BillO mocks Helen Thomas, calls her "old lady", "wicked witch of the east"
BillO, the eternal class act, ridicules Helen Thomas by calling her the "wicked witch of the east" and imitating her voice in a very, um, unflattering way.
O'Reilly: The White House press corps looked intimidated to me... Except for that, what's her name? The old lady, Helen Thomas. [squawking sound]
Colmes: Is that your Helen Thomas impression?
O'Reilly: Yea! [squawking sound]
Colmes: I didn't know you did impersonations.
O'Reilly: It's like the wicked witch of the east! If I were Obama, I would've poured water on her, and she would dissolve!
Colmes: It's not nice to make fun of an old woman, Bill.
O'Reilly: It doesn't matter.
It must be tough for a hack like Bill O'Reilly to to appreciate -- let alone respect -- a journalistic legend like Helen Thomas. While BIllO was crapping his pants as a child, Thomas was holding JFK's feet to the fire. Perhaps he's just jealous that he will never get near a WH briefing room?
As Amato was quick to remind me, BillO can't even insult someone correctly. He meant to say wicked witch of the west, not east. What a tool.
Bonnie Erbe of US News & World Report unloads:
Bill O'Reilly mocks everyone—all right, I get it. He's a venom-spitting curmudgeon and works hard to build that image and protect his niche. But calling veteran journalist Helen Thomas a "wicked witch" after her question to President Obama at his news conference last night was not only ugly, it was petty.
O'Reilly is living proof there are a lot of hateful TV viewers out there because they must get a rise out of watching an angry homunculus who's outlived his useful life span. What else would prompt someone to watch his show? Quite frankly I'd have a better time parking on a freeway in rush hour and dealing with all the angry motorists, than watching Venom Boy spew. Can't somebody recommend to O'Reilly a competent psychotherapist? But then where would angry TV news viewers go to watch highly-paid cobras?
baby jesus loves Helen
Look, he's giving her a boom-boom
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Careful there, Loofa Orally - you're bound to hack off half of your target audience with jokes like that.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Not to mention baby jesus...
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
stay classy Billo. If that were my grandmother I would sock Billo in the nose.
Helen Thomas has always fought for the little guy... BillO should just roll himself in a ball and become the Vomica Blastula that he is.. I'm just saying
billo is always angry because he continually
steps on his own ball-os. and that must hurt
a bunch since they are in his teeth.
a seventh-grade spoiled brat with not a lot of brains. The bold fresh piece of humanity's sell-by date expired long ago.
Probably hates his mama, too. Speaking of barf bags, Colmes is such phony.
Colmes does it all for the money. Colmes really had zero convictions, and is A-political. His wife and sister-in-law are phonies, too, except they pretend to be hardcore repukes.
Most of these A-moral types would fu** a farm animal as long as they could make good money doing it. Really, I've come to the realization that Fox talking heads, as most on the other teevee stations, are just pathetic, B-actors.
I'm so over the rants, theatrics, and false rage......SNORE.
This man was abused as a child. If not sexually, at least physically and verbally. He has become the thing that destroyed him now. A likely candidate would be his father. He is NOT a happy human being.
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Maybe so, it wouldn't surprise me. But as adults it is our responsibility to OVERCOME the damage done us as children and not continue the cycles of abuse and violence into the next generations. Victim or not, O'Reilly has shirked his responsibility to become something better than his circumstances made him. If everyone were like Bill O'Reilly, we'd still all be living in caves.
"The Good and Great Must Ever Shun, That Reckless and Abandoned One
Who Stoops to Perpetrate a Pun," Lewis Carroll, 'The Three Voices.'
I don't have any sympathy for the guy and am NOT making excuses for him. Understanding and excusing are two different things.
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Not all sexually or physically abused children turn out to be like Bill O the clown. We overcome horrific tragedies to become respectful and productive human beings with great compassion for others.
I doubt there is any category Bill O'Reilly really fits in. Maybe he's a product of "Area 51." ;)
And I'm really not sure how Bernie Goldberg fits in with FOX, other than spewing his venom. Is he a wannabe clown? Also, isn't he a commentator on HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel?"
I understand that Billo is an aberration in this way.
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Dang it Tritty, it's not helpful to make me have compassion for O'Reilly! :(
But come to think of it, there are many men who have been broken and abused by their fathers and other older adults when they were children, who do not grow up to be vile misogynists like O'Reilly, so my compassion has its limits ....
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
While I have my suspicions for what created this monster - I don't have any sympathy for him myself.
