“Based on his appointments and based on who he’s got with him he’s the most left president that I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
Bill O’Reilly
The Factor
October 19, 2009
Bill O’Reilly ripped on President Obama and his radical Far Left administration tonight.
Brit Hume joined in. The two discussed Team Obama’s attacks on FOX News including the latest directive from the White House to the state-run media to “isolate” the poopular fair and balanced network.
This was classic O’Reilly.
Bill gets it.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:56 pm | #1
At the rate Obamao is going he will be farther left then Lenin.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:59 pm | #2
didn’t oreilly just recently certified obama a US citizen? I thought they were best friends.
Fox news has refuse to touch the “birth certificate” issue, now the obama administration has turned against them.
Maybe it’s time for Fox news to start investigating Obama’s background 24/7. Let’s see if Fox news is really a news organization and uncover the truth.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:59 pm | #3
Bill doesn’t get it. They (Hume and O’reilly)are discussing obama’s vendetta against Fox while the iranians,russians,chinese, and chavez eat us alive (what is left of our country after obama and the dems are through gnawing on it).
October 19th, 2009 | 7:04 pm | #4
I love O’Relly, but he isn’t perfect.
He needs a dose of humility.
I keep hearing him tout his audience numbers over the libtard cable networks’ dearth of nitwits.
Someone tell Bill, that don’t mean nothing. B/C “in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
October 19th, 2009 | 7:12 pm | #5
Even O’Reily doesn’t get the connection with Ayres. Obama and Ayres were on the same committees, Obama gave grants to Ayres for his school. If only O’Reily would do the vetting that Beck does, he might be surprised to find how little he knows.
October 19th, 2009 | 7:14 pm | #6
The reality is, Hillary and Bill were nearly as left wing – giving us all a massive tax increase, wanting to Nationalize Health Care, blocking welfare reform, producing Ginsberg for the SC, etc. The Clintons were just as collectivist, but they lied better. Besides, so many of the folks in the Obama Administration are former Clinton Official Failures.
My point is, that the Democratic Party has been far more to the extreme than Bill wants to admit. It is this perception that some still try to suggest the Democrats have ‘moderates’ or ‘centrists’, that creates a mess at the voting booth.
O’Reilly has been pushing a rather insulting facade of being ‘above the fray’, showing some really tired productions that are completely watered down.
Bill O’Reilly probably senses he is losing face every day by playing it safe about the Democratic Party mess we see on daily basis.
O’Reilly was rather embarrassed the last time he spoke with Laura Ingraham. She correctly addressed the NO SPINNER as rather wishful thinking.
October 19th, 2009 | 7:18 pm | #7
Did you mean to write “poopular”?
October 19th, 2009 | 7:19 pm | #8
He doesn’t really believe that, otherwise he wouldn’t have thrown so many softballs in that
interview last fall
October 19th, 2009 | 7:20 pm | #9
“the poopular fair and balanced network.”
“Poopular”. Really? Does anyone spell check anymore?
October 19th, 2009 | 7:24 pm | #10
I still remember how Bill O’ Reilly defending Obama during the election campaign. Now the Obama administrations are on all out war. Look who’s crying now?
October 19th, 2009 | 7:28 pm | #11
At least O’Reilly won’t have Marc Lamont Hill on his show anymore.
October 19th, 2009 | 7:29 pm | #12
O’Reilly plays both ends. I quit watching his show, he went out after Jesse Jackson if you remember, but then strangely quit just when it seemed he was going to bring him down. WHY?
October 19th, 2009 | 7:37 pm | #13
Make up your mind, Bill! He is starting to think in circles like the Libs.
October 19th, 2009 | 7:42 pm | #14
O’Reilley finally discovers (after two years) that Obama is the most left President of his lifetime?
Welcome to what the many of us have know since the beginning, Bill!
About time you came to the party!
October 19th, 2009 | 7:49 pm | #15
Man, ole Bill is really quick on the uptake there, isn’t he?
October 19th, 2009 | 8:00 pm | #16
i’m so sick and tired of BOR. he handles obama with kid gloves and dismisses the 9/12 march with the lie of only “70,000″ were there. but only now does he go off about obama being a leftist. egotistical jerk.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:00 pm | #17
Narciso writes: “He doesn’t really believe that, otherwise he wouldn’t have thrown so many softballs in that interview last fall”
Someone once — correctly — referred to O’Reilly as The Terminally Self-Referential Bill O’Reilly” which accurately characterizes him in my opinion. In his quest for ratings, he is like a bookie: he positions himself squarely in the middle of an argument to maximize his ratings. But, if you are in the business of selling your show, then that’s what one does. So therefore, I always take his rants (with his affected working class speech, “dis guy”, “youse”, etc.) with a grain of salt.
