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Full Cut: O'Reilly Loses His Shit For Being Proven Wrong, WOW. (Original Post) Grassy Knoll Mar 2013 OP
He's nuts! SharonAnn Mar 2013 #1
Too Much liberalmike27 Mar 2013 #44
Wow. That guy is nuts. Drunken Irishman Mar 2013 #2
Nuts? Not nuts....insane!!! diverdownjt Mar 2013 #45
I already knew that Billo is full of Mitt, Jamaal510 Mar 2013 #3
The night convalescent homes shut fox news off. N/T Grassy Knoll Mar 2013 #4
Excuse me Midnight Writer Mar 2013 #5
welcome to DU, Midnight Writer Skittles Mar 2013 #11
Wow. nt Mojorabbit Mar 2013 #6
What an asshole Bainbridge Bear Mar 2013 #7
What the fuck was that? I couldn't get to the funny part. I can't believe that passes for news. Ed Suspicious Mar 2013 #8
I agree. fasttense Mar 2013 #36
Makes my blood boil too. JohnnyRingo Mar 2013 #9
and she is Colmes real life SIL MFM008 Mar 2013 #26
I knew that. JohnnyRingo Mar 2013 #47
Let me tell you why this is scary. Cowpunk Mar 2013 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author graham4anything Mar 2013 #29
That's why I am working for a bullet free America. And back the 187 mayors against guns. graham4anything Mar 2013 #32
He was talking about the balkanization of the USSR itself. Cowpunk Mar 2013 #59
that bleach-blonde bobblehead PHD Skittles Mar 2013 #12
Yeah, I wondered about that... KansDem Mar 2013 #25
In Ms. Crowley's case... Plucketeer Mar 2013 #40
He's under a lot of stress. Marr Mar 2013 #13
Thank you, Skittles Midnight Writer Mar 2013 #14
the "mainstream media" Skittles Mar 2013 #16
Excellent! maddiemom Mar 2013 #42
That was shocking, he looked freaking crazy Demo_Chris Mar 2013 #15
freeze frame a few of them Skittles Mar 2013 #17
The hate on his face was remarkable... Ineeda Mar 2013 #37
Yeah - with the sound off... Plucketeer Mar 2013 #41
Hell, he probably believes this segment earned him a Peabody.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #48
Indeed! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #54
I love how Bill-O turns his "apology" to Colmes into excuse to repeat himself 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #18
One of these days someone is going to punch him out. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #19
Was it Bill-o who threatened to punch Al Franken? maddiemom Mar 2013 #43
After the BookTV incident he said, "If this were the old west I would have shot him between,... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #46
No Midnight Writer Mar 2013 #65
still a... Vestigial_Sister Mar 2013 #20
To me, it's an outrage that a "news organization" can get airwaves to LIE to the American loudsue Mar 2013 #21
Totally agree. nt Euphoria Mar 2013 #34
I hope he takes his hypertension medication regularly... Firebrand Gary Mar 2013 #22
Ha. I hope he doesn't. Ineeda Mar 2013 #38
Dude is unhinged. He is a passenger on the SS Foxtanic and realizes more and more that silvershadow Mar 2013 #23
Colmes... davidthegnome Mar 2013 #24
Mr. Colms said, at least ten time, "don't call me a liar". What else could he do? He should have xtraxritical Mar 2013 #50
He wasn't well prepared for one thing. davidthegnome Mar 2013 #53
I understand that Mr. Colms has been a liberal shill (whipping boy) on fox for many years. xtraxritical Mar 2013 #60
This wasn't the first time... KansDem Mar 2013 #27
OMG he's out of his mind! darkangel218 Mar 2013 #28
No, Medicare is not a Program!!!!!! It's a Philosophy!!!! ScottLand Mar 2013 #30
To him probably! since he never had the need to use it, its must not be a program! darkangel218 Mar 2013 #31
FUCK IT!!!! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!! Jamastiene Mar 2013 #33
The man is NOT Stable. Take him off my TV.... zebonaut Mar 2013 #35
He's "red meat" for the rabid, republiCON, conservatard, "we're tough" base. xtraxritical Mar 2013 #52
I have to give Bill O'Reilly credit Snake Plissken Mar 2013 #39
He is a typical bully. I can only hope that some day someone kicks the shlt out of him. olegramps Mar 2013 #49
It's soo nuts that O'Reilly/Faux "news" has any credibility at all... hue Mar 2013 #51
My favorite bill moment jollyreaper2112 Mar 2013 #55
I remember that interview. I wonder how many really understood what Billo was doing. freshwest Mar 2013 #64
I almost couldn't watch that wryter2000 Mar 2013 #56
It's not a "fact" it's propaganda that you say is now a "fact". Life Long Dem Mar 2013 #57
What a waste of space. He ads absolutely nothing to journalism or the nation's conversation. Lint Head Mar 2013 #58
You can't tell me the colour of the sky! LiberalLovinLug Mar 2013 #61
Sadly... rexcat Mar 2013 #62
He seems to want a Jerry Springer type show. Kablooie Mar 2013 #63

