O'Rielley hangs up on Fresh Air interview

[Hamlette]

catch it if you can. Hysterical. Terry Gross was just asking him questions. Apparently someone gave his last book an unfavorable review in People magazine. The reviewer then watched The Factor to hear O'Rielly trashing him, the reviewer, on the air. O'Rielley said: "the review of my book was a review of me, not the book. Review the book, not me. This guy (who did the review) is a pin head." (HA HA) So the People reviewer does a followup piece in People that quoted O'Rielly from the show then said: "Consistency is not Bill's long suit"

Well, Terry Gross wanted to read that snip and O'Rielly went nuts, yelled at her about how she was nicer to Franken and hung up. He didn't want her to review it and is still crying about Franken.

Hysterical. What a cry baby!

[w13rd0]

1. Bill is such a whiney...

...lil goosestepping bitch. What benefit does his being given air time actually do the public good? Does he like being "filler" for the network most likely to misinform and mislead?

[RobertSeattle]

2. I suppose audio will be available in a few hours

http://freshair.npr.org/

Schweet!

[Cocoa]

17. it's up now

Terry starts off the clip with a clip from O'Reilly's show whining about the interview, then plays the interview.

Listening now, it sounds good. O'Reilly is sounding kind of hostile from the start. :-)

[Blue-Jay]

101. Thanks for posting the link!

I don't have a chance to listen to the radio while I'm at work, and I sorely miss Fresh Air. Bookmarked!

On topic: What a horse's ass! He digs a hole for himself everytime he's allowed to open his fat mouth outside of the safety of his own show. I just can't get enough of listening to O'Reilly get his ass handed to him. heh.

[hatrack]

3. 14:55, 14:56, 14:57, 14:58 . . . .

Looks like recess is just about over for whiny little Billy O'Reilly!

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Very Good!

Had me laughing out loud in my office, Hatrack. Good stuff!
The Professor

[roughsatori]

4. His feelings are hurt and he's ready to cry every time he gets interviewed

It is embarrassing to watch such a bully betray themselves as a little crybaby.

[Papa]

5. i listened to it. he is such a pompous ass

He talks like he is a know it all. He has that Cheney thing going on as well...talks with authority, like he's talking to little children. Every time he got the chance he would throw in that his book is #1 on the NY times best seller list, how he is so famous and has the most influential news show on cable. It's all me, me, me, and me...


I thought the interview went pretty well, untill Bill worked himself up into a frenzy giving a long speech about how everyone is out to get him then walked out. What a putz. He is such a coward.

[Ignis]

69. Gah, that's the truth.

Listening him speak with sarcastic precision while he slowly and helpfully explains the difference between slander and libel made me want to thwap the wanker with a newspaper.

I mean, I understand that one needs to speak slowly (and in monosyllables) to FAUX listeners, but this was on NPR... ;)

[AP]

6. O'Reilly's book is ABOUT HIMSELF. You can't review it without reviewing..

...him.

Unless, of course, O'Reilly is saying it was a work of fiction. And I do believe that's Franken's point about O'Reilly.

[bloom]

109. That's exactly what I was thinking.

[Cat Atomic]

7. He's not a shill.

Ok, he *is* a shill- but he's an egomaniac and a bully first.

It's like he's discovered that sucking GOP dick gives him the chance to shout at people on the air, call them stupid, and brag about how great he is. But when shilling for Republicans gets in the way of praising himself, he always opts for self-praise.

He's really a sad little man to me, somehow. Most of those guys just seem like media whores or, at worst, idiots. But O'Reilley really seems like someone that just hates the world.

[grasswire]

9. shut up! shut up!

Maybe it has something to do with being punished by catholic-school nuns. (And that's not a slur....it just is such a coincidence that Matthews and Russert and so many of the others in the press spent their formative years getting their knuckles rapped by rulers.)

[Name removed]

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[Cat Atomic]

14. Oh, please lighten up.

Really- that was silly.

[piece sine]

15. it's NOT OK to denigrate people like that....

homosexuals are the backbone of this site! EVERY TIME there's a stupid, bigoted crack made like yours, you're going to hear about it. Be thankful I fight my own battles and not hit the ALERT button like I could have.

[Cat Atomic]

16. Again, lighten up, guy.

It's no different than saying someone is "fucked", or "screwed". These are also potentially loving acts. And for your information, I *am* gay. The knee-jerk accusations are again, silly. Just chill.

Your odd suggestion that I 'go back to Free Republic' would actually warrant an alert, though.

[piece sine]

18. well, I've actually been on O'Reilly

and felt his abuse, and I know it when I see it. And I didn't like then, nor do I like language abuse now when it denigratres my values. I will, of course, chill-out as soon as I am sure homophobia is confined to sites I am not personally involved with.

[JNelson6563]

24. that's right, when Rove was ranting

We will fuck him!! We will fuck him like he has never been fucked before!!!

