Bill O'Reilly stands by his smear of Arianna Huffington: There's no difference between her and Goebbels.
By John Amato Friday Feb 29, 2008 8:15pm
BillO obviously is feeling some heat over his vile words the other day when he compared Hitler and the KKK to some anonymous commenter's on the Huffington Post and attacking Arianna. In his perverted defense, he says that the use of propaganda by the Nazis to murder millions of Jews is an honest comparison to some idiots leaving comments on a blog.
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O'Reiily: ...from the late nineteen twenties to nineteen thirty three when Hitler became chancellor, the Nazis used vile propaganda to demonize Jews and others in the eyes of the German people. The used newspapers, radio, leaflets and rallies to build up enormous hatred towards your family.
Today we're seeing the same thing on the net here in America, there is no difference. When Arianna Huffington allows people to say that Nancy Reagan should suffer terribly and then die, that is no different that what doctor Joseph Goebbels and others were putting out way back then.
What an ignorant fool. Yea, a few commenter's on blogs are in some way equal to Hitler and his mass rallies that led millions of people to their demise and are as evil as the KKK and the Nazis in O'Reilly's world. Right wing demagogues will say absolutely anything to justify their insane actions. Rarely if ever, BillO will take a look at right wing sites to see what they are up to as Steve Young points out.
I know you won't because you never have. You've always said that the Right's smears are minuscule as compared to the Left's. What, you've never listened to talk radio? You've never gone through the tons of right wing sites? You've never watched your show?
When you first ripped into DailyKos you admitted you had never even heard of FreeRepublic.com, one of the largest right wing blog sites on the Net. Some crack research staff...read on
I didn't see BillO repudiate Malkin when I broke the story about her printing the phone numbers of Santa Cruz students who were then inundated with hate calls and death threats. She was repudiated by some of her own over that one. The Santa Cruz students contacted me to help them out when the hate got too much. When I exposed Michelle's conduct---where was Bill? Where was Bill when she attacked the Frost family? Where was Bill when the right winger Charles Johnson attacked Jill Carroll after she was released from being kidnapped in Iraq? Where was...ahhh...you get the point.
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Speaking of striking similarities....
Anyone notice that Fox News hired a 'journalist' who looks just like GW Bush? Just as dumb too.
It's eerie to watch Bush practically interview himself.
She has much better knockers than Herr Doktor Goebbles.
Bill ORalee needs to have the ever-lovin' shit beaten out of him...or worse. God, when will somebody do the honors?
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/02/pregnant_pause.html
Darned peace-loving liberals speaking out against their government....how "nazi-like" of you!
how about a little smear campaign on billo over the
blogs? he is a hypocrite that is so deep in his
own arrogant shit that even he can't remember which
end to put his spoon.....i guess finger-licking good would
apply here.......bon asspitite billo !!!
Goebbels may be a hero of Biil-os....however he just a sad imitation of Joseph McCarthy.
love this site but pls stop telling us abt this fool. I don't watch Fox nor will I read anymore postings abt billO. We are better than him, smarter, more compassionate, better americans. He thrives (I think) on going on these sites and seeing how much people talk abt him. The readers of this blog (99.9% I hope) can't stand him. Pls consider limiting billO related posts to sporadic Olberman highlights.
J
Arianna, I think you should really do something... or say something....
billious, you're sick, sick, sick. if you don't know the difference, you shouldn't be on the air. Vile little rodent.
BOreilly is hoping she will "do something....or say something..." I don't think he deserves the time of day. He only cares about getting attention because attention means ratings. He is a low life imbecile and doesn't rate any attention at all. Ignore him or ridicule him. Just don't take his challenge. That would be like writing him a check.
How many times can this man (and other right winger radio loons) invoke Godwin's Law??
Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies
There is no difference between Bill O'Reilly and a big steaming pile of bullshit.
Wow...Bill is losing his marbles at the same rate of speed as Dubya...fascinating.
This guy is simply the worst of the worst.
No one else comes close to his hypocrisy and seething hatred.
The way he aggressively and maliciously and completely dishonestly goes out of his way to accuse the best progressive web sites of the kind of actions that THEY would NEVER stoop to,that HE HIMSELF IS MOST GUILTY OF OVER AND OVER AGAIN is unprecedented and vile beyond description.
and also...
Reductio ad Hitlerum
O'Rly is such an amateur rhetoricist. As are most of the righties.
I just don't understand this. It's blatant propaganda in the most devious of forms.
Or is it really possible that Bill O'Reilly is actually out of the right-wing conservative loop? Perhaps he really has joined the company of nothing but old-timers, just like his apparently-ignorant audience. Even the young, crude, conservative blogging crowd will tell you their sites feature a slew of vile, ignorant content, but their defense, just like on liberal blogs, is that their either not responsible or don't condone such language.
