O'Reilly Minion Ambushes Arianna Huffington

Building on his extensive resumé of ambush journalism, Bill O'Reilly sends one of his flunkees "producers" to confront Arianna Huffington over cherry-picked comments left by an anonymous person on HuffPo.

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Arianna responds:

I find it laughable to be lectured on hate speech by Bill O'Reilly, who has done as much if not more than anyone else in the media to debase the public dialogue. He spews hate as readily as he breathes. It's his lifeblood.

O'Reilly's relentless crusade to smear Arianna should finally leave no doubt that he has absolutely zero journalistic standards and/or shame.

As John Amato just documented with some original reporting, FOX News allows hate-filled-racist comments on their own website. You know, the kind BillO says is ruining our country. We're still waiting for O'Reilly to clarify those comments or deem them really not hateful at all. Will Howard Kurtz include them in his next column also?

Exit question: If you ambushed the Falafel King and got to ask one question, what would it be? I think I would ask what he meant when he told Andrea Mackris that Al Franken was going to "get a knock on his door" one day and have his "life change forever."



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Arianna'a moderater's DO play lot's of games with the comments.

Huffpo has steadily eroded since it's inception.

Why does this hypocritical, racist asshole even get any play. Can't we just ignore him out of existence. [Deleted. Let's not even make the implication here. Thanks-Sitemonitor]. He needs to rot in hell where he belongs.

Notice Arianna is almost laughing at the poor guy. And it's true. Poor guy just wants to move up the ladder in broadcasting but this is what he's reduced to doing. He's one step above the old Stuttering John celebrity interviews on Howard Stern back in the day.

But if someone ambushed me with that kinda crap (and in such as 10th grade manner as well), I'd be reduced to smiles too.

BillO and his little minions should spend five minutes at Human Events to read REAL hate speech.

I'd ask him if it's really (and I mean REALLY) safe to drink the iced tea at Sylvia's Restaurant.

O'Reilly:
"There you go"
huh? Did I miss something Bildo?

got to ask one question, what would it be?

after being found guilty of the Nuremberg principle in the upcoming war crimes tribunal for aiding, abetting and inciting aggression against the american, iraqi and afghani people i would offer this choice to BillO:

firing squad or hanging?

News organization and channels have reporters, Bill O'Reilly isn't a journalist and his show isn't a news show. Who is he fooling?

Its called freedom of speech Billo.

Now go play with your dildo.

falafel man is trying to harass and bully bloggers.

This is the typical Bill O'Reilly schtik: go after some prominent left group, and rake up the ratings. Yawn, the gimmick's as old as he is.

Hell anyone with any internet street smarts knows the people who post those kind of comments over at Huff Po or anywhere else that isn't a Republican domain are right wingers and extremists playing their little amateur espionage and "let's pretend we're liberals" games.

Of course O'Reilly's audience takes his bait hook line and sinker.

His "supportive viewers" must eat this crap up. It reminds me of little "yap-dogs" that bark at your heal, but have nothing else to do with their time.

bor is such poor white trash....meaning he is about as unethical, dispicable and hateful a person as I could ever imagine. A PERFECT MASCOT for the far right. Go Nazis!!

I used to hate o'reilly so much. But i finally realized that it's a comedy show. So friging funny.

In a public forum its very easy for fizz wits to post hateful stupid comments.
In fact because of the anonymity of the net its quite easy to pretend to be something you are not,for example a "Liberal".
Billy boy is perfectly aware of all this,but because his inflammatory hypocrisy pays so well,he has no problem what so ever in launching these kinds of absurd attacks.

I'm pretty sure if I met O'Reilly the only question I'd ask, every few seconds, is "Does THIS hurt? How 'bout this?"

Who cares what Bill O"Reilly says. He's a carnie barker along with Rush Limbo and Isanity and Coombs. The more coverage Bullo gets, the more his network can charge for advertising.

Has Bullo ever made a substantive statement about any topic? No.

Leave him alone and he'll dry up into a turd cake.

I find it already pathetic that billo even tries to make Huffington take responsibility for comments left below her posts - as if she wrote them herself. Why nothing on the article itself?

Come to think of it, the fact that the web is open to every nutcase from every neck of the world makes it easy to imagine one of billo's minions posting hate mail on his behalf for his own better "complaining" - which, of course, would be the most pathetic of all.

Some simple reason, gents. O'Reilly's voice only rings true for the voting stupid.

HuffPo ought to trace the IP addresses of posters to see how many of those racist comments are planted there by Fox addresses.

O’Reilly’s relentless crusade . . . should finally leave no doubt that he has absolutely zero journalistic standards and/or shame.

I hope you know that no one here is even going to pretend to be surprised by this observation.
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I just wonder if Bill O is just giving Huffington free publicity.

Bill-o should explain why Fox supports terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism, such as Iran and Syria?

