go on and on about things someone made up? Scary

John Herrick @ 101:

Why do you people go on and on about things someone made up? Scary

Pot meet kettle.

Care to provide backup that your assertions have any basis in reality? Are you familar with the saying put up or shut up?

Mac-the-mouth Says:

BillO’s definition of ‘help’ was that if any homeless veteran contacted him, he’d make sure that that vet was safely delivered to John Edwards’ mansion. You’d think it couldn’t get worse than that, but you’d be wrong… He then came out and said that after he put out this request for homeless vets to contact him, only one… ONE… did. Staggering. Ummm, Bill, could it be the fact that no other homeless vets contacted you was because… wait for it… they’re HOMELESS???? The words I have for this clown would get my post deleted, so I’ll refrain.

Toolbag.

You can use the term 'Richard Cranium'. That will not get your post deleted and it actually fits Bill to a T! hehe!

Toolbag.

Oops...wasn't calling YOU a toolbag. I forgot to delete that Cut after my Paste...My apologies!

What a joke. Out of the "200,000 homeless" vets--- they could only pull together around 10 that had no idea what they were doing there??? AND the guy that was directing it didn't want to be interviewed-- ran away like a scared little girl! This proves what Bill has always said--
The whole fiasco made for a sad day for Bill hating Libs-- too bad....

"109 GoHIl Says: What a joke. Out of the “200,000 homeless” vets— they could only pull together around 10 that had no idea what they were doing there??? AND the guy that was directing it didn’t want to be interviewed– ran away like a scared little girl! This proves what Bill has always said–
The whole fiasco made for a sad day for Bill hating Libs– too bad…."

The next time you end up on the street with nothing i want to see how proud you are to put your face on camera for all your friends and relatives to see. Your ignorance is understandable, but you have a responsibility to become more informed.

GoHIl @ 109:

What a joke. Out of the "200,000 homeless" vets--- they could only pull together around 10 that had no idea what they were doing there??? AND the guy that was directing it didn't want to be interviewed-- ran away like a scared little girl! This proves what Bill has always said--
The whole fiasco made for a sad day for Bill hating Libs-- too bad....

AND the guy that didn't want to be interviewed -- who ran away like a scared little girl was from FOX you moron!

Now go scurry away like Rob@94 and John Herrick@101 did like good little billbugs. But do please keep posting your crap. I think it would be something to send to News Corp to show what idiots agree with O'Reilly. And, like O'Reilly, hold those who protected this country in contempt.

Screw you and your hatred towards veterans.

Oh and abob@108. O.K. Kreskin how do you know none of the vets "actually heard O'Reilly's statement"?

xoites defends Constitution @ 114:

Thin Fish, thanks for picking up the slack today. :)

No problem. Doubt if responding to such... people does any good.

Hope Vegas is treating you well. I'm off to get some beers.

Rob says "Liberal liars.. what edwards said was, ” they are homeless due to the economy”.

Post where Edwards actually said "they are homeless due to the economy". You can't because he didn't. BillO also claimed that Edwards said the vets can't get jobs because of the economy...another thing that Edwards did NOT say. BillO changed the direction of the argument to being about the economy in order to cover up the fact that he was so far wrong on the number of homeless vets in the US. In his deluded mind he thinks no one noticed his tactic.

John Herrick Says: "You people are loonies. OReilly never said what you say he said."

The above would apply to you too. BillO moved the goalposts of the discussion to be about vets being addicts just like he did with it being about the economy after he denied that many of them even existed. He had to find a way to right on some level so he took the addict and economy route to distract from his originally being wrong on the large number. You're also confusing two different bridge stories - the homeless vets and the homeless Katrina victims.

It never ceases to amaze me just how many people drink the BillO kool-aid without looking at the facts first.

That's like 200,000 Rambo's are now pissed.

17,000 signatures isn't 200,000 homeless veterans. Edwards pulled the 200,000 number out of his ass and is just trying to attract voters. Why not just bump the number up to 250,000 and say "a quarter of a million", which sounds *huge*? Because no one would believe it--200,000 sounds credible. Then there's the question, if someone serves in the military, what obligations do the American people have to that person when he leaves? Free food, shelter, and medical care for the rest of his life? Hell, sign me up!

