Roger Ebert slams Bill O'Reilly
By John Amato Wednesday Jun 24, 2009 5:00pm
Robert Ebert nails Bill O'Reilly for his off-the-wall and venomous tactics.
It's a long read and worth it. He compares him to Father Coughlin and points out his nativism:
He has been an influence on the most worrying trend in the field of news: The polarization of opinion, the elevation of emotional temperature, the predictability of two of the leading cable news channels. A majority of cable news viewers now get their news slanted one way or the other by angry men. O'Reilly is not the worst offender. That would be Glenn Beck. Keith Olbermann is gaining ground. Rachel Maddow provides an admirable example for the boys of firm, passionate outrage, and is more effective for nogt shouting. Much has been said recently about the possible influence of O'Reilly on the murder of Dr. George Tiller by Scott Roeder. Such a connection is impossible to prove. Yet studies of bullies and their victims suggest a general way such an influence might take place. Bullies like to force others to do their will, while they can stand back and protest their innocence: "I was nowhere near the gymnasium, Sister!" A recent study of school shootings found that two-thirds of all the shooters were victims of bullying, and perceived themselves as members of persecuted minorities.
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Sometimes O'Reilly is compared with Father Coughlin, a popular far-right radio commentator in the 1930s who fanned the flames against Roosevelt and warned about immigration and "foreigners," by which it was understood he meant primarily Jews. O'Reilly objects to such a comparison, and certainly there is no reason to consider him anti-Semitic.But a team of media researchers at Indiana University studied every editorial broadcast by O'Reilly during a six-month period and found a similar nativist cast. Among the findings of their paper published in the Journal Journalism Studies was this one:...read on
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he got to be a loud mouth bullying punk IMHO
you gotta be loud to deal with a thickhead halfwit like donohue
You're funny.
Actually, to be grammatical, you would have to say thickheaded.
What are you, twelve?
Don't you have a Jonas Brothers concert to go to?
--you demonstrate one of the techniques Ebert cited from the Indian University study on bully radio.
--"Indiana" so please spare us the witty rejoinder.
Don't knock the Jonas Brothers. I scored major, major points with my daughters by taking them to a JB concert.
this is kind of a petty response. Expecting grammatically correctness on a message board?
Are you a nightmare of the right wing or from the the right wing?
A nightmare of the right wing, for the right wing, and by the right wing exclusively.
im your worstnightmare you draftdoging liberel
I've never found illiterate pinheads to be particularly frightening. Amusing yes. Frightening no.
oh yea you couldnt handal me id put you in the landry baskte
You can do laundry? By yourself?
At some point you should consider exercising your Miranda rights. Particularly your right to be silent.
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Well, it must need to clean its Pampers every so often, when it's not busy cleaning Billo's ass with its tongue.
What a thick headed dupe.
Wasn't he a football coach?
But he was known for his hat.
and Vince Lombardi were gods among us mere mortals.
doged a draft in my life. And if your going to call someone a liberal, at least learn to spell the freaking word first.
is a nightmare from the right wing, in the same way a banana is an atheist's nightmare!
Here's to you, friend!!
I know theyre serious.
I have come to wonder if this logic indicates the orange is the work of the devil, but only for the sake of more laughter.
Goodness gracious RWN . . . way make a point! Moron
Please stop projecting. You are the thickhead halfwit.
It takes a lot of gumption, read stupidity, to come on here and screech and stamp your little troll feet, when the Rethugs and False News both got their collective asses back to them today. When you can grow up and renounce both Fox and the Republican party for the liars, and foul scum with totally NO credibility that they have now proven themselves to be, you'll be welcomed, til then STFU.
I saw this interview originally a few years ago. I loved it. Donohue is the only one I have seen to shut that loud mouth buffoon O'Reilly up. I have not seen Donohue on that show since.
mr Donahue I take my hat off to you.You shut that evil mouth up and made him show you respect by chageing the tone of his voice with you.
Somehow I don't think Father Coughlin was leaving dirty little messages for his female employees wanting to loofa their privates.
leave billsprivate life out of it. that no ones buz but his
If he wants to be in the public eye, he better learn how to take it.
he can take it and dish itout to bud you just cant handal it
Gibberish. So you are defending a sex offender like this scumbag. Learn to spell then get back with me.
I can't handle it.
Nor your spelling, for that matter. Might I suggest an elementary school near you?
Bill O'Reilly is a classic bully. If he's taken out of his studio, where he can control the mic, he's easily laid low.
Ask Al Franken.
Al Franken's too busy touring with the USO entertaining the troops.
