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
Until then, he's just the same old ignorant windbag he's been all along. He's the reason I don't even bother with Fox News anymore. If they're going to support slander against FR, I'm not supporting them -- or their sponsors. The WP/LAT once tried going after FR and now Fox News is doing the same through their stooge, O'Reilly.
Here’s the thing: I always wonder why people want to think BOR is setting himself up as a conservative. He has never claimed to be a conservative. He has always claimed to be an independent.
So, being mad at BOR because he isn’t a conservative seems dumb. Be mad at him because he lacks integrity. Be mad at him because he’s an opportunistic blowhard. Be mad at him because a large percent of the time he comes off as an idiot that doesn’t have any idea of what he’s bloviating about. Be mad at him because he is a popinjay.
But there’s no reason to be mad at him because he turns out not to be something he never claimed to be.
Keyworded this thread with my word, “ENEMEDIA.”
NOW, he is toast.
I won’t be buying any more “No Spin Zone” adult diapers.....
Late getting here so maybe this has been said earlier but a limey is a brit and a mick is an irishman..I am irish.
See post 55.
"Homosexuals are dogs."
"I hate blacks."
"Hillary Clinton should be assassinated."
That is about as out of context as the posts provided and
more than the “I Hate Blacks” which had no reference at all.
That segement was the most disgusting hit piece I’ve ever seen with the exception of Dan Rather’s hit piece on Bush.
My dear FRiend, I am quite disappointed in you. How do you know Hilary doesn't have a scrotum?
Exactly!!! I'd love to watch Bill defend himself by saying he was being taken out of context.
Maybe he'd have a head-slapping "doh" moment and gain a little insight .
“I Hate Blacks” which had no reference at all
A quote about hating blacks comes from this thread on Free Republic...Why I hate race-baiting columns Posted on 03/01/2007
WHAT PEOPLE in the news business want to know is: How did the "Why I hate blacks" column by Kenneth Eng that ran in AsianWeek Feb. 23 ever make it by the paper's editors?P-Marlowe did a great job of tracking down the likely sources for the FR quotes which O'Reilly took out of context.
Notice the producer never provided the “I Hate Blacks” reference so it is likely IMO the he misused something like
P-Marlowe found and the producer realized they could never forward that to Kristinn.
All the worse when you absolutely know it is BS.
If he had any sense he wouldn't waste his time on all of the small minds who've been doing a weak sister version of the "Kos" on him. This thread is pathetic, one juvenile attack after another.
Bill O'Reilly isn't a conservative. He's a liberal, but he has integrity and courage.
You don't take over the cable show top spot by being a milquetoast metrosexual. (Leave that to the girly men who are offended by your big ego.)
His show is inspired by his own personal culture war. Does it really hurt your feewings when his judgements are different from yours?
Can you name one other TV figure who has done more to protect children than he does with his Jessica's Law campaign?
Don't you appreciate that there are several judges who are no longer able to let pedophiles off with weak sentences thanks to Bill O'Reilly and Bill O'Reilly alone?
Predictions of Bill O'Reilly's demise are silly and make freepers look foolish.
Let's not forget, Michelle Malkin fills in for Bill on a regular basis and he has the nads to face Ann Coulter regularly.
There's plenty to disagree with Bill about in a reasonable, clever, sarcastic and humorous way, but this thread has disintegrated into something far too embarrassing to be on a Patriots forum like freerepublic. Freerepublic isn't a hate site and sure doesn't deserve to be compared to the Daily Kos, but this isn't the way to go about defending Jim Robinson or his website.
I missed the O’R show tonight..house guests...and so I don’t know what was said on that show regarding any emails from Freepres. I was just thinking...if all Freepers sent emails his way his ol’ mail bag might be shut down...not able to handle all the “hate mail” I say this with tongue in cheek..we aren’t hateful...but guess he thinks we are.
Yes. It would be too embarrassing for folks at the Factor to admit that O'Reilly either
deliberately misled people
or
doesn't do his own research
or
can't read English.
I'm beginning to think that someone at the Factor set O'Reilly up for a fall.
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