# Appreciating Bill O'Reilly **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 12, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294 "2017-04-12T06:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/41 "2017-04-19T16:44:49Z")
FOX news decided it didn’t need a Marist Pole…? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/42 "2017-04-19T16:50:40Z")
Wait a minute. Is Faux thinking of letting him go while he is on the vacation that he scheduled last fall? That is harsh! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/43 "2017-04-19T16:54:21Z")
He’s quitting to spend more time with his family, may God have mercy on their souls. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/44 "2017-04-19T17:11:09Z")
More time dragging his wife down the staircase by her throat? I hope she’s installed thicker carpeting. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/45 "2017-04-19T17:24:25Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > [It’s gonna be okay, Bill, you don’t need to…live? No no, you’re not going to be live for a while… What? Yeah, I know it sucks…Hey, write anything you want-- whoa, that’s inappropriate fella, just settle down.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUFY8Zw0Bag) This is the more complete version of that particular blow-up: Guy is certainly an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/46 "2017-04-19T17:39:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I refuse to do the Snoopy Dance until someone drives a stake through his heart and buries his head at a crossroad at midnight. He probably pulled a Cheney and keeps a decoy heart in his chest while his real heart is secured in an undisclosed location. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/47 "2017-04-19T17:51:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I refuse to do the Snoopy Dance until someone drives a stake through his heart and buries his head at a crossroad at midnight. Oh, like that will stop him. That just means he will regenerate into two seperate entities, roaming the Earth with vengence in his soul, like the antagonish in some poorly thoughtout _Hellraiser_ knockoff. Clearly, we need to send him to an alien world to face off with Andrew Napolitano in [gladiatorial combat](https://youtu.be/2ZQ63OOJtzM). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/48 "2017-04-19T18:03:57Z")
I never thought I’d say these words, but I won’t believe it until I hear it from Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/49 "2017-04-19T18:04:46Z")
It is my wish that, out of spite, he turns on Roger Ailes, under the principle of “If I’m going down, then we’re all going down!” That would be lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/50 "2017-04-19T18:25:43Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I refuse to do the Snoopy Dance until someone drives a stake through his heart and buries his head at a crossroad at midnight. Objection, assumes facts not in evidence. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/51 "2017-04-19T18:27:11Z")
I’m looking forward to the book **Killing Bill O’Reilly**. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/52 "2017-04-19T18:28:46Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Oh, like that will stop him. That just means he will regenerate into two seperate entities, roaming the Earth with vengence in his soul, like the antagonish in some poorly thoughtout _Hellraiser_ knockoff. Clearly, we need to send him to an alien world to face off with Andrew Napolitano in [gladiatorial combat](https://youtu.be/2ZQ63OOJtzM). > > Stranger But what if he wins and finds allies? Then he’ll come back and we’d be in for World War Bill-O. I don’t think Manhattan could survive the luffa bombardment. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/53 "2017-04-19T18:47:57Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I never thought I’d say these words, but I won’t believe it until I hear it from Fox. :D:p;) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/54 "2017-04-19T18:51:03Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’m looking forward to the book **Killing Bill O’Reilly**. How about [Killing Hannity.](http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/justin-ashford/2017/01/08/bill-oreilly-kills-sean-hannity-foxs-simpsons) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/55 "2017-04-19T18:54:56Z")
Oh Lord! Who now will organize the resistance against…: \*\*The War on Christmas. \*\* Won’t someone think of the Children?! ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/56 "2017-04-19T18:58:31Z")
Understand Fox does not like paying out money for these harassment lawsuits, but when is Bill O’Reilly going to have to cough up all of his earnings to cover these lawsuits? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/57 "2017-04-19T19:00:46Z")
CNN’s coverage of this amounts to a chorus line that’s high-kicking and singing, “Ding-dong, the dick is dead!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/58 "2017-04-19T19:12:12Z")
\*In a letter to employees, Rupert Murdoch and his sons Lachlan and James, who run 21st Century Fox, said the decision “ **follows an extensive review done in collaboration with outside counsel**.” \* I think the bolded part means the lawyers told them how much they were going to be sued for if he stayed on the air. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/59 "2017-04-19T19:14:31Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I never thought I’d say these words, but I won’t believe it until I hear it from Fox. [Fox News drops Bill O’Reilly in wake of harassment allegations](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/04/19/fox-news-drops-bill-oreilly-in-wake-harassment-allegations.html). From your lips to Gods ears. Or from your fingers to Gods eyes in this case. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/60 "2017-04-19T19:17:19Z")
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