# My stepmother is going on Bill O'Reilly's in 90 minutes, HELP **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 21, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009 "2007-09-21T17:44:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/1 "2007-09-21T17:44:37Z")
Hey guys, my stepmom is going to tape a segment for Billo’s show in about 90 minutes. Topic: Florida sting on prostitutes who advertised on Craigslist. Can anyone point me directly to Billo saying or writing ANYTHING on the following topics: 1. Prostitution 2. Personal Freedom 3. Protection of children 4. The sting referred to that is the topic. The goal: get him to shut off her mic. Because we know Billo only does that when the person he’s talking to is making too much sense for him to argue with! And the best way to do it is to come armed with information. Since Billo is one of the biggest hypocrites on earth, talking out of both sides of his mouth, having a solid idea of what he’s said and where he’s coming from is key. In the pit in anticipation of rude remarks about Billo, because really, when does his name come up where people don’t want to make rude remarks? The guy is disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/2 "2007-09-21T17:58:35Z")
Good luck. The guy is a douchebag, and anyone who can get the best of him gets a tip of my hat. I never listen to him any more; he’s obnoxious and doesn’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/3 "2007-09-21T18:02:46Z")
Ask him about how he feels about the “mind-blowing” ladies at Thai sex shows: > **[Documents | The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/happy-anniversary-bill-oreilly)** > > Public Documents, Mug Shots More juicy stuff here: > **[Documents | The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/happy-anniversary-bill-oreilly)** > > Public Documents, Mug Shots ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/4 "2007-09-21T18:08:07Z")
Back in march he stated with regards to prostitution: adults should be able to consume so-called ‘adult entertainment’ without government intrusion, > **[MIM President Responds to Bill O'Reilly's Comment that "Adults should be able...](http://www.christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=2468)** > > Contact: Morality In Media, Inc., 212-870-3210, 212-870-3222, mim@moralityinmedia.org NEW YORK, Mar. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- In his column, "Politicians for Porn: The sad decline of San Francisco" (N.Y. Post, 3/9/07), Bill O'Reilly criticized San... ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/5 "2007-09-21T18:08:08Z")
Mention Keith Olbermann’s name? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/6 "2007-09-21T18:08:33Z")
Either one of these two words- falafel or loofa. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/7 "2007-09-21T18:08:34Z")
I’ve found this in reference to porn: > [@](#): > > In his column, “Politicians for Porn: The sad decline of San Francisco” (N.Y. Post, 3/9/07), Bill O’Reilly criticized San Francisco’s mayor for proclaiming February 23 as “Colt Studio Day in San Francisco.” Colt Studios is a “gay porn outfit” that produces hardcore pornography. Mr. O’Reilly also stated his belief that “adults should be able to consume so-called ‘adult entertainment’ without government intrusion.” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/8 "2007-09-21T18:09:45Z")
Oh! Another two words- “Keith Olberman”. Dammit, Guin! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/9 "2007-09-21T18:14:58Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] Oh! Another two words- “Keith Olberman”. Dammit, Guin! [/QUOTE] [Nelson Munz] HA HA! [/Nelson Munz] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/10 "2007-09-21T18:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Mention Keith Olbermann’s name? [/QUOTE] What, hoping one pompous uninformed windbag will cancel out another, like two negatives making a positive? I don’t think it works that way in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/11 "2007-09-21T18:18:44Z")
Umm, wait, wow, so when exactly is this airing to be clear? I want to watch. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/12 "2007-09-21T18:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=Weirddave] What, hoping one pompous uninformed windbag will cancel out another, like two negatives making a positive? I don’t think it works that way in real life. [/QUOTE] 😕 Don’t you remember, when a guy called in and started to say “I think you and Keith Olbermann have the two best shows”, or something like that, and all he got to say was “I think you and Keith Olbermann-” and was cut off, and Darth Falafal threated to sic Fox security on the guy? And he was actually contacted by the latter? Besides, Keith’s better looking. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/13 "2007-09-21T18:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] 😕 Don’t you remember, when a guy called in and started to say “I think you and Keith Olbermann have the two best shows”, or something like that, and all he got to say was “I think you and Keith Olbermann-” and was cut off, and Darth Falafal threated to sic Fox security on the guy? And he was actually contacted by the latter? Besides, Keith’s better looking. [/QUOTE] No, I didn’t see that, maybe that’s why I didn’t get the joke :). I don’t generally watch O’Riley or Oblermann. Every time I have followed a link to either one (from here or elsewhere), I have found them to be two sides of the same coin: pompous windbags pushing their own particular agenda of partisan hate without regard for facts, reality, what might actually be good for the country or anything other than blindly propping up their own party’s grab for power. They are both consummate snowball artists and incurable sycophants. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/14 "2007-09-21T18:46:04Z")
