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O'Reilly jumps the shark
The O'Reilly Factor ^
| 8-2-2007
| DesScorp
Posted on 08/02/2007 9:23:04 PM PDT by DesScorp
On tonight's O'Reilly Factor, Bill used the Souther Poverty Law Center as an authority on "hate groups". This is the same organization run by notorious race hustler Morris Dees, a man local Montgomery Alabama area black residents accuse of being a con man that takes their money, yet does little (including hiring black attorneys for the SPLC). There are several references online to Dees con-artistry. Everyone from National Review to The Nation has called Dees out, yet O'Reilly has given him credibility. The SPLC has tarred a large number of groups with the "hate" label that are nothing of the kind, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy (which does heinous things like place flowers at confederate graves).
Discover The Networks has an excellent summary of Dees and the SPLC, with great quotes that reach across the ideological spectrum. Even the uber-left leaning The Nation magazine has a wicked writeup called The Church of Morris Dees.
Congratulations, Bill...you've now officially jumped the shark.
TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1900loofah; falafelbill; fetchtheloofah; foxnews; idiot; jumpedtheshark; liberal; loofahleprechaun; loofahman; oreilly; race; racebaiting; splc; tabloidtelevision; thenospinezone; zogbyism
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To: wardaddy
Old enough to drink beer with Bill Clinton in Oslo, Norway and have my girl friend introduce me to her friend Timothy Leery.
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posted on
08/02/2007 11:38:08 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(O'Reilly has turned his "no spin" zone into the "clothes pin on the nose" zone.)
To: DesScorp
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posted on
08/02/2007 11:38:08 PM PDT
by
Tex Pete
To: jonrick46
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posted on
08/02/2007 11:43:26 PM PDT
by
SeafoodGumbo
(logic, the Constitution, and the Golden Rule)
To: doug from upland
Watch out, you just might find yourself getting a visit from “FOX security” or even finding the O’Reilly finger of justice pointed in your face. </sarc>
To: SeafoodGumbo
I guess I am a victim of the age of typewriters. I have always double-spaced after a period. I never knew people were single-spacing. After reading your link, I am stunned. I am not sure I will be able to break the habit of double-spacing, even though the convention has gone out with the—er—typewriter.
To: DesScorp
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posted on
08/03/2007 12:32:08 AM PDT
by
sten
To: jonrick46
So long as you’re not walking over to the t.v. to change channels or adjust the volume... :)
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posted on
08/03/2007 12:32:45 AM PDT
by
SeafoodGumbo
(logic, the Constitution, and the Golden Rule)
To: YHAOS; SlowBoat407; The_Reader_David
Thanks guys.
By the way, did Fonz jump a card shark?
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posted on
08/03/2007 12:42:10 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: LanaTurnerOverdrive
I hope you don’t stop at that one. Plenty more to go.
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:02:02 AM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(Ok, it's time for the Republicans to start ripping themselves apart.)
To: SeafoodGumbo
I don’t. However I bet most of O’Reilly’s target audience does. If they not using the TV to change channels and adjust volume, they are using the remote which they still call the “Clicker.”
What amuses me the most is that O’Reilly did one thing that should set off some fire works. He asked his viewing audience to check out the Daily Kos upon finishing his exchange with Dodd. Wait and see what happens when his viewers experience the culture shock of the Daily Kos. They will wish things were back to the days of the test pattern.
To: DesScorp
I just saw O’Reilly complain that FR does not have a constant moderator
To: DesScorp
Even my wife was ready to switch off O'Reilly for good the last few nights. We've been watching the puke-fest with the depiction of FR as a "Hate Site". She's an avid "Glenn Beck" fan these days, moreso than O'Reilly, and I think O'Reilly lost a viewer last night. Bill O'Reilly, I hope you hear this, she said she's going to watch an old Brasilian soap opra translated to Spanish instead. Those are considered forms of torture in some nations. Guess where your credibility stands in comparison? And she is one of the most good and decent people you could ever hope to watch your show.
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"Mi esposa, represented by her cartoon body-double 'Pocahontas', checks to see if Bill O'Reilly has sucked out my brains"
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posted on
08/03/2007 2:32:02 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: jonrick46
I’m a double spacer as well. There’s no way I can break the habit now—I’ve been doing it since middle school.
To: NurdlyPeon
Ill have to take your word for it. I stopped watching BOR a long time ago.
I gave up on listening to the talking heads both tv and radio a long time ago also. I don’t think I’ve missed a thing either. Too many other places to get the news without their one sided view.
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posted on
08/03/2007 3:25:55 AM PDT
by
deport
( Cue Spooky Music...)
To: CodeToad
BORing has jumped several sharks but is too obtuse to stop jumping and thinks the waters fine....
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posted on
08/03/2007 3:29:37 AM PDT
by
x_plus_one
(Devolution is the wave of the future.)
To: DesScorp
Sorry Bill....
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posted on
08/03/2007 3:43:37 AM PDT
by
missnry
(The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
To: DesScorp
BOR is going the way of “the Big Mouth” Morton Downey Jr.
He seems to be losing it more and more each day.
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posted on
08/03/2007 3:48:06 AM PDT
by
dforest
(Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
To: DesScorp
O’Reilly invites folks of all types, middle of the road, extreme, bomb throwers, you name it. The idea, like it or not, is to generate debate, discussion, and critical thought, and NOT just at the studio but out here in the land. So he invited Dees. BFD.
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posted on
08/03/2007 5:11:10 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Showing a movie clip seems to be a new thing on Fox. In a story about astronauts getting drunk, Geraldo showed a clip from “The Right Stuff”. Fox News has jumped the shark into tabloid silliness 24/7.
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posted on
08/03/2007 5:33:43 AM PDT
by
RedRover
(DefendOurMarines.com)
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