Bill O'Reilly has officially lost it. On Thursday night's broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel he compared Arianna Huffington to the KKK and the Nazis. And it wasn't even close to subtle; he just flat out said she was like the Nazis -- on several occasions. You can't quite believe how bad it is until you watch it. You can watch it for yourself here.
This is beyond despicable. And he keeps making the same inane argument over and over. He claims that any comment left on any blog means the person who wrote the blog or edits the blog is personally responsible for the comment. How profoundly stupid or deceitful can a person be? Everyone who has ever read a blog knows that the commenters do not speak for the writer. In fact, they are often quite opposed to the writer.
The most vicious comments can be found on any conservative, liberal or moderate blog if they allow open comments. Commenters have called me every name in the book in my blogs. Am I responsible for what they call me? Come on, how stupid is that? Either Bill O'Reilly is the dumbest man alive or he is being grossly disingenuous.
Then he takes that fake outrage about some comment left on the Huffington Post and uses it to hideously smear one of the most respected political commentators in the country. Maybe I'm being naive but I really think he has gone way too far this time. I think he jumped the shark here.
I can't imagine that Fox would ever take any action against O'Reilly because they couldn't care less about civil discourse or simply doing what is decent and right. But this has to effect O'Reilly's credibility with everyone else. If he has any left at all.
And if all this wasn't bad enough, it turns out Arianna Huffington's mom actually stood up to real Nazis during World War II. O'Reilly couldn't have picked a worse target for his hateful speech. Plus, this wasn't some commenter to O'Reilly's show or website; it was O'Reilly himself who made these atrocious comments. This time, for once, he should be held responsible for them.
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Posted Feb 29th 2008 1:55AM by Cenk Uygur
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16. Yeah Bill Plagarized yesterday on Fox News!
He stole a comment Winston Churchill made about General Montgomery "Snatching Defeat From the Jaws Of Victory"
Chandler Yergin at 10:33AM on Feb 29th 2008
17. How great is this.
yesterday, when I was a new visitor to this blog and stated an opinion that Captain Negative or captain and tenille rather, didnt like, he called me a Nazi and told me I should have been gassed by Hitler. How sweet is this subject today.
Love those tolerant liberals. Do not want anyone to bad mouth or say anything negative about anyone that is an enemy of the US. beautiful. As soon as they didnt like what I posted I got called all kinds of names including Nazi. So typical of liberals. Where you at Captain? Dont have shit to say today do you? Whats up Robert?
german guy at 11:06AM on Feb 29th 2008
18. Come on Captain:
Cenk your hero said you are dispicable. No wait, beyond dispicable. Totally hilarious. Your other hero Osama has been calling Canada and telling them to ignore his NAFTA rhetoric. Just a Beautiful day plus it is friday. Great day for us conservatives because it is the weekend. Wouldnt mean anything to you libs since you dont work anyway. Well, you must not work. You guys are so smart there would be no way that you would work and purposely vote to let someone else have more of your money with higher taxes. No, you guys are too clever for that so you must be unemployed and living off the top 5%s dime.
german guy at 11:13AM on Feb 29th 2008
19. Dave, they ARE a cultural oddity. What's your point?
Strados at 11:32AM on Feb 29th 2008
20. Great job stank. You're at your very best when you remind all how much O'Reilly and Fox just OWN you!
BirdmanJones at 11:35AM on Feb 29th 2008
21. German Guy
Nice to see you here again, Stay around.
robert okane at 11:59AM on Feb 29th 2008
22. Robert:
I would love to stick around but I have 3 days of work piled up on my desk. There is not hope for the people we are trying to convince anyway, so I guess there is no point but it sure is fun. Do you think when we pummel them into the ground they even know it happened or are they too clueless to figure out? Did you see Captain called me a Nazi yesterday? I guess that is probably alright since I dont fit his liberal mindless agenda. Later, Robert.
german guy at 12:42PM on Feb 29th 2008
23.
Dear Dan:
I usually do not like to comment on things that I have not seen first hand or read about.
However, due to my distain for Mr. O’Reilly (and for good reason), I feel I must respond or add to your remarks.
I did not see the story regarding Nancy Reagan on the Huntington post, however, I have watched Arianna Huntington on television numerous occasions, outside of what I find to be an extremely annoying voice, and I find her to be very credible.
