Correction: I misheard O'Reilly on this: He said "blackboard," not "black boy." My apologies. The text has been edited to reflect this.
Bill O'Reilly has been irked at Joe Klein since last October, after Klein wrote a typical Villager piece for Time castigating President Obama for standing up to Fox News. That's not what upset O'Reilly, though. Rather, it was these lines:
Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue.
So last night on Fox, O'Reilly finally got his chance to pin Klein down for this, and found he had his hands full defending Glenn Beck:
Klein: I have worked with an awful lot of Fox journalists, the ones who actually bring you the news, like Carl Cameron and Major Garrett.
O'Reilly: And those people are good guys, right?
Klein: Those -- those are good guys, I think you're a good guy, we come from the same neck of the woods.
But I think that your pal Glenn Beck is peddling a lot of hateful crap.
O'Reilly: But he's funny! He's doing it in a funny way! What's hateful about it?
Klein: Oh, he's doing a hilarious -- I thought the part where he describes the president as intentionally steering the airplane of state into the ground was hilarious. And the stuff about Obama not being an American citizen? That was hysterical!
O'Reilly: He's got a blackboard out there, he's got a phone to the White House -- look, he is everyman sitting on a barstool. Why shouldn't everyman have a show?
Klein: No, no, he is Father Coughlin trying to delude and entertain the American people.
O'Reilly: That's such baloney. That's the left-wing line, that this guy is a threat to the union. If anybody thinks Glenn Beck is a threat to the union, they're insane!
Actually, the comparison to Father Coughlin is more than appropriate -- it fits like a glove.
And dontcha just love how Beck being "funny" means he isn't hateful? I understand Theodore Bilbo was quite the crackup too.
O'Reilly isn't one of the 'good guys', either. Dont suck up to him, Joe.
Screw Joe K-lie himself!!! He is just half a step from belonging on FOX.
Klein is just to the right of Lanny Davis: A major-league asshole.
Ailes ---therefore he has bought the crap spewed by the likes of Becki...forgetting that sadists are not anymore funny than the horrid men who used human skin to cover their wallet...Just ed deplorable and deprived---couch in perverted lying humour...Despicable!
his new female counterpart is in the same IQ level --below 70 but thinks they a cute none the less...My repub friends are embarrassed by all three and wonder how their party of Lincoln got hijacked!
Typical though how many suck up to this disgusting bully.
O'Reilly trying to palm Beck off as "funny" is a prime example of what a compulsive liar he is.That was beyond lame.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
But I think that your pal Glenn Beck is peddling a lot of hateful crap.
O'Reilly: But he's funny! He's doing it in a funny way!
Proof that O'Lielly is a sociopath. Glenn Beck is only funny in a "what a fucking lunatic" way, and even then, he's not funny...
When did that become a rule? I missed the change. Perhaps the anti-Christ is already here, and he or she is implementing Orwell's "1984" philosophy. If that is the best O'Reilly can do, time for him to retire.
Yeah, I guess sedition is hilarious if you say it with a smile on your lips and hate in your heart.
Does anybody here NOT want to hand Beck an anvil as he steps off a cliff?
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
says he doesn't have 3 hours to say what he doessn't like about Time. I don't like Time mostly because of Joe Klein but that's not everything I quit taking it.
Fox? I could say what I don't like about them in less than 3 seconds. Everything.
amazing that someone as lick-spittlish (coin?) as joe klein can look fairly decent next to o'reilly
to be a dad because his wife had suffered a miscarriage a couple days earlier, he was just making funny for his morning zoo asshat listeners?
Glenn Beck, always teh klassy, always teh funny.
me-oww!
From what Beck says lately, Joe must have written something about him in Time recently. Beck has had a bug up his ass about Klien for a while now. Beck does his usual bs about people like Klien not thinking Beck's viewers are smart enough to understand what is happening in the country.
I wish Klien had asked billo about his "black boy" comment. A good reporter would have. So if you see the president as a black boy and you have a phone while sitting on a bar stool, you are a typical American? No, you are most likely a tea baggin' flop.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
..."black board," referring to one of GB's props.
I'm not a fan of BO, but I think meant board not boy. It's still an interesting Freudian slip though.
The question Klein should have asked is if BO thought Keith Olbermann was "funny" when he attacked W on an almost nightly basis.
Yep, you're all correct. I've corrected it. Thanks! I replayed it several times and that was what I thought he said, but I was clearly mistaken.
