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O’Reilly Doth Protest Too Much?

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Posted on Jul 29, 2008
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In response to Scott McClellan’s suggestion that White House talking points somehow found their way onto Fox News pundits’ teleprompter feeds, Bill O’Reilly took to the airwaves to defend his honor, denying he ever served as a mouthpiece to the Bush White House and declaring, “McClellan would never dare say that to my face.”

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By Hesperion, July 31, 2008 at 4:43 pm #

O’Reilly strikes me as one of those mouthy kids we all knew in grade school; the one that was always sucking up to the local bullies in hopes of being included. Cheney driving, Bush riding shotgun and the major neocons in the back pointing the way, the bullies have stolen the keys to the family SUV and all of dad’s credit cards and are out terrorizing the town. On the way to play a little “mail-box baseball” and stick up some old ladies for their social security money they encounter O’Reilly hopping up and down on a curb “Take me, take me along fellahs!” They pick him up for a while and, when even they are sick and tired of him, they kick him out at some other curb. There he is left, dizzy with self-importance from his time with the big boys and runs up to any one he finds and brags about it. He soon can not get anyone to listen to the tale and besides, the bullies have all been found out and are on notice by now. What a pathetic, short period of fame he had. He will go down in history as did that other household name: Robert Ley. Have you not heard of Robert Ley? Thought not, google him up and you will see what I mean. Real memorable character, similar claim to fame.

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By gradioc, July 30, 2008 at 6:30 pm #

O’Reilly isn’t lying this time. You see the Daily GOP Talking Points (and they are formalized enough that I think caps are in order) do not originate in the White House at all, but at Grover Norquist’s morning round table and conference call of Neocon leaders. A lot of this came out in the Abrahmoff investigation, where it was clear that K Street could push items onto the agenda as long as Norquist’s operation got a donation from the client. The most egregious example was touting the sweatshops in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US Commenwealth, as “a labratory of open-market capitalism”. Boy, was it, with slave laborers from all over east Asia paid pennies a day and trapped on islands in the middle of the Pacific with no way out. They all do march to the same drummer, but the White House isn’t calling the tune. Some REALLY big money calls the tune and the White House is just the head of the parade

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By gradioc, July 30, 2008 at 6:29 pm #

O’Reilly isn’t lying this time. You see the Daily GOP Talking Points (and it is formalized enough that I think caps are in order) do not originate in the White House at all, but at Grover Norquist’s morning round table and conference call of Neocon leaders. A lot of this came out in the Abrahmoff investigation, where it was clear that K Street could push items onto the agenda as long as Norquist’s operation got a donation from the client. The most egregious example was touting the sweatshops in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US Commenwealth, as “a labratory of open-market capitalism”. Boy, was it, with slave laborers from all over east Asia paid pennies a day and trapped on islands in the middle of the Pacific with no way out. They all do march to the same drummer, but the White House isn’t calling the tune. Some REALLY big money calls the tune and the White House is just the head of the parade

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By Allan Krueger, July 30, 2008 at 2:54 pm #

I volunteer to tell that dirtbag, O’Really,  to his face, that he is nothing more than a front man for the worst pResidential aDministration in American history. AND hope against hope that he would tell me to shut up or otherwise threaten me. There are few humans in this world than this mouthpiece for FUX News, but, I would enjoy customizing his face.

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By GW=MCHammered, July 30, 2008 at 2:15 pm #
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-LYRICS-

Where’d all the good people go?
I’ve been changing channels
I don’t see them on the TV shows
Where’d all the good people go?
We got heaps and heaps of what we sow

Now what you gonna do?
Bad news, misused, give me some truth
You got too much to lose
Whose side are we on today, anyway?
OK, whatever you say.
Wrong and resolute but in the mood to obey
Station to station desensitizing the nation
Going, going, gone.

Jack Johnson

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By Alan Smithee, July 30, 2008 at 11:54 am #
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Wait. BOR has honor to defend?

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By Purple Girl, July 30, 2008 at 11:20 am #

McClellan is nothing more than a servant who is trying to save his beloved Ass. No doubt Cheney i sbehind not only th ecrimes of this admin- but has a portfolio of crimes going back 4 decades. But W. should still be held responsilbe for any and all actions taken during his Watch as Pres. W- It was not just the Fame & glory that went with being Pres- it was the ‘Buck Stops here’ reality.
McClellan is however at least letting out information which will help prosectue the Cheney ‘Shadow gov’t’ ,but should not be considered exonerating details allowing W. off the hook.
As for BillO- One need only get the talking points which the WH issued and compare them to th estatements made by BillO, and see how closely they match- if not repeated verbatium from his lips.
Such mouthpieces should stand trial as Propaganda Conspirtors- lying, misinforming, and slander charges should be levied.As for both Fox and CNN (psuedo military analysts) who knowingly used such decietful information they should lose their licenses- they are not providing a public service.
If the FCC refuses to exercise their Duty to assure such unlawful use of Public communications be eliminated- then the FCC should be dismantled, they are a waste of our tax dollars and have proven themselves incompetent or corrupt.

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By Sodium, July 30, 2008 at 9:46 am #
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Correction:Sorry,my last post about the “Military Industrial Complex” should not be posted on this thread.I have meant to post it on the forum of Chalmers Johnson’s article about “The Military Industrial Complex” else where.I have just made a mistake.Again,I
do apologize for the error.

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By Sodium, July 30, 2008 at 9:31 am #
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Question:Was it “The-Military-Industrial-Complex” or “The Military-CONGRESSIONAL-Industrial Complex”? 

In his farewell speech to the nation,on January 17,1961 President Dwight Eisenhower originally wrote and meant to say"The Military-CONGRESSIONAL- -Complex”,not just"The Military-Industrial-Complex”.Some of his advisers persuaded him to omit the word “CONGRESSIONAL"which he did.That was according to some pundits,then.Whether or not that what actually had taken place is any body’s guess.Perhaps,one day some
historians may find out for sure,one way or the other.

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By slumlord, July 30, 2008 at 8:53 am #

but bill, you never needed talking points. youre the monroe of this administration.

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By cyrena, July 30, 2008 at 12:12 am #

I Ditto samosamo!!

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By Sodium, July 30, 2008 at 12:08 am #
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Re:Bill O’Reilly and Scott McClellan.

I Have not seen in my entire adult life a more arrogant and more disgusting character than this creature called Bill O’Reilly.

In writing his best selling book"What Happened”,Scott
McClellan has proven that he is a man of conscience and caring for telling what he knew was going on between the Bush Administration propaganda machines and the most despicable and most noisy crowd of “FIXED NEWS”,including,of course,the fraudulent Bill
O’Reilly.

At least,Scott McClellan has certainly proven that he has a conscience,while it is so obvious that Bill
O’Reilly has no such thing what soever,rather what
Mr.Bill has is the lowest of the low(s):MIND and
CHARACTER…..

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By samosamo, July 29, 2008 at 10:31 pm #

Sure wish someone would tell it to your face but your cocksure mask will slip and off you go to hide behind one of the fux babes skirts.
You know little billy, you remind me of your favorite love interest, w, in that you talk big and swell up like a powder pigeon big and mean but you will never walk the walk.
Mcclellan has the moral fortitude to realize shit when he sees it even after the fact and expose it, but you are among the lowest life forms that wouldn’t even save your mother. Morally bankrupt!

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