All Pro-choice groups should boycott Bill O'Reilly's show
By John Amato Monday Jun 08, 2009 1:00pm
Scott Roeder issued a warming. More violence is on the way. I think it's time that the entire pro-choice movement, including groups like Planned Parenthood, NOW and NARAL, vow never to appear on The Bill O'Reilly show again. His vile treatment of Dr. Tiller along with his staunch opposition to a woman's right to make her own reproductive choices should make it clear that you will never get a fair shake from him.
I love the Washington Post article last week by Mary Alice Carr called: Why I Turned Down O'Reilly:
The first time I appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," in 2004, I sat across from Bill O'Reilly in awkward silence while he shuffled papers and took notes.
Finally, he glanced up and acknowledged my existence. "Thank you for coming on," he said. "Most people don't have the guts." I said, "Well, you are one of the most-watched new shows on cable." He swiftly retorted, "The most-watched news show on cable TV." Let's face it: Bill O'Reilly is not only aware of his power and his reach, he's damn proud of them.
So I went on his show, time and again, even though many other progressives discouraged me. I went because I know what O'Reilly knows: It's the most-watched show, and I thought it was imperative that his audience also hear our viewpoint. I also know that when you have a bully pulpit, you need to be held accountable for what you preach.
O'Reilly is being incredibly disingenuous when he claims that he bears no responsibility for others' actions in the killing of Dr. George Tiller on Sunday. When you tell an audience of millions over and over again that someone is an executioner, you cannot feign surprise when someone executes that person.
You cannot claim to hold no responsibility for what other people do when you call for people to besiege Tiller's clinic, as O'Reilly did in January 2008. And this was after Tiller had been shot in both arms and after his clinic had been bombed.
O'Reilly knew that people wanted Tiller dead, and he knew full well that many of those people were avid viewers of his show. Still, he fanned the flames. Every time I appeared on his show, I received vitriolic and hate-filled e-mails. And if I received those messages directly, I can only imagine what type of feedback O'Reilly receives. He knows that his words incite violence.
That is why I made a personal pledge to no longer sit across from him after he called for people to converge on Tiller's clinic. I realized that appearing on the show with him would only legitimize his speech and that no good would come of my efforts.
So on Tuesday morning, when an O'Reilly producer called and asked me to come on the show to "discuss the reasons why women have late-term abortions," I held fast to my pledge. I told his producer what I thought: that I had had that conversation on air with O'Reilly five years earlier and that he agreed with me at the time that the decision was between a woman and her doctor. That O'Reilly then went on to pretend we had never talked about it and continued condemning women and doctors. That the nation and those of us in the pro-choice community are reeling from the murder of a doctor who helped women. That we hold O'Reilly responsible for helping to create a climate in which hate was allowed to fester. That I refused to dignify his irresponsible behavior, not to mention his deplorable reaction to Tiller's shooting.
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But then I realized I just couldn't. Because if the murder of a man in a house of worship wasn't enough to make Bill O'Reilly repent, what hope did I have?
The writer is vice president of communications for NARAL Pro-Choice New York.
Good for Mary for finally realizing that Bill O'Reilly uses people in the pro-choice arena to further his agenda. He's very good at what he does and by nature is against the pro-choice movement, so the efforts to appear there to get your point across are completely wasted. He has little respect for any of the pro-choice groups, so why help his show? Why appear on The Factor? How does it serve the movement? And Bill O'Reilly's behavior towards Dr. Tiller was unconscionable.
I'm asking Cecile Richard, who is the head of PPFA, Nancy Keenan of NARAL, and Marcia Pappas of NOW to help get the word out. If Bill O'Reilly is unwilling to admit that the vitriol he spews as well as many from the anti-choice movement at the expense of women has a profound negative effect, then he shouldn't get the benefit of their presence. He does not deserve what he does not respect.
