O'Reilly and Beck joke about torturing people they don't like
By David Neiwert Saturday Feb 28, 2009 11:00am
Whenever Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly get together, a new black hole of wingnuttery opens up in the time-space continuum. This could eventually prove to be unhealthy for human existence.
Take last night for example:
O'Reilly: There's got to be a reason why Feinstein and Pelosi and Leahy and all these far-left loons want to do damage to the country. This hurts the United States. Al Qaeda -- you know who the happiest people in the world are on a CIA investigation? Al Qaeda. They're the happiest people. Let's find out what the CIA's up to. Who does it help? It helps Al Qaeda.
Beck: Are you saying that -- Wait a minute, are you saying that these guys might be un-American?
O'Reilly: I'm not saying un-American. I would never say that. I'm saying misguided severely. And maybe should be tortured.
Beck: [Laughs] Who gets to do that?O'Reilly: We'll play them your show. For them? That would be really torture.
Beck: Now do they have to watch the whole thing? Because -- nah, that might be too much.
O'Reilly: We could strap them to the chair!
I'm sure that, like most right-wingers, they will dismiss any dismay expressed over this kind of violent eliminationist rhetoric as being a matter of humorlessness.
But they don't seem to realize that it really tells us everything we need to know about these maladjusted freaks that this fits their definition of what's funny. When little children enjoy pulling the wings off flies and stringing up the neighbor's cat, we take them to the doctor.
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i would love to torture billo, but
that's like throwing sh*t at a fan..
it just sticks to everything
They'd enjoy it.
one can only imagine how these two would interpret Rorschach Ink Blots. both of these "entertainers" are sick.
n/t
The fact that both of these freaks have millions of fans in America is more frightening than almost anything else.
They are hateful and disgusting, and frightening for the fact that there are people who actually LISTEN to them.
Somebody should find out how much these f*ckers make and what kind of health insurance they have. How many houses and cars do they own? They have no idea what it's like to be working your ass off and yet living on a shoestring.
Why?
Because Beck and Falaffel Bill are working-class guys made good.\
Their listeners fuukin LOVE 'em. It's the Murkin dream.
ALL the wingnuts are making wild and violent statements. I think they are all following a script, in an attempt to provoke some sort of riot or attack by American terrorists.
It is something more than a bunch of crazy Rightards. Someone is behind this, and I hope the FBI, Secret Service and other law agencies are investigating who. Murdoch? Dubai? The Bush Syndicate? Or just the GOP?
That's my point. This really is an American problem. I believe in freedom of speech, so I'm not advocating any law or legal action to remove these guys. It's more that they are so popular. I mean, if there was a daily show on TV where some guy would lick a frog while singing Yankee Doodle Dandy for 58 minutes and then at the 59th minute, pour gasoline on it and light it on fire, cut to closing credits, normal people would be disgusted and the show would be terminated because 1 - nobody would watch it 2 - advertisers would pull out and 3 - the outrage, letter writing, email, phone calls, would just be overwhelming. Right?
So why are these shows airing and so popular? Where’s the public outrage except on this web site? Non-existent. These show are actually very popular! Americans like them. That's what's sick.
They sound surprisingly similar to the people in the comment thread in the next post down, talking and joking about putting conservatives in Gitmo for being conservatives.
It amazes me that people really think that it is any different when they do it. It isn't. It's still hate mongering.
just look at Dadams (numero uno) comment on this thread!!!
I'll just copy-paste Annaleigh's comment from down-thread :-)
Ok, actually I *have* found something to say! Sat, 02/28/2009 - 11:37 — Annaleigh
Just a general comment towards those who are making excuses for O'Reilly and Beck because some liberals say somewhat similar things occassionally:
The difference is their words often translate into action. Brian Kilmeade once joked about shooting fourteen Guatemalans who were coming here illegally. I'm sure you know what happened yesterday morning? Some anti-Latino wingnut opened fire on Chilean students in Florida.
Joe the Bummer is talking about shooting liberals he doesn't like, Jim Atkinson already tried that in Tennessee.
Where are the liberals massacring evangelical Christians? Where are the liberals massacring bankers and CEOs?