K Trout @ 16:

Who cares what Bill O"Reilly says. He's a carnie barker along with Rush Limbo and Isanity and Coombs. The more coverage Bullo gets, the more his network can charge for advertising.

Has Bullo ever made a substantive statement about any topic? No.

Leave him alone and he'll dry up into a turd cake.

How true--if he's simply ignored, and his supporters not patronized, he will eventually go away.

I would ask him to wait just a minute. Then I would call the police.

Good O'Bitter Butt O'Wrinkly...he is slowly, but surely, fading away in this world.

Arianna Huffington is no more credible than Bill O'Reilly.

My one question:

How did you get to be such a perfect idiot?

I guarantee you if Arianna decided to require real name and address registration every single comment like Billo is talking about would vanish, along with the trolls and you would have sane sensible people discussing the issues in a civil manner.

Ask how many autographed copies of Andrew Macdonald's books there are in the Faux office and or homes!

is there anything like a anti-hatemongers ELF?
maybe they could visit billo and flame his bad attitude.

Bill knows absolutely nothing about democracy.
The beauty (and to some trouble) of this medium is the fact that i can write what I think and participate in the larger discussion. You cannot do this on TV because it is one way delivery.
This comment belongs to me and is shared with you in this space.

Bill thinks he is doing us all a favor by killing those civic spaces where people can say what they think in response to real issues. Bill ignores them completely.

I can't wait for the day when this clown is finally held accountable when we as a society evolve past his simplistic, fear-driven, backlash and drive his show to the gutter where it belongs. If under a strong democratic majority we can right this boat we are all in (that's a huge if) under a democratic president history will judge Bill and his ilk as roadblocks to the realization of the American dream.

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facta non verba @ 25:

Arianna Huffington is no more credible than Bill O'Reilly.

another gop factless voice, arianna comes from honesty.
your boy, billo, has a falafel in his head.

Pablo @ 30:

Bill knows absolutely nothing about democracy.
The beauty (and to some trouble) of this medium is the fact that i can write what I think and participate in the larger discussion. You cannot do this on TV because it is one way delivery.
This comment belongs to me and is shared with you in this space.

Bill thinks he is doing us all a favor by killing those civic spaces where people can say what they think in response to real issues. Bill ignores them completely.

I can't wait for the day when this clown is finally held accountable when we as a society evolve past his simplistic, fear-driven, backlash and drive his show to the gutter where it belongs. If under a strong democratic majority we can right this boat we are all in (that's a huge if) under a democratic president history will judge Bill and his ilk as roadblocks to the realization of the American dream.

Bills nothing but an Attack dog.

It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.

question would be: still use the same brand of loofah there big guy?

O'Reilly is a hatemongering despicable hypocrite

Reeks of desperation, doesn't it?

And as usual, they're deliberately confusing commenters with bloggers.

Layne @ 3:

But if someone ambushed me with that kinda crap (and in such as 10th grade manner as well), I'd be reduced to smiles too.

Not me. I'd kick his ass.

The question I'd ask - Did your parents put you on a diet of lead paint when you were a kid?

What an idiot. I remember when he used to host Inside Edition. They did a number of episodes with this blonde bimbo who claimed to be a nymphomaniac and each episode featured her somewhere in public flashing her jugs or exposing her ham wallet (all blurred of course). They actually made it out as though it was a real tragic sickness and that they totally cared for her well being. Totally un-newsworthy just like the crap he spews to this day.

Anybody under the age of 70 will understand the distinction between a blog and the blog's comment section. Of course, that's nobody in O'Reilly's audience, so he should be safe with his bullshit.

[Deleted-Sitemonitor]. Ariana Huffington is hot. She's also classy, I like how those guys suddenly surround the camera man and interviewer and usher them out.

Desperation is ambushing presidential candidate Obama seeking a commitment to appear on his show because no self-respecting politician who has values remotely similar to those of media matters, huffington, this site etc would ever go on.

These blogs have democratized crucial knowledge and while these are my first posts I have been following this site for a while.

Bill knows that his show loses if republicans lose these upcoming elections.

[Deleted. Off topic. I forwarded this to the team. Update: This story was already in the works. Thanks to both you and Hussein Hussein-Sitemonitor]

Is it down to this? Does all he have to offer his audience is the type of comments left on another person's blog? If this is the best he has, I suggest he just pack up and go home.

It was pathetic. I watched it!

Wow Janet, nice catch. Now I know why they showed Richardson endorsing Obama's today. They don't usually give Obama's events that much time. Maybe they were trying to make nice.

Let the fool rant. His ratings are in the toilet... He's a joke.

As far as HuffPo, this site, or any blog out there... when you open the comments to the public, you get all the wisdom, humor, stupidity and hatred present in the world.

That's not supporting the wisdom, humor, stupidity or hate... it's just presenting a window into the mindset of a few folks out in the world.

