Bill O'Reilly says that the Media will cut McCain's throat!
By John Amato Monday Feb 04, 2008 11:01am
BillO asks Mike how McCain has become the front-runner after his campaign was almost done as soon as it began. O'Reilly must be stuck in his studio writing questions for his culture quiz or busy editing sandbag pieces from his sophomoric producer Jesse Watters because he obviously hasn't been paying attention to the media's love affair with John McCain all these years.
O'Reilly: "Believe me, if McCain is the Republican nominee, the same media that's giving him good coverage now, are going to turn and try to cut his throat, because the media in America wants to elect a Democratic President. 80% of them are actively working to do that. You are absolutely right. That is a perversion of our Constitution. It should not be happening but it absolutely is happening.
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OK, I hate to ask the question. Billie, what evidence do you have to make these charges? Nevermind. Since Edwards dropped out of the race---O'Reilly will now turn the Hackery Factor's attention onto the media even more than he usually does since the GOP is in a major meltdown. I do agree with Huckabee when he says that the media is trying to pick our candidates for us with their overage, but not for the same reasons. And it's interesting how BillO and Huckabee didn't mention the abysmal campaigns that Thompson and the original front-runner---9iu11ani ran that enabled McCain to have a second life. By the way---if anyone has received a ton of free publicity from them it's the "God constitutionalist" himself.
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Yes, the media played a huge role in getting a democrat elected president the last eight years.
Too bad the Media doesn't have Site Monitors.
Actually reichwingers are already lining up to take pot-shots at mccan't
I prefer a bong.
You got to cut loose of this guy.
Get educated, healthy, and start looking toward what we need to do in the future to make this a better world.
bill is feeling the knife himself....
If anyone knows about perversion, it's Bill.
my goodness and over at MSNBC Joe Scarborough (Scarecrow) is out of control!! It really amazes me how these guys try to effect peoples conscience and their vote with fear and self loathing they berate and tare down the candidates like its a blood sport.
I'm sick to death of the MSM - sick of the Republican media pundits who came in with GWB I hope to God they go out with him too. I don't have to name them. Its apparent who they are.
Ah jesus! BillO is talking just to hear the sound of his own voice. No one pays jack shit attention to him anymore. He can just rattle off whatever he wants since no one is listening or cares.
Yep, the corporate media is meeting with McCain is every available mens room all across this country in order to figure out how to get him installed as the next president .. starting with Christina Matthews of course ... that giant frapping fart sound that you just heard exit McCains's asshole is of course none other than Matthews herself ....
this media conspiracy baloney is one issue on which the far right and the far left agree....
the media is responsible for the failures of kucinich, edwards, huckabee, romney, paul.....wahhh wahhh wahhhh wahhhhh
what this charge perhaps belies is a fundamental belief by many of both parties that the voters are just a bunch of nincompoops...
He knows the corporate media will turn on Obama not McInsane.
If you live in a state that is voting today, you must vote or you'll make the baby jesus cry. You don't want to do that, do you?
pissed off patricia @ 10:
The media is purposefully destroying this country.
So, Bill O's bashing "the media" again? That's rich, given that he's a part of it! And on FOX, no less. Of course, I'm sure he considers himself exempt from the same contempt he's so willing to dish out to others, being that he's just so fair and balanced and all.
"The media"? A little vague. You are the media; so is Fatso Limbaugh. Stop whining Billo; as if you don't have a platform.
I wonder where the upstanding Christian folk who follow and nod in this clown's wake were when he was a schlock journalist at the helm of a tabloid television show that, more often than not, featured nudity and other salacious tidbits as a means of drawing in ratings?
Evidence - such a quaint concept.
If the media is causing a perversion of Democracy by favoring one candidate over another, perhaps Bill O'Reilly would be infavor of reinstituting the fairness doctrine.
Fooking liberal media.
Always out for Bill O. But hang on. Help is on the way.
Roaring down the ramp, fast approaching this stupid shark pit of a network, why....it's karl Rove.
Rove and O'Reilly: Together at last.
Huckabee must be wondering where his god is, considering that deity told him personally that he was supposed to be President.
The real God Almighty wants people like Huckabee and GeeShrubya to stop using Him as the reason why the nation is jacked up, and will continue to be jacked up because their "spirit" that's speaking to them might really be indigestion.
