# You can set your watch to it-- Another O'Reilly Pit Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010 "2004-03-02T01:08:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HumanStromboli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HumanStromboli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumanStromboli)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/21 "2004-03-03T01:05:10Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > CNN aims at people who use their heads for more than dispalying the latest hairstyle; who actually pay attention and think about what’s being reported. . I’ll remember that the next time I watch “People in the News.” 😉 Anyway, everybody knows that MSNBC is where it’s at. ---
**Author:** ![HumanStromboli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HumanStromboli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumanStromboli)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/22 "2004-03-03T01:06:23Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > I really don’t know why anyone still bothers to pit this guy. Need something to do when you tired pitting Ann Coulter, it would seem. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/23 "2004-03-03T05:04:57Z")
Well, personally, I find O’Reilly pitting entertaining. Like watching a train wreck in progress. Same for Coutler pittings. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/24 "2004-03-03T05:14:27Z")
Ever notice how you never see Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter in the same room, at the same time? Not that I’m implying anything, but, well, you know… ---
**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:** [March 3, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/25 "2004-03-03T05:30:06Z")
O’Reilly and Coulter in the same room? Great gods and little fishes, man! What if they mated and spawned offspring? :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/26 "2004-03-03T07:02:47Z")
Don’t be silly. O’Reilly is a robot and Coulter reproduces by division. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/27 "2004-03-03T13:24:43Z")
Ah, but that just ups the ante for a mad transgenic scientist, doesn’t it? “Igor, fetch me the DNA sequencer!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/28 "2004-03-03T13:31:13Z")
Be simpler to modify and retrofit O’Reilly’s hydraulic inseminator to fit a cloaca. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/29 "2004-03-03T13:33:44Z")
But would the resulting pods fit through her ovipositor? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/30 "2004-03-03T13:58:18Z")
And the orgy of ideological self-gratification continues. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/31 "2004-03-03T16:09:41Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Is it any wonder that Bushco has picked the liars network (Faux News Channel for those out of the loop) for the majority of it’s early campaign commercials? > [http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/01/elec04.prez.bush.ads.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/01/elec04.prez.bush.ads.ap/index.html) That’s pretty dumb. Isn’t your average Fox News viewer already going to vote for Bush? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/32 "2004-03-03T16:23:49Z")
What’s the deal with O’Really and “secularism?” Often at night I’ll hear a little of his show and he has this one note song about how the “secularists” are trying to annihilate religion in the U.S. and control the media, blah blah blah. Personally, I think we could do with a lot more secularism these days. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/33 "2004-03-03T17:12:58Z")
> [@ElwoodCuse](#): > > That’s pretty dumb. Isn’t your average Fox News viewer already going to vote for Bush? Huh? Why would that be the case? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/34 "2004-03-03T17:30:38Z")
> [@ElwoodCuse](#): > > That’s pretty dumb. Isn’t your average Fox News viewer already going to vote for Bush? I agree. I work at an ad agency, so I’ll ask one of the media gurus around here. My understanding of it is that it’s a waste of money. It’s like having a promo spot for a show that you are currently watching. But they aren’t all necessarily Bush voters. Buchannan might run again. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/35 "2004-03-03T17:41:25Z")
As well, it’s not so much a matter of securing the Fox voter, as motivating him. The average Rightarded American has no place to go but Bush, but they still have to get him to go. I will be interested to see what approach they emphasize, “Jane Fonda” or “the Homo Comintern”. Of course, there will be lots of pictures of GeeDubya, that hearty son of the soil, out clearing brush on the south 2. Come to think of it, that “Col. Toon, ace N. Vietnamese figther pilot” recently spoken of here at the SDMB…is there any real proof he wasn’t shot down over Lubbock in 1970? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/36 "2004-03-03T18:14:30Z")
I was surprised to see a leftist use the term “Rightarded”. Isn’t that insensitive or whatever? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/37 "2004-03-03T18:39:14Z")
“Leftist”? _moi_? If I had to, I’d say I’m on the conservative wing of the extreme left. And, so far as I know, I _coined_ said slur, gleefully and with malice aforethought. Newt Gangrene taught us that fighting dirty works, and polite murmurings over tea with pinkies akimbo is for wimps. Fuck that shit! Give as good as you get, and go down fighting. Of course, I wouldn’t use such a phrase in reference to a libertarian, in deference to delicate sensibilities. More along the lines of “idealistic, Quixotic, Mensa infested roadkill”… ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/38 "2004-03-03T18:50:39Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > Isn’t that insensitive or whatever? Insensitive? In the Pit?? Oh my, yes. As a person of delicate sensibilities I feel I must protest the use of vulgar terminology. The Pit is not a forum for base insults. It is an arena of polite chiding and subtle remostrations. Such _insensitive_ talk may cause our more frail posters to swoon and perhaps faint. I, myself, feel an attack of The Vapors coming on. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010/39 "2004-03-03T19:06:54Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > As well, it’s not so much a matter of securing the Fox voter, as motivating him. Might this be a diguised “donation” to the Fox cause as a “thanks” for their fair and ballanced approach? Hands scratching backs and whatnot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-set-your-watch-to-it-another-oreilly-pit-thread/232010.md?page=1)