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Nice smack down B. Erbe! JOn Stewart nailed Billo's hypocrisy as well, see earlier post. Keith Olberman was asked why Oreilly is his "worst person in the world" on a regular basis. His response..."look at him, he gives me the material" After the President's informative press conf last nite......He called Obama boring. He's a runaway freight train, loofah in hand
"While BIllO was crapping his pants as a child"
This implies that the pants crapping has stopped. Fact is he's still full of sh#t.
Remember that South Park episode where Cartman inserts food into his rectum, and then craps out his mouth? Art imitating life.
I'm willing to bet he crapped his pants a few times when his father came after him. And maybe he still does if the AH is still alive. Bullies aren't BORN -- they're MADE.
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To quote Dennis Miller (back when he was still funny), he's more full of shit than a whale with no ass.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Look up integrity in the American Heritage,and it says see Helen Thomas.
We should all send her a card of thanks when she retires.
I think if you wait that long, she won't be around to read it.
Send her one now!
me-oww!
Helen Thomas is of Arab background. Imagine what Bill and all his pals say about her off air.
... I think Helen Thomas is Lebanese.
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Helen was born in Kentucky. Her parents were Christian Lebanese immigrants.
...and we're all African.
"The Good and Great Must Ever Shun, That Reckless and Abandoned One
Who Stoops to Perpetrate a Pun," Lewis Carroll, 'The Three Voices.'
..and we're all goo! But I digress..
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Lets face it guys like Boyllo are terminal kids and I'm sure Helen Thomas finds this very amusing.
I don't think so. She went past finding it amusing at about insult 3,000,000. That was some time during the Reagan years.
Tiresome is what it is.
Tedious.
A daily drumbeat of hate, with a threat of violence to back it up.
That Falafel Bill is still shitting his pants.
Washington is in the east, and there are those who like to rail against the "east coast elite," so maybe it was intentional that he called her the wicked witch of the east, rather than west.
And Colmes...you are a pussy for participating in that, and get a fucking mirror dude. Freddy Kruger is mad because you stole his act.
Goldberg, O'Reilly and Colmes et al. Law firm for ugly, angry, out of touch white men that the entire world is sick of listening to.
that a well placed chicken bone lodges in his throat sooner than later.
What a sad, angry Man.
Bernie Goldberg was just as bad in this segment. How about putting him out to pasture?
Goldberg is nothing short of obscene.
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Why is it great? Because it exposes one of the pablum fed to Americans. First of all, there is the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistan Taliban. Second the Afghan Taliban, those who the US are fighting in Afghanistan, are indigenous people, much like the North Vietnamese, and the Afghan War is as utterly reckless as the war in Vietnam. The Pakistan Taliban, on the other hand, are either an offshoot of the Pakistani military and/or indigenous Pakistanis who hate the military government of Pakistan and live in territory that has never been completely within Pakistan's writ. Third, of course, there are foreign fighters, who may or may not be al-Qaeda, in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but they are not only a small fraction in both places but generally al-Qaeda is a product of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US. In other words, these 3 countries are to blame for the so-called terrorist origins and I will go so far as to say they still guide and direct them. While it is unfortunately more complicated than that, I hope this begins to shed light on why Ms. Thomas' question is so excellent, and let's not forget the more Afghanistan and Pakistan are talked about the more easily they are exposed for the utter sham and lie that they are.
I have become convinced that the only way to deal with BillO and his ilk are to treat them as we have learned to treat trolls. DON'T FEED THEM! Sorry Silent, but you're guilty again!
Doing it your way allows their lies and misinformation to go unchecked. That leads to the masses unable to discern truth from fiction. And that leads to the election of morons, and the recital of "talking points" ad nauseum because we aren't countering them.
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
Very well put Navy Vet!
Helen Thomas has more journalistic integrity in her little finger than Bill-o will ever have in his entire body. Real journalists don't sit well with Bill. It reminds him of his own gross inadequacies.
"But then where would angry TV news viewers go to watch highly-paid cobras?"
maybe they could just get a spoon and stir the poo in
their pants before licking it. it's no different then
sucking on the south side of billo. lol
Bill O'Reilly has no class, and why in the world do they have Bernie Goldberg on? Has he ever been right about anything?
In case you are wondering, this is what Thomas asked, "Mr. President, do you think that Pakistan and -- are maintaining the safe havens in Afghanistan for these so-called terrorists? And, also, do you know of any country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?"