DO something positive. Don't get drawn into these peoples negative trip.
It's not going to help you or anyone. They do this on purpose to polarize people and sap their energy and will.
Break free of the tether.
It is the media. (THE EXTREME RIGHT WING MAINSTREAM MEDIA.)
“Believe me, if McCain is the Republican nominee, the same media that’s giving him good coverage now, are going to turn and try to cut his throat, because the media in America wants to elect a Democratic President. 80% of them are actively working to do that. You are absolutely right. That is a perversion of our Constitution. It should not be happening but it absolutely is happening."
General Electric, Disney and Sumner Redstone are going to slit McCain's throat?
No fooling.
lopaloo102 @ 12:
They're not directly responsible, but the corporate MSM decides early on who gets the most coverage. Edwards got lousy coverage, even being a close 3rd, at least in IA & NH. They decide how much air time to allow certain candidates, and what questions get asked and what is focused on. Remember the SwiftBoat bullshit? How much air time did Tweety give those lying sacks? You think that that hurt Kerry and was a help to the chimp?
John Amato -
How about posting something about Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American Woman candidate for the presidency?
funny, but the reason most Americans would give for cutting McCain's campaign are the same reasons some conservatives want to support him.
Namely endless war
Blue Lensman @ 19:
How droll.
Hey Billo, has it dawned on you that over 70% of the country realizes we have gone off the cliff because of the Chimp's policies and his republican congress that marches lockstep with him--no Billo, there's a revolution going on and it has nothing to do with your so-called war on secular progressives, the voters in this country are enraged at the mess we are in. What an ass he is.
Even assuming that "80% [of the media] are actively working [to elect a democrat]," please explain how that is a "perversion" of our constitution. Nothing in the constitution prevents the press from taking sides. More to the point, if it did then O'Reilly's own contention swallows itself as Fox takes sides every moment of every day.
There's a major short circuit on the right. The conservative radio douchebags are aggressively anti-McCain, saying he's too liberal. The conservative network TV douchebags shine McCain's halo, always sure to use McCain buzz words like straight-talk and honesty. The thing is, McCain's not at all liberal, and he's not honest or direct either. If everyone would tune out the douchebags and listen to McCain they'd see that he's a conservative, warmongering egomaniac. Still, Romney's worse.
Bill needs to grab a glass of "M---F---ing" Iced tea and STFU.
jason @ 32:
Well the idea that 80% of the media is trying to elect a Dem is on its face patently ridiculous.Bill is the King of projection and this is another one of his silly games.
getalife @ 13:
he is the corporate media
better...he is part of the great echo machine, which has been pummeling mccain since sc
what the regressive talkers are learning, but not hearing is....outside of their base, the republicans dont like them or their ideas
who needs the fairness doctrine, these guys are dead meat
O'Lielly , you're making that statement while conversing with the Bible-thumping douchebag who wants the Constitution re-worded to fit into his religious beliefs and his views on "God" ?
Billo really needs to be hauled off to a friggin' mental institution ...............
Huh? If it were true, how is it a "perversion of our Constitution", O'Racist? Limbaugh and the rest of the reich-wing hacks can shill for Mutt all day long, but that is perfectly fine with O'Racist. Where is the fake outage? Hypocrite.
I would love to see a "debate" (and please note the quotes) on this topic between Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews.
In a perfect world, it would cause both of their heads to explode. But you never get a break like that when you need one...
As usual, he has it all backwards. The media has a liberal (i.e. in his raisin brain: a Democratic) bias? Oh ho ho ho, it is to laugh.
Billo: indulging in the republic[sic] practice of projection, projection, projection. What a maroon.
And why shouldn't they ?
Look at what the past 7 years of a horseshit GOP presidency has wrought , you clueless wonder............
And yes:
VOTE.
Somebody send in the Con-Police! He said democratic! Cut his mike! Cut his mike!
Man, if I were an exec at Arizona beverages wouldn't I just love to put out a limited edition of MOFO sweet iced tea!
Put Bill's blotchy face right on the bottle.
Maybe an even smaller batch of Huckleberry's Manna and Honey-flovered iced tea.
MMMMmmmmmm....Thugalicious!
Isn't BillO the guy whose powers of persuasion can bring entire countries to their knees? (Remember how he crippled France's economy?)
