Steve Martin suddenly realizes that he is ... Bill O'Reilly. :)
Posted on 07/31/2007 8:35:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I'm not going to call Bill O'Reilly a liar... yet, but... on his TV show today, he read off a laundry list of ridiculous "hate" statements like "I hate blacks," "Hillary should be assassinated" and "homosexuals are dogs" that he said he personally found on Free Republic and claims that they were posted here today. I do not believe that. I doubt that he personally logged on to FR and I doubt he found any such thing posted here today.
Who knows what we may have missed and is buried deep in our archives of millions of posts, but our readers do a pretty good job of alerting us to anything out of bounds that is posted and we pull it. Also, one of our readers found a couple of the quotes he alleges, and if they are the ones O'Reilly is complaining about, he took them way out of context. They were simply quotes in the articles posted not statements posted by FReepers.
As soon as he provides me a list of the alleged posts and their URLs, I'll believe him. If he doesn't... then... well, guess he'll deserve to be known as what he is.
Okay, I’ll say it - - Bill O’Reilly is a liar.
This one will be fun to observe.
I have seen some bazaar posts over the years, but nothing like what O’Reilly’s claims.
I think it is our right to ask him for the URL about the statements that he quoted and he should give it to us.
woah -—
BORE has lost his mind comparing FREEREPUBLIC with DAILYNUTCASES.....Been around Jerry Rivers to much.
I guess he missed the posts that actually took his side against Kos for what one of their posters did to him. Oh, well. Whatever brings him ratings.
Loofahman
O’Reilly’s primary “no spin” interest is O’Reilly. He needed some sort of right-leaning ‘foil’ to play against Kos and used FR for that purpose, to look “balanced” for “the folks”.
He’s taken a Bridge Too Far. Need a legal defense fund for libel, Boss?
I have requested the list of offensive comments with source links from Fox. I’m expecting a response tomorrow.
I think Bill should own all Freepers past and present PUBLIC Apology I doubt it he is p***y little liar
I think Bill should own all Freepers past and present PUBLIC Apology I doubt it he is p***y little liar
Bill O’Reilly’s outrageous and unfounded assertions about Free Republic are disgraceful.
He is a liar!
I have never seen anything like his comments here.
Jim, you should call him, invite him ‘on’ to disclose what it is he has.
If he doesn’t respond, well, the tactic is to ambush him in his driveway and shove a michrophone in his face.
Good for you Jim. My question, would a real racist say they hate “blacks”... or some other term? And would someone say a homosexual “is a dog”? If a poster is really “hateful” or racist”, I cannot imagine them using that nice language, they would have used language like Richards or Isaiah what’s his name.....
Never seen anything of the sort. Call his bluff
This is just me, but I find those types of incidents more indicative of "hatred" than someone calling someone else a "poopy-pants head" on an internet website.
Yup!
We need proof!
Mr. O is way too anxious to make a point, where there’s none to be made, just to appear objective.
We need context and the profiles of the posters.
Hi Jim
I guess Bill O’Reilly went into the future and found all those horrible quotes on FreeRepublic - heck - they’re right there in your post.
Gosh ... BOR must be psychic (or is that psychotic ...oops, another case of hate speech. Wow - it’s hard to avoid this stuff.)
It would be nice if Bill could be interviewed in the same manner as he interviewed the “spokesman” of FreeRepublic - where the gentleman looked like he was out of his league, because of all the accusations being hurled, without giving him a chance to spend 30 minutes before the session, to research the points.
Nope - just a clear case of “smash and grab” by Bill. I never thought much of Bill, but he has definitely lost the tiny amount of credibility that I was willing to extend him.
Mike
I want to see those posts, if they exist, in their full context. He had better provide them to Kristinn as was promised to Kristinn or he is certainly a liar.
Steve Martin suddenly realizes that he is ... Bill O'Reilly. :)
BORe was merely trying a “fair and balanced” hit-n-run. I just saw the interview and was angry that he didn’t allow Kristinn to answer BORe’s ridiculous assertions and mis-statements. BORe should be ashamed of himself - if the “falafel king” is capable of such human fellings, that is!