Oh wait, there aren't any!
...(besides Bill Clinton and the "Bosnia" thing)...
But Dadams is well on his way!
...and I guarantee that "I would love to torture" (Dadams) (just got himself investigated) by the FBI.
Especially since Dadams, who has apparently become your psoter-boy for this, even put the qualifier in there: "BUT"
I'm guessing you don't know a lot about the English language, or you would know: the word "but" automatically negates everything that came previous to it in a sentence. "I WOULD buy an ice cream bar BUT I have no money." But negates "I would buy an ice cream bar," automatically changing its meaning to: "I am not buying an ice cream bar."
He said he would love to BUT. Meaning he wouldn't.
Thank you!
These concern troll apologists are getting on my nerves, too...
Nice try, but nu uh. If Dadams is the best you can come up with, you have no arguement.
Until Dadams actually acts on his words, or someone else does (and God forbid that should happen, conservatives have loved ones and families too), there's no comparison.
Especially when you have to compare something hypothetical to a proven track record which is getting longer and longer these days!
After having sat through several minutes of watching these brainless idiots talk, I think I understand what torture is.
it's beavis and butthead down a few notches.
It's very disrespectful to insult Beavis and Butthead like that.
O'Reilly & Beck? Despicable lower lifeforms....
And given that they have a large fan base? Terrifying.
co-hosted by Dreck, Orally, and KKKlanity to conserve energy. They can share a jar of Vaseline.
Wow, is all I can bring myself to say right now. :|
Fox has to stop with the interviews between show hosts. How hard is it to get a right-wing expert on things nowadays?
But I suppose they figure it'd be cheaper to just talk to Beck all day.
You stay classy, Beck. And have fun packing back into that VW with your 70 friends in the red noses and oversized shoes.
That was truly brutal to sit through... why are they not re-instating the fairness doctrine again?
Just a general comment towards those who are making excuses for O'Reilly and Beck because some liberals say somewhat similar things occassionally:
The difference is their words often translate into action. Brian Kilmeade once joked about shooting fourteen Guatemalans who were coming here illegally. I'm sure you know what happened yesterday morning? Some anti-Latino wingnut opened fire on Chilean students in Florida.
Joe the Bummer is talking about shooting liberals he doesn't like, Jim Atkinson already tried that in Tennessee.
Where are the liberals massacring evangelical Christians? Where are the liberals massacring bankers and CEOs?
Oh wait, there aren't any!
There is no equivalence. More and more the right wingers are advocating violence with predictable results.
Indeed!
remember eric severide and walter cronkite... i long for those days when news was at least news, and not the craziest, dumbest loudmouths they can find to anchor news shows...
Thank God for Amy Goodman and Democracy now... .
At least she provides hope for us...
these guys are beyond pathetic...
so . . .tired . . . . of . . . hearing. . . . . .about . . . . . these . .. . 2. . . . .fucking . . . . adolescent . . . .LOSERS . . . . . ..
It would have been interesting to see how O'Reilly would have held up while being tortured by the Viet Cong. But O'Reilly made sure that was never going to happen when he mysteriously managed to avoid being drafted even though he he had played football while in college.
Champeen intramural punter, iirc...
BillO hearts Glenn. After the show they probably smoked pot and traded bj's.
Oh, I think it was more than that. Which one is the bottom?
O'Reilly's definitely the more "macho" of the two, probably shouting, "Squeal like a pig for me!!!"
And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go vomit.
Don't be blaming these two on POT, thanks. Weed does not induce people to these depths of hatred and slovenly jaw-wagging. If they're high, it's obviously on crystal meth.
This goes a little farther than these two nimwits. The people who are paying these traitors are traitors themselves.
That would be Rupert Murdoch.
there's an immigrant who can go home RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, thank you.
I get that you think it is different when you agree with the people who are doing it.
It isn't.
There is no false equivalency between hate mongering and hate mongering. It is hate mongering.
You think that because they currently control the microphone for the corporate media that they are the only ones who are spewing hatred effectively.
No. They are not.
