Tell me about Bill O'Reilly!

My opinion of Jay-Z shot up dramatically when he said (paraphrasing) "fuck him" on Missy's "Back in the Day".

Gangsta rap bashing is only a small part of the O'Reilly experience. He is a right-wing talk show host whose schtick is to pretend that he gives people the real, un-biased view of things (what he calls the "no-spin zone"). He likes to have left-wing guests on, and then berate them. In the rare event that his guest starts to make him look bad, he will start screaming at them, then cut their mic.

see also: RUSH LIMBAUGH

Bill O'Reilly is an iconoclast. He is no Rush Limbaugh, nor is he a Michael Moore. There are people out there who are capable of berating both extremes of the political spectrum, but apparently this is overlooked in this example just because this guy happens to be on a particular cable news channel.

Really, you should've seen him interviewing Rosie O'Donnell when she was pushing hard for that gay couple in FL who wanted to adopt their foster children. He totally supported her and said as much in the interview. So he's lambasted some extreme leftist views. He's also lambasted some extreme right-wing views as well.

I like the guy. He's the best thing Fox News has going for it and he and Tony Snow are the only two people in that organization I trust.

Interesting factoid: Bill O'Reilly and Peter Jennings are good friends. In fact, Jennings took O'Reilly under his wing when the latter was a reporter with ABC News in the early '80s and the former was already the anchor for "World News Tonight".

Another interesting factoid: Rush Limbaugh and Tim Russert are good friends as well. I have no idea how that happened.

I think to be fair they all DO believe things, whether it's conscious or not. For most of those guys it's some variation on "Let the Big Dogs Eat" which they've confused with savvy realpolitik for so long that everyone else believes it, too.

I need to stop drinking, and how.

Let's put it this way, I think that in all these folks cases they would gladly sell whatever convictions they had down the river for a few more minutes of airtime if they had to.

Fucking please. He disagrees w/ the right on a few minor issues (e.g. death penalty, homosexuality) to make him look "no-spin-ish", but otherwise he is just a tool of the republican party. He claimed to have no political party affiliation, then tried to hide the fact that he was a registered republican.

To the people in power, yes. Do you really thing to people like Cheney gay rights or lack thereof have any importance? What they really care about are thing like lowering taxes for themselves, handing themselves defense contracts, increasing government secrecy, defunding the SEC, etc etc. They exploit xtian right issues (gays, abortion, evil music) for their own ends.

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Test Debut: Australia v South Africa at Adelaide, 4th Test, 1931/32
Last Test: Australia v New Zealand at Wellington, Only Test, 1945/46

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1935

By any measure, Bill 'Tiger' O'Reilly exerted a profound effect over Australian cricket. From the time that he began playing the game until he penned his last word about the sport shortly before his death, he was an enormously influential and respected figure.
As a first-class player, O'Reilly graced the cricketing stage over a period which spanned 18 seasons. In this time, he proved himself to be the complete wrist spinner. He bowled at close to medium pace yet delivered leg breaks, googlies, top spinners and intermittent off breaks with unerring accuracy and deception. Throughout this period, there were few batsmen who proved themselves capable of conquering either his raw aggression or the wicked spin and bounce that he conceived from his low action. No less an authority than Sir Donald Bradman rated him as the finest bowler that he had ever witnessed.

During a glittering career, O'Reilly snared a total of 774 first-class wickets at the incredible average of 16.6. No less spectacularly, 144 of these scalps came his way in his 27 Tests at the rate of 22.6 runs apiece. Yet remarkably, O'Reilly's prowess was essentially self-taught; his father was a schoolteacher who moved to different postings on a regular basis and the young leg spinner therefore received no coaching of any note in his formative years. Even in later times (as he progressed from matches in country New South Wales through to Sydney grade cricket, the New South Wales state side in 1927-28, and then the Test team itself in 1931-32), the ferociously combative and brilliantly skilful approach that he brought to his cricket remained a distinctly self-made combination.

