April 04, 2008 08:30 PM
Dear BillO, This is what winning a Peabody Award actually looks like:
Many C&L readers remember the halcyon days when the worst lie Bill O'Reilly ever told was that his old show "Inside Edition" had won a Peabody Award, the oldest and most prestigious award given to electronic media. You may recall Al Franken also having lots of fun debunking that lie. Now it turns out that The Colbert Report, which "some people say" (ha) is a thinly veiled parody of The O'Reilly Factor, has actually won a Peabody award. Let's hope Mr. O'Reilly sends Mr. Colbert a congratulatory fruit basket.
Update: Okay, comment number 24 is good enough to bring up from below:
Colbert should run around saying he won a Polk, forcing people to remind him it was actually a Peabody.
I wonder if it's real
The actual Al Franken video is online. Took some searching in the web archive but here it is.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031203001007/http://www.booktv.org/feature/...
Did Billo burst into flames yet? Or do you think he'll send his goon squad ( ie. producers) to rough up Colbert. So there Bill. I guess you'll have to face up to the fact you won't be getting any awards for your brand of Faux Journalism.
I saw this show and I too was not sure if the award was real or he was doing his thing. I meant to check it out and got distracted.
Billo's going to need to be on suicide watch.
Bilbo won a Polk.
My dog picked one up last year for his internet report about defective flea collars.
See for yourself.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031203001007/http://www.booktv.org/ram/feat...
Realplayer alert.
It's a video of 2 hours and 16 minutes! Search for the juicy bits.
On 3 minutes he bounces a question from a woman who thinks he mishandled a relative of a 9-11 victim. Tipical "no-spin-zone" blah blah... And in his eyes she's a leftist! "No-answer-zone" is what I call it.
5 minutes: "Fox news has just as many left wing voices as the other channels". Yeah... right.
Real treasure, this video! Lots'of more fun stuff on it!!
It's real, if you can believe the tubes of teh internets. It's mentioned in this SF Chronicle story:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/02/DDQ6VUH95.DTL
true, true, true as cited in C&L article. Here's the list:
The Colbert Report Hello Doggie Inc., Busboy Productions, and Spartina Productions
Let none dare call it "truthiness." Colbert, in his weeknight Comedy Central send-up of politics and all that is bombastic and self-serving in cable-news bloviasion, has come into his own as one of electronic media`s sharpest satirists.
http://128.192.29.189/news/pressrelease.asp?ID=151
ha! let's hope that stephen is smart enought to not eat of it!
colbert is a national treasure... amazing, brilliant...
wows me every single time... a 30 minute smile at the least...
I just finished emailing billO on his site.
Now I hate giving his site the internet hit but all in all I would have to say, "worth it, totally worth it."
This may be a parody of Orally "winning" the Peabody. It would be wickedly devious for Colbert to announce on a later show that it turned out to be a Polk. And then toss it into the garbage...
True dat but then so is Colbert's Peabody. It's for real, folks. - BG
Now all Cobert has to do is keep on talking about his award and watch Billo seethe. Oh cosmic justice, where have you been?
P.D. @ 3:
Only seven month left for Billo to try and win something, maybe Chimpy could fantasy up a special one for him.
I beg to differ -- here's the basis for Billo's 'Peabody.'
ferrofluid, Yeah watch Chimpy give him the Medal of Freedom like he did with Wolfiiwitz. Jesus, everytime I see that image, it truly pisses me off.
P.D. @ 13:
Slurp, Slurp
Fantastic !
Of course, Bill-O will claim that the judging panel is liberal.
Now this is classic!
Watch that video. Al Franken is introduced around 46 minutes in which he introduces his book ""Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)"". A fair and balanced view of the media on the right, WITH BILLO SITTING TO THE RIGHT OF HIM.
Al Franken's rough transcript:
HAHAHHAHAAHAHAA!!!!!