I wish we would yell and scream about the way they are dehumanizing people instead of dehumanizing them. That has always been done, and always damaged us. Always.
Where are the lefties who are murdering people, then?
You have to get over this false notion that what Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck say on their network TV show and what people on this thread write are somehow the same. It makes you look real stupid. The next time I get a national TV show I will be much more careful to choose my words. One of the main reasons anyone would want these goofs to be sent to Gitmo is so they would be a whole lot more humble about throwing the word torture around. It is not a punch line for a stupid joke.
Now go away...
Thanks Woody, I'll quit feeding the troll, they've yet to cough up an example of a homicidal liberal, so moving on! ;)
about how the "far left" (ie, mainstream America) wants to damage the country. Just one time explain how; convince me of this danger.
What needs to happen is for invited "far left loon" talking heads to continue to challenge O'R on this point. Ask for specifics. Bore in on him. If he says, "off topic"? Too fucking bad and who gives a shit? Don't be derailed and don't be intimidated or shouted down. Everyone knows that the best way to deal with bullies is to blacken their eyes, bloody their noses and send them crying and screaming home to their mommies...or in this case, Glenn Beck.
I can't think of a better place for this to happen than on Faux Newz. There's some "Fair and Balanced" you can believe in.
countryfolk agree with Falaffel Bill and Beck.
That's how many people voted against Prez.O.
46% of the voting population.
And if things get a lot worse (which is just about inevitable), the numbers will grow, as Murkins actually have to begin to sacrifice to save the planet--fuck the economy. The planet is in peril, and people are the cause, and it's gonna be painful to fix (if even we can).
They laughingly (and we, reluctantly, it appeasrs, but no less thoroughly) are indictable for "climaticide." It ain't funny.
Not that I have any but the most transient stake in anything: no kids, no grandkids, just me and the dogs. And we're getting old...
Approximately the same number as those who bought the "Left Behind" series. Buncha fucking rocket surgeons out there in TV Land.
I've noticed that those who did anything to get out of the draft are the biggest warmongers now. They don't really care how many of our service people are killed as longed as it's not them. They are disgusting individuals.
Vickif
Excellent point. Vietnam veterans such as myself also identify these hypocritical warmongers as chickenhawks such as Dick [five deferments other priorities] Cheney, Rumsfeld, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Bush, et al.
Sure, they need help, but it's awfully hard to care about them.
give it a rest. I can't stand these nabobs either, but you are spending way too much time dwelling on their every drivel.
Their comment is about making people watch their shows = torture. Apparently not for you, since there are daily clips and links.
It is past time to ignore these churls and cast them onto the ash heap of history. Boycott them and their advertisers.
Period. Don't watch. Don't quote. Don't validate their loathsome existence.
The meaning of "Crooks" and "liars" explained to them...
Not thin AT ALL when you have people like Adkisson ACTING ON what these guys are talking about right now!
I live in Vancouver BC. Luckily the Fox affiliate in Wash. State doesn't run their news programs, so we get the best fox has to offer - sports, etc. but no Hannity, Billo or Beck.
I read recently that ratings have surged for right wing shows. I don't know what that says - sore losers flocking together I suppose. However, they incite hate at every turn and when anyone calls them on it , they say it's just a joke as in Ann Coulter's "I call him Hussein because I think it's funny". I am not alone in my concern for the safety of your President with these pundits condoning any type of violence.
BillO has someone that he can he call on the telephone and have them perform various sexual acts with a dildo and that person won't file sexual harrassment charges against him. GLENN BECK
I'm sure it's in both of their contracts. Murdoch says, "as long as you're making money for the network, anything goes..."
These Two Idiots are already Brain Dead.
One is "Clueless and One is Dickless"
Take your Pick.
He got all brave and puffy there for a second, but when he saw that Beck was taking it at least a tad more seriously than he himself was, he backed of real quick with, "We should make them watch your show!"
Beck was hoping he would say something like, "Stick em in a room and let all of the Republicans have a shot at em!" or something.
to the video when Beck said something about "these people must have a screw loose." WTF??? Who on earth could be screwier that Beck and O'Reilly???
