Posted on 08/01/2007 4:09:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 08/01/2007 4:30:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I received an e-mail today from the Fox News producer who booked me for the O'Reilly Factor last night. The links have been forwarded to Jim Robinson for review.
Jim asked me to start a thread with the links so that Freepers, and everyone else, could see for themselves what the fuss is about.
The Hillary Clinton stray bullet assassination comment was a very bad joke comment that someone posted two days ago. It was flagged last night after the O'Reilly Factor broadcast and was removed by a moderator. It is available for the time being in Google cache:
To: Virginia Ridgerunner I like my scenario better:
After eight years of the economy faltering, interest rates are 19%, 900,000 people are dead in Iraq since we left, taxes have gone up by 60% and Chile, Bolivia and Columbia are now Communist regimes, a stray bullet at a NARAL rally catches President Clinton and kills her.
As they take away Cindy Sheehan she screams why did she have to remove the troops? We were winning.
The next day the dow goes up 2000 points and closes at 2150.
4 posted on 07/30/2007 11:00:43 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party: "Everyone is equal, but some are more equal then others.")
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Don't even bother trying to defend that one. Assassination jokes have no place on Free Republic. Yes, Cindy Sheehan has written of her fantasizies about killing President Bush--and she's not joking, but that's her problem. We're better than that.
The "homosexuals are dogs" comment is taken out of context. The actual quote is "Homosexuals are the modern day dogs in the manger." That was in reference to an article about proprieters in the U.K. not being allowed to deny hotel accomodations to homosexual couples on account of religious belief.
The American Heritage online dictionary gives this description for the phrase: dog in the manger, NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. dogs in the manger. One who prevents others from enjoying what one has no use for oneself. ETYMOLOGY: From a fable in which a dog prevented an ox from eating hay he did not want himself.
That comment was posted two days ago and has also been removed by the moderators. It is available for now in Google cache.
The "I hate blacks" comment was nowhere to be found in the other threads referenced.
The threads are about crime in the black community, gangsta culture and Jesse Jackson. Two of the threads are in the Smoky Backroom.
Homosexuals+are+the+modern-day+dogs+in+the+manger
Time for the Truth About Black Crime Rates
Jesse Jackson interview about Imus
Sagging Pants May Have Contributed To Fatal Shooting
stray+bullet+at+a+NARAL+rally+catches+President
Anyone know if it was terrorist related yet?
I think that's pretty much an approximation of an O'Reilly type spin ~ hope he gets the message.
It is now almost 20 hours since your little tantrum.
Do you have some links to back up your assertions, or are you going to come clean and admit that you’re all just PMS and Cuervo [I’d say “piss and vinegar”, but that might offfend you]??
Dunno. The bridge collapse took him out yesterday, we'll see what today brings. I sent off a couple emails, one before the links were available and one after. Suspect he got a deluge.
It will be interesting, whichever way it goes. I don't think he can run away, FR has way too much clout for that to happen.
“Boy if hypocracy were crap, hed be knee deep.”
Best line of the year! Ha!
Simply put, Bender is in favor of treating citizens as guilty until proven innocent, as are ALL others who support pre-sale identity checking for firearms. You may be one of those two, and I’ll say the same to you.
I am of the opinion of Thomas Jefferson, who once said, “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” The bent one continues to misstate his argument. No surprise.
He casts himself an independent so that he can take the most self serving position possible on any given issue, which would be impossible if her called himself a conservative or lib.
He has no grounding philosophy except what’s good for BOR.
Wow. My personal feeling is that if you are going to make unfounded remarks about FReepers, then you had better post links of examples from this “large number of people” which you are calling “extremely hateful.”
Looking forward to seeing your *cough-cough* (excuse me...) list.
I myself wouldn’t paint all Fox News with the same brush as seemingly Bill O’Reilly has painted FreeRepublic.
Tony Snow was an employee of Fox for many years and in my humble opinion Brit Hume is the most honest and intelligent voice in news there has ever been in the history of TV news.
I don’t think many FReepers would paint them with that brush?
What assassination joke? That was a satire on a Dystopian future.
Granted, the bullet bit wasn't funny, and added nothing to an otherwise cogent and amusing picture of life on the other side of the Rodham Event Horizon, but there's no need for all this handwringing.
“Most extreme posts are probably trolls anyway.”
They’re almost certainly being planted by Kossacks in their anti-Fox campaign. The left has long and distinguished history of Internet sock-puppetry.
I think that’s what stirred all this stuff up about FR.
There’s absolutely no comparison to Daily Kos,of course,and to try to draw any similarity between the two is like equating apples and porcupines. I watch O’Reilly almost every night and there are times when he’s out of line.He was not fair to Kristinn as far as I am concerned.I listened to that segment of the show,and I was like, WTH???
Absolutely dead-on wrong,Mr.O’Reilly. Kristinn handled himself well with BOR,and that’s not easy. Ask Geraldo. LOL
Please post examples of that you bemoan.
I notice your “born on” date was last month. How do you know how this site operates?
Maybe the “I hate Blacks” comment is really on DU or KOS. I have never seen anything like that here on FR and I have been here since 2000.
Retread maybe, or DU troll?
“A woman called in claiming Bill was not attacking right wing hate sites and when he asked for specifics, she named FreeRepublic.”
BOR should know better than to do the bidding of left wingers. That’s lightweight behavior.
lainie, I remember the Drudge / BOR issue and hearing that tape several times.
Cant understand why this comment is objectionable. Are we supposed to stop using commonly-used metaphors simply becasue OReally and his posse at FNC cant understand English?
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