Please join me and contact every pro-choice group you know and ask that they boycott Bill O'Reilly to show support for woman's rights all across the world. It's time to take action because as Scott Roeder just proclaimed, more violence is on the way against a woman's right to choose what she does with her body.
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fixed it fer ya
You beat me to it.
Me, too.
Keith Olbermann called it correctly. What truly works (and is so, so SO satisfying when you actually do it) is to ask hotels, restaurants or other public places that you visit to change channels when they have "the FOX right-wing propoganda channel" on. "The paying general public should not be subjected to a distorted/Anti-American point of view with a hard right-wing agenda in a public place, please keep it in your bedroom". If they refuse (although from experience they'll almost always accomodate you) tell them that you will no longer patronize their business AND TELL THEM WHY! Do it, you'll feel great!
From YouTube:
Olbermann Proposes Fox News "Quarantine"
FWIW, I've tried this a few times. With places that exist solely to sell alcohol--don't bother. Most consider any kind of suggestion "being told what to do," and they'd rather see you leave.
Where it does seem to work well is in places that sell a service--my mechanic (which is also an auto dealership) was fine with me changing his channel and telling him why. Now, maybe he changed it right back after I left, but my business was more important to him than his propaganda channel. And it nets him a hell of a lot more than a shot and a beer.
Damn. You beat me to it. My idea exactly!!!
Finally, he glanced up and acknowledged my existence. "Thank you for coming on," he said. "Most people don't have the guts." I said, "Well, you are one of the most-watched new shows on cable." He swiftly retorted, "The most-watched news show on cable TV."
So what? His ratings are about 1% of the US population, maybe a little more. He may be the "most-watched", but his reach is hardly anything at all.
hm, i don't know. sources say that he could reach-around the largest teddy bear you can imagine
Dude! Not cool. We bears have feelings (and standards) too.
LOL
I read your posts Rupert-- you not only have stds; your stds have a loooong reach, too
O'Reilly does not know the difference between a Panda and a Teddy (On Jon Stewart)
News show? He may be watched by a lot of drooling idiots, but that doesn't make his show a news show and it certainly doesn't mean he's good, best, noteworthy, accurate, intelligent, redeeming, etc...
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There are four of us in our household, three of us hold jobs and can vote, none of us watch commercial/cable television and we all think he's an asshole. Watch the ads that are run on his show, they are aimed at old people, scared people and guys whose dicks don't work. He may have an audience, but it's hardly representative of anything other than a bunch of angry, scared, old, embittered people whose days on this plane are hastening. He carries little to no weight with those under 40.
This is like encouraging all vegetarian groups to boycott Burger King.
That's what I was thinking...it's BOYCOTTING the advertizers that is
the real task.
But, but,but...I need Earthlink Gateway Computers
Honda Orbitz Shell Petroleum Adobe American Express AMEX AstraZeneca
Avaya Ameriquest Mortgage ATT Bayer Boeing Bristol-Meyers Squibb
CDW Circuit City Direct TV Edward Jones Investments ELoan.com
Ensure Evergreen Investments Farmers InsuranceGlaxoSmithKline
IBM Infiniti Johnson and Johnson Inc. (Aveeno)
L.L.Bean MCI Mens Wearhouse Microsoft Olay Priceline.com
Procter & Gamble (Swiffer) Suburu Time Warner Cable Toyota UPS
Verizon Wireless Wachovia Walgreens WebMD Xerox
This is easy for me given my consumption practices but others might find it difficult.
I don't know about boycotting. I have never purchased a thing in a wal mart and yet they seem to be doing pretty well without my patronage.
Brilliant PoP reasoning! It can't help so why do it!!
Dollars are votes, activism is action not words!
Remember this?
She's not adding to Wal-Mart's profits and polluting. But I get your point as well.
you write and say you'll never shop there again. They aren't going to pull up old film to see if you've ever been in a store of theirs.
That's how righties get shit done. Why do you think people went batshit over JJackson's tit? A small group of vocal righties drove that car til it jumped the shark (it jumped the shark almost immediately after it happened. It was the most replayed TiVo'd moment in their short history).
