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Bark Bark Bark Donating Member (572 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 02:51 AM
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"S.S. O'Reilly Sinks Before Leaving Port"
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 02:51 AM by Bark Bark Bark
Gahahahahahahahahaha! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!

http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/archive/060605.html

The Thomas More Law Center’s “The Battle For American Values” cruise with Bill O’Reilly has been canceled.

An automated message at Corporate Travel Service, Inc. didn’t try to hide the fact that there was little interest in spending eight nights on boat with FOX News Channel’s top personality:

“Hello and thank you for your interest in the Thomas More Law Center Cruise with Bill O’Reilly. Unfortunately, the cruise did not have the participation that all parties anticipated. Although the guest appearance by Mr. O’Reilly and the other speakers have been canceled, the ship will still sail...”

Corporate Travel Service told Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly, Intl. that the goal was to get 800 people onboard for a Caribbean fantasy week with O’Reilly. Even though the cruise was promoted heavily on The O'Reilly Factor television program, the Radio Factor, and O'Reilly's
Web site, they sold only a fraction of the tickets available.

According to the Thomas More Law Center, the response was surprisingly poor. The organization ultimately renegotiated with Holland America Cruise Line in an attempt to pare down the expected guest list but maintain the event as scheduled. Sales continued to trickle in and finally, after two more negotiations with Holland America to reduce the group size, the event was finally scrapped.


Countdown to spittle-flinging public meltdown continues...
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HamiltonHabs32 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:21 AM
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1. I like reading good news
thanks for that
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:49 AM
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2. So the one person who did buy a ticket had to cancel. That's too bad
I'm sure he or she would have enjoyed not having to share Bill's attention with anyone else.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 01:43 PM
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21. I hear there were twenty tickets sold
half to the American Loofah Manufaturers Association (ALMA) and the other half to the North American Falafel Lovers Club (NAFLC)
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 04:00 AM
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3. Trapped on a cruise ship...
with that loud-mouthed pervert? Maybe they should have sold it as a haunted house of horrors type of cruise. This could have improved sales, simply by the more accurate marketing.
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 04:53 AM
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4. It seems that O'Reilly's "popularity" vanishes when he's not
heavily subsidized by the MSM.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 05:30 AM
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5. Things were all systems go but the boat kept listing to starboard...
--a dangerous rightward tilt.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 10:01 AM
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8. Meh, you beat me to it.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 05:34 AM
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6. HAL Westerdam
hip's Registry The Netherlands
Passenger capacity 1,848
Crew members 800
Gross tonnage 85,000 grt.
Length 951 feet
Beam 105.8 feet
Maximum speed 24 knots

Looks like Bill thought he could get up to 1800 ppl on his cruise at one point. Then 800 then..... CANCELLED..... :applause: :applause:
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 06:31 AM
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7. I dunno. In the image of "Titanic", I saw O'R at the bow, screaming
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 06:32 AM by no_hypocrisy
I'M KING OF THE WORLD!!! and looking for immortal love.
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cap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 10:03 AM
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9. thomas More Law Center
conservative Catholic Lawyers... good group to watch.
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:53 PM
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11. Not really "conservative", They're Right-Wingers
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:39 PM
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13. Not really rightwingers
Strictly speaking, they're friggin' head cases who seem to specialize in hating: http://www.thomasmore.org/
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 11:20 AM
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10. Shows that the Big Blowhard's are only a figment of their own PR Campaigns
doesn't it. Wonder why Limbaugh has never tried being the "draw" for a cruise line. Maybe it's because he can only hide in a studio and spew out his propaganda lies. His TV show never made it so he sits there with his little "bags of drugs" and thinks he's the "Great Oz" when he's nothing but a prop for the RW Money Machine and the Corporatists who have been happy to pump him up with their support. :puke:
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:31 PM
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15. I love the,
"Great Oz", analogy.
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:59 PM
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12. So what am I going to do with all the rotten eggs and mushy tomatoes?
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Mokito Donating Member (710 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 06:48 PM
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22. Hmmmm, that would've been a great plan
Bill O'really, trapped on a boat with twenty fans and SEVENHUNDRED AND EIGHTY DU'ers...

:evilgrin:

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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:30 PM
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14. I don't think his sex scandal
made him any more popular. Hypocrisy is so unbecoming.
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WearyOne Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 08:16 AM
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16. the Cruise From Hell..stop laughing
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wallwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 11:49 AM
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17. I bet youo could raise a lot of money if you offered
to send O'Reilly out to sea on a boat with no one else on it...
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 01:43 AM
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18. Keith Olberman's line was priceless
"cancelled for lack of idiots -er, interest"
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ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 05:26 AM
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19. Oh yeah?!?
Edited on Thu Jun-09-05 05:35 AM by ElectroPrincess
A right wing woman acquaintance of mine who has to stand on her tippy toes to reach 5'1" always brags when this horse's a**es name (Bill O'Reilly) is brought up in conversation, "But do you know that he's 6'5" tall?" I always think to myself, one of the lines on the flick "full metal jacket" to prevent me from going off on her.

"Damn! I didn't know they could stack shit that high!" LOL

There's very few pundits that I can claim with all my verve that I consider them total, undisputed, insensitive, arrogant and bloated assholes. Very few - But Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Anne Coulter. ALL fit into my very discriminating definition of this term. And yes, the vast majority of time I can find SOME good in the most morally challenged people - that includes the Right Wing Fundamentalist folks - but it does NOT include the four pundits listed above.

Such nasty Morans! Don't cha get me started. ;)
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splat@14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 01:11 PM
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20. Too bad, could have used him for bait. n/t
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