If O'Reilly had the skills to be an actual reporter, he'd have other things to do with his time.

I had a dream that Bill crossed my path. In my dream, I kicked him really hard, square in the nuts. He went down like a sack of flour and cried.

It was wonderful...

Not to be too nit-picky, and I am very appreciative of C&L but why is O'Reilly covered as if he mattered? (I'm assuming to this audience, he doesn't matter.) I mean there are already sites that cover his inaccuracies, if I wanted to be up-to-date on Billo being an asshole, idiot, bigot or whatever, I'd watch his show.

Oops, sorry site monitor. I responded to Janet's link 'cause since it was about Fox news, it would be okay since BillO is on fox.
[No worries. The story is being written up now, so you'll have a whole thread to discuss it-Sitemonitor]

Orally:

[Huffington]...a former Republican turned far left zealot.

I can never keep a straight face watching the guy's clips.

Let Billo spew his hatred. I read the Philly Inquirer today and Democrats are registering to vote in record numbers. Not only are they gaining new voters, many Independants and Republicans are switching party afilliation. So go ahead Billo! Soon you will be singing to an ever eroding chior.

Albatross @ 15:

I'm pretty sure if I met O'Reilly the only question I'd ask, every few seconds, is "Does THIS hurt? How 'bout this?"

Thanks for the visual.
If I could put into words the interpretation of my visual, i'd get
banned by the Site Monitor.

Why even bother getting into a pissing match with a scumbag like O'Reilly? This only allows him to scamper back to his fellow conservative knuckle-draggers and proclaim how out of control liberals are.

P.D. @ 49:

Let Billo spew his hatred. I read the Philly Inquirer today and Democrats are registering to vote in record numbers. Not only are they gaining new voters, many Independants and Republicans are switching party afilliation. So go ahead Billo! Soon you will be singing to an ever eroding chior.

A lot of those independent and Republican people registering to vote Dem are doing so because Rush instructed them to do so, and to vote for HRC in order to prolong the primary so it keeps damaging the Dems, since McCain wrapped up the nomination.

I see nothing wrong with the comments made on HuffingtonPost.
Reagan and Bush are terrorists and anyone who supports them deserves to die a slow and painful death. That includes their wives (Nancy Reagan) and press secretaries (Tony Snow).
However, I do not believe that Dana Perino (current press secretary) should die a slow death. She's hot, that's why.

It is ridiculous that those getting ambushed do not directly follow Olbermann's advice. If Ariana had simply said "Andrea Makris accused Bill Oreilly of sexual harrassment over the phone" Over and over again there would be no way that O'reilly would air it. She can bring up Fallafels and Loofahs or whatever she wants. Prominent progressives need to use a strategy when dealing with O'reilly's ambushes.

Unfortunately, ignoring BillO will not make him go away. (An Ostrich with his head in the sand comes to mind.) He needs to be raked over the coals each and every time he screws up.

Questions for BillO’s stooge?

1) Does BillO have a reflection in a mirror? If so, does he ever look at himself?
2) Is BillO’s IQ at or below 100?
3) Who is BillO’s writers or does he write his own propaganda? If he has writers, does he read the script before airing it?
4) [Directed toward the stooge] Do you like your job? If so, what is your IQ?
5) [Actually, the list is endless, time and space prohibits further examples.]

Oh, whatever. I'm sure most of Bill's audience will have redeemed their pre-payed burial spots within the next year or so anyway.

My question for Billo: ARE YOU THE GUY WHO STRONG-ARMED MY 9YR.OLD KIDS LUNCH MONEY FROM HIM? You fit the description to the letter.

My god, that was aggravating. Why the hell does Huffington, armed with the truth in this argument, not stand her ground and defend it? *Bloggers* wrote those things, Fox says? No, *commenters* wrote those things, just as they do on O'Reilly's site. No more needs to be said about it.

And does she really not know that the comments are not deleted?

Filthy Harry, You may be right, but I'll tell you there is a lot of anger in PA. And a lot of it is directed at the occupants in the White House. Hopefully they direct their anger where it belongs, The Republican Party.

Just remember, when confronted by Orally's thugs. Falafel, Malmady and Makris.

I think every celebrity and politician or blogger that is accosted by one of O'Riellys asshole should bring of Andrea Mackris's Name...
In every kind of context possible!

Mine would be . . . "so did you enjoy the baseball bat I just shoved up your ass?"

pissed off patricia @ 47:

Oops, sorry site monitor. I responded to Janet's link 'cause since it was about Fox news, it would be okay since BillO is on fox.
[No worries. The story is being written up now, so you'll have a whole thread to discuss it-Sitemonitor]

Okay, thanks. I didn't watch the videos when I was there and I wanted to go back and watch them. But then the link was gone. Wonder how old BillO will handle this? I bet Keith will have a little fun with it.