He meant that in a nice way. Affectionate. In fact, with the brilliant reasoning I see you being subjected to applied to Rove's affectionate terms, perhaps he's coming out of the closet?

Oy!

Julie

[Redleg]

113. "Homosexuals are the backbone of this site"?

I thought Democrats and liberals were the backbone of this site. I must have missed something somewhere.

[soupkitchen]

8. I call him O'Rielly, Oh, Really. As if he has any credibility at all.

[qb]

10. I have to hand it to NPR, trying to be fair and all

Interviewing equal numbers of conservative and liberals on their fluff shows. I guess it's hard to maintain equal time when your guest starts crying and hangs up.

Now if NPR would only try a little harder to get balance in their newsroom, or maybe hire an investigative reporter who does something beyond reading the same news everyone else has.

[Best_man23]

57. One of the reasons NPR listeners are some of the best informed

Is because they do a pretty good job of interviewing folks from both sides. They are a hell of a lot more "fair and balanced" than Faux will ever become.

[goforit]

11. What a Moron!!!!..........He just doesn't get it!

ROFLMAO!!!!

[area51]

12. O'Shrilly

This is somewhat off-topic, but "Mad-TV" has done several skits making fun of O'Reilly & his huge ego.

[qb]

23. MAD TV is awesome. They've got what SNL used to have.

[John_H]

19. here's who scared him away

Awww...did that big bad tewy wewy scare wittle biwy?

[Cocoa]

20. Gene Simmons found her equally threatening

If you haven't heard Gross let Simmons make a total fool of himself, I'd highly recommend it, it's a classic. :-)

[stevebreeze]

131. I laugh just thinking about Simmons

It was very simular in tone. Big stupid egomaniac who can't take as well as they dish out.
:kick:

[MUAD_DIB]

118. Intelligence usually has that kind of effect

on the fearful and ignorant.

[Zero Gravitas]

21. O'Really: Shrill and Unstable

not to mention full of himself and more than a little thin-skinned.

[spindoctor]

22. Cry baby is right

He seems to believe that he is the toughest canon in talk show land, but he crumbles at the first sign of resistance.

He was already complaining on his show that a "certain" newspaper, deliberately hired somebody who didn't like him to research and criticize his book.

Coming from somebody who is not particularly affectionate towards many writers and makes a living off criticizing people, it is just so...so....FUNNY!

[Brucey]

25. Bill's a pill.

[skypilot]

26. I listened to the audio

and I have to say that I really don't like listening to Terry Gross give these types of interviews. She is far too polite and civil and that is not what works with these people. She lets them drone on and on which they are very happy to do. The Gene Simmons interview is another perfect example. Fresh Air could use Al Franken or Jon Stewart or someone like them to conduct interviews with people like O'Reilly. Gross sounded clearly flustered on numerous occasions and doesn't seem to know how to reinsert herself into the interview when her guest is rambling on.

[Cocoa]

27. I can't tell you how much I disagree with you

with both Simmons and O'Reilly she handled it perfectly.

Totally kept her cool, which drove them into rages you don't hear a lot on NPR. With Simmons, at one point she just said matter-of-factly, something like "that was really obnoxious" at some idiotic sexist comment he made.

Now with O'Reilly, he's ranting himself into a lather, and she just chuckles a little. :-)

[skypilot]

29. I didn't say that she was bad at keeping her cool.

I still think that she lets the interviews get away from her. If I'd tuned in during the middle of that interview I might have wondered who was conducting it. I heard O'Reilly's voice far more than hers and I really got tired of it. I really think that Franken or Stewart or Moore would be better suited.

Gross is not good or quick with comebacks. When O'Reilly demanded an answer from her about something there were long pauses and stuttering. Not impressive.

[Cocoa]

32. she exposed him

the truth about O'Reilly is that he lies, that his ideas are pretty stupid, that he bullies people, that he's obsessed with Al Franken, and that he's a coward. Gross got O'Reilly to demonstrate all these things in a pretty short interview.

I like those other people you mention, but I don't see them as being the same thing. Gross isn't a voice of the left, and she isn't a comedian or any kind of entertainer.

[skypilot]

34. But we knew all those things about him already.

Frankly, I think we do need a voice of the left to do interviews with people like him. They don't have to be entertaining or funny just more assertive than Gross is. I honestly don't think that that interview hurt him among the people who are his fans--if they bothered to listen.

[Cocoa]

41. well, Gross isn't that voice of the left

I don't know why you're hung up on that. That's not what she is or what she's supposed to be, or ever has been. She's risen to the top of radio interviewers for doing what she does, it doesn't make much sense to hold it against her that she's not this "voice of the left" that you want. It's just not what she is.

[skypilot]

44. I mentioned "voice of the left" ONCE

...after YOU used that phrase and that somehow means that I'm "hung up on that"??? Let me make something clear because I can sense a certain amount of testiness creeping into this thread now: I like Terry Gross--ALOT. I just personally don't like it when I hear her doing interviews with really obnoxious people. NOT because I think she's some shrinking violet but because I'd really like to hear those obnoxious people take it on the chin. Terry Gross is alot of things but she's not particularly aggressive. That's not an indictment of her as a person or as an interviewer. A more aggressive interviewer is simply to my taste. And by aggressive I don't mean someone who will turn the show into Jerry Springer or WWF. Once again, how about Rhandi Rhodes?