It is, therefore, a bellwether that he engages in this discussion with Britt Hume, who is increasingly being dragged out of retirement to comment and whose opinion I respect highly. It is also instructive that Britt goes on and on in this and nudges O’Reilly out of the limelight. The normally restrained Hume characterizing Obama’s regime as “left-of-left-of center” is instructive. He joins the equally deft Chris Matthews in classifying this administration as commies and crybabies.
But, my gratuitous slam of Bill O’Reilly aside, he, Wallace, Hannity, Van Sustern, Beck, et al are sure making a bagful of money on this. Someone said someplace that Fox’s 3:00 AM ratings exceed CNN and [P]MSNBC’s prime time ratings.
Obama will meet his Waterloo somewhere down the road in his first term and it will be heralded by a fusilade of shots from his former adoring Knee-pad media who realize they have a turd — albeit a polished turd — on their hands.
Meanwhile, the cottage industry of punditry, authors, and bloggers continues on, benefiting from the traffic and business of we good and ordinary citizens who seek to restore our country to some semblance of what it once was. Hey, do I mind dropping $30 on Michelle Malkin’s book on the slime that leaked out of Chicago and found it’s way to cesspool called the Obama administration?
Not in the slightest!
October 19th, 2009 | 8:25 pm | #18
Bill’s still tanking it. He’s trying to show a stiffer spine, but it is too late. You watch he’ll start saying the things he knows are true only AFTER Obama is on the ropes. If Obama stays upright, Bill will stay away.
He’s more a girlie man that he lets on.
Sorry Bill- barn door open, horse already gone.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:27 pm | #19
Because of efforts from the White House, Fox News is quickly becoming the underdog of news organizations.
…and you know how America feels about the underdog!
October 19th, 2009 | 8:27 pm | #20
Bill has a way of stating the obvious doesn’t he?
October 19th, 2009 | 8:34 pm | #21
He is not the first to say that. Check out Thomas Swoell video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=600CMofZ8bQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7eusnT9Pk&feature=related
October 19th, 2009 | 8:39 pm | #22
Voyska PVO, “a bagful of money” is exactly what Fox News is going to make out of this showdown. People love a good fistfight. When it is played out in the media (mudpit) the pigs will love it (media) and both sides will get dirty. It can only lower the stature of the white house even more than Obama’s common-touch has already done.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:50 pm | #23
Bill O’Really is arrogant, condescending and ill-informed.
For the first time, he had his team do some fact checking last week to find that Rush never said what he was accused of saying, and he had the guts to claim that they are the best in the business.
To this day, BOR still will not research and accept the words of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients and other Veterans over the uncorroborated lies of John Kerry, the one who went to Viet Nam you know. He still accept the idea that Kerry was “swift-boated” rather than having been brought down by the truth.
His discussions of Obamacare are also the most superficial on FOX. For example, he is unwilling to admit that the “coops” are just the government option in a different name. If the government puts up the cash for the coops, the government will run them indirectly if not directly, and dictate all the terms – look at what happened with the car dealerships; with the salaries at the financial institutions; the Chairman at GM; etc.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:51 pm | #24
I llove Bill.
But, he’s not perfect – no one is.
He needs a dose of humility.
He keeps bragging about his vastly larger audience than his idiot/lib cable competitors. Truth. The libs can’t attract sufficient numbers of morons, any more.
That’s pretty good, Bill.
You must temper your enthusiasm b/c “in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
I think even a congressman or a journalist can ‘get’ that.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:53 pm | #25
Sorry about the repeat post. I thought the puppy had eaten the (mouse wire) on the earlier one.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:54 pm | #26
BOR is starting to sweat. The factor may be moved to the 5:00 slot and to Beck to the prime time 8:00! LOL
October 19th, 2009 | 9:04 pm | #27
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ht dcat
Talking Points: 10/19
I DETEST O’REILLY, have since the day he
agreed with Reid that the “war was lost”..
The One Thing: 10/19
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October 19th, 2009 | 9:06 pm | #28
If Glenn Beck is not a “journalist” then why is he the only one breaking the big stories about ACORN, Van Jones, Anita Dunn’s Mao worship, other scary czars etc and whatever happens next week? Hmmmm? (I predict next it will have something to do with Bill Ayers authorship of “Dreams From My Father” Obama’s supposed autobiography. Big one!)
