Posted on 05/28/2009 6:21:24 PM PDT by kristinn
(Note: this report is a paraphrase based on memory, not tape. Any inaccuracies will be corrected down thread by me or other FReepers.)
Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly responded on The Factor tonight to criticisms of his attacks last night on Free Republic and Hot Air by the sites' respective founders, Jim Robinson and Michelle Malkin. The segment last night was on reaction by right and left wing websites on the Judge Sotomayor nomination to the Supreme Court. Free Republic was singled out for an obnoxious comment about Sotomayor being diabetic. Hot Air was singled out for an impolitic strongly worded appeal to block her nomination.
O'Reilly noted Malkin's reaction made on Fox and Friends this morning and Robinson's comments which were posted on Free Republic and e-mailed to The Factor.
O'Reilly agreed that both had points but that the sites should better monitor their comments as he does at his site and that O'Reilly would hold both right and left wing sites accountable.
Hot Air complained that the comment singled out by O'Reilly was labeled a 'blog' entry rather than a comment, thereby leaving the impression it was made by one of the site's official posters.
Jim Robinson's response was boiled down to Jim calling O'Reilly "an elitist gasbag" and noting that offending comments sometimes get past the moderators. O'Reilly did not inform his viewers that Mr. Robinson is a diabetic who has lost family to the disease.
The segment aired about forty minutes into the program tonight.
FR threads one and two.
Video of last night's Factor segment.
Michelle Malkin on Fox and Friends.
I caught it (thanks to blinkotv.com). BOR doesn’t seem to understand the differences in media. He says his show filters out the inappropriate, but that’s his brief, televised show; an internet forum is as different from that as live theater from cinema. It’s completely impractical to edit, manicure and stylize a forum the way they do a television show. Jim Robinson doesn’t confine FR to three or four comments a day, that he reads to his viewers. BOR’s attempt to equate the two was ignorant.
“Saying BOR is an “elitest gasbag” is an observation, not name calling. It happens to be an accurate description of the man.”
So true.
Remember, 99.99999% of instances of hypocrisy are actually only in the mind of the observer.
At the same time we must always keep in mind that Moslems set the penalty for "hypocrites" at DEATH!
Leftwingtards would like to do that but thankfully we are much better armed than they are
‘...I figgered there was a reason she’d do O’Reilly’s show and not Beck’s. ...’
exactly. Beck is ‘putting it to them’ and trying to get to the truth where BOR is still giving everyone ‘the benefit of the doubt.....’
Go Glenn!
again... Buck Fill O’Reilly.
He has lost a viewer for good....
Yup! Beck is very insightful and funny. Push him in BOR’s slot and that rating would rocket. I’m never home in time to watch live but the DVR catches it. Put Bill in Beck’s current slot and that saves time and energy consumption from my DVR.
I may be on to something here.
Bill O’Reilly: Fair to the Left and Mentally Unbalanced:-)
He has the ability to use his show to hurt Free Republic's reputation. He also uses his show to further Obama’s socialist programs. I want to call attention to his motives and to let Fox News know they are losing their core viewers with O’Reilly’s continued support of Obama’s left wing socialist agenda.
‘...If my husband hears BO remark how “brillant” Obama is, like it’s a known fact, the TV is going out the window. ..’
I’ve emailed O’Reilly three times asking him to explain what facts he is using to label Obama as ‘brilliant’. No reply.
Drives me crazy when he does this.....shrewd, shifty, manipulative.....yes; brilliant....where’s the evidence?
Thanks again!!!
I've got to admit, I even like Greta better than O’Reilly. At least she was fair to Sarah Palin.
“The Great One slams BOR:
http://marklevinfan.com/?p=3347";
Thanks so much for putting this site up. I went there, listened to Mark Levin, and can only conclude that he nailed O’Reilly correctly as a “jerk”.....in fact he kept emphasizing the “jerk” part over and over and I liked it more every time he said it.
Isn’t Levin’s unofficial handle here on FR “the great one” or something similar?
Mahalo
Google the ‘F’ word 22 hits on OB’s site
The N word gets 3 hits
A.. Ho.. gets 7 hits
Levin is always called “The Great One” by Sean Hannity for sure! Can’t speak for everyone here, but I agree with Hannity:-)
Of course he wouldn't, because that would make Jim's case that O'Reilly IS an elitist gasbag.
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