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There are several methods of evaluating the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, 254 of whom have signed a letter saying John Kerry is not fit to be commander in chief. There is the Bill O'Reilly method, which is to abandon independent thinking and simply come out in the middle, irrespective of where the two sides are. In response to Newt Gingrich's remark that the Swift Boat Veterans' independent ads were "the conservative movement's answer to Michael Moore," O'Reilly said, "I don't want either of them." In Nazi Germany, O'Reilly would have condemned BOTH Hitler's death camps and...

Hello all. I just found this site and am making my first post. It's my latest email to O'Reilly and I'm wondering if there are many of you who feel the same way. Bill, I used to watch you for the entire hour; now I watch you for five or ten minutes just to see if you have stepped up to the plate on the Swift Boat story. Now I see you're hoping it will go away. What I hope is that you go away and make room for a real journalist because I'll sure as hell never trust you...

The Soros-Kerry Connection Written by Doc Farmer Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Politics is an ugly business. Politics also makes for rather bizarre bedfellows. In terms of vitriol, spite, chutzpah, and sheer hit-for-way-too-long-with-an-ugly-stick repulsiveness, 2004 has plumbed new depths. It started in 2003, before the lib/dem/soc/commie candidate had even been selected from the gang of nine, with well-financed hatred focused on one man. Dubya. For a year, we’ve heard the same refrain. ABB – Anybody But Bush. Anybody could include Saddam, Hitler, bin Laden, Mao, Stalin, etc., but for the lib/dem/soc/commies, Hey, that’d be just fine. Besides, they’re all closer to...

With just about 10 weeks until the presidential vote, smear merchants on both sides continue to run wild: John Kerry is a traitor! George Bush is a deserter! And there's big money behind the purveyors of this vile brew. But this is nothing new for America. What's changed is the machinery that delivers the slander. All throughout our history, character assassins have surfaced every four years to attack anyone daring enough to run for the highest office in the land. The freedom of screech extends all the way back to 1796. In that election, supporters of John Adams went after...

Portions or all of O'Reilly's thumping of Paul Krugman will be rebroadcast tonight on FOX at 5pm (PST) or 8pm (EST). If you didn't see it you must, it is a classic. O'Reilly pounds him into the ground.

At 2:30 p.m. every weekday, Bill O'Reilly descends from his office on the seventeenth floor of the News Corp building in midtown Manhattan to the Fox News Channel's basement bunker deep below street level. There, he moves with a studied, gunslinger's stride borrowed from his hero, Clint Eastwood, past long rows of office pods where teams of producers cook up the cable network's daily lineup of "fair and balanced" programming. Working a stick of gum in his jaws, he moves, unsmilingly, past the Hannity and Colmes pod, the Greta Van Susteren pod, the Shepard Smith pod, until he arrives at...

Savage in raw form. It is great that he called O'reilly a fraud. He also said he is to concerned being fair and balanced. And also ripped his latest article.

I just listened to the O'Reilly radio program hosted by Judge Napolitano. For the entire hour, Judge Napolitano in logical argument laid out the case why Kerry made Viet Nam scrutiny a part of his campaign. He spoke about Kerry's Purple Hearts and the Cambodia fairy tale. He said that the Swift Boat Veterans have every right to present their case. He spoke about Bob Novak's column and the article in the WSJ blasting Kerry's Viet Nam experience and the fact that the DNC was letting out their lawyers to attack the Swift boat Veterans. He pointed out that Kerry...

<p>O'Reilly is having a conniption fit over this and must be convinced to allow the Swifties to proceed. To email him directly, one must be a member of his "fan club" at $5/month (chortle). So, if anyone IS a member of this obviously important and influential policy group, please use that avenue. If not, you can use the Fox News address...hopefully it's not a roundfile eddress.</p>

The partisans are running wild over this Swift boat business, talk radio is crazy with it, and the smell of blood is in the air. John Kerry has made a major deal of his Vietnam War record, and now his opponents have opened fire on the senator's experiences. It's all tawdry and distasteful, of course, but let's examine things unemotionally. First off, I believe Jim Rassmann when he says that Kerry saved his life by pulling him out of a Vietnam river while under fire. Rassmann is a former Green Beret, a former police officer and a longtime registered Republican...