Why not simply threaten to send a team from Fox Security to every eligible voter's home?
OMG Billo admitting that the media trying to pick the next president. Which should be obvious to any idiot, but it appears that most people don't notice.
For all you rethuglicant lurkers out there, your choices are simple:
- magic panties or Depends
- Mormon or Jew (McSundowner's more Raygun-like everyday, and JoeLie's hovering like the vulture he is)
- Serial Flipflopper or serial flipflopper
- insincere robot or temperamental sundowner
- double Guantanamo or bomb Iran
- U.S. accelerates downward spiral or ...wait, oh same thing
Voting was strange this morning in Manhattan. There was a phalanx of cops fully kitted out and hovering around the doorway to the voting machines.
Threatening? Intimidating? I didn't feel that way but others might have.
lopaloo102 @ 12:
to discount the importance, sway, and effect of positive/negative/heavy/light coverage by the media is a misunderstanding of media’s power to construct perceptions and alter the race.
when one considers that the MSM is corporate owned, for the most part, by 6 corporate conglomerates, that control newspapers, internet, radio, books, magazines, amusement parks, television, and movies, it is hard to deny that their coverage of a candidate is of vital importance. and when these media companies create a meme, such as around kucinich or edwards, they are able to transmit this message through many, many outlets, and most people do not realize they are of the same corporate parent—in effect it is the media that is creating the image of a candidate, not the candidate themselves...
that said, i do agree with you that the political machines takes us for digits (see, super delegates).
O'Reilly tells the truth: "Believe me...McCain is the Republican nominee...the media...giving him good coverage...80%...are actively working to do that...absolutely right...it is absolutely happening." Course, ya gotta read between the words...
It's ok for BillO to suck Bushcock for 7 years though. That's just dandy.
Does the Constiution mention the word "media"? I guess I missed that....
Blo, the MSM aren't going to "try to cut his throat", but they are going to have to give him a tracheotomy next time he tries to answer a question about 'the economy stupid' and swallows his tongue. On a related note, his staff is on alert to keep him away from pretzels after one attacked the shrub.
I agree.
when the surge goes bad and the violences increases he'll go down like a lead stone covered in tar.
McCain is a political dead end and it's going to be funny.
Too bad hillary is just like him.
ysbaddaden @ 5:
They don't need them. It's not like there have been non-stop critical stories on why, for example, Bldg 7 came down.
Don't worry Blo, the librul media persecution of McSundowner will soon be a distant memory.
Hey Orally - aren't you a member of the media?
Did you just make a terroristic threat?
Seize him!
So BillO claims that 80% of the media is trying to elect a Democrat? Based on what?
Would that be 80% of the owners of the various media companies? Or is he making a swipe at journalists and journalism in general?
BillO is distressed at the "perversion of our Constitution" - and of course he's ignoring the real perversions committed by his Dear Leader - by these allegedly Democratic-leaning media folks. I guess he had no problem when the media was practically 100% behind the Dear Leader in his push for the war in Iraq.
Would someone, anyone, please ask BillO to cite a single source for his claims of bias?
Earlier in this same interview, O'Reilly said not to believe what CNN and the AP says but to believe him instead. He said, "...don't believe the press, unless you hear it here (points to self with both hands). Unless you hear it from me, don't believe 'em, because these people all have agendas all day long, CNN and AP."
Believe him? Puh-leeze! That's about as laughable as him setting himself apart as not being a part of the "perverting" media.
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/02/04/oreilly_urges_mistrust_of_the_media_...
Jonathon @ 58:
His empty , enormous , bulbous skull....................
Please stop putting video of Bore O'Really on your site. It makes my fish ill.
Thank you
The big bor never ceases to amaze. Much like limpballs the drug addict perverted one, or she man, the fascist monger of off the wall disgusting statements.....bor makes these statements that just got "untouched" down the wire as he goes on with his rhetoric and lies.....the msm is supporting the democratic party bull crap.
Give me a break. I guess it all depends which side of the bed you wake up on, or what candidate you back, or who much ego juice you had for breakfast, but from my point of view, the pravda network is strongly supporting the swizzle stick romney, and they are going to be stuck with mccain who just isn't ridiculous on immigration, tax cuts and totally screwing over the little man like they would have it.
