Bill O'Reilly

Here's more evidence that the bipartisan "Truth Commission" proposed by Sen. Pat Leahy and Rep.  John Conyers is impossible. Bill O'Reilly attacked it immediately as a treasonous effort to help Osama Bin Laden attack America. The ventriloquist's dummy for O'Reilly's attack was Marc Thiessen, Bush’s former chief speechwriter:

THIESSEN: [T]he facts that they want to get out are the techniques we use to interrogate terrorists. The techniques that we used to intercept e-mails and communications and telephone calls. And when you get those facts out, it’s not just going out to the American people and to the viewers on television. It’s going out to Osama bin Laden. It’s going out to the terrorists who can use those information to get around our intelligence and plan the next attack.

Our grassroots campaign to prosecute George Bush, Dick Cheney, and everyone who authorized torture is clearly working. How do we know for sure? Watch Bill O'Reilly freak out about it:

Our efforts are *this* close to making O'Reilly's head explode right on the air. I'm sure if we think creatively we can come up with an idea for an activity - online or offline - that would push O'Reilly over the edge. I welcome all (legal) ideas below!

By David Swanson

Imagine being so angry that you couldn't find a job that you were able to decide, as a man in Tennessee just did, that the way to solve your problems was to attack liberals - the people who support (albeit ineffectively) workers' rights, union rights, and fair trade, who oppose NAFTA, oppose tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, support investing in job creation at home rather than wars abroad, and want to tax corporations and the super-rich rather than small businesses and working people.

Bill O'Reilly is viciously attacking Rep. Robert Wexler (FL19) because he just discovered Wexler moved his young family from Florida to the DC area so he could actually practice family values, not betray them while hypocritically lecturing others about them.

Obviously O'Reilly's biggest problem is that he can't read, because Wexler explained his family's move in his book!

A lot of progressive bloggers were upset that Hillary Clinton planned to go on Bill O'Reilly's show, but I withheld judgment because I wanted to see how she handled the interview.

Based on the first 20 minute segment, I'd say she played O'Reilly like a fiddle! (I say this as someone who once kicked O'Reilly's ass.)

O'Reilly was his usual bully self, interrupting and arguing without pause, trying to make Clinton stumble. In high-speed encounters like this, Obama is often tongue-tied. But not Clinton!

She joked. She smiled. She charmed. She needled. And on the key policy issues, she turned O'Reilly's frames on their head.

And she stuck with her home team. Unlike Obama's interview with Chris Wallace, Clinton didn't take any jabs at progressives.

Brava Hillary!

Bill O'Reilly announced he will "destroy" DailyKos.com. How exactly? By asking every Democratic candidate who attends YearlyKos this weekend whether they approve of the photoshop on the left that was posted by some unknown Kos reader. 

The Democratic candidates should answer O'Reilly by asking whether he approves of the non-photoshopped photos below.

Bill O'Reilly's hands are drenched in the blood of these victims of U.S. forces. I tried to warn him six months before the invasion but he threw me off his show. O'Reilly is a war criminal who should be punished for his war propaganda - both on earth by a jury of his peers and in the afterlife by his creator.

Let's get one thing out of the way right up front: I believe that most thinking Americans understood long ago that Fox News is to journalism, what the Republican party is to ethics -- in other words, the two just ain't related. As if we needed yet more proof that Fox might as well be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican party, there they were last night, in three separate video cutaways, identifying disgraced Republican Congressman Mark Foley as…. a Democrat.

I know Bill O'Reilly - I was on his show on 9/25/02 and kicked his ass so badly that he threw me off the show and then ranted about me twice.

As I result, I know first-hand that Bill O'Reilly is a pussy. If O'Reilly was a man, he would defend himself. But O'Reilly isn't a man; if anyone disagrees with him or challenges him, he goes berserk.

Just ask Jeremy Glick. Or George Clooney. Or Keith Olbermann. Or Al Franken.

On 9/25/02, I debated Bill O'Reilly on Bush's planned invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately, O'Reilly was so bloodthirsty for war that he refused to hear my arguments and threw me off his show. Now, 41 tragic months later, O'Reilly has finally changed his tune:

Here is the essential problem in Iraq. There are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them. And I don't -- we're never gonna be able to control them. So the only solution to this is to hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible. Because we just can't control these crazy people. This is all over the place. And that was the big mistake about America: They didn't -- it was the crazy-people underestimation. We did not know how to deal with them -- still don't. But they're just all over the place.

Of course I could take a cheap shot and say "Crazy people - it takes one to know one!" but that would be almost as rude as O'Reilly throwing me off his show.

Bill O'Reilly says he wants a debate.

Great 'Factor' Debate Contest Rules
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181845,00.html

Would you like to sit on the set of "The Factor" and let Bill O'Reilly have it?! The Great "Factor" Debate contest is underway and here's the deal:

During the month of February six lucky "Factor" viewers will be flown to New York City or Los Angeles (depending on which city we're broadcasting from) with hotel and meals paid for by us.