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
My two cents. O'Reilly tries to play the center and fails. He should have mentioned the D.U.mmies along with the Kos kids if he wanted to talk about hate sites.
My personal fear is that I won't be able to post my photos of John Edwards anymore because I might be factored.
Thanks.
: >)
I'm heading to Rehab to meet up with Annie.
"I can't talk about John Edwards because you can't say 'poofter' or you have to go to rehab"
:) Ya never know!!! :)
I love it. Anyone who has been here for very long on Free Republic knows that the discussions and news is generally very accurate for those who seek such venues. Its a big community, and some people are so distraught that they have to vent, and let them I say.
Better than throwing a Republican TV set out the window into the street because of the MSM crap on it.
The MSM fears Free Republic. Just like it fears Rush Limbaugh.
And conservatives ARE gaining, with the truth, which is what this attack by Oreilly is all about. We are a thorn in their side, because the cannot manipulate 100% of the public 100% of the time....they want rid of us.
O'Reilly should apply the same standards to the Daily KOS, and other pink web blogs, where he will find remarks about killing our president, or movies about the assasination of our president,and other hate remarks. Some pink sites are nothing BUT hateful anti-conservative commentary. Do the due Bill, and look at the liberal socialist wild side. Free Repuiblic is TAME by comparison.
Thanks for the free advertising Bill. Watch Free Republic Grow as a result, but we will need a more active Kitty Zot patrol as well.
Spoken like a true newbie who has the scent of a TROLL.
Remember where you are my friend, and Rush's personal Rx has been debated on here many times, and the effort against him had been motivated by Dimocrap operatives to defame him and take him off the air. They failed.
And so will you if you are not careful.
“O’Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit: (2004)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html
“Bill O’Reilly, Producer Settle Harassment Suit”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7578-2004Oct28.html
I see. Thanks!
I haven’t read all the posts - but, maybe he took the ‘blacks’ comment from an article discussing a SF newspaper column:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793274/posts
Note that in the links provided to Kristinn, "The "I hate blacks" comment was nowhere to be found in the other threads referenced."
Maybe the reason the link was not provided is that if O'Reilly used this thread that way he would look ridiculous if it was discovered.
Exactly, everything BOR said was taken out of context. He’s a real disappointment. He could redeem himself if he explained each misinterpretation on his show. In the mean time, he has lost alot of credibility.
Since Tuesday’s night showing of the “O’Reilly Factor” and the disgraceful presentation of Mr. O’Reilly taking on Mr. Kristinn of FR, I have stopped watching that show. I will no longer watch it. Mr. O’Reilly has changed for the worse, IMHO. He lost an important friend among conservitives, FR.
Two of the cornerstones of Conservatism are fairness and truthfulness. BO proved that he fails miserably at both.
LOL
Hell, I burned my copy.
And, don't forget Gretta Ghoul who sits waiting for word that another young blond has disappeared.
I hope you don't believe he found what he said he found. If he did, it was because he had a stooge post it for him. I've been on FR since 2001, and I've seen enough to know BO is lying.
have you seen any reporter when an army helicopter in a war zone goes down telecast the incident with such passion, pathos and concern?
Personally, I don't think that Bill O'Reilly has the courage to face people in a forum where he isn't in control. On his show, he gets to control what is said and when it is said. In an open forum like this one, he couldn't shout people down or have their microphone cut off. I admire FReepers who are arguing issues on Free Republic on an even footing with other Freepers much more than I admire some guy who has his own show where he can always control the discussion.
Bill
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