WOW. Bill O'Reilly STILL is fuming about Al Franken

[SideshowScott]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/109845p-99223c.html
Calling Al Franken a satirist is a farce
Now Fox News is striking back by putting the demonizers on notice that they will be held responsible when they violate trademarks or launch defamatory personal attacks on Fox personnel
It is simply a sorry joke to see a political activist like Al Franken labeled a satirist by The New York Times. Attempting to smear and destroy the reputations of those with whom you politically disagree is not satire.

[Kamika]

1. Take their word for it

Who knows better then Fox

"Attempting to smear and destroy the reputations of those with whom you politically disagree is not satire. "

[Fleshdancer]

2. They can dish it,

but they can't take it. Sounds about right.

[SideshowScott]

3. Amazing how petty O'Reilly is...A pathetic bully who got busted

And he cant get over it..Well everytime he or his fox news masters talks about it Franken sells a hundered more books.I wonder if they know thats what they are doing,,He is the flagship joke on a joke network..

[Booberdawg]

4. Gawd

Bullshit Alert! Bullshit Alert! Bullshit Alert!:eyes:

[lebkuchen]

5. He probably still blames his parents for his own disfunction

His behavior is immature. How old is he, anyway?

[samsingh]

22. isn't it great how

Repug morons take personal responsibility.

[Skittles]

6. O'Reilly is a FASICIST LITTLE PRICK

who cannot take a joke OR the facts.

[Salviati]

7. hmm....

sat·ire ( P ) Pronunciation Key (str)
n.

A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature.
Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.

Does Mr. O'Reilly even know the meaning of the word satire? One of the greatest satirists in history, Voltaire, essentially wrote one of his books, Candide, to attack a rival philosopher, Liebnitz...

[SideshowScott]

8. The line that gals me the most is he say that USA is better beacuse of Fox

The quote "This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded"So basicly high unemployment, massiive defficits, un just and rotten lead War and the threat of more terroist attacks, ashcroft burning our rights, high gas prices, power blackouts, stalled economy, collage students not being able to re-enroll ect ect ect..Thats a better america to Bill O'Reilly!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Rex]

9. WOW! Cry me a river Mr. O'Crybaby!

And here I thought Chimpy was the biggest crybaby around, no more. O'Smelly just took the crown!



"Stop making fun of me!"

[DarkPhenyx]

10. Amazing.

In the same article he claims taht Fox isn't conservative, tehn states that Fox broke the "strangle hold" liberals had on the media. Kinda makes one wonder if he likes everything both ways. Sheesh!

[TioDiego]

11. When does this case go to court?

Does O'Reilly realize that he will be exposed, again, as a lying liar for all the media to see? Didn't he write a book called something like "THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE Completely Ridiculous" - a title the last third of which seems inadvertently autobiographical.

http://members.authorsguild.net/trademark/disc.htm

[SideshowScott]

16. I really hope that the case is televised

And that Foxs lawyers have to argue every lie Bill told..That would be a work of poetic justice if you ask me

[Brian Sweat]

26. Never,

it is a hoax.

[joefree1]

12. Faux News by Faux People

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. Al spanked him

and now he wants his mommy

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

13. "I believe wholeheartedly in the First Amendment ... " -- Bill O'Whorely

... "except when I don't like what other people say about me!"

[Octafish]

14. Al Franken touched a raw nerve in public.

In doing so, he exposed how O'Really and his brethren in the media cabal really are LIARS. So now O'Really is scared that his career as a hatemonger is over. Couldn't happen to a meaner or more deserving turd.

[VermontDem2004]

15. Bill Oreilly reminds me of that crazy christian fanatic

in the movie Little Nicky except the part of him being blind. For example, the way he was attacking MTV saying they target the weak, depressed, children who can't tell the difference between reality and fake life. For example putting demonizers on notice launch defamatory personal attacks This guy is a kook, it is wonder why he has the highest rated 24 hour news network program.

[grasswire]

18. Shut up! Shut up! (eom)

[Bob3]

19. This kind of thing gives gibberish a bad name.

what a waterhead. Oh I hope it goes to trial i hope it goes to trial. I want that clown in the stand under oath sweating under the lights like the pig he is.

[samsingh]

20. O'Really is a suck

Al showed him up to be the fool that O'Really is.

[JackSwift]

21. Al really hit the mark this time

It's going to be even better when Fox is humiliated in court.

[xray s]

23. This is the best thing that could happen for Al's book

Gobs of free publicity. Everyone will run out and buy the book to see what all the fuss is about. Every liberal should buy it to protest the gestapo book banning tactics of Fox.

Al should send O'Really a thank you card.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. Scratch Fox and you get

[treepig]

25. a related thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=6068

[SideshowScott]

34. I dont think so..Bill STILL pouts over it week after week

Im and pretty sure it was Bill that forced Fox news to file that lawsuit..Prolly had one of his world famous tantums in a exutives office..( Wow i would piad to have seen that " SUE HIM! SUE HIM! " " But Bill.." " SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SUE HIM SUE HIM OR I WALK! NOBODY DOES THAT TO ME!! WAHHHHH!" )
In bill always makes a back handed comment about Franken in a regular basis after Al exposed him

[Snellius]

27. Is this all a publicity stunt?

Both Franken and O'Really have books coming out. This sounds like one of those Tyson/Holyfield prefight pr shouting matches staged to promote ticket sales. Besides with FOX's main champion on the ropes, they may looking for a new challenger to go a few rounds.