Is it just the times I happen to see the end of bill's show or does he have something about half naked women on every night and video of them doing something? Oh sure he talks about how awful it is but he loops the video over and over. This guy has a sleazy side to him, at least that's the way it appears to me.

Pablo @ 30:

Bill knows absolutely nothing about democracy.
The beauty (and to some trouble) of this medium is the fact that i can write what I think and participate in the larger discussion. You cannot do this on TV because it is one way delivery.
This comment belongs to me and is shared with you in this space.

Bill thinks he is doing us all a favor by killing those civic spaces where people can say what they think in response to real issues. Bill ignores them completely.

I can't wait for the day when this clown is finally held accountable when we as a society evolve past his simplistic, fear-driven, backlash and drive his show to the gutter where it belongs. If under a strong democratic majority we can right this boat we are all in (that's a huge if) under a democratic president history will judge Bill and his ilk as roadblocks to the realization of the American dream.

I'm with you,but my fear is that none of these bugs will ever be held accountable.
Bill is a petty,vindictive over grown child,whose aggressively hypocritical campaigns distort the Liberal vision for America beyond all recognition,while he continues to present himself as an "independent" sitting in a "No Spin Zone".
As stomach churning as this is,Bill is small spuds compared to the two subhumans sitting in the White House.

Filthy Harry @ 52:

P.D. @ 49:

Let Billo spew his hatred. I read the Philly Inquirer today and Democrats are registering to vote in record numbers. Not only are they gaining new voters, many Independants and Republicans are switching party afilliation. So go ahead Billo! Soon you will be singing to an ever eroding chior.

A lot of those independent and Republican people registering to vote Dem are doing so because Rush instructed them to do so, and to vote for HRC in order to prolong the primary so it keeps damaging the Dems, since McCain wrapped up the nomination.

Which is electioneering...which is illegal! Rush may be indicted soon!!!

Talcott @ 1:

Arianna'a moderater's DO play lot's of games with the comments.

Huffpo has steadily eroded since it's inception.

I agree with you. HuffPo used to one of my favorite sites, but it hasn't had a pleasant growth so far. I don't even bother reading the comments anymore.

Keith Olbermann gave all public figures the ultimate protection against all of Bill O'Reilly attack dogs. When ambushed by Billo stooges, they will run like hell if you say just two words...Andrea Mackris.

I can't imagine what's going through that toady's mind as he pursues Huffington around. Is that the kind of job he had in mind for himself when he was a kid?

dadams @ 32:

facta non verba @ 25:

Arianna Huffington is no more credible than Bill O'Reilly.

another gop factless voice, arianna comes from honesty.
your boy, billo, has a falafel in his head.

Umm, I think the falafel is somewhere else....

Miss Dusty @ 61:

I think every celebrity and politician or blogger that is accosted by one of O'Riellys asshole should bring of Andrea Mackris's Name...
In every kind of context possible!

That might put an end to O'Lielly using the clips on his show -- too funny!!
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Someone needs to teach this smug asshole a serious lesson.

All these comments on willing personal harm on billo... nothing would shatter him more effectively than a long, fixed, analytical, across-the-room stare. When he's outside of his bubble of course... yet when he's in, thanks to his goons, he's safe both from the reality he doesn't want to see and physical harm.

I would LOVE to see him at an after-fashion-show cocktail party here in France. Do you want to see someone ignored?

BillO is doing all he can the entertain the octogenarians that constitute the vast majority of his viewers.

The way the man speaks, the attitudes he affects, the stories he selects are all obviously geared toward capturing the imagination of men in elder care homes, the ones who are no longer in touch with the outside world, exist in their own private version of 1955 and spend a lot of their time hating things.
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If I had one question to ask BillO in a public forum it would be "When using a loofah as a sex toy do you prefer to soap it up or use it dry?"

I would love if Limpballs gets indicted. I can only dream.

Exit question: If you ambushed the Falafel King and got to ask one question, what would it be?

When Andrea Mackris murdered all those Japanese prisoners at Malmedy during the Korean War, did she exfoliate them alive with loofahs and then dry rub them with falafel dildos to increase their pain and humiliation for your pleasure, or was it the other way around? You don't have to answer right away, just call us later and leave it on the machine.

Follow-up question: You don't happen to have a spare 10 million layin' around, do ya?

Hehe
;-}

Desperate times breed desperate measures.

The Republicant rats know the ship is sinking and they don't have anything to grab hold of to stay afloat. They won't even have flotsum at the rate this is going.

...but we're too tired to reason!

Meanwhile over at Fox Noise...(don't know if anyone's linked to this yet)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/21/mayhem-at-fox-news-ancho_n_9274...

There once was a man named BillO
Whose morals were as soft as a pillow
But he spoke a good game
To morons who are lame
And with brains on permanent furlough.

Feel free to make up your own O'Lielly limerick or improve mine.