[gottaB]

55. You're right, Gross was on top of her game

That O'Reilly fellow came across exactly as you said. I wouldn't want to buy his book, or check it out from the library, or discuss him any further--except for laughs.

[Ripley]

35. She allows everyone time to answer...refreshing to hear nowadays.

You seem to have a problem with her because she is a woman "who can't handle it" or something. Why do you think Franken could do a better interview? I love him, but frankly Franken himself can be very slow in an interview and stutters occasionally. You only chose men in your analysis of who would be a better interviewer. Gross has had her show interviewing people for decades and you think Michael Moore would be better? Have you even heard him interview anyone other than Heston in his movie? What are his qualifications to do that? As far as John Stewart...he is a comedian. Love him too, but "quick comebacks" are for laughs...not real journalism. Gross gave O'Reilly the mic to make an ass of himself and he did.

The screaming heads on TV have lowered the bar in journalism where it is perfectly acceptable for people to shout over one another so nobody understands anything said by either party. Terry Gross does not do that. Maybe you would like the WWF style on NPR but not me.

[skypilot]

36. I don't have a problem with her gender

Let's not jump to provocative conclusions like that. And maybe the people I cited are not the best examples. The point I was trying to make is that interviews with people like O'Reilly require someone more assertive and I do think that the people I named are more assertive than Gross despite whatever other shortcoming they might have. Anyway, how about Rhandi Rhodes?

[Ripley]

37. But Fresh Air is Terry's show. Why should she let someone

else come in to do the "tough" interviews? That is insulting to her. You don't like her style, well that's your right. But to denigrate her for what sounds like a great interview...I mean hell she got crybaby to hang up on her!

I agree that OReilly should be dealt with forcefully in public...say like how Carville would do it on Crossfire. But why are you attacking Terry?

[skypilot]

39. I didn't say that someone else should do her show.

I don't mean that Franken or Stewart or whoever should replace Gross on her own show. I said that I would prefer to hear them conduct these types of interviews--not necessarily on Fresh Air. You seem determined to draw the conclusion that I have some problem with Terry Gross as a female interviewer. You are wrong. I named the people I did because their names popped into my head-- and I like them.

And I'm not "attacking" Gross. That is a very O'Reilly-ish thing to say.

[Old and In the Way]

134. I understand your point skypilot......

No slam at Terry, either, I really like her shows. But O'Reilly is a political predator....

Not saying that O'Reilly was his usual full-of-shit self because he was. In fact, I think he wanted to make it confrontational....he was clearly on attack mode. I think he took over the interview and, frankly, I think she was a tad intimidated by his style. She's pretty laid back. I think she was using other people's quotes rather than taking Bill on directly.

Bill got his talking points accross: I'm popular, because I tell the truth, I never spin, but those that catch me spinning are leftie propagandists. I heard that 10 times, I think.

Funniest point was him being stunned to find out he wasn't an Independent, but a registered Republican. Stunned that someone would check his voter registration card, I think is more like it.

[rasputin1952]

40. That is how O'Reilly reacts as well...

whenever asked a question that is not scripted. He just pauses, er's & ah's, and bullies hi way through. He NEVER answers a question tossed in his direction. This is one of the reasons he is so scared of Al Franken. He can't get past the impasse verbally, so he goes into fits of rage. It is the way he learned to deal with things he has no concept of.

[Zero Gravitas]

50. A good interviewer should let the interviewee

do most of the talking. The show is not about her, it is about the guests and the topics discussed. O'Really probably never had to take part in an on-air conversation before and just couldn't take the heat of having to be consistent in his views for more than 5 minutes at a time.

[Jacobin]

31. You got it right

Gross is one of the best interviewers alive today. She asks questions and pointed ones (not a circus atmosphere like talk radio or Faux shout matches). She let's them talk. That's the way a conversation works.

They end up hanging themselves when they are full of it.

Terri Gross is my hero.

The interview, or attempted interview, is a great examply. Freaked Oh'Really completely out and he ran away shouting.

What a fuckup Oh'Really is

[The_Gopher]

48. "here's some rope, have at it".....o'really is totally unstable

he's pissed because he's being exposed as the fraud and hack that he is, and there's nothing he can do about it except boast about his book sales and his tv ratings and getting bushies on his show.

and so now he's a kennedy???

insane.

[coldwatercyn]

81. O'Reilly's success

is due to the fact that he only has "straw men" on his show to make him look good. Like Rush, Bill's star will soon fade.

[Ignis]

70. She's not always as smooth as I'd like.

But she's excellent at creating a relaxed environment and allowing her guest (the interviewee) enough time to ramble on and hopefully reveal some bits that aren't in the stock script. Even when the O'Reilly interview started to wander a bit, I enjoyed the fact that she (almost) got him to calm down from his initial defensiveness and talk about his family, his father, etc.