Hell I drive a 17 year old Honda and have no plans on buying a new one, but I will certainly write Honda and let them know I am shopping for a competitor's vehicle, as they choose to advertise on FOX, specifically the Billo show.
(or as I like to call it "Mal-Wart"). They try to find something sold in the store that is NOT made in China. I don't know what a winner gets. There probably have never been any.
Sam Walton, In 1998, Walton was included in Time's list of 100 most influential people of the 20th Century. Walton was honored for all his pioneering efforts in retail in March 1992, when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush.
Also that year, the Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China awarded him the Golden Star Foreigner's Award for "tireless assistance in the development of People's owned factories in the Suzhou area". √
Wasn't Suzhou the name of that annoying little girl in It's a Wonderful Life?
Suzwho? ;-)
The character's name is spelled "Zsu Zsu," one of George Bailey's children in the film It's A Wonderful Life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Life
Never gonna happen.
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
i already boycott him, the only time i run into anything
of his is on this site or keith olberman. it's great not
having to listen to anymore than this of this asshole.
thanks C&L for sparing most of us billo's bilge.
I do too, but I think John's point is that public pro-choice figures should boycott his show.
So the action item here for us would be: Contact every public pro-choice figure who appears in the media and encourage them to boycott Bill O'Reilly's show, for the reasons given in John's article.
..it is not enough to boycott him. He should be served with an arrest warrant and sent to Riker's Island.
Well, that too!
He should be sent to a women's prison.
Wouldn't that constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" both for BillO and the women prisoners?
It might give them a good laugh.
That is if they like Vienna Sausage.
EWWWWWWW!
"Scott Roeder issued a warming"
ooo sounds cozy.
Nor do I have FoxNews available to me.
I think a more earnest challenge (and it will be a challenge) would be to boycott all Fox TV and probably movies produced by 20th Century Fox (easier said than done).
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20th Century Fox is associated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Entertainmen...
What? You want me to do without "House" and "24"? No-o-o-o-o-oo! This summer House is in a rehab clinic and Jack Bauer's in a coma! I must remain faithful or something just awful will happen to them! O, that I may live till next season...
It told you, easier said than done.
To tell a conservative right wing imbecile to not watch O'reilley(sic ,screw his name)is like trying to tell a male teenager not to choke his chicken . Hate and pubescent sex have similar attributes in that both need someone to stroke its fury and a place to spit once its fury has reached climax. Too tell us to not watch O'reilleleleyyy is preaching to the chior. Boycott Fox
Out of respect Bill should stay out of this right now. Of course he won't because he sees this horrible murder as nothing more than a topic for his show and ratings. If no one goes on his show he's going to say the pro choice people can't defend what they preach. If anyone does go on his show he will brow beat them or cut their microphone and they'll never be able to make their point. Why play a game that has a no win outcome?
cannibalize each other.
And the problem with that would be what? When they get down to the last cannibal we win.
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of killing a rabbi instead of a Lutheran abortion doctor, my guess is there'd be LOTS more attention paid to his threats of more violence to synagogues...
or is that just me?
Yeah, 'cause everyone hates Lutherans.
What?
doing this already?
There is a warning from him regarding more violence on the way.
Is it time to torture to save American lives?
I had the same thought...
I never watch the perverted stalker.
I have never watched that lunatic, but I'm force fed him often enough on MSNBC. I wish they'd all boycott the moron.
Can't help but wonder what might have happened if O'Reilly had knocked up that young woman he persistently harrassed, who sued him and got paid a bundle to keep her mouth shut.
She had a functioning brain and enough taste in sexual partners to refuse this assshole - but what if she'd been dumb and desperate enough to do the nasty with the man? And, for her troubles, got herself pregnant?
