Who Needs A Lousy Peabody Anyway? Bill O'Reilly Doesn't. Really.
By Nicole Belle Thursday Jun 26, 2008 3:00pm
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Bill O'Reilly has a checkered history with the Peabody Awards. For years, he claimed that his work on Inside Edition garnered two Peabodys, until he was outed by nemesis Al Franken as having confused the Polk Awards (won after O'Reilly was no longer with Inside Edition) with the more prestigious Peabodys.
Obviously, that kind of public mistake has to smart a man with as big an ego as his mouth. So it is with no little irony to see him mention the Peabodys on his Thursday broadcast, talking about Bill Moyers receiving one. Funny enough, while I can think of no one in journalism more deserving--and Moyers has been awarded 10 Peabodys over his career --Moyers was not on the list of winners this year. So why the slam on the Peabodys?
You may have heard about the Peabody Award, the prestigious prize given by the University of Georgia to journalists. Seems every few minutes our pal Bill Moyers wins one of those. And we're very happy for him. So happy, in fact, that we looked into the political leanings of the Peabody board. Interesting. There are ten liberals on it, two conservatives. Sounds like Newsweek magazine. Horace Newcomb, the director of the Peabody deal, and a Democrat himself, says he's not concerned. Nor are we, because we're sure the judging is ... fair and balanced. Party on, Peabody guys.
Indeed. Actually, there are 16 members of the Peabody panel, not twelve, and their respective political affiliations seems less than obvious by the list, nor particularly relevant to their bona fides as members of the Peabody board. But hey, why deal in facts when you can get a nice little librul conspiracy action working. You know why I think Bill O'Reilly's miffed at the Peabodys? Because guess who won a Peabody this year, basically for acting like Bill O'Reilly?
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Throw stones or spears at me, if you wish.
Bill O'Reilley (sp?) doesn't count.
Billy, you didn't cry bias when you won your Peabody's...you lying sack of roach shit.
Left&Left @ 2:
Easy LL, that's a real insult to the roach community.
I saw some of this at the gym last night with the sound off. I suggest everyone watch the show that why; it's a lot easier to pick up each of his style of attacks.
Two of which I saw included the "liberal conspiracy" talking point, and the "blur the line between liberal politicians and celebrities," where he crams in stories about Rosie O'Donnell and Barbra Streisand between attacks on liberal politicians.
He also called Tim McGraw a "patriot" for kicking someone out of his concert. WTF?
I know this site is named Crooks and Liars and it goes after crooks and liars.
But goddamn - Bill Orally just takes the freaking cake.
Maybe C&L should include "psychotic morons" in its title...
Poor little Billy. His feelings are hurt! Ever the professional that he is, credit must go to him for not breaking down in tears.
Poor Bill. Since facts never work for him he has to create sh*t that does. It's hard work being an egoistical, self centered, noise machine.
BillO has never won a Peabody because he just can't get facts straight, so why give him an award for excellence in broadcasting, since he claims to be a straight shooter? Yet he has done nothing for his audience or this country, except afflict the afflicted by supporting the GOP party line.
Colbert is a satirist, which is plain to see, as his show is on Comedy Central. In speaking truth to power, he has comforted the afflicted millions who lament the past seven-plus years of this unAmerican administration. Congratulations, Colbert!
Peabody? BillO has a pea brain and a fat disgusting body. Is that the same BillO ?
Somebody should give him a bronze falafel.
bill oliar and reality check are four word that have absolutely no business being in the same sentence.
well he is part of the GOP and I think everyone knows that being a republican is proof positive of insanity.
republican= insanity!
waaaaaa waaaa waaaa - poor Billo - all he has is the Golden Loofa.
More librul paranoia from the most in denial partisan hack on cable t.v.
O'Reilly is in fact an American icon. He is the personification of most of what is bad about the USA.
1. He beieves in God
2. He believes "America Uber Alles"
3. He acts inappropriately around the women folk.
4. He is part of the white male power structure, his own words
5. He let Phil Donahue pwn him HARD.
6. He talks shit about Bill Moyers, not a good idea
7. He thinks war is good.
8. He has no manners.
Did I miss any?
Left&Left @ 2:
He never won a Peabody...he only claimed to. Then they were kewl.
Why would O'Racist even receive an award related to journalism? O'Racist doesn't do journalism. He provides far reich-wing talking-points to the 23%ers.
[Deleted. Do NOT advocate that sort of thing on our site. Thank you-Sitemonitor]
Left&Left @ 2:
Bill'O's never won a Peabody.
