Bill O'Reilly Should be FIRED NOW! Keith Olbermann's Worst Person In The World
By CSPANJunkie Thursday Aug 13, 2009 6:00pm
August 12, 2009
(Nicole) MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is going out of his way to refute the rumors of a deal made between FOX and MSNBC by naming Billo the Clown once again as his Worst Person in the World. His infraction this time? The insinuations by Bill--all completely unresearched and unconfirmed BY BILLO'S OWN ADMISSION--that MSNBC parent company GE is under suspicion for supplying parts found in roadside bombs, purportedly placed there by Iranian forces.
So he smeared a company which he had previously threatened with public blackmail. You can talk all you want about feuds and cease-fires and childishness. But if I or any actual reporter like me had gotten as much wrong in any story as Bill O'Reilly got wrong in this one, I'd be fired in 15 minutes, as he should be now.
Silly rabbit. No one actually thinks Billo the Blowhard is a reporter, do they? He's a talking head. And as we've seen time after time from Fox News Channel, the heads need only talk, not have a brain, much less report facts. Facts have a liberal bias, Keith, and that's something you'll NEVER find on Fox News.
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That's next, but first time for COUNTDOWN's number two story, tonight's worst persons in the world.
The bronze to Boss Limbaugh, once again interrupting his new compare everybody to Hitler radio show to bleep that everybody else is comparing him to Hitler. "You people are out calling us Nazis, saying we're running around with Swastikas. We get tarred and feathered as Nazis because we don't just bend over, grab the ankles and let you guys ram whatever down our throats you want."
I always knew Mr. Limbaugh had problems with reality and logic, but this misunderstanding of anatomy is news.
The runner-up-here we go again-Lou Dobbs and the self-destruction tour. He said former DNC Chairman Howard Dean was guilty of advancing liberal fascism. Then Dobbs added, "I thought we had gotten rid of this left wing pest. He's a bloodsucking leftist. I mean, you got to put a stake through his heart to stop this guy."
He then issued one of those apologies in which he denies the murderous imagery was his responsibility. "I'm sorry if a Bram Stoker allusion is too literary for some. And for those who could not make what was seemingly an obvious connection, my deepest apologies, and I gladly withdraw the latter part of my remark."
Howard Dean's brother, Jim, chairman of the Democracy for America activist group has emailed his entire membership. It, in turn, issued a statement calling on his radio syndicator and CNN to fire Lou Dobbs.
And tonight's worst, Bill O'Reilly, who stepped in it this time. After trying to blackmail people for two months with some story about the involvement of the parent company of this network, GE, in roadside bombs, IEDs found in Iraq, Bill-O made one gigantic mistake. He said last night, "sources tell the Factor there's a federal investigation under way to find out if any American company has sold components for roadside bombs to nefarious people. In May 2008 and again in October of '08, coalition forces discovered unexploded roadside bombs in Iraq and handed them over to the FBI bureau in Baghdad. The FBI then discovered that radio frequency modules inside the bombs were part of a shipment made by a U.S. company to Corezing International, a business in Singapore with direct ties to Iran.
"Now, the FBI will not comment. The Factor has been told but cannot confirm that the General Electric corporation is under suspicion in the case."
So you've got an unconfirmed report of an unconfirmed investigation, and you've got an unconfirmed report that GE is under suspicion in your unconfirmed report of your unconfirmed investigation. Do you have any facts at all? Well, there is a company called Corezing, and there are parts called radio frequency modules. However, a GE spokesman told the Associated Press today that it has never done any business with the Corezing company. And according to the spokesman, GE also does not happen to make the kind of radio frequency modules described by O'Reilly.
So he confirmed no facts about any investigation, no facts about GE being investigated. He got the elemental details about whether GE ever dealt with Corezing wrong. And he didn't bother to check whether the components at issue were even made by GE, which they are not.
So he smeared a company which he had previously threatened with public blackmail. You can talk all you want about feuds and cease-fires and childishness. But if I or any actual reporter like me had gotten as much wrong in any story as Bill O'Reilly got wrong in this one, I'd be fired in 15 minutes, as he should be now.
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BillO is a crap investigative reporter if he can't find any real dirt on a war profiteer like GE.
So we can stop talking about him.
tired of his lying and narcisstic bullshxt.