Ya think Bill O'Reilly would have encouraged her to carry the embarrassing bastard, proof of his hypocrisy, to term? Ya think he would have sacrificed whatever appearance of moral rectitude he claims for himself, and royalty income from his preachier-than-thou books, in order to support mom and illegitimate child and pay the sky-high cost of divorce and alimony?
Who doubts he would have gone for the cheaper, more expedient option, an all-expense paid quickie abortion?
prob'ly takes him five minutes to stand up after a show...
MY NEW FAVOURITE NAME FOR HIM!
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"Why isn't he married?" she asked as she laughed hysterically. "Ow, my face hurts," she cried.
Her cat had to slap her to snap her out of it.
I wish this site would boycott the guy. I see Bill-O's face every time I visit C&L. These people are only seeking attention and controversy, so why give it to them? No one who is really listening to Bill is going to be converted, it's preaching to the choir.
burn him down, metaphorically. We are preaching to the pagans, not the choir.
So why don't you capitalize Pagans?
Please accept my humble apology. Pagans, Pagans, Pagans. I am going to flog myself.
That's too Catholic.
ysbaddaden?
I saw the link, but I'm at home where all I have is a dial-up, so it'll have to wait until I'm on break at work tommorrow.
The media should not lend MEDIA TIME OR SPACE to the likes of these right-wing hacks. They are totally in bed with big media for RATINGS. They would totally justify and show snuff films if it would boost their ratings (and if it were legal). I urge media of all walks to treat this loser like the ZERO he is. the more we rant on O'Reilly, the more of a sensation it makes him.
Late, late at night Fox has a show on, I believe the name of it is Red Eye. One night when I was sick and couldn't sleep, I watched some of it. It's a talk show and it's just stupid and gross. If this show were on any other network Fox would raise hell about it. Bill would pop a blood vessel talking about it.
unchallenged?
As someone just said, you are preaching tot he choir. Personally I have not watched Fox news since 2000. I doubt I watched it much before then, but the entire GWB fiasco was more than I could stand.
I urge you to stay focused on our representatives and what they are pushing, NOT what bill or hannity or any of those other dicks are thinking... WHO CARES?!
..someone was killed as a result of Billo's hackery is why this should be talked about because actions have consequences.
Congratulations... you get a gold star for the day! ;)
is defending him. Is that your purpose?
Oh savannah, oh don't you kvetch for me, cause I've gone to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch with a kazoo on my putz...
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Can't have jelly anymore.
Just the same it might be inadvisable to challenge me to a wager.
I have boycotted the 0'Liely show, and I have removed FOX from my TiVo and my cable bundle. I get all my FOX clips from blog sights and comedy network now.
I would change the headline and say "All thinking human beings should boycott Bill O'Reilly's show."
Who here watches this shit besides the clips on this site and others?
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Just those brave and persistent souls who wade through the Fox News garbage to rake the muck. This is a time-honored journalistic tradition that is not without danger (Google, Yahoo, or Bing Don Bolles, the Arizona reporter who was murdered while investigating organized crime) ... I'm really grateful to those people who watch Fox and other right-wing propaganda so I don't have to.
How can we get BOR to boycott oxygen?
is the same person as Mary Alice Carr, then I wonder why she appeared four more times after 2/6/04 when she gopt bashed by 'I know everything better' O'Reilly?
billo portends to be christian,
and from all experience of his
public comments--he is old bible version.
then billo should realize that what you reap, you will sow
and that in the bible he holds dear, it says very plainly
'an eye for an eye"
god is waiting for billo to step off the curb.
i am agnostic and hold none of these beliefs,
just hope maybe karma finds him.
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for karma to kick in for O'Reilly (not of the violent variety--jail time and/or losing everything will do fine) in this life, not some possible future incarnation.
I've had Faux News entire channel blocked on my satellite receiver for years. Whatever advertisers they have do not reach me. If Faux News is playing in any business I enter, I leave.
I didn't know what was going to happen to me except for the fact my parents were taking me on a little vacation... A picture is worth...