It's very humanising, and I think it stands in wonderful contrast to the style of 'journalism' practiced by the man she was interviewing. Of course, I'd still love to put O'Reilly in the hotseat and force him to answer questions from Carville or Franken, but that's just not in the FAUX script.

[1gobluedem]

145. And Terry has actually WON a Peabody

...unlike the liar, O'Reilly, Terry Gross and Fresh Air have won a Peabody -- see excerpt from her bio:

"Fresh Air has received a number of awards, including the prestigious Peabody Award in 1994 for its “probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insight.” "

[Robb]

78. My wife calls that her "library voice"

When people come into her office to yell at her, she speaks very quietly and calmly back. Usually shames people into behaving.

[bpilgrim]

62. It is her audience whom she sets her tone for

rightly so.

peace

[bloom]

114. I thought she was great

It wasn't like he was provoked - he was perfectly capable of being a pompous idiot all by himself.

[gulliver]

28. Franken destroyed O'Reilly

O'Reilly's image is bleeding out. He'll never be the same. He's over and he knows it.

[MarkTwain]

33. Terry Gross. Hang Up On Terry Gross?

... You've just got to be kidding, Bill.

Terry is by far one of the class acts of the media zoo. She is thorough, informed, and erudite - while at the same time being probably one of the sweetest and most non-offensive people in the profession today.

Her backgroud and experience is the mountain to O'Reilly's mole hill. As a journalist, Bill O'Reilly could not even but hope to lick the mud off her boots.

Damn. What an ass. You're one hell of a very low person, in general, much less professionally, when you hang up on Terry Gross.

Can he crawl much further into the gutter after this? Inquiring minds want to know, Bill.

[thom1102]

38. Waaahhh! Big bad Terri Gross was too hard on me!

(Actual text of email sent by me to O'[e-mail])

Grow up, you big pussy.

Terri's interview gave you the opportunity to address consistent and appropriate criticisms leveled at you, and to defend yourself in front of some of your harshest critics, and you pussied out. I guess we know what a bully you really are when a 5' something meek as a mouse radio talk show host can cause you to throw a temper tantrum on the scale of an ADHD 5 year old, just by asking you to defend your abysmal record on the truth.

By the way, you mispoke about the Peabody being a Polk, and that is on the record. Deal with it. Moron!
Thom

[Ignis]

71. What weaseling!

If I was hearing O'Reilly correctly, he basically claimed that Gross was an accessory to libel by allowing Franken's claims to go unquestioned, right? And then he went on to refute Franken's statement that O'Reilly had claimed to win a Peabody.

But his only defenses for this line of reasoning are that 1) he 'misspoke' rather than lied (*snort*), and 2) he has since corrected his earlier 'error' on his show. Er...how does this invalidate Franken's statement? How does it make it fallacious?

PS: I don't watch 'The Factor', so I'm not part of the 'in-crowd' to whom O'Reilly is preaching. But does he really use the word 'fallacious' that often when speaking to a FAUX audience?

[Athletic Grrl]

75. Now the stupid fuck

is slamming NPR on his show. What a prick.

Boo-freaking-hoo, O'Lielly.

[Ignis]

80. I'll give you 3-to-1 odds

...that he starts up some sort of campaign to take public funding of any sort away from NPR. 'After all', the story will go, 'why should our tax money go to a partisan political organisation?'

Think back to the anti-NEA/PBS funding rants of the Reagan Era Republicans, combine that with O'Reilly's psychological problems (paranoid schizo, delusions of self-importance, etc.), mix it up with the fact that he's now been the 'target' of NPR, and I think the odds are pretty good that he'll organise a boycott at least.

[Jacobin]

87. He already has, so the bet doesn't count

He goes off on Bill Moyers like there's no tomorrow and rants about public funding for NPR.

:-)

[Ignis]

98. Well, pooh.

There goes my one chance to make money in the current Shrub economy. Damn your meddling! ;)

[Jacobin]

103. I won't tell

Go for it!!

:-)

[Wickerman]

129. Never heard his show, never glanced at one of his books

but knew that he would be calling for boycotts and defunding of NPR. He and his ilk have been trying to kill that voice for well over a decade and they have certainly tamed it. Pitiful.

NPR is still the best overall show in town, but only because there is nothing that stateside with that scope of coverage. Some shows are great, some suck and are so middle of the road they wind up offering nothing.

Gross is fantastic. Her interviews of musicians are wonderful. I did hear her Simmons interview. He was pig, she handled him well, letting him hang himself, but then didn't back down, told him what a pathetic human he was. That interview will be taught in jounarlism school for years to come.

Sounds like she handled O(not) 'Really the same. Good on her.

[Athletic Grrl]

88. HA!

That was the EXACT gist of his screed. "Why does my tax money have to pay for NPR's leftist agenda?" lather, rinse, repeat....

Sod off Billy.

(clarity edit)

[tishaLA]

94. Well, I of course pay attention to him

because, after all, he's looking out for me, right? :)

he is such a fuckwad

[Old and In the Way]

136. I agree....he most definitely inferred that in the interview.

Frankly, I think he planned to be "outraged"....he clearly knows the demographics of her show and he knows it is not the Factor.....I think he wanted to have a confrontation and I do think he'll use this to feed his agenda. Of course, he wants the truth to be what he says it is...much easy if there is no one out there to challenge is worldview.

[TOhioLiberal]

140. I'll bet he does!

<snip>
PS: I don't watch 'The Factor', so I'm not part of the 'in-crowd' to whom O'Reilly is preaching. But does he really use the word 'fallacious' that often when speaking to a FAUX audience?

I'll bet he does, and every time he uses it his FAUX audience probably grabs a dictionary to figure out what it means!

Peace!
Trekkerlass

[maha]

Does anyone have an email address for O'Reilly?

I want everyone in North America to let him know what a pathetic little pussy wuss he is.

[DrBB]

42. Terry's last line is the best part

After O'Reilly's screed, ranting about how unfair she is and how he's disgustipated with her and blah blah blah, he winds up with "...and that's it. End of interview."

To which she replied:

"What, you mean you're not even going to give me a chance to ask a follow up?" (implying: "you coward").

Silence--he's gone.

Gross: "Well, I guess that anwers that question."

[piece sine]

43. no matter HOW bad, how awful or how frustrating...

It is incredibly bad form and entirely unprofessional for Bill O'Reilly to have hung-up on her. From a media relations standpoint, it speaks volumes about his unreliablity and instability as a guest.

DUers, when you find yourself in the media' glare - -even if you can stand who is interviewing you -- NEVER, NEVER, NEVER pull an O'Reilly and hang-up or walk-off the set. It's the kiss of death for you are a spokesperson and/or an advocate.

[Jacobin]

46. Oh'Really had an opportunity to

inform the "great unwashed" in librul Murka, and he couldn't do it.

He has screwed himself on so many fronts, he meets his "arguments" coming and going and is a complete and abject fool. A bright propagandist could have turned it to his advantage. Oh'Really is not bright. He's a screaming bully of an idiot and his colors are showing

I hope Faux signs him up for another ten year contract. He is perfect for them and exposes Faux as a shill for stupidity for all but the most deluded

[Zero Gravitas]

45. LOL what a PANSY

Just heard the interview.. OMG what a little Pansy O'Really is.

Everything is about HIM yet he can't take it when Terri holds up a mirror to his own pompous celf-centeredness. Too funny. O'Really is such a looser.

[indigo32]

47. I love it

he continues to maintain the Peabody incendent never happened then says he retracted it on his show twice. Acts like he wasn't aware what party he registered for...and totally misses his own hypocracy when talking about character defamation. Christ his ego is huge.
and BTW Bill, if you can't handle scrutiny on you and your character then you should get out of the spotlight ya big baby.

[Faygo Kid]

49. His ego = his downfall

What a turd. Seen his type before. Wants to be Rush; hasn't gotten there. Another right-winger who should take his millions, disappear, and work on his golf game.

[MissouriTeacher]

51. How could anyone take him seriously after that...

he just came totally unravelled at the end, like some paranoid freak.

Fortunately for him I doubt many of his devotees are fans of Fresh Air.

[Greyskye]

52. Dang

The last couple minutes of that interview are classic. What a whiner! (Or for those across the big pond: What a whinger!" :puke:

[FlashHarry]

53. Kick!

:kick:

[muriel_volestrangler]

54. Anyone a qualified psychiatrist?

O'Reilly seems a little paranoid to me - but it's not my area. But I'd hate to think we let a man give a cry for help and no-one paid attention.

[Ignis]

68. Only from the Armchair University...

But he's definitely suffering.

He's a decent demagogue, so one can almost believe his 'I'm fighting for the common man' routine. Until, that is, someone mentions Al Franken. Then he's ranting about how the entire system is out to get him, and how anyone who dares defend Franken's right (under the 1st Ammendment) to write satire must be intellectually dishonest, a paid DLC shill, sleeping with Franken's sister, or all of the above.

He's definitely a skilled marketer, though. Did you hear how many times he said the title of his new book? He gets a Murdoch biscuit for that.

[Junkdrawer]

112. All of Gozer's minions are paranoid...

It's who they are.

[dpbrown]

56. Just finished listening to the interview and he sounds unbalanced

And I have to say that O'Reilly really came off as unbalanced. He just kept repeating versions of the same line: "I tell you the truth, and I told you the truth, and if you don't like the truth then you're defaming me."

I've got to say, in seven years this guy has apparently only learned to sew the argument tight around that basic core idea.

1. This is the truth (spins some lie, calls someone a name, etc.)

2. Reaffirms for his listeners that what he just told them was the "truth."

3. Insults anyone who would disagree, and then dares you to be insulted.

Same thing, over and over.

