Regarding Bill O'Reilly's attacks on FR: The best defense is a good offense

Vanity

[Jim Robinson]

Hey, Bill!

You've got a tough job up there in the clouds riding herd over the folks. Apparently you're having problems with the folks speaking out against the America hating left. But that's ok. Just keep your eyes closed, ears plugged and your jaws flapping. Eventually the folks will tune you out and we'll all be better off for it.

FReepers:

We're taking flak so we know we're over the target. Fire at will! Fire for effect!

[samadams2000]

Bingo Jimbo!

[Lancey Howard]

I am DONE with O’Reilly. He can spin his way into oblivion for all I care.

[samtheman]

What is it, Bill? Trying to earn some Cocktail Creds of your own?

[Red Badger]

O’Really is not used to being harangued back...........

[Lucky9teen]

I used to like Bill until he started becoming a liberal more and more...now I can’t stand his “blathering” and “pithy” commentary.

[Spruce]

Does this mean we can post Bill O’Reilly momma jokes?

[skimask]

I have said it before. In two years of lurking and over two years as a member here, I have never seen anything here that even comes close to the hate, profanity, and filth, that permeates sites like Kos or DU.

[trisham]

LOL! I almost feel sorry for him.

[DainBramage]

Go sexually harrass yourself Orielly!!!

[mware]

I take it from your thread that other news agencies have contacted you about FR?????

[Red Badger]

There was a time when I used to watch O’Really and enjoyed his show. Then the morphine wore off...........

[mkjessup]

I think this already said it all:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874938/posts?page=487#487

[puppypusher]

I love when Bill is taking a day off.That’s usually when Michell Malkin fills in and kicks some liberal butt.I Just love it.

[Vision]

"Let me tell you something Robinson. 'I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack -- right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue ... And the authorities should know it."O'Reilly added, "There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge.'"

[lormand]

I noticed not long after Fox News came online that Bill O'Reilly has no fixed view on issues or consistent values. He is all over the charts on issues.

That is why I cringe when someone calls him a "conservative".

[greyfoxx39]

Placemark to a thread that will be worth watching ;O)

[Mr. K]

O’Reilly is just making the same mistake a lot of (bad) journalists make- relying on what he has heard about FR and not his own research.

Of course if he spent the amount of time I have ‘researching’ FR he would not have a show... freeping is my daily habit

[Lexington Green]

To paraphrase Dennis Miller - “You may as well rent a dinghy and go fishing with Fredo, because O’REILLY YOU ARE DEAD TO ME.”

[pogo101]

I already only listen to O’Reilly, if at all, in two brief settings:

1) (radio) between Rush commercials; and
2) when it’s Miller Time (Dennis Miller guest segment).

My wife can’t stand him at ALL.

It’s not to say I don’t often take the same position he does. But unlike him, I hope, I don’t feel this need to take LOOK HOW NOT-LOCKSTEP I AM stances 150 times a year, just to prove I’m not One Of Those Horrible Conservatives.

[Larry Lucido]

Fire at will! Fire for affect!

It's "Fire for effect." Unless you want to be affectionate. :-)

(And who is Will?)

[airborne]

I sent this to BO’R today -
___________________________________________________________
Bill.

I saw the small amount of “hate speech” your staff found on FreeRepublic,including the out of context “dog in the manger” . Why did you fail to clearly point out that the “hate speech” posted regularly on DailyKOS is 100 fold more prevalent than on FreeRepublic?

It appears like you’re spinning the facts to cover your mistake in comparing FreeRepublic to DailyKOS (daily chaos). You should be embarrassed, and I would hope you would point out that while the few incidents found at FreeRepublic are rare and unacceptable to FReepers, the bile that is peddled at DailyKOS is common place and accepted by their management.

I sincerely believe that a public apology to Jim Robinson and the members of FreeRepublic is in order.

Sincerely,
Chris Xxxxxx
aka ‘airborne’

[Jim Robinson]

Oops

[Jean S]

I will watch O’Reilly for the next few shows. If there is no apology to FR I will never watch his show again. Neither will my husband.

[MaestroLC]

I stopped watching BOR quite a while back. Don’t miss him at all.

[TomGuy]

Fire at will!

What did Will do to deserve that?????



lol


I gave up watching O'Reilly years ago when he tried to make himself the moral compass of the world. That was about the time he was nosing in to those 'private' proms in Georgia or somewhere down South.

[Judith Anne]

O’Reilly’s no conservative. He feels a strong need to distance himself from REAL conservatives.

Fine with me.

Dear Mr. O’Reilly:

There was a time I respected you, and thought you really stood up for the truth. Not any more. A hundred thousand people have registered to post on this site, and some jerk takes a few posts out of context, and you believe it?

Where’s that “fair and balanced” no spin popinjay? Out bloviating somewhere?

FReegards,

Judith Anne

[LilAngel]

I’ve been ignoring BOR and his spin for a years. I only watched his show for a few minutes the other day because I wanted to see Kristinn.

[Red Badger]

You should challenge O’Really to spend a day on FR, FReeping under an assumed screen name so no one can identify him. I bet his view would change, but not his personality........................

[crazyhorse691]

Bill jumped out of the gutter so close that I can see his jaundiced eyes...bad move Bill. ‘Nough said

[processing please hold]

I stopped listening to that bloviating peckerwood a long time ago. He loves to hear himself talk.

[doorgunner69]

He really screwed the pooch this time. What conservative audience he retained after defending Dan Rather and attacking the Swift Boat Vets has been shredded by this debacle. I was howling at the TV when he shouted down Kristinn with his lies. He has lost my household, and I used to generally enjoy his "Talking Points Memo".

Too bad he has imploded like this, many were even willing to give him the benefit of the doubt with the sexual harassment thing. I think most are rethinking it and coming to new conclusions about his honesty.

[shield]

Will do, Sir. ;o)

[Mamzelle]

I'll say one good word for Bill--Michelle Malkin. She is terrific when he's not there!

I never liked how he'd get all leering and oily when interviewing an attractive woman, and he was doing that from the getgo.

[Vanbasten]

I’ve been done with the guy. When I watch, it’s because he has good guests like Malkin.

I doubt he’s a freeper. He has no clue if he is comparing the KOS with this site.

[SIDENET]

Right on, Jim!

[Steve Van Doorn]

I take it differently then that.

O’Reilly is taking out insurance incase Clinton wins the election by separating himself with ‘scum like us.’

[Eva]

O’Reilly made disparaging remarks about FreeRepublic during the Enron debacle. At that time, we had a Freeper who had been covering the Enron scandal during the Clinton administration, before there was any scandal in the news. I emailed O’Reilly, who was crying the blues over a lost investment in Enron, and told him that if he had been paying attention to FreeRepublic, he would not have lost money on Enron.

[maica]

Here is the email I sent this morning:

Dear Bill,

Re your segment about the “hate site” Free Republic:

Your willingness to stretch the truth, if not flat out lie, about one of the best discussion boards on the web, has shown the participants of that forum that your observations are not reliable. You have damaged your own credibility with a large number of your “traditional” audience.

I hope you will have further follow-up segments on your further investigation into the true tone of FreeRepublic.

It is not ‘fair and balanced’ to try to make two unequal things equivalent. Children learn that physical fact when they learn how to play on a seesaw in the park. The weights on each side must be equivalent, or one weight must be closer to the fulcrum in order for the weight to be ‘balanced.” You placed the quoted remarks from FreeRepublic on a plane with websites that drip with hate, but you know that the weights are not the same.

[maica]

Baltimore

[shield]

What’s sad about this is BOR had at one time been for the little guy...NO LONGER...too bad...

[I see my hands]

Parity is the essence of PC. It's the biggest lie of all. Once acquiesced to truth can never be found, only death.

Individuals, couples, families, groups, neighborhoods, nations, hemispheres, races, species, gods and even political forums are different. And not just different-equal but different-better or worse.

[A message]

I noticed not long after Fox News came online that Bill O'Reilly has no fixed view on issues or consistent values. He is all over the charts on issues.

I quit watching him a couple years ago.

To me he is lukewarm mush.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"Let me tell you something Robinson. 'I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack -- right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue ... And the authorities should know it."O'Reilly added, "There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge.'"

Bill O'Reilly: the William Rivers Pitt of FOX News.

[april15Bendovr]

Bill O'Reilly has become the Judge Larry Seidlin of judging Internet "Hate"

[Clam Digger]

Is he selling another book, or what?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good one!

[Jet Jaguar]

“There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge.’”

O’Reilly, what say you?

Bump.

[oh8eleven]

That is why I cringe when someone calls him a "conservative".
Far from it. He was FOR the "Shamnesty" bill because (paraphrasing), "It was the best we would ever get."

[Triggerhippie]

Bill O’Rielly is a nappy headed ho...

[proudmilitarymrs]

My only question is this.......

What does MM have to say about BOR’s attacks on FreeRepublic?