I really don't think O'Reilly even begins to understand the situation here. This stuff exists on his own site. I'm giving him the Bush incompetency defense on this one.
j @ 8:
stop reading about billo on this site if you are not interested. then you won't
feel the need to respond. the many of us like to be informed about others
who try to smear without conscious or ethics.
Dear O'Racist,
You are slowly sinking into irrelevance.
Sincerely,
America
Billo Also Accuses Obama of Anti-Semitic Bias in Films
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http://blip.tv/file/520347O'Reilly is a ignorant hate-mongering hypocrite with nary a foot in reality? NO FREAKING WAY... I had no idea, I thought he spoke for all of us.
O'Reilly, Goldberg, Savage and the other actual fascists are doing their level best in a coordinated campaign to confuse the public as to what a fascist actually is. Odd that all the same people they would have once labeled communist, they now label fascist.
Thirty years ago when many more were still alive who actually knew what a fascist was, these attempts would have been laughable. Now the generation which defeated German and Italian fascism is passing from us and the American right is busily establishing fascist government here.
It is crucially important (to the fascists) that just accusations of fascism from the left be defused and discredited as "He said - she said" smears. There is method to their madness.
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I think we should do a smear campaign against Billo that does not involve violence but involves sending him and/or blogs messages that will creep him out. In other words send out messages/comments about how much you (male or female) would love to do all kinds of sexual acts on him. I know, I know it makes one want to vomit, but it would sure make him squirm! He would begin to think he was sexually attractive until he learned who was really sending him those tittalating messages.
Dr. Matt @ 19:
Well said!
Yeah, Bill. And there's no difference between Mickey Mouse and Stalin....
Revisit your Thorazine drip dosage, Bill.
The sad thing is -- is that this will probably be GOOD for O'Reilly's ratings.
It pretty much always is, no matter how hateful or vile. His ratings go up and up and up.
The guy is a first rate creep and a crackpot right wing loon. But just let the nut say what he wants. At his age can he keep this rubbish up much longer? He's pushing 60 and he'll retire sooner rather than later.
And good riddance. The end of the failed Bush era will (hopefully) mean the end of the Fox "News" era.
A history lesson by a neo-fascist!
Please, lets try and ignore this ignorant scumbag, along with his ilk.
His job distract us from serious debate and higher levels of discourse.
Nothing he says means anything except to the 15-20% who are too bloodthirsty and hateful to believe anything but.
Move on to important subjects. Toss Bill O in with Paris H and Anne C and the rest of the trash.
What a baseless, ridiculous, and stupid analogy by this big ugly pencil dick fool. Bring up Goebbels was nothing more than a Freudian slip by this angry hate loving loser.
I would have to check it out, but I don't remember anybody on HuffPost wishing Nancy Raygun died. Does he have a staff that fact checks for him, or does he just pull shit out of his ass?
Bill O’Reilly never denied that he was a Nazi. Billo simply included Arianna Huffington among those who copy his Nazi-like tactics of propaganda to demonize enemies. Labeling your opponent a Nazi, or Hitler, or Fascist is the most common tactic in political discourse. Bush and Cheney have been called fascist more often than Brad Pitt had sex with Angelina.
Billo is simply irrelevent. He talks to hear himself talk and to expel those evil gases that he produces.
I just wish someone would light a match near him while he is expelling the gases so that he would blow up.
And most of that propaganda was written by Henry Ford and shipped to Germany by the Bush family's shipping line - specifically for the purpose of bringing the Nazis to power.
Once again the Republican Smear Machine accuses the anti-fascists of doing precisely what they - the fascists themselves - have done.
abob @ 32:
How would you know if Brad had sex with Angelina? Is there some kind of proof out there somewhere?
As for calling Bush and Cheney fascist, they are. Look up the meaning of fascist and get back to us.
Yes, I quite agree that Mr. O'Reilly is an "ignorant fool," at the very least.
How unfortunate then that this article promotes such an ignorant fool, however inadvertently. As the election in 2000 of Traitor Bush demonstrated, name recognition is everything, and so there's no such thing as bad publicity.
How unfortunate for the rest of us commenting here that we seem to be helping.
There are plenty of right wing trolls over at HuffPo pretending to be Democrats who say rediculously vile things designed to detract from the conversation and sully Democrats and the blog. I wouldn't be half surprised if the poster who made the comment about Nancy Reagan was a Bill O'Reilly plant if the comment was ever made at all. There are so many comments at HuffPo that it's hard to find your own so you can pick back up on the thread much less find one obnoxious and vile one that O'Reilly could pick out.
Of course he was looking in the mirror when he came up with this, correct?
We HAVE to make sure the nutballs at Fox stay on the air and constantly air this idiocy. I mean the knuckle-draggers buy it but who cares about them. The people in the middle are flocking in droves from the Repugs. I wonder if McCain will even carry Utah. Hell, a few years back even Buckley wrote about the permanant demise of conservatism thanks to the Republican party.