[SideshowScott]

29. I think you may be right...Imagine the ratings for a rematch

But I hope its not on Bill's show..But im sure it will be when Franken makes the rounds permoteing his book..I Do hope that Al skips Bills show but ya know its would be good for sales

[nolabels]

39. oh, this is good, a conspiracy by comedians and lather heads

To sell books none the less, I guess getting one education comes in all shapes, forms and colors. (this is some kind of fair and balanced joke isn't it?)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=61689

[Brian Sweat]

28. Oh'Really is a much bigger punk than Rash Slimeball

I hate Slimeball, but if Franken had done the same thing to Rash, Rash would have laughed it off.

[Changenow]

30. My favorite part.

“The accusation that Fox is a conservative network is pure propaganda. Poll after poll has demonstrated that Fox's audience is across the board, ideologically and demographically. The latest survey taken by Mediamark Research finds that more ultraconservative viewers watch CNN than Fox.”

This point seems to try to argue that Fox isn’t conservative because many of its viewers aren't conservative, but it contradicts that very point when it says more ultraconservative viewers watch CNN then Fox. Are they also saying that CNN is ultraconservative? Even simple logic escapes these morans.

[CanuckAmok]

31. Ok, so...

"Attempting to smear and destroy the reputations of those with whom you politically disagree is not satire."

DUers, please cut and paste this phrase, and use it on your favourite RW media outlet the next time they bash Clinton, Michael Moore, or any other progressive.

The "satire" argument is what keeps Rush on the air, hiding behind the Constitution and arguing "satire" for his hate campaign. It's what O'Reilly and his crowd hide behind, too.

God, the hypocrisy!

[SideshowScott]

32. It Amazes me too!

How O'reilly can sit there night after night and bully, threaten and outright lie about people and then hides behind his im not a rightwinger LIE..He uses the ol nazi trick that if you say it enough it will become truth tatic...

[mike6640]

38. let me get this right.....

"Attempting to smear and destroy the reputations of those with whom you politically disagree is not satire."

In the case of Faux, they call the above 'news reporting'. Fair and Balanced (tm), no less.

[Athletic Grrl]

46. ooooh Mike....

You better be careful using that phrase. O'Reilly and his FAUX minions are going balls out on this one. They'd just love to make an example of some more liberals to garner a larger audience based on hatemongering and the stupidity of the sheeple.

Morons.

[tom_paine]

33. Typical cowardly Bushevik

He can dish it ut, but let someone try to do even ONE-TENTH of what he regularly does to other, to him ("Shut up! Shut up") he then squeals like the cowardly little child that he is.

Disgusting. Even more disgusting that the VRWC has made this ten-pounds-of-shit-in-a-five-pound-sack the most prevalent creature in Imperial Amerika today.

[anti_shrub]

35. Just like when Coulter's on Maher's show

The more you let wingnuts rant, the stupider they make themselves look.

[Brian Sweat]

37. The more rope you give em

the more likely they will hang themselves.

[JNelson6563]

36. the smaller the penis

the longer the grudge.....so goes the theory. ;-)

Julie

[Generic Other]

40. Who puts his politics and his pocketbook where his mouth is?

Al Franken, that's who. Who will probably never work at Fox again? Al Franken, that's who. Who could have been silenced but refused to be by jackboots from a foreign owned news network? Al Franken, that's who? Who speaks for more Americans, Al Franken or Rupert Murdoch? Al Franken, that's who.

Fox can go to hell. Foreign owned businesses should not have more rights in this country than American citizens. If they don't like it, they can go back where they came from. If they choose to manufacture and slant the news, I am thankful there's an Al Franken to stand up and throw it in their faces. The politicians have become a joke. So, it falls to the satirists to get serious.

Go Al!

[Swalker24]

41. Mr. O'Reilly there is a simple solution to you problem.

Stop the lies. Stop the spin. Admit you are just a tad slanted to the right (see here).

AL Franken called you on a lie, and your response wasn't I did tell my veiwers that I had misspoke and called a Polk a Peabody. NO, you claimed that you never said that Inside Edition had won a Peabody. In the real world Billy that is a lie. All you had to do is say I made a mistake Inside Edition won a Polk, not a Peabody. But you lied and claimed you never said it. And you attacked the journalist who dared write that you aren't as truthful as you claim. Then when Al Frankens calls you on it on national TV you act as if that is all Franken has got, and I know he has much much more because a great number of your lies have been documented on the web (see here, or here, or here, or here, or here). Your response was "Shut up, you had your 45 minutes (actually 21, but we can let that slide as when you are embarassed like that time seems to go really slow), and you called Mr. Franken a "Idiot" and several other names and you made a reference to his ethnicity.

Yep Fair and Balanced. Perhaps Billy if you understood the difference between a lie and the truth this would be easier for you to comprehend. It would also be easier for you to deal with if you wheren't a thin-skinned bully who goes crying to mommy when things don't go your way. Basically if you don't want to be fodder for satire you should just stop giving those who would use it some much ammo to use against you.

[Catshrink]

43. You said it all, Swalker!

I loved the way O'Really's veins bulged when he hollered "Shut up, Shut up!" at Al. Priceless....

[David Zephyr]

42. Ha! Fox Will Only Guarantee That Franken Hits Number One!

Goody, goody! Franken rocks!

[scarface2004]

44. Attempting to smear and destroy the reputations of those...

with whom you politically disagree is not satire!!???

what??

i guess rushbo is going to shut it down and go home then right?!

well?!

[realFedUp]

45. he still needs the ratings....

he stirs up the left and they tune in to see his
eyes pop out.

turn him off.

[OneTwentyoNine]

47. Frivolous lawsuit,Frivolous lawsuit.....

Isn't that what O'Really and his ilk scream on nearly a daily basis? Hell their always on the lookout for that really silly lawsuit (which rarely goes to trial)so they can pin it on Liberals and trail lawyers.

Shit....this case is about as frivolous as it gets. Whats next, FOX owns the rights to AEIOU???

David