Posted on 09/28/2004 7:32:04 AM PDT by crushelits
From lib site:
Discussing the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in South Dakota between Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Republican challenger John Thune, FOX News Channel host Bill O'Reilly declared that he has "no respect for" Daschle and said: "It doesn't matter what he [Daschle] does. He's going to lose." But a September 20-22 poll for the race shows Daschle leading Thune by five points (with a 3.5-point margin of error).
Though this poll came out after O'Reilly's remarks on the September 23 broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly was basing his prediction not on two previous polls that showed Thune with a negligible lead over Daschle but, rather, on presidential polls that show President George W. Bush comfortably ahead of Senator John Kerry in the presidential race in South Dakota.
But South Dakota's history of voting Republican in presidential races is a weak indicator of state election results. In 2002, Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) narrowly defeated Thune for South Dakota's other Senate seat, and Representative Stephanie Herseth (D-SD) defeated Republican Larry Diedrich in a June 2004 special election to replace Republican Bill Janklow in the state's only U.S. House of Representatives seat. Janklow had resigned after his December 2003 manslaughter conviction.
On the September 23 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly expressed certainty that Daschle would lose, then taunted him with "Daschle music":
CALLER: Yesterday, you made a comment about Daschle of South Dakota?
O'REILLY: Yeah.
CALLER: And judging by the past history, we [in South Dakota] have voted Republican, but it's, unfortunately, seems like Daschle always gets voted in there.
O'REILLY: He's going to lose.
CALLER: They think that he -- you know, it means he has the seniority, that's --
O'REILLY: Yeah. It doesn't matter what he does. He's going to lose. The South Dakota -- the polls are so heavily weighted in the favor of President Bush. And Thune destroyed him on [MSNBC's] Meet the Press. And Daschle? Do we have Daschle music so we can go out to the bump? Do we have it? Roll it!
[MUSIC CLIP FROM THE SONG "NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE" BY STEAM]: Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey-ey. Goodbye.
O'REILLY: [chuckles]
[MUSIC CLIP]: Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey-ey. Goodbye.
On the September 22 broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly explained that he has "no respect" for Daschle and insisted that the senator is "toast": "So we go out on a break with Tom Daschle, who I -- I tell you, I have no respect for at all. Say goodbye to Tom Daschle, South Dakota. 58-39, Bush. Daschle is toast," O'Reilly said.
From a this Website:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200409270011
In this instance, I hope O'Reilly's right.
It's not over for Dasshole until the last 'res has reported it's votes.
Bill is a knucklehead who is normally quite wrong, although his ego never lets him admit as much.
Let's hope O'Reilly gets this one right, for a change.
Yes well, Oreilly perpetuated the lie about the Mission Accomplish thing on Fox and Friends this AM.
Yeah right. Daschle will have the support of thousands of dead American Indians, just like Tim Johnson did. Remember Thune was even with, or leading Johnson up to the end but Johnson pulled it. He's got his work cut out for him, forget what the polls say.
Remember when he freaked out about Creatine?
O'Reilly's show is lame.
I cant stand watching him for an hour let alone listen to his 'know it all' voice for longer.
If South Dakotans reelect Daschle after his sorry performance, they will forever be likened in my mind to Californians, who just won't vote out the scoundrels no matter how bad things get.
Beware of dead indians...
and live one's too.
The first thing we noticed watching the parade were that huge numbers of participants in the parade were wearing Thune stickers. Not a Daschle sticker to be seen.
Usually, in an election year, the political workers are working the crowds, handing out stickers right from the beginning.
Eventually a few Daschle people with long poles and Daschle signs affixed vertically on them came by. No enthusiasm. A woman tried to hand out Daschle stickers, but few were takers. It was embarrassing almost. She came by us but didn't even have the energy to press them on us. Last election the Johnson people were plastering them on everyone they saw whether they wanted them or not.
Immediately after the Daschle crew came a whole bunch of Thune redhots. The crowd cheered them. (That's a first for political workers) People swarmed them for stickers. Thune stickers were everywhere. It was absolutely amazing.
This was DAschle's home town, mind you. I have seen almost NO Daschle bumper stickers in town and very few of the large signs you usually see on major intersections. O'Reilly might very well be right.
How come we don't hear any sound bytes from D'Asshole's campaigning in his home state? It would be worlds apart from what he says when he gets back to Washington.
I must have missed that one. I went to FNC at about 15 after 7 last night expecting to see Bush, and there was a Dumb Dum and O Reaaly attacking Bush. Hit the back button fast. Fear Factor was on.... hehehehe
isn't that assault?
O'Reilly is a windbag and is not very knowledgeable in regards to politics. I would generally say that if he thinks something is going to happen I would go with the opposite scenario. That being said I hope Thune wins but it will be a tough road to election day. I wish Daschle would release his tax records so we could see how much his wife makes as a lobbyist and who her clients. I would find that very interesting and so would the voters.
Did O'Reilly remember to include all the Dead-Indian voters?
You are right. Indian ancestors were the deciding factor last time. Republicans cannot rest if they want to unseat the unscrupulous DemoRat. I have my fingers crossed and my credit card ready to help.
They do it with such good cheer, it never seems like assault. We're not lawsuit-happy here either. But there was no good cheer this year. Just demoralization. Still the other Freeper was right. Tim Giago and Daschle met in some closed-door meeting, supposedly about Indian concerns, but election-planning might better explain it. I wish the margins looked better for Thune to counteract illegal voting.
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