O'Reilly and Letterman revisited

[Captain_Lance_Murdoch]

@Dewey Finn

It was interesting. I especially liked this exchange:

O’Reilly: “Do you know what Ansar al-Islam is? Do you know what that is? You don’t. And I’m not saying this in a condescending way. I’m really not. OK? I’m not going to call you a bonehead or a pinhead. I’m not. Ansar al-Islam was the al Qaeda affiliate in northern Iraq. They tried to import the British water supply with ricin. They operated with Saddam Hussein’s OK. Again, complicated, but it isn’t so black and white, Dave. It isn’t, ‘We’re a bad country. Bush is an evil liar.’”
Dave, stammering: “I didn’t say we were a bad country.”
O’Reilly [continues]: “That’s not true.”
Dave: “I didn’t say he was an evil liar. You’re putting words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head.”
O’Reilly: “All right. [To the audience] We’re really friends.”

That really caught my attention.

Ansar al-Isalm is a Kurdish group, supported by Iran that was operating beyond the reach of Saddam. That this is apprently O’Reilly’s best argument for the war is telling.

[Tuckerfan]

@Frylock

For some reason, whenever I try to play sound files from npr’s website, (like the one linked to above,) it says Windows Media Player can’t play the file. I have tried to update WMP but it says I have the latest version installed already.

Does anyone know what I might need to do to get it working? This has been bothering me for a while…

-Kris

IIRC, a lot of NPR files require RealPlayer and not WMP.

[Kalhoun]

At least Letterman was honest about it. He said something to the effect of, “Look…I may not know what I’m talking about, but either do you.”

[Frylock]

@Tuckerfan

IIRC, a lot of NPR files require RealPlayer and not WMP.

It doesn’t seem so, at least in this case. When I click the link, WMP comes up, not RealPlayer. And when I right click on the link, I don’t even find an option to try to open the file with some other player.

I’m at a different computer now so I can’t double check. Maybe there was an option to just download the file rather than playing it. I’ll try that and try opening in RealPlayer.

-Kris

[Acsenray]

@Julius Henry

Merijeek is refering to this interview which ends with Mr. O’Reilly walking out during the interview when he is asked to comment on something he had said. Skip ahead about a half hour or so, it’s a hoot.

If I recall, this is what happened, generally. O’Reilly’s position was to the effect of “I help people and the people who criticize me are not helping people.” Gross was trying to get O’Reilly’s take on specific criticisms about his and to that effect, she wanted to read a quote from, I think, a People magazine article or something like that. O’Reilly objected to her reading the quote and stomped off when she insisted on reading it and getting his response to it.