I have often wondered how much the producers of Countdown, The O' Reilly Factor and Rush Limbaugh's radio show, sit together in a room and collaborate over insults to each other, in order to keep these phony feuds going. Seriously, KO ought to knock it off and reclaim the time he spends "fighting with Bill-O" and use it for real stories with which his audience is infinitely more concerned.
If you ignore things, they magically go away.
Case in point.
. . . the same way ya gotta be disgusted by innuendo passed off as journalism. Billo McCarthy strikes again. Waiting for GE/NBC's legal team to follow up - at what point does this stuff become defamatory in the legal sense of the word?
The day the Houston Press stopped carrying Tom Tomorrow was the day I stopped bringing it into my home for anything other than building fires in my fireplace or making art with messy ingredients.
if we can't ignore the wingnuts, can we build a zoo and put them in it? We can watch them at a safe distance then. And throw peanuts to them!
..bor didn't, every night, prove to the world what a complete buffoon he is. And since he spews this BS on a nightly basis, why shouldn't KO call him on it. If MSM did half the job KO did calling BS on bor, beck, rush, et.al., once, just once, that would be something and in all liklihood, maybe the people who think that bor is a "Newsman" would see, once and for all, that the Emperor has no clothes. I say "Keep it up Keith!" Nobody else will!
Is Keith really expecting Fucks to fire one of their highly paid corporate fascist shills for reporting fact free bullshit?
This is f**ks man! It's what Rupert pays them to do.
..and that's why KO spends a little time on it almost every night. Bernie Sanders was right last night (on Rachel's show); we need a Progressive Voice on the airwaves. KO and Rachel do an outstanding job.
rupert murdoch is already on the ropes with beck, the failure of his newspapers etc and the dwindling money from his internet sites, the last thing he needs is a lawsuit from a major corporation like GE.
Just the threat of such a lawsuit is likely to scare off even more advertisers, not just from beck but all of news corp.
Yeah .. the recent success in getting Beck's advertisers to drop him is VERY heartening .. to us .. but it's gotta be scaring the crap outta Fox .. as well it should ..
'Tis good to see.
The ratings for Fox News are through the roof. For advertisers to be dropping Beck is a sign that certain important people feel that Fox has become too powerful.
... good to know you found a new employment opportunity in this crappy economy
Another depressing example of how this Nation has completely failed to educate it's citizenry...by design.
2. Have you any idea how big GE is? How much it owns?
3. Many people who know these things, have accused O'Reilly of being stupid.
I have an idea for him, though. Take Beck and Imus and start your own radio station. Put it on satellite and let people subscribe. Then we'll see what your ratings are. Keep digging, Bill.
I often wonder - if Rupert Murdoch hadn't cast his sleazy eye on American media, what would all these blowhard lunatics be doing for a living? Yammering on some two-bit Podunk radio show, no doubt.
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that this should go on largerly unnoticed or condemned says more about your country and the people living in it than anything that sicko O'Reilly could ever say. He gets paid to be a journalism whore, but the american people surely don't get paid to see him getting away with it. Shame on you all.
I don't watch him, dude. Neither does anyone else I know. Save your opprobrium for the people who fill his coffers, please.
Because wherever you live, there are people we could blame YOU for, if your attitude were prevalent.
How about you go to Free Republic or Red State and lecture them about watching this asshole? I can't stand the fucker and I never watch him and I sincerely doubt that anyone else here does either unless it's to keep tabs on the devil and his latest target.
I'll be sure and send you a post on when the media is following my commands because it certainly won't resemble the swill that passes for news now. Oh, by the way, we don't have cable television in our home, so those fuckers get nothing from me.
If anything could get him fired, this is it.
about these guys. How do they hang onto their jobs? Keith is right - how is it O'Reilly wasn't fired, oh, ten years ago?
Yeah, yeah, I know - freedom of speech. But excuse me, I don't think the right to freedom of speech extends to LYING. That's anathema pretty much anywhere. You can say what you like as an opinion, but lying is not on, ever. Yet these bozos lie constantly and are not sanctioned, not even slapped on the wrist.
How is it legal to use the airwaves that way? Shouldn't there be SOME kind of law against using one's soapbox to spread untruths? This is a rule enforced in kindergarten, for gods' sakes - shouldn't adults be required to abide by it as well?
