# Bill O'Reilly--fuckwit, just doing his job **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388 "2014-02-03T01:19:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/21 "2014-02-03T06:08:09Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I haven’t listened to O’Reilly all that much but he is a very intelligent person by all accounts … [Bill “Tide goes in tide goes out . . . you can’t explain that. Sun comes up sun goes down . . . you can’t explain that.” O’Reilly?](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/knowledgeable-neil) :dubious: CMC ---
**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:** [February 3, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/22 "2014-02-03T06:49:15Z")
> [@Mikahw](#): > > I noticed he threw a lot of weasel words in there, such as ‘your detractors believe’ and ‘what some people are saying’. It’s possible to put absolutely anything in that framework. Hey, don’t blame me. _I_ didn’t say those things. Just some nebulous people somewhere who you are unable to cross examine. That’s a Fox news tradition. They make things up then say “Some people are saying…” when it’s only them saying it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/23 "2014-02-03T07:15:35Z")
…“Some people are saying…” … To be ruthlessly fair, that almost has to be true, there is no opinion so warped and deranged that there is no American to advocate for it! People who think Obama is a Muslim Kenyan exist, they are not made up, not fictitious, just nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/24 "2014-02-03T07:21:04Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > [Bill “Tide goes in tide goes out . . . you can’t explain that. Sun comes up sun goes down . . . you can’t explain that.” O’Reilly?](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/knowledgeable-neil) :dubious: O’Reilly isn’t that stupid. But he knows the people who tune in to watch him are, and he’s unethical enough to play to their ignorance. He and Limbaugh and their ilk are just legal con artists. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/25 "2014-02-03T13:21:41Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Cerebrum pretiosus, vita brevis. Carpe non idiotem. Alternatively, Timeo hyperboreos et ira ferentes. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/26 "2014-02-03T14:40:20Z")
Exactly, this is his job. He’s a paid political ad. Obama could single handedly defeat satan in hand to hand combat live in front of the entire world and Bill “dumbass hate monger” O’Reilly and his ilk would still have to get up in the morning and tell the world how evil he is. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/27 "2014-02-03T14:48:08Z")
How DARE he? :rolleyes: Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/28 "2014-02-03T15:14:55Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Exactly, this is his job. He’s a paid political ad. Obama could single handedly defeat satan in hand to hand combat live in front of the entire world and Bill “dumbass hate monger” O’Reilly and his ilk would still have to get up in the morning and tell the world how evil he is. “If I were to walk across the Potomac, the headlines would read, ‘PRESIDENT CAN’T SWIM!’” – LBJ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/29 "2014-02-03T15:16:03Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Alternatively, Timeo hyperboreos et ira ferentes. 😕 “I fear Yankees bearing gifts”? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/30 "2014-02-03T15:22:39Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Cerebrum pretiosus, vita brevis. Cerebrum _pretiosum_, vita brevis. > [@Kobal2](#): > > Carpe non idiotem. > > Alternatively, Timeo hyperboreos et ira ferentes. Carpe non _idiotam_. Timeo hyperboreos et _iram_ ferentes. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/31 "2014-02-03T15:41:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Cerebrum _pretiosum_, vita brevis. > Carpe non _idiotam_. > > Timeo hyperboreos et _iram_ ferentes. Details, schmetails. Anyway, Obama was, from the clips I’ve seen, all _veni, vidi, vici_ in Bill-O’s face. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/32 "2014-02-03T16:26:23Z")
The sad thing is that there are a range of tough questions that _could_ have been asked. An opportunity to address substantive issues that lay bare tensions between policy and practice or probe areas with no clearly correct decisions exist. Instead there was nothing but empty, partisan fantasies. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/33 "2014-02-03T17:08:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 😕 “I fear Yankees bearing gifts”? Irishmen bearing shouts/anger 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 3, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/34 "2014-02-03T17:43:40Z")
Considering the ACA is Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment, I don’t think it’s out of bounds to ask him about the highly problematic rollout. Obviously non-crazy America is over the Benghazi and IRS “scandals”, so those were stupid. I wish O’Reilly had asked him about drone policy and the NSA instead. You know, things normal people care about - but those seem to be right in line with O’Reilly’s own ideology. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/35 "2014-02-03T18:22:59Z")
Billious O’Reilly already knew the answers to his questions on the IRS and Benghazi. He also knew that the answers are long and complex, while the questions have the advantage of being short and pithy. As well, there isn’t any real chance that his audience will believe the answers, even if they understood them. Bill just wants to buff his image as the guy who asks the Tough Questions, Obama wants to buff his image as the guy who will talk to anyone. The fact that Obama’s answers were smarter than Bill’s questions doesn’t really count. His audience resents complex and nuanced intelligence, they have an unsupported faith in plain talking common sense, as they see it. The product is bogus, and he isn’t delivering it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/36 "2014-02-03T18:49:42Z")
I couldn’t help feeling I was watching a child interview an adult. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/37 "2014-02-03T19:44:21Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Irishmen bearing shouts/anger 🙂 I’d go with _Hibernicōs_. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/38 "2014-02-03T20:04:08Z")
I think it’s best when you have people who disagree with you interview you. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/39 "2014-02-03T20:44:20Z")
A distinction deserves to be made between those that disagree with you because of differing views and those that disagree with you because you’re YOU. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/40 "2014-02-03T23:45:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > I’d go with _Hibernicōs_. Especially since the [Hyperboreans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea) never existed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388.md?page=3)