I hear he does a marvelous Oops I Did It Again in cheek shorts, and spangled crop top.
youget it right frankin is a draft doging coward orilly is the true hero
Unlike Al Gore and John Kerry, o'really made a habit of getting student deferments like the repugs of his generation, who now act like brave chicken hawks.
Actually, come to think of it, I was a volunteer in the USAF, Top Secret Clearance, and Honorably Discharged.
Who would want some whacko dancing around overseas as their senator (or their hero, for that matter), when you can remain a vitriolic, bombastic, patriotic hero right here at home on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaORVHigg4o
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at IHOP during college while deferring.
Bill-O is a cowardly idiot whose sole purpose is to push right wing rhetoric and lies to further the neocon agenda. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature can see that. Hero my ass. How long did he serve in the military? Me? Over 7 years.
How long have you served RightWingNightmare?
Let me guess. 0
Too bad you didn't misspell it handel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V0OxkKXG-M
ha you cvant even speell your own name
I hope that you are one of those soon to die, elderly bigots frightened of change that Billy seems to attract like flies on shit. If you happen to be a young person, you've got one hard, fucked up life head of you filled with people briskly walking away as you approach them, whispering as you finish ridiculously stupid right wing diatribes fed to you from Fox.
O'Reilly & co. have fucked you up for life.
He's messing with you, right?
That's why he's "RightWingNightmare" and not "LeftWingNightmare."
He's just leading you guys along...
We can't be too sure of that.
We all suspected that at first of course, and was just having fun with him.
What you're suggesting almost sounds like the rationale that roeder, von brunn, and forde were all really liberals wanting to make the conservatives look bad.
the people he sexually harasses, the lawyers involved and probably his wife.
Your screen name is appropriate. Oh, and what is "buz".
You're private life goes out the window. As long as it's true, if you're a public figure someone else can air out your dirty laundry all you want and there isn't much you can do about it. It's only defamation if it's false.
Though I fail to see anything worth defending in a piece of trash like O'Reilly.
And calling O'Reilly a "hero" you know what, how dare you insult the true heroes out there. Billy O'Reilly is less than shit, he is the equivalent of shit taking a shit, where the fuck do you get the gall to insult the true heroes out there by calling O'Reilly a hero? I've got friends and family in the military, I am not going to tolerate anyone elevating a bottom feeder like O'Reilly to their level.
So RWN, please, have a fucked up day!
what language is that?
No, of course not. He was a Catholic priest, so he was leaving dirty little messages for his little boy employees wanting to loofa their privates.
too much talk sometimes politics.
aerobed
Huh? This is Phil Donahue from quite some time ago not Roger Ebert - did you grab the wrong video?
haha phildonohue roger ebert there all the same crying there euyes out no diffrence
Next you'll be saying Phil Donohue, William Donohue what's the difference?
Except you'll probably louse up the spelling.
donohue is a draft dodger toand if willam is related to huim ihe is to
You're saying your a conservative and you don't know who William Donohue is?
Okay, I'm convinced, you're just a kid.
im not akid just a conserned american
What's got you concerned RW?
all you unamericans love it or leav eit
What branch of the military did you serve in?
I was going to ask him that.
the Cubscouts, he isn't that old!
i was in the asrmy so dont case me bud
I know army standards are low on educational standards, but they can't be that low.
Is English even your first language?
That's the only thing that can excuse your atrocious spelling, grammer, punctuation, logic, clarity, theme...
I'm pretty sure that he's from Eritrea. IIRC, 'asrmy' is Tigrinya for Coast Guard.
iaint no foriner im from michigan and i servd proudly
With all due respect, RightWingNightmare, I hope and pray for you. Thank you for your service.
by any chance to a poster who calls himself Tyree would you?
Tyree can spell better. I think this guy is for real.
That's low Peter.
Really, tyree has nothing to do with the right wing and his spelling is discernible and phonetically correct, kind of conveys a Texan accent.
Tyree's viewpoints are coherent and true. he criticizes both sides and several people aren't ready to accept that both parties may suck.
I agree.
And I suspect they're purposeful typos. And a few purposely omitted bits of punctuation, too.
criticize everybody and everything. Where I disagree with him is the idea that the whole world and everybody in it sucks. In terms of nuance tyree and our new friend would probably get along famously. He certainly is equally fond of using his service as a stick to beat everybody and everything. I've never met a real vet who would do that face to face. Not sober anyway.
actually meant ass army. Or, maybe the KISS army.
Well I always thought Kiss was just for asses.
i serv ed my time and paid for it to
I’m sorry I didn’t know.
He was in the catering corp. Got hit in the head with a soup ladle.
in the joint isn't the same as serving your country.
I'm just guessing, but for drunk driving?