I waiting for the day when I can read about bor's unexpected retirement from polluting the airwaves any longer. I wonder if the Democratic Congress and White House will have any effect on this cancerous bunch of hate mongers and neocon shills to help put out their fire. Wouldn't it be just cherry if we no longer had to listen to quotes from the likes of bor, limpballs, she man, salvage, vannity, and the other lesser pathetic souls?? I know it would renew my hope in America that it can finally pull it's head out of it's ass and start being a country we can take pride in again. There is nothing wrong with being educated and open minded. These pigs of the shit pile have taught the ignorant and hateful that they rule the world. A sad and scary state of affairs they have created.
Enough is enough.
Proud2bHumble @ 47:
get that one from the la paul genious?
It's pretty funny that BillO is bashing the media here. What a complete freakshow.
You guys should check out this website, it actually has some great videos regarding the presidential election. www.campaigncircus.com
Actually mccan't will cut his own throat.
How do you shave with wattles like those?
Spud @ 61:
What do they do, get a bad case of the crappies?
"trying to pick our candidates for us with their overage"
Shouldn't that be Coverage?
And if I were a newly installed Democratic president in January '09, my very first act would be to declare Rupert Murdoch an unlawful enemy combatant. FOX "news" doublespeak is propaganda aimed at the heart of America's system of government.
ysbaddaden @ 65:
Maybe they start carping at each other...
" O’Reilly: “Believe me, if McCain is the Republican nominee, the same media that’s giving him good coverage now, are going to turn and try to cut his throat, because the media in America wants to elect a Democratic President. 80% of them are actively working to do that. You are absolutely right. That is a perversion of our Constitution. It should not be happening but it absolutely is happening."
Soooo Murdoch's media conglomerate is part of that 80% that wants a Democrat to win? How about NBC who's parent company is GE that makes all those jet turbines for war? Is NBC part of the 80%? I won't even get started on ABC.
Classic reich wing ploy of accusing others falsely of what you are guilty of yourself.
It's a joke the way Billdo talks like he's divorced from the control the message crowd.
Scared and unbalanced.
Maybe he is just trying to cover his ass. His Party is going to lose by such a landslide that he is already looking for preemptive excuses.
Billo does not need evidence. He knows what he knows thru devine intervention. He is a republican. God talks directly to him. Do not question Billo. Billo is always right.
miss_kitty @ 67:
And then the kitty gets them.
proofreader @ 66:
Alas, there was already a ruling by the Florida Appeals Court back in 2006 that says news outlets don't actually have to report the truth. (No, I'm not kidding here.) Broadcasts classified as "news" are protected speech under the First Amendment, according to the ruling, and therefore the newscasters are free to say whatever they want and report it as "the news."
And surprise, surprise: the "news" outlet that was exonerated? Fox Noise.
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he is just setting the stage for the coming repugnacan defeat. The media was against us, it wasn't eight years of incompetent, criminal leadership.
Cats r Flyfishn @ 27:
I think people can look her up on Wiki themselves without C&L devoting any time to it. This election is about the here and now, not footnotes in history that coulda, shoulda, woulda...no offense to Shirley (of course, she's dead and wouldn't know it), but Hillary and Obama actually have a chance to win.
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Spud says - Please stop putting video of Bore O’Really on your site. It makes my fish ill.
Thank you
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Is this ICN's Spud? If so, you've got lots of delusional O'Really lovers over there on that site. They defend him no matter what he does. It's crazy the way some of them think O'Really never does anything wrong.
That sucks about your fish but Bore has a way of doing that. Have them look the other way when a O'Really video pops up. Nothing is worse than a tank of puking fish.
This country really needs to reject Billy and his career bullshit."Throat cutting"? This violent pussy is nothing more than a white Ike Turner (without the talent).
If Giuliani were the front-runner, would BillO be lamenting the ridiculously favorable (not to mention fantastical) coverage he received from Fox?
If the American media is truly patriotic (which, of course, they have proved over and over they are not), then they, having witnessed the destruction Bush/Fox Noise has unleashed upon America, definitely want a Democrat to be elected president.
HAHAHAHA LOL Huckabee went on FOX, of all stations, FOX, and said that the media should not be picking presidents! HAHAHAHAHA LOL are they doing comedy now?
Late
QSE#@
Actually it is a problem to some extent but not to the way BillO portrays it.