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Billo is showing signs of desperate actions to ward off Tony Snow that is coming for Billo's job.

But this clip displays a retaliation for recent reportings of horrible postings on Right wing sights by right wing zealots.

You know the type, if your not like them, walk like them, talk like them, Then your not a duck like them..

They believe you can't be American unless your Republican. If that was true. Who would pay the taxes to bail out Bear Stearns? Who would do the actual fighting of the wars?

Why do we listen to this ludricrous asshole from Lawn Guyland telling the rest of the country how the rest of the world works?

I never thought I'd give Chris Wallace points on anything, but he earns it this time.

Tommy @ 45:

I had a dream that Bill crossed my path. In my dream, I kicked him really hard, square in the nuts. He went down like a sack of flour and cried.

It was wonderful...

Could you download that dream to C & L? Black and white would be fine.

Talcott @ 1:

Arianna'a moderater's DO play lot's of games with the comments.

Huffpo has steadily eroded since it's inception.

this is the internet you stupid dick

its hard to moderate every fucking comment....just like this one

why dont you shove your diseased head far up lufa boys ass and give him cancer so that his brains fall out

hey lufa boy....post this hate comment on your show....i am an attention whore

O'Reilly surely has enough money stashed away so why doesn't he retire. He is so "over" and no one takes him seriously. It must be hell to go on TV every day knowing how much you are disliked. But then money soothes all pain. He still thinks he is a stud and everyone loves him. lol

he sent one of his interns after jessie too

LOL. Completely ridiculous how O'Lielly presents this story. Huffington is not even given a sec to defend herself. When she tries she gets shouted down. And of course O'Lielly cuts off the video before anything else gets said. Chances are, Huffy probably cut him down and the clip that was aired was the only thing they could use.

O'Lielly's methods of questioning are no better than what the Spanish Inquisition used. Guilty until proven innocent. We need to bring back the fairness doctrines in broadcast. I'm sure all of FauxNews will be out of a job if that happens.

L.A. Confidential @ 11:

Hell anyone with any internet street smarts knows the people who post those kind of comments over at Huff Po or anywhere else that isn't a Republican domain are right wingers and extremists playing their little amateur espionage and "let's pretend we're liberals" games.

Of course O'Reilly's audience takes his bait hook line and sinker.

Exactly what I was thinking. Unfortunately his aging audience may fall for this b.s. since they have no familiarity with the internet.

The good thing is he ain't going to get any new viewers with this crap. Anyone younger will know right away that he's full of it. He's proving it right there.

Over time he'll marginalize himself. Just not quick enough for me.

ThePromenader @ 83:

I never thought I'd give Chris Wallace points on anything, but he earns it this time.

He sounds(comparatively speaking)so reasonable that I'm immediately suspicious of the entire segment.
Let's see,is Fox losing viewers and attempting a 180 degree ideological U Turn?I doubt it.
Either way Steve Doocy certainly is a santimonious shit heel.
The female anchor's no prize either.

Why not do an Olberman?
Just repeat over and over,
Mackris, Malmedy, Loofah
See if that gets on Faux News!

I'd like to back-end to Arianna too.

She's Greek, right?

j @ 80:

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Oh My God, j just deleted the Sitemonitor,

You ba***rds!

liberAL @ 86:

O'Reilly surely has enough money stashed away so why doesn't he retire. He is so "over" and no one takes him seriously.

Have you seen Billo's TV ratings lately? He almost quadruples Olbermann's audience. If Billo is so "over"; where does that leave Keith Olbermann?

Filthy Harry @ 52:

P.D. @ 49:

Let Billo spew his hatred. I read the Philly Inquirer today and Democrats are registering to vote in record numbers. Not only are they gaining new voters, many Independants and Republicans are switching party afilliation. So go ahead Billo! Soon you will be singing to an ever eroding chior.

A lot of those independent and Republican people registering to vote Dem are doing so because Rush instructed them to do so, and to vote for HRC in order to prolong the primary so it keeps damaging the Dems, since McCain wrapped up the nomination.

I don't think many of those independents are listening to El-Oxycotin. Although the pre-homo sapien republican knuckle
draggers probably are.

That would be the same group of idiots who cheer on their local branch of republican-bigoted "heroes" as their jobs are being outsourced, and their health insurance and pensions are cancelled or stolen. But, at least they have a hatred of gay people and minorities they can share. Sick, stupid a@#holes.

Trittydi @ 19:

O’Reilly’s relentless crusade . . . should finally leave no doubt that he has absolutely zero journalistic standards and/or shame.

I hope you know that no one here is even going to pretend to be surprised by this observation.
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Those with the gift of sarcasm might "pretend". :)

ysbaddaden @ 92:

I'd like to back-end to Arianna too.

She's Greek, right?

Yes, but she's a she, not a Spartan warrior who couldn't bear to leave his brother's behind.