Depression During and After Pregnancy:
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Well it looks like that was a little Prophecy that didn't pan out for them.
"Education not indoctrination"
I don't know what all the selective hand-wringing is about certain cable channels. With the exception of a few shows such as Olberman, Maddow and Moyers' shows on PBS, the entire sea of television is a waste of time and brain cells.
To pay cable companies for the privilege of beaming commercialism, hyper consumerism, corporate lies and wingnut garbage into someone's private space, unfettered, disgusts me. I don't know why folks just don't boycott cable teevee altogether.
Hell, we have the internet interactions and writing, radio (for what's that worth these days) and newspapers. Who needs the damn teevee.
Unplug the cable or pay for only "basic" (usually PBS, the old networks and local). Fuck them all.
I haven't watched TV since 1989.
Haven't missed it at all.
I might not be correct, but Did not the Southern Poverty Law group file and win 2 law suits on behalf of 2 different families against the KKK? The one used Tom Metzger's(sic?)newspaper and web sites as the "fuse" that fueled a racial beating and murder? Couldn't and shouldn't someone file wrongful death against O'Reilly and Operation Rescue? It seems to fit the criteria, I guess.
I'm hoping the Federal Investigation into Roeder's accomplices includes O'Reilly and his ilk.
If the Feds do it, its political. If a Civil suit comes out it hits them where it hurts, $$$$$$. Metzger thought it wouldn't ever happen. If the Gov goes after the NRA and 1st and 2nd people will go f-ing crazy.Down south, justice and Gov couldn't break the KKK ,but the Bank broke them.
my bad
Well it's a 5 day process...
Hmmmm.... Lets see now... 60,000 abortions(estimated) and a five day process. = how many per day and for how long(days) too reach 60,000? (________)
Any Mathematicians in the house? :-P
Amended: Lets be generous with the numbers... Lets say he took over the clinic on August 21, 1970, the day his parents, sister and brother-in-law were killed in an aircraft accident. 8/21/1970 - 5/31/2009 = 13,789 days**
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Could happen, but so what, right?
But if this young women took 5-days for 1-abortion...Therein lies the question.
Amended: And yes... so what... as long as that number is right?
So lets say our estimate of 4.35 per day were legitimate. That would be (1,587.75 per year) or (4.35per day x 365days). Over the honorable Doctor's career he will have completed an estimated (59,982.15) or (4.35per day x 13,789 days).That's the closest I could get to 60,000. :-/
The calculations are based on operating [24/7/365] or [13,789 days] as unrealistic as I would believe it would be to accomplish without the mutual assistance of additional resources.
What I'm attempting to discern is puzzling to me for the following reasons... Did the Doctor's small bldg**, house roughly (30.45 patients) per week, as this Women claims to have endured 5 days of treatment prior to going to a hotel with her family following the procedure.
**Doctor's small bldg.
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In ending... What I'm attempting to point out, is what I could mistakenly be assuming not many have legitimized and that is... that 1)Billo's statements of an estimated 60,000 is "flagrantly" overestimated even though he is regurgitating the estimates of the Washing a.k.a. Moonie/Mooney/Moony Times?
And 2) That Honorable Dr. Tiller did not have the capabilities to process the aforementioned 60,000 alone. Therfore highlighting the cowardly passion of an irrationally disturbed and deranged group of people for whom "sin" is merely a buzzword and morals a travesty of unquestionable ignorance!
I ask anyone to point out my ignorance and or flaws in my summation, because I believe more often then not... The best way to learn what is right... is by being wrong! I just ask that you (not) insert any hypothetical rebuttals.
PS. We should not and or don't, need a book to tell us what is [A-shame].Though for those who do need a book, the dialect would predictably be more effective and or appropriate with these misguided people then the latter or those who don't. I believe we need, "Education not indoctrination."
And keep in mind this was based on 24/7 and if the Doctor worked less then 7 days a week for roughly 37 years the daily procedure rate will increase accordingly, as well as have an direct impact on applicable resources.
