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**O'Reilly Fracture Spins "Hate Site" Free Republic (Kristinn Taylor on O'Reilly 7-31-07)**
The Institute of Phemonology ^ | July 29, 2007 | Dr. Zoo

Posted on 08/01/2007 12:16:56 AM PDT by Syncro

You Tube video of The O'Reilly Factor with Kristinn Taylor speaking for Free Republic.

Bill O'Reilly makes claims about Freerepublic.com to spin us into a right wing hate site.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Free Republic; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; billoreilly; billtheschoolmarm; dailykos; dcchapter; elections; govwatch; kristinntaylor; loofahman; oreilly; popinjay; spin; talkradio
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To: yorkie

“I hope it is not my fault”

We blame you, yorkie.

That “Sponge Bill” comment reveals the deep-seeded and underlying hatred that is simply boiling over here at FR.

Keep up the good work! ;0)


21 posted on 08/01/2007 1:18:58 AM PDT by incredulous joe ("Whoever so loveth me, loveth my hound." - St. Thomas More)
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To: HAL9000

The posts in this thread that say that BillO doesn’t understand internet culture are exactly right. The thing is that neither do most of his viewers- the vast majority of them are over the age of 50.

What this is all about is simple: O’Reilly has found an opening to attack the democrats - the fact that they are going to the YearlyKos convention. For the last 2 weeks he has demonized that site as some sort of vile, kkk and Nazi-esque hate site. See here for more:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/016025.php

But BillO is also concerned about appearances, so he wants to be “fair and balanced”. How does he do that? He attacks freerepublic, distorting what people find there in much the same way he distorted the Kos ste, figuring it is an inconsequential community of people.

He has no idea what he is getting himself into.


22 posted on 08/01/2007 1:19:39 AM PDT by sdschroe
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To: Syncro

That’s a total smear job by BOR. He has to be pressed to provide the links.... it’s especially suspicious since he says the posts just went up ..... suggests a set-up, either by leftoid drones or maybe a BOR junior staffer who wanted to set the boss up for his attack-segment.

There’s no comparison between the constant stream of vile hatreds on DU, DailyKos, etc. and the occasional post (usually by a troll or disruptor) here that is quickly removed when/if identified to the mods.


23 posted on 08/01/2007 1:20:11 AM PDT by Enchante (Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
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To: The Duke
I also did a quick visit to the Daily Kos. It was my first visit. My curiosity was perked.

I do see this as part if an effort to control the Internet. Since there are no such controls—yet—there is the method of media propaganda to poison the public against those who they oppose. The intent of the lies against the Free Republic may be to paint the Free Republic in the same light as the Daily Kos and other similar leftist forums. When you see Daily Kos comments about the need to hang President Bush for treason, statements that our troops are murdering and raping innocent Iraqi civilians, and photo shopped scenes of President Bush being fornicated by Senator Joe Lieberman, we have a picture of a forum gone wild. If mainstream America were to get a taste of what is going on in these leftist forums, they would get a bad case of food poisoning. Not here at the Free Republic. We have rules of civility.

The big picture is we do not want censorship by the government. I think free speech, even if it is hateful, should be able to express itself in the open forum. Of course, the same open forum exists for criticism and condemnation. And forums, like ours, can control how things are said. Those who don’t like the rules are free to go elsewhere.

24 posted on 08/01/2007 1:24:39 AM PDT by jonrick46
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Yeah. I like some one interrupting me when I am trying to get across a point.


25 posted on 08/01/2007 1:26:33 AM PDT by thedude20
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To: HAL9000
You Tube is not moderated either.

I have several videos up there, more than one of Ann Coulter on Hardball and The O’Reilly Fracture.

I have had to delete over ONE HUNDRED comments because of vile filthy despicable comments about Ann and Conservatives. Posted by good Liberals about the You Tube clips.

FR Rocks. It's nothing like what BO tried to spin it as.

He's jealous.

26 posted on 08/01/2007 1:27:25 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: HAL9000
Many thanks for the account.

Sounds like O'Reilly's not going to let himself get confused by the facts.

27 posted on 08/01/2007 1:27:38 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
You could skywrite that to him in font size 400000 and he still would not get it. But good try....
28 posted on 08/01/2007 1:32:00 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: HAL9000

You know that Jim in the very beginning had to fight everyday to keep the Neo-Nazi’s, Klan types, and other really bizaro people in check. The thing about it, most people that have been around for a while can spot them a hundred post away. I have been gone for a while, but looking at some of the postings recently, the Kos types are getting much better at disquising themselves.


29 posted on 08/01/2007 1:33:17 AM PDT by marty60
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To: Syncro; kristinn; Jim Robinson

That is one astonishing video. Bill O’Reilly came off as utterly clueless, although he does vindicate himself (slightly) with his comparison of FR to a true “hate site” like Kos. Personally, I think somebody hoaxed Bill with those alleged FR postings he was waving around.

Kristinn did a nice job defending FR, and I was impressed with his restraint considering he probably felt like jumping through the airwaves and strangling O’Reilly. (Ooops! Does that count as a “hate” posting??)

Approximately 300,000 people have registered with Free Republic and there must be an archive of about 96 bajillion posts. I have little doubt that somebody could waste a whole lot of time scouring the 12-year history of Free Republic and come up with a few deeply buried posts that are outside of FR guidelines and were missed by moderators.

O’Reilly did not do his homework. Period.


30 posted on 08/01/2007 1:51:10 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Syncro
Kristinn, You did great. O'Reilly is a pompous ass. For the life of me I can't understand why anybody watches him. Does it not occur to him that FR is not a commercial enterprise like Fox News? What an idiot.