First, those are two big questions because Obama needs to address them. Obama is still hoping that he'll be able to work with the Pakistani government which has been shown to have no popular support, no control over its military and intelligence apparatus, and no control over its borders. He has no idea where Al Qaeda is, and identifying an entire region (Waziristan) as "harboring terrorists" doesn't get us any closer to security from terrorists.
Second, Thomas's point is crystal clear with the second question. There is a nuclear power in the middle east and we maintain a double standard regarding nuclear proliferation and Israel. It's an uncomfortable question because answering it honestly and intelligently would transform the dynamics of the relationship with Israel in ways that would quickly get out of our control.
O'Reilly would never say those things to Thomas in person because if he did, Thomas would tear him to pieces. O'Reilly is a joke.
My husband and I were really interested in how President Obama would answer the second part of Helen Thomas's question. It is common knowledge that Israel has nuclear weapons and President Obama didn't answer this question honestly. Sure there is a double standard.
Americans need jobs and we can no longer afford to financially prop up Israel while we are hurting at home.
Isn't Bill-o about 2 months less in age than Helen?
Looking at that receding hairline and chicken neck flapping while talking is always good for a laugh.
He's also insulting his own demographics...what a tool....
Billo just turned 60 last September. Helen is 88.
..28 year age difference, BillO is a mere child in intelligence and demeanor compared to Helen Thomas.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
you hapless ass. I can't stand BillO. HT has the class and respect he wish he had.
Karma is a bitch, remember that.
NOBODY 2012
Bill O'Reilly should hope to live as long as Helen Thomas. She will be 89 years old on August 4, 2009. President Barack Obama will be 48 years old on August 4, 2009.
Love it!
Bill-O the Ass Clown seems much older than 60. Maybe it's because he's always pissed off. Bitching, complaining, insulting ... and telling the kids to get off his lawn.
and somewhat hostile towards Obama, save for the question about A-Rod, of course. It's a shame these same clowns couldn't have pressed W. the same way.
Man smart, woman smarter.
The press asked tough questions and yes, they were aggressive. They didn't ask the boy Bush tough questions because they knew that he wouldn't answer these questions. Instead, the boy Bush would respond by making jokes at the reporters expense.
Old lady? Hey Billo! She still has more hair than you. :)
I could say that I think O'Reilly's brain is melting from too much HOT Falafel Sex -- but that makes the assumption that he had a normally functioning brain to begin with.
This is a man who rages and burns with suppressed anger and misery so great that he has become an empty shell of a human being. In his personal misery, he finds solace in pornographic sexual activity - in the form of criminal trespass on others personal privacy (Andrea Mackris sex scandal), and making others as miserable as he himself is.
There are signs that he truly wishes people to think he is a wonderful guy - but he is just a pathetic old man. Clearly abused as a child - his impotence in this regard turned him into the very thing that destroyed his own humanity. IMHO.
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a wicked witch?
Maybe Helen Thomas should debrief bill o'really.
Signed
(The Amused Witch)
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The thought of a de-briefed O'Reilly is just scary.
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Fear and ignorance are the basis for hatred, racism, sexism, homophobia and religious zealotry. O'Reilly has discovered that he can get rich by being a hateful, racist, sexist and homophobic religious extremist .....who gives the fearful and the ignorant a pied piper they can identify with who validates their misanthropic dysfunctions and leads them to a promised land where genetically challenged freaks, weirdos and sociopaths achieve a kindred sense of self-deluding and self-protecting Nirvana.
billo is like a serial mugger who waits in a dark alley waiting to smack little old ladies from behind when they aren't looking with his sap. he'll go after anyone; helen thomas, the american wwII vets massacred at malmedy, andrea makris, Shawn Hornbeck, Jeremy Glick.....the list goes on and on. face to face, helen would eat him alive. what a pathetic coward.
One mocks a man with Parkinson's, another mocks his respected elders.
The most popular voices of the Right are infantile schoolyard bullies.
"The Good and Great Must Ever Shun, That Reckless and Abandoned One
Who Stoops to Perpetrate a Pun," Lewis Carroll, 'The Three Voices.'
A buddy of BillOs has been arrested for the second time over child porn, his first arrest was in 1999, but this didn't stop Faux hiring him.
He fitted in so well there.
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/fox-news-produce...
Helen would kick his ass, but if she were 5 years younger, BillO would be calling her trying to get some action.
Bill's in need of some serious medication. Maybe he can ask Rush.
