Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bill O'Reilly, Hiding Under The Desk!!
Free Republic | 8-2-07 | self

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.

*****

Links provided by O'Reilly Factor Producer

*****

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.")

[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

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


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Free Republic; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigjerk; billorather; billoreilly; bloviatingpinhead; bor; bustedbykinsley; bustedbymackris; dishonest; enemedia; factordreck; jerk; kos; kristinn; liar; loofahlover; neverheardofhim; nojournalismzone; oreilly; popinjay; tabloidtvcreep
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 241-245 next last
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Who is Bill O’Reilly?


61 posted on 08/02/2007 7:55:13 PM PDT by exinnj
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182
And I never heard her say a bad word about anyone.

My grandpa was a German,Dittmar,And I never heard him say a bad word about anyone.

62 posted on 08/02/2007 7:55:59 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

Alternate titles:

Who's looking out for out of context poo?

Who's looking out for ME?

Who's your daddy?

63 posted on 08/02/2007 8:01:41 PM PDT by KJC1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182
Good Post, bump for later.


64 posted on 08/02/2007 8:01:45 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cicero

He trashed the Swift Boat Vets, sucking up to kerry for an interview he never got.


65 posted on 08/02/2007 8:11:20 PM PDT by ozzymandus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Psycho_Bunny

“You can’t win a pissing contest with a clever man when he controls the playing field because he will change the rules. “

Excellent observation. Most here are not clever enough to figure that out. Thus the reason Jim is in the whirlwind.


66 posted on 08/02/2007 8:11:41 PM PDT by jbstrick ( I've never been to heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: darkwing104

Thanks!


67 posted on 08/02/2007 8:12:31 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

Be glad he didn’t find some of the other crap posted here.


68 posted on 08/02/2007 8:13:27 PM PDT by jbstrick ( I've never been to heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: digitalbrownshirt
BOR is another data point that supports Newton Minnow's (first Chairman of the FCC) view that TV is a VAST WASTELAND!

Our Country would be well served if every TV station experienced a total electrical power failure for a minimum of five years.
69 posted on 08/02/2007 8:21:09 PM PDT by leprechaun9
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: jbstrick

All he can complain about is what he used at the time of his show, which he used dishonestly, but you know that.


70 posted on 08/02/2007 8:23:01 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: jbstrick

Fake but accurate.


71 posted on 08/02/2007 8:25:06 PM PDT by KJC1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: airborne

I don’t think his staff blew it; he blew it. He read some stuff about his royal highness and didn’t like it so thought he’d get even. That’s my take on it.


72 posted on 08/02/2007 8:25:15 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Romney Rocks!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

If he had one ounce of decency, he’d apologize.


73 posted on 08/02/2007 8:25:47 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Romney Rocks!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Saundra Duffy

He doesn’t and he won’t. He can sit and wait it out, banking that he won’t be sued or unduly criticized for his cheap shot against us.


74 posted on 08/02/2007 8:29:02 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

He’s NOT a Limey! O’Reilly is an Irish surname you maroon!
This makes you look pretty stupid.


75 posted on 08/02/2007 8:33:26 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182
BO is wrong to suggest that our mods aren't professional because they are volunteers.

The moderators here are always on top of things 24/7
76 posted on 08/02/2007 8:34:58 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Thank You Troops)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ozzymandus

Yes, I’ve always thought that his treatment of the Swift Boat vets was the worst thing he did. And he has done similar things, if not so bad as that. And he has a big, overstuffed ego.

On the other hand, he has done things like the programs on George Tiller that offered a real service. Which is more than you can say for most of the talking heads.


77 posted on 08/02/2007 8:35:00 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: Hound of the Baskervilles
Go here
78 posted on 08/02/2007 8:35:29 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182; Jim Robinson
FRankly FR is the best site on the internet. I've learned so much since I've been a FReeper. Without FR I'd do little mor than bank, reserve library books and check the weather and NST time.

Thanks Jim Robinson. I owe you a lot, and I'll try to make it up to you.

79 posted on 08/02/2007 8:41:34 PM PDT by onedoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: onedoug

Thanks.


80 posted on 08/02/2007 8:43:01 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 241-245 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson