O'Reilly clings to long-disproven wingnut terrorism tales to bash liberals
By David Neiwert Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 5:15pm
Bill O'Reilly was in prime left-baiting form last night, accusing the "nutty left" of driving the local Seattle P-I newspaper into the ground, and then claiming that this was all the more reason for Barack Obama to pay them no mind:
The far left in America is on a rampage emboldened by the Democratic victory. They're attacking on all fronts, demanding gay marriage, a ban on harsh anti-terror tactics, and many other very liberal policies. But most Americans reject the left-wing extremists.
For example, the nutty-left Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper has announced it's going out of business unless someone buys the concern over the next few weeks. Not likely to happen.
Now, we've been harshly critical of that paper. Critical mass was reached when its publisher, Roger Oglesby, refused to cooperate with the FBI when agents trying to locate two men deemed acting suspiciously on a ferry.
"Factor" producer Jesse Watters confronted Oglesby over his and the paper's outlandish left-wing zealotry, and now it's clear that even in liberal Seattle, the folks want no part of the operation.
However, what O'Reilly doesn't mention is that those 'terror suspects' in fact turned out to just be ordinary tourists, and the wingnuts' fearmongering was publicly exposed as simply yet another example of how the right needlessly and heedlessly trades in making people fearful.
In other words, Oglesby was right not to indulge the fearmongering and give up a normative right of the free press under pressure from the loudmouths of the right. He was right, O'Reilly was wrong, and no one in Seattle (except O'Reilly's tiny pustule of fans) has really ever thought otherwise.
As for the reasons the P-I's long-predicted demise has finally come to pass, well, the reasons are many and complex, but the notion that it cam because the paper was "nutty left" is plain, well, nutty.
But O'Reilly has a bigger point to make: Don't listen to those dirty stinking hippies, Barack.
The huge mistake the far left continues to make is that they believe Americans elected Barack Obama for ideological reasons. That's false. Obama won the contest because the economy collapsed and John McCain seemed clueless about it. Obama himself seems to understand that and is reacting to the far-left agenda crying the Bush administration should be charged with criminal wrongdoing.
[O'Reilly then plays the clip from Obama's interview with George Stephanopoulos in which he backs away from saying he'll pursue charges against Bush-administration torturers and wiretappers.]
OK. But Mr. Obama is smart not to fall into the left-wing trap, because most Americans reject that kind of madness. It will be interesting to see if President Obama fully understands that.
Right now he's moving away from the Bush anti-terror policies that have kept the nation safe at home, and that's a big gamble, as "Talking Points" has stated. To keep America safe and return us to prosperity, President Obama must walk away from zealotry, even if it comes from his own supporters. He will fail in office if he does not.
One can only hope that Obama is smart enough to recognize that Bill O'Reilly actually provides a very handy and rather precise reverse barometer of where he needs to take the country.
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One can only hope that Obama is smart enough to recognize that Bill O'Reilly actually provides a very handy and rather precise reverse barometer of where he needs to take the country.
BINGO. I've been trying to say this for a long time but Dave is the better wordsmith. No reason why we cant take tactical cues from their expressions of what they hate and fear the most. Reverse barometer! Thanks Dave!
The irony drips from this:
To keep America safe and return us to prosperity, President Obama must walk away from zealotry, even if it comes from his own supporters. He will fail in office if he does not.
Would that blowhard o'reilly had said this eight years ago in reference to another incoming president and his zealots. But since o'reilly WAS one of those zealots, it's not too surprising that it didn't happen.
See how cleverly he insults us all with this? We're just a bunch of zealots - which is synonymous with fanaticism.
Does this man know anything beyond his inability to resist insulting and offending everyone? And they complain that no one takes them seriously.
Sociopaths - the world would be SO much better off without them.
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Much as I detest this guy, he is dead right. In Iran today, they were demonstrating with Placards against Obama whom they painted as a vampire with blood dripping from his teeth. Softly softly ain't going to work with these guys, or with Hamas terror inc. We on the left are sleep walking. And we had better face realities.
of the Iranian population is pro-American, or at least not anti-American. Read Rick Steeves travel column from this past Sunday for one well traveled individual's viewpoint. The Iranian leadership however, is very reactionary, most likely as a result of pReznit Fuckwit's junior high school saber rattling and militaristic jingoism. Turning off the Connecticut Cowboy's overheated rhetoric should help the situation right off.
Even 10,000 means nothing. Remember there is enough fodder for these people to HATE America. Doesn't matter who the leader is. Since when has "the leader" made a damn bit of difference in our treatment of the rest of the world?...and certainly the THIRD World??
bor hasn't been "dead right" about shit. A picture of President Obama with blood from his fangs is probably a good picture of what we have been to the rest of the Arab world since the beginning of our nation's existance.
Give me a break!
"We on the left are sleep walking."
When you say "we" to whom are you referring?
So because I think you should be prosecuted if you torture someone, I'm a leftist? Is that how far we've come?