Are you serious?? (re Olbermann) Can you cite where Olbermann has disregarded facts even once? He’s definitely partisan, but I’d hardly call him hateful and he’s a big fan of facts. You may dislike him, but make sure it’s for real reasons. Thanks for the links, folks, if anyone has anything else, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/15 "2007-09-21T18:48:59Z")
Also, Dave, I think what you mean to say was that both men seek sycophants, not that they ARE such. Although I think Billo might be a Bush sycophant… (sycophant means suckup, basically) ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/16 "2007-09-21T19:03:26Z")
[QUOTE=Stoid] Are you serious?? (re Olbermann) Can you cite where Olbermann has disregarded facts even once? He’s definitely partisan, but I’d hardly call him hateful and he’s a big fan of facts. You may dislike him, but make sure it’s for real reasons. [/QUOTE] I can’t 'cause, I don’t watch either, but [these guys](http://www.olbermannwatch.com/) have several years worth in their rather obsessive (crazy-biased and I’m sure not the least bit fair) website. Olbermann is full of hate, which is fine. Hell, there’s been posts here praising his bile-filled rants. It plays in Peoria, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/17 "2007-09-21T19:24:55Z")
Thank you Stoid, I know exactly what a sycophants is. :rolleyes: Both men suck up shamelessly to those in power in their respective parties. The fact that they may seek to surround themselves with people who suck up to them is beside the point. And no, I don’t have any specific example to offer you. As I said, my exposure (to both men) has been of the nature of reading a post that says something along the lines of “Hey, go check this out! O’Reilly/Olbermann really nailed whatever here”, and when I go check out the link, I find that it’s usually (not always, both men have made decent points in spite of themselves at times) the same old partisan shit that’s tearing this country apart. Actually, I do have a sort of example. I recall seeing a clip of Keith ranting on about something that Bush had done (I’ll be honest and admit that I don’t recall what; if you pulled off my socks and tickled my feet I’d venture that it was some signing statement that Bush had made or something like that), and how that was it, Congress had no choice but to impeach him now. Now, whatever it was that Bush had done was something that Keith obviously disagreed with, but it was far from being anything that even approached the standards of impeachment as set forth under the Constitution (to stave off the inevitable partisan slings and arrows that are sure to follow, let me say that I feel exactly the same about the partisan witch hunt that got Clinton, ok?) that it wasn’t even funny, and on that basis I found his entire diatribe to be factually without merit and nothing more than a rabble rousing attempt to enrage the left. I know that’s not a cite, but it’s the best I have to offer unless I care to dig through a mess of Olbermann clips and quite frankly, I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/18 "2007-09-21T19:26:37Z")
[QUOTE=Weirddave] No, I didn’t see that, maybe that’s why I didn’t get the joke :). I don’t generally watch O’Riley or Oblermann. Every time I have followed a link to either one (from here or elsewhere), I have found them to be two sides of the same coin: pompous windbags pushing their own particular agenda of partisan hate without regard for facts, reality, what might actually be good for the country or anything other than blindly propping up their own party’s grab for power. They are both consummate snowball artists and incurable sycophants. [/QUOTE] I see that, in your typically underhanded way, you have again sidestepped the real issue. Namely, that Olbermann is _way_ cuter than O’Reilly. You can’t make facts go away just by ignoring them, Dave! ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/19 "2007-09-21T19:29:25Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] I see that, in your typically underhanded way, you have again sidestepped the real issue. Namely, that Olbermann is _way_ cuter than O’Reilly. You can’t make facts go away just by ignoring them, Dave! [/QUOTE] You got me. He is a lot cuter than O’Reilly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009/20 "2007-09-21T19:31:02Z")
[QUOTE=Weirddave] Actually, I do have a sort of example. I recall seeing a clip of Keith ranting on about something that Bush had done… and how that was it, Congress had no choice but to impeach him now. Now, whatever it was that Bush had done was something that Keith obviously disagreed with, but it was far from being anything that even approached the standards of impeachment as set forth under the Constitution …that it wasn’t even funny, and on that basis I found his entire diatribe to be factually without merit and nothing more than a rabble rousing attempt to enrage the left. [/QUOTE] Ummm… you equate disagreeing with his call to impeach based on X with being factually incorrect about X? Seriously? Really? Cuz, like, they aren’t even close, ya know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stepmother-is-going-on-bill-oreillys-in-90-minutes-help/420009.md?page=2)