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Posted on 08/02/2007 6:36:11 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
O'Reilly Factor Partial Transcript of the interview with Kristinn on 7-31-07
Transcript From the July 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
"From the July 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: In the "Impact" segment tonight, as we've been reporting, the hate website Daily Kos has intimidated the Democratic presidential candidates with the exception of Senator Biden. So they are speaking at the Kos convention this coming weekend. There's no question that the most vile stuff imaginable is posted on this hate site and others like it.
Now, some on the left justify the garbage by pointing to right-wing websites like FreeRepublic.com, whose postings can get nasty as well.
With us now in the studio -- former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Jr., now a Fox News analyst, and from Washington, Kristinn Taylor, a spokesperson for the Free Republic.
Mr. Taylor, I have to say, you know, we pulled a bunch of stuff off your website today and it's pretty vile; it's pretty awful. You've got some pretty sick people posting -- a couple of examples: "Homosexuals are dogs." "I hate blacks." "Hillary Clinton should be assassinated." "A stray bullet should kill her" -- and on and on and on.
TAYLOR: Well, Bill, all those things --
O'REILLY: You know, this is all on your website today.
TAYLOR: Well, all those things that you said violate our posting guidelines, and if we find them, we will remove them. That's not what we're about.
O'REILLY: What do you mean, if we find them?
TAYLOR: If we find them. We --
O'REILLY: This is what I don't understand. I found them, and it wasn't hard. And I went back and we did a trace just on me and some of the stuff that has been posted about me on your website, and it's just unbelievable. But when you say, "if we find them," shouldn't there be somebody there supervising this website?
TAYLOR: We do have volunteer moderators.
O'REILLY: Volunteer.
TAYLOR: However, now, there are thousands upon thousands of comments that are posted to the site every day. We don't exercise prior restraint. We rely on the good sense of people that are posting there, and 99 percent of them are good people who stay within our guidelines.
O'REILLY: OK.
TAYLOR: You also have people that come on the site deliberately to post things to make the site look bad.
O'REILLY: That's right.
TAYLOR: We used to have people that would post hardcore pornography pictures.
O'REILLY: But here -- let me give you -- let me give you some advice. That's the same argument that the left-wing Nazi hate sites make -- that it's not really them; it's others. Don't you have an obligation to the country to have not volunteers, but to have a professional person sit there and enforce some kind of standards for your website?
TAYLOR: It costs money, Bill. It costs money. Free Republic operates on donations.
O'REILLY: You got a lot people -- you know what? I bet you if you asked for donations for that, you would be able -- because as you said, most people are good people who come in. They would give you money so that they wouldn't have to be besmirched by these sick people. And they're sick.
But you're right, a lot of it's planted. And a lot of it is just crazy people who are surfing. But I believe you have an obligation, Mr. Taylor, to clean this thing up. It doesn't do you any good, because that's what they seize on.
TAYLOR: We do. I agree with you, Bill, and whenever we find it -- if I find it -- I report it to our moderators and they take care of it.
O'REILLY: All right. Well, you should do a better job because just today this is vile, hateful stuff.
Now, Harold Ford Jr. was the subject of some of this when you ran the last time around. But I have to say, and this is absolutely my opinion, I looked at Free Republic and I looked at Daily Kos, and Daily Kos is far worse. They revel in this kind of stuff.
The cartoon last night we showed of President Bush and Joseph Lieberman -- way beyond anything of free speech. It's hate. It's hate.
Now, you as an African-American, and you as somebody who's been subjected to hate, I mean, why aren't the Democrats distancing themselves from this?
FORD: Well, let me be clear. I'm not here to represent Daily Kos or Free Republic. I'm a believer and a supporter of free speech.
Nonetheless, there comes a time in political debate when one would hope it would be elevated to discussing the big, big issues. I'm the chair of a group called the Democratic Leadership Council. We've been subjected to untrue and awful and malicious things by a number of different websites.
We just continue to move forward and trek ahead. I do think that there's a lot to be said for providing resources and people who support these sites, the good people who may believe in -- what I don't understand is what Free Republic, frankly, believes in, because if you feel comfortable enough to post "I hate blacks" on a website -- you don't find people posting that on a Fox News website. So, there must --
O'REILLY: No, you don't, because we have standards. And that's what I told Mr. Taylor, that he's got to be more vigilant and hire somebody professionally to regulate it......"
What O'Reilly said relative to the links provided by his producer are not mere mischaracterizations, they are out and out lies. Nothing in the bold was an accurate description of the posts here.
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Links provided by O'Reilly Factor Producer
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O'Reilly Factor Provides Free Republic Offending Comments Links
I received an e-mail today from the Fox News producer who booked me for the O'Reilly Factor last night. The links have been forwarded to Jim Robinson for review.
Jim asked me to start a thread with the links so that Freepers, and everyone else, could see for themselves what the fuss is about.
The Hillary Clinton stray bullet assassination comment was a very bad joke comment that someone posted two days ago. It was flagged last night after the O'Reilly Factor broadcast and was removed by a moderator. It is available for the time being in Google cache:
To: Virginia Ridgerunner I like my scenario better:
After eight years of the economy faltering, interest rates are 19%, 900,000 people are dead in Iraq since we left, taxes have gone up by 60% and Chile, Bolivia and Columbia are now Communist regimes, a stray bullet at a NARAL rally catches President Clinton and kills her.