She should have taken Keith's advice about how to deal with this sort of ambush journalism - just bring up his sexual misconduct. It renders the "interview" completely unusable on television.

Once again brothers and sisters, I cannot express strongly enough my firm belief that the entire FOX network news folks are nothing but ZEROS and should be acknowledged as such. I think to even discuss the absurd things they mouth off on that 4th rate station is to give credence to it. I REFUSE to watch it, and I refuse to even participate in discussions about how or why this and that was said by one of those bush shills. WHO CARES?! THEY ARE ZEROS! We may as well discuss what is being said in the rubber rooms of any mental institution... it just really doesn't matter and is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME, and is most of all giving a false sense of importance to the mental midgets such as oreilly who makes MILLIONS because people like US seem to CARE AT ALL about what they say.

ysbaddaden @ 93:

j @ 80:

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Oh My God, j just deleted the Sitemonitor,

You ba***rds!

[Screw you guys - I'm going home. Sitemonitor]

Hittin’ the road, Jack,”and I ain’t comin’ back no more no more no more no more”…

“Last word, freak.” - Melvin Udall

out

abob @ 94:

liberAL @ 86:

O'Reilly surely has enough money stashed away so why doesn't he retire. He is so "over" and no one takes him seriously.

Have you seen Billo's TV ratings lately? He almost quadruples Olbermann's audience. If Billo is so "over"; where does that leave Keith Olbermann?

There are 300,000,000+ people in America. The only station for right-wing lunatics is Faux. Which means O'rally is hitting about .6 of 1% of the population.

Meanwhile, although I love Olbermann's show, I haven't seen it in month's. Like most professionals I know in my age group, we are too busy to catch T.V. regularly. Meanwhile, the folks I know who watch O'Rally regularly are retired, cantankerous, don't get out much, and don't have anything to do at 8:00 p.m., except waste their few remaining hours on this earth having their anti-social(republican) pathology reaffirmed by morons like them. Namely Faux news bobbleheads. In that context, it's not hard at all to understand. The same thing goes for right-wing idiots on the radio.

Andrea Mackris Andrea Mackris Andrea Mackris Andrea Mackris Andrea Mackris Andrea Mackris

That name is kryptonite to Bill O'Reily. He goes into panic attacks at the mere mention of her name...Andrea Mackris

I'd ask "when are you going to retire or quit?"

I can't stand o'Liely but there is a point to the discussion. Huffington Post claims to be a "news" site, but all it really is is a politically biased blog. I have tried to post comments that could not possibly be considered obscene or profane but were critical of the positions of some of the writers -- and sometimes Huffington herself -- they were censored into oblivion.

And there is genuine hate speech on HP -- though I don't care as I am a First Amendment absolutist -- but it is not allowed for all commenters, only the ones who support the positions of the blog writers and Huffington herself.

With all that said, it doesn't bother me that Huffington and her minions are hypocritical hard-heads -- I just don't visit the site. Just like I don't watch o'Liely. To me, they're both different sides of the same coin.

Smoke a few doobs and chill, and FOX and BillO are hilarious: most outrageous stuff on the tube!!! That's what I did in Thailand. (I dont get FOX here in Korea.) It was a laugh riot every day. He doesn't even believe it himself (his own garbage), just watch. He's a performer. He likes to push buttons. Don't be fooled. He knows he's not a journalist: he's an actor.

Granted, it is sad and frightening that bed-wetters hang on his every utterance, and believe it is truth. That part sucks.

Seriously, does the "knock at the door" comment not qualify as a "terroristic threat?" Imagine the pant-hoot chorus from the right-wing howler monkeys had Arianna said such a thing regarding Norm Coleman.

Oh, right. Arianna happens to possess those little qualities called class, dignity, intelligence, and respect. My mistake.

I saw Whoopi Goldberg on Larry King. When asked about BillO, she said, "He's my friend. I don't watch his show, but he's an *entertainer*, so relax." Got it, loud and clear. He's a paid entertainer; not else. No different than the crew at SNL. The end.

Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 97:

ysbaddaden @ 92:

I'd like to back-end to Arianna too.

She's Greek, right?

Yes, but she's a she, not a Spartan warrior who couldn't bear to leave his brother's behind.

Dont'cha mean, "...bare to leave his brother's behind?"

Ben B @ 98:

She should have taken Keith's advice about how to deal with this sort of ambush journalism - just bring up his sexual misconduct. It renders the "interview" completely unusable on television.

That's right! Olbermann should re-play that segment.

When one of O'Loofah's hatchet men try to play "journalism" at your expense, discuss ONLY the following:

1. Andrea Mackris;
2. Loofas and/or falafels;
3. Malmedy massacre;
4. Sexual Harassment.

And, I would add, Keith Olbermann.