The sad thing is none of us would have been surprised if he had said it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
it was probably a slip-up that he DIDN'T say it
would have better diction, wouldn't you?
me-oww!
A Freudian slip-up that is.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
But I like Richard Wright...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
A blackboy is like a carboy only it's full of black tar heroin.
Before each show, Beck uses it to collect his thoughts.
when he was his own anonymous source.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Beck is a joke -- but an old an not particularly funny one.
If you order Billo's book right now he'll send you a shiny new pen for free. Who could resist that?
Next to Beck, Bill sounds almost sane at times. I wonder whose idea it was for the two of them to do the Bold Fresh shows together. Did Bill need Beck or was it the other way around?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
So sad that our airwaves have to sustain such piffle.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
never had the brains or balls to cut his own mic....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
With all due respect I cannot stand FoX news but Bill O'reilly I believe said Black Board...not black boy...I heard it a few times and thats what I hear...Reporting this has to be fixed on title
Billo is pissed at Obama because he couldn't get any "mother f**kin' ice tea," when he visited Harlem.
Beck is funny in that Rush kind of way; when El Dumbass tells people to "call back after they take the bone out of their nose!"
Oh those wacky conservatives. What a sense of comedy they have (in a gustapo sort of way). Inciting hatred and violence in their moron listeners; aren't they just hilarious?
Nothing says fun and games like a harmless rightwing hate crime!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Gestapo.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Thou shalt not speak of me as a juvenile male offspring. Will you indeed have to inform your female parent, that a juvenile caused you great injury?
That means they're losing support.
Beck is the average guy on the bar stool? Not in the restaurants or bars I go too. No one likes that clown.
It's funny. Faux nooz takes these polls, and cites them as facts.
Poor Billbo. There will come a day when he's done working.
Then, he'll have to face the public at large.
For the most part, he'll be able to avoid it. But sooner or later, he'll find himself out in public. We don't forget.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Poor Billbo. There will come a day when he's done working.
Then, he'll have to face the public at large.
He'll laugh it off and say that you're an idiot for not being in on the joke. The joke being it was all staged.......he did it for the money. He didn't believe anything he said.......we're all dumb asses for believing him.
Behind Opah.
that's funny.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Before he bacame a Fox personality, he was already a multi-millionaire shock jock drug addict. That is not everyman.
The other guys cut their stock with a pinch of journalistic facade. No wonder Beck is topping their ratings, his junk is pure, uncut dementia juice.
Rupert's Dementia(tm): There is a cause, and there is a cure.
people going to a stock car race to see the accidents.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
()'Reilly: That's such baloney. That's the left-wing line, that this guy is a threat to the union. If anybody thinks Glenn Beck is a threat to the union, they're insane!
Meanwhile, Glenda Bleccchh freely hurls rhetorical bombs and does EXACTLY what Bill() accuses liberalprogressofascicommunists of "being insane" for engaging in. Not one day goes by where Glenda doesnt decry the dangers, evils and "threat to the union" from PROGRESSiveism.
. . .thats good schtick.
"Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue."
Some of it....?
Much of it....?
How about "ALL OF IT", Joe.
it's a beginning of telling the truth about that seditious lunatic.
Now, if only the rest of the whore media would just start telling the truth about fox instead of trying to emulate them, we might be at a starting point of media reform.
O'LIElie should keep his hands under his desk. when the hands try to wave about he knows he needs to cool down and think. That will keep him silent indefinitely.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Who gives one whit what Joe Klein says? That's like wondering what Howie Kurtz thinks about something - they are both part of the damn problem! He thinks Carl Cameron is a credible, unbiased journalist? I'll bet he thinks David Gregory asks probing questions with brilliant follow-ups, too.
Let him schmooze with O'Reilly. Looks like he's right at home...
The effect of all these voices is rarely direct or acute but rather cumulative. The effect on audiences of hearing this ever-more outrageous hatefulness repeated endlessly and in the guise of mainstream speech can be lasting and profound. But who, exactly, are the audience, who are the receivers of these transmissions?
--David Neiwert (chap. 3 p. 81)
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Still seized three books from Adkisson's home, including "The O'Reilly Factor," by television commentator Bill O'Reilly; "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder," by radio personality Michael Savage; and "Let Freedom Ring," by political pundit Sean Hannity.