Nicole, think we can talk Amato into giving BillO some kind of award or another, recognizing all of the former's contributions to the entertainment of the prog-o-sphere?
'Cause let's face it, we get plenty of mileage out of BillO.
Sour grapes much, Ill-Informed Pudboy? Whatevs, Billo.
Feh!
marko @ 13:
9. Facts and reality are not important
10. He thinks torture is a glorious idea
11. He thinks he speaks for the massed
12. Delusional, paranoid, and vile
Leslie [Hussein] @ 17:
In his mind he did.
Bill = conservative = Lying piece of shit
Conservatives have no honor, they will lie cheat and steal to win.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 17:
I know. But he is a lying sack of roach shit.
Dr. (Fast Eddie Hussein) Matt @ 20:
13. Has a history of blaming the victim.
14. Never admits when he is wrong.
15. Thinks that he can win an argument with volume, much like a beer-fueled uncle at a bbq.
liberaDAPoJUSTICEmoderation @ 16:
Easy bud. I don't like the guy either but we gotta live with him. Right wing sites love to jack comments like that and blow it all out of proportion. I recommend venting that frustration at wonkette.com where it is viewed as satire. Instead of wishing death I just hope that someday some tax evasion dirt comes out on guys like him, Malkin or Rush.
[You are 100% correct. We had a problem with a comment like this one which advocated violence just yesterday-Sitemonitor]
So a fake news show wins a Peabody for satirizing Bill'O, but poor Bill'O can't win one for being himself. LOL.
His publicist must be a masochist.
Left&Left @ 24:
I think you are too too kind.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 18:
Sorry. I think it was a lifetime achievement award from The American Nazi Party.
Thats Pea-body Bill,not Pea-brain.
Bonkers Fist Jab @ 25:
16. He likes to set up false comparisons and then argue based on that false comparison (straw man argument.
17. If reality and facts not only are not important, but if they are not available, just make shit up.
Someone should tell Bill that the Peabody is for excellence in journalism, not for excellence in pugilism.
WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!!!!
This bitter douchebag has one hell of a miserable life. Take your twisted, dark soul and just disappear. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.
O'Reilly has nothing to be ashamed of, after all he has combat decorations, right? He "saw action" right? Purple Heart? Oh that was Demi Moore kicking his ass for rummaging through her trash? Never mind.
Who Needs A Lousy . . . .
I wonder how many people said the same thing of cell phones when they first came out or Personal Video Recorders, come to that.
I said similarly about HDTV . . .until I got one.
marko @ 14:
He also says "support the troops" no matter who or why they kill!
Bitter much?
Really, how mature and professional of him. Makes me more inclined to take his "journalism" seriously.
/sarcasm off
Bonkers Fist Jab @ 24:
16. He's a jabbering fool
With hard-hitting stories like these, it's amazing Bill'O didn't win.
This guy's enemies list is getting longer and longer.
Keith Olbermann
NBC
MSNBC
GE
Jeff Immelt
Al Franken
Bill Moyers
Newsweek
San Francisco
etc...
And now the Peabody board. Somebody prepare the padded cell. O'Reilly is about to lose it completely.
Get your John McCain - NOPE t-shirts and stickers.
Bonkers Fist Jab @ 24:
16. Has a violent temper (see Jeremy Glick).
17. Accuses people of doing the same shit he does, but it's OK when he does it (see George Carlin).
18. Sends out flunkies to do his ambushing, because he hasn't got the balls to do it himself (see, most recently, Bill Moyers).
19. Lies and swears to it (see just about everything he says).
The Truth Hurts @ 32:
LOL, I was going to write, We'll do it live, but you beat me to it. Every time some one is on tv and they say we have a tape of this or that, I always yell, Do it live!
That's the only good thing about Morning Joe, sometimes they play that audio clip of bill yelling that phrase and I just can't get enough of it.
marko @ 14:
let me help you out......sociopath.......(extreme narcistic superiority complex version)
Bismarck @ 30:
18. Has a Ph.D in making of statistics
Obviously Bill's latest scab to obsessively pick at goes by the name of Bill Moyers,an actual "journalist" doing first rate actual "journalism" as opposed to say,stories about over sexed teen aged girls and their lazy detached mothers.
Bill is just soooooooo small.Its embarrassing.
Reality:
Bill O is an entertainer for those who hate American Left.
Fact is, however, some who hate the American Left and who watch Bill O could be persuaded to move politically to the left.
