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Posted on Jan 9, 2007
O'Reilly and Colbert
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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly (left) and Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert.

On Jan. 18 Bill O’Reilly and Stephen Colbert will exchange appearances on each other’s shows, putting news TV’s highest-rated windbag in direct contact with a satire of himself. Fans wait anxiously to see who will do a better job of faking righteous indignation.


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Already, the verbal jabs are promising an entertaining show. When questioned about his appearance on the Colbert Report, Bill O’Reilly said, “I’m really looking forward to speaking to a man who owes his entire career to me.” Stephen Colbert countered by saying, “I look forward to the evening. It is an honor to speak face-to-face with a broadcasting legend, and I feel the same way about Mr. O’Reilly.” With his ability to hold a mirror up to right-wing fascists, is it possible that Colbert may just “nail” O’Reilly as bad as he did the president at the White House Correspondents Dinner?

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By Boggs, January 10, 2007 at 6:58 pm Link to this comment
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I’ll put all my bets on Stephen.
O’Reilly is neither an entertainer nor a truthteller. Just a sensationalist. He can hold the interest of only those who don’t expect much!

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By the green hornet, January 10, 2007 at 4:24 pm Link to this comment
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Stephen Colbert will make Bill O’Reilly want to seek another line of work. Don’t take any prisoners, Steve. Go for the jugular and a knock
out punch.

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By Ted, January 10, 2007 at 1:05 pm Link to this comment
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Show and Awe

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By Paul, January 10, 2007 at 11:32 am Link to this comment
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Well Bill O’Reilly has finally admitted that he is in fact a comic and not a person of fact and thusly newsworthy and truthful, or is it he thinks Colbert’s comedy is actually the real news?

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By GW=MCHammered, January 10, 2007 at 11:21 am Link to this comment
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The monkey on O’Reilly’s back has beaten its tambourine so loudly for so long that he is tone deaf to the orchestra that is the world. His words and actions prove that he not only does not see the glass, he does not sense what it is half full of. He is the nativity of Corporatism.

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By HeadlessHessian, January 10, 2007 at 10:34 am Link to this comment
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Let’s see how well the O’Reilly ‘Crap’tor holds up against Colbert ‘truthiness’.  I love it..I don’t think these right wing clowns get it.

Headless

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By DennisD, January 10, 2007 at 8:29 am Link to this comment
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The fate of our nation surely rests on the outcome of this epic event. A Colbert “surge” will be the new way forward.

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By Richard B. Simon, January 10, 2007 at 8:22 am Link to this comment
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Colbert is going to take him apart.

It will be cruel and unusual.

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By Tallywhammer, January 10, 2007 at 4:32 am Link to this comment
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O’Reilly is an intellectual midget and can’t hold a candle to Colbert’s masterful wit. O’Reilly’s greatest claim to fame was his fake “war on Christmas’’ that no one in his right mind paid any attention. O’Reilly is a sexual vulture to underlings (past reports)and a pimp to Bush stupidicisms - a real low-class act.

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By jon eden, January 10, 2007 at 3:32 am Link to this comment
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Our unfortunate bipartisanship morphed into entertainment—a chance to see who’s hero can prevail. Sorry, got no stomach for it whatsoever.

Jon in Port Townsend
Connecting the Dots: From human behaviors to ecosystem collapse
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By Ed, January 9, 2007 at 9:22 pm Link to this comment
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Is Bill really that sincere?......Why don’t he deploy to Iraq,Afghanistan,...oh well,perhaps send him to Cuba for some chocking CIGARS….

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By Ga, January 9, 2007 at 8:54 pm Link to this comment
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I wonder if Bill O’Reilly really understands that the Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report is not the real Stephen Colbert but Stephen Colbert playing Stephen Colbert?

Visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63PI-wEsaM to see what I mean.

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