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
The problem with liberals is that any time they’re criticized or brought up short for something they’ve said or done, it’s HATE SPEECH. cheez.
On first reading, the interview seems fair, until you read the actual quotes, or non-quotes.
I doubt that Bill did the research himself. He shouldn't have said that he did. In either case, he owes FR an on-air apology. And the researcher should answer for this gross distortion of the facts.
I’m mad at O’Reilly for this reason: HE COMPARED US TO A HATE-FILLED SITE LIKE DK.
What an INSULT.
What are you planning?
All I see below your post is a boat load of embarrasing responses. Gutter humor, childish cropped up pictures.
No where is there a plan to expose O’Reilly on a broader scale. Is that what you are implying?
Yeah, I suppose he’s not all bad. His french boycott was good. I still don’t like him. It boils down to honesty and integrity, which he lacks. I have more respect for Alan Colmes than I do for BOR. At least Colmes believes his own rhetoric. BOR just does and says whatever he thinks is best for his business plan. He has no core values that I can detect.
You that clever. I call that a bully.
The worst we could do to Bill is ignore him for the prat that he is.
YES.
Dodd did say it was on his show, which I believe it was.
O’Reilly blamed it on Media Matters and said Oh, you got it from them so it is not true.
MM actually has a clip of Bill saying EXACTLY what Dodd accused him of saying.
Good to remember. If Media Matters ever proves something about anyone, it is therefore not true. Huh? LOL
More:
From the November 8 (2005) broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: Hey, you know, if you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I'm not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead."
And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.
The 210-foot Coit Tower was dedicated in 1933 and contains a museum and murals that depict working life in 1930s California.
Disclaimer: Media Matters generally stinks IMO.
Ignore him. Boycott him, his radio show, his TV show, and his store of useless items.
Of course, O'Reilly has lots of money so he could donate the funds it would take for a professional moderator if he feels that is what is necessary.
Nah, he'd rather just whine, complain and scream.
Gee, sounds like a liberal to me.
O'Reilly doesn't have a bit of integrity. If he did, he wouldn't have quoted phrases out of context in an effort to bolster his rash statement that FR was a 'hate' site.
When he apologizes for doing so on his show, then I might credit him with a little integrity.
O’Reilly is such an ignorant man. I can’t believe he graduated from Chaminade, but I guess somebady had to be last in the class.
Amazing.
My gosh...O'Reilly is more self-destructive than I thought
Lol! He would not qualify. You can see from the original article how well he understood the posts he was given to look at! And then HE has the effrontery to suggest paid moderators etc.
His idea is really impractical. You really would have to preview each post which would slow the forum to a crawl. Posts on different threads appear as they are posted all mixed together in a stream as anyone can see in the latest messages page.
All that a Moderator could pick out would be obvious profanity, racial slurs or threats. O'Reilly couldn't do it as we see from his comments relative to the actual posts the producer sent Kristinn.
The stream of posts jumping from thread to thread and the shear volume and 24/7 nature of Free Republic would keep a Moderator from following the context of every post to control bad content. What is an inappropriate post in one context is OK in another and that could only be evaluated on a thread by thread basis. There are thousands of threads every day at Free Republic. It is impossible to sit on each thread with an attainable staff level. Some of those threads have thousands of posts and can go on for days.
Also, posters usually do not read every post on a thread. They simply would not see a bad post to report it and many have an aversion to being a "tattle tale" anyway.
Anyone who ever Moderated a forum would instantly know O'Reilly's suggestion is Nitwittery.
Good advise the more you contact him the moreimportant he will think he is .We know him.
I'll say!! He says he's looking out for us. It's apparent that he doesn't care about the innocent children of San Francisco.
Hey, Rush has done more for this country than anyone else. If he has to take commercial breaks so be it. I have been listening to him for for almost as long as he has been on the air and he has gone way over a lot of times when speaking with a caller. If we have to listen to commercials to get the best of Rush in 3 hours...then I am willing to sacrifice. He’s the man. Always has been and always will be. He’s more powerful than anyone else in this country. Glad you still tune in cause Rush is where you will get the true facts and not lies. He is who he is and thank GOD for our country he is who he is. We are blessed to have him. I know everyone says “where’s Rush?” when he is off. Well, he has put in many years on TV and Radio and I think his time off now and then is well deserved. When has he EVER taken a week or two weeks off like most working people do? Is this genius not entitled to take HIS vacations like the rest of us? He takes a few days here or there. Rush is the most honest source of news today. He deserves his time off. I’m willing to wait until he comes back. He’s worth every minute of my time and I am so glad he is the voice me me and millions of others.
...... have you been taking your meds ?
Is there a link to email Bore O’Really? or his producer? I know it won’t make any difference, but heck...
Email to Bill at oreilly@foxnews.com
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