Colin Powell's son. Also, Murdoch is driving the politics of all the countries he can with his control of the media in those countries. You might ask why? Because he can? Naw. For the MONEY!!!! One of his sons quit on him. Good gossip and some insights there. Check it out. What I am waiting to find out is this: Is Murdoch too big to fail? Stay tuned.
He lost his job as a news anchor because he was terrible at getting along with his colleagues, a divisive force in the news room. His failure at objectivity (even in the milquetoast environment of local television news) made him a liability--especially on the network that was known to be the purveyor of "happy news." (Technically, I believe the station simply didn't renew his contract and told him to move on.)
Move on, he did. Of course, we all know he has found his niche on right-wing "hate-and-ignorance" teevee. For now. He seems to want to push the envelope into criticizing American corporations, however. This may be the "sin" from which there is no return. We'll see, I suppose. As others here have mentioned, it's sad that he's been allowed to come this far and do this much damage to the truth--and that it takes biting the hands of the true power structure in order to even begin a conversation about whether he does this country a disservice or not.
Deep down, O'Reilly isn't really even an entertainer. He's simply a mean-spirited, dishonest man; one intent on slashing and burning anything he sees fit to. He adds nothing positive to the conversation, the news, or the culture. He's a destructive force, pure and simple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
Perhaps not the best source but..someone else, maybe, has something better?
http://www.answers.com/topic/fairness-doctrine
But we all know, Fox "All Lies, Double the Spin" News, rewards Liars like Bill O, Rush, Hannity, etc. and promotes right wing hate and violence. And that makes Fox "All Lies, Double the Spin" News a terrorist organization.
Like Bill O's unconfirmed Peabody award.
"gentlemen's parts," ("They look like two peas on his body") and he misunderstood.
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WObY922U-Ms ](1:13)
defend him. He said that they could find a link to the site at his own webpage. Knowing the nastiness of many of his followers, he made sure to remind them that if they left a comment, they should be respectful.
From the looks of things, BillO's fanatics are over there attacking GE and MSNBC big time. That is, of course, what BillO was hoping they would do when he told them about the website.
So that you don't have to go to BillO's website, I put the link below.
http://www.gereports.com/ge-responds-to-fox-n...
then he''d attack that company as well? GE makes a whole load of electrical stuff. This proves what?
If there's a lawsuit in this, GE's lawyers should sue for slander. Waiting for FOX to fire this asshat is a lost cause.
about my washing machine (Just kidding).
Lou Dobbs and Bill O look like a couple of Dick Tracy characters.
And I'm sorry morons who use the novel Dracula as a literary allusion don't know that Dracula was actually killed by a knife through the heart, not a stake.
Actually Whitby solicitor Jonathan Harker killed Dracula by chopping his head off with a Kukri knife of the Gurkhas, whilst Texan Quincy Morris lent support by stabbing Dracula in the heart with his Bowie knife, before being overcome by his wounds from the knife battle with an army of gypsies, and dying with a smile on his face.
(And presumably with his boots on).
Funny thing, other than Countess Carmilla Karnstein in Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, none of the major literary vampires of the 19th century was staked. Minor figures were, but not the main one.
Lord Ruthevan in Dr John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre escaped, Sir Francis Varney in James Malcolm Rhymer's Varney the Vampire: Or the Feast of Blood committed suicide by jumping into Mount Vesuvius. The Bleeding Nun vignette in Matthew Lewis's The Monk was essentially exorcised. Poems and ballads like John Stagg's The Vampyre usually just ended with the death of a victim, in this case particularly homoerotic. The Giaour by Lord Byron dealth with the disgust and shame of a particular villain, whilst Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was unfinished.
Interesting this is the aforementioned Matthew Lewis wrote a fully vampiric poem in Brave Alonzo and the Fair Imogene that ended with the vampire turning into a skeleton in the light of the morning, which was unique in literature. But once Nosferatu Eine Symphonie Des Grauens ended with Graff Orlock being killed by sunlight, other movies picked up on the theme. Previous vampires, including Dracula were unhurt by sunlight, whilst others like Lord Ruthevan and Sir Varney had their batteries recharged by the light of the full moon.
It' been years since I read it but an early 19th century short story by an anonymous German writer, The Mysterious Stranger, had a vampire Count Azzo Klatka who I believe was staked.
