Bill O'Reilly
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| “ | ...cleanse the Muslim world ... | ” |
| —Bill O'Reilly, on taking quotes out of context, [1] | ||
Bill O'Reilly (also known as Billo, Bill oh really?, Billo the Clown, Bill Orally, Bill O'Lielly, and the Frank Burns of news) is a moderately right-wing (relative to Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh) blatherer commentator on Fox News where he presents The O’Reilly Factor. He is known to be a fan of middle eastern food, particularly falafel (perhaps because of the word's passing resemblance and alliterative relationship to a sex act). He is also notoriously bad at phone sex.[1][2]
He also leads (from the rear) his legions into battle every December against the vile secular progressives (despite his own sabotage to the cause), in the name of "Traditionalism" (his term).
"If you're an act, then what am I?" —Stephen Colbert to his guest O'Reilly on The Colbert Report
"...his primary characteristic is anger. Bill gets wound up by virtually anything to the left of Mussolini, hectoring and miaowling like a wolf that's got its nuts caught on a coathanger." —Charlie Brooker on O'Reilly's style[3]
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[edit] Bill O'reilly phails at math
Bill O'Reilly believes that for some reason higher population leads to a lower life expectancy.
[edit] Bill O'Reilly phails at law
(@ 1:50+) Bill O'Reilly shows he doesn't understand that money and information are different things, that this is relevant when discussing the First Amendment, and that his lawyer colleague Megyn Kelly might actually know what she's talking about.
[edit] Bill O'Reilly phails at economics
In a display of conservative values, in 2006 Bill O Reilly claimed that according to the "Paris Business Review", France lost "billions of dollars" due to a boycott (he sees himself as the cause of). Unfortunately this suffers from the slight problem that no such publication exists and was completely made up.[4] Furthermore, if someone had actually looked over the trade data from that period, the US French imports had actually increased. [5]
[edit] Bill O'Reilly phails at world history
Keith Olbermann calls out Billo -- who, for the second time within eight months falsely claimed that 84 U.S. Army soldiers massacred German soldiers at Malmedy.[6] Of course, it was the other way around. O'Reilly did this in opposition to the photos that came out of the Abu Ghraib prison. He claimed that the U.S. military has always committed atrocities in wartime, therefore the photos were not really news. (The transcript on the Fox News website was later altered, replacing the word "Malmedy" with "Normandy.")
After actress Jessica Alba called O'Reilly "kind of an a-hole" on camera, a Fox News reporter tracked Alba down at a later event. For reasons known only to Alba, she told the reporter to "be neutral...be Sweden about it." O'Reilly then called Alba a "pinhead", claiming that she didn't know that it was Switzerland, not Sweden that was neutral in World War II. Of course, both nations were neutral in World War II. (Psst! Bill! Both were neutral in World War I, too.)
[edit] Bill O'Reilly phails at professionalism
O'Reilly disagrees vehemently with his co-host on The Radio Factor Lis Wiehl on some stuff about a Congressional hearing, then cuts off her mike and insults her while she can't respond. Classy guy, huh?
O'Reilly attacks, then defames the son of a 9/11 victim.
Billo tried to turn a drunk-driving homicide into an illegal immigration issue. Geraldo Rivera called him on it. Both blew their stacks at each other, but Billo (of course) went extra ape-shit.
And of course, who could forget this little gem from his days at Inside Edition?
[edit] Bill O'Reilly phails a critical patriotism test
Sez he don't care 'bout da Constitution. (@ 1:54)
[edit] Bill O'Reilly simply phails
O'Reilly gets his ass kicked by a 16 year-old high school junior, who knows how to read transcripts, and calls him on his enormous bullshit. Epic.
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[edit] External links
- Far Left Side cartoon from 2 September 2009 -- Someday, it will happen. Although Glenn Beck might beat Bill-O to the punch.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Amann, Joseph & Breuer, Tom. (2006). Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O'Reilly. New York: Nation Books. Page 49.
- ↑ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris16.html
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEk864YrKw
- ↑ http://mediamatters.org/items/200405020006
- ↑ http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4279.html#2006
- ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Malmedy Massacre.
