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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/28/2005 : 02:31:03
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I really don't see how O'Reilly keeps any credibility at all.
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On the October 25 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly unveiled his list of invited guests who he said will not appear on his television or radio programs. O'Reilly explained that the list contains "people who are afraid to answer any questions." Earlier in the show, O'Reilly described the list as "people who will not stand up and answer questions about their bomb-throwing statements," adding "You have a moral obligation to do that. If you don't, you're a coward."
The list:
Dick Cheney (Vice president. O'Reilly acknowledged, "He must be sick of getting our calls.")
Michael Chertoff (Secretary of Homeland Security)
Jeb Bush (Governor of Florida)
Samuel Bodman (Secretary of Energy)
Tom DeLay (Representative, R-TX)
Howard Dean (chairman of the Democratic National Committee. According to O'Reilly, "the biggest coward in the country")
Cindy Sheehan (anti-war protester, founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace)
John Kerry (Senator, D-MA)
Brad King (state attorney for Florida's 5th Judicial Circuit)
Jon Corzine (Senator, D-NJ)
Jane Fonda (actress)
Jesse Jackson (founder, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition)
Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Senator, D-DE)
George Pataki (Governor of New York. O'Reilly, "He's so unsure of himself on TV.")
Sheldon Silver (Speaker of the New York State Assembly)
Al Gore (former vice president)
Bill Clinton (former president)
Andy Rooney (journalist, syndicated columnist, regular contributor to CBS' 60 Minutes)
Richard Clarke (former counterterrorism adviser to presidents Clinton and Bush)
Roger Mosey (Director of BBC Sport, former head of TV News at BBC News)
American Civil Liberties Union (O'Reilly: "Anybody from the ACLU is afraid.")
National Public Radio (O'Reilly: "The executives over there are afraid.")
Oil and gas industry (O'Reilly: "The heads of the oil companies are afraid.")
Bill Moyers (journalist. O'Reilly: "biggest mouth in town")
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (Governor of Louisiana)
Ward Churchill (Professor of ethnic studies, the University of Colorado at Boulder)
Barbra Streisand (Singer, actress. O'Reilly: "All of these Hollywood people ... I mean, they're way out of control there.")
Of the 27 people and organizations on the list, O'Reilly ranked as the top three cowards: Dean, the DNC chairman; King, the Florida state attorney who dropped charges against roommates of the man suspected of killing Jessica Lunsford; and Moyers, a journalist and the current host of PBS' Wide Angle, in that order.
And it continues; a whine/boast about how people with better things to do than suffer a fool are afraid of him.
Kind'a brings up an interesting question -- what's in it for the interviewee? O'Reilly gets to fluff his ego at the expense of his guest, but that guest ends up with little or nothing, as far as I can tell. Small wonder that his "coward's list" covers so many well-known people. But at least it's pretty much nonpartizen -- some famous, conservative Republicans don't seem to like him either.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
1093 Posts |
 Posted - 10/28/2005 : 06:01:00 [Permalink]
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O'Reilly calls someone to ask if they'd be willing to come on his show and let him belittle and demean them for a while, and the prospective victim of his assholeness says, "I'm afraid not, Bill." So, add them to the list, there's another one who's afraid. 
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 00:58:52 [Permalink]
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| The man is a pathological liar. And I don't mean it as an insult, I mean it literally. |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 04:40:50 [Permalink]
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Everytime I see his beady little eyes, this comes to mind....
http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4068&SearchTerms=sweet+jesus |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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