Bill Oreilly couldn't take the heat on NPR

Wednesday:

Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly is host of Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor and the author of the best-selling books The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone. His new book is Who's Looking Out for You?

hmm. funny how they give no hint as to how the prerecorded show went.

there's a guy on Livejournal, name of Mr Mustard, who once wrote about how he tought Terry Gross looked like Lorraine Bracco in "The Sopranos", and thus, he wanted to have sex with her.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-14/screens_tveye-1.jpg

then he found out what she really looked like, and he still wanted to sleep with her. Once. Because, you know, she IS terry gross.

has anyone ever found out what a radio personality actually looks like and not reacted in horror?

-- cinniblount (littlejohnnyjewe...), October 8th, 2003.
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Teeny's sweater pic to thread!!

I find most her interviews (esp. with any sort of entertainer) to be along the same lines.

Terry Gross:Radio Interviews::Arsenio Hall:TV Interviews

I hear that! Wasn't he there to discuss a book about "Being in KISS" or something? If that was Simmons' mission, I would hold her to the standard of being knowledgeable about the info in the book, not their music necessarily. Of course, she could have hit NPRs extensive KISS library and popped some into her cd player. In all it was not Grundy/Pistols face-off, but it had its undeniable pleasures.
Do you have any good hostile interview stories?

Much more enteratining than her interview with Al Franken when she basically pandered to him.

I did like it when they talked about his background, it was almost civil.

she didn't do too bad last week with some loony tax-cut guy who apparently is responsible for the mess we are in

Grover Norquist may be one of the 2 or 3 most influential unelected Republicans of the last 10, if not 25, years. Google him.

i agree. and it's the kind of thing a good interviewer should do. cuz when you really get inside your subject you really do learn so much more about them. i don't care who you are interviewing. she blew it. that's all there is to say. we moved and don't have cable(by choice-we are trying to hold out and see if we get any smarter) so i've been listening to tons of NPR. it's quite a revelation! i won't go into it here but i could write a good-sized article about the good the bad and the ugly that it contains. mostly good i suppose. the show Odyssey must be a right-wing bugaboo if they have ever heard of it. all kinds of marxist theory flying around the room on any given night.
in closing, Terry Gross is married to a great guy and a helluva writer in Francis Davis. I got to talk with him a little in philly(we shopped at the same record stores) and i really admire him a great deal. and i keep meaning to buy his pauline kael interview book that came out recently.

they were prob just looking for a reason to fire dude and took the first good shot they got?

This was my first reaction as well. Juan Williams has been awful for a long, long time. He did a terrible job during his stint on Talk of the Nation, and his commentary is boring and basically useless.

As an Ohioan I apologize profusely for John Boehner.

seriously, I have no idea how his name is supposed to pronounced

bo-wayne-er?

it's "bay-ner"

shakey have you like never watched the news

passing on the opportunity to mislead Shakey into saying "John Boner" at parties

smh, jordan

Whoa! Mike Seaver's friend on Growing Pains was named John Boehner!

"for telling the truth."

but isn't the same dodge used by any dickhead or asshole or Kenny Powers when called on their idiocy? "I'm just saying what everybody's thinkin'!" or "hey, i'm just being honest here!" or "they couldn't HANDLE the truth!" or even "I'm just tellin' it like it is"

As if whatever bigoted horseshit stance they had was objective, empirically discerned reality and not the oral diarrhea of their layered cognitive dysfunctions, and as such, they shouldn't be called on it.

shakey have you like never watched the news

I don't watch television news, no.

lol

http://s1.moviefanfare.com/uploads/2010/05/MovieTone-News.jpg

sorry but after reading news on the internet all day, going home to see a bunch of preening idiots spout off about it and otherwise mangle it does not seem like a particularly enjoyable or productive use of my time

when I get on the internet, I got to tell you, if I see people who are using ilx usernames and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as ilxors, I get worried. I get nervous

wdyll = the real terror

when I get into Silverlake, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in hipster garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as hipsters, I get worried. I get nervous

to be fair, NPR said it fired him because he was editorializing? Seriously? He's always done this. Wasn't he a "senior news analyst"?

he's got the fox-y rhetoric down pretty well; a $2million gulag, you say?

