O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Needed to Be Said."

[kweerwolf]

Appearing yesterday on a conservative San Francisco radio show, Bill O’Reilly offered his first public comments since being criticized for saying he would approve of an al Qaeda terrorist attack on the California city.

O’Reilly not only stood by his comments, but claimed they “needed to be said”:

"I mean, look, everybody knows what’s going on there. What I said isn’t controversial. What I said needed to be said. I’m sitting here and I’m looking at a city that has absolutely no clue about what the world is. None. You know, if you had been hit on 9/11 instead of New York, believe me, you would not have voted against military recruting. Yet the left-wing, selfish, Land of Oz philosophy that the media and the city politicians have embraced out there is an absolute intellectual disgrace."

Full transcript at link:

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/12/oreilly-responds/

[Arkana]

1. So, if I went up to you, Bill, and decked you in your smug, arrogant face,

could I say "It needed to be done" and get away with it?

[BloodyWilliam]

2. Fuck him.

I live and work in the same damn city, and very few of us are the type of right-wing scum O'Reilly wants to depict us as.

I've lived and worked in San Francisco and New York City. Both are fucking beautiful cities and both deserve respect and love. That this bastard would invite a terrorist attack upon a city simply because of a political decision he disagrees with his absolutely disgusting.

I wouldn't invite Al Qaida to attack Salt Lake City or Colorado Springs, no matter how much I disagree with them.

O'Reilly's not a real New Yorker and not a real American. he is a disgrace.

[TheCowsCameHome]

23. And the maggot he rode in on.

[derby378]

3. O'Reilly, what I'M saying needs to be said

You are nothing but a cheap thug and a traitor. You'd sell out your oldest friends, your wife, and your child to the terrorists at the drop of a hat. By encouraging al-Qaeda to hit SF, you're encouraging them to hit America.

Leave. Now.

[swimboy]

4. Yeah, because maybe nobody had focused on the Coit Tower

as an effective target for terrorism and it needed to be said. :sarcasm:

[tanyev]

5. Ah, the Cheney apology.

"I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it," Cheney told Neil Cavuto of Fox News. The vice president said those who heard the putdown agreed with him. "I think that a lot of my colleagues felt that what I had said badly needed to be said, that it was long overdue."

[Beaverhausen]

6. And the city most hard hit by 9/11- voted for Kerry in the last election

yo O'Reilly...you are a fucking asshole.

"What I said needed to be said. I’m sitting here and I’m looking at a city that has absolutely no clue about what the world is. None. You know, if you had been hit on 9/11 instead of New York, believe me, you would not have voted against military recruting."

They do know...as pointed out in the Flight 93 thread...2 of those planes were on the way to SF.

BO - STFU!!!

[derby378]

10. "Oh, for another time, a distant field..."

And there a mortal warrior's lonely grave
But duty charges me remain until
The end the last battle of the last war
Until that morrow render unto me
That which is mine my stipend well deserved
The fairest flower of your progeny
Your sons, your daughters, your hopes and your dreams
The cruel consequence of your conceit

- Steve Earle

[NoPasaran]

7. Something else that needs to be said

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

It seems to me that advocating an attack on one of our cities on television just might fit that definition.

[BloodyWilliam]

8. New Yorkers aren't the right-wing cowards BO says we are.

He doesn't speak for this city. As a person, he doesn't even deserve to live and work here. I personally take the guilty pleasure in flipping off the Newscorp building whenever I'm around Times Square. I'd love to meet him someday and tell him off.

He's probably a limosine conservative that doesn't take the subway, doesn't walk around the city, doesn't do anything but get driven between his big home and his work. Fuck him. He doesn't get New York any more than he gets San Francisco.

[Dr Fate]

9. Coit tower is a monument to FIRE FIGHTERS.

n/t

[derby378]

12. Wait for it...

NOW!!

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[Walt Starr]

11. O'Reilly needs to be tortured in an undisclosed location

What I said needed to be said.

[derby378]

13. Let's keep it psychological, though...

Let's make him watch reruns of Saturday Night Live episodes produced by Jean Doumanian in 1980 until he cracks.

[TahitiNut]

24. For him, I'd recommend Barbra Streisand movies and music.

:evilgrin:

[Bouncy Ball]

14. So then allow me to say what needs to be said:

Bill O'Reilly, you are a traitorous piece of shit scumbag who doesn't deserve to call himself an American. I don't even think you deserve to be called "human." You are SLIME, that's all, SLIME.

You INVITED a terrorist organization to MAKE AN ATTACK ON AN AMERICAN CITY.

I don't give a shit WHAT you think of the politics of people in San Fransisco.

I don't give a shit WHAT you think of whether military recruiters can recruit on campus in San Fransisco.

YOU INVITED A TERRORIST ATTACK ON THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA. There is no excusing that, there is no explaining that, there is no two ways of INTERPRETING that.

San Fransiscans, see, live in AMERICA. Therefore, you INVITED TERRORISTS TO ATTACK AMERICA.

You piece of shit. You motherfucking piece of shit.