But when he tried that with Terry Gross, who was, after all, conducting an interview, consisting of asking questions, one of which might at any time include, "Why do you believe that?", his system failed, and at that point he reminded me of the robot on "Lost in Space" that would start going all weird about "Danger, Danger" and then he just lost it and hung up.

Terry summed it up exactly right, just after he hung up, too.

She said something like, "so you've just got to give a speech and get the last word and then hang up" or something, and that's EXACTLY what he was doing.

I guess there are just a lot of people who think it's too tedious or boring to think for themselves who feel like it's worthwhile to be lectured by a pompous loudmouth like this guy, and who buy his bullshit.

Too bad. This guy is deluded.

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[coldwatercyn]

92. O'Reilly

Fair and Unbalanced....nah...forget the fair part.

[dpbrown]

122. LOL

Exactly...

Unfair and Unbalanced

[ComerPerro]

58. Jesus, O'Reiley needs to get his ego in check

This is crazy.

[Kool Kitty]

135. He needs to get his ego in check, absolutely.

And he needs his meds adjusted, too, by the sound of it. I never saw such a big cry-baby. ;(

[blondeatlast]

59. Franken tomorrow--I can't wait; especially after this!

Gross did a top-notch job; she let O'Reilly hang himself. I burst out laughing in the car when he told her he has never interrupted or told people to "shut up," except as a joke.

I honestly think O'Reilly thought he could expand his audience with this interview; I really do. What a crock.

[ComerPerro]

60. Everyone needs to hear this

This is why we can't reach the reich wing.

They lie so often that its perfectly reasonably and national to them. And when you challenge them, they accuse you of lying to defame them.

OReilley is a perfect example of a pompous, asshole conservative. If you point out their lies and ignorance, then they try to insult your intelligence.

I say fuck every one of them, they all can (and will) go to hell.

I can't belive the way this pompous jackass operates.

But he is like every hardcore conservative jerkoff I have ever met.

Self-satisfied, hate anyone who disagrees with them.

I have an "uncle" just like O'Reilley.

[Qutzupalotl]

61. What Terry Gross should've said

when Bill asked her if she was just as hard on Al Franken:

"Um...he's a humorist. You're a journalist. I hold journalists to a higher standard."

Or maybe:

"I couldn't find a lot of controversial reviews about him. People generally agree that he's just funny."


On edit: These are just to shut him up for a minute instead of letting him go off on his 'Oh, now he's a satirist?' rant. What she ended the interview with was pretty good too.
:)

[wuushew]

63. O'reilly claims Publisher's weekly gives impartial reviews of books

I just went over there and found no review section? More lies?

Also someone should post a topic on what Bill's definition of "spin". is

[blondeatlast]

82. They only have reviews in the print edition.

They are not terribly impartial since they are geared to teh retail book market. The library mags are much more critical; heree's the complete text of the book announcement by Library Journal, May 2003 #1:

O'Reilly stays mad.

What can I say? the reviews in LJ are written by librarians . . .

[maha]

84. PW's reviews are in the "forecasts" section

I'm very familiar with PW, and about half of its content is reviews. I was just over there, also, but couldn't find a review of O'reilly's book. I can't tell if this is because the review isn't on the web or whether it's in a "subscriber only" content section. PW's web site was never very user-friendly.

[Ignis]

64. Now that was amusing stuff.

My favourite part of that interview--other than the standard O'Reilly paranoid delusions that 'THEY' are out to 'get' him via defamation--is when Mr. Bill shows precisely how dualistic his worldview and mindset really is. After browbeating Terry into admitting that she was less 'hard' on Franken during their interview of his humourous book, he immediately turns this qualitative scale into pure absolutes: Franken was given a 'free pass' while O'Reilly gets 'set up' and 'attacked', etc.

I'm constantly amazed by the fact that conservatives so often see the world in such a simplistic way. If it's not White, then by god it must be Black! Grey-scale spectrums and relative scales are for traitors, commies, and pinkos, right?

*sigh*

[scarlet_owl]

65. Son of a Bitch!

My NPR station has cancelled Fresh Air! Dammit. I sure do miss it.

[bpilgrim]

66. Listen to Jeremy Glick 'interview' with O'Really ;-) GFP MP3

http://globalfreepress.com/mp3/oReally :evilgrin:

psst... pass the word ;->

peace

[eleny]

67. His weakness is his temper

If Terry interviewed Rush or Hannity with these type of questions, I believe that they would never have left in a huff. Those loney tunes would have siezed the opportunity to pound their political/social message into Terry.

But B.O.can't control his anger, which would afford him the control of any interview. Terry asked him open ended questions. It was not until the end of the interview did she ask any follow ups of a debating nature. But B.O was tense from the start. He was like a coiled spring.

