Posted on 07/31/2007 8:35:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I'm not going to call Bill O'Reilly a liar... yet, but... on his TV show today, he read off a laundry list of ridiculous "hate" statements like "I hate blacks," "Hillary should be assassinated" and "homosexuals are dogs" that he said he personally found on Free Republic and claims that they were posted here today. I do not believe that. I doubt that he personally logged on to FR and I doubt he found any such thing posted here today.
Who knows what we may have missed and is buried deep in our archives of millions of posts, but our readers do a pretty good job of alerting us to anything out of bounds that is posted and we pull it. Also, one of our readers found a couple of the quotes he alleges, and if they are the ones O'Reilly is complaining about, he took them way out of context. They were simply quotes in the articles posted not statements posted by FReepers.
As soon as he provides me a list of the alleged posts and their URLs, I'll believe him. If he doesn't... then... well, guess he'll deserve to be known as what he is.
“Though you left out the COnservative Babe of the Week threads. ;o)”
After that lengthy letter to BOR, I think I should be the Conservative Babe of the Week, yes? LOL!
KOS at least resembles something akin to professionalism. DU, by comparison, is nothing but zit-faced antipathy.
The common trait among clients of both is their inability to avoid profanity and semantic affect when they write.
Well, that is exactly what Bill is doing here. He never actually went to FR and read the posts there for any length of time. Ten bucks says he had his research idiots go through millions of past posts to find the dirtiest things they could find to talk about. Seems pretty hypicritical to me.
OH GOOD!
I’m so glad you’ve responded to his nonsense.
If he can’t produce the posts, and the threads,
and the screen names involved, then he’s not
ever again worth my time on the tube.
Thank you so much!
And I personally have never seen any of those statements on FR.
Bill should back off.
“Were you (kristinn) on the show representing FR at the time he made these statements?”
Yes, he was, and Kristinn did a wonderful job....but, of course, BOR, insisted he was right....acting disgusted and shaking his head.
There’s an inherent difference between public and private, which the Left cannot ascertain. If you come into my house spouting epithets, you may very well be asked to leave.
However, such speech may not be restricted by the public sector. Huge dif.
The only thing BOR looks out for is his own wallet.
Re: my post above...
Heh...
That should be a challenge to his staff.
I don’t think he’s visited here.
Eng was interviewed by John Gibson on fox shortly after he published this article in SFC.
Absolutely!!!!
Bump good post
We call that a clusterf****
Even if he could produce some mis-guided posts, it was still unfair to portray them as being representative of what FR is all about.
Students of journalism are students of journalism. Nothing has changed. I’d grade them behind the dumbest K-6 single-subject public school educators.
Outstanding!!
B T T T
Truth is truth whether you countenance it or not.
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