What this amounts to is nothing less than a high-tech lynching of uppity black folk.

his personal assistant is gonna call npr and give them an oppty to apologize any year now

williams was just on oreilly show & really let them have it

it was very entertaining!

npr screwed up. fox has to be thrilled because now they're all on their high horse and also rating$$$$ are going to be crazy and they'll be able to run with this story for weeks (and also spend zero extra $$$ covering it because it's all their own people). there's a constant game going on of 'fire this person, fire that person, boycott this channel, etc' and basically, follow the money, 95% of it is organizations who don't care so much if the person is fired, they just want to raise their own name recognition and mailing lists and $$$$$.

wait a second:

alfred, i dunno where you got this:

House GOP Leader John Boehner comments exclusively on the Juan Williams firing to National Review Online: “We need to face facts — our government is broke,” Boehner tells us. “Washington is borrowing 37 cents of every dollar it spends from our kids and grandkids. Given that, I think it’s reasonable to ask why Congress is spending taxpayers’ money to support a left-wing radio network — and in the wake of Juan Williams’ firing, it’s clearer than ever that’s what NPR is.”

this is sarah palin's facebook (qtd by k-lo of course):

At a time when our country is dangerously in debt and looking for areas of federal spending to cut, I think we’ve found a good candidate for defunding. National Public Radio is a public institution that directly or indirectly exists because the taxpayers fund it. And what do we, the taxpayers, get for this? We get to witness Juan Williams being fired from NPR for merely speaking frankly about the very real threat this country faces from radical Islam.

We have to have an honest discussion about the jihadist threat. Are we not allowed to say that Muslim terrorists have killed thousands of Americans and continue to plot the deaths of thousands more? Are we not allowed to say that there are Muslim states that aid and abet these fanatics? Are we not allowed to even debate the role that radical Islam plays in inciting this violence?

I don’t expect Juan Williams to support me (he’s said some tough things about me in the past) – but I will always support his right and the right of all Americans to speak honestly about the threats this country faces. And for Juan, speaking honestly about these issues isn’t just his right, it’s his job. Up until yesterday, he was doing that job at NPR. Firing him is their loss.

If NPR is unable to tolerate an honest debate about an issue as important as Islamic terrorism, then it’s time for “National Public Radio” to become “National Private Radio.” It’s time for Congress to defund this organization.

NPR says its mission is “to create a more informed public,” but by stifling debate on these issues, NPR is doing exactly the opposite. President Obama should make clear his commitment to free and honest discussion of the jihadist threat in our public debates – and Congress should make clear that unless NPR provides that public service, not one more dime.

Mr. President, what say you?

it's almost like there is a script

"almost"

It's from a statement by Boehner to The Corner.

haha ffs

"campaign to defund NPR" nonsense is the same thing as "liberal organization demands that ______ be fired"

just energizing the base, getting money. it's silly.

Is this thread a cluster-fuck? I want to read about Juan Juilliams on ILX, but I don't want a cluster-fuck.

that's basically all we've talked about and no it's not a clusterfuck, come on in the water's fine

Yay! Thanks! <3

Williams should have been fired, along w/ Cokie Roberts and about a dozen others at NPR, for the "being terrible" reason.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/09/abc_roberts_080408_mn.jpg

Williams should have been fired, along w/ Cokie Roberts and about a dozen others at NPR, for the "being terrible" reason.

yeah, no kidding

What this amounts to is nothing less than a high-tech lynching of uppity black folk.

this seems to be horseshit

Remember when Thomas offered that pearl during the hearings?

ha vaguely

"that pearl"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTyaIAaqz8

What was so "high-tech" about Thomas' alleged "lynching"? Microphones?

Dildos weren't available.

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NPR officials say they have repeatedly told Williams that some of his statements on Fox violate NPR's ground rules for its news analysts. The rules ban NPR analysts from making speculative statements or rendering opinions on TV that would be deemed unacceptable if uttered on an NPR program. The policy has some gray areas, they acknowledged, but it generally prohibits personal attacks or statements that negatively characterize broad groups of people, such as Muslims.

"We have made our policies clear to Juan in prior conversations and warnings, and he has continued to violate our principles," said Dana Davis Rehm, an NPR spokeswoman. "When an analyst states personal opinions on an issue, our feeling is they have undermined their credibility as an analyst."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102101474.html

Williams should have been fired, along w/ Cokie Roberts and about a dozen others at NPR, for the "being terrible" reason.

Ugh, yes. I don't understand how Cokie Roberts has a job anywhere.

she understands Congress, bcz both her parents were in it! and she found the "hear ye, hear ye's" so inspiring at the start of the Clinton impeachment.

ie, industry ho

She is the menopausal version of Meghan McCain.

Her Sunday brunches are legendary.

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oh damn nicole

http://www.ninjatune.net/packshots/big/BD008.jpg

http://www.ninjatune.net/packshots/big/BD008.jpg

Let's get rid of ALL of NPR, we don't need "Mountain Stage" and "Thistle and Shamrock" and all of those offensive anti-American jazz shows either.

http://youtu.be/O_HyZ5aW76c

DO IT LIVE

Better without the visual IMO