What was significant was the story took place in the Carpathians, albeit in the Middle Ages, and when the vampire was offered wine responded, "I never drink wine," a line not present in Stoker's book, nor in the Deane/Balderston play, but placed in the Lugosi movie by screenwriter Garrett Fort, whether or not he knew there was a predecessor.
Sorry for the typos in:
Fri, 08/14/2009 - 06:02 — ysbaddaden
I'm still trying to wake up.
The vampire is also staked in Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic surreal film "Vampyr".
All that said, as someone else (on MSNBC or Comedy Central) pointed out, it's really a pop-culture reference reference at this point and attributing it particularly to Stoker is foolishly snotty faux-erudition... Especially since the element of ignorance we're all pointing out is IMO on the money.
But Dreyer's Vampyr came out after the Lugosi/Villarias English/Spanish/Silent version.
http://www.hijosdelanoche.com/images/SenorDra...
Is it just me or does he look like:
http://www.crazyabouttv.com/Images/moreyamste...
The point being that stakes were nowhere in sight when Dracula died, as opposed to the movie. And you can't make a "literary reference" to a movie. Well, maybe not you, but apparently Glenn Beck can. ;-)
...is a moron who attacked MSNBC? Is that the worst person in the world? Is this shit for real?
Perhaps you've heard so many destructive lies from this bullshit artist you're immune to them...like working in a slaughterhouse.
Frankly, for his complicity in the death of Dr. Tiller this mother fucker can be the worst person in the world every day until rapture.
Btw, when O'Reilly ever tells the truth that'll be newsworthy.
How about when bor sez':
your (insert female relative here) deserves to be raped because she dresses provocatively.
your (insert young child relative here) might enjoy captivity with a sexual predator more than living at home.
Pick any night, watch any show, listen to the garbage, listen to the lies and you tell me then about this man's place in the world. By the way, he didn't attack MSNBC; he attacked GE. At least, that night he did.
O'Reilly is an idiot, however this is a daily fixture on the show reflecting a particular action on recent days or day. Olbermann called himself a worst person one time and that doesn't make him the worst person in the world. Now, I'm pretty sure someone has done something recently that is a little worse than making false accusations against a corporation that happens to be Olbermann's employer, don't you think? Are you talling me that this is the worst thing a person has done in the past few days?
Really, nyguy?!?
What is the purpose of WPITW? Has this particular segment raised awareness about bor's 'faux pas' about GE? Has this segment generated any dialogue about bor and his grandiose belittling of anything he considers 'leftist' or 'liberal'?
Moreover, does this segment suggest that perhaps bor--by attacking one of the largest corporations on the planet--is trying to plant the falsehood that he isn't a Corporatist shill?
Methinks you are missing the point of WPITW...
eh...isn't GE a weapons manufacturer among other things? Wouldn't exactly be shocking if parts or components made their way into the hands of our enemies. But, whatever, I don't really give a shit, O'Reilly is the Devil incarnate, but GE aint exactly saintly.
..that made it to Iran (Iran-Contra) or Iraq (Rumsfeld shakes Saddam Hussein's hand during an agreement for an arms deal)?
how well things are going against beck , maybe some one here could come up with an evolving petition against all of f**'S sponcers , that we could sign daily , yano like log in a click e-mail sent to all of them daily , or has this been done and i missed the boat ? .
For the life of me i can not understand why someone with so much money wants more . What ever happen to the simple pleasures in life , like a roof over your head and a garden , trading goods , basic medical , a job , going fishing or hunting , chating with your neihbor ( mine is 91 and i chat with her every day ) and these assholes want more money .
Well fuck'em eat the rich indeed ! .
who said that Keith was a hypochrite and said he had knuckled under to GE are now ready to apologize to him, now?
I'm sorry to say that if my parents and siblings are any examples, they hang on every word of O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and the rest. He should be fired. Lou Dobbs is ready to take his place.
Get rid of one jerk and insert another? Why must we liberals/progressives give away free advice that is counterproductive? We should be smarter than that.
Keith made his own list?
Considering the right wings, particularly FOX news', use of projection is it safe to say that this is an admission that Rupert Murdoch is behind the IEDs targeting American troops?
..is a hero for being one of the very few well-positioned commentators willing to call the Bush administration on its bloody bullshit. But, Great Invisible Spook with a Hammer in the Sky, he is so not funny when he does his imitations. Please make him stop.
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