Thees guys are seriously mentally ill.....especially Glen
This is like watching a sick circus. People like this - from the reich-wing - have no humanity. They're true sociopaths. Sociopaths are dangerous people and it is good to understand them.
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Sorry. That's the way I feel.
These Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Reillys, Becks, why do these people even exist in the public consciousness?
C'mon. What am I seeing here? Is this journalism? Is this entertainment? Is this some type of daily showing of the "Sadomasochism Hour?"
Do the American people have no shame? I mean, what nation runs this type of crap on their television networks?
Juniorhighschoolmoronistan?
this shit is so sophmoric. It speaks volumes about how pathetic we've become as a country. I'm embarrassed for us.
Fox News is "bad" to put it simplistically, but that's not really the problem.
It's a cultural issue. What does it say about a nation that likes this kind of dialogue?
I mean, there's no law against not helping an old lady pick up her groceries if she dropped them on the supermarket floor but most people would agree that it would be bad taste if a lot of young, strong, men walked by and not one even tried to help her out, right? I mean, we don't legislate a behavior to help the elderly, we teach it to our children, right?
Simlilarly, I don't want legislation against mocking, yelling, and insulting. But what kind of nation teaches their children to grow up to be adults who like watching this type of broadcasting, basically smart-ass thugs that insult, mock, and yell at people?
A nation of uneducated asshats, that's who. The only way to stop it is to improve education - put an emphasis on learning and ETHICS back into our culture; teach things like science, civics, literature and other such subjects in school; put the brakes on the whole child-worship nonsense...etc.
Pretty tall order, but that's what it would take.
it's hard to teach ethics when you're FORCING children to attend a school that is paid for with STOLEN (taxes are theft) property.
If the "child-worship" you speak of is the same as doing the best you can for your children then we need more "child-worship". Most of today's problems are caused by adults who were abused children.
The videos on this site never fail to amaze me. I literally felt like I was back in junior high in Michigan when Glenn Beck giggled about torture like a little bitch.
To think, probably it was American women that let one or either of these two stick their penis's in them, I believe one has children.
True, political figures have been on their shows, I would however imagine that non-wingnuts have been 'briefed', hopefully.
Hey Glen, didn't your CRAZY mother kill herself, right after she had you?
...that's a really stupid thing to write. It sounds like something a guy like Beck might say.
Note: for the record, according to Wikipedia, Beck's mother killed herself when he was thirteen. That's hardly right after she had him.
I have to wonder why BillO and Bleck don't ask Leahy (or the others) to come onto their show so they can call them names to their faces. Are they cowards? Why doesn't BillO just ask Leahy to come sit on the set next to him as he calls him a "far-left loon who wants to damage the country"?
Better yet, why doesn't he ask Sean Penn? Penn's further to the left and more outspoken--and arguably just as influential.
Even I would watch Faux to see this exchange and its aftermath.
I'm not talking of those jerks that work for FAUX that call themselves Demos, I am talking anyone who is elected to office and thinks of themselves as Democratic.
This clip is a great example of just how unhinged O'Reilly is. He refers to Feinstein as "usually pretty level-headed" and "not irresponsible." Then, moments later he says, "There's got to be a reason why Feinstein, and Pelosi, and Leahy, and all of these far-left loons...." Less than 90 seconds after saying she's level-headed and not irresponsible, she's become a "far-left loon." The only thing that happened in between was Glen Beck behaved like a child with severe ADHD. I'm not sure why Beck's behaving like a disabled child (which is SOP with him) should alter O'Reilly's appraisal of Feinstein. Then again, maybe O'Reilly is simply incapable of rational analysis. Wow, now there's an insight!
Why anyone would listen to to O'Reilly escapes me. "And they're cowards, cuz they won't come on," he says. What serious adult would waste his or her time on the O'Reilly show? Sure, Obama did, and it was a sign of a severe lack of judgment on his part. As good as Obama is at some things, he's terrible at others. For example, some of his appointments are absolutely absurd (Gregg, Biden, Daschle, etc.), and he does seem to operate under the obviously mistaken assumption that if only he can talk to people, he'll make them see the light.
