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
Have you been wearing your helmet? Where did you hear Rush during the Carter years? Chiefs games?
Bull O’Really is a proven liar. There was no hate blacks statement and he exagerated the other two. Complete and total lies.
Pray for W and Our Troops
O’Reilly is hoping this just goes away. He needed a right leaning website to make his report on hate on the internet “fair and balanced” and picked FR out of his hat (or his staff did, which is more likely). He can’t defend it so he’s chosen to ignore it.
It shows how small he is.
Yup!
Actually, I think Lannie Davis brought FR up. He has been flacking for the Clintons for years.
Lannie Davis
Wow, I missed that show. Not a surprise.
I don’t think the Clinton’s and their syncophants will ever forgive Free Republic for the March for Justice.
They shouldn’t we don’t forgive them.
Truth is a sword.
Maybe he's upset because Ann is prettier than he is?
The irony in this is found on other websites that feature weekly ‘bash Free Republic’ threads.
THEY all claim FR has full time moderators, out to get THEM.
(chuckle)
We have not watched O’Reilly since his disgusting trashing of the Swift Vets.
I have emailed the O’Reilly Factor on numerous occasions regarding Jessica’s law. Never heard back! Mr. O’Reilly, if you or a staff member is reading this, know that prosecutors in the State of Delaware REFUSE to prosecute child molestors/abusers even when it is Social Services who determines that the abuse took place. It’s a scandal that the Bidens are covering up. How will Jessica’s law help in DE if the prosecutors refuse to go after molestors?! I have a story, a victim, and names!
You posted: You know, I think everyone here should find every blog and bulletin board on Fox News and type in:
‘Hey, Bill: “I HATE BLACKS!” See, it’s on Fox.’
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To make it equivalent to O’Reilly’s comments, one should post along these lines: “I really HATE it when BLACKS are criticized for things they didn’t do.” Then, using O’Reilly’s logic, you could truthfully say that Fox allowed posting of “I HATE BLACKS” on its website, albeit “slightly” out of context. This is what Bill did with the “dogs in the manger” phrase.
He ain't looking out for me....
Bill just lumps FreeRepublic in with KOS to appear balanced. The fact that FreeRepublic is nowhere near KOS in bad taste doesn’t matter to him. His examples were trivial plants. He needs to get a life. If he wants to contrast FreeRepublic and KOS, Bill should check out the well-wishes for Senator Johnson and other Democrats when they had medical issues vs KOS treatment of Republicans.
Many thanks to Kristin for standing up for Free Republic unlike KOS which had to rely on proxy representation by Harold Ford, who obviously didn’t want to be put in that position (Bill should have selected one of the Democrat candidates that attended the KOS debate - Like sour-puss Hillary).
They were lies period.
"Homosexuals are dogs."
Actual quote is: "Homosexuals are the modern day dogs in the manger."
"Hillary Clinton should be assassinated." "A stray bullet should kill her"
Actual quote is: "a stray bullet at a NARAL rally catches President Clinton and kills her."
"I hate blacks."
Actual quote is NOT FOUND.
You are right, "Bill just lumps FreeRepublic in with KOS to appear balanced." The thing is, not only did he lie he was really brazen and ducked the complaints he has to have seen.
Another day in the saga.
Well, I’m happy to report that I have kept my word and not watched his show since this whole thing started. I wish he would go off the air, he really needs to go. The very thought of his program makes me want to lose my lunch. I used to watch whenever I could. He should go take Couric’s job, that’s where he belongs, that’s what he wants.
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