Doesn't count.
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What is the asrmy? Is that short for ass rammy?
That's as far as he got. But he made his own campaign medals.
He's concerned about his education and if he actually had one.
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Are you a real troll, or a make-believe troll?
I can't believe that someone would make so many grammatical and spelling errors in such a short space of time.
Watch it, he'll ask you to bam him up, Scottie.
I get that a lot...the beaming, not the bamming though.
idont get it make sence
I thought you made perfect sense.
I suspect it's of scents
The most odoriferous sort.
not me that other guy ysbadddan or somthing like thatsounds like a comie rushin
Actually I'm of Scottish ancestory despite my sobriquet being Welsh.
I got it from the Mabinogion, which was derived in the 15th century from the earlier texts Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, and the Llyfr Coch Hergest.
talk about my speelling learn ennglish you comie
RightWingNightmare hasn't managed a single post where he spelled everything correctly. He speaks volumes about the relative ignorance of right wingers. They don't have the mental tools to rationalize the facts. They need baffoons like Bill-O to figure out things for them so they know that to say, even if they can't spell it. Pitiful.
Hey, YSB.
Is "sobriquet" a better description than "moniker?" I've been curious about this. I've told my friends that I use my "moniker" of "General Jack D. Ripper," but perhaps I should be telling them that's my "sobriquet."
And, what's the story of your glyph?
Just curious
Sobriquet, nom de plume, moniker are fairly interchangeable.
Although I think to be technical a sobriquet is usually given to one by another, whereas a nom de plume is assumed.
And as for my glyph it's the sign of the waxing, full, and new moon, typically used in Witchcraft although it can be seen as a headdress in this image:
http://www.thetarotdeck.com/wp-includes/image...
Thanks, YSB....always enjoy your posts....I learn quite a bit from them!
I love names/nicknames/handles drawn from ancestral and mythological connections.
I'm a Scot too. And half-Irish.
Y, I've always enjoyed your posts. I have a feeling I'd enjoy gassing with you over a pint or three.
Only if it's Guiness.
And the VA doctors want me to stop drinking.
Funny in it's way, since I went into the military as a teetotaler.
Is this what a comie rushin sounds like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEfbpQsZNIU
And if he's rushin' he won't get much.
Or worse yet, he'll ask you to ream him up.
Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?
Dude,seriously, buy a dictionary.
John, sorry to read about your father's passing. You're the second person with whom I'm somewhat familiar to loose a parent in as many days. The mother of a long-time work associate passed a away a couple of days ago. We agreed that her mother probably died of a broken heart after her father was killed in an accident at his plant a few months ago.
p.s. There's a check in mail to support C & L's efforts. You should receive it before the end of the week.
Peace.
BillO ain't going to like this.
Actually,
BillO probably will like it because he now has another enemy that he can yell and scream and lie about.
What kind of idiot thinks this is Roger Ebert? That's Phil Donahue for christ sake.
Read the post, follow the link to the Chicago Sun Times and you may understand why that particular video was posted. Or don't bother and remain outraged
Was he giving boring swirlies and let the seat drop?
That man is a tragic waste of skin.
Is what happens when that guy in school who was bullied and picked on everyday get's his own show.
Watching the movie ASS from Idiocracy is more productive than watching O'Reichlly's show.
There is a tag on the video start itself identifying it as bill o'really blows up at Phil Donahue.
Neo Nazi/White Supremacist Hal Turner Confirms Friendship And Kinship With Sean Hannity
Huff - [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/hal-... ]
fellowship - [ http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/23/neo_naziw... ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YRWhg4YaA
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Might want to recheck that opening line.
.....to tell us this?
O'Reilly is a horses ass, and all one has to do is watch him for two minutes to determine that. Personally, I hate the bullying asshole. I can't stand to hear his voice. If he honestly thinks he's 'fair and balanced', then he's an idiot as well!
Hannity is a prick, and Beck wreaks of being a mama's boy. Olbermann might be slanted, but at least you can tell he's intelligent.
Olbermann and Maddow are all liberals get. Ed is a centrist mostly and is on too early. I want my media liberal, I am a proud liberal. If the wrongwingers get a whole channel, I want a whole channel too. Msnbc is not good enough yet until they get rid of the evil trio of Scarborough, Buchanan, and Matthews. And they need to get some weekend programming pronto, or I cancel cable and go full internet.
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Let's be honest here. These same propaganda techniques are sometimes seen in C&L articles and often seen in the C&L comments section. Let's take name calling, for example. Just look at the first two comments on this page. O'Reilly is a "loud mouth bullying punk", and Donahue is a "thickhead halfwit". Did those comments really add anything to the discussion?