Heck, I know what these guys are like! I'm a native NYer, myself. Guys like B.O. are itching for a fight - even if he doesn't realize it. He's made a recent career making most issues come back to him and his being right about them. So, for him and his personality not to be the central topic of an interview is ludicrous.

He'll be dangerous if he gets a clue.

[bpilgrim]

72. cognative dissonance on display

i feel sorry for him a little...

i could tell him a story or more about 'corporal punishment' :argh:

he don't know nuthin about commin from the 'streets'

he is a weak and shallow minded. he will suffer from his own inabillity to deal with complexity and it will eat him up inside, imho.

peace

[ComerPerro]

77. Bpilgrim

I just, after almost a year, now found out what your name means!

[bpilgrim]

90. ComerPerro

i still don't know what your's means =)

:hi:

peace

[ComerPerro]

99. Haha

I am assuming your name is a Slaughterhouse 5 reference....

I could tell you what my name literally means, but that wouldn't tell you what it "means".
Literally translated, its "to eat dog".
And that is all for now.

[bpilgrim]

102. thats right

kurt v. is truely an american hero and one of my favorite writers.

:hi:

thanks for the translation... i now imagine you eating freeper arguments and spitting them out ;->

peace

[eleny]

83. the reason i don't feel for him - edited for spelling

is because he has the bully pulpit 5 times a week on radio and tv.

i do feel that you're right about the insight gained by his uncovering that part of his upbringing. i don't question your insight. i just have a hard time with how damaged folks like bill and rush gain popularity and verbally pound on others with whom they disagree.

hugs

[bpilgrim]

97. true

thats why i said just 'a little' ;->

he wants so hard to believe that he 'pulled him self up by his boot straps' in some overly dramatic sense, that may have started as a sthick but now seems to have gotton the better of him... he is always 'ON' so to speak.

the sad thing is that he certainly has worked hard and 'gone places' he just doesn't know, yet, that that is just part of life and most are striving for the same thing in the sense that 'every road leads to rome'... he should have enjoyed his success but now it is only going to destroy him.

one thing i have learned over the years is that the ones who are trully exceptional are usually the most modest about it.

i hope his melt down helps to wake even MORE folks up :bounce:

:huggs:

peace

[eleny]

111. you sure have nailed it.... thanks n/t

[Ignis]

86. But...but...but...

He was forced to take a Greyhound bus once! I mean, it's amazing that he's still alive! He might even have had to share the bus with...you know...DARKIES!

What a classist wanker.

[Jacobin]

96. Ya know what's funny?

Franken called Oh'Really's mother to get the scoop on his childhood. His mother said they went to florida every summer and they lived in a nice brick house and he went to private schools.

All of which Oh'Really lies about.

Also, loved the part about him "studying the Vietnam war while in England"!!!!!!!!! bwahahahahahah...from afar of course.

[eleny]

104. Yeah, what's with that Vietnam business?

If he was in college, then he was old enough to join up. Hrmph. He likes to say how aggressive he was. The army would have offered him an outlet. Guess he wasn't *that tough.

I went to Catholic elementary and high schools, too. So, between his dad and the Sisters, he couldn't handle the discipline. Well, that's no fault of the rest of us, including Franken and Gross. Bill needs to stop visualizing everyone wearing nuns habits.

[1gobluedem]

146. But when Bill Clinton went to England during Vietnam

....he was an unpatriotic draft-dodger? This GOP double standard makes me SO ill. Just like Clinton is a rapist but Ah-nold is just a playful guy.

[blondeatlast]

107. That was wretched . . .the only reason he was anti-Vietnam was

that that was how popular opinion was overwhemingly going.

FORKING, CHICKEN-HAWK, SHIT LIAR!

[Ignis]

117. Which makes one wonder

...if his other 'liberal' opinions (because he's an Independent, of course, of course) were also the result of a focus group or Gallup poll.

[Jacobin]

121. He's lying again (surprise)

Claims he's against the death penalty, but you should have heard him when the california guy got caught for raping and killing the little girl.

He wanted the guy fried.

[Ignis]

123. Here now!

Mr. O'Reilly's just Looking Out For The Little Guy(tm) by studying each case in a Fair and Balanced(tm) way and judging it on its own merits.

I swear, when the man speaks, I hear the capital letters.

[bpilgrim]

100. lol

:toast:

peace

[blondeatlast]

73. Big kick for the freep trolls!

:kick:

Pathetic, lying, whining ass-whimp knocked for a loop by a 5 foot, 100 lb. woman with a brain and a gift for interviewing.

FREEP TROLLS! YOUR MAIN MAN #2 IS A CHICKENSHIT AND MM #1 IS A ADDICTED TO PAINKILLERS!

YEAH, YOU'RE TOUGH ALL RIGHT; CAN'T HOLD YOPUR OWN AGAINST THE "SMART KIDS!"

[eleny]

74. wee-wee-wee

going after franken and gross is like going after barney and tinkerbell.