And let's say Al-Queda says "ok, thanks for the invitation!" and blows up a bomb or two in San Fransisco, killing innocent Americans? Children, old people, pregnant women, fire fighters, police officers, people working at their jobs and living their lives?

WOULD THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY, YOU SON OF A BITCH? WOULD YOU DANCE A LITTLE DANCE OF JOY BECAUSE AMERICANS WERE KILLED, YOU SUPREME ASSHOLE?

I'm serious, if there were any justice in this country, inviting a terrorist organization to attack an American city ON AIR would be grounds for an immediate knock on the door from some alphabet agencies.

You JUST don't do that. You don't.

[Semi_subversive]

15. Oh, pardon me, Mr. O'Dumbass

In which branch of the service did you serve?? What? You didn't? It's never too late to sign up!

[maxsolomon]

16. california would gladly secede if that would make him happy

oregon & washington would be glad to come along for the ride.

[Deja Q]

17. Bill's lot IS the media. While they are not lefty, his Land of Oz analogy

is spot-on for his lot.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. He is SUCh a &*^%#@^%$&#$ If Al Franken had said that someone needs to

blow up .. i dunno.. Houston, would he have gotten away with it? Could he have actually made the argument that it HAD to be said?

[Bouncy Ball]

19. If Al Franken had invited Al-Queda to attack Houston,

the reich wing would have had him strung up in the nearest tree by day's end.

But O'Terrorist can invite Al-Queda to attack San Fransisco and he just says "I said what needs to be said?"

I say Al-Queda can come get HIS nasty ass.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Ayuh. We need to hold O'Lielly accountable

[July]

34. The only way to really accomplish that is to get people to stop watching

him and listening to him.

Don't support his advertisers, and make sure they know why you won't.

Convince friends and family who listen that he's a perv and a traitor who thinks that some Americans -- only certain ones, mind you -- deserve to be exterminated (gee, doesn't that remind you of a time when a certain blowhard thought some Germans deserved . . . you get my drift). An extremist, beyond the pale. A guy who never served getting in a lather about people who don't want recruiters in their faces. Etc.

[MGKrebs]

20. Jeez, for being the No Spin Zone he sure is spinning.

Friggin spinner.

[TrueMajority.org]

22. "Intellectual Disgrace"?

Oh, O'Reilly. Standing by comments that he doesn't care if Americans are attacked by terrorists is both ridiculous and shows that HE is the disgrace (and lacks any intellect).

At least he is becoming more Pat Robertson-like everyday, which though evil makes it less likely for people to take him seriously.

[newyawker99]

39. Hi TrueMajority.org!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Duncan Grant]

25. What does "left-wing, selfish, Land of Oz philosophy" mean?

:shrug:

Are his arguments always so well constructed?

[Mr_Spock]

33. Translated "Bill O'Pervert blows dead donkeys"

at least that's the way it reads to me :shrug:

[NC_Nurse]

26. He's just trying to stir up some PR for himself

to get his ratings up. He's a complete whore and an idiot.

It needed to be said. ;)

[kweerwolf]

28. Yep ... you're right

It needed to be said and you said it succinctly (and with a lot less expletives than I would have used!). :)

[Tactical Progressive]

27. O'Reilly urges terrorists to target a US city for his own politics?

Guess you've shown us what Republican 'patriotism' really means, Bill. We'll be sure to point that out from now on.

And you'd better start praying today that they don't do what you've asked them to do, because everyone will realize who incited the attack should it happen. Pray hard - it won't be good for you at all, you treasonous right-winger.

[Dr Fate]

31. Specifically, O'Reilly urges terrorists to target a monument to FIREMEN

http://www.grit.com/articles/coit/

[brettdale]

29. What Oreilly said was a Crime

If Michael Moore had of said that about Texas, he would be in Jail by now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. any luck connecting to the FCC I wil log a complaint

[Mr_Spock]

32. At least O'Reiley approves of me punching him in the face now...

I mean, using his philosophy of how we deal with people we disagree with, I am pretty much in my right to go punch him in the face and say "it needed to be done".

I am also in my right to direct criminals to his whereabouts - this is also permitted in the O'Pervert game of "winner take all"

Cool with me bro. Thanks O'Liely!

[pdxmom]

35. But today, he said it was just all satirical, and anyone with an

IQ over 40 would have realized that.

O'Reilly must have taken part in the Bush ethics classes.

[Garbo 2004]

37. That's always Billdo's "out" oh I was just joking. Yeah, tell it to the

FBI. An ordinary citizen without a bully pulpit on Fox "jokes" about encouraging an act of terrorism in the US and the Feds pay them a visit.

Backpeddling already, Billdo? Must be particularly painful with that vibrator up your ass. Bzzzt.

[goodboy]

36. O'Reilly is a TRAITOR and Enemy Combatant! Lock him up at Gitmo with his

Al-Qaeda buddies!

[proud2BlibKansan]

38. I wonder if o'lielly knows how many soldiers from SF have died in Iraq?