O'Reilly threatens to Reveal Journalists, "Personal Situations"

[buckpasser]

Last night, Fox Newser Bill O'Reilly promised to reveal Washington Post (does it stop there?) employees, "personal situations", if their reporters didn't cover the Democrats more harshly, and stop, "personal attacks" inside their pages.

The Post has ran a couple stories about O'Reilly, revealing the fact that Bill put in three phone calls to NBC, demanding people be, "taken off the air".


It's one thing to be called, "anti-American", for not towing the Republican line, now O'Reilly promises to reveal your, "personal situations" unless you provide Republicans with, "fair and balanced" coverage.

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/24/oreilly_pushing_manufactured_outrage_over_democrat ic_fractures.php

[Produce man]

What, one thread wasn't enough?

Man, you're really obsessed today.

[NewsguyMark]

As if Bill O'Reilly knows ANYTHING about fair coverage.

[Produce man]

He knows more than most in the MSM. Funny, I keep hearing these things about O'Reilly, yet no one can seem to come up with any examples.

Hmm, kind of pathetic, if you ask me.

[buckpasser]

He knows more than most in the MSM. Funny, I keep hearing these things about O'Reilly, yet no one can seem to come up with any examples.

Hmm, kind of pathetic, if you ask me.

O'Reilly, for months, refused to provide any coverage of the war in Iraq. At that time, the issue was killing the Republican Party. Poll whore Bill O'Reilly knows this. He obsesses over polling data constantly.


The reason O'Reilly gave (June 2007):

"But on my program, I don’t do a lot of Iraq reporting because we don’t know what’s happening. We can’t find out. Now the reason that CNN and MSNBC do so much Iraq reporting is because they want to embarrass the Bush administration. Both do. And all their reporting consists of is here’s another explosion. Bang. Here’s more people dead. Bang.

Alright, now we know that. We don’t have to report. It’s like Vietnam. Did you report every fire fight? No. The reason that CNN and MSNBC put it on is because they want to give the impression that the war is a loser and Bush is an idiot. That may be true. The war is a loser and Bush may be an idiot. Okay, that’s for you to decide. But that’s why they’re doing it".


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Joe Scarborough (R) said of O'Reilly:

SCARBOROUGH: Bill O’Reilly is at it again. Now, while the war in Iraq rages halfway across the globe and America’s deadliest enemy, al Qaeda, is reportedly rearming, using arms against us, what does Bill O’Reilly spend night after night talking about? NBC news, of course.

[snip]

I’m telling him that we have important issues to talk about across the globe. If you look at our show every night, we talk about Iraq, we talked about Iran at the top, we talked about nuclear proliferation last night. We talked about the coming war with Iran.

GUEST: And he doesn’t.

SCARBOROUGH: We talk about Pakistan. Take a look at Bill O’Reilly’s show just over the past week. Let’s see how much time he’s devoting to this “NBC jihad” as opposed to say, an important story like the war in Iraq. We counted a total of 47 references and attacks to NBC, dwarfing the 20 times he mentioned Iraq. All I’m saying — and it gets worse. Some further digging shows that 11 of those Iraq references were during segments where he was bashing NBC.

GUEST: You’re trying to tell him how to program his show. He’s trying to tell you to be straight down the middle.

SCARBOROUGH: No, I’m saying this guy is being self-righteous. You know what I’m saying? It’s biblical, really. Before you look at the plank in our eyes, check the plank out in your own eyes, Bill O’Reilly. Stop being self-righteous.


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In 2006, O'Reilly said the following:

"O'REILLY: Somewhat of a disturbing report out of Iraq, and it's more important than it first appears. The governor of -- or the mayor of Karbala, which is a town in the south part of Iraq, Shiite-controlled, has banned any further government dealings with the American military in his province, saying that they're not behaving well.

Now, it's a small little thing, but I picked up on it, because here is the essential problem in Iraq. There are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them. And I don't -- we're never gonna be able to control them. So the only solution to this is to hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible. Because we just can't control these crazy people. This is all over the place. And that was the big mistake about America: They didn't -- it was the crazy-people underestimation. We did not know how to deal with them -- still don't. But they're just all over the place".



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Now...Bill O'Reilly December 2007:


"FNC's Bill O'Reilly on Thursday night centered his "Talking Points Memo" around the findings in the MRC's Media Reality Check study released earlier this week, "Good News = Less News on Iraq War: As Surge Succeeds and Casualty Rates Fall, ABC, CBS and NBC Lose Interest In Iraq War." O'Reilly pointed out how U.S. casualties and violence are way down from six months ago. Then, citing the MRC's numbers with a chart displaying them on screen, he observed how now "there is far less carnage in Iraq and far less reporting about the war. Since the surge began, Iraq war stories on the nightly news programs have dropped from 178 a month to 68 in November. Those stats were compiled by the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center and you can read the report online at mrc.org."

http://newsbusters.org/static/2007/12/2007-12-06-FNC-OReilly.wmv

Note: Republicans HATE watchdog groups, unless the watch the evil liberals. Then it's cool.
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O'Reilly slams all media for not reporting Iraq, months after slamming the media for covering Iraq.


The difference? Polling data.


EDITED TO ADD: NOTICE BILL O'REILLY SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS, "THE WASHINGTON POST", AND THEIR CRITICISM OF HIM ON THIS ISSUE. Add that to O'Reilly warning the employees of the Washington Post their personal lives would be revealed if they didn't change their way of reporting, and you see what this guy is all about.

[Produce man]

I see you're back to picking little things and taking them out of context.

So tired, so pathetic.

[NYC Street]

O'Reilly: I don’t do a lot of Iraq reporting because we don’t know what’s happening. We can’t find out.

If he restricted his "reporting" to stories where he knows what's happening, he'd be off the air in less time than it takes to say falafel.

[Diplomat]

If he restricted his "reporting" to stories where he knows what's happening, he'd be off the air in less time than it takes to say falafel.

We could also say that of Mapes and the New York Times which as you know still has ethical problems with its leadership.

Just a friendly reminder. :)

Give me the newspapers which don't have obvious political agendas and aren't run by spoiled children who'd be lucky to get jobs as ad salesmen at any other newspapers. Give me the all-news radio stations that just report news and don't try to tell everyone what to think.

[NYC Street]

Two wrongs would not make a right.

And Mr. O'Reilly is so "wrong" that the word is grossly insufficent.

But then, you know that. On both counts. {G}

[Diplomat]

Two wrongs would not make a right.

And Mr. O'Reilly is so "wrong" that the word is grossly insufficent.

But then, you know that. On both counts. {G}

As do you. You said a while back that the NYT is one of the first things you read every morning and you have praised it under Pinch's leadership. I believe you to be interested in accuracy and truth, which is why I wonder why you don't consult a credible, ethical newspaper first. The NY Daily News is OK, as is the Wall Street Journal.

Since the Pinch/Raines/Blair scandal and also the fabricated story in the NYT mag about the female soldier not to mention having a lying racist on the Op-Ed page, I believe nothing in that paper until I verify it elsewhere. I check the Inquirer, Phila. Daily News, WSJ, etc.

If you get your news from only one source or believe that source is infallible, you won't get the truth. Even you know that. {G}