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O'Reilly Responds on Air to Jim Robinson and Michelle Malkin
Thursday, May 28, 2009 | Kristinn

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.

Jim Robinson's response

Michelle Malkin on Fox and Friends.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Free Republic; News/Current Events
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Yes, Jim. Tsk, tsk, tsk. You just need to do a better job of moderating. Bill has spoken.
Blimey.


181 posted on 05/28/2009 7:52:36 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: eyedigress; fatima
It is a good question. Is Beck better than O'Reilly?

Beck's strength is that he's new, bright, hip, techno-savvy, fun, unbelievably insightful, and extremely well informed.

O'Reilly's strength is that he's a master of the old media, it's heavy-weights, its forms and style, and it's "gentlemanliness."

The bottom line -- Beck is the future. No way they can give Beck O'Reilly's time slot....but they can give him the 7 PM slot of Shepard "Katrina Histrionics" Smith!

That would enable a legitimate comparison of Beck and BO.

182 posted on 05/28/2009 7:52:42 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: kristinn

O’Reily who?


183 posted on 05/28/2009 7:57:00 PM PDT by 444Flyer ("...But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor."-Esther 3:2b)
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To: mewzilla

BO was so proud that the “smear merchants” at Media Matters gave him kudos for dismissing the ACORN/Census story the other night. As if Media Matters momentarily ceased to be a “vicious hate site” just long enough to pat Bill on the back for a job “well done”.

I wonder how he’d like it if Stormfront started giving him props.


184 posted on 05/28/2009 8:00:47 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Miss Didi
I've never liked the "elite gasbag" and do not watch his "show." To go further, O'Reilly is an egomaniac with no humility and is a bully and a jerk besides.
next?
185 posted on 05/28/2009 8:08:15 PM PDT by vox_freedom (If anyone wanted to know what would happen with a far, far left POTUS, it's here and now...)
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To: kristinn

Don’t dare mess with Bill O’Reilly.
If you make him angry, he’ll just demand phone sex from you!


186 posted on 05/28/2009 8:11:06 PM PDT by cybervyk
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To: mewzilla

He threw softballs at them.


187 posted on 05/28/2009 8:11:09 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: kristinn

“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.”

Mr. O’ Reilly thinks highly of himself doesn’t he.


188 posted on 05/28/2009 8:11:13 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: kristinn
Bill so wants to get his next interview with Zero that he will sell his soul (as exhibited last year). After his talk show ended, and the fact that I don't have cable, I only hear his morning update once in a while in the morning on the radio (thank God). He loves Obama. Bill, you will not get your next interview until the next election. You have allot of ass licking to do.
189 posted on 05/28/2009 8:12:03 PM PDT by mickey finn
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To: jennyjenny

Yes, he was soft on them. Annoyingly so.


190 posted on 05/28/2009 8:12:21 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: xzins
Good analysis. Greta isn't going anywhere (demographic and hollywood style features) and Shep seems to be the weak link in the chain. Trade Shep for Beck and all is better.
191 posted on 05/28/2009 8:16:31 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: cybervyk
“Don’t dare mess with Bill O’Reilly.
If you make him angry, he’ll just demand phone sex from you!”

And he will loofa your ass!

192 posted on 05/28/2009 8:16:36 PM PDT by mickey finn
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To: callisto
O’Reilly agreed that both had points but that the sites should better monitor their comments as he does at his site

As if he personally moderates his site.

Have any of ya’ll been on the FoxNation message board site? Its nothing but bickering between posters with lots of foul and racist language allowed to stand. No one is monitoring that website. Shame on BOR for not criticizing his own network's site before he condemn others.

193 posted on 05/28/2009 8:16:50 PM PDT by MissMelly
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To: FR_addict
He has the ability to use his show to hurt Free Republic's reputation.

He is being the "Supreme Admin Moderator" in his view.

194 posted on 05/28/2009 8:20:31 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: kristinn

BOR,like Bush,went to Harvard Grad. school.


195 posted on 05/28/2009 8:21:10 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (A woman will be the next President; I hope it's Palin instead of HRC.)
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To: kristinn
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.

O'Reilly, there's no comparison between leftists sites and Free Republic in vitriolic comments made. You're comparing an amoeba to a multi-cellular animal for lack of a good analogy, with FR being the one cell amoeba. Do yourself a favor Bill, spend some time reading their comments of what they said about the previous administration then you'll understand.

196 posted on 05/28/2009 8:21:24 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: kristinn

What’s the controversy?
O’Reilly IS an elitist gas-bag... on his good days!


197 posted on 05/28/2009 8:21:48 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: xzins

The worst is Beckel!


198 posted on 05/28/2009 8:23:01 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: Nik Naym
Outstanding. Well said. No matter what BOR's politics are, he is first and foremost a ratings whore.

What do you bet that his show tomorrow night mentions FR and the word "vitriol" in the same breath?

Somebody let me know as I will not be watching. I've had enough of him and his RUDE talking over guests.. especially female ones.

I keep hoping Megyn Kelly will call him out on that crap.

199 posted on 05/28/2009 8:24:56 PM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
The nerve of Geraldo Rivera

This man has some nerve. Here he is, the insane man who threatened to, you know, spit on me, last night, complaining that the “extremes” on both sides of the political debate are guilty of “coarsening the debate.” Thanks to Allahpundit for clipping the unstomach-able clip.

Michelle Malkin quits O'Reilly after nasty three-way

We guess Michelle Malkin won't be coming to town to guest-host for Bill O'Reilly anymore. She just quit forever, after a three-way conservative-pundit street fight that has left our minds reeling a little bit. For those weren't paying attention (we weren't, until now), what happened was this: Crazy attention whore Geraldo Rivera told the Boston Globe that crazy attention whore Malkin was "the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met … It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in N.Y. I’d spit on her if I saw her.” Later, when O'Reilly asked him if he wanted to say something about it on the show because, he said, Malkin's "feelings were hurt." (Saying this he came across, weirdly, as almost grandfatherly and sane.) Rivera did apologized for his "ungentlemanly" and "ungallant" words — "I never spit!" he said — but couldn't help qualifying that he disagreed with everything Malkin said and basically indicating that he thought she was an asshole.

200 posted on 05/28/2009 8:25:40 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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