Bill O'Reilly is a fucking bitter asshole

[La_Serpiente]

Bill O'Reilly wants to stranglehold NPR. Just because an nice woman from Fresh Air shut him down, he gets all better and is starting to strike a movement to change NPR. NPR is perfectly fine to me.

Here is his link:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99596,00.html

Murdoch probably has a secret agenda against NPR. No doubt about that.

[Manix]

1. O'Reilly is a lying asshole who acts like a crybaby whenever his BS..

is exposed.

[Flubadubya]

2. Maybe they'll initiate another law suit...

that they will undoubtedly lose. Losers are like that... yeah they are!

[onebigbadwulf]

3. Whatever....

O'Reilly's probably hopped up on Oxycontin anyway.

[Ilsa]

25. I bet he's probably going through withdrawal, now

that his source has dried up!

[Drifter]

4. The best thing to do ...

to O'reilly is to ignore him. Like a child, it will do nothing but burn him up inside.

Cheers
Drifter

[msmcghee]

31. The last thing to do . .

. . with bullies is ignore them. NPR needs to go on the attack and defend itself. Otherwise the sheeple will assume O'Rielly's right about this.

Never - ever - ignore a bully when they try to intimidate you. It empowers them.

Stand up for your rights - or you deserve to lose them.

[1gobluedem]

36. We will

I work for an NPR affiliate -- our pledge drive is next week. I've already incorporated O'Reilly's campaign to cut off federal funding into our pitch points. Didn't work when Newt tried it (everyone had their most successful fundraisers) ever, won't work now.

[msmcghee]

37. Way to gobluedem. n/t

[msmcghee]

38. I'd like to see NPR . .

. . do a very objective documentary (like a 4 part special) about the media and culture wars.

Any objective look at the money and power going into quashing the liberal viewpoint and spreading the conservative viewpoint will be devastating to them.

As it is we must get this from books like Franken's and Conason's. But those are mostly read by liberals.

But this is happening real time. We (Americans) need to be aware of this as it happens. That's what NPR is for IMHO.

[1gobluedem]

39. Address

Send your idea to [e-mail]. Or go to npr.org and click on audience services to see how you can pitch your idea.

If you don't get a response, pitch the idea to your local NPR affiliate -- and have them pitch it to NPR.

[msmcghee]

42. Thanks, I'll do that. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

45. Goodonya.

You know all too well how NPR and PBS have been under the gun for years, and how the funding is iffy at best from year to year.

I guess you've also heard about the Christian networks buying out stations to drown lower-wattage NPR affiliates around the country.

Some people here regularly bash NPR and and the commercial stations and networks. Makes me wonder just what they think would be a "good" news source.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. O'Reilly sounds like

a 2 year old throwing a tantrum. Someone actually had the audacity to question his ethics, his motivation? Expose him? (I didn't hear the interview, I'm "assuming" this) The man is so self centered....just like a 2 year old. The world revolves around him. If anyone questions what he does, they need to go. They must be sued. Public Broadcasting must lose government funding. Notice, the guest on his show was a republican....not a Democrat. He had to have a guest who would kiss his ass on the NPR issue. It's obvious he's now trying to "get" NPR and I hope he goes down in flames. What a LOSER.

[muchacho]

6. whining for dollars

Let's hope he does for NPR what he, and FOX, did for Al Franken

[imax2268]

7. I heard that interview...

he stormed out when he was confronted on his BS...pooor Billy Boy...!

I just read reviews of his book at Amazon...lot's a negative reviews...

[nolabels]

14. I have not listened to NPR for quite awhile now, are they getting.........

Any better? Mostly only listen to KPFK in LA, and even with them one has to figure out if some of the stuff is refitted and rehabilitated propaganda let out by an unsuspecting person.

During Iraq invasion I tuned in NPR and it seemed like an Infomercial for the Military Arms Sales.




http://www.cursor.org/

[Zero Gravitas]

26. Read your own sig!

There's lots of NPR bashing here on DU, but read your sig. NPR is one of the best sources for in-depth news coverage available.

[nolabels]

29. Not really a sig, but some advertizement,

Think about it, their main source is NPR but they are still at 16%. Mostly I see it as a follow the herd of the left but don't get too far a field. They want to keep an audience but have several forces are working against them, we know it's probably not the people working there, but more of where they are have to get most of their funding. Can't keep it on the Air if nobody will help pay for it.

