Watch his masterful (actually sloppy since there ain’t nothing subtle about it) twisting of her words and ignoring her points. What amazes me is that Fox and the Republicans actually think this guy is helping their cause. Fair and balanced my ass! When you have to stoop to these tactics, you should realize you’re in trouble.
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Why invite someone on if you don’t want to hear what they have to say?
That’s what I was thinking too…. I mean, fair enough if you don’t want someone’s point of view…. I was always under the impression that a journalists role was to ask questions and let the other person speak…. but then what do I know. Like the rest of the general public I am just too stupid to understand these complex things….
And what exactly when did disagreeing with your government mean hating your country? I am not American (British and Canadian), and maybe if I was it’d all make sense, but I’d always thought things you’d love about a country would be things like its music, its scenery, its people, its film, its tv, its literature (which, between Blues, Jazz, Folk, Hip Hop, John Prine, The Simpsons, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, etc I reckon there is a lot in the US to love) not its politicians or foreign policy. Certainly my love of Canada or the UK has little to do with the Queen, Prime Minister or how nice we’ve treated the rest of the world…
America’s general lack of understanding history coupled with how other cultures “work” had made this world a seriously unstable environment.
Isn’t that the same argument for those held at Gitmo?
That is exactly what she is saying. She is telling him that the U.S can’t really do much or say much with out looking like a total hypocrite. The U.S has been doing the same for years, and so for the U.S to complain to much will only make it worse as the Iranians will just see it as being 2 sets of rules. Which is what it is. The U.S needs to sort out gitmo asap… should have been gotten rid of years ago. Now its just an embarassment that when something like this happens it can’t even see the moral high ground, let alone speak from it.
Which is not an anti U.S statement. Just as the Colonel wasn’t being anti U.S. Bill has alot of gall to say she is anti-US when she served for 29 years. She wants the U.S to be all it can be, and an example like this just puts the spotlight on the fact it isn’t.
Fox has the new codec, how come it’s not full screen, like you can do with Dancing With The Stars at abc.com?
Amazing that someone who served their country for 29 years in the military can be treated this way just because she has a differing opinion. I ask again (as I’ve asked dozens of times), why does this guy still have a job?
35: Ratings. We’ll all tune in to see a car wreck.
Fox News is loaded with more opinion hosts than any other network. And even when they’re doing news, the news hosts and their guests regularly laugh or comment anout “liberals.” (Listening to Fox on XM has its benefits…there’s no graphics distractions…)
O’Reilly and Hannity share the same bullying interview technique. With conservatives they are all cheery and friendly. With liberals they come out with guns blazing and they don’t care about listening. As someone above noted, they aren’t interested in interviewing anyone with a variety of viewpoints, that’s what PBS is for (and it explains PBS’ ratings). On Fox, it’s about rallying the followers and getting them all frothy at the mouth and spewing nonsense at the water coolere the next day. (It becomes true if you just keep saying it…)
Watch their technique carefully…both Hannity and O’Reilly are very good at this. And the frothy morons fall for it every time.
That said, there is a time to calll BS when a guest is being an idiot or a demagogue. O’Reilly does that quite well. But if the interviewer asks pansy questions to one faction and bullies the other, the bias is obvious.
#6 – Then, somehow, he took this as meaning that it’s America’s fault that British people were captured by Iran. Wha? Did I miss something or did he draw a conclusion that was completely unrelated to what his guest was saying?
Welcome to neo-con patriotism… or jingoism if you will…
What unbelievable trash! FOX News should be driven from the public airwaves PERMANENTLY!
I can not believe that FOX is allowed to continually provide people like O’Reilly and others at FOX News access to PUBLICALLY OWNED AIRWAVES to spread this amazingly distorted and putrid form of information.
I’m amazed how O’Reilly quickly jumps down this highly educated woman’s throat when she clearly and politely points out that the US is not the moral standard for the world and certainly not for Iran when they hold 1000’s of detainees at Gitmo and have clearly been involved and continue to use techniques that the Geneva Convention state are ILLEGAL.
Iran parades 15 British soldiers and O’Reilly crys their violating the Geneva Convention but doesn’t think holding and torturing 1000’s of Gitmo detainees without charges for many years is a problem. WHAT A F@#%IN’ IDIOT.
O’Reilly does not show much support and respect our troops. The way he treated a retired Colonel with 29 years in the service, begs the question how he would treat a soldier with only a couple of years under his belt serving in Iraq.
Let us hope that not all the people who follow O’Reilly treat our troops the same way O’Reilly does. What a disgrace.
Our President is no better at respecting the troops. If he did, he would not send troops into an unstable area with no plan of getting them out.
Show me a neocon who’s served his/her country …. sorry I just realized the basic disconnect of that statement – sorry.
Neocons are, in the words of that tranny intellectual powerhouse Ann Coulter, traitors and faggots.
The sooner humans can give up their pretend religions, the better off we’d be. I truly believe that without religion to hold us back we would have flying cars, no disease or poverty, and live for 200 years.
how come so few O’Reilly supporters can spell? You’ll make more points if you can figure out how to use your keyboard and a spellcheck program. OK, probably not, but at least you’ll induce fewer eyerolls.
Exciting all this diversion. While Fox News rants, Iran gets their prisoners released. They get to rub Bush’s nose in it again, and make a few billion more selling their oil when we kick the price way up.
It’s good to have high intelligence in the office of president. Wish it was our president that was able to think instead of just running around playing cowboy shooting at shadows..
#42 – “how come so few O’Reilly supporters can spell?”
On that note I would like to point out that the first letter of the first word of every sentence needs to be capitalized.
“Hello kettle” says the pot, “Why do you keep calling me black?”.
There is bias in all media. CNN is just about as bias as Fox News but in the other direction. It makes for good TV as long as your views are in line with whichever network you watch.