But no one reaches out to them.
miss_kitty @ 40:
oops.
20. 18. Has a Ph.D in making *up* statistics
C&L, you should get some kind of award from the National Association of Librarians or something because I'm sure I'm not the only personal who is going to READ the whole posting, rather thasn subject themselves to O'Reilly's unendurably hideous demeanor!
Perhaps BillO can encourage Alito, Thomas, Scalia and Roberts to abandon those silly Supreme Court seats and take up positions on something as important as the Peabody Awards panel. You know, give it a more balanced outlook...
VietVet8666 @ 45:
The only problem is that many of the issues O'Racist and his myopic audience "think" are left or librul, are actually quite mainstream.
Poor Billo; he misses those "special" conversations that he used to have with Andrea Mackris. Hey Billo, talked with Andrea lately? Or is the restraining order still in effect?
Dr. (Fast Eddie Hussein) Matt @ 49:
I wonder if this doesn't have something to do with that dust up several weeks again at the National Conference for Media Reform. That was when one of Billo's minions ambushed Moyer. Moyer if you didn’t see it proceeded to dismantle both the minion, and his boss. (Link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_2IZT4VgDY") I suspect that Billo and company are still smarting from that incident which was all over the Web, and have been looking for ways to hit back ever since.
Sorry Bill, if your wonderful piece titled "FUCK IT! We'll do it live!", didn't win a Peadody, nothing you've ever done or ever will do will win either.
"I am an expert at mass media. There is nobody that knows more about it than I do"
"The far left loathes me, and you don't get anymore intellectual than I am"
"If I am on the Supreme Court as I should be"
"Well, you don't know it, but I know it, because I work here, and what I say is true."
-Bill O'Reilly
And you want to deny him a Peabody?
Crooks and Liars Pea-Brain Awards- sounds like a good idea to me!
Billo is like a high school bully who's shocked that people stop inviting him to parties.
While Billo thinks he's important, the fact is his audience consists of older folks and paranoid nut-jobs. He will soon be irrelevent when his audience is gone. Hopefully, November brings a sea of change. I would love to see Billo flip-out on air!
"The spin stops here".... and never leaves.
Reality Check Billo, You're a conservative hatchet man trying unsuccessfully to pass yourself off as a respectable journalist. Thats why you will NEVER win a Peabody. Also, your show and its content is a level below warm garbage with a touch of rat feces.
Of C&L stopped putting Bill on here, I'm willing to bet a lot less people would even pay attention to him. Don't let him keep his job by giving him more attention.
The No Spin Zone has turned into a tornado.
over paid hater.........the scary thing is he has large following
CD @ 58:
A bully? No. O'Racist was the nerdy geek who thinks he's part of the "in crowd".
Maybe Stephen will let Big Pappy come over and see his Award. lol
Dr. (Fast Eddie Hussein) Matt @ 65:
Oh Hell Billo's a big guy and always has been.
When someone gets in his way his first instinct is to hit the guy.
Hence his near meltdown when the Obama staffer was in the way of "his" shot.
casper46 @ 66:
awards, Steven has won twice
Yohance @ 62:
We have too much fun with his stupidity to give him up. Plus, I'm pretty sure his fans don't visit C&L. We often use words here with more than two syllables so they wouldn't be able to understand the comments anyway.
nkdmansam @ 68:
Ouch! The fake Oreilly is kicking his ass.
Who actually watches Faux News? They basically have no credibility. The Faux Business channel is a joke. And they had to get rid of the idiot who claimed Obama and Michelle had a terrorist 'fist bump'. These people are insane.
Remember the scientist/doctor that the government accused of being the person who sent the anthrax letters. Well today the Justice dept settled with him for over 2.8 million dollars after he had filed suit against them for what they did to him. Chalk up one for a good guy. How long do you think it will be before bill does a job on this story. I'm not sure what his approach will be, but I'm sure it'll be bizarre.
Bill should celebrate as the only person ever awarded the Pa-toot Award for excellence in yellow tabloid fiction. Cast in dung, the trophy of a horse's anus is adorned with the winner's likeness at the center of a nags rectum.
CD @ 67:
Nerdy geeks can be tall, short, fat, or skinny.
P.D. @ 71:
E. D. Hill. I sat beside her on a flight once. She has horrible, horrible skin. The make up folks at Faux are miracle workers.
This is Bill O'Reilly's disorder. Classic case - check the symptoms.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS006...