BillO moves from discussing late-term abortions to child rapists.
WTF???
Abortion clinics are covered under HIPAA laws like all medical establishments. They can't just release the name of anyone, even a rapist, UNLESS the information is subpoenaed by a court. I certainly hope that if a child is raped, the parents would press charges--thus allowing the court to collect all names and documentation.
BillO is, as usual, shoveling BS.
Late term abortionists are republicans?
I would take it further, fnc is aiding and abetting o'really. Democrats should avoid appearing on FAUX news all together.
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to rub together should boycott FAUXNewz.
This morning I was reading that a man is being charged and tried for murder as a Arsonist allegedlly he started approximately 25 fires in the course of fighting these fires firemen died now this was not the intention of the Arsonist as his thrill was starting and watching the fire, is this any different from the Hate Monger Inflammatory Rhetoric of the Brainless o'rielly. He clearly planted the seeds of destruction he was and is very Proud of what he has said and much like the Arsonist got a non requested result, MURDER, so lets try o'rielly for Murder.
Tiller's family should, however, sue the shit out of him.
some extremely over populated third world country.
to the rest of the world?
He is a murderer
with hopes that less stable readers will take the hint?
With all due respect Mr. Amato, a search of CrooksandLiars reveals over 1000 postings with references to Bill O'Reilly. You have a great site and don't need to keep posting videos and comments of Bill O'Reilly. In effect, increasing his popularity. I say you put your money where your mouth is and start with the boycott RIGHT HERE AND NOW.
That's why there's so much coverage of O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Beck....C&L watches it and boils it down. It's better to know what the other side is doing so you know what you're dealing with.
You signed up just to post that tripe?
If people don't report what o'really says how can you expect any sort of boycott to work?
Some people still think it's the lefty blogs that are so hateful.
Comin in here, and tellin folks what to do...O'LIElly? Is that you?
gettin a bit paranoid, now that you're in hot water for being an accessory to a terrorist act?
Asshole
They are excitable. They are accusatory. They brandish pitchforks. And now, with Bush fading into the sunset, they need their TV villains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgWQ1erBnMo&fe...
show, totally unprepared for this bullshit
they legitamized this sick fuck
and NOW SHE WILL BOYCOTT??????
TOO FUCKING LATE LADY
I can't take this sanctimonious, lying sack of shit. That whole clip was farce. First, the lobotomized pro-lifer who had an abortion at 15 - was it not her decision? What exactly was the point of all that? Then the completely pointless "interview" of the pro-choice guest who did very well at trying to talk over O'Reilly and even managed to get in the last word. What fucking stupid questions, "So you're alright with a woman getting a late term abortion because she's depressed?" (as if depression isn't a clinical diagnosis, Bill O'Fucko. Just be glad you don't know what depression is Mr. Shit-for-brains.) "So you think abortion clinics should be protecting rapists of 10 year-olds?" Yeah, you're right, Mr. I-have-less-integrity-than-a-shitstain. The abortion clinic should break the law and the confidence of the raped 10 year-old. Because I'm sure the anti-choice flying monkeys wouldn't seize any opportunity to shut it down for breaking said law.
What a juvenile ****.
edit: wow. I didn't realize C&L had a bleep button. I very rarely use that word, so I'd never run into that before. Anybody care to guess what the word was?
Since Scott Roeder is a merderous terrorist and warning of more to come. Does BillO think we should torture Scott Roederto find out where that ticking time bomb goes off?
boycotting O'Reilly's show and the wingers are talking about boycotting GM. It is amazing what Americans with strongly held opinions can accomplish when they set their minds to something really worthwhile.
What a creative country.
Why isn't that terrorist in prison? It's against the law to insite people to murder and after a successful incitement that scumnag terrorist is still free, still spewing his terrorist threats and hatred of America.
What makes you think any pro-choice groups actually watch O'Reilly?
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