The C&L bloggers aren't without guilt either. There's the polarization of an issue into black and white, the demonization of those on the other side of an issue, the assumption that truth is on our side, etc.
I'm not suggesting that C&L is anywhere close to the level of O'Reilly, but more importantly I think that C&L writers and readers will be much more likely to at least consider my criticism, and that seems to be something O'Reilly is incapable of doing.
The comment section of a blog is not comparable to a cable station.
Especially one that seems to be in every package you can order, and can't be seperated out.
Well, sure, but so what? While the audience of our posts here is a tiny fraction of O'Reilly's, the guidelines of a fair debate should be the same.
Prove that the posts on this blog are inaccurate.
Just prove that these posts are wrong.
And please, back it up.
The problem is that this is very close to the folks that get fixated on the way someone says something and not the content of the statements.
If someone is acting like a loud mouth bullying punk then I fail to see how it is untoward to call them out as a loud mouth bullying punk. I have even been known to toss in an F-bomb or two when I thought that it was required. I am fully aware of what I do and no introspection is required.
I feel that you are making a false equivalency between faux outrage and someone being justifably angry. Right wing talking heads seem to specialize in the former and then point at the anger that they provoke and say "see ... they are just as bad as I am". To that, I can only say something that will no doubt get me called uncivil so I shall hold my tongue.
I think you make a valid distinction between contrived outrage and genuine anger, but since I can't really know what's going on inside O'Reilly's head, I can't claim definitively that it's phony. I suspect that some of it is and some is genuine.
There's not much going on inside O'Reilly's head.
O'Reilly is ego-driven, not thought-driven.
I think it's cha-ching, $$$$$$, or maybe
"Wow, I'll do/say anything for a buck."
That is the problem. He bullies, because he is incapable of civilized debate. His outrage is real. He resents people who are smarter than he is, or those who disagree with him. In current parlance, he is what is known as a "jackass."
Loud mouth bullying punk was an apt description. I wasn't just name calling and it was just my opinion
But that exactly what O'Reilly would say as he calls people pin-heads, lunatics, tree-huggers, etc. What's the difference?
More importantly, how does that sort of thing by anyone contribute to the debate? Did that impart any insight? Do you think any O'Reilly fans now think worse of him?
who are too cowardly to say anything. Thus, they bitch vicariously through him.
I'm a commenter on an internet site, who's comments people may or may not read, and who's "audience" is quite limited.
Oh Shitly on the other hand, he has nation wide coverage, he has greater responsibility if he really is a journalist (you ask me, his freakshow is nothing more than a TV version of an internet blog) to give it as straight and truthful as he can. But as we all know, he spins the hell out of everything.
It doesn't help when he actually was pretty left-wing, even vowing to fight and overthrow capitalism.
That's why I don't like to use him either.
There was a schism at the time of FDR amidst his own party, including old stalwarts like Al Smith, and of course Coughlin with his demagogery bordering on fascist propaganda.
Theoretically.
There was a round table at the LA Bookseller's convention about 6 or 7 years ago, with the late Molly Ivin, Bill O and Al Franken. Al Franken opened up a 10 gallon can of whup ass on Bill, and since it wasn't his show, he couldn't cut Al's microphone or shout over him. It was pathetic.
Does anyone know how to find that clip? It was on c-span.
Is this it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAYI6Qnl6E
Goodnight, y'all...
No Gauloises in bed. ;)
figgeers that a liberel wiould wear gollashes to bed there made for wahlking around in the rain
Thanks for playing. :)
Not with these:
http://www.cigaretteholders.com/Gentlemen.html
Thanks for finding that. Bill O never seemed to get the point that he was lying/mistaken/exaggerating about a JOURNALISM AWARD! Does anyone else remember that Bill was once a school teacher? Do you realize the 7th level of hell it must have been to be a defenseless child in one of his classes?
BTW, the wonderful Molly Ivins had a great response for the conservatives who tried to tie a can to her tail, making her defend everything from Act Up to the Environmental Liberation Front. It was something like "I'm not a liberal. I'm Molly Ivins. Pleased to meet you." My paraphrasing doesn't do it justice.
Maybe we should just leave them B. After all It's not our problem anyways.
:-/
I totally love how Phil Donahue keeps calling him "Billy". SMACK DOWN.
this far without an admonition from the site monitors about feeding trolls and wasting bandwidth. I think someone upstairs is having us on.
[No, just taking a long cool shower. It's very hot in these parts. If that's a hoax, it isn't coming from anyone here. Site Monitor]
If anyone knows where "Right Wing Nightmare" might be found, I suggest you call the authorities. Also the English Police.
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