# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/41 "2014-02-04T01:15:47Z")
Heh. I had a customer come in this morning and his analysis of the interview was–(not verbatim) “If Krauthammer had done the interview, he would have destroyed him.” I didn’t bother to ask my customer if Obama would have destroyed Krauthammer or vice versa. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/42 "2014-02-04T01:58:32Z")
> [@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. Obama assaults and batters down-on-his luck former angel! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/43 "2014-02-04T02:14:54Z")
Salon: [President Obama calls out Bill O’Reilly and Fox News for promoting conspiracy theories](http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/president_obama_calls_out_bill_oreilly_and_fox_news_for_promoting_conspiracy_theories/) > [@](#): > > When it came to Benghazi, O’Reilly asked the president whether he was told, in the moments following 2012′s attack on the U.S. mission in Libya, that it was an act of terror. > > Obama noted that in his first official comments following the attack, he referred to it as an act of terror. (If this sounds familiar, it’s because it is; this is the same argument the president had with Mitt Romney during the second presidential debate of the 2012 election.) > > “Your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn’t want that out,” O’Reilly continued. “That’s what they believe.” > > “And they believe it because folks like you are telling them that,” Obama quickly responded, with evident frustration. > > As the interview continued, O’Reilly continued to focus his questions on right-wing conspiracy theories, turning next to the so-called targeting of conservatives by the IRS. (Like “questions” about the president’s response to Benghazi, this story is not only extremely old news, but has been thoroughly debunked.) > > “What some people are saying,” O’Reilly began, “is that the IRS was used at a local level in Cincinnati, maybe other places —” > > “Absolutely wrong. Absolutely,” Obama quickly interrupted. > > “But how do you know that, because we still don’t know what happened?” O’Reilly responded > > “Bill, we do — that’s not what happened,” was Obama’s exasperated response. “Folks, again, had multiple hearings on this.” > > The president then noted that the only reason people were still talking about these conspiracy theories is because Fox News and its employees (like Bill O’Reilly) keep bringing them up. > > “These kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them,” Obama said. > > “But don’t you feel there are unanswered questions?” O’Reilly continued to push. > > Obama then began to explain what actually happened at the IRS, but O’Reilly wasn’t interested. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/44 "2014-02-04T02:37:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Cerebrum _pretiosum_, vita brevis. > > Carpe non _idiotam_. > > Timeo hyperboreos et _iram_ ferentes. Did you get beat up a lot as a kid? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/45 "2014-02-04T02:38:22Z")
O’Reilly wasted a lot of time on Benghazi and the IRS thing for sure. But that’s just a waste of time, and Obama handled it adeptly. It doesn’t make O’Reilly a terrible person, just a terrible interviewer. So I guess fuckwit is an apt description. If I had the chance to interview Bush when he was president, I wouldn’t have gone on about 9/11 conspiracies or some such nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/46 "2014-02-04T03:30:21Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > It doesn’t make O’Reilly a terrible person, just a terrible interviewer. O’Reilly really is both, from what I can tell. He’s also a bright guy, which makes it much worse. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/47 "2014-02-04T03:41:18Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Did you get beat up a lot as a kid? Didn’t we all? ---
**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 4, 2014, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/48 "2014-02-04T07:38:13Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Did you get beat up a lot as a kid? Not nearly enough, as you can see. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/49 "2014-02-04T13:35:17Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Interviews Obama before the superbowl. Tradition. > > His questions–Benghazi. IRS scandal. Health Care Law debacle. > > Give me a break. > > I guess I would have been amazed and disappointed if he hadn’t. It would have been even more amazing if Obama had given honest answers to his questions. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/50 "2014-02-04T13:51:10Z")
A couple of years ago wasn’t there a brouha about how Obama didn’t wear a tie during his interview with BillO? That’s really the only thing I know about these interviews the two have had. ---
**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 4, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/51 "2014-02-04T14:10:33Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Not nearly enough, as you can see. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/52 "2014-02-04T14:53:04Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > It would have been even more amazing if Obama had given honest answers to his questions. Like when O’Reilly asked him if he was actually the Antichrist and was bent on destroying America and all it stands for, he should have answered “Yes”? Or are you thinking of something else? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/53 "2014-02-04T14:54:46Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > It would have been even more amazing if Obama had given honest answers to his questions. He did; see post #43. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/54 "2014-02-05T00:23:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Didn’t we all? That is true. > [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Not nearly enough, as you can see. And that is true. It takes a special kind to be a Latin grammar Nazi. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/55 "2014-02-05T01:12:29Z")
> [@j666](#): > > That is true. > And that is true. It takes a special kind to be a Latin grammar Nazi. [_Ave Hitler!_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fbrUjjivw)\* \ ***Johnny,** if you come in here to tell us that should be _Ave Hitlero!_ or whatever the vocative case is, we **will** find you. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/56 "2014-02-05T01:43:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [_Ave Hitler!_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fbrUjjivw)\* > > \ ***Johnny,** if you come in here to tell us that should be _Ave Hitlero!_ or whatever the vocative case is, we **will** find you. I always thought “to” was implied, there; so it wouldn’t be vocative, it would be dative or ablative, right? (As those as the two weird cases …) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/57 "2014-02-05T01:49:12Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I always thought “to” was implied, there; so it wouldn’t be vocative, it would be dative or ablative, right? (As those as the two weird cases …) :mad: You’re on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/58 "2014-02-05T19:17:43Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Like when O’Reilly asked him if he was actually the Antichrist and was bent on destroying America and all it stands for, he should have answered “Yes”? Or are you thinking of something else? Maybe he asked that question on the planet where you live, but not here on Earth. Would you kindly point out to us exactly where O’Reilly called Obama the Antichrist? [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/03/transcript-full-interview-between-president-obama-and-bill-oreilly/](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/03/transcript-full-interview-between-president-obama-and-bill-oreilly/) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/59 "2014-02-05T19:22:00Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Salon: [President Obama calls out Bill O’Reilly and Fox News for promoting conspiracy theories](http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/president_obama_calls_out_bill_oreilly_and_fox_news_for_promoting_conspiracy_theories/) I don’t know what interview Salon watched, but what they reported was not what happened. Please read the transcript and point out where O’Reilly said anything at all about the IRS. [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/03/transcript-full-interview-between-president-obama-and-bill-oreilly/](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/03/transcript-full-interview-between-president-obama-and-bill-oreilly/) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388/60 "2014-02-05T19:33:53Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I don’t know what interview Salon watched, but what they reported was not what happened. Please read the transcript and point out where O’Reilly said anything at all about the IRS. > > [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/03/transcript-full-interview-between-president-obama-and-bill-oreilly/](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/03/transcript-full-interview-between-president-obama-and-bill-oreilly/) Your link is just part of the interview (they don’t even show the “thank you for doing this” at the beginning). [Here](http://www.examiner.com/article/bill-o-reilly-s-obama-interview-blames-fox-o-reilly-and-his-ilk-for-troubles) is a link that shows the transcript of the IRS part. Not surprisingly, **Clothahump** is wrong again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-fuckwit-just-doing-his-job/680388.md?page=4)