#45
Bullshit.
Say it all you want, but CNN is not the far left version of news.
Nor is most new particularly liberal.
Even if it should be.
45, Fox has set new standards for bias, at least in our lifetimes. (The 1860’s were pretty bad from what I read.) Take the personality shows out of the equation…where CNN could be 5 clicks left of center, Fox is easily 50 clicks right.
If you think liberals like CNN then I don’t mind calling you a idiot for not paying attention. You must have learned that from rush, the great teacher for people who are afraid to learn for themselves.
CNN supported this invasion completely. Before Iraq (but after Afghanistan) they even changed their news theme music to include more tympani, drums of war.
For somebody living outside US I have very bad feelings seeing O’Reilly. This kind of journalism was used in the former Democratic Republic of Germany.
It is unbelievable for me that he is so popular.
The fans of this idiot are the same people who elected Bush… go figure!!
Fools seldom differ
The right wing dolts who love this guy are the same people who think Bush is doing a good job, who are so blind in their hate for anything different that they’ll put this asshat on a pedestal.
Look, O’Reilly is a clown, he’s abrasive, aggressive, and just plain WRONG countless times. Yet his supporters will continue to support him rather than ever admit fault.
Faux news and the people who think they are ‘fair and balanced’ should all be put out to pasture.
I’m sorry I am so late to this discussion. Take or leave Bill but he has always said the people he get irrate with are the people that refuse to answer direct questions with direct answers. Anyone that cant see she wasnt doing that is dense. He got pissed at her for not conversing according to his directions (its his show) and answering something he wanted an answer to.
She never shuts the hell up either. I’m tempted to sit here and watch it again with a stop watch and count the amount of time she talks througout the whole segment. If someone never shuts up and doesnt answer your questions how else do you talk to them beyond yelling above them?
Frankly, I’m speechless this guy still has a tv show. Yes, I’m Canadian and he’d probably call me a Communist on that fact alone.
His ‘why do you hate America’ claptrap reminded me why I DO hate America.
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I didn’t finish listening to O’really so I still have one left that fits in nicely with your above comment.
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for those claiming the Iran prisoners of war are just the same as gitmo detainees your missing the main point of the Geneva convention.
It protects uniformed soldiers,I.E. the Brits they are regular soldiers in a regular army uniforms recognized the world over
The gitmo detainees were and are not uniformed soldiers in any regular army recognized by any country any where. THEY WERE TERRORISTS AS LAID OUT BY THE GENEVA CONVENTION ITSELF
GEEZ catch a clue you morons
#55: How convenient. I guess that means if a US soldier is wearing regular clothes when he’s fighting, he’s not covered by the GC. Guess that means the French resistance fighters in WWII who didn’t wear uniforms weren’t covered. Guess the Israeli fighters who ‘liberated’ Palestine in the late 40’s and didn’t wear uniforms weren’t covered. Guess that means they were terrorists.
We live in a different world than when the GC was created. It isn’t just army against army anymore. And even if they are an army with uniforms, if they are opposing a brutal dictator, say, who friends of the US, they can be ‘unrecognized’ and voila, they aren’t covered.
Perhaps in the name of what the Geneva Convention was supposed to protect against it’s time to update the rules to reflect our world today so that people with an agenda like Bush can’t use the rules to do whatever they want just because the rules happen to be out of date.
Not saying we shouldn’t treat enemies of ours harshly, but we should treat them fairly, otherwise we are no better than them.
Since you probably completely disagree with me, just out of curiosity, why not provide all detainees with legal council, whether the GC and our laws require it or not? What is the fear here? That it might get out that some were improperly detained, evidence doesn’t exist to hold them and other embarrassing facts? Doesn’t seem a good enough reason to not provide basic human rights, no matter how bad they are. At the very least it makes us look bad to the rest of the world when we say we are for rights, etc, then do this.
You have a good argument on the uniform issue and I would have to say that yes they were terrorists ( I know French resistance fighters were executed as spies and had no rights as soldiers by Germany)
The issue of the lawyers is ( my opinion only) that our system is so screwed up Bin Ladin himself could be found not guilty by our messed up court system
I have no problem with military tribunals and military lawyers for them, and have them done in a timely manner ( I think some of the hesitance is that they are not American citizens and do not get constitutional rights as such ) I believe they should be tried under international law not American law , and there should be means taken to protect any classified actions or information used to catch them ( not a fully public trial as would be necessary under U.S. laws )
We need to protect our secrets used to catch these people so that they can be used to catch others, but at the same time speedy military tribunals can try and convict or release those detained
OT for BO’R, but on-topic for arrogant neocon TV blo-hards: did everyone see John Bolton get PWNED! by Doris Kearns Goodwin on ‘The Daily Show’ this evening? Stewart had claimed to Bolton that Lincoln brought people who disagreed with him into his cabinet and Bolton had said that Stewart was “historically wrong.”
So, of course, DKG – author of ‘Team of Rivals’ – smacked him down.
stupidity and arrogance, always a winning combination. How the UN must miss him.
#56 Maybe you should guess less and go read the Geneva Convention*s* which are added to on occation and were largely set as they are known now in 1949. I’m not an expert of them myself so I cant comment on the section that might have applied to the French you mentioned above, but I would allow the possibility that articles addressing the French’s case might not have been added until after their fighting.
To answer your retorical question though, yes, there is a difference between a party that dresses in the markings of his country and one that tries to hide it and use the populace to further their cause. If you cant see that you’ll likely keep making very insightful guesses for the rest of your life.
He doesn’t serve Republicans’ agenda, but jhe serves Fox’ agenda of making money. He’s lapping the field in ratings. It’d be even better if Dish Network would put them with CNN in the basic tier.