True. Brian Williams saw him there.
Posted on 04/01/2015 7:08:57 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday dismissed all criticism of his new film "Killing Jesus," saying that the "secular-progressive left" was giving the film bad reviews because it challenged their anti-religious agenda.
"Any embrace of Christian tradition is a danger to the agenda of the left. It was easy to see that in the articles about 'Killing Jesus,'" he said.
O'Reilly went on to call a review in the "far-left" Guardian newspaper the most "idiotic thing I have ever read in my life." He also admonished the New York Times for directing readers to a critic who described the Gospels as "myths and legends."
"I mean really? How insulting is that?" he said.
“There is a struggle in this country for power, for freedom, and for life-affirming behavior,” O’Reilly said. “Judeo-Christian tradition is under assault – there’s no question about that," he said, adding that the same critics would never mock Islam.
O'Reilly declared himself proud of the film, which was based on his book of the same name, saying it the most-watched program ever on National Geographic.
He recently told CBS' "60 Minutes" that the Holy Spirit came to him in the middle of the night and "directed" him to write "Killing Jesus," making use of his gifts given to him by God.
"One night I just woke up and went, 'killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit," O'Reilly said.
Despite O'Reilly's insistence that the words were divinely inspired, the title was very similar to his two previous books, "Killing Lincoln," and "Killing Kennedy," and the subsequent "Killing Patton."
Monday wasn't the first time O'Reilly had shown particular sensitivity about the film.
Earlier this month, CNN reporter Tom Kludt, formerly of TPM, was denied access to National Geographic's red carpet event for "Killing Jesus." According to Kludt, a channel publicist referred to his "recent coverage on Bill O'Reilly."
Business Insider brought this up to National Geographic's senior vice president of communications, who cited space constraints at the venue.
True. Brian Williams saw him there.
Bill: the movie was just plain bad.
3 hours to say what the plot was in the first 20 minutes: Jesus was a threat to control and the peace.
It was jerky, it was mis-paced, out of place events were jarring AND the beards were bad.
This is the sole reason why I am not going to watch Killing Jesus. I refuse to actively or inactively promote anything related to Islam. In this case, promoting a Muslim actor. My watching Killing Jesus would increase the number of viewer of the program by one. While it is only one, if others did the same, it would have a negative impact and perhaps someone would wake up and say, 'casting a Muslim in a Christian program isn't a good idea.' This would also mean that there is one less Muslim with an acting job.
Additionally, I refuse to ever knowingly hire a Muslim for job. I will also find good reason to fire any Muslim converts. Some people would call this discrimination. While that may be the case, I call it free association.
America needs to be place that is peacefully hostile to Muslims, e.g., no jobs will force them to move back to the dessert where they belong. This is a right that we have under the 1st Amendment. In general, I will do my part of excluding Muslims in every facet of American life.
next book Bill, Killing Me.
Because you are.
That was the impression I got from some of the reviews of this movie.
Your books are pretty bad too, Bill. Hate to be the one to break it to you.
I only saw the TV Ad and it looks like some Collage students threw it together while on Spring Break
Not replying to you in specific Longellow, you were just the last to post.... yep BR, I can’t stand that blowhard..I often agree with his points of view, when I bother to catch the show for a couple of minutes.
but this “he’s not a real Christian” crap, all due to a other denominations of Christianity...I can’t stand that either..
Exactly.
O’Reilly’s ego is dangerously out of control.
How bad was it, well for starters, the scene of his disheveled ‘Muslim Jesus’ was in the crowd watching John the Baptist dunking (his) followers in the river.
O’Reilly’s Jesus, asked John to Baptize Him...”But you are Jesus, you should be Baptizing ME.
O’Reilly’s Jesus: “Oh yeah, I forgot but do it anyhow, my smelly tattered robe and hair are starting to turn people off” (extreme sarcasm)
Naturally the left would give any religious movie a bad rating, but there are other reasons.
I have never watched a Jesus movie more than three or four minutes because it usually depicts Jesus as either a wild man or a woman with a beard.
Bad fake beards! I laughed when I turned it on!
Ah, but you can have a cake and eat it. You cannot eat a cake and have it though. :-)
Tell me you didn’t buy Killing Lincoln?
Okay. That made me laugh.
I don’t know a thing about the movie in question, but your comment was funny.
What “Killing Jesus” portrays is not “Catholic Biblical revisionism.” No angels, no virgin birth, no miracles, no Resurrection ... it’s the Not-So-Good News according to Bill O’Reilly. Period.
Catcholic Biblical revisionism - you are funny. You probably believe a stork from God delivered the Bible to King James. Lol
ROTFL! I may have to use that description in the future.
I think I can guess which one you'd categorize Max von Sydow as...
He tries to call Jesus a "philosopher" to make Him acceptable to the world, now he tries to show Jesus as a victim of a political system when all He was trying to do was teach people to love and be kind
He has no clue on who Jesus is and that is sad
Everyone I have talked to who have seen it have mentioned the rope and the horse.
They didn't come away with an uplifted soul wanting to love Jesus more.
Cecile B. De Mille was very respectful of the Bible and it was evident that he read it.
What is your excuse, Bill?
You claimed that you wrote it as an historian, so you are saying that to be objective you have to be dismissive of the truth if it just happens to be in the arena of faith?
Your historian status belies the fact that you made up stuff like the rope and the horse.
Care to blame the guy who wrote the screen version of your book?
It is not the secular-progressives who are slamming the movie, it is the Christians who have seen your movie.
Bill, you ignorant putz.
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