I couldn’t find *any* quotes like that using Yahoo search.
Unless things are taken COMPLETELY out of context.
I say go ahead and call him on it...
That is this thread’s link.
By the third case of deja vu, I finally caught on.
Jim, those of us who have been here for years know better than to believe what he said tonight. I was channel surfing and recongized Kristin, so I stopped and couldn’t believe what I heard O’Reilly say.
Keep up the good work. You provide us a great service.
Agreed. It is unacceptable just to spout accusations without proof.
The big question is....How can anyone here ever believe anything the guy says? Now if he stretched the truth on this issue what else does he stretch?
“I have requested the list of offensive comments with source links from Fox. I’m expecting a response tomorrow”
Man, am I looking forward to that!
“This is certainly not a “hate” site. What prompted his hit piece on FR?”
Amnesty. Hopefully, everyone understands the difference between a neocon and a conservative. Amnesty was a litmus test. Neocons and conservatives are worse political enemies than liberals.
Remember, DKos and FR were on the same page ONE time...amnesty.
Do you remember Dan Rather?
MM
I gave O’Reilly a lot of passes in the past, but I stopped after his treatment of the Swift Boat Veterans.
remember guys, hes looking out for you.
I watched the “factor” and caught the story, it seemed to me that “someone” cherry picked anything that they could find, and then he stated them on the air with no context.
A far cry from pictures of the President from the kosboyz, and the daily barrage of vitriol over there, if he wishes to be “fair and balanced” he should have provided context as well as when the posts were made, it sounded to me that he tried to say that stuff was posted Today.
***Those phrases were posted today. Here’s the link:***
Good point. Those quotes were posted by Jim when he quoted O’Reilly. So now O’R can say he’s seen them posted by the owner of FR. Or, in other words, O’R doesn’t know how to attribute quotes.
I recorded his show tonight and am going to replay it verrrry slowwwwly so I can document exactly what was said. On a side note, I’ll offer one particular example of comments being made on your forum that would be classified as hateful and unacceptable and yet are allowed to stand. Those who stand up against that sort of hate speech are quickly ganged up on. You just might want to keep an eye on all of those posts that call for killing all Muslims when there are articles posted regarding terrorism, Iraq, etc. I’ve recently experienced that once again, and it is not uncommon.
I've seen very few post like that in my years here and the one's that I have I've never seen last more than 5 minutes without being pulled and the poster banned.
If BOR can't provide links he may go the way of Dan Rather.
And if he can provide links, and it is found the post were only up for a few minutes, it ought to make you wonder how he found them.
I don’t think he personally logged on. I seem to recall him using the “we” word (as in his staff), but wanting his audience to think that he was personally involved in the research.
I’ve never read anyone on FR say they hate blacks.
ORielly is at best an average entertainer. He must think there’s money to be made by attacking FR. He doesn’t like FR because many folks here can’t stand his wishy washy play both sides against the middle style. Yes, I’ll admit I’m one. Guess that’s hate speach too?
But I've only been here for 7 years,guess Bill O'Reilly knows more.
Gosh I hope you take him to court for slander.
I agree, in my short time here I’ve never seen posts like he read this evening.
“if he wishes to be “fair and balanced” he should have provided context as well as when the posts were made, it sounded to me that he tried to say that stuff was posted Today.”
Let’s call his bluff!
I wish O'Reilly would be more careful with the stuff he says, such as the ridiculous statement he made about poor little Sean Hornbeck (the kid that was abducted in Missouri). O'Reilly claimed that Sean liked being tortured by that reprobate that abducted him. O'Reilly should police his owns words first.
Furthermore, if any such statements are posted to FR, they will be removed immediately as soon as he provides the links. O’Reilly attempts to use what might turn out to be one post in a million to paint the entire site as a hate site and our posters as racists. That is disingenuous reporting at best.
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