You're right Rick, Lord knows,we LIBERALS are the bane of society. Clean air, workers rights, civil liberty. Teah, I truly am a real dirt-ball!
Rick @ 18:
He'll claim that they are far-left, and in league with George Soros, the United Nations, secular progressives, and other vile hateful groups out to destroy America.
I can't wait...
It is odd, to me, that the awards would go to such disparate sensibilities as Project Runway and CNN Presents: God`s Warriors CNN In six hours over three nights, CNN explored how rising fundamentalist disenchantment with the modern, secular world has affected Judaism, Islam and Christianity in sometimes similar but also different ways.
or
FRONTLINE: Cheney`s Law FRONTLINE, Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd., WGBH-Boston
In a strongly researched and reported hour that sometimes played like a political thriller, "FRONTLINE" traced the Bush Administration`s expansion of Presidental wartime powers to a determined, secretive campaign by the Vice President, that stretches back three decades.
-- That was a scary one.
Well at least Billo was on a Peabody winning show, if only as a guest. I bet he adds it to his resume.
Colbert should run around saying he won a Polk, forcing people to remind him it was actually a Peabody.
Well then...most excellent! Congrats are in order to the Colbert.
If they really want to piss of Orally, they should give it to Olbermann.
Oh my God Emma! That would be Heaven!
Congrats to the very humorous (when he's NOT picking Oral F. Roberts to win the NCAA's) Stephen Colbert. Time to celebrate with a pint of Ben and Jerry's Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream while cheering on the Saginaw Spirit.
Reminder to Billo: it was not a Peabody or two, but rather a Polk that Inside Edition won AFTER you left.
If they gave it to K.O., Emma, that would be the last straw for O'Reilly - he would go postal.
Nice to see the reactions between Franken and Billo. Bill unusual to him is very quiet during his roast by Franken but when he gets the chance to redirect him on the Polk/Peabody controvery we see him in his usual bulldozer mode. Classic!
In the video I posted also present around the table is the late Molly Ivins. It's staggering to see, and in a way sad, to see how right she was in her opinion about the war in Iraq and the state of healthcare in the US.
Otay, Let's watch Billo go postal. Hell! I'd pay to see it!
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 6:
lufa boy never even won a polk...current affair won the award when he wasnt on the show
he has never won anything of note
What would I give to be a fly on the wall watching O'Reilly behind closed doors, right after he found out about Colbert...
So Billo never even received a Polk, eh Ski and Uncle Joe? The show received the award after he left? I'm not surprised, as Loofah Boy lives a rich fantasy life. I wonder if these imaginary awards were on O'Reilly's resume when he applied for Faux. And if Roger Ailes fell for the fantasy resume hook, line and sinker.
Whitehouse @ 19:
the stream keeps dying....can you guys stop watching, cuz its killing the bandwith, and i need some sat night entertainment
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 32:
Bill has won Keith Olbermann’s Worst person in the world more than any one!
holy god....im watching lufa boy ramble on about his book and im questioning whether he even wrote it
come on internet peeps....the guy has gotta have a ghost writer...find him/her
Indeed, Inside Edition won the Polk a year after O'Reilly left. For O'Reilly to claim winning even the Polk, let alone the Peabody, is pure fantasy.
Funny as hell! Fly Spaghetti Monster bless Stephen Colbert!
Emma Hussein Goldman @ 26:
along with colbert, that would complete the karmic circle.
the best part of the original video is watching ivins debate lufa boy
its like watching a hunter shoot fish in a barrell
I still have my "Colbert for President 2008" bumpersticker...
It will replace my "Ron Paul for President 2008" bumpersticker....
........tomorrow.....sometime....as soon as I come to...........
why do people write in, especially at a site like this wondering if the Colbert Peabody award is true? Search engine..."peabody award 2007" does the trick. don't forget to press the send button.
Colbert actually DID win a Peabody.
Good for him. I bet BillO is crapping in his adult diapers over this.
