O'Reilly Accuses Franken of Launching a Dirty Tricks Campaign

imdb ^ | 09/30/2003 | Unknown

[RightWingAtheist]

Bill O'Reilly has told Time magazine that he has no regrets about pushing Fox News's lawsuit against Al Franken. "This man is being run by some very powerful forces in this country, and we needed to confront it," O'Reilly maintained. He did not define the "powerful forces." O'Reilly compared Franken with Donald Segretti, the "political prankster" who served four and a half months in prison on charges of dispensing false campaign literature for Richard Nixon. "Franken's job is to do exactly what Donald Segretti did for Nixon -- dig up dirt on people. He is not a satirist; he is not a comedian. He's someone who wants to injure people's reputations."

[Protagoras]

They deserve each other.

[jjbrouwer]

Did he make an observation on Limbaugh's portrayal of McNabb or did he make an original rant?

I was referring to Limbaugh's rant about McNabb, not anyone else's rant.

On a positive note, if it hadn't been for Limbaugh I would never have known or cared about McNabb...just as I never knew or cared about the guy with the cork bat.

Meanwhile, the US woman's team's quarterfinal match in the soccer World Cup this afternoon is getting no coverage whatsoever...

[motherof 3]

Franken was on WLS in Chicago this afternoon and lied for twenty minutes. He ranted insanely about Brit Hume, Ann Coulter, everyone at Fox news and the people who listen to Fox news. He says that none of the conservatives really have best selling books. They are bought in bulk by William Melon Scaife (sp.) and end up in his wood chipper. Everyone is a lier and stupid, except him. I love Harvard giving him 14 free researchers to write his book.

[CMClay]

Like Don Imus said after interviewing O'really,
"You gotta calm down".

[Dianna]

"This man is being run by some very powerful forces in this country, and we needed to confront it," O'Reilly maintained.

Way too close to vast right wing conspiracy...sounded stupid when Hillary said it too.

[Timesink]

Meanwhile, the US woman's team's quarterfinal match in the soccer World Cup this afternoon is getting no coverage whatsoever...

Perhaps if the nation's sportswriters weren't trying to destroy Rush Limbaugh, they'd have some time to cover sports.

[nutmeg]

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[harrowup]

I was referring to Limbaugh's rant about McNabb, not anyone else's rant.

Ah, so which of the three is the maroon?

O'Reilly should just shut his fat mouth. I heard his latest rant about the black sportsman today. Guy is a complete maroon.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[jjbrouwer]

I really don't understand why this is so difficult for you. Limbaugh is the maroon.

[jjbrouwer]

You don't believe that. In any case, Limbaugh's ramblings have actually been picked up on the news pages, attracting more publicity to the sports pages.

USA are through to the semi-finals, by the way.

[jjbrouwer]

My apologies. I've only just realised that O'Reilly and Limbaugh aren't the same maroon. One is on loony pills, the other one doesn't need them.

[harrowup]

Just a suggestion, but perhaps you should either pay your fact checker more or be a touch less opinionated about really, really opinionated folks who are poles apart in intent and volume.

[jjbrouwer]

I still reckon they are the same bloke.

[harrowup]

Ah, I see; somewhat akin to Lady Thatcher and Lord Haw Haw.

[jjbrouwer]

Now that you mention it, Thatcher is sounding more and more like Lord Haw Haw these days.

[faithincowboys]

Franken is a known proxy for Bill and Hill. It was no accident that the first Presidential candidate to demand Limbaugh's dismissal from ESPN was Ashley Wilkes. I think Bubba and the rest of his mafia knew the pill story was coming. The fact that Clime's attorney represented DNC illegal campaign contributors in the past is very telling. This was a set up. Clime also had a big rack, they are probably just upset she couldn't entice him into cheating on Marta. I think the dirty tricks should go both ways. I think Bush needs to can the new tone and get surrogates to trash the Fifth Column Leftists. And if he won't, aren't there any rich, connected Republicans who will do so.

[Southack]

"I think the dirty tricks should go both ways. I think Bush needs to can the new tone and get surrogates to trash the Fifth Column Leftists. And if he won't, aren't there any rich, connected Republicans who will do so." - faithincowboys

It's only natural for you to think that way. After all, the Democratic slime machine has just hit Arnold in Cali, Rush on TV, and Bush on Iraqis.

And it's natural to want to hit back in kind. But adopting their tactics would only give us their results.

Since becoming 24/7 slimers, the Democrats have progressively lost the House, the Senate, the presidency, most state legislatures, and most state governorships. Sliming has short-term value at long-term expense.

Now look at how Bush handled the CIA leak slime attack...he said that he wanted to know if anyone in his administration had done the leaking, and that such leaking wouldn't be tolerated. Bush will win re-election next year, too. Likewise, watch how Arnold handled the LA Times sexual harassment hit piece. He took the high ground for any such behavior, apologized, and promised to lead the way for women's rights. Arnold will win California's governorship on Tuesday, too. That will take the Democrats' last major political prize (i.e. the governorship of the state of California). Democrats have already lost the major states of New York, Georgia, Florida, and Texas, after all. Even Kennedy's state of Massachusetts now has a Republican governor, as does Dean's home state of Vermont.

Everywhere that you look, the Democrats and their media allies are sliming Republicans, and yet everywhere you look the Democrats are losing...and losing, and losing.

This is what we want. We **want** the Democrats to poison the debate. We **want** them to be fixated entirely upon their politics of personal destruction. We **want** them to go year after year with no new political ideas. We **want** them to instantly latch onto every new fad that comes along even when it means reversing their own positions of a few years or even months ago (e.g. voting to authorize using force against Iraq, then criticizing us being in Iraq).

We **want** them running push polls that show the temporary gain for their candidates and temporary setbacks for our own each time that they unleash their slime machines. We **want** them to be addicted to the temporary highs of such etheral "victories."

We **want** them to be fixated on filibustering and sliming our judges while we are passing wholesale bans on their beloved partial birth abortions. We want them critizing our Iraq efforts while we are rolling out real, viable ABM defense systems in Alaska and California. We **want** them to be critizing our private school vouchers plan even while their own constituents in Washington, D.C. insist upon enacting our idea.

And we want all of what we are seeing because politics moves very slowly. Radical change really isn't possible in our system, but gradual long-term change can be accomplished if our opponents are mis-focused on the short term.

[Dog Gone]

Well said, Southack.