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In a recollection by SLASH:
I knew it wasn’t exactly nice, but I’ve never thought it to be on the same level of forbiddeness as “nigger”.
Even if it wasn’t (which I believe it is), it’s not exactly a polite term that one would use in expressing their breeding. I would think that, even while shooting for ratings, he would still wish to prove himself learned.
DoctorJ’s transcript has me even more pissed off than I was before. What a fucking fraudulent, hypocritical scumbag. If he doesn’t care what his guests think, then why does he have them on the show? He basically just stuck his fingers in his ears and said “la la la. I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you.” What the fuck is wrong with this piece of shit? What a self-important windbag. What the fuck is he talking about with that shit about “I’ve done more for 9/11 victims than you ever will…?” What the fuck has O’Reilly done for 9/11 victims? And what a phony crock of shit all that “…out of respect for you father” was.
Here’s a clue for you O’Reilly, if you respect his father then you don’t treat his son like shit because he disagrees with you about something. You didn’t offer a single factual rebuttal to anything this guy said, all you did was call him names and wave your fucking arms around. You are not smart. You are not informed. You are not important. You are not respected by intelligent people. You are basically just the belligerent drunk at the bar that has to tell everybody his opinion. You’re a fucking cab driver with a microphone. You’re a fraud. You’re a humorless punk. You’re an intellectual coward. You have a rigged show that allows you to moderate your own debates. You don’t have the sack to face a legitimate debate. I would love to see you try to hold your own on this very message board. You would be eaten fucking alive. We would make you cry. We would literally make you cry tears. Your fans are ignorant trailer trash who believe everything you say. We are not. We are your worst nightmare. We are The Informed. We live for this shit. Come on in here, bitch. Let’s see how fucking smart you are without your sycophantic staff, and your easily disconnectable satellite feeds. Let’s see how you do in fair fight.
Gutless. Punk.
Where I live, very close to the border, that’s generally true.
But over the years it has become sort of a general slur to Mexicans or Latin Americans in general, so on those grounds, I would probably avoid the term if I were an Irish guy from Long Island.
I guess it just depends on where you live. Where I live, it’s considered “impolite” but not totally unacceptable, whereas nigger is absolutley forbidden, like it is just about anywhere else.
I still hear both words, but “wetback” doesn’t bring the room to a complete silence like “nigger” would.
Isn’t that the truth.
Using that interview as a representation of the usual O’Reilly goings on is somewhat erroneous. While what you say is mostly true, DoctorJ, O’Reilly was far more pissed off at Glick than he is at the usual guest - he almost never tells anyone to “shut up.” That’s not to say he isn’t obnoxious, but that interview is somewhat misrepresentative and I have seen him change his opinion on air. Guests do get a word in, and no, it’s not indicative. His persona is still grating though.
shrug
just sayin’…
Censored,
That’s because normally he can make shit up without getting called on it. I saw him early last summer claim, and be agreed with by his guests, that the entire Bin Laden family was flying around and out of the US, on a chartered jet “within 48 hours of the planes hitting the towers.”
Umm, Bill, you fuckwit? ALL planes were grounded, nevermind planes rented by brothers of the main suspect in the attack.
Because most of his fans think “Bill O’Reilly’s opinion” and immediately think “Inerrant fact”. They don’t watch the show for the guests, they watch it so they can jerk off to O’Reilly listening to himself talk.
Recto-cranial inversion knows no gender. It knows no age, nor religion, nor creed, nor much of anything else. it just strikes.
My guess would be about as much as he did for my 21st birthday: not much of anything. To anyone who isn’t a fan it’s just bullshit. To anyone who is a fan, it won’t be questioned and it’ll be a rallying cry … “Remember what O’Reilly did for the victims of 9/11!”
See above. Anyone able to think independently of the O’Reilly primer will recognize it as him spewing bullshit to save face and prevent the guy from teaching him International Relations of the last 30-odd years. Anyone who cannot think indepenently (this would be all those fans of his) will think “What a respectful man that O’Reilly is … to refrain from dismantling that uncouthful Glick on national television on behalf of the boy’s father.”
He’s playing the crowd. His words aren’t based on fact but on knowing enough of how to appeal to his target audience.
I don’t think he’d accept this challenge, oddly enough;) He knows it’s a stacked deck. Any of our many regular, respected GDers could hand him his ass in a debate with both hands tied behind their back. He relies heavily on his fans not knowing the truth. That’s why it’s called The O’Reilly Factor. you have to factor in the intelligence of his fans when you start ranting about how full of shit the whole thing is. It’s like taking Springer seriously.
No, proving himself learned would probably hurt his ratings with his target demographic. Racist slurs most likely help.
That actually happened.
The bad news: Bill O’Reilly is the highest rated cable news show in America.
The good news: That actually means only about a million and a half viewers.
I wouldn’t call that “many Americans”; more like a cute little cult. The regular network news demolishes his show every night. All three networks, in fact.
Scary thing is, Rush and Dr. Laura draw over ten times the audience on their wacko radio shows.
Bill is not mainstream America. I hope and pray foreigners out there who watch his show don’t believe he actually represents a majority of America in any way, shape or form. He doesn’t.
I don’t doubt that O’Reilly claimed that nonsense. I can’t believe anyone with any sense actually believed it.
Bah. O’Reilly was off by a few days, but still, the fact remains that the Bin Ladens were shuttled out of the country, without being properly interrogated by the FBI.
Apparently, Michael Moore had the same silly idea. According to Snopes, the U.S. government did not exactly “shuttle them out of the country.” And the FBI did, in fact, interrogate them. Whether they did so “properly” depends on how you feel about the Bureau’s competency, I suppose.
However, the fact remains that the flights most certainly did not take place within 48 hours of the attacks, which I believe was what Flymaster was stating.
Imagine that. Michael Moore and Bill O’Reilly believe the same bullshit when it suits their purposes. My god, are there no true journalists left in this country?
You have Robert Pelton, who is lefty as hell but actually chases down stories, and Google. I am unaware of others.
Holy hypocrisy, Batman!
Ah sure it’s only a bit of craic jjimm
Actually it literally means “pubic hair”, but it is used as an insult, sometimes to mean “asshole”, sometimes to mean “coward”, sometimes just “jerk”.
I agree. It’s an offensive term that bigots sometimes use for all Mexicans or all Latinos. It implies that they all are illegal immigrants.
Perhaps it’s less offensive when used specifically to describe a specific group of illegal immigrants. However, I would never use the word.