O'Reilly blows it.
Posted on 07/27/2004 2:10:51 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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Moore sure wants O'Reilly's kid to die.
Just read the transcript. NO FIREWORKS! I REPEAT...NO FIREWORKS.
Thank you Matt Drudge, now I don't have to waste my time watching "The Factor" tonight for something that didn't even materialize.
bttt
Michael Moore reminds me of the sloppy, fat, smart boy that was in every class. He was perpetuously dateless, and spent all his time studying and being obnoxious to the girls.
Smarmy all the time and argued just for the sake of arguing.
I'm not sure who is the bigger jackass... Moore or O'Reilly...
Maybe its the written word but O'Reilly diesnt come off as totally up to par, but Moore plays a convincing idiot
O'Reilly blows it.
Orelly is a good reporter, he has uncovered many news stories like this one which is in his latest book.
Ops4 God BLess America!
Sen. Kerry, Pioneer Linked In "Big Dig" Overpayment 02/06/2004
An insurance company led by Bush Pioneer Maurice "Hank" Greenberg has been connected to Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) - currently the frontrunner for this year's Democratic presidential nomination - in a series of events that appear to illustrate a trade of favors involving a huge Boston transportation project. The Associated Press reported Feb. 5 that in 2000, Kerry stopped a bill that would have forced American International Group (AIG) to repay $150 million related to overpayments for insurance premiums on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a $14.6 billion highway, bridge and tunnel complex better known as the "Big Dig." In 2001 and 2002, AIG paid $540 in travel expenses for a Kerry speech in Vermont, gave $18,000 to Kerry's Senate and presidential campaigns, and donated at least $30,000 to a tax-exempt "exploratory committee" Kerry set up to examine whether he should run for president.
The bill that Kerry blocked came after the Transportation Department found in 1999 that Big Dig managers overpaid AIG $128.9 million for unneeded worker's compensation and liability insurance, then let AIG invest the money in the market and keep about half the profits from the investments. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill in 2000 that would have taken $150 million in federal funding from the Big Dig while banning insurers from investing any excessive premiums paid with federal money. McCain relented when Kerry and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) asked McCain to drop the bill; instead, McCain held a hearing on the issue before the Senate Commerce Committee. A spokeswoman said Kerry called for hearings to determine whether the investments were legal, but opposed cutting funding for the project.
O'Reilly needed to attack Moore's own lies, instead he basically agrees with everything he says and retorts with poor arguments.
O'Reilly needed to attack Moore's own lies, instead he basically agrees with everything he says and retorts with poor arguments.
I don't like the idea of watching the schoolyard bully pick on the fat dumb guy. It isn't fair.:)
O'Reilly needed to attack Moore's own lies, instead he basically agrees with everything he says and retorts with poor arguments.
Moore will not listen to reason. It was a waste of O'Reilly's time to try to explain anything to him.
What a painful read.
I don't know which is dumber.
Just a hunch, but i bet that seeing this on television might be much more powerful. Sounds like fatso gets pretty defensive.
O'R got tongue tied and didn't go for the throat - obscured as it was by fat and scraggle - this transcript doesn't make O'R look very intelligent...
Even I could have better stated that Bush didn't lie, Gorelick, Berger and the Clintoon Administration deceived the country...
"Just a hunch, but i bet that seeing this on television might be much more powerful. Sounds like fatso gets pretty defensive."
There might be some emotional flare to it on T.V., but from an intellectual stangpoint, this encounter is sorely lacking any fireworks whatsoever. I must say, O'Reilly came off looking the lightweight. I found the conversation rather sophmoric.
Moore gets off pretty easy. O'Reilly couldn't keep him from tap dancing and obfuscating.
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