O'Reilly isn't right about anything in this screed. Bush's policies have made the threat we face from terrorism 100-fold worse - he hasn't "kept us safe" from anything.
Seems dead wrong to me. Nowhere in this clip does he mention Iran, Hamas or anyone else. Did you even watch it?
"We on the left are sleepwalking."
I'm wide awake, man.
You want to go down the same road as Iraq? You want to bring back the Rumsfelds and Cheneys, give us a break man, we have just got rid of the wankers. let the new President do things his way, thats why we put him in the White House. Fuk OReilly, the coward yellow belly spineless unAmerican traitor.
“But most Americans reject the left-wing extremists.”
Umm, and most Americans reject right-wing lunatics, too.
i like that. anyways this whole Obama revolution must be hard on the haters. they have to settle for retread o'really broadcast for a fix. o'really is a bad drug......just say no.
...is simply IGNORE this ignoramus. He is a horse's ass, and he and his ilk are sick in the noggin when it comes to logic. FORGET IT!
If this current administration is guilty of wrong doing, then they should be held accountable as much as any other citizen of the US. Isn't that what Bill or Rights was written for??? ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL??
This jackass simply wants to intimidate President Obama into a corner, much like he bullies his way around the rest of the citizenry that he disagrees with.
This guy is a full blown kook! IGNORE and move on.
I can't believe what a creepy old man he is turning into - he's gross. That face looks like something you'd see at a Day of the Dead celebration.
Vomit, vomit, vomit.
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I guess we should thank Billdo for telling us the real reason that Obama won. I guess the last 8 years and the 463,922 other reasons to reject the repukes weren't sufficient.
to say to O'liely. The worst attack on the US civilian population happened while bush was in office. Bush failed on 911 and ever since, but then again his brother Marvin was in charge of security in the WTCs so what do you expect. Rotten apple's don't fall from the tree and O'liely is right next to the trunk
pReznit said that he didn't want to hear any talk about "inside job" conspiracies. All the more reason to re-open that investigation.
i remember billo got worked up early 2008 about claims made that we were in a recession and that it was fear mongering by the farrrrrrrr left. his favorite hate target. he was slobbering over himself trying to be correct. he was wrong. billo is a master of deception.
He wants Americans to act as hostilely stupid as the hostilely stupid in other countries.
What a plan! Why didn't I think of it! We'll compare willies to determine who's the better man!
of a Catholic school education, I can tell that Little Billy regularly got
whacked around by the nuns and also by his daddy. His whole mentality shows how miserable his childhood was, and now he's trying to get even with the rest of us.
This guy is completely insane! Anyone who listens to this persons banter has serious issues with reality.
Liberals planning on enacting Liberal agendas! Such a surprise!
Sooner or later - and we've learned patience over the last 8 years - this moron will tossed out on his ass. He has been irrelevant most of his career and should simply be ignored.
they DEFEND laws and morals of our nation.
One can only hope pres elect Obama now ignores the escapee from the sex abusers wing sicko billo, for the next 4 years. No interviews just ignore the mental lunatic and hopefully someone will deal to the Fux woops sorry, Fox brain dead head of lunacy billo in a way that will need an undertaker. Ah now that would be a wonderful thing to happen for these United States.
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Bill-doh O'Liely's days of defining the topic de jour are slowing closing in on him. I love to see celebrities self destruct...
... Tomorrow, there will be one less hair in that pin head.
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still has an audience. Those who avidly lap up his bile walk among us. They're our friends and neighbors, coworkers and family.
For example, my big sister considers him among the best commentators on television. Whenever and wherever possible (she has to open this door), I offer proof of his deceit and misleading information, but she is convinced he is infallible--as are most of his listeners.
Billo is just the most visible tip of the iceberg. All those who look to him to legitimize their personal agendas will continue to hate and resent, and to promote a negative world view. Until this significant number of US citizens gets a clue, we will have Billo.
I live in Seattle and I've subscribed to the PI for 30 years. I'm sorry to see it go but we need to remember that it's a Hearst paper and in no way is it "nutty left." My big worry with the PI's demise is how am I going to read Blondie and Pearls Before Swine? I could probably find them on line somewhere, but I hate reading the comics on line.
I didn't know it was a Hearst paper...yep you are correct...it is in no way 'nutty left'
... http://comics.com Set it up so it's emailed to each morning. I suggest you give up Blondie.
Wasn't o'really the one pestering an Obama security team member?
By his own standards o'really should be taken to a backroom for some harsh anti-terror tactics.
Why do people give the time of day to this wife cheating Reslug and sexually perverted stalker that hates America??????
... the PI is an afternoon paper. How many major cities still support an afternoon paper. Another day of seeing through the Billo bull.
The P-I's always been a morning paper. The Times used to be the afternoon paper, and then switched to morning delivery in the early '90s, which was another stake in the heart of the P-I.
I am a P-I subscriber, BTW.
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