Jill Carroll is very much in the same mold as Mohammed Munaf, and should be treated accordingly.
The initiation of force is evil.
The following thoughts went through my mind:
The initiation of force is evil.
Therefore, people who support the initiation of force are evil.
Taxation is the inititiation of force.
Therefore, people who support taxation are evil.
People who pretend to be 'government' implement taxation.
Therefore, people who pretend to be 'government' are evil.
Therefore, people who support 'government' are evil.
O'Reilly supports 'government'.
Therefore, O'Reilly is evil.
Therefore, O'Reilly and all 'government' supporters can't complain about anyone without being a complete hypocrite.
Bill AssO’Reilly is an asshole. His asshole remarks signify the conservative, wingnut party. More proof how screwed up this country is by having Bill AssO’Reilly spewing his bigoted hate in the media. Not acceptable. He'd be better off preaching in a dive bar where somebody could punch him in the nose.
The site is called Crooks and Liars specifically because its goal is to highlight and counter the likes of O'Reilly. Before sites like this, Fox News and Bill O'Reilly could pretend to be non-partisan and "Fair and Balanced" without ever being called out on it.
By his own argument... isn't Bill equally indistinguishable from Goebbels?
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Bill O'Liely doth project far too much.
He's comprehension of just what Fascism is, is lacking.
Remember, he's the paid propagandist working for the Neocon Network.
He's paid to create hysteria and the promotion of fear in America.
He accepts a paycheck to slander others unabashedly.
He's the American Goebbels.
I await his demise along with that of the current Administration and the Neocon Fascist movement.
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Does Bill think Arianna is spelled Aryan-na?
I am just as dumbfounded as you are with Bill'Os assertion of Arianna as being a NAZI.
Bently @ 29:
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This is the strategy of accusing others of what you are to try to get the upper hand.
Ed @ 40:
O'Really doesn't support government, only the authoritarian, militaristic and undemocratic aspects of it. As far as using government as a democratic instrument to better society and mitigate the power of corporations and inherited aristocracy, he and the rest of the Conservative movement are against it.
Snowball @ 37:
I guess so, but every blog is like that, including rightwing blogs. There are a pile of idiotic trolls (some staff members) that do it to get hits.
Hey, folks. Remember that Billo has gone off the edge. Try to pity the loon. His remaining existence is for entertainment value as a laughing stock.
dadams @ 18:
For real. Ever any thought that to the title of this site? It's primary purpose for existing is smacking down asshats in govt and in the media that enable them - ie: the crooks and the liars.
what do you expect from a guy who's a few bricks shy of a full load?
"You cannot escape the similarities..."
Bill can never admit when he's wrong.
Did Billo' tell his audience to stop trolling Huff Po and posting there trying to pass themselves off as Nancy Reagan Haters?
I think Huff has more right wing spammers and trolls then she does her own target audience right now as this election gets underway.
The worst propagandist cable broadcaster with the biggest liars in the country comparing someone else to Nazis is beyond the pale. The FCC should pull their license.
ConcernedCanuck @ 31:
That's right. O'Reilly's just a shameless liar. When you fact check this creep, HE'S the one more similar Goebbels with his racism and hate.
Max-1 @ 44:
It's the Republican Fascist Movement not just the neocons. Republicans at all levels of government have been obedient and loyal functionaries carrying out Administration policies. Their ideological predecessors, Bolsheviks and Nazis would admire the loyalty and blind obedience. Republicans will continue being Republicans until they are either in prison or sitting in rocking chairs with aids wiping the drool off their chins.
Crooks and Liars really should put together some type of email campaign similar to what Firedoglake is doing in regards to the "Obama Patriotism Op-Ed" and the newspapers that ran it. I mean I know it probably has been tried, but I think this site would be able to generate thousands upon thousands of emails to fox complaining about O'Reillys behavior using the exact points you touch on in your article.
www.HyerStandard.com
My guess is that Huffington refused to appear on O'Reilly's show. So he went unhinged about it.
P R O J E C T I O N
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Psychology: the tendency to ascribe to another person feelings, thoughts, or attitudes present in oneself.
cleo @ 33:
I wish he really was irrelevant. Unfortunately:
The Scoreboard: Thursday, Feb. 28
justabill @ 61:
Everybody loves to watch a train wreck...
O’Shithead does not care about reality. He cares about his base. His base (60-89 year olds) will watch him and eat it up and believe him. O’Shithead’s rational is ridiculous. His base his is his base. Fuck him.
Billo and his ilk are realizing their own doom. They are geeting desperate with each passing day.
Matthew Elias @ 58:
I am planning on a similar project...
Otay @ 62:
Cable ratings are an inaccurate assessment of viewers. Sounds good to corporations, but it's all BS.