As for Beck; he's just embarrassing. He's like the most obnoxious class cut up in fifth grade, which might be OK for a fifth grader, but he's 45 years old, so there really is no excuse. The fact that he has his own program on a major network is a sign of just how worthless FNC is.
The Right continues to self-destruct. We can only hope they go all the way and finish the job before they come to their senses.
I just read in Wikipedia that "Beck is a self-described reformed alcoholic." That could explain at least some of his bizarre behavior.
that was like watching monkeys fling poo at the zoo. I can't help but think how much of the earths resources were wasted bringing up these two un-evolved jack asses.
Let me get this straight.
I an anti hate mongering and that makes me a troll at a blog I have been commenting on since its inception.
Or is it that I won't do your research for you that makes me a troll?
Criminy! Nearly every thinking person has been driven off these comment threads by this hate monger, submit, or die mentality.
I blame the corporate media, but the manifestation here creeps me right the hell out.
Frustrating, isn't it?
If you're anti-hate mongering, you have a strange way of showing it by passing on concere examples of it in favor of those aren't really there and cannot compete. And no, I was not asking for you to do my research.
If you will look further up, you will see that the last thing I want to see his conservatives being picked off the way liberals and people that liberals support have been picked off. As I said, conservatives have families and loved ones too. Even some that I might consider to be monsters have people whose hearts would genuinely broken if they were lost. Therefore, I was not making excuses for liberals who make such comments. I have not seen you denounce the very real hate speech of Beck and O'Reilly and its very real consequences, have I?
Instead, I have been trying to make the point that there is a proven track record of conservatives taking the words of conservative media to heart and doing horrible things. Evidently hate is one-way street where it is only unacceptable if a liberal is saying it, eh?
But whatever, I'm dropping the subject.
Beavis and Butthead?
Dumb and Dumber?
No, it's just Beck and O'Reilly
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Q U E S T I O N:
When little boys torture stray cats...
... What should adults do?
When adults joke about torturing people...
... What do little boys learn?
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Why is it I picture these two back stage dancing together wearing their panties and tutu's ? A natural pairing these two love birds , America's finest .
What did one moron say to the other moron?
with DHS and the FBI. It is no longer a laughing matter. I truly believe they are threatening Elected officials of the United States.
Its really embarrassing to watch Beck. He's got that Mormon "goodness" like Donny and Marie have. But they're more authentic than he is. What a doofus.
Republicans are the sorry a.. excuses for a human being I have ever seem or hear..
Anyone with a IQ of two digits , knows that O'Reilly , Rush , Fox News??? , and the republicans are worst enemies to the citizens and our country then Bin Laden or any terrorist we have ever known.
Just look what Bush and his corporate republican administration has done to this country for their greed and lust for power...
Bush and his criminal mob has destroy our constitution , laws , honor , military , manufacturing plants , jobs and our economy and are now trying to blame it on Obama and the democrats...
If democrats would have ever make just one of the anti-American or hoping and stating that they wish Obama and the democrats fail in trying to heal and correct the total destruction Bush and his criminal mob has done to this country , every d... news media would be attacking them 24/7.
We need to enforce a law to prosecute any news agency or talk radio host which spreads their hate , lies , BS , propaganda to destroy people and our country..
how badly does Beck want O'Reilly's respect? This was like watching a republican beta male kowtowing to the republican alpha male--agreeing with everything O'Reilly said, laughing at his stupid jokes and even keeping his head lower than O'Reilly's. Pathetic...
Sickening to watch two fools laughing about torture.
The reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. Wonder if they giggled about torture and death as much as these two modern-day fascist progadists do.
I hate Nazis, and that's exactly what they are.
I'm sure BillO and Becky would love to be on both the giving and receiving end.
Lost in all of these comments is that everyone is tripping over their own political correctness... "Oh no, Glen and Billo used the word 'torture'!! How could they?! They are making fun of a serious issue."
Come on, get real. Not a single person addressed the issue in the clip - how the CIA is going to move forward - because they can't pass up the chance to spout off. There is no personal accountability in the world anymore. That is the problem.
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