diverdownjt

(702 posts)
45. Nuts? Not nuts....insane!!!
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 11:34 AM
Mar 2013

Why does Alan put up with that crap? He was calling him a liar before he get his point out.
He just has Alan on so he has someone to whip....someone to scream at. Hope Stossell
really gave it to him...probably not.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
3. I already knew that Billo is full of Mitt,
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 02:35 AM
Mar 2013

but I was so surprised at the glaring lie he told about Medicare not being a program. I'm normally not the best at detecting the lies they tell, but that was so obvious that even a blind man could see it.

Midnight Writer

(21,769 posts)
5. Excuse me
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 02:47 AM
Mar 2013

Excuse me, but during the campaign 6 months ago, Romney and Ryan both attacked Obama for cutting Medicare by 7.16 billion dollars. Now republicans are attacking him for refusing to cut Medicare. I guess that logic will fly with O'Reilly fans, but why doesn't the "mainstream media" point out the discrepancy? Bill's fans will love this.

 

Bainbridge Bear

(155 posts)
7. What an asshole
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 02:51 AM
Mar 2013

He actually had the gall to claim that Social Security is "draining the Treasury". Bill O'Reilly is bought and paid for corporate scum.

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
8. What the fuck was that? I couldn't get to the funny part. I can't believe that passes for news.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 02:51 AM
Mar 2013

Perhaps the most propagandist pile o'shit I've every seen. Nice job, Goebbels.

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
36. I agree.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 08:44 AM
Mar 2013

It was just stupid. I can't believe anyone watches this crap. No wonder supremes and RepubliCONS are going around saying bat shit crazy things, they are watching crap like this. Wow, I have never heard anything so completely stupid as that. It's just amazing that people tune in.

JohnnyRingo

(18,636 posts)
9. Makes my blood boil too.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 02:56 AM
Mar 2013

Typical Fox News talk show. O'Rielly gives Crowley "the last word" so she can make an anti-Obama monologue uninterrupted, then takes the real last word to dispute everything the progressive guest said.

Tomorrow, if his show stays true to form, he'll talk at length about how wrong Colmes was without him there to defend his points.

The Republicans want Obama to cut SS and Medicare so they can blame it on him for ten years, like they did with Clinton and welfare reform. That's why they keep complaining that he "wont lead" on this. They don't want to do it by themselves. At least not while we're looking.

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
26. and she is Colmes real life SIL
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 05:23 AM
Mar 2013

Sister in law. If I cared anything about my sisters husband I wouldnt have sat there and let BillO go off on him.

JohnnyRingo

(18,636 posts)
47. I knew that.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 11:52 AM
Mar 2013

I wondered later if there's going to be a phone call between the sisters. Either O'Rielly's behavior is inexcusable, or it's all stagecraft. I hate to be so cynical as to believe the latter.

I do think people like Crowley are network actors though, paid to deliver a message despite their real beliefs.

Cowpunk

(719 posts)
10. Let me tell you why this is scary.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 03:01 AM
Mar 2013

The idea that President Obama is intentionally trying to bankrupt or otherwise devastate the United States so that he can forward his political agenda is gaining hold in the mainstream Conservative media. Yesterday I listened to Rush Limbaugh take a call from a lunatic who was convinced that Obama wants to see the U.S. torn apart like the Soviet Union was. Limbaugh did not refute this absurd premeise, though he did question the guy, asking him why Obama would do that. Eventually he got his answer, that the President is just a commie who hates America.