As they take away Cindy Sheehan she screams why did she have to remove the troops? We were winning.
The next day the dow goes up 2000 points and closes at 2150.
4 posted on 07/30/2007 11:00:43 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party: "Everyone is equal, but some are more equal then others.")
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Don't even bother trying to defend that one. Assassination jokes have no place on Free Republic. Yes, Cindy Sheehan has written of her fantasizies about killing President Bush--and she's not joking, but that's her problem. We're better than that.
The "homosexuals are dogs" comment is taken out of context. The actual quote is "Homosexuals are the modern day dogs in the manger." That was in reference to an article about proprieters in the U.K. not being allowed to deny hotel accomodations to homosexual couples on account of religious belief.
The American Heritage online dictionary gives this description for the phrase: dog in the manger, NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. dogs in the manger. One who prevents others from enjoying what one has no use for oneself. ETYMOLOGY: From a fable in which a dog prevented an ox from eating hay he did not want himself.
That comment was posted two days ago and has also been removed by the moderators. It is available for now in Google cache.
The "I hate blacks" comment was nowhere to be found in the other threads referenced.
The threads are about crime in the black community, gangsta culture and Jesse Jackson. Two of the threads are in the Smoky Backroom.
Homosexuals+are+the+modern-day+dogs+in+the+manger
Time for the Truth About Black Crime Rates
Jesse Jackson interview about Imus
Sagging Pants May Have Contributed To Fatal Shooting
stray+bullet+at+a+NARAL+rally+catches+President
"He's a grapefruit, but you can use him to light a cigarette."
"He's an end table, but you can pour him into a shot glass."
"He's a large slab of basalt, but he can recite all the lyrics to Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore."
ROFLOL! Hilarious!
We haven’t watched BOR for years.
Besides, with the internet, by the time the evening news shows are on, it’s old news. I like Rush, too, except he really pushes the limit of how many commercials you can squeeze into an hour. He’ll take a 5 minute commercial break, come back for two seconds, long enough to say “we’ll be right back.” 5 more minutes of commercials. I’m always surprised when I turn on his station and it’s actually him, not a commercial, or a guest host. But I still tune in.
Alternate title:
Who’s Looking Out for the Loofah?
I missed that one but I’m not surprised. O’Reilly, with his ratings and money, has been long out of touch with average America. He relies on opinion polls to tell him which way the wind of public sentiment is blowing and jumps on the side of the majority. He is a totally commercial product.
Very good! FR does so much for our troops. I can’t think of a single thing the BOR has done for them, other than get in the way. He claims to support a variety of conservative ideals that most Americans believe in, but while FReepers are carrying out the tasks that uphold those values, the BOR stands around in the way, sharing his mic with anyone he can find to tear down those values. Has he ever sent a care package to the troops? Has he ever stood outside Walter Reed, giving our wounded troops a show of gratitude? Has he ever contributed anything to the values he claims to uphold? FReepers carry out the tasks every day.
Thanks.
Whenever we have a bowl of jellybeans, someone always picks out all the black ones. I guess somebody will always hate them. Others say, "Hey, some of my best jellybeans are black!"
Thank you.
In fairness, I believe O'R probably has contributed to troop-support financially — I can't imagine not. I don't think he is a mean-spirited man. But I think he has gotten so overbusy doing a five-day tv show, a five-day radio show, authoring books and making appearances, that his "business model" is dragging down the quality of his content.
He should think about backing off this format and doing deep investigative specials or some other way to tackle fewer issues, so he really can stay on-target, such as his good work with judicial activism and pedophilia.
LOL, or Who's Loofahing Out For You?
BOR is a total and complete loser. He’s a liar, an exaggerator, and a fraud. He’s a parody of a conservative.
But he'd holler if someone looked at the YouTube video and accused him of saying those very same nasty things in public.
An excellent idea. And we can find out if the world keeps turning when he is off the air for a while.
Hypocrite. Some one needs to mod him.
Bill O’Reilly is a loofah-loving liberal, adulterous husband (if only from “lusting in his heart” and making obscene phone calls), loud-mouthed, ignorant, lecherous (did you ever notice the look he gets on his face when interviewing madames and prostitutes?—I’d swear he was masturbating under his desk), faux-Catholic, filthy-minded (all those programs about adolescent sex) near-pervert.
There...now I feel better.
The boycott of O’Reilly should include all our most repected FReepers absolutely refusing to go on his show to be ambushed.
He reminds me of that slimy creature Phil Donohue who used to invite prolifers on his talk show just to bash and abuse them publicly.
FReepers, don’t take O’R’s bait!
FOX is quickly becoming a caricature of itself.
Immigration is another ‘hot topic’ here on FR. It comes pretty close to hate as does some of the Bush bashing. But I call it ‘strongly dislike’ and not hate. There’s a difference between really hating what someone does and hating THEM.
I’ll say it (because I’m Irish):
O’Reilly is a mick, a harp, a donkey, a tinker. He wouldn’t know a lace curtain if his loofah was wrapped in it!
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