GOPnot4me @ 91:

Why not do an Olberman?
Just repeat over and over,
Mackris, Malmedy, Loofah
See if that gets on Faux News!

Bingo.

SEXUAL PREDATOR!
yeah, I know I say it ever BillO thread.....

weldon @ 6:

got to ask one question, what would it be?

after being found guilty of the Nuremberg principle in the upcoming war crimes tribunal for aiding, abetting and inciting aggression against the american, iraqi and afghani people i would offer this choice to BillO:

firing squad or hanging?

I like this.

i'm afraid i'd have to plagiarize olberman and comment to billo about the malmedy massacre slur that he made on his show against the american WWII vets who were slaughtered in that atrocity. billo has never had the guts to issue an apology for so maligning the honor of those murdered servicemen.
in my mind, billo has a lot of nerve accosting arianna huffington for anonymous and 3rd party comments in the forums on her website, especially when he himself is making comments such as these on his own broadcasts that he fails to rectify. ms. huffington strives to moderate such comments yet mr. o'rielly has never once attempted to apologize for his horrendous slur against the honor of the american WWII servicemen to which he's done such a disservice.
mr. bill o'reilly? i call you out for being the gutless coward and pathetic hypocrite that you are for all of the aforementioned accusations.

Bill WHO?
The man just does not matter. It is funny how he tries to be a player these days. Watching his show is like watching a train wreck. Who cares about what he does or thinks anymore. What a pathetic human being.

got to ask one question, what would it be?

Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?

I would say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, Arianna is as big a hack as O'Reilly, maybe they'll choke each other.

Kudzu @ 117:

I would say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, Arianna is as big a hack as O'Reilly, maybe they'll choke each other.

EXACTLY!

Arianna has not learned that the way to handle the lunatic fringe (aka the O'Reilly fanbots) is to ignore or do the opposite of what they tell you to do.

I wouldn't waste my breath asking O'Reilly a question. Sorry if that sounds elitist.

I never post to the HuffPo anymore, but not because Arianna often has different opinions from my own or criticizes people I support, but rather because of:

1) her site's attitude towards atheists and
2) her draconian comment posting policy

In other words, she has already gone too far in trying to satisfy the smelling-salt-grabbing O'Reilly's of the world.

Otay @ 121:

I never post to the HuffPo anymore, but not because Arianna often has different opinions from my own or criticizes people I support, but rather because of:

1) her site's attitude towards atheists and
2) her draconian comment posting policy

In other words, she has already gone too far in trying to satisfy the smelling-salt-grabbing O'Reilly's of the world.

I visit the site for headlines, but that celebrity-entertainment-horoscope crap is causing me to visit her site less and less.

Radically Moderate @ 122:

Otay @ 121:

I never post to the HuffPo anymore, but not because Arianna often has different opinions from my own or criticizes people I support, but rather because of:

1) her site's attitude towards atheists and
2) her draconian comment posting policy

In other words, she has already gone too far in trying to satisfy the smelling-salt-grabbing O'Reilly's of the world.

I visit the site for headlines, but that celebrity-entertainment-horoscope crap is causing me to visit her site less and less.

I went there once.........about two years ago.never went back.

Huffington Post rocks.

Bill O'Reilly is a prick.

Here's some hate speech: DIE O'Reilly.

O'Reilly is unhinged. He is on the edge of becoming psychotic.

Is that hate speech or just reality? You have the freedom to read this and decide for yourself.

If these posts were anonymous, then how do we know that they were not another example of false-flag planted comments by O'Reilly's minions or some other reichwing group?

And how do we know that Billy's henchman is telling the truth about how long the persisted? After all, we have tons of proof that O'Reilly himself simply pulls lies out of his ass. Remember the "French Business Daily" that O'Reilly quoted? It didn't even exist!

>>>"Exit question: If you ambushed the Falafel King and got to ask one question, what would it be?"

Were you born an asshole, or did you work at it your whole life?

Who was that beautiful sweet tart that was on at the end of the clip?

I bet BillO wanted to get his Falafel on at the end of the show.....Ooooo baby, Loofahs all around!

I might ask Bill: "You don't really believe the crap that spews from your mouth, do you?"

What if somebody ambushed Orally, and asked him why he likes falafels so much? How would he react?

Anyone "ambushed" by an O'Reilly flunky should just answer the question.

Answer the "falafal" question while "Mackris" inserting key words "vibrator" into the sentence as "loofa" possible. One could alway insert "Did Bill teach you how to masturbate" entire sentences as well.

Let the asshole play that on his show. Hey, Bill! Put this comment on Talking Points, you coward.

Billo is nothing more than an over
grown school yard bully.

I think I would ask what he meant when he told Andrea Mackris that Al Franken was going to “get a knock on his door” one day and have his “life change forever.”

