Posted on 08/02/2007 6:36:11 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
O'Reilly Factor Partial Transcript of the interview with Kristinn on 7-31-07
Transcript From the July 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
"From the July 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: In the "Impact" segment tonight, as we've been reporting, the hate website Daily Kos has intimidated the Democratic presidential candidates with the exception of Senator Biden. So they are speaking at the Kos convention this coming weekend. There's no question that the most vile stuff imaginable is posted on this hate site and others like it.
Now, some on the left justify the garbage by pointing to right-wing websites like FreeRepublic.com, whose postings can get nasty as well.
With us now in the studio -- former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Jr., now a Fox News analyst, and from Washington, Kristinn Taylor, a spokesperson for the Free Republic.
Mr. Taylor, I have to say, you know, we pulled a bunch of stuff off your website today and it's pretty vile; it's pretty awful. You've got some pretty sick people posting -- a couple of examples: "Homosexuals are dogs." "I hate blacks." "Hillary Clinton should be assassinated." "A stray bullet should kill her" -- and on and on and on.
TAYLOR: Well, Bill, all those things --
O'REILLY: You know, this is all on your website today.
TAYLOR: Well, all those things that you said violate our posting guidelines, and if we find them, we will remove them. That's not what we're about.
O'REILLY: What do you mean, if we find them?
TAYLOR: If we find them. We --
O'REILLY: This is what I don't understand. I found them, and it wasn't hard. And I went back and we did a trace just on me and some of the stuff that has been posted about me on your website, and it's just unbelievable. But when you say, "if we find them," shouldn't there be somebody there supervising this website?
TAYLOR: We do have volunteer moderators.
O'REILLY: Volunteer.
TAYLOR: However, now, there are thousands upon thousands of comments that are posted to the site every day. We don't exercise prior restraint. We rely on the good sense of people that are posting there, and 99 percent of them are good people who stay within our guidelines.
O'REILLY: OK.
TAYLOR: You also have people that come on the site deliberately to post things to make the site look bad.
O'REILLY: That's right.
TAYLOR: We used to have people that would post hardcore pornography pictures.
O'REILLY: But here -- let me give you -- let me give you some advice. That's the same argument that the left-wing Nazi hate sites make -- that it's not really them; it's others. Don't you have an obligation to the country to have not volunteers, but to have a professional person sit there and enforce some kind of standards for your website?
TAYLOR: It costs money, Bill. It costs money. Free Republic operates on donations.
O'REILLY: You got a lot people -- you know what? I bet you if you asked for donations for that, you would be able -- because as you said, most people are good people who come in. They would give you money so that they wouldn't have to be besmirched by these sick people. And they're sick.
But you're right, a lot of it's planted. And a lot of it is just crazy people who are surfing. But I believe you have an obligation, Mr. Taylor, to clean this thing up. It doesn't do you any good, because that's what they seize on.
TAYLOR: We do. I agree with you, Bill, and whenever we find it -- if I find it -- I report it to our moderators and they take care of it.
O'REILLY: All right. Well, you should do a better job because just today this is vile, hateful stuff.
Now, Harold Ford Jr. was the subject of some of this when you ran the last time around. But I have to say, and this is absolutely my opinion, I looked at Free Republic and I looked at Daily Kos, and Daily Kos is far worse. They revel in this kind of stuff.
The cartoon last night we showed of President Bush and Joseph Lieberman -- way beyond anything of free speech. It's hate. It's hate.
Now, you as an African-American, and you as somebody who's been subjected to hate, I mean, why aren't the Democrats distancing themselves from this?
FORD: Well, let me be clear. I'm not here to represent Daily Kos or Free Republic. I'm a believer and a supporter of free speech.
Nonetheless, there comes a time in political debate when one would hope it would be elevated to discussing the big, big issues. I'm the chair of a group called the Democratic Leadership Council. We've been subjected to untrue and awful and malicious things by a number of different websites.
We just continue to move forward and trek ahead. I do think that there's a lot to be said for providing resources and people who support these sites, the good people who may believe in -- what I don't understand is what Free Republic, frankly, believes in, because if you feel comfortable enough to post "I hate blacks" on a website -- you don't find people posting that on a Fox News website. So, there must --
O'REILLY: No, you don't, because we have standards. And that's what I told Mr. Taylor, that he's got to be more vigilant and hire somebody professionally to regulate it......"
What O'Reilly said relative to the links provided by his producer are not mere mischaracterizations, they are out and out lies. Nothing in the bold was an accurate description of the posts here.