Mad Dog "Shut up!" and other deep thoughts from the angry mind of Bill O'Reilly. The truth about Fox News' number-one bigmouth By JOHN COLAPINTO At 2:30 p.m. every weekday, Bill O'Reilly descends from his office on the seventeenth floor of the News Corp building in midtown Manhattan to the Fox News Channel's basement bunker deep below street level. There, he moves with a studied, gunslinger's stride borrowed from his hero, Clint Eastwood, past long rows of office pods where teams of producers cook up the cable network's daily lineup of "fair and balanced" programming. Working a stick of gum...

Bill O’Reilly’s Criticism of Swift Boat Vets is Dishonest Spin By Jonathan M. Stein Bill O’Reilly, who publicly assailed the distortions of director Michael Moore during the Democrats’ convention in Boston, is now guilty of using Moore’s own deceitful tactics against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a veterans group of over 200 members questioning the wartime claims of John Kerry in a contemporary television ad. On August 5, 2004, Mr. O’Reilly stated his main argument against the Swift Boat Vets, that “none of these guys . . . were on the boat with Kerry.” On August 9, 2004, O’Reilly...

The danger we all face.That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points" memo. It simply amazes me that Americans can get so worked up over John Kerry's Vietnam War posture, when the real issue is how the senator and President Bush will deal with World War III. The economy's important, but nothing compared to the danger that Islamic fascists pose to all of us. Al Qaeda and other Muslim fundamentalists are no different than the Nazis 70 years ago.

That was quite a media slugfest on CNBC Sunday when Fox's Bill O'Reilly faced off with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Tim Russert's morning show. But the real elbowing might have been behind the cameras - between Russert and "Hardball" host Chris Matthews. A tipster tells us that Matthews had asked O'Reilly to come on "Hardball" to do battle with ideological foe Krugman, in part to "show that he could get ratings on MSNBC." According to our snoop, the proposed sale of Slate.com has Matthews worried that MSNBC parent Microsoft might pull funding and shutter "Hardball." That would...

In an interesting exchange at the Democratic convention, Michael Moore asked Bill O'Reilly whether he would sacrifice his son to capture Fallujah. The question caught my attention because our youngest son had just returned from discussing post-college options with a Marine recruiter. This type of question is designed to be difficult to answer -- and judging from O'Reilly's response, it was. This is because it is a rhetorical device and not a substantial question at all. This is true in four aspects. First, it has the high standard of "sacrifice." No normal parent is prepared to sacrifice his child for...

To speak out against the Swiftboat Vets. This ought to be a Barf-O-Rama.

Fellow Freepers I like many of you was upset at Bill Oreilly's conduct toward the swift boat vet Mr. Gardner. I sent him an email explaining my disgust at his suppressing his message and not letting him have the last word. In the body of my message I told him I would no longer watch his show, and I also sent a donation to the swift boat vets. I am sure that money talks with Bill O'reilly with his constant marketing of his books and products and I am wondering that if we all banned together and boycotted his show...

Dear Bill: 1) If John and Harry attend the same high school, and John and Harry sit at seperate, but adjacent, lunch tables in the cafeteria, does that mean that John and Harry did not go to school together and that John does not know Harry? You have used the same logic to state that the Vets didn’t serve with John Kerry and don’t know him 2) If Bill owns a bank and John owns a bank and Harry puts some of his savings in Bill’s bank and some of his money in John’s bank, does that mean that Bill...

I know O'Reilly is not too popular right now on FR (I've never liked him much) but he's cleaning up the floor in a debate with Paul Krugman of the NYT.

Time Warner Inc. chairman Dick Parsons Friday described Fox News Channel as "crazy people exchanging views," telling a group of minority journalists in Washington he felt that the channel and his own Cable News Network are two different services. When asked by Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos why CNN was losing the ratings battle with Fox, he was not ready to concede that. He said that Fox was more like talk radio on TV, which meant that its viewers stayed longer because people tended to "come and sit down for an hour or two and listen to crazy people exchange views."...