Bill will have his day....a meeting down at the Crossroads....
o'really is more of a Peapenis award nominee.
Patriot Actor:
Well Done!
Http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS006...
Bill will have his day....a meeting down at the Crossroads....
Andy K Jong Il @ 19:
I think that's an excellent idea, along the lines of an Ignobel Prize for journalism.
fox news board of directors.
see any liberals?
:)
Nicholas @ 79:
Exactly!
I'm thinking that John could do this on the cheap...The first annual Johnny Award: a gold-painted toilet seat.
Charles @ 4:
I hope C&L puts up the bit on The Daily Show from last night where Jason Jones was watching the news with the sound off at the gym. I almost died laughing. Seriously. almost died.
He's trying so hard not to have his bitterness become apparent on the air. I guess if you can't win one, you're only other option is to claim you didn't want it anyway.
the Peabody is awarded for Excellence in journalism...i can't help that no one in all spin zone is worthy.
marko @ 14:
i've always been convinced that billos' whole shtick somehow involved a pesky rash.
Honestly, what floored me more than anything else was Bill O'Reilly using the phrase, "fair and balanced" sarcastically. Is he even consciously aware of *why* it's so devalued that nobody ever uses it straight anymore?
Bill,
It's not the fact that you haven't won a peabody because you are a right wing nut, it's just the fact that you suck.
Jay @ 82:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=174795
LOL!!! Nice.
Colbert reports more truthiness in his fake 30 minute show than BORe does in a year.
Billo says about the peabody decision makers "i'm sure it's fair and balanced", just like you billo.
These comments will win more Peabodies than O'Reilly ever will
This guy is a freak. He doesn't win a Peabody so he tried to out the award's selection committee. Poor little Bill. His ego is so big he can't realize how much he sucks.
billo could go on
the Oscars ???
decided by a bunch of liberals
billo's lawsuit against Al Franken, decided by a liberal
the liberals are responsible for everything BAD in billo's world
kinda makes me smile knowin that I'm the bogeyman hiding under billo's bed
billo oliely, wholly without merit !!!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1459090
This is the one where he bravely turned his tail and fled from Terry Gross of "Fresh Air".
Leslie [Hussein] @ 27:
That's it and it's eating him up inside. He puts on this blow-hard, looking out for the folks facade but he knows he's a joke who never does anything approaching quality journalism. All he does is tap into the populist view of the moment and creates divisiveness, outrage and anger. Our country will be a better place for everyone when O'Reilly, the paunchy, old, fake newsman who doesn't care about anyone but himself, announces his retirement and goes the way of the dinosaur.
O'Reilly is to journalism what Phyllis Diller is to beauty.
nkdmansam @ 68:
maybe Stephen will even let him use the microwave....
Terry Gross later went on O'reilly's show and stayed for the whole interview. Terry Gross was one of the 1993 recipients of the Peabody award.
marko @ 14:
He claims to have no problems with gays, but in reality is disturbingly homophobic.
Who needs a Peabody, when they already have a Pea Brain?
Poor bill.
But it's a moot point. Those who have swallowed the Kool-Aid will never change course.
It would prove them to have been complete, utter idiots at this point.
As they commit themselves to drooler-land, I wish them the best in the interest of our nation, one nation under god, etc.
I've been waiting to see this for two decades now. The Christian right literally burning itself out.
Eating itself alive. For Jayzus.
Who, by the way, has failed to show up for the Republican nomination in this election season.
Probably because he's dead as a turd.
Libertas @ 97:
wait, I thought he had three. 2 for the Daily Show and 1 for the Colbert Report...
Andy K Jong Il @ 19:
Great idea...I suggest we call it the Peabrain Award.
The only award this asshat O'Really should get is the Smack-upside-the-head award and I'd be happy to give it to him. He's a blowhard effer whose arrogance, ignorance, and bigotry make him hated by any sentient being with more than one brain cell.
And a true, respectable journalist like Tim Russert is the one who has a fatal heart-attack.
When is this clown going to get one? He certainly gets worked up enough.
That's the only regret I have about not watching his show. I won't be there to watch it happen.
Bill is nothing but a smart time asshole with connections and a penchant to act like a big shot know-it-all... in other words, he is PERFECT GOP material for that pseudo news organization FUX....
o'reilly's irrelevant.
Annoyed Canuck @ 3:
You mean the roach shit community.
having confused the Polk Awards (won after O’Reilly was no longer with Inside Edition) with the more prestigious Peabodys.
and for programs articles Billo had nothing to do with either.