These endless threads on C&L about BillO and all of the replies remind me of a line from the movie "Big" when at the office party Susan says to Josh: "All the same people having all the same discussion. It's like they cloned some party in 1983 and kept spinning it out again and again and again."
It's like that here now with these threads about BillO. Sorry guys, somebody has to say it.
You do make a good point- just Billo gives us such good material-
As funny as Keith Olbermann's critiques of Billo may be, somethimes I think all he is doing is giving Bill recognition and legitimacy..
Not sure if Keith reads this blog or not, but I know his staff does. Maybe they'll carry the message to him. Start treating BillO just as the online world treats a troll, and stop feeding him.
Everyone knows Savage may have a large audience, but he is a textbook fascist, rabid homophobe and racist- Rather than dwell on and critique Savage every day, most sensible people ignore that whackjob. Perhaps we should do the same to Billo....
On the other hand - bringing attention to how ridiculous, petty and mean the guy is - to a national audience - is great.
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I thought the second part of her question was GREAT. She ask the Prez. if he new of any countries
in the Middle East that had Nuclear Weapons.
Would that make im the impotent man behind the curtain? Oh I forgot he is well intentioned.
Fox is showing a lot of class allowing this 1 hour public service announcement each evening. They show true wisdom and a sense of equality that is rarely seen on the cable news. They are openly promoting someone with dementia and personality disorders to the public. No explanation needed. No apparent need to protect themselves from legal action from someone not responsible for their actions. This is bravery!
It is past time for C&L and other like blogs to seriously consider curtailing O'Reilly's exposure. It is not deserved and does a disservice to any level of intellect. This buffoon is worthy of no more print or air time than any other schizophrenic street corner loudmouth.
The O'Reilly fans aren't reading this blog, and even if they were, their mindset is not likely to change because of anything they read here. These BillO threads only serve to elevate the blood pressure of the rest of us.
BillO is a clown, and clowns are best reserved for circuses. I shall make a pledge here and now neither to read nor post with anything BillO in the title.
This is typical Billo- In fact, this is typical right wing behavior- A total absesnse of empathy or civility, and the vulgar insults and hatred voiced at others......
Does he have any clue what it means to be a gentleman?
..if he had fallen, passed out, I were Superman and the train was moving at 5 mph.
That man is stealing my air!
"Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying..."-------Roger Waters, "Comfortably Numb"
The ultimate irony would be Helen Thomas as the gatekeeper at the Pearly Gates and Billo getting her foot up his ass as she pushes him down the chute to Hell.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
LMAO
Could not make a pimple on Helen Thomas's A....
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So it's old ladies these guys are afraid of. Makes sense actually. Who better to straiten out a juvenile bully.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
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Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
So a lifetime of journalistic excellence is nothing to Bill.
Oy! I think you should never mention him again on this blog. Period.
What a douche.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again (much to the dismay of the site monitor).... I really hope that Bill O'Lielly shits in his bed tonight.
Carry on.
Not surprised that Billo is spewing his usual misogynistic tripe. Pathetic Billo!
Ms. Thomas is more of a journalist than Billo could ever be in his miserable lifetime. And I am not always the world's biggest fans of Bonnie Erbe, but she has it absolutely right this time.
Oh, and I would be honored if I could be Helen's granddaughter! :)
One last thing - I know some people complain that C & L report too much on O'Reilly, Beck, etc. Well I appreciate that they do. I have an intentional Faux News blackout in my household, but it is still interesting to keep up with the latest vomit slag, and also not give them my ratings at the same time. So thank you everyone at C & L! :)
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
O'Reilly certainly is a real tough guy when he picks on 88 year old Helen Thomas. Yet his manliness was mysteriously missing forty years ago when he somehow managed to avoid fighting the pint size Viet Cong in the jungles of Viet Nam. One has to wonder why chickenhawk O'Reilly has never explained how he managed to avoid doing his patriotic duty by fighting for his beloved country in Southeast Asia. O'Reilly's motto: do as I say, not as I do
Is just like the rest of Bush's gang...
They try to receive their man hood and cowboy appearance by sending others to war and die to make them look macho..
Most of the war hawks in Bush's gang have not seem the first sight of a real war...
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Erroll,
Not only dis O'Lielly never have the guts to put up in the 60s in terms of serving, he doessn't even have the guts to do his own ambush(league) "interviews". He has to send out his "boys" to do the (shameful) job.
Another Repub who has issues with women.