John Amato @ 65:
Awesome!
John Amato @ 65:
That email campaign and the way Firedoglake had it set up is the best. Get on it John. These people do not have any idea what an email extravaganza they are in for. lol
ConcernedCanuck @ 67:
Only problem is we've seen what good complaining to the wing nutters about basic decency has accomplished.
Nothing. They just keep on doing it.
I mean seriously. Complaining to Fox about O'Reilly? One of their pride and joys?
Ron @ 55:
While I agree that Fox News Channel is nothing but propaganda, I don't think it's even possible to yank their license. Only over-the-air broadcasters (yeah, kinda redundant) require licenses.
Best way to break Fox News Channel is by boycotting Murdoch's Newscorp, down to the most minute tangent. Don't just turn off FNC, but deny your business to companies that advertise in Newscorp papers. Sure, it would take a more concerted and time consuming effort than passing the decision off to some commissioners. But a succesful boycott would actually teach the media a painful economic lesson not soon forgotten. Any action by a board of political appointees would only, imo, fuel the fight in the Murdochs of the world.
ConcernedCanuck @ 66:
That's not true. the ratings are directly fed some from nielson boxes still but more and more so from DVRs like Tivo. Now that everyone with a DVR is feeding the ratings, they are more accurate than ever. They reflect what people are watching.
Yea, a few commenter’s on blogs are in some way equal to Hitler and his mass rallies that led millions of people to their demise and are as evil as the KKK and the Nazis in O’Reilly’s world. Right wing demagogues will say absolutely anything to justify their insane actions
What actions, exactly, were Bill trying to justify by comparing huffington to goebbels?
AirAmerica's Randy Rhodes once in a while talks about how early in her career she was approached and asked to deliver the "red meat" to conservative audiences. Being true to herself, she turned down the offer. O'Reilly is just a whore to his angry racist listeners. I do think O'Reilly's a typical ignorant bigot, but I also think he's a professional panderer.
ConcernedCanuck @ 31:
He just pulls shit out of his ass.
Left&Left @ 74:
He is a whore. He only says this shit for the money. If he diodn't stir the pot like this his 80 year olds would fall asleep. Just like Coulter and Beck and Gibson. All in the same money boat.
I vote to ignore the scumbag and stop helping his ratings.
Or complain to government agencies about his numerous offenses. We have to go above Faux's head to end this joker's career.
Even Geraldo has had enough of O'Crapola.
American @ 77:
Here's the Guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes
O'Reilly is blind to the basic difference between the Nazis and the Leftists. The Nazis defended the powerful; the leftists defended the powerless. It is that simple. Stand up for oil interests, white men, heteros, so-called "Christians," agri-business, big Pharma, big lenders, big, selfish international corporations and against the poor, the minorities, the gays, women, the sick, the religious minorities, the non-religious, the homeless...that is how you determine who is the Nazi and who is not.
My beef with Arianna is that she has no shame....her site has become an pro-obama 24/7 site. They take off most posts that are anti-Obama, but it clearly doesn't work that way for HIllary. I wouldn't expect you to take my word....go see for yourself.
I never took Bill O'Reilley seriously because he has nothing to offer. My mistake is thinking Arianna did.
Has anyone run a check to see just how many people Bill-O has compared to "Goebbels"?
It seems to be his favorite Nazi to compare people too. He compared Al Franken to Goebbels, and I believe CBS News (via "60 Minutes") to him as well. Me thinks it's Bill's favorite Nazi to compare people too because he himself bear more than a passing resemblance in reporting style. "Preach what you know" after all. Ain't that right?
ConcernedCanuck @ 66:
Hell, I'm part of those ratings - along with other people that I know that listen to Billo for entertainment purposes only - Just because the jackass is highly rated doesn't really mean that we agree with him.
I dont pay any attention to those nutballs.
Watching him or hannity is a like self mutilation . No thanks.
We give them power by our viewing. Stop watching to win.
"Bill O'Reilly left vile filthy messages on my phone that were reminiscent of the sick, sexually perverted heyday of the Nazis"
_ Andrea Mackris
Ron @ 55:
With the current make-up of the FCC?? Keep dreaming.
Huffington is a dirtbag, but then again , so is Bill.
Debbie @ 87:
Moral equivalency much?
Fuck this sack of crap. Huffington, tell him to fuck himself.
I only see one fucking Nazi in the picture at the top of the page, and it ain't Arianna!
If she's Goebbel's he's a pussy.
No wonder the GOOP are scared of everyone.
Billo is so scared he probably sleeps with his bodyguard.
He's a comedian. He laughs all the way to the bank; with his $10 million cheque. Easiest job around. Trash everyone; no brain required.