For Limbaugh and his call screener to give air time to someone this nuts without the purpose of refuting his paranoid delusion is extremely irresponsible. I am not a big fan of the President, but he does not deserve the kind of hate that O'Reilly and Limbaugh are channelling directly toward him. It is quickly reaching the level where violence becomes inevitable.

Response to Cowpunk (Reply #10)

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
32. That's why I am working for a bullet free America. And back the 187 mayors against guns.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 06:02 AM
Mar 2013

BTW, most people here love Gorby. Don't you?
Gorby tore the walls down.

Democracy in action while Reagan had no idea about anything.
Reagan started the rightwing talk. And Gave the world Bush.

But Gorby was the one that tore all the walls down.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
12. that bleach-blonde bobblehead PHD
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 03:25 AM
Mar 2013

ACA is socialized medicine? Obama is not a "normal president"? She spent all those years in school just to serve as a repuke ho?

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
25. Yeah, I wondered about that...
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 05:15 AM
Mar 2013
ACA is socialized medicine?

So we have socialized medicine overseen by corporations?

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
37. The hate on his face was remarkable...
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 09:29 AM
Mar 2013

turn the sound off and you can see it clear as day without the distraction of his crazy, lying words. Truly scary rage there.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
18. I love how Bill-O turns his "apology" to Colmes into excuse to repeat himself
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 04:19 AM
Mar 2013

and make a bigger asshat of himself. What a piece of work.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
46. After the BookTV incident he said, "If this were the old west I would have shot him between,...
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 11:52 AM
Mar 2013

....the head. (sic)

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
21. To me, it's an outrage that a "news organization" can get airwaves to LIE to the American
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 04:25 AM
Mar 2013

public. Those are the people's airwaves. This is OUR country. How can they be allowed to lie? The Supreme Court needs to revisit this, and change the way America exercises free speech. They can say what they want on editorial tv, but they shouldn't be allowed to deceive intentionally and represent it as "news".

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
23. Dude is unhinged. He is a passenger on the SS Foxtanic and realizes more and more that
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 05:06 AM
Mar 2013

he will be floating with deck chairs and debris on the open seas of history in the not-to-distant future.

davidthegnome

(2,983 posts)
24. Colmes...
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 05:08 AM
Mar 2013

Really? I mean, this is who he brings in to represent the other side? A guy who almost meekly lets himself be verbally smacked down, talked over and shouted down? Towards the end, when he makes his sorry excuse for an apology, Colmes says (sarcastically, I hope) that he rather enjoyed it, or that it was great or something. You'd think that was sarcasm, but it almost seems like Colmes ENJOYS being a whipping boy for various conservatives, from O'Reilly, to Hannity, to Ann Coulter and other disgusting pieces of human shit.

I do not think O'Reilly honestly lost it. I think he gave the pretense of losing it so he could convince his audience that he was genuinely outraged (and telling the truth) with the Obama administration for doing nothing. The reality is that the administration, and the President, simply aren't doing everything that assholes like O'Reilly want them to do. You know, Colmes, why not mention Chained CPI while you're up there and looking like a mouse trying to convince a cat he's not a midnight snack?

Bah. I'd love to see O'Reilly attempt to debate someone like Howard Dean in such a fashion. Damn, I'd pay to see that.

 

xtraxritical

(3,576 posts)
50. Mr. Colms said, at least ten time, "don't call me a liar". What else could he do? He should have
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 11:55 AM
Mar 2013

just got up and left.

davidthegnome

(2,983 posts)
53. He wasn't well prepared for one thing.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 12:19 PM
Mar 2013

I mean, there are so called "entitlement" programs that the President has been willing to negotiate on. Chained CPI is one example of this. Rather than just sort of throwing out "Medicare", he might have brought that up. I just watch this, imagining how I would react in a similar situation. I'm generally the quiet sort (in real life) and I don't tend to provoke confrontations or become involved in them if I have a choice, but my voice would have (in this instance) been raw from shouting back at that jackass. If he wants to turn his show into a circus, fine, let's go ahead and do that, but let's not sit meekly by while he lies and insults us.