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
Billo... Oh come on, come on... just say enough to get my numbers closer to the crazy guy ;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I never watch fox. None of it. Remember the polls billo is talking about are paid for by fox. The guy from the daily show said it best.
These people will be so embarrassed if they ever develop the capacity to feel shame.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
Shouldn't that be he's a threat to the Union?
When you say union you make it sound like beckys gonna beat up teamsters.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Bill O'Reilley perpetuted the fact that he is a cruel, unprofessioinal and twisted propagandist. It was a disgrace the way he treated his "guest" Joe Klein, rude, crude and merciless in his attack and disrespect for the simple courtesy of letting someone else speak. I do so wish that someone would confront O'Reilley with the sexual harassment lawsuit which he paid his way out off and make him own up to his misdeeds the way he tries to force other people to answer to him. The things he said to these women are all on line and they defy description. To call them sick and perverse is an understatement. Why the creep O'Reilley is allowed to get away with his dirt is a miscarriage of justice and it's not too late to make him take responsibility for it, even rub it in his face like he tries to do to other people, even innocent ones.
Woody McBreairty
Talkin' about an unfunny funny pundit with his black boys
Wouldn't that be a reference to rash limpballs?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
So Fox throws Beck under the bus to give O’Reilly some creditability????
O’Reilly, Beck, Limbaugh, etc. etc., they’re all freakin lying, evil garbage. The whole network is a terrorist mob. Evey one of them lie, distort, bully and spread hate, fear, and violence.
Fox is the Wingnut toilet from Hell.
What did POX Terror Theatre know, and when did they know it?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
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Nutters: King Teabagger Beck
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
I've mentioned this before....I used to watch O'Reilly fairly often (guess I'm somewhat masochistic) but did so because I took great pleasure in sending multiple emails to the guy, pointing out how he is wrong. And, he has read a number of my emails on air over the years.
I have pretty much stopped watching O'Reilly, now that he has so long defended beck. At a White House Christmas correspondents dinner, Valerie Jarret asked O'Reilly, "what about this beck?" O'Reilly said, well, "he's just an American with strong views."
Damn it, BillO. Cindy Sheahan and Markos Moulitsos are "just Americans with strong views." Cindy in particular had a son who died in a war Bush sent him to.
So are the many tens if not hundreds of thousands or even millions of Progressive....they are "just Americans with strong views." But all of the latter are characterized by O'Reilly and his pals as the "liberal elite," the "far left loons," the "far left haters." O'Reilly has long said that the hate on the left is far greater than the hate shown by the right and in fact the hatred shown by the right has been "marginalized."
Yet O'Reilly still calls beck "just an American," the guy who sits on a bar stool. If beck is just the "everyman sitting on a barstool," the only way this can be true is if beck is still drinking and taking drugs.....but then he wouldn't be the "everyman."
Last night, I happened to turn on O'Reilly's show for a brief time. He was talking to his glum friend Bernie Goldberg (who never smiles). O'Reilly asked Goldberg if he didn't think that the far right commentators are "now" starting to "go over the top?" I had to ask O'Reilly, "Now???????" You mean, "Now???????" They've been over the top with Obama hating ever since Obama started running for higher office.
And, the thing is, even though BillO and Bernie patted themselves on the back for saying they were pointing out these right wingers were "over the top," they did not mention one single one of them (limpballs, hannity, beck, ingraham, various right wing senators, bachmann, etc.).....I repeat, they did not mention one single one of them by name or what they said to make O'Reilly and Goldberg think they were "over the top."
Lying SOSs of the Pox Network.
About ratings,
We have a lot of criminals doing time that would like to see more rape shows or murder shows. There are a lot of child molesters out there that could give FOX ratings if they ran child porn.
These are ratings of a subjective group and it excludes the rest of America. But that is OK unless you are going to tell me out of the FOX access to 8 million viewers that when FOX gets 2 million viewers watching something that it reflects America as a whole.
It tells me FOX is selectively targeting some of the most peculiar listeners at the same time it promotes otherwise.
"Klein: But I think that your pal Glenn Beck is peddling a lot of hateful crap.
O'Reilly: But he's funny! He's doing it in a funny way! What's hateful about it?"
Let me get this straight: O'Reilly doesn't refute the contention that Barstool Beck is peddling a lot of hateful crap... it's the idea that he's funny while doing it that makes it his saving grace?!
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