October 19th, 2009 | 9:18 pm | #29
‘poopular’
Maybe someone made a mistake by transferring to this site.
October 19th, 2009 | 9:23 pm | #30
Michael writes” “BOR is starting to sweat. The factor may be moved to the 5:00 slot and to Beck to the prime time 8:00! LOL”
This is why O’Reilly started to have Beck (the personality, not the beer) on his show in regular segments. It is gratifying to see that others here find him opportunistic and condescending. But, in fairness, O’Reilly is the guy who kooks ‘em and reels ‘em in over at Fox. The large component of his audience is, I am sure, comprised of the people who do not suffer from ODS (as I freely admit I do) and just want some middle-of-the-road reportage.
Madame Opus: It is gratifying to see Levin, Malkin, Beck, and — yes — even Dick Morris rake in the loot on this. And FNC’s ratings will continue to the stratosphere. As we discussed last week, Hannity gets repetitious, spouting his five-to-ten talking points over and over. But, after a hard day of listening to the outrages that one laughingly refers to as governance by this administration, the first 10 minutes of Hannity emptying his magazine on the idiots is pure tonic for me..
..best accompanied by the aforementioned Beck’s or a Pauli Girl or a Newcastle (Mrs. Войска ПВО’s elixir of choice) and chased by a couple of fingers of Jack.
October 19th, 2009 | 10:00 pm | #31
Take it from a cynical voter – we haven’t had a true left president since FDR, and he accomplished great things that have made this country what you love today. Our system is self balancing. If Obama goes too far left the voters will correct things just like they did with Bush. Have some faith in this country and don’t worry so much about Obama. He’s mostly a wuss so it won’t get too too liberal.
October 19th, 2009 | 10:11 pm | #32
I can’t stand Fox News anymore. They all know Obama is a Usurper and they have the power to investigate him and they don’t. All sellouts.
This is the ONLY issue that would get you rid of this Usurper… the ONLY issue and they don’t use it. WHY? What are they afraid of? Were they told not to discuss this issue?
Big deal if they trash Obama’s admistration, that doesn’t hurt him one bit. He will replace them with other losers.. or by worst ones. And he will still be the Usurper Dictator in Chief.
Obama MUST go and ASAP. Time is running out.
Have you seen this video by Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher?
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlTagSZPm7o&feature=player_embedded
October 19th, 2009 | 10:25 pm | #33
“Based on his appointments and based on who he’s got with him he’s the most left president that I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
Forget about the corrupt marxists this clown has surrounded himself with, what about his own ideology?
This guy is the most leftwing President in my lifetime Bill, and it doesn’t have anything to do with who he surrounds himself with.
The piss poor people he’s surrounded himself with is more of a statement of his own poor judgment and lack of experience.
With Obama, it’s amateur hour 24/7.
October 19th, 2009 | 10:42 pm | #34
“Even O’Reily doesn’t get the connection with Ayres. Obama and Ayres were on the same committees, Obama gave grants to Ayres for his school. If only O’Reily would do the vetting that Beck does, he might be surprised to find how little he knows.”
I know! Some people just don’t get what is going on . I try to watch his show, but can’t take it for long. He is not connecting all the dots. It seems that Bill makes excuses for them all. He is not a very smart person in my opinion. Glenn Beck is a little out there, but at least he gets it. Maybe he will take Bill’s place someday.
October 19th, 2009 | 10:45 pm | #35
“… With Obama, it’s amateur hour 24/7.”
Obama is everything but AMATEUR. He knows darn well what he is doing and it is working fine. He is working on the destruction of America. I think he is doing a great job… he is no AMATEUR. Before his first term ends, there will be no America left to save.
He must go NOW.
October 19th, 2009 | 11:07 pm | #36
The media will do everything to distract so the Bozo can destroy and desolate.
October 19th, 2009 | 11:38 pm | #37
A number of pundits have weighed in on Obama’s war with Fox News. Its not a good strategy and it shows how thin skinned Obama is.
October 19th, 2009 | 11:39 pm | #38
Isn’t Bill Ayers claiming to be the ghost writer of Obama’s books?
October 19th, 2009 | 11:45 pm | #39
If Fox News was just being watched by Conservatives there would be no problem. Its seems however, that everytime Obama attacks Fox more Dems watch to see what all the fuss is about. This is what’s giving Fox the enormous ratings and Obama an enormous migraine.