Arianna should relieve him of some of that $10 million (or more). So should
SorosDr. Evil.so has everyone forgotten the "we'll forget about lynching M. Obama until...." quote from mr. o?
what a jerk, but i agree that these foolish clowns should be ignored by the OH SO LIBERAL media? why can't we communist pinkos get our biased act together and get rid of these o'reilly clones and limbaugh lackies? they have been multiplying too fast.
Candideinnc @ 80:
Although the references you mention are arguably true, it is really simpler than even that.
You see both sides use the same tactics, expound the same hate, rely on the same rhetorical mechanisms – so what really is the difference? Simply this: one side’s cause is themselves – solely. When they argue, when they hate, when they try to debate with either (faulty) logic or emotional appeals, the protagonist is ALWAYS their own. “It’s all about me!” They feel attacked, so they attack. They feel fear, so they spread fear. They feel threatened, so they fight. The antagonist is EVERYONE ELSE. i.e. “With us or against us!”
The other side is just as angry, feels just as threatened, and for the most part just as afraid and uses the same rhetoric. But in this case the protagonist IS EVERYONE ELSE. Their cause, what they fight for, is all those threatened by, subject to, and the target of those in the first group. The antagonist IS THE FIRST GROUP – solely.
That first group will never win in the long run. For as we’re now seeing, if they are initially successful, then they will inevitably divide their own into smaller and smaller groups - defending what is theirs alone. Soon they are all alone.
Billo is a lonely person.
L.A. Confidential @ 54:
And most of those trolls and spammers would give their left nut or boob to do her...that's IF she'd even acknowledge their existence.
When this story first I though Billo was trying to pay Arianna some kind of compliment by comparing her to the kkk and Nazis. They just seemed like his base. Remember how upset he was by the Malmedy incident where poor Nazis were forced to execute unarmed American POWs. He sure wanted to hang the U.S Army out to dry on that one. I guess he must have realized that most Nazis are ineligible for membership in the Republican party
Orally goes off the deep end anytime anyone slights him. I hope Faux keeps him locked up. And keeps axes out of his hands.
Billo 'the thrillo' evil propagandist for fascist corporations and Republican criminals, or just plain batshit insane
If C&L readers are interested in a very good podcast that features Arianna Huffington, as well as Tony Blankley and Robert Scheer, check out "Left, Right and Center" from KCRW, Santa Monica. They have well informed and mutually respectable political discussions about all the hot US political topics. Well worth a listen.
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/lr
The next democratic pundit on air or in the studio with some right wing tool who compares the Dems or Arianna or Franken or WHOMEVER to Hitler would you please, please, Puh-LEASE cold cock the sonofabitch? Even if you lose the ensuing fight we'll all feel better. Oh and I'll pay your bail.
Really I'm so sick of this crap.
That doesn't sound much worse than the vast body of Americans who believe that a large number of their brethren should die and then suffer terribly.
If I were to look up the phrase, "ignorant son of a bitch" in the dictionary....I'd see a picture of bor beside the description.
He is such an arrogant, blinded buffoon. He should listen to the nonsense that comes out of his hypocritical mouth sometime.
Scott @ 101:
Ah, but that is their own fault for not believing the proper things. Besides, the memory of their loved ones will be removed if their loves ones end up being tortured forever for believing the wrong things. That makes it okay. /sarcasm
actually, reading the comments on huffpo is like being in an insane asylum. all hillary-hate, all-day. i keep expecting to read on huffpo how hillary killed sharon tate and john lennon.
This shitbag just needs to get into a pissing match with another celebrity at least once every 2 months. It's in is contract.
O'reilly isn't fit to carry Goebbles' jockstrap, much less compare him to anyone else.
the most comments on a FreeRepublic.com current posts is 17, they are all astoundingly horrible comments about how Israel should kill all the people in Gaza. Its scary, im just happy that there are only 17 of them.
Otay @ 59:
That's what I'm thinking. Its all about BillO in that big fuckin head of his, and his untreated psychotic rage fuels it.....He probably wants to falafelize Arianna, too.
Why is Bill O'Reilly on television? Why are his out-of-touch-grandfather-esque rants being covered by "Crooks and Liars?" Insofar as the first question is concerned, one might guess ratings. Someone who utters controversial (albeit stupid) statements on the air tends to draw attention. And yet, Bill's ratings are not that great. So, why is he still around? Bill Maher had a show canceled for less.
Reiily: …from 9/11 when the New Pearl Harbor occured and Bush was the PNAC puppet, the Neocons used vile propaganda to demonize Muslims and others in the eyes of the American people. The used newspapers, radio, and TV to build up enormous hatred towards truth, justice and liberty. Like Hitler they sought to build an empire, but they did it in guise of fighting terrorism. The truth as any informed person oughta know was of course something totally different. Propaganda works to this day
How often have I heard that the middle-east should be nuked until pretty much nothing remains..?
Bill O'Reilly's countdown to irrelevance in 5...4...3...2...
