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
He has to learn that crap can go both ways and he does not get a free shot at us on National Television!
My exact thought!
O’Reilly knew the truth by now, and chose to lecture us again instead. He is a dishonorable man!
You can't win a pissing contest with a clever man when he controls the playing field because he will change the rules. You can't win a pissing contest with an intelligent man because he won't unzip his pants if he knows he's going to lose.
We shouldn't get into a tizzy over Bill because he will simply mischaracterize and/or lie to make his point. That's the name of his game.
Someone like Dennis Prager - a thinking man - wouldn't even have breached this subject because he knows that the exceptions don't make the rule.
The worst we could do to Bill is ignore him for the prat that he is.
Could somebody tell me when the part-time moderator goes home, so I can post what I really think of the BOR?
Nonsense! Ann writes things that once read are clearly simple truths. She has a gift.
Her critics such as O'Reilly in this case, are actually polarizing readers.
I anxiously await her next book which I will devour in a day or so as I did her other works.
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.’
Dear Volunteer Moderator:
Thank you for your service to Free Republic, maybe you don’t hear that very often!
You can go back to the earliest Michael Vick threads (sorry, I don’t know which one) and one poster made a horrible statement about black people. Two posts down, he was thrown off. I was pretty impressed with the speed of the banning, and thought that the “mods” were really on their game that day. May I suggest that you look over your lists of banees and find that one as the AdMod was pretty frank and straight up in his remarks. Then you should take all banned posts, all response times, and all AdMod remarks and send them to Bad Boyfriend Bill. Good Luck to you and all the great people here who work to make Free Republic the most excellent and responsible site on the Web.
I wonder how fast they could delete them all.
“If I were on with Bill I would’ve asked to see the posts in question and not allow him to ambush me with them. “
He could always call me and ask me about the “stray bullet” since it has been attributed to me.
He lost me as a viewer. His viewership is his bread and butter and he just jumped the shark.
....And that will be exposed if for no other purpose the our own amusement and edification.
Limey,I thought he was Irish.?
**He goes after judges who are lenient on child abusers**
I wouldn’t take his judgement on judges as certain any more. I live in Lawrence County Missouri and about a year or so ago he stated a local judge was lenient about some case. This is a county as Republican and Conservative as any in Missouri. There was not a bit of outrage here locally about the judge because for the most part he was well respected and the locals knew more about the case than the sloppy research O’Reilly did.
Take everything Bill O’Reilly says with a big grain of salt
I believe the word is Mick...though I would never think of using it.
NO, we had a significant influence on bringing down Dan Rather for lying and fabrication, O'Reilly, if he won't apologize, deserves the same treatment.
I suggest we all start mailing him copies of Aesop's Fables for starters, and start referring to him as "Dog in the Manger O'Reiily", or "DITM O'Reilly", it might just stick.
I can’t believe anyone is surprised. I also can’t believe he has the top rated show. Then again, yes I can. Looking at Fox’s ratings, you notice the more idiotic a show is, the better the ratings. Their only halfway decent show is Brit’s show, which is consistently the worst rated Fox show. The other shows—Factor, H/C, Greta, Shep? Unwatchable. A complete waste of precious time.
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