October 20th, 2009 | 12:06 am | #40
This guy scares me more every day because I see what he is doing. Where is the out cry from the people that have R’s after their names. Oh they are speaking but other than Fox, you can’t hear them. I remember as a kid watching all the coups in south and central America. The first pictures you saw were the radio stations, and the news papers being over run and taken over. There is a message in that some where if we would only listen. They want the other Media outlets to also war on Fox, can’t we see this for what it is. He who controls the news controls the country.
October 20th, 2009 | 3:23 am | #41
O’Reilly’s a Grade A putz.
October 20th, 2009 | 4:05 am | #42
Bill O’ Reilly is showing his desperation. I put him in the same category as Shep Smith and Geraldo. They allow Fox to claim they are balanced.
October 20th, 2009 | 8:03 am | #43
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jainphx @ 12:06 am
we should be scared..
very scared, scared enough to pick up pitchforks & stop the monster in the WH & those who created him..
this is real life, not fiction!!
ht JRD @ 8:35 am via TRBO
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/glenn-beck-show-october-19-2009/
FCC-Church Conspiracy to Silence Talk Radio and Fox?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/20/fcc-church-conspiracy-to-silen/print
[It invited me as a UCC member to join a "fast from media violence" sponsored by So We Might See. The invitation says:
Does violence in the media, particularly hate speech against immigrants, impact levels of actual violence?
That's the question we will be asking during the 2009 Media Violence Fast, October 19-26. We invite your participation at http://www.mediaviolencefast.org.
So far so usual. The staff of my denomination, lovely people I'm sure, are in fact hardcore left-wingers in their politics, even though UCC pews are filled with politically self-identified conservatives.
Then came the interesting part, or, if you will, the part that sent a chill through my radio. Reverend Guess, on behalf of my own denomination -- without so much as a by-your-leave to the rank-and-file 1.2 million members -- made plain, in the name of the United Church of Christ that:
As a participant, you will be asked to sign a petition to the Federal Communications Commission asking that it open a notice of inquiry into hate speech in the media. We will also urge the National Telecommunications and Information Agency to update its 1993 report, The Role of Telecommunications in Hate Crimes.
Read the key phrases again. "Open a notice of inquiry into hate speech in the media." Meaning, church members are being asked to sign on to an already-in-progress petition to the FCC that is opening the door to legal sanctions from the federal government on "hate speech in the media."
Targets?
Together, we can express our concern about the frequency and tone of anti-immigrant remarks made by several TV and radio commentators, such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Lou Dobbs.
Hate speech in the media is a growing problem that must be examined before it can be solved.
So I took a look at this petition to Commissioner Copps, properly made out in the finest protocol to his colleague, the new Obama FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski. Also listed in the formal address was Lawrence E. Strickling the new Obama Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information. And what did I find there?]
RTWT!!
more @ #4: 12:43 pm and #28: 12:21 pm
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October 20th, 2009 | 8:34 am | #44
Bill gets it…..about a year after all the rest of us got it.
How can anyone have read about Obama’s history and not have known this a year ago??
October 20th, 2009 | 9:05 am | #45
Look Bill is afraid of being called a racist, plus his whole schtick is to be fair to everyone, because he’s just looking out for the “folks”. Plus he wanted to suck up to Obama in hopes of scoring another interview. But with the attacks on Fox, which he takes personally, he may be finally waking up.
October 20th, 2009 | 9:30 am | #46
Ever since O’s interview w/ O’Reilly, there has been a notable shift in O’Reilly’s reportage.
He, himself, is now left of center- at least in his criticism (mild, at best) of The One.
Contrast that to Beck’s truth telling/fact finding mission.
I agree w/ the assessment that Fox has not delved into the sealing of O’s records. Are they afraid to touch that? Hmm, Hmm, Hmm!
October 20th, 2009 | 10:41 am | #47
JJAYNED Writes “Bill O’ Reilly is showing his desperation. I put him in the same category as Shep Smith and Geraldo. They allow Fox to claim they are balanced.”
+1,000!
(..just like Snowe allows the Pantload-in-Chief and Pelousy and Reid to claim “bi-partisanship” when they railroad that pathetic bill through congress. But you can use this to your advantage as well in your posts, comments, and blogs.)
October 20th, 2009 | 8:13 pm | #48
I’m with texmom – its about freaking time O’Reilly figured this out.
Seriously….
October 21st, 2009 | 7:44 am | #49
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