[QC]

76. KICK!

:kick:

[tishaLA]

79. Billy Boi just talked about it on his show!

typical fucking blather....Terry Gross is mean and she is terribly biased! Oh congressman, what can I do to stop this because, I mean...we HAVE SUCH HIGH DEFICITS (which are not of course the fault of * or anyone associated with him) and it's just hurtful and nasty and slanderous! Really! Slanderous!

[Jacobin]

85. I just listened to the whole thing on the website.

It is an absolute classic. Oh'Really unmasked for the moronic idiot he is by just letting him ramble, rant, go off the deepend, accuse everyone else of what he does, and generally act like a silly, spoiled, paranoid man of extremely limited intellect.

I'm in love with Terri. She deftly let him hang himself.

[blondeatlast]

91. She knew EXACTLY how to handle him; a little slack, then,

whoosh.

This is worth playing for all it's worth: a brainy, polite woman on a "leftie" talk radio show let him hang himself!

Ya can't make this stuff up, ya just can't!

[tishaLA]

93. amusingly, he acted like he got the best of her

on his show tonight. what a nasty bad woman to ask him hard evil questions! poor billy had to hang up, take his toys, and go home.

[gristy]

89. It's on tonight on Minnesota Public Radio 91.1 at 8pm

[Junkdrawer]

95. The more he lectured her, the more he realized he was being...

an ass, so the madder he became, so the more he lectured her.

And Terri, very wisely, stood back and when he was finished, said: "Here, have some more rope."

[kodi]

105. too funny, last year o'reilly was bitching about not getting interviews.

now i know what to send bill for christmas....a mirror, so he can love himself even more.

[bloom]

106. I thought he really hung himself

He was trying to make out how bad NPR is and all that.

He sounded like such a jerk who was unable to listen to anyone.

[Woodstock]

108. And Terry Gross is so nice!

What a rude cretin O'Really is.

[Renew Deal]

110. O'reilly is a whining bitch.

I wonder if he is lurking here like Limpballs. Anyway, he can't take any criticism. :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[blondeatlast]

115. Perhaps Jeff "Rush" Christie could be next.

She can "surgically" rip him a new one to protect his anal cysts when he goes to the fed!

[Junkdrawer]

116. Rush would NEVER do Terri Gross...

hell, he couldn't handle Katie Couric. He still talks about the Today show visit as an ambush to this day. And now, with the drugs...

[blondeatlast]

120. I've frequently been surprised at Katie Couric--

she can be very tough at times. I saw her take on Falwell and kick his ass to the gutter once.

[Cat Atomic]

119. So funny...

I just had to hear this again.

So O'Reilly rants about the nasty, mean-spirited interviewer from NPR who put him on the spot by asking a few pointed questions.

Give him 10 minutes and he'll be cutting someone's mic, telling them to shut-up, and shouting that they're views are irrelevant because they're just a wacko.

He's an amazing example of the worst aspects of humanity; pride, aggression, intolerance, hypocrisy, and greed. Bill might serve some purpose at least, by helping us recognize those parts of ourselves and never let them take charge.

[Jacobin]

124. Big Kick in the Butt for Oh'Really's comeuppance!!!

[eleny]

125. Mike Malloy is dissecting the interview!

http://www.ieamericaradio.com/ieamerica.ram

[eleny]

130. "gross has forgotten as much as b.o. will ever know"

you gotta love malloy!

[Manix]

126. ...Mr Shut Up showing his lowbrow debating skills again.....

..he should go back to that gossip rag he came from.

[salmonhorse]

127. Yeah, I heard it today...

What a whiney, insufferable fucking prick he his. It is a source of amazement to me that he can even shave his fucking demographcially 'pretty' face in the mirror...

What..a..fuck..ing...pin-head this Wild Bill O'Really O'Reilly ~

But then she read the piece from People anyway and it made more than complete sense. Very characteristic shall we say of the entire POXnews matrix.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

128. Thank you!

That was P{riceless. Bill really made an ass out of himself.

[devilgrrl]

132. What a lunatic...

A case study in projection if there ever was one. Unfucking believable.

[lovedems]

133. Full Moon tonight! What are the chances he is turning into a werewolf?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

137. It has happened!

(loved your suggestion!)

[BigBigBear]

138. I heard it

Priceless. This from a guy who's been cutting off guests and telling them to shut up for years.

[eleny]

139. aw jeez...

it just occurred to me. we didn't hear the famous shut ups, today. what a beat!

[Jacobin]

141. Kick for the morning folks

:kick:

[TrueMajority]

142. Does anyone know how to get O'Reilly Factor transcripts?

Getting Factor transcripts: Is it a pay through the nose thing? Do I have to buy them through Fox News or something (I wouldn't want to support them financially if it wasn't absolutely necessary). Is there any service that colelcts them that doesn't charge? Any information would be greatly appreciated! I'm looking for a transcript of yesterday's show where he talks about Terry Gross, so I can show what an ass and a liar he really is. Thanks!

[spanone]

143. perfect, what an asshole

[maha]

144. Read email to O'Reilly about his NPR temper tantrum.

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