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Links provided by O'Reilly Factor Producer
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O'Reilly Factor Provides Free Republic Offending Comments Links
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
I left out Miller's comments but can find them at You Tube if anyone wants to see them
Can you believe that Bill O'Reilly said "I hate Blacks" on Public Television?
If you ask me, it sure sounds like Bill is a racist.
I don't know if DK works like FR, but I wonder what would happen if someone opened two new accounts, one on each of them. Then, the person posted ten conspicuously vile posts against President Bush on the DK site, and then used the exact same words on ten FR posts, but just switching out Bush for some Dem. Then check the sites two weeks later to see what's still there. Actually, I probably don't have to wonder. I'd bet the DK posts are all still there, and the FR poster would have been banned before his fingers even got warm.
Shhhhhhhhh. You'll end up giving that poor, fragile old Mr. O'Reilly the vapors. ;)
"He's a grapefruit, but you can use him to light a cigarette."
"He's an end table, but you can pour him into a shot glass."
"He's a large slab of basalt, but he can recite all the lyrics to Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore."
Notice the common denominator between all of the preceding statements.
A lot of Irishmen in Britain get the nickname Mick or Paddy.
If I was called a limey I would not be offended I see that comment in fact as part of our heritage and it also shows that us Brits had an understanding of natural medicine way back.
Boycott schmoi-kott.
I havent watched Oreilly for years, precisely because of those same reasons pointed out above.
He has ALWAYS had a dispicable tendancy to excoriate many good and decent conservative people and causes, simply as a means to "prove" his independance.
To me, that puts him in the same camp as loonie left degenerates who accuse innocent people of hatred and depravity, simply as a means to exaggerate a point.
No difference in my mind between OReilly and many left wing serial finger pointers.
Which is why I havent seen OReilly in years (other than the clips shown on Fox n Friends morning show.
O’Reilly is a demagogue and windbag (he interrupts his guests about every fourth word) and characterizes as “hate” speech any criticism. His out of court settlement of his sexual harassment/assault suit was quickly put in the “no comment” zone.
His paternalistic and condescending “just looking out for the folks” exemplifies his self-importance. I stopped viewing his program some time ago. I think his ratings were good only because CNN and MSNBC were even worse.
I thought O’Reilly was Irish?
LOL!!! Nice one!
Here's what I think:
Mr. O'Reilly,
Your cheap shots at Free Republic were out of context, poorly researched, and carelessly destructive to the traditional values you claim to champion, as well as to our troops.
Free Republic is one of the nation's most influential hubs for troop-support activities, donations, volunteering and weekly counterprotests from coast to coast against organized "anti-war" subversives.
Throughout the War on Terror, Free Republic has stood with Protest Warriors and the Gathering of Eagles veterans to defend the honor of our troops from demonstrations by socialist, communist and anarchist organizations determined to endanger our population and promote the One-world, Soros-funded fantasies The O'Reilly Factor claims to abhor.
Free Republic volunteers have stood at the gates of Walter Reed Army Medical Center every Friday night in all weather for the past 119 weeks to keep CodePink, Fred Phelps and other anti-war agitators away from the wounded and their families.
Before you scold others for suborning hatred, look to your own promotion of CodePink leader Medea Benjamin. CodePink provided $600,000 to "the other side" in Fallujah — a major bomb-making center — just as our troops were entering Fallujah to clean out insurgents.
Benjamin's donations to the city of our worst enemies presumably put dozens of our troops into their graves or into Walter Reed hospital, where her operatives stand outside to protest war policy every week. Why does The O'Reilly Factor legitimize the morally indefensible by giving Benjamin a single second of airtime?
You have done Free Republic and our troops a grave disservice, sir.
Wise up.
Albion Wilde
Washington, DC
I've always (well, almost always) used the term, "limey" in good humor (or is it humour? :). When I wish to disparage a Briton, I generally refer to them as "royalist," or, "lobsterback."
I can't hear you say that without thinking of the immortal German/Irish-bashing line from The Godfather, spoken to Corleone consigliere Tom Hagen in that scene's time frame, the late 40s. It just goes to show how politically correct we have become, because the objectionable words spoken in that movie were common parlance at the time.
I think O'Reilly is wrong that the level of hate has risen in this country. It has merely slid into different pockets than it was kept in before. Absurdly, he used a clip from a film apparently giving the history of white racism in the South during the 1950s to illustrate his point, even though the Civil Rights struggle ultimately produced enormous gains for many people of all colors.
O'Reilly needs to take a nice sabbatical and think things over for awhile.
O’Really considers himself a jounalist, you know, the concience of ten thousand traitors.. and Moonbats..
And he promotes Medea Benjamin of CodePink.
It's what got me to click on this thread.
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