I feel compelled to ask you, why bring up what this bastard’s blog was posting about Hillary Clinton? These people do not care about things such as facts. Alternatively, what O’Reilly does with those he intensely dislikes? These people only care about what they considered“their own”.
They refuse to see what is in front of their closed eyes and covered ears. That is not to say that we are bias at times. Perhaps even cover our eyes once or twice. Nevertheless, Dan, why go out and confuse these good citizens with silly things like facts, truth and hypocrisy?
Patty at 2:44PM on Feb 29th 2008
24. Bill O'Reilly isn't the dumbest man alive. He's tied on that with George W. Bush.
emelpe at 1:28PM on Feb 29th 2008
25. Cenk. I always enjoy your blog. I'm sad that you must take so much abuse but there is a phenomenon of late that contributes to the flamethrowing.
Conservatives have taken up a holy war. Times are fast, Technology has changed the face of our society in the last fifty years. Many people are scared. You turn on the TV and there are celebrities drunk and not wearing panties. Transistors have changed the way we live making everything faster. We build our houses in the suburbs giving rise to isolation as opposed to community. I could go on but you get the drift, its like we are on a merry go round which goes faster and faster.
Conservatives also fear liberals. They used to call us elite intellectuals. They secretly harbor the idea that we are smarter than they are. Why not just return to the days of Norman Rockwell where everything made sense?
Unfortunately, we can't. Even Norman Rockwell knew that his paintings shined a false nostalgic light on the truth. Therefore what are they left with?
Bill O'Reilly, Rush, Coulter are products of this frustration and an awareness that the truth is not thier best weapon. Instead it is fear and rage and it sometimes works. Why argue the issues when you can lie, ignore the facts and drive a fear based contingient into a rage of fury. Their foundations and think tanks discovered this in the late nineties which gave birth to Tom DeLay, Newt Ginrich, O'Reilly and the rest.
But we believe that the truth will out and justice will prevail. So keep it up Cenk at the very least you are giving us something to think about.
Steve Seivers at 1:35PM on Feb 29th 2008
26. O'Reilly's comments are silly. And I mean silly. What smart person would compare Arianna Huffington with the KKK or Nazis.
On every blog I've read, including--and most especially--OReilly's, there are those who cannot articulate their ideas, and resort to horrid name calling and outright lying.
This happens on both conservative and liberal sites. For O'Reilly to pretend otherwise is silly when it can so easily be checked
wacajack at 9:04PM on Mar 8th 2008
27. Jesus O'Rielly has another hissy-fit and whips his disciples into a frenzy. Robert O'Kane and german guy become fast friends and cyber-butt-buddies. And Captain Negative has german boy so wound up that he is ignoring his work!
If I want to watch babies throw tantrums, I can go to the local mall.
Jesus O'Rielly is the Rosie O'Donnell of the neo-nazi set. I mock Jesus O'Rielly.
Captain Negative at 2:58PM on Feb 29th 2008
28. You are a typical Secular Progressive. Why don't you go back to Turkey and see if you can express your opinion like you can here! Try that then you may have more respect for our country and your "adopted" country. I vote "yea" to send you back A H!
Cool1 at 3:16PM on Feb 29th 2008
29. i'm ashamed to say that colleen 's comment (#4) is the reason this country is going to loose the next election. Her sense of entitlement is amazingingly ignorant and I suggest she make this a better country by moving herself. Preferably somewhere she can still see Bill O garbage on tv every night.
s.s. at 3:17PM on Feb 29th 2008
30. Captain:
You have nothing to do with me ignoring my work. I know you cant read, but i said 3 days of work. as in before I ever knew who the hell Cenk even was. No one knows who the libs talking heads are because they suck so bad they keep changing or going out of business. You fear O'reilly you dont mock him...but why dont you address the issue. O'reilly is despicable because he called someone a Nazi. You must be too because that is what you called me yesterday even though I never said anything like I wish Hillary or Osama would die already. Nothing to say..and now on top of everything else you are homophobic as well. Man for a piece of crap liberal left wing bleeding heart liberal you sure suck at it...and other things.
german guy at 3:23PM on Feb 29th 2008