For what it's worth, I've been a member of FR for seven years and have rarely seen posts like the ones BOR quoted. The ones I have seen are almost immediately removed by the moderators. I'm sure they were plants by the DU crowd in anticipation of the BOR site review prior to the segment. It would have been nice if BOR had given Kristinn advance notice of the posts so he could have checked out the join dates prior to the interview.

31 posted on 08/01/2007 1:53:27 AM PDT by KevinB
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To: Enchante
He has to be pressed to provide the links.... it’s especially suspicious since he says the posts just went up .....

He didn't exactly say the bad messages were just posted today, he said that they are on the web site today. Well, this web site has existed for over ten years, and the archives here go back at least to 1999. There must be millions of messages posted here. One could probably search Google for any sort of phrase and find it here in the archives.

During the interview, O'Reilly did not permit Kristinn to see the sheet of paper he was waving around containing the purported comments. So, we don't really know the context of the alleged statements.

Here is a Google search of FR for "I hate blacks". In each instance that I see, that phrase is being condemned, mostly as part of a discussion about an article published at AsianWeek.com. Using Google to search DailyKos for the phrase shows a few similar results there. A Google search of FR for "gays are dogs" shows zero results.

32 posted on 08/01/2007 1:57:07 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

Before today, when people are quoting the vile phrases simply to refute what BOR said about FR, the only use of the ‘dogs’ slur against homosexuals that I can find with a Google search of FR is from 2001 in a post that is citing what leftist Robert Mugabe supposedly said, only to assert that Mugabe (or anyone) should not be arrested over a free speech issue. In other words, far from asserting the truth of that phrase, the poster is merely making a free speech point about Mugabe’s own words..... if THAT is what BOR is relying upon this really is hit-and-run smear job.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:v4zGluQ7NasJ:www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa40f1e78fe.htm+site:www.freerepublic.com+%22%2Bhomosexuals+are+dogs%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us


33 posted on 08/01/2007 2:06:51 AM PDT by Enchante (Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
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To: HAL9000
From 2001:

The 77-year-old Mugabe, in power since the former Rhodesia gained independence from Britain in 1980, has denounced homosexuals as "worse than dogs and pigs".

The Dog comment was in the main area of the post also. In an article quoting Mugabe. It was in a post, the same as the I hate Blacks comment.

I do think you are right, he spun the words he used. He said "found on your website today."

I did think he said posted today, but I misheard.

Sly old deceiver ain't he?

34 posted on 08/01/2007 2:10:31 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: Syncro

I haven’t watched O’Reilly in years. He’s just an arrogant windbag. It’s annoying to watch a person lecture someone with greater knowledge and understanding than themselves.


35 posted on 08/01/2007 2:13:57 AM PDT by FreePoster (Duncan Hunter in 2008)
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To: HAL9000
I see that Jim has already addressed O'Reilly's allegations in this post: I'm not going to call Bill O'Reilly a liar... yet, but... - and one isolated instance of O'Reilly's allegations was found and deleted. One lousy post that slipped through - and O'Reilly labels FR as a hate site.
36 posted on 08/01/2007 2:19:00 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: Enchante
I clearly heard Bill O’Reilly say, “homosexuals are dogs, I hate blacks.” I just heard him say it today on his show. That’s just vile. How long is Fox going to let this Hate Show go on anyway? Shouldn’t someone at Fox News be supervising this? /s
37 posted on 08/01/2007 2:32:46 AM PDT by FreePoster (Duncan Hunter in 2008)
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To: FreePoster

“I haven’t watched O’Reilly in years. He’s just an arrogant windbag. It’s annoying to watch a person lecture someone with greater knowledge and understanding than themselves.”

Excellent point about his ability to lecture his intellectual superiors. Many pundits fall into that trap, and O’Reilly is certainly among that number.

I want to make a few points here. O’Reilly, if you find this thread, please pay attention...I don’t want my words distorted. Some of these points are somewhat nuanced, so do engage your gray matter.

First of all, my “most ridiculous item of the day” - someone who claims to be for “the American way” (perhaps I’m being generous to Mr. O’Reilly here) advocating censorship.

It is literally impossible (and in my mind wrongheaded regardless) to censor the Internet. The Internet is an international medium - who’s standards are we going to impose? I suppose one could try national filtering - that’s the equivalent of the Great Firewall of China. Is that where our “free” society is headed? I hope not. Perhaps someday even a “pithy” O’Reilly comment might cross the line...

That said, FR does moderate content in an effort to be a family-friendly site. That’s actually a dangerous thing to do, since by moderating FR becomes responsible for ‘indecent’ content that slips through. The Usenet newsgroups (for instance) have historically relied on a ‘common carrier’ status that assumes no responsibility for content since there is no editorial filtering. It seems disingenuous at best to go after FR for allowing objectionable content when it goes the extra mile at some risk to provide a ‘decent’ site. Wait, can I have two “Most Ridiculous Items of the Day”?!?

I would go on, but I’m wasting time on a topic that really doesn’t interest me much. I’ve tuned my last O’Reilly show on purpose.


38 posted on 08/01/2007 2:57:16 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: Syncro

FR is clearly not a hate site, but it is fast becoming a hate-Rudy site.


39 posted on 08/01/2007 3:11:38 AM PDT by Salvey (ancest)
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To: The Duke

The word ‘hate’ has been bastardized to mean if you don’t agree with me, then you are a hate monger! BS


40 posted on 08/01/2007 3:12:15 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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