Need Clarification of what I just heard on O'Reiley

[John Kerry VonErich]

Go ahead and boo hiss me, I haave a roomate that watches him. Something caught my ear, but Bill O'Reiley just gone through the incident on Bill Maher's show. And after he showed the clips he said that if the "far left" keeps doing what their doing, "Someone is gonna get hurt." I don't know if that is a threat or what? Can someone clear this up? :dilemma:

[MichaelHarris]

1. He

does have his own army.

[Blashyrkh]

2. Fuckwit Bill threatens someone on TV. He might as well wave a gun around. It'll help ratings.

What incident?

[John Kerry VonErich]

3. The 9/11 Truth raid on Maher's show recently.

nt

[Blashyrkh]

7. Different country, I have no idea. I just though Bill was filling time again.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Faux Noise is blocked on my television

Just so I don't unintentionally get exposed to his filth.
But let me get this straight. You want DU'ers to verify what that freak said?
I would venture to guess very few here watch that trash.

[Deja Q]

5. Dunno. I like seeing Ben Stein on the show...

(Ben vs Bill a few weeks ago, Ben rocked... he's making a couple good points tonight too.)

Bill is differentiating "far left" with other forms of "left" as well.

Bill's line worried me too, but I've got to admit - some toward the most left end of the spectrum have said things that have freaked me out. Because it's so much tinfoil fluff; some people don't think, they take what they hear at face value.

Whether it was a personal threat from him, or merely emotively explaining a fair warning of how someone can go batshit crazy over taking a conspiracy theory to heart... I'm going to suggest the latter. After all, recall the mass murdering psycho who say the movie "The Matrix" and somehow decided that was real life and therefore got some guns and started shooting... If a psycho could take a fictional movie and use it as means to attempt justify hurting/killing others, someone might take a tinfoil theory (from the left, right, up, down, or somewhere else) and attempt to justify it in order to kill others as well.

[John Kerry VonErich]

6. Well, at least wasn't just hearing things. LOL

I was actually watching a movie upstairs when I went to get a drink as my roommate was watching him downstairs when I caught it. Good theory.

[Mnpaul]

8. I think you need clarification on just about

everything you hear on Bill O'Reilly's show.:banghead:

[Bolo Boffin]

9. I don't think that was a threat from Bill, though I don't put threats past him.

He was saying that the far left is capable of violence and things are going that way. Same program, he first did a story on Lt. Michael Murphy, the soldier who just got the Medal Honor. The Bill Maher story followed that TPMemo immediately. The message Falafel means is clear: our guys are fighting the terrorist, and the far left is fighting the Democrats into submission (further on in the show, he referenced the Kos convention).

He is building a narrative, and the Bill Maher incident let him contrast an American hero with crazy people screeching at Bill Maher on live television.

BTW, there are just as many far right 9/11 truthers as there are far left. Falafel has NO WAY of knowing the political leanings of the people on Maher's show.

[UTUSN]

10. With respect to the above posters, I saw/heard it. It *WAS* a threat & it wasn't about Left violence

breaking out. It was a development by him of MAHER's own elitist CRAP. First, MAHER shut up the disrupters by saying, "This is NOT a debate. Well, it's a debate among US up HERE. 'Audience' comes from the Latin, 'to HEAR.' " So then MAHER runs out goofily into the audience and yells for security to kick ass and later says HE will kick their ass.

So, O'LOOFAH was *approving* of the SHUT UP aspect, as he would be, since he has done that frequently himself. And he linked the MAHER episode to something last week with Gays disrupting a Catholic service, and some other event. So O'LOOFAH's point was THE THREAT that this disruption stuff is just not acceptable or tolerable TO HIM and is going to STOP through FORCE.

It was most definitely a threat of repression and force. I think only O'LOOFAH's "Word" (reference to COLBERT) is transcripted on the Faux website, but I'll look.


P.S., there is nothing on that segment in the website. All I can say is that it *was* a threat of goon squads cracking down on dissidents. Now, regarding the difference between free speech and breaking in on private functions or whether tinfoilers can babble nonsense: Fine, if private events are crashed (and t.v. events & churches qualify), then security should remove and trespassing charges lodged. But anti-Choice terrorists were crashing PRIVATE PROPERTY clinics, were they not?

[Bolo Boffin]

11. The quote's on his personal website.

http:// billoreilly. com/show? action=viewTVShow&showID=1570

During a live broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," far-left host Bill Maher was heckled by even-farther-left "truthers," who believe 9/11 was engineered by the Bush administration. This comes on the heels of the invasion of a Catholic Church in San Francisco by loony protestors. The Factor played an extended clip of the Maher incident, then issued this warning: "Driven by crazy web sites, the far left is so out of control that someone is going to get hurt. No American has a right to intrude on church services, television programs, or any other private gathering. If authorities don't wise up fast, something bad is going to happen."

It is somewhat ambiguous, but I was taking my read from "if authorities don't wise up fast." That means the "something bad" is going to happen, and the "something bad" he's upset with are things like the church service disruption and the Mahar disruption. It is definitely a call for the jackboots to come down on the far left, though - and it's clear His Falafelness includes the Daily Kos in his definition of "even-farther-left".

[UTUSN]

12. There you have it. & my paraphrasing was pretty close.

And I stand by my interpretation of the Brownshirting and jackbooting, into the bargain.

[Bolo Boffin]

14. Bill O'Reilly = Fucking Douchebag

Something we both can agree on. :)

[ShortnFiery]

15. My brother and I have been estranged for over a decade.

I did have to encounter one of my two brothers at my beloved Father's funeral last year.

It's doubtful that we will make amends after he started about his "adoration of Bill O'Reilly" I choose to shut him down in front of a large audience of my cousins by saying a modified line from full medal jacket (I had been holding onto it for just the right opportunity). I quipped, "You don't say? O'Reilly's truly 6'5" tall? Well hell, I had no idea that they could stack SHIT that high brother?!? To say the least the conversation cooled and I promptly walked in the next room as he grumbled something about me being "a leftist." :evilgrin:

O'Reilly and the small fact :blush: that he's never paid back a $1500 loan that I freely gave him a decade ago are the reasons we will do our best to avoid each other. There's your right wing koolaid drinking values for ya. :P

[ShortnFiery]

13. You've heard of "The Communist Scare" of the 40s-70s? Well this is now the new and approve *SCARE*

It's O'ReillyISM: "Fear all things that are LIBERAL and/or for "The common good" for all Americans ... it's a one way ticket to socialism." :crazy:

Remember, *Crap is KING,* especially when the corporate propaganda serves to disrespect those on the left side of the political spectrum. :(

Heaven forbid any God Fearin' American choose to care for those who are disenfranchised and/or living in abject poverty?

O'Reilly's answer to all of America's woes is, "Our youth either needs to get a job or sign up for military service!" ... well the youth of the non-investor classes ONLY. :grr: :puke: