Bill O'Reilly: "FreeRepublic Needs A Full Time Monitor. It Has None."

Fox News/Bill O'Reilly Show

[lowbridge]

This morning only a couple of minutes before 5am, I was surfing around when I came upon Fox News. Bill O'Reilly was closing out his show with him reading off a few viewers emails and him giving a small response to each one. One of them defended FreeRepublic, saying that doing a search, Daily Kos had thousands of certain cuss words, and FR had none. O'Reilly's response to that was: "FreeRepublic Needs A Monitor. It Has None." (And then he moved on to another email)

"..Alan Novak, Wichita, KS: "Comparing the Free Republic to the Daily Kos, I searched the F-word. Daily Kos, almost seven thousand mentions. Free Republic, none.""

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Someone should direct him to my favorite thread.....

Behind the scenes of a Zot:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674019/posts

[savedbygrace]

Sooooooooo.... By his own admission, Bill O'Reilly just came out in favor of the Fairness Doctrine.

Those are two different things. Removing offensive speech vs providing equal time for all sides on controversial issues.

[P-40]

By his own admission, Bill O'Reilly just came out in favor of the Fairness Doctrine.

So we should now be entitled to equal time on his show, right? Let me see what his call screener thinks of that. :)

[PeterPrinciple]

As Ronald Reagan would say about someone who threw a tantrum ............. I wonder what is bothering them? and continue on his way doing his own thing.

[savedbygrace]

Loofah, loofah, loofah, loofah . . . .

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Nope you are not missing a thing.

BOR is missing something.

He still owes Jim and FReepers an apology.

[gridlock]

I reported that picture and it was removed by a admin.

Well, I guess the AM agrees with you, my crime fighting canine friend. It seems like harmless fun to me, but I guess we're under a little more scrutiny today.

[mkjessup]

If we are now banning little kittens with sniper rifles that are pure imagination and fantasy, and with no relation to reality, then Bill O’Reilly has already won.

[RetSignman]

What BOR fails to recognize is that Free Republic IS a monitor. We monitor the MSM and news, in general, and rip the facade off it’s leftist slant.

We expose agendas and bring forward, into the light of day, the truth behind musings of the left and whining by BOR will not deter the mission but help bring the this site more into the public view.

[gridlock]

If little kittens with sniper rifles are outlawed, only outlaws will have little kittens with sniper rifles!

They can take my sniper rifle from my cold, dead fuzzy paws!

[toddlintown]

“Whoroldo”

Another BIG problem with Fox.

[savedbygrace]

In the post you’re replying to, I apparently made an HTML coding error. The sentence you quoted was first written by snowrip, and I was quoting it, then disputing it.

I thought I had coded it with italics, but I failed to Preview, so there you go.

Talk to snowrip about it. ;-)

[labette]

"Unlike Free Republic Bill O’Reilly cannot be debated on his show(s) and monitors what is said there."

Bullseye!

[melancholy]

What’s behind Oreilly’s attack on FR?

Here is what I posted kristinn a couple of days ago:

To: kristinn
Kristinn,

Thank you for defending us. He didn’t let you talk because he couldn’t afford it.

I hope he’ll be reading the truth below.

Mr. O’Reilly,

Your attacks on the “Internet, blogs and message boards” started sometime ago and I heard you shouting: The Internet is out of control! The truth is that the Internet is out of YOUR control. The reason was you have been shown in a very bad light, which you have to take responsibility for.

The lefty sites talked about your juvenile phone sex to and sexual harassment of one of your subordinates. I’m not going to re-embarrass you with the salacious details, which you undoubtedly know better than anybody else. You threatened to fight the woman in question tooth and nail but you ended up hushing it up quickly through a huge monetary settlement, which proved that the phone sex tapes existed and that your spin didn’t work.

The lefty sites were vicious because they thought you are a conservative and at the time, they had nothing juicy to bash conservatives with.

Now comes the “Fair and Balanced” fairy tale. By playing an Independent, you had to mix the Left with the Right and bash them both. That is what got us in the present situation.

Mr. O’Reilly,

Just be honest with yourself and think about painting everybody with the same filthy, wide brush. Look at your own program, who are your guests and interviewees? 90 % are FOX staff or contributors. You’re using Geraldo to prop up your program. One thing I have to give Geraldo, although I disagree with him on most subjects, he stood his liberal grounds with you and refused to submit to your fake bullying tactics. If you upset him, uh oh, that’s another liberal who’ll refuse to talk to you and join the bunch whom you plead with (I’ll be nice, just come, etc.) One of them will always keep coming back, your buddy Al Sharpton! Have you ever tried to ask him or remind him of the Tawana Brawley case when his moral hypocrisy shines? Of course not, you can’t because a bird in hand is better than ten on the tree!

I can go on and on about your hypocrisy but I think you got the message; not everyone’s IQ is negative and that this Internet site IS under the owners’ control.

Remember, every time I hear you attacking the “out of control Internet” I, for one, know exactly what you mean: I didn’t do it, honest, vicious rumors from evil people, etc.

Muddying the waters and stepping on people to defend your scandalous behavior won’t cut it. Face yourself and act your age, for a change.

721 posted on 08/01/2007 1:01:46 AM EDT by melancholy (Quiz: name one country, other than the USA, that doesn’t control its borders.)

[dforest]

I agree with you. When people take the things away that have personality, the site becomes a bore. Any FReeper gets the humor. I thought they were funny and cute, made me laugh, a welcome break.

The kitties should be “off limits” to those that have no humor, like them or leave.

Looks like BOR’s disengenuous slurs have worked. The price of over censorship is the loss of personality, a trait lacking in BOR.

[texasgil]

“Removing offensive speech vs providing equal time for all sides on controversial issues.”

This is true. BUT, it is a certainly a slippery slope calling to make laws to police and remove so called hate sites. Who would decide???
Especially the way BOR seems to perceive what is or isn’t a ‘hate site’.

The crazy fairness doctrine is just that. Equal time=no time.

Ah I need to fergetaboutit, just keep a watchful eye out and get on with more important issues at hand.

[Actually_in_Tokyo]

That is a great cartoon!!!

[snowrip]

The UnFairness Doctrine provides for a government moderator to determine what is “fair”. Are you insinuating that FR is a haven for hate speech?

BTW, have you seen post #108? The flap concerning the UnFairness Doctrine has more to do with its odious intent than actual regulation... The intent is to destroy political opposition by silencing it, which is what O’Reilly has decided he would like to see.

[Antoninus]

My guess is that Bill finds the criticisms of him more cuttingly accurate here on FR than on DailyKos—and more of a danger to his livelihood. While we, who are or have been audience members, call him a bumbling phony conservative who puts up a bold front but is pathetic and lily-livered underneath, the Kossacks, who have never and will never watch his show, just say he’s a FascistNaziRacistSexistYaddaYadda. Their criticisms are so predictable that they’re meaningless.

[RedStateRocker]

The jerk is a piece of work. Just being correct on some issues does not preclude one from being a twit.