Immediately upon his retirement as a player, O'Reilly's abiding interest in, and shrewd acumen for, the game found new expression in a role as a cricket columnist. As a sidelight to several other forms of employment, he occupied a position as a cricket correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald until 1988. Around a series of debilitating illnesses, O'Reilly still found time to express his views in more irregular commentaries on various aspects of the game until shortly before his widely mourned passing in 1992.

In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the sport, O'Reilly was posthumously chosen as one of the inaugural members of the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. He was also selected in the Australian Cricket Board's official Test Team of the 20th Century.

WESTWOOD ONE/FOX NEWS CHANNEL host BILL O'REILLY gets himself in hot water for a remark while emceeing the "BEST FRIENDS" fundraiser for inner-city schoolchildren in WASHINGTON on SATURDAY night (4/12). While waiting through a delay in the appearance of a group of sixth- to eighth-grade boys called the "BEST MEN," O'REILLY reportedly joked "Does anyone know where the BEST MEN are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps."

After the comment stirred up some reaction in the audience, O'REILLY told the WASHINGTON POST's LLOYD GROVE: "This is ridiculous and foolish. No good deed goes unpunished. If you guys want to snipe at me, then snipe at me. This thing raised a lot of money for a good charity. Everybody was happy. I don't want to comment on anything else."

Libertarians are politically insignificant - Republicans lose more by pissing of the xtian right than gain from libertarians.

To be fair, the death penalty isn't neatly a right/left thing, because Catholics are against it, and there are plenty of conservative Catholics who are therefore against it.

And no offense to homosexuals, but in the grand scheme of things gay rights (mainly, gay marriage and adoption - I am in favour of all these things) is not an important issue. Gays aren't under anything even close to the economic/social/legal oppresion that blacks were under in pre-civil rights days. Its just easy points w/ the xtian right to be against it.

Bill O'Reilly makes $4 million a year. His views are widely disseminated and influential for a large section of the populace. Ergo, he is rich and powerful.

1- What the fuck have you got against White Trash?
2-I'm on a mac, so it doesn't matter.

More like not being coherent enough. Know your enemy.

He defended himself by saying that he was a teacher in New York, whereas the truth is that he was a teacher in Florida for two years, and that was only to dodge the draft for Vietnam.

He's my hero!

O'Reilly's not nearly as virulent as Powell, at least.
Ohhhhh, I think that way down deeeep...O'Reilly is the same. But at least Powell had the honesty to come out and SAY it. He didn't try to hide his disturbed mindset. I prefer my psychonazi's to be obvious rather than surrepticious.

Tom Green is funnier than Michael Moore (and hella more radical)
Tom Green is a talentless jackass. Theres nothing he's ever done that a retard on PCP couldn't have thought up in half the time, and pulled off with twice as much aplomb, skill and timing.

I will debate (and have debated) socio-political issues with a number of my conservative friends, but once they pull out the No-Spin Stick, what more can I do than roll my eyes? Haven't they anything to say for themselves? Any independent observations?

No spin, my ass. FYI: I think the title's meant to be ironic. And O'Reilly's having the last laugh(s).

Micheal Moore may be full of shit (especially on
gun control) but at least it's his own shit. I respect
him.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/03/off_with_those.php

hahaha, WFMU's Ken F. was mixing a bunch of those clips into his show last week.

oh jeez

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091211/en_ynews/ynews_en1030

I just wanted to draw attention to this bit because it made me lol (and then get sorta sad):

O'Reilly went on to explain that his "beef" isn't with illegal immigrants themselves, but rather with the federal government for doing little to control immigration and the "violent aliens who wreak havoc once they get here."

Oh lol this is an ilm thread.

I liked when he had the rappers on.

O'Reilly slammed Dick Wolf as a "coward" and a "liar" before playing a montage of clips demonstrating his past defenses of "poor people who only want a better life."

Kind of curious about this montage. Anyone have a streaming video link offhand? Does it actually exist? I imagine it will bring LOLs.

o'reilly delusional if he thinks he can to toe-to-toe w/dick wolf, whose army of acolytes numbers in the tens of millions & include myself, a dw soldier for life

Ice-T is very pissed off about this, at least according to his posts on Twitter.