Helen Thomas has more class in one of her eyelashes than you will ever have in your life. You owe her an apology for your stupid and classless comments, but just an apology isn't really good enough for how mean and ugly you seem to get off on being.
Bill, you're losing it man! You're going to pick on Helen Thomas, a woman who has been ill for a good part of a year, she's 90 something, and still asking questions that people like you don't have the balls to ask? And! She's been doing it since you were a snot nosed, diapered kid. I think you despise her for keeping W's antics and war crimes in the spotlight for 8 years by asking the questions no one else would ask. If you were smart at all, you would appreciate Helen Thomas, because she might also ask Obama questions that you will likely never again be granted the access to ask.
You might learn a thing or two from Helen. Like being a gentleman. You don't act like a bratty little boy and make fun of someone like Helen. You just don't do it man.
You're losin' it. Glenn Beck is losin' it. Fox News is losin' it.
And, it's the wicked witch of the WEST, goofy.
You're LOSIN' it!
It just dawned on me that if there were a market for such books, some of the authors who've psychoanalyzed Bush could probably come up with an equally riveting study of O'Reilly. It's just, well, I might find it to disturbing and scary to read, like when they start up with the topic of loofahs and falafels!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
i've shaked things out of my pants leg more impressive than colmes
I can tell you *exactly* who enjoys watching "venom boy" spew--angry old white men. White men who feel that they were entitled to far more in life than what they ended up with. I know because my father is an avid O'Reilly viewer despite the fact that he is a political science professor! It's not that he's brain-damaged--I just think O'Reilly taps into a vast reservoir of latent white male rage--men who were raised with way high expectations in the 1950s and 1960s and didn't quite measure up to their ridiculously high status-obsessed standards. Like O'Reilly, my father is certain that the reason he is not at a more venerated institution has to do with his working class roots and less than prestigious academic pedigree. In his darker moments, women and minorities (and political correctness) also get a good share of the blame...
If you want to boycott O'Reilly's sponsors,go to oreillysucks.com/sponsor-boycott
O'Reilly would piss his pants if he actually had to make any real decisions that effect the country ... that's why cowards like him sit back and throw mud and complain about how others are not doing what he would do in their position. Rush is the same ... it's easy to spout and gossip about the other guy ... anything to keep the ratings and the money flowing ... but these guys are losers. They are only where they are because they were willing to exploit and lie and hurt others. Why do we let them hook us in every time.
BillO never ceases to show what a complete jackass he really is. At her age, Helen Thomas is deserving of way more respect. If you disagree with someone she writes, that's one thing. But to stoop to adolescent insults is beyond the pale. But, then that's O'Liely for you, What a complete bore. Why anyone tunes in to this ignorant heathen is truly a mystery.
Yeah, we can all have fun calling that jerk out for dissing Helen Thomas. But, you know he'll go on the air complaining about Crooks and Liars and how evil the site is. It will be the next facist website, next to DailyKos. He gets all worked up over people who don't fawn over him and never realizes its because he is such a twit.
If I read Helen right, she will consider this insult a badge of honor and use the clip as a ring tone on he phone.
Candideinnc
God Bless Helen for showing age has nothing to do with smarts & God Bless Obama for treating her so respectfully. As to Bill,his ways of
making fun of the elderly are noted. What a discrimating fool he is!!!
But then where would angry TV news viewers go to watch highly-paid cobras?
Hannity, Boortz, Beck, Reagan, Fox and Friends, Morning Joe, whats-his-name the angry anti-immigration dude on CNN, Malkin, Coulter, Cal Thomas, etc.
Unfortunately, theres about 1,000 other places to get the same angry rantings.
Reslugs, like o'Lielly, just can't even hid their absolute hatred for women anymore. Why don't they pick on their smelly whores like Coulter in their sick, dying party.
when bill start denigrating the likes of a journalist as helen thomas, he only shows even more than usual, his total ignorance. we all know his style is to bully, yell loud and intimidate in way he can. after all it worked in grade school why not here. bill o is an asswipe.
well, in truth, i never watch the guy. How many of you actually watch him or listen to right wing radio. if you do then you're helping to boost their ratings. a way to fight their caustic dribble is not to tune in. there are enough of us now to send an alert to their sponsors. you need to stop listening to their crap otherwise you assist them.
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Well she is old, what's your excuse bill. look at the picture that is with this article. i don't feel the site monitors had to look very hard to find a picture that made you look old and decrepid. Your time is coming soon and then you will have to answer for the crap you've been handing out in exchange for wealth and power. You can't take it with you.
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