# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/81 "2017-04-19T21:52:30Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I hate to be a wet blanket but: He’s retiring at 70yo with millions of dollars. > > It’s hard to feel the schadenfreude on this one. Fuck wit that he is. Yeah, but he’ll always know (and will be known for) that he went out dishonorably and with a stain on any legacy he might have had. Hopefully, he’ll die a bitter old man with no friends. ---
**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, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/82 "2017-04-19T22:19:15Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Forget his old job at _Inside Edition_, maybe he can have Sean Spicers job. I’m not so sure. Could he handle the hand puppets (or in the case of the Wrong-Way USS Carl Vinson Strike Force, the [bathtub](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZKwGdSmEL._SL1500_.jpg) [toys](https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1koAZKXXXXXXfapXXq6xXFXXXI/large-font-b-submarine-b-font-6-channel-remote-control-RC-submarine13000-12-13000-11-font.jpg) )? (If Melissa McCarthy holds up US ship bathtub toys on SNL, I’ll pay $1 if someone can make the sub remotely start to buzz in her hand.) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/83 "2017-04-19T23:09:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Fox News on Wednesday ended its association with Bill O’Reilly, the combative TV host and commentator who has ruled cable-news ratings for nearly two decades and was the signature figure in the network’s rise as a powerful political player. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-oreilly-is-officially-out-at-fox-news/2017/04/19/74ebdc94-2476-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-oreilly-is-officially-out-at-fox-news/2017/04/19/74ebdc94-2476-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html) Do you think Trump will dump Sean Spicer and hire O’Reilly as his new press secretary? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/84 "2017-04-19T23:44:59Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-oreilly-is-officially-out-at-fox-news/2017/04/19/74ebdc94-2476-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-oreilly-is-officially-out-at-fox-news/2017/04/19/74ebdc94-2476-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html) > > Do you think Trump will dump Sean Spicer and hire O’Reilly as his new press secretary? I don’t have an answer to your question, but I did have to tell you how much I enjoyed seeing your user name as the last post in conjunction with the title of this thread. 🙂 ---
**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 20, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/85 "2017-04-20T00:30:44Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Do you think Trump will dump Sean Spicer and hire O’Reilly as his new press secretary? [Squidward]“Oh, my aching tentacles… Now who has a question?” [/squidward] ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/86 "2017-04-20T01:04:56Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > [Squidward]“Oh, my aching tentacles… Now who has a question?” [/squidward] **Patrick** “Is mayonnaise an instrument?” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/87 "2017-04-20T01:40:05Z")
> [@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. You know that doesn’t work unless you also fill the mouth with garlic and sew it shut. Traditions, people. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/88 "2017-04-20T01:42:50Z")
I have a lot of love for Bill; he’s always said that my jeans make my penis look huge. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/89 "2017-04-20T02:09:52Z")
Roger Stone and Glenn Beck are grumping that the firing somehow violates O’Reilly’s free speech rights. ---
**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 20, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/90 "2017-04-20T02:50:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Roger Stone and Glenn Beck are grumping that the firing somehow violates O’Reilly’s free speech rights. Well, they are the common clay of the new west. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/91 "2017-04-20T02:56:50Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Enlighten me. Did he actually do this at some point? Apparently, yes. [http://gawker.com/court-transcripts-bill-o-reilly-s-daughter-saw-him-ch-1704717356](http://gawker.com/court-transcripts-bill-o-reilly-s-daughter-saw-him-ch-1704717356) ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/92 "2017-04-20T03:17:45Z")
So are we taking bets for how long it’ll be before Trump offers him a position in the White House? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/93 "2017-04-20T03:28:34Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > So are we taking bets for how long it’ll be before Trump offers him a position in the White House? He will be in charge of sensitivity training and serving hot chocolate during meetings. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/94 "2017-04-20T03:36:49Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > So are we taking bets for how long it’ll be before Trump offers him a position in the White House? Trump thought Bill-o was too hard on him. He likes Hannity better. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/95 "2017-04-20T03:40:48Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > He will be in charge of sensitivity training and serving hot chocolate during meetings. And falafel and/or loofahs. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/96 "2017-04-20T04:35:32Z")
```auto I'm not especially eager to celebrate the departure of Bill O'Reilly. The political Free Balloons for the Kids! discourse of a free nation is best when contentious, even difficult and potentially strained, because strained tissue can heal to become even stronger, broken bones can knit to be tougher. Neck bruises heal - for stronger necks! There's a reason the crucible remains an important symbol, depicting as it does the high heat to which metals and ideas are subjected and the weaker ones made to fail while the stronger ones survive and persist to become part of our national landscape. National Landscape-keeping by illegal immigrants - $2.50/hour Since 1996, the O'Reilly Factor has been part of that landscape, admittedly adding more heat than light to the national discussion. CFL bulbs are hippie bullsh*t! Inevitably it will be replaced with what will at first seem like pale imitation, but the constant mixing of personalities and ideas will Same-sex personality mixing eventually either fill that void, or not wanted like an inferior alloy in the crucible, be melted out and replaced. The free market of ideas abhors a vacuum, and the robust nature of politics in a free America cannot help but find new voices. "The Ted Nugent Hour", this June on Fox! ``` ---
**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/97 "2017-04-20T08:32:33Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > ```auto > > I'm not especially eager to > celebrate the departure of > Bill O'Reilly. The political Free Balloons for the Kids! > discourse of a free nation > is best when contentious, > even difficult and potentially > strained, because strained > tissue can heal to become > even stronger, broken bones > can knit to be tougher. Neck bruises heal - for stronger necks! > > There's a reason the crucible > remains an important symbol, > depicting as it does the high > heat to which metals and ideas > are subjected and the weaker > ones made to fail while the > stronger ones survive and > persist to become part of > our national landscape. National Landscape-keeping by > illegal immigrants - $2.50/hour > Since 1996, the O'Reilly Factor > has been part of that landscape, > admittedly adding more heat > than light to the national discussion. CFL bulbs are hippie bullsh*t! > > Inevitably it will be replaced with > what will at first seem like pale > imitation, but the constant mixing > of personalities and ideas will Same-sex personality mixing > eventually either fill that void, or not wanted > like an inferior alloy in the crucible, > be melted out and replaced. The > free market of ideas abhors a vacuum, > and the robust nature of politics in > a free America cannot help but find > new voices. "The Ted Nugent Hour", > this June on Fox! > > ``` Bryan, this isn’t nearly as clear as you think. In my version of FireFox it’s in an annoying scroll-box. But the most annoying part is that any individual quip is too cryptic for me. For example, “Since 1996, the O’Reilly Factor has been part of that landscape, admittedly adding more heat than light to the national discussion. CFL bulbs are hippie bullsh\*t!” As best I can tell, you are saying that rather than understand issues people are looking to feel emotions. But I’m trying to fall asleep, so I might not be in the best frame of mind. I only opened this thread because you were the last poster and I respect your thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/98 "2017-04-20T12:35:51Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > You know that doesn’t work unless you also fill the mouth with garlic and sew it shut. Traditions, people. No, I was pretty sure the requirements were to salt the bones and then burn them. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/99 "2017-04-20T12:47:53Z")
He’s no longer a factor. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/100 "2017-04-20T14:02:32Z")
I haven’t watched his show in over a decade, but good riddance. The thing is, he’s so rich it really doesn’t matter. The guy is set for life. He’s still got all those books out there, and I’m sure he’ll reincarnate as something else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294.md?page=6)