Colmes (or is it Colms?) has a history of sort of sitting quietly by while lies and propaganda are blathered all over television. Occasionally he'll become outraged when a conservative calls him a liar, but this has happened so frequently - and he has been so quietly outraged (almost as if he's apologetic for it) that it just... bugs me. I mean, is he paid to just let them push him around or something? People like O'Reilly are bullies - and as someone who was frequently a victim of bullying throughout my childhood, they infuriate me to no end. I keep hoping that Colmes (Colms, whatever) will shout something back, maybe even knock the idiot out of his chair.

On the other hand, maybe he's just doing his job, playing the relatively spineless democrat who lets angry conservatives shit all over him.

 

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)
31. To him probably! since he never had the need to use it, its must not be a program!
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 05:44 AM
Mar 2013

What a hateful, crazy %

 

zebonaut

(3,688 posts)
35. The man is NOT Stable. Take him off my TV....
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 08:14 AM
Mar 2013

He is scaring children; or any thinking person; for that matter. Unstable. What is he doing on Television Airwaves??

 

xtraxritical

(3,576 posts)
52. He's "red meat" for the rabid, republiCON, conservatard, "we're tough" base.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 12:01 PM
Mar 2013

Macho "morans" sells on fox.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
39. I have to give Bill O'Reilly credit
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 09:48 AM
Mar 2013

he does an excellent job of blocking any facts from getting in the way of the entertainment he's paid to spoon feed the knuckle-draggers Fox News caters to.

jollyreaper2112

(1,941 posts)
55. My favorite bill moment
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 12:35 PM
Mar 2013

When the survivor of a 9-11 victim came on against the Iraq war, back when we were getting the pre-launch hype.

Young man, very well-spoken and, most importantly, calm. It was like zen. He made his points, did not rise to the bait, and O'Reilly underwent violent decomposition. "Cut his mike! On account of respect for your father, a patriot, I won't give you the kind of language you deserve."

Colmes is a contemptible shit-weasel. To my mind Colmes will forever be defined by is Smeagol-like obsequiousness, patting his head and bobbing "I'm a good liberal!" while Hannity looked on in approval. I'd never seen a white man shuck and jive but I have now. And that isn't something I'm making up, that was a real clip.

I would dearly love to see someone punch that drunk in the throat, see him choke on a mixture of tongue and bile.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
64. I remember that interview. I wonder how many really understood what Billo was doing.
Thu Mar 7, 2013, 12:15 AM
Mar 2013

Those rants were followed with Hannity's weekly 2-Minute Hate detailing all of America's Enemies - liberals and anti-war people. We always had anti-war groups, it's America's often ignored moral core. It's been just 1984 for years at Foul Noise. Terrifying to watch it play out daily, so I turned it off. Thom Hartmann put it all together for me here on DU some time back. Hidden in plain sight.

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
56. I almost couldn't watch that
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 12:35 PM
Mar 2013

As much as I wanted to see O'Reilly make an ass of himself, the presence of Monica Crowley makes watching just about immposible. Talk about lying! I swear to God, she's one of the worst.

PhD? In what? Blatant lie-ology?

 

Life Long Dem

(8,582 posts)
57. It's not a "fact" it's propaganda that you say is now a "fact".
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 12:54 PM
Mar 2013

And they always say Obama doesn't have a plan when he does have a plan. Obama tells people to go to his website to check out his plan, but they continue to say he doesn't have a plan.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
61. You can't tell me the colour of the sky!
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 03:12 PM
Mar 2013

"Blue"

- I asked for you tell me ONE colour that indicates the sky colour and you can't do it!

"I said Blue"

- The American people are suffering because you and the President cannot name the colour of the sky!!!

"Blue Blue Blue!"

- There you have it folks. Nobody can give me ONE colour to describe the sky! Can you name one Monica?

-- No Bill, I can't either

- There you go, two against one. I must be right. WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!!

rexcat

(3,622 posts)
62. Sadly...
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 05:03 PM
Mar 2013

I hear same rhetoric and vitriol from my neighbors. I am just waiting for one of them to threaten the President. At that point I will call the Secret Service.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
63. He seems to want a Jerry Springer type show.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 10:01 PM
Mar 2013

Except Springer mediates over the feuding imbeciles, O'Reilly prefers to be one of the feuding imbeciles himself.

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