121 EllsworthT Says: 17,000 signatures isn’t 200,000 homeless veterans. Edwards pulled the 200,000 number out of his ass and is just trying to attract voters. Why not just bump the number up to 250,000 and say “a quarter of a million”, which sounds *huge*? Because no one would believe it–200,000 sounds credible. Then there’s the question, if someone serves in the military, what obligations do the American people have to that person when he leaves? Free food, shelter, and medical care for the rest of his life? Hell, sign me up!

If it was one instead of 200,000 would that make it right?

You want to play the numbers game and i don't give a shit. People living on the street is wrong. I want you to go out and count the homeless, but you can't. Nobody can.

Your "argument" is merely misdirection.

O'reilly was doubting Edwards claim that there are 200,000 homeless vets living under bridges. Edwards is a insincere trial lawyer. o'reilly's beef was with Edwards exploiting the plight of the homeless and fantasizing that they all live under bridges. I believe all the homelss vets in the clip shown were in homeless shelters(dont get me wrong i recognize that they are homelss, and one did say that he lived under a bridge, but the point is that there arent 200,000 living under bridges)He wasnt denying that there are homeless vets, stop taking things out of context to make an issue that doesn't exist.

I saw the Oreilly episode. He never said there wasn't a problem of homelessness for veterans. He is arguing the point that Edwards made as to WHY they are homeless. Edwards says they are homeless because of the economy. Oreilly said they are homeless due to addicition or mental illness. Get your facts straight commies.

I can't believe how out-of-hand this has gotten. O' Reilly IS NOT contesting homeless veterans, but rather the fact that addiction and mental disease, NOT ECONOMY AS JOHN EDWARDS CAMPAIGNED, is why we have homeless veterans. You people are all idiots.

Bill O'Rielly: They may be out there, but there’s not many of them out there. Okay? So if you know where one is, Ed…

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/16/oreilly-to-schultz-if-you-know-...

This is from the Veterans Administration:

About one-third of the adult homeless population have served their country in the Armed Services. Current population estimates suggest that about 195,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. Many other veterans are considered near homeless or at risk because of their poverty, lack of support from family and friends, and dismal living conditions in cheap hotels or in overcrowded or substandard housing.

http://www1.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=1

What Bill O'Rielly said and what he pretends he said are often two different things.

Interesting that you link only to sources that are pre-disposed to disagree with Bill O'Reilly (with the exception of the Washington Post - all the rest are left-leaning blogs and sites).

Even more interesting is that you don't link to any primary sources regarding what Bill O'Reilly actually said. Anyone can demonize someone by taking one sentence out of the context of their much bigger argument.

If the only way you can make your point is by taking something out of context, and you refuse to link to the original source...dang. Sad. I know you're commentators (much like O'Reilly himself), not unbiased journalists...but come on, people. Stop being so transparent in your avoidance of the facts.

KC Says: Interesting that you link only to sources that are pre-disposed to disagree with Bill O’Reilly (with the exception of the Washington Post - all the rest are left-leaning blogs and sites).

Even more interesting is that you don’t link to any primary sources regarding what Bill O’Reilly actually said. Anyone can demonize someone by taking one sentence out of the context of their much bigger argument.

If the only way you can make your point is by taking something out of context, and you refuse to link to the original source…dang. Sad. I know you’re commentators (much like O’Reilly himself), not unbiased journalists…but come on, people. Stop being so transparent in your avoidance of the facts.

So you don't like left-leaning blogs even when they are telling the truth? And you call us biased! Funny stuff, KC.

For your information, O'Reilly's being wrong on the number is not taken out of context. He did deny that there's many of them. So you want a primary source? Here's a link to a primary source with context showing O'Reilly's actual words that's not a left-leaning website.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323305,00.html

So much for your ridiculous claim because it's just left sites saying that O'Reilly claimed there's not many. Even the right-wing operation at FOX News can't hide that O'Reilly said "They may be out there, but there are not many of them out there, OK?"

You should have done a google search before you made your dumb request. You could have found the foxnews link yourself and kept yourself from looking like such a sad, transparent O'Reilly defender who lives in avoidance of the facts.