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Funny, if you look at photos of Goebbels, O'Reilly, and Arianna ... only two of the three are shown as yelling, pointing loons.
That would be Goebbels and Bill-O, for those who are tuning in late.
Billo has obviously lost his ever-loving mind. He shows no pretense of decency and needs to just STFU! Comparing Arianna Huffington to Goebbles is just plain stupidity! He is dumber than a bag of hammers!
http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2008/03/shorter-bill-oreilly.html
http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2008/02/utterly-amazing.html
Ok, got that? If a commenter at HuffingtonPost says (s)he hopes Nancy Reagan dies that makes Arianna Huffington an extremist indistinguishable from the Nazis.
Fast foward to last night. O'Reilly had Melanie Morgan on his program to promote her Move America Foward organization. That's the same Melanie Morgan who is fine with sending New York Times editor Bill Keller "to the gas chamber" for treason. And the same Melanie Morgan who said that Iraq war veteran Jon Soltz "is ... a hypocritical cockroach. He needs to be stomped on and neutralized before he and his ilk can silence military support for the mission in Iraq." And the same Morgan who said that "We've got a bull's-eye painted on [Nancy Pelosi's] big, wide laughing eyes."
So Arianna Huffington having some unsolicited, unpromoted, since deleted hateful comments about Nancy Reagan on one of the posts of her website makes Huffington the same as Nazis and the KKK. But an unrepetant and unapologetic Melanie Morgan can advocate sending journalists who report uncomfortable truths about politicians she supports to gas chambers, can equate political opponents with cockroaches that need to be exterminated, and can mock and caricature the physical appearance of members of an opposition political party and joke about them being targets for assasination and she's still a perfectly fine and respectable person who is fit to be a recurring guest on the O'Reilly Factor
oops, one more
http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2008/02/arianna-huffington-is-no-differen...
Because if Arrianna Huffington is no different than a Nazi because of those comments, what does it make O'Reilly when he works for a network that continues to promote and defend the bigoted/racist attacks on Barack Obama from radio host Bill Cunningham? For that matter, there are racist remarks about "B. Hussein Obama" in the O'Reilly Townhall column I linked to earlier in the post. But, as always, nothing tops O'Reilly continuing to have Ann Coulter on as a guest despite her career long history of hate-mongering.
And while O'Reilly continues to call HuffingtonPost and Daily Kos hate sites no different from the KKK or Nazis because of the mean things some of the commenters say, World Net Daily - a site which features O'Reilly's columns - has commenters talking about how Jared Taylor isn't a racist and about how it's unGodly for races to mix.
Everybody in Europe lost family members becuase of Hitler. Its not something that you joke about. It would be like the Europeans making fun of the native American massacres or maybe slavery. When these douchebags say things like this in the media; the Europeans look at Americans like we are a bunch of dipshits. It just amazes me how these fools can cry and snibble about a stupid flag pin then turn around and make our country look stupid.
Bill is a fricken idiot of biblical proportion, he simultaneously commits the very act he accuses Arianna Huffington’s blog of. Welcome to the Klan Bill, welcome to the Klan you Nazi.
You know if all of you haters would actually read a History Book, now & then, you might just find out how closely you are to being left-wing, socialists, Stalinists, Marxists, & NAZI's! Responsible for over 100 Million Deaths worldwide in just the last 100 years.
Or would the Epiphany be too much for you?
Here is a Good book to start with:
http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/w/war-against-the-weak.shtml
Also considering that the KKK was created by the Democratic Party, Bill 'Reilly's analogy isn't as off as much as you would wish.
justabill @ 72:
You didn't even read the link you cited. Try again.....
NaziHunter @ 118:
Maybe in your spare time in therapy you can brief us on "Mein Kampf" since it seems you're an avid reader on the topic.
NaziHunter @ 118:
The end times are upon us.
Quick go lock yourself in the basement.
As an outsider looking in (from New Zealand) I am continually amazed how O'Reilly is able to say the things he gets away with. Where are the court cases? Why is he not continously dragged before the bench? From what I read in Crooks and Liars, he is forever libelling, defaming, dragging peoples names through the mud, and gets away with it. Sounds like yet another case of "Only in America". How can he walk the streets with immunity?
He appears to be a sick animal and should be put down accordingly.
NaziHunter @ 118:
Haters?
HATERS!?
So then, why do Fascist governments despise and loath Liberalism, free thinking, other races deemed unacceptable, alternate lifestyles, the arts, teachers who encourage idea exchange...?
Reading books, it seems that repressive forms of governments discourage all and more that I listed above.
Plotted on a political chart, Fascists are extreme FAR RIGHT. Now, the FAR RIGHT in America tends to HATE gays, Mexicans and Muslims(brown skinned people), Liberalism and free speech, the humanities and arts, public education, non-Christian/non-Jewish(I would say non-Abraham based religions, but Islam is one and is still hated)...
