# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 7
**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 21, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/121 "2017-04-21T00:49:26Z")
If we’re really lucky, the next batch of lawsuits will be paid by Bill-O himself, and not Fox. If enough of them come before sympathetic juries, they could bankrupt the sleazy bastard. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/122 "2017-04-21T02:35:26Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’ve merged two threads about O’Reilly getting the boot. Ewwwww, gross. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/123 "2017-04-21T02:37:52Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > Having a slight conservative (economically) being libertarian, even I am glad to see him go. He seems the type to say “Let me pat you on ass sweetheart” to a waitress and then go home and beat his kids before he sits down to a scotch and diet rite.\*\* Evil old man.\*\* Evil because of the kid-beating, or the scotch and diet rite? ---
**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 21, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/124 "2017-04-21T02:39:16Z")
Just the latter would be enough. Even [J&B](http://whiskeyreviewer.com/2012/01/jb-rare-blended-scotch-whiskey-review/) deserves better than being mixed with Diet Rite. Or consumed by Bill O’Reilly, who will hopefully be reduced to drinking [Wild Irish Rose](http://bumwine.com/wildirishrose.html) after being sued to oblivion by the legions of women he has no doubt harassed in his long career as a bloviating blowhard. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/125 "2017-04-21T06:10:26Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > … Even [J&B](http://whiskeyreviewer.com/2012/01/jb-rare-blended-scotch-whiskey-review/) deserves better than being mixed with Diet Rite… Cutty Sark, though ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/126 "2017-04-21T12:30:17Z")
Point of order: what is Diet Rite? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/127 "2017-04-21T12:44:08Z")
O’Reilly was one of the major propagandists for the Iraq war and torture and he helped contribute to the authoritarian fervor after 9/11 where anyone who questioned the Bush admin was called a limp-wristed Saddam loving traitor who should move to France. There aren’t enough legos for him to step on. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/128 "2017-04-21T12:47:21Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > My god - _any_ woman just _looking_ at that sneery, pukey, gratable, peevish, evisceratable, hideous, flattenable, pneumatic staple-able face, let alone talking at it, let alone maybe having a cup of coffee with him sometime, let alone allowing him sweaty, halitosis-y penetration as he sneers smugly, is something really that shouldn’t be contemplated for any length of time. I’m sure there’s a kink for that. ---
**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 21, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/129 "2017-04-21T12:53:04Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > [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. My favorite thing about this entire story is that Fox News’ website reported this in its “Entertainment” section. ---
**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 21, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/130 "2017-04-21T14:27:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Point of order: what is Diet Rite? [Diet Rite.](http://www.dpsgproductfacts.com/en/discover/DIET_RITE) It’s a particularly vile cola. A perfect fit for Cutty Sark. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/131 "2017-04-21T20:42:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > backpfeifengesicht? Absolutely. Definitely. And now that he got tossed, a bit of Schadenfreude too. ---
**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 22, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/132 "2017-04-22T22:54:11Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Point of order: what is Diet Rite? Its the cheapest and most horrific soda that I can think of. It not only strips paint off of metal, but threatening to use it to strip paint with it might make some paint run off in fear. It has all the taste of carbonated Listerine (but half the calories). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/133 "2017-04-23T00:01:53Z")
Good mix for Mad Dog 20/20 Or Trump wine, depending. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/134 "2017-04-23T00:26:40Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Its the cheapest and most horrific soda that I can think of. It not only strips paint off of metal, but threatening to use it to strip paint with it might make some paint run off in fear. I ended up with a cat who could do that. She was my dad’s siamese, whom I acquired around age 15 (her, not me), with a voice that made wallpaper peel off. And she used that voice _a lot_. We thought of hiring her out to redecorators. ---
**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 23, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/135 "2017-04-23T00:56:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Good mix for Mad Dog 20/20 Or Trump wine, depending. Trump Wine; the beverage you drink when you want to complain about how people don’t sufficiently venerate your unearned success and narcissistic bombast. The recommended pairing is with the most beautiful chocolate cake you have ever seen, after a meal of undercooked, poorly refrigerated fish or pork and limp vegetables which have been likely marinated in the urine of underpaid immigrant workers dissatisfied with the treatment of their employer. Serve in your finest Solo cups or chipped old glassware that you can afford to throw out afterward as the caustic fluid etches all known ceramic substances. Warning: May cause confusion, anxiety, frustration, paranoia, corruption, diminished intellectual capacity, and a predilection for gaudy interior decoration and inexplicably long neckties. Consumers are advised not to use while operating heavy machinery or making decisions about military action up to and including the use of nuclear weapons. Do not serve to children, the elderly, business or world leaders who you would like to impress, or anyone whose long term health and well being is important to you. Store in a warm, moist place in the hope that the most noxious compounds will break down and escape through the Chinese-sourced counterfeit cork stopper. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294/136 "2017-04-24T18:31:31Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > O’Reilly was one of the major propagandists for the Iraq war and torture and he helped contribute to the authoritarian fervor after 9/11 where anyone who questioned the Bush admin was called a limp-wristed Saddam loving traitor who should move to France. There aren’t enough legos for him to step on. Of course, now history has been re-written and none of that happened. Instead it was The Others who have always been the mean, spiteful haters :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appreciating-bill-oreilly/784294.md?page=6)