Bill O'Reilly Loses it: Says Writing Liberal Blog Posts Is Like Lynching People

Posted by Matt, Think Progress at 2:58 PM on July 21, 2008.

O’Reilly attacks Gore for attending Netroots Nation: ‘the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering.’

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On Saturday, former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance at the Netroots Nation convention in Austin, TX. In his speech, Gore praised the gathering of progressives, saying that they are part of an effort to "reclaim the integrity of American democracy."

While the attendees of Netroots Nation received Gore with enthusiasm, his appearance has caused Fox News's Bill O'Reilly to declare that Gore has "gone off the deep end."

On his radio show today, O'Reilly claimed that Gore was now associating himself with the most "hateful group in the country." "And I'm including the Nazis and the Klan in here," said O'Reilly." He then claimed that attending Netroots Nation was "the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering":

O'REILLY: Al Gore now is done. He's done. Ok. He is not a man of respect, he doesn't have any judgment. The fact that he went to this thing is the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering. It's the same. No difference. None. K, he loses all credibility with me. All credibility.

Listen here:

It's no surprise that O'Reilly is attacking Netroots Nation given his previous verbal assaults on its predecessor YearlyKos. Before the YearlyKos conference last year, O'Reilly compared it to "a David Duke convention."

But O'Reilly exposes the hyperbolic shallowness of his name calling when he claims that "these Daily Kos people" are worse than "the Nazis and the Klan," but then assures his audience that they won't "come to your house and hurt you."

Note to O'Reilly: The Nazis and the Klan actually hurt people.

Transcript:

O'REILLY: Ok, now he shows up on Saturday at the most hateful, there is not -- and I'm including the Nazis and the Klan in here -- there is not a more hateful group in the country than these Daily Kos people. Now, will they come to your house and hurt you? I don't know, probably not. But, do they want to hurt you? Do they say terrible things about Tony Snow when he dies? All day long. Ok. Hateful hateful hateful. The rhetoric that they use and the rhetoric that the Klan and the Nazis use are the same rhetoric. It's hate. Everyone knows that.

Now why would you go to a convention sponsored by these people when you know that currently on the Kos is stuff about Tony Snow, it's good that he's dead, he's in hell, all of that. But Gore did, Gore went there. So did Nancy Pelosi. That disqualifies Gore from any serious consideration by me in the future. Al Gore now is done. He's done. Ok. He is not a man of respect, he doesn't have any judgment. The fact that he went to this thing is the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering. It's the same. No difference. None. K, he loses all credibility with me. All credibility.

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Maybe he has a point... [Report this comment] Posted by: Coelophysis on Jul 21, 2008 3:54 PM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] After all, Bill O'Reilly is certainly one of our nation's great masters of hate speech, so he must know what he's talking about. Too bad for Gore though. Now has has no credibility left with O'Reilly. None whatsoever. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Maybe he has a point... Posted by: luckypuck Please Bill, show us the way! [Report this comment] Posted by: sleepingdog on Jul 21, 2008 5:40 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I guess O'Reilly's Klan meetings are pretty dull. If only everyone was as loving as Bill, instead of being filled with hate like them tree huggers and NRoots. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Please Bill, show us the way! Posted by: pizzmoe He is a Caricature! [Report this comment] Posted by: Turiye on Jul 21, 2008 9:11 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Do people actually believe him? He says such absurd things I know who he panders to and it's shameful. I cannot even think of anything to say he's so exempt from humanity that being nothing what could there possibly be to say? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] red herrings [Report this comment] Posted by: luzmejor on Jul 21, 2008 10:03 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Too bad O'Reilly doesn't realize that people who consistently tell lies and betray friends, neighbors and countrymen are never going to be trusted or loved. Once cheated, twice shy! Isn't it amazing that people value money more than their own sense of personal ethics? O'Reilly must be getting ulcers by now. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Oh, Really, O'Reilly? [Report this comment] Posted by: QQOblivion on Jul 22, 2008 8:04 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The liberal bloggers are filled with hatred, according to Bore-illy? Seems like the KKKer is calling the kettle white! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Bill-o is just one notch shy of being batshit crazy... [Report this comment] Posted by: Quannah on Jul 22, 2008 10:23 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] because he is losing his audience, losing his viewers, losing his ratings. He doesn't have the power he once did. He can see the writing on the wall, and he can't handle it. The "left" have created a groundswell, and he's simply not willing to accept that as fact. He's such a bonehead. And him and all the bobbleheads on Faux Newz are having meltdowns because of it. Stick a fork in them... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] If Faux News was an animal pen... [Report this comment] Posted by: manderson on Jul 22, 2008 10:54 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] It's a proven scientific fact that if you put too many animals in too small a pen, they will drive each other insane. I used to think this was true only in the physical sense, but I think Rupert Murdoch has discovered that you can do it with enough money, camera exposure, and an extremely short supply of intellect and critical thinking capacity. Bill O'Reilly is a modern analogue of the Nazi propaganda figures of the 1930's, exhorting people to go to war and murder others who are not in the state-approved image of conformity. The first job of creatures like him is to turn definitions and meanings on their heads in service to the violent, predominantly male power structure they serve. Pathologically, criminally, insane people like O'Reilly and his hate media cohorts need to be neutralized by whatever means possible...they're job is to spread infectious mental disease in the service of Corporatism. It seems to be the only thing they understand. They are a menace to a healthy (meaning non-Capitalist or Feudalist), egalitarian and consensually diverse society. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] AW look at B. O. thinking his opinion actually matters [Report this comment] Posted by: magiquarian1969 on Jul 23, 2008 11:00 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] That's sweet. Talk about a man who is the very embodiment of what is wrong with our nation. You can see hatred in his face, you can hear it in his voice. Who gives a flying fuck what this man thinks about anything? Why is it that we don't have radio shows that actually talk about things that bring people together. EVERYTHING I've heard from the man is filled with hubris and separatism, same with Rash Limbaugh. Constantly hearing arrogant men talking about their perceived self importance and false supremacy is so divisive when what this country needs is unity. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Speaking of Nazis... [Report this comment] Posted by: Quannah on Jul 23, 2008 1:23 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] it was pointed out on Keith Olbermann's show last night that it was FAUX NOISE that altered the images of Jewish journalists to enhance their noses, make their eyes small and dark, and make their heads elongated and their ears bigger. Now THAT was taken right out of the pages of the Nazi playbook. Guess Bill-O the Clown (love that new name for him!) conveniently forgot that. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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