You're a Fascist and love it but in the same sense you know that it is antithetical to what America stands for.
It wasn't the Liberals that decided to LIE TO AMERICA and invade and occupy a nation that posed no threat to our HOMELAND...
Oh, BTW, SINCE WHEN HAS AMERICA EVER BEEN CALLED THE HOMELAND? I thought that it was called AMERICA.
But your president and his Neocon Fascist gang of THUGS have brainwashed you into obedience... you call it HOMELAND, don't you?
Germany, USSR, ... Fatherland/Motherland...
AMERICA... HOMELAND?
These are NOT Liberal ideas.
These are not Liberal labels given to ascribe a Nationalistic Flair to one's country.
These are FASCIST TITLES given to a country so that the people can identify with a sense of unity around a rallying point.
It used to be just America, the beautiful...
Once known only as America... the land of the free; the brave.
Never before G.W.Bush has She EVER been called the HOMELAND.
EVER!
Your president, your party... HAVE FOREVER PERVERTED AMERICA!
May you wake up some day and realise what you have wrought upon humanity.
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Speaking of HuffPo... Here's a great interview with George Carlin.
Gotugye @ 57:
I'm not willing to blame ALL Republicans...
Hell, there were many a Democrat that echoed and stood with the Republicans on issues that have done us under.
Why, Hillary voted to invade Iraq, just one example.
Fascism is an ideology, NOT a political party.
I refuse to blame ONLY Republicans for what has gone wrong.
They couldn't have done it without the consent of the Democrats.
The ideology live in BOTH parties.
I refuse to engage in the Right vs. Left, Republicans vs. Democrats argument because I'm an American FIRST AND FOREMOST, Party follows after.
But in today's climate it seems America has fallen to the wayside and Party Loyalism reigns supreme.
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The moment we've all been waiting for -- Can you hear the rumble? feel the vibration? O'Lielly's head is about to explode . . . .
YET . . .
. . . he doesn't DARE attack this site - because then he'd have to say the name "crooks and liars" on air about a liberal blog that tracks re-PIG-licans. And how embarrassing would THAT be?
LOL!!!
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Trittydi @ 126:
My Bad. I guess the vibration isn't coming from his head . . . .
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Max-1 @ 123:
^5 well done
would somebody beat the living shit out of o'reilly and shut him up!
I have had my differences with Arianna Huffington over the years, but no matter how you cut it, she is one smart cookie. Bill O'Reilly, however, is a poisonous crumb.
Like O'Reilly, I was born Catholic. Fortunately, I escaped. O'Reilly, obviously, did not. I cetainly don't hate or denigrate the people who have remained Catholic. Each person is entitled to his or her own beliefs (as long as they don't infringe upon the rights of others). Believe whatever you want, just don't put your beliefs on me.
Unfortunately, O'Reilly wants others to believe as he does, religiously as well ss politically. And, unfortunately, he is also a prejudiced, lying piece of human garbage. (Please correct me if you have proof to the contrary.)
Somebody need to kick Bill in his ass and if he keeps this cheap crap up, that is exactly what he is going to get. To hell with removing him from TV. Kick his ass.
Everything said here about O'Reilly is accurate. He's a liar, a bigot, a hypocrite, and a bully...and those are his good points.
But really, is it worth getting exercised over him? Over the years we've had a succession of O'Reilly types in public life, demagogues who used fear to inflame the public and further their own agendas: Father Coughlin, Walter Winchell, J. Edgar Hoover, George Wallace, David Duke, the publisher in Manchester, NH (forgot his name), Gordon Liddy, and others. All eventually fell from grace on their own.
O'Reilly is going to make dumb comparisons like Arianna-to-Goebbels not because he really believes them, but because HIS JOB DEPENDS ON IT. His audience feeds off this nonsense because they hate liberals above all else, and they tune in to get their hate candy every day. Hate is addictive, you know. O'Reilly would be replaced by someone like Ann Coulter if he slackened off on attacking liberals. Murdoch demands it, and pays O'Reilly well. The more we act indignant, the more they'll do it, because they see our anger as a victory for themselves.
Hulk @ 102:
BOR aka Billy O'liar strange and very that his initials are the starting letters of Bormann
'He lusted for power and influence and was eager to do Chimpy's bidding. Chimpy called Billy his "most faithful MSM puppy," a title that Billy lived down to.'
There is no bigger fool in America then billo. He is just a loud mouth fool without the sense of four year old.
I cannot stand to listen to billo or hannity or limpballs all of the right wing talking assholes are fools. I cannot figure how they ever got a job like this in the first place?
It is evident that none of them actually have any talent they are just willing dupes and liars!
