Posted on 08/01/2007 12:16:56 AM PDT by Syncro
You Tube video of The O'Reilly Factor with Kristinn Taylor speaking for Free Republic.
Bill O'Reilly makes claims about Freerepublic.com to spin us into a right wing hate site.
Plus some comments throughout and a little "creative" editing near the end...
(It's up above also)
I’m stuck with dial-up. Could you write something that conveys what happened?
Bookmark for later.
This all boils down to Bill wanting more controls on the Internet, something he’s been pushing for the longest time or in other words censorship...
Bill O’Reilly has a really silly, pathetic hatred for any site that criticizes him. that is what it is really all about.
I hope it is not my fault, CD. I posted yesterday that I have rarely turned him on, since the “Sponge Bill” lawsuit in 2004. ;-)
I thought he said something different, but I suppose I should rewatch the vid....
I don’t know if Taylor saw this coming, but he did a good job handling himself and didn’t blow his cool. Wish BOR would mention the positive. The comment about blacks is something I’ve never seen here. I wonder if it was a set up to produce controversy because of the colour of the other guest? And like BOR should start lecturing when Geraldo isn’t even in the room! Sheesh!
I'm not going to call Bill O'Reilly a liar... yet, but...
Posted by Jim Robinson
On News/Activism 07/31/2007 8:35:37 PM PDT · 296 replies · 5,244+ views
Message to Bill O'Reilly (From a Black Freeper)
Posted by Stajack
On News/Activism 07/31/2007 6:10:58 PM PDT · 188 replies · 3,422+ views
The O'Reilly Factor | 7/31/07 | Stanley Jackson
(Update: Link to Video Added)
Freeper on O'Reilly Factor Tonight 8 and 11 p.m. EDT 7/31/07
Posted by kristinn
On News/Activism 07/31/2007 5:09:07 PM PDT · 759 replies · 15,783+ views
Link to the Video on Fox News ^ | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | Kristinn
O'Reilly and Lanny Davis just called Free Republic a Right Wing Hate site
Posted by kjam22
On News/Activism 07/30/2007 5:08:38 PM PDT · 474 replies · 12,247+ views
vanity | 7-30-2007 | kjam22
Bill O'Reilly Slams Freerepublic
Posted by WyCoKsRepublican
On General/Chat 07/29/2007 3:49:13 PM PDT · 184 replies · 6,496+ views
That’s the first time I have viewed the piece. The Blowviator got the FR representative to apologize for FR being a ‘hate sight’ and not properly moderating comments? He ran over him like a mack truck. The so-called hate comments supposedly were picked up from today’s threads and nothing was said to refute Mr. O’s attacks. FR has been put in the same catagory as The Daily Kos? Fair and balanced...Good grief.
I quit watching BO because it is not a discussion format. It’s all about what BO thinks and everyone elses opinion is wrong.
A big difference I did note, however, is that Daily Kos is really "in your face" trying to sell advertising - so one very significant difference is the commercial nature of Daily Kos.
O'Reilly was concerned that he found unflattering Photoshopped pics of GWB on Daily KOS, however I've been amused by similar pics here on Free Republic through the years as well (although the images I've seen on Free Republic, to our credit, didn't imply anything as vile as beastiality).
I came away thinking that we need a new word for what we used to call "hate". The jerks who insist on trying to control us seem to have co-opted the word "hate".
...The Blowviator got the FR representative to apologize for FR being a ‘hate sight’ and not properly moderating comments?As Rush posted after "Mr. Potato Head" tried to ambush Ann Coulter with a call from Mrs. Silky Pony:He ran over him like a mack truck...
...I know how these things work, because I, ladies and gentlemen, have been on these shows and have been ambushed too. That's why I don't do these things, it's not productive...Kristinn may not yet be in the same league as Rush and Ann, but the fault in his limited exposure last night lies with BILL O'REILLY, not with our DC Chapter Warlord.-- snip --
...Look, it's easy, you go on television, you finish, and somebody says, "You know what you shoulda said," and sometimes I've resented that...
For a MUCH BETTER look at kristinn on TV, watch the video posted at the bottom of this post:
hotair.com/archives/2007/03/19/gathering-of-eagles-photo-essay
O’Reilly claimed that his staff found posts on FR staying stuff like “I hate blacks”, “gays are dogs”, etc. He recommended that every message on FreeRepublic should be pre-screened before publication. He also said that Daily Kos had an even greater volume of outrageous comments.
Kristinn reponded that those posts O’Reilly claimed to find represent only a tiny fraction of the messages posted here, that they violate the posting guidelines, they don’t represent the official position of the website, and that a staff of volunteer moderators remove those posts when they are reported.
Anyone who has spent enough time here has probably seen those posts on rare occasions, and they should be rightly condemned. But O’Reilly was trying to portray FR has a hate site by grossly exaggerating the number of hateful posts.
O’Reilly fails to understand that this site is not advertiser-supported - and moreover, he lacks a fundamental understanding of the Internet culture or technology. This site relies solely on member contributions, and operates on a modest budget that cannot afford to hire professional moderators to pre-screen each message. Furthermore, many large commercial web companies like Yahoo have no pre-screening function, and probably have a much greater number of vile posts. As disturbing as some of the occasional posts are, it would be more disturbing to totally shut down the free exchange of information and opinions - even the reprehensible and deplorable ones.
I quit watching O’Reilly a few years ago after it emerged in court papers that he was running around the Fox News offices telling his co-workers about his wife’s vibrator. A guy who would betray the most intimate secrets of his marriage doesn’t deserve any respect.
(Having said all of that, it would probably be a good idea to crack down more aggressively on rule violations - especially with a big election coming up.)
o’Really is a idiot trying to be relevent. You never can trust anything he says.
What does he think about Hillary’s attempt to bypass the CONSTITUTION just so Richard Nixon would be sent to Prison. Forget a trial etc etc.
Or her Star chamber health care plan. Then recently, musing that the right wing conspiracy (radio) needed to be equalized with the filth of Alfranken and KOS.
It all sounds pretty fascist to me.
That’s a great video, thanks RonDog!
That’s what it’s like when a reporter wants to interview someone to get news.
O’Reilly is spinning so fast he doesn’t see anyone but himself. How he gets such high ratings is beyond me.
I watch him when he has Ann or Melanie on, or in a case like this.
But you know, there is something really great about the O’Reilly Factor on Friday nights... : >)
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