Which goes to show that anybody working with Billo wanting to win an award, better fire him then go pick up the gelt.
As the "PR Guy" for Peabody during Dr. Newcomb's first four years as Director, i took several calls from Bill O's people. They wanted to interview Dr. Newcomb about the "misnomer" ... Bill's people offered to interview Dr. Newcomb on several occasions through my office. I obtained the transcripts; however, within 24 hours they disappeared from FOX's archive. Interesting to say the least. Bill later admitted to confusing Peabody Awards with the Polk Awards which he said, "So I got mixed up between a Peabody Award and a Polk Award" .... check it out: HERE..
At any rate Dr. Newcomb as usual rose above the controversy with the facts. He never appeared on Bill's show and I had a great time telling their producers "no thanks"
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bWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, what a lemming.
At this point wouldn't it be easier to report what he got right?
I'm proud to say that I am the smarmy bastard who corrected the wikipedia entry to correctly state that Billo did not win a Polk award either.
I want be a fascist pig!!!!!
Billy, Billy, got himself a little willy, a little silly willy, that cried all the way home.
Too much of a pussy to mention Colbert's name. Just like when he says "GE" when he means "Olbermann"
Left&Left @ 2:
Where have you been? Bill O'Reilly never won a Peabody! He tried to lie and say that he had, but it was a Polk Award, not a Peabody.
liberaDAPoJUSTICEmoderation @ 17:
Apologies SM.
Mark @ News Corpse @ 41:
I'am just an ordinary democrat but that's a list I would love to be added too!
Terry740 @ 119:
You are, lol! And me, and everyone else that disagrees with him.
miss_kitty @ 42:
20. A pervert who plays the morality card at every turn.
21. Dumber than a sack of rocks.
22. Evil enough to develop a following of the most vile retches in Amreican society. The mouth breathing 23%er's.
Bill O'Reilly-Whaaaaahhhhhh-sniffle-sniffle-sniffle-wahhhhhhhh.
lori @ 117:
I haven't been anywhere and I'm fully aware that that career cocksucker didn't win jack shit. You did notice that I began by calling O'Racist a liar.
Mark @ News Corpse @ 41:
Other things that we know are on BillO's enemies list:
Hollywood
George Soros
The ACLU
Daily Kos
Rosie O'Donnell
Sean Penn
The New York Times
Andrea Mackris
Jeremy Glick
Huffington Post
Bill Moyers
France (he ended his boycott, though)
Ludacris
Media Matters
Air America
The "liberal" media in general
If I'm missing any things that you know of that he can't stand (I may probably know of some of these), let me know.
miss_kitty @ 42:
20. Is convinced that if he is quoted accurately, the context is being eliminated from the comments.
21. Frequently insults adversaries he can't stand (and I know of a lot) with epithets, like "far left", "vile", "smear merchants", and "loons".
22. Claims to be an average guy, despite growing up in a relatively middle class family.
23. Purported traditionalist who acts more like a philanderer towards Andrea Mackris on the phone.
24. Accuses adversaries of "hatred" when engaging in his own hatred of the adversaries.
Colbert's gotten ice cream, a bald eagle, and a Canadian holiday named after him. He was awarded with Captain America's shield. He's got two emmys and three peabodies (two from his earlier Indecision work with the Daily show) now. And the American Dialect Society named his word "truthiness" the 2005 Word of the Year.
Bill O'Wannabe would be lucky to get a used tampon from Ann Coulter (not that she is capable of having periods, it would merely have been used in vain).
marko @ 14:
9. He's is not only a liar - but is a bad one.
10. He's aggressively obnoxious.
11. He's dumber that a F**king mud fence.
12. He's "Bilo, the amazing sock puppet" entertaining the the dim bulbs of the right.
Left&Left @ 2:
I wasn't aware Billy had won one.
O'lielly is just a bed wetting, crybaby that will never win any awards for his continual habitual lies and non-journalistic rants.
You are all living in a made up world. Made up in your own minds. You are the reason why less and less people respect liberals and their ideals in this country today. Angry and shallow is all you are.
Bismarck @ 32:
18. He's a scapgoating bully who will stop at nothing to belittle and damn others.
19. He's the puppetmaster of his producer/stalkers who try to smear legitimate journalists.
20. He's a xenophobe.
John Trask @ 54:
He's added Bill Moyers to his list of "Those I Must Discredit", along with Keith Olberman, Jeremy Glick and the entiry country of France.
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