The problem I see is too many middle men being able to hold back money to them if they don't put out what the middlemen want to hear.

[drdigi420]

34. 16% isnt the total people that listen

read that ad.

only 16% of the uninformed ppl listen to NPR.

Most uninformed ppl watch FOX.

[nolabels]

43. We know about Faux, but what about the 16% that are missing it........

on NPR. I really don't know that much about NPR and would think that even with that percentage that things are not clear and to point with it. Just think what would of happened if NPR had come out and declared the cabal was lying about WMD and several other lies early on. They didn't because they were afraid of losing funding.

My point is it's not really news, its just more apologies for the right leaning corporate media

on edit: syntax

[Junkdrawer]

8. I hear Murdoch is fighting the BBC so Murdoch vs NPR makes sense. n/t

[bearfartinthewoods]

9. he's been out to get NPR FOR YEARS

this didn't start with the interview. imho, he only took the interview for publicity effect to feed the effort too shut it down.

[EdGy]

10. NPR tells the truth (much more often than Fox)...

and these right wingers can't stand it.

Their entire mission is to deprive the American people of the truth.

Their hold on power depends on Americans NOT knowing what is really happening in the rest of the world, NOT knowing what the current regime in Washington is doing to the rest of the world.

No wonder they hate NPR. Remember the recent scientific poll done on people's understanding of foreign policy showed that FOX views were the MOST uninformed and misinformed, while NPR and PBS viewers/listeners were the least misinformed about Iraq.

Like any right wing regime, they will focus their anger and efforts at blotting out these sources of the Truth.

Ask anyone who lived in Milosevic's Serbia or Tudjman's Croatia; The Bush regime and their cronies like Murdoch are behaving frighteningly, EXACTLY like these two rather nasty regimes.

Exact same mentality; but with nuclear weapons. :scared:

[zauberflote]

11. People who need People

If you haven't already, you should all check out the People magazine review of O'Reilly's new screed, which was the straw that broke O'Reilly's back and sent him out screaming when Gross brought it up.
The review is short and sweet. No, it's better than sweet, it's absolutely priceless. It's the Oct. 3 issue, I think, and I haven't been able to find a link, though if you're an AOL member, which I'm not, you might be able to.
I had to read the thing in the local library to see why it got O'Reilly so lathered up. Now, I understand.

[zauberflote]

13. We've got it

Good, Scairp has it here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=530576#530677

[PATRICK]

12. Prediction

O'Reilly will be the next to fall. Imagine someone cutting off this guy in traffic. He might be too naturally a chicken for fisticuffs but road rage? I can't even begin to think how this guy drives his own car with an attitude ten times worse than an uncle of mine.

Probably some National Enquirer drivers out there cruising right now in rush hour traffic looking for him. (Those are your real threats, Bill.)

[Skittles]

15. I think Mr. O'Reilly is losing it

he is very much making a fool of himself now. He has become a man obsessed and it ain't pretty.

[Faygo Kid]

32. The next to go down - like Rush?

He is indeed losing it. He's a public figure, but can't deal with criticism. He is becoming a johnny one-note, obsessed with those who criticize him. No Spin Zone, indeed. Another right wing bully who can dish it out, but not take it - just like Rush.

[virtue4u]

16. Actually, he shut NPR down.

O'Reilley was the one who terminated the interview.

[alphafemale]

17. He tantrumed like the disturbed egotist he is. Not a shutdown. n/t

[Patriot_Spear]

18. That was the crybaby's plan from the start...

His whole little tirade was a sham- like all repukes he's a big girl- that's why Franken whipped his cowardly ass.

The only person O'Really could intimidate was a woman, during a PHONE interview! Ha-ha, Typical republiKKKan pussy...

[DisgustipatedinCA]

19. I don't think so

I believe NPR just kept on broadcasting after the crybaby hung up. And I think that EVERYONE's opinion of Bill O'Reilley as a worm was reinforced at that point.

O'Reilley has an inferiority complex large enough to drive a truck through. This seems to hold true with most conservative commentators, who spend their lives living a lie.

As David Corn said recently in The Nation, you'd think they would be happy controlling the Executive, the Judiciary, both houses of Congress, and the airwaves. But they're not, because they are aware (as opposed to their brain-dead followers) that it's all built on lies.

Good day.

[maha]

24. He hung up the phone; NPR remained on the air.

I don't think you meant to say that NPR shut down.