Apparently, many reporters and journalists covering Obama have been mezmerized and so emotionally moved by his speeches they have been told by their editors to snap out of it and write about the Obama campaign objectively. Or they have had to remind themselves after the speeches that they are reporters.
Even though Obama has distanced himself from the media, they still clamor to follow him like the paparazzi. So he has been getting alot of press coverage much to the detriment of Edwards, Kucinich and Ron Paul who just were'nt/are not getting the coverage they need/needed.
So I myself have has some suspision that the media is having a hand in the vote as far as covering more candidates over others.
Just who is it that is voting for McCain?
seems that everyone hates him.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/15312521.html
Fanon @ 51:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. . . . "
Amendment 1, Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution, 1791
QSE#@ @ 81:
"Waaaaah...I want my theocracy! I wanna wear the skull cap!! Waaah....the media is ruining my chances!!!" - Mike Huckabee
Hey, Break out the poisonous snakes and kiss your sister(with tongue)! Rev. Huckabee is projected to win West Virgina!
ahh yes, another steaming pile of bill-o-ney from the maestro!
darn-near scientific of him to employ the Pareto Principle in his assertion "80% of the media....."
with all the election buzz, can we soon expect the application of some 19th century, eastern-euro theorem?
snap off some more brilliance from your sunless font.
Left&Left @ 87:
That's a joke ...right?
OMG..it's true......Mike H the next prez.
check out this CandL post ....
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/16/huckabee-squashed-charges-again...
I wonder, Falafel boy: is this "media: that you are complaining about who wants a Democrat elected Prez in November the same "media" that wanted and got Bush elected in the last two elections?
Things Billo thinks are unconstitutional: Liberals, contradicting Billo, anything that causes his ratings to fall, Keith Olbermann.... Seriously Billo has the constitution confused with his morning memo, the one that tells him what to think today.
SEXUAL PREDATOR.
". . . the media in America wants to elect a Democratic President. 80% of them are actively working to do that. You are absolutely right. That is a perversion of our Constitution. It should not be happening but it absolutely is happening."
My irony meter just exploded.
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if i remember right
in the 1770's we only had
one t.v. and you had to crank it up
heh...
Liberal AND Proud @ 86:
I prefer my skull cup:
"While they drink out of skulls newly-torn from the grave,
Dancing 'round them the spectres are seen;
Their liquor is blood and this horrible stave
They held to the health of Alonzo the Brave,
And his consort, the fair Imogene."
Matthew (Monk) Lewis: "Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene."
I thought Bill O'Smiley WAS the media! Is he not omnipotent anymore? Is he now sharing dysfunction drugs with the similarly powerless Russian Limberger? Cheez, inquiring minds sorta kinda want to know, but not really, O'Reilly.
you have to be a complete Dolt to believe that the major networks are not leftist. They have been working hard to elect liberals not conservatives , and McCain is a Liberal. When he wins the nomination they will turn on him, and support the Dem, a more Liberal, Liberal.
The media will be brutal to anyone
O'Reilly is a low life millionare, who is paid money, lots of money, by Rupert Murdoch to spew pro right wing garbage while trying (very unsuccessfully) not to appear too biased to the right. He is a clown, a barbarian and only in a country with a lot of stupid people would he have many listeners. His analysis is worthy of a landfill yet he is paid millions of dollars every year. Go figure...
O’Reilly is such a drama queen.
I guess he forgot the 2004 election when his network gave hundreds of free hours to the Swiftboaters. Short memory, huh?
"The major networks are leftists."
"They have been working hard to elect liberals."
"McCain is a liberal."
Soooooo "When he wins they will turn on him"
A person who doesn't believe these great truths is a DOLT? Brilliant Conservative thinking.
"[T]he media in America wants to elect a Democratic President. 80% of them are actively working to do that. You are absolutely right. That is a perversion of our Constitution. It should not be happening but it absolutely is happening."
If the media working to elect a Democratic President is a perversion what is Fox "News" working overtime to elect a Republican? It is a perversion if you do it but it is highly moral when I do it.
FOXNOISE is no better than O'Really says about other "news" outlets.
Ron Paul although he came in Second and Third in some states was almost totally ignored by All news outlets.
Ron suffered political death from the 1000 cuts!!!
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