The video becomes difficult to watch...Franken loses control a couple times, and it really is alarming - you can see the audience shaking their heads, and he had them with him up to that point. He really obviously hates O'Reilly deeply, and just loses control. Al - do I really want to see you as a US Senator?
Molly makes several comments on the anger in Politics in america today...
wtlloyd @ 45:
im not sure what video you were watching, but it was lufa boy who lost it
but trolls will see what they want
the fact is, from the cspan interview, through the panel debate, lufa boy does nothing but lie...from how he skews the effects of social programs, his positioning on the views of ivins (it was apparent that he had never read anything she wrote) to his being a populist activist....and franken called him on it, and he went ballistic
he does not do research, as should be obvious by the "crack staff" he send out on gotcha interviews
chez @ 43:
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Have a little fun. Don't take everything everybody says so seriously. And by the way, belated April Fools.
Doesn't he already have two Peabody's before this one?
Whitehouse @ 2:
Once again reminds me that I miss Molly.
Otay @ 21:
Hey, BillO! Glad to see that you're keeping up on C&L. Stick around and maybe you'll learn a thing or two.
By the way, and this is sort of off topic, while the nickname "BillO" is quaint it lacks a certain edge. Might I suggest Billdo as in dildo? That sort of references his little sexual harassment scandal... although that image makes me a bit sick to my stomach... BillO and loofahs... *shudders*
The only thing O'Liarry deserves is a Peabrain Award.
Forgive me, but to be grammatically accurate, the headling of this post should read
"Dear Billo, This is what actually winning a Peabody Award looks like:"
That's nice that you promoted Anonymous Source's comment to the front page, but it would be even nicer if you credited him on the front page, too.
Anonymous Source @ 24:
Next time Colbert is on the Factor he should test O'Lielys "No Spin Zone" with that lie..
if Billo has the guts to invite him again that is
Maybe now they'll invite him back to address the White House correspondents Dinner again!
I believe you just called me a troll, which is absurd. I've donated to Blue candidates, Move On, C&L, FireDogLake, etc etc. I saw the audience response wither when Franken lost it, shortly after he asked "Am I being punished"? And they were mostly Progressive leaning people who were happy to see Ivins and Franken up there. The problem was the descent into typical Right-Wing viciousness. Watch that portion of the video again, my friend. Franken goes overboard. I want to see reasoning, mature adults for my progressive candidates, and I will continue to support them financially. "Slapdowns" are for kids. You didn't see Molly Ivins pile on, did you? Progressives can be firm without blurring the distinction between the hard Right and us.
Nevertheless, be assured I thoroughly enjoyed the occasional camera pans to O'Reilly slumped in his seat, furiously clicking and spinning his pen as Franken droned on and on.....
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 46:
If I were to write a book about O'Reilly and his trips through fantasyland, I would call it:
"Bill O'Reilly and the Mystery of the Vanishing Peabody's"
o'reilley, the narcissist will continue to blow his own horn as long as his ratings stay atop the conservative rubble pile of talk radio. Until the vast wasteland of middle america wakes up to the fact that it is his ilk along with the dogpile rush lim whatever that keeps the conservative ship of lies afloat, he will continue to revel in the muck of the grandeur of his own mind.
Anonymous Source @ 24:
You should be Mr. Colbert's next guest. As a matter of fact, you should become one of his writers.
I like to see Colbert throw the first pitch at a baseball game! Let's see the applause meter and compare!
Everything Colbert touch turn to a gold mine, and yet the White house dinner critic tried to marginalize him. More people listen to Colbert hooliganny remarks than any of Bush repetitive speeches.
When I first thought this, I thought he might have been making fun of Bill's "mis-speaking", but Colbert certainly deserves it nonetheless
Fantastique Messr. Colbert!
Kudos Mr. Colbert!
Billo will probably invent his own award, and claim to win that every year.
Maybe he'll call it "the Coulter" or "the Limbaugh" or "the Shiny turd".
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