[Zolok]

20. Pretentious shallow vain nervous

and he has absolutely NO sense of humor about himself whatsoever...let us all remember this about Bill O'Reilly.

During that NPR interview I could almost hear the Captain Queeg's two little steel marbles clicking away in Bill's sweaty mitt.

www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

[Solomon]

21. I used to watch O'Liely just for entertainment. Then he started making me

sick. He's way over the top. Gone. Its only a matter of time for him. He's so bad now that you can't even bear to look at his show for entertainment. I can't even bear to hear his voice now.

After O'Liely goes, then Hannity.

[maha]

22. Paranoid-Narcissistic Personality Disorders

I'm no psycologist, but I've had to deal with nutjobs like O'Reilly in the past and the symptoms are obvious. He is some sort of Paranoid-Narcissist (there are several different types) or I'll eat my pantyhose.

http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/narcissism/paranoidnarcissismspectrum.html

What this means is that he has no control over what an asshole he is; it's not an act. Also, it means Faux News must have its hands full keeping him happy. But if I'm right, it's only a matter of time before he becomes so difficult and demanding that even Faux won't want to keep him.

[eileen_d]

23. For the life of me, I do not understand

how people take this guy seriously. Even if they share his narrow-minded views, he himself is so unstable that to cite him as a source would seem to weaken their argument rather than strengthen it.

But I still see O'Reilly defenders, here and there amongst the critics, in the Amazon.com reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767913795/ref=cm_rev_all_1/102-3698352-5176933?v=glance&s=books&vi=customer-reviews

[Patriot_Spear]

27. His Daddy beat him a lot- now he picks on women, children...

...and anyone else who he senses will put up with his bullshit. Typical bully inferiority complex.

And that's why Franken man-handled the big sisy- because O'Really KNEW Franken would thump his candy-ass if he tried that crap with him. LMAO- I can't help but laugh every time I think of O'Really's red face at the book fair!

[maha]

28. Are we living in a parallel universe here?

From an Amazon review:

"I have heard Ms. Gross relentlessly slice and dice guests on previous editions of her show."

WTF? I don't listen to "Fresh Air" often because it's too warm and fuzzy for my taste. Whenever I tune in, she's conducting a maddeningly precious interview with a novelist I've never heard of. Calling Gross a "slice and dice" artist is like being afraid of Bambi.

[eileen_d]

30. I think you are right!

Seriously, I think there is a parallel universe where liberals are bullies and the right-wing pundits are victims. There is no other explanation for some of the bizarro-land opinion pieces I see on the 'net.

[msmcghee]

33. O'Reilly is a captive of his public personality.

He has built up a huge following among pissed-off white guy repukes. He now has to become ever more outrageous toward liberals - i.e. walk the walk for his fans - or he is outed as just another RW blowhard.

This spiraled up immensely when Franken humiliated him publicly on C-SPAN (The Book Review meeting with Molly Ivans) etc.

By the time Terry interviewed him he was at the level where he needed to deal with any challenge of his credibility from the left - with a nuclear response - or die as a public spokesman for the RW.

I'm sure he knew this going in and planned to do what he did ahead of time.

[Cat Atomic]

35. The man is disturbed. Seriously- he looks like he's about to

have a nervous breakdown.

Look at the book he wrote. It's about a news guy who gets revenge on all the people who tried to sabotage his career. Sound familiar...?

O'Reilly is paranoid, and I'm not just trying to be cute. That man needs a shrink.

[denverbill]

40. He's pathetic every time I hear him.

Last Saturday I had to run to the grocery store to pick up something. It's only a 5 minute drive so when he was on, I didn't bother changing stations.

The whole 5 minutes, all he did was whine about this person who gave his book a bad review. Whine, whine, whine.

I go into the store, pick up what I needed, drive home.

He is still whining, whining, whining about the book review. As if anybody in the country, except him, gives a damn about his book review.

[msmcghee]

41. Let's start calling him . . .

Bill O'Whiney

[The_Gopher]

44. o'really must not realize that the airwaves he uses are *OUR* airwaves

faux does not own the airwaves. they simply have a license. same with his radio show. it's on licensed air. owned by who? owned by us, the taxpayers.

it's hard to believe he's so dense, but i think he's blinded by his own sense of self-righteousness.

what a prick.

[callous taoboy]

46. o'reilly

can go fuck himself.

[kaitykaity]

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