John: I agree with everything you say about BillO. He is the quintessential scumbag. But I find that Arianna and some other contributors have taken a strong anti-Hillary line. It goes back to her days as a Conservative when she was always on CNN and elsewhere slamming the Clintons. I don't question her right to support a candidate. I just note her readiness to distort the record of HRC. Huffington Post is a mixed blessing. I have stopped going there: it has become all quantity and little quality.
Fascism - The media is sympathetic media spokespeople and executives.
Captain "Vile" strikes again. Man, he is obcessed with this word. Take a boo in the thesaurus Willie and you'll find a minimum of 10 words that would be suitable substitutes But then again, it's just one reason your personae is so boring. Perhaps it's fitting.
Anyone who goes to HuffPo expecting to see the online equivalent of a Klan rally will be sorely disappointed. All it means is more hits for Arianna, and a little more ad revenue in her pocket. Once again, a stupid, cheap ploy by Billo that will have the opposite effect he'd hoped for.
OK, enough is enough. What is the over-under on the number of times BillO has made sweet love to another man in an airport restroom? I'll say 12. I'll give 3-1 odds for a special wager of over 20.
That's the oldest propagandist trick in the book. If you are the propagandist, accuse others who provide vetted facts and information as being the propagandist that you are; imply at the same time that you are the only source of legitimate information.
Hey, Billo. Except for the 19-29% brain-dead droolers demographic, everybody else has yours and News Corp/FOX's number. You're only preaching to your existing choir; you aren't going to get any new converts.
I have absolutely no problem with invoking comparisons to the Nazi propaganda machine run by Goebbels. However, BillO is using the common tactic of accusing your enemy of exactly what you are guilty of.
The Rove/Fox/Limbaugh propaganda machine is as efficient, perhaps not as brutal, but as efficient and shameless as what the Nazi's were doing.
The Nazis are not off-limits when it comes to comparisons. Not everything the Nazis did was genocide and murder. They did plenty of other bad shit as a government that is being done today.
Fuck this PC crap, "Oh he invoked the Nazis! Scandalous!" Big deal. What needs to be done is for someone who has the balls to use documented proof to show why IT IS HE, and his right wing ilk, who are the Goebbels clones--and they know it. And they need to do it in a very public way. If he wants to open the door, then it needs to be walked through.
One reason the right is so willing to say outrageous shit is that they know the left either under-estimates the willingness of people to believe anything they say, or the left is just too chicken-shit to engage them in a fight.
This country has deteriorated into a cess pool of self obsession because of shitheads like BillO, and those who pay him, and those who write his shit, and those who listen to him and believe ... and those who won't stand up and put this fucker where he belongs once and for all.
I wish there was a Jesus who could come back and blow this fucking place all to hell and turn it over to the meek already.
O'Reilly is 100% correct about Huffington.
It is impossible to post a dissenting view on her blog. Indeed, even the most mildly critical posts are deleted
Further, people who think that Huffington is some great friend to Democrats have very short and selective memories. She, along with Rich, Dowd, Sullivan, Matthews, Russert, et al. lead the media as some of the most effective shills against Gore in 2000.
And, she continues her unethical brand of journalism to this very day.
dadams @ 46:
Was the "King of Fluffers" Bill-O, talking about Fox News and the Regressive Republican Party, it sure sounded like it!
O’Reiily: …from the late nineteen eighties to two thousand when Bush became President, the Republicans used vile propaganda to demonize non-christians and others in the eyes of the United States people. They used newspapers, radio, leaflets and rallies to build up enormous hatred towards your family.
I'm sure this is what bllow really meant to say.....
"O'Reilly has an 'R', an 'E', an 'I' and an 'L' in his last name: just like Hitler! There's hardly any difference!"
Re: #141
I would disagree, because the invocation of the Nazis ultimately trivializes the REAL offences in the process. An idiot posts something on a message board? Let's make otherwise sane people turn against the operator of the site that runs the message board, yeah she's the one to blame!
It's sheer manipulative tactics, and it's not only an unfair comparison in its emotional connotations, but its unfair in that it is trying to shamelessly evoke a strong reaction when none is really warranted. It's distracting and desensitizing to hear this come up all the time.
Funny how the sexual predator of Faux News only singles out HP and conveniently ignores all of the vile "Nazis, Goebbels's" crap written on the conservative blogs. The FNC sexual predator has to have a new target every week to go after or else his show gets rather boring to the over 70 crowd that watches it. That is the basis of his show. Should we ignore him? Absolutely! Do I get a rise out of making fun of the jagoff? Even better!
And what was his beef about a post on Nancy Reagen anyway? That someone wrote that she should die? Was that it? So no Ariana Huffington is a nazi? Wow! I will bet that if someone traced the IP address of the persons who "posted " that particular entry it leads right back to the Faux News studios and the sexual predators staff... how convenient.
cg @ 147:
Never watch BillO, never will. He's a joke.
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