Oh, that's just Bill. I'm sure he was just fantasizing about the scene in Schindlers list where they were emptying the ghettos, but in it he plays the Ralph Fiennes role and Al Franken is - well a jew. "Give me that machine gun boys, I'm going to shoot him right between the head!".

And the world was safe for angry white radio tools everywhere!

Apparently Arianna forgot the three subjects you bring up when you're ambushed by one of Bill O'Reilly's surrogates: Loofahs, Falaffell and Andrea Mackris. You see doing that makes the footage that was shot utterly worthless.

I prefer the pictures of billo when he is talking with his hands. Wiggling his fingers in the air. Like he is trying to flick boogers. Very entertaining and stylish.

Yes, yes Bill O'Reilly is an asshole. But it's quite all right for Arianna Huffington to have spent the past year smearing and sliming Hillary Clinton. Cause we folks at Crooks and Liars don't like Hillary.

And where's Crooks and Liars outrage over the slime machine over at MSNBC? See, totally different standards. And to think I used to believe that Republicans were the worst hypocrites.

When you level of outrage is the same about the smears of Hillary Clinton, then I'll worry about Arianna. No, actually I won't cause I don't like her and couldn't really care less what anyone calls her. Liar and hypocrite being the first two words that come to mind. But so long as she bashes Hillary she's the lefts BFF. I stopped going to her Obama Post some time ago and now see that Crooks and Liars has descended to the same level.

And if/when Obama is the candidate don't expect Hillary supporters to give a rat's patootie when he's smeared. Most of the left didn't care when our candidate was smeared, in fact many joined right in, including Arianna, so we won't give a damn what they say about him. And a whole lot of us won't be voting for him either.

well, what was Hillary smeared about?

She voted "Yes" for war.
She helped Wal-Mart abuse its workers.
She's made millions in the Death Trade...

Anything else is just gravy by comparison.

Sorry, there is nothing she can do to redeem herself after those unforgiveable lapses in Morality.

I don't go to Huffington Post...I think I will just to see if what is being suggested is true...I'm betting it is not. I will see.

They must have been copied and pasted right from O'Lielly's hate filled, racist site.

Arianna, and anyone else who gets accosted in this way, should just turn and face the camera, and say, over and over again, while looking straight into the camera lens: "www.huffingtonpost.com is a news and commentary website, and anyone who goes to double-yew double-yew double-yew the huffington post.com can find that out for themselves. Fox news just doesn't want its isolated viewers to find out what is REALLY going on in this country and on the internet, and THAT is why people should go to www.thehuffingtonpost.com to see what people in this country REALLY think, and they should leave comments themselves to see that there is FREE SPEECH going on there, at www.thehuffingtonpost.com. If you want some reality and journalism instead of hate-filled propaganda, just go to www.thehuffingtonpost.com because there is real journalism being done there, and if someone is a jackass, that is what they will get called at www.thehuffingtonpost.com. www.thehuffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com

Here we go again, Bill O giving legitimacy to this rag blogs that spew the pablum over and over again.....

Huff po was just beginning its message board service when yahoo was shutting down its message boards for its news pieces. At yahoo, the trolls were so utterly foul that it must have contributed to its downfall. I've always thought that Huff picked up some of these wayward trolls.

Emma Hussein Goldman @ 131:

What if somebody ambushed Orally, and asked him why he likes falafels so much? How would he react?

That's another thing Arianna forgot to do when ambushed by Orally's loon squad: just mention the words Mackris, Loofah and Falafel.

Otay @ 143:

Emma Hussein Goldman @ 131:

What if somebody ambushed Orally, and asked him why he likes falafels so much? How would he react?

That's another thing Arianna forgot to do when ambushed by Orally's loon squad: just mention the words Mackris, Loofah and Falafel.

I see Sauter beat me to it.

John Dowd @ 140:

Arianna, and anyone else who gets accosted in this way, should just turn and face the camera, and say, over and over again, while looking straight into the camera lens: "www.huffingtonpost.com is a news and commentary website, and anyone who goes to double-yew double-yew double-yew the huffington post.com can find that out for themselves. Fox news just doesn't want its isolated viewers to find out what is REALLY going on in this country and on the internet, and THAT is why people should go to www.thehuffingtonpost.com to see what people in this country REALLY think, and they should leave comments themselves to see that there is FREE SPEECH going on there, at www.thehuffingtonpost.com. If you want some reality and journalism instead of hate-filled propaganda, just go to www.thehuffingtonpost.com because there is real journalism being done there, and if someone is a jackass, that is what they will get called at www.thehuffingtonpost.com. www.thehuffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com

Except that Faux News would remix it something like this:

"anyone who goes to double-yew double-yew double-yew the huffington post.com can find ...hate-filled propaganda. If you want some reality and journalism...just go to...Fox news. www.huffingtonpost.com is a...commentary website."

And I'm only half joking. The full message would never get through.

Douchebag BillO isn't worthy of comentary,only comedy.

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