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
Surely, Bill O’Reilly understands that the comments of one poster do not represent the whole of Free Republic. I don’t like Bill O’Reilly , he is a smug, condescending , patronizing, self righteous, egotistical talking head. I hope that Bill O’Reilly and his staff will forward my opinion of him. And when they do forward my low opinion of Bill O’Reilly, please inform him that it is Americanmade1776’s opinion and not the opinion of the management here at Free Republic.
” believe O’Reilly has been itching to put a “slap down” on FR since the misbegotten Kerry campaign was sunk by the Swifties with our help. He exhibited notable bias at the time and refused to even look at the sworn testimony of Kerry’s contemporaries. His behavior then was far from objective and, I think, formed his antipathy for FR”
That was when I dumped O’Reilly.
I have no idea whether or not Jim Robinson does, though.
I would rather march into battle with Jim Robinson , than Bill O'Reilly anyday.
And if I found a big fight with all these guys in it, Chuck Norris would be fighting alongside Jim Robinson — and (gulp) I might have to join ‘em — even if they weren’t fighting Old Media manipulators.
Thanks. Product of the NY city school system. :)
OReilly just mentioined a talking poing. On DailyCos the F word was printed 7,000 times, on FR - 0.
Geeeze... hasn't Bill O'Reilly got anything better to do, than count F Words at DailyCos?
Heads up,,,BO show tonite tells me this is an attack on
what he/? “thinks”/says is a “Hate Site”/the net in general.
JMHO : The MSM is skeeert shi’ittless of the “nerds that can’t get a date”,,,Some FReeper E-Mails got through...;0)
Ya’ll outta see this...I hope somebody recorded this,,,
It’s a general attack on freedom of speech,,,plain-n-simple.
It was a viewer e-mail, not his own reportage. That segment was actually quite pro-FR. FReepers defend their own.
Sorry for my spelling on #609. I just got home. Just before I fell into one of those deep sleeps, got up and thought I was late for work. I got there and found it was PM and not AM. Wierd feeling.
Hey... No problem. :-)
I still don't like O'Reilly.
I consider him more of a Useful Idiot, heavily chastened over the past 48 hours.
The truth always wins, except when it doesn’t.
LMBO! It was his height and big mouth I was alluding to.
I watched O’Reilly tonight. He made me ill.....He picked the most innocent FReeper complaint, and reiterated the need for a “professional” moderator. O’Reilly now knows he flubbed it, and chose to admonish Free Republic instead.
The man has no honor and no character whatsoever!
O’Reilly Kiss our Grits!
Someone wrote in that 100% of the bad postings were plants and BOR said there is no way to know that, but Free Republic needs a full time monitor which it doesn't have today.
It is clear to me that he got his gigantic little ego bruised and now he wants to make us pay! I truly believe he is positioning himself in a good light for the Senate hearings on the new "Fairness Doctrine" because he feels that Empress Hillary will become President.
We have a perfect chance to prove the Cable Channel Personality corollary to the unified idiom corollary to the Peter Principle.
"The bigger the bloviated personality rises to his own level of incompetence the harder he will fall"
Thought I should put this on my tag line..just in case O’Reilly is reading this.
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