O'Reilly on "assassins who work for Media Matters and Move On" I think it is pox

[rodeodance]

on all of America that his show is allowed on the air!!---and that it is highly rated (even IF fox viewers----it does not bode well)!

http://mediamatters.org/items/200709060006?f=h_latest


Thu, Sep 6, 2007 2:09pm ET


O'Reilly on "assassins who work for Media Matters and Move On"

Summary: Bill O'Reilly repeated his previous attacks on Media Matters and MoveOn.org, calling the two organizations "the most vicious element in our society today" and referring to their employees as "assassins." He also stated that that the Democratic Party is "afraid of its fringe element," which "is centered around an outfit called Media Matters," and continued to falsely assert a connection between the philanthropist George Soros and Media Matters. In fact, Media Matters has never received funding from Soros, either directly or indirectly.

During the September 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly once again attacked Media Matters for America and MoveOn.org, calling the two organizations "the most vicious element in our society today" and referring to their staff as "assassins." O'Reilly stated: "All right, now let's get into a serious situation. Look, we have two political parties in this country, and that's always served us fairly well. We need a third. We absolutely need a third political party here. But one of the political parties is now basically afraid of its fringe element and that's the Democratic Party. Now, the fringe element is centered around an outfit called Media Matters."

Later, discussing his perception that there is a connection between the philanthropist George Soros and Media Matters, O'Reilly claimed that Soros and progressive financier Peter Lewis "have poured $5 million, at least, into this MoveOn outfit. All right, now what this outfit is, is they are fanatical left-wingers who if you don't agree with them they will attack you. Now, there are offshoots of these. They use an outfit called Media Matters to do their sliming for them in the media," through The New York Times and NBC News. O'Reilly asserted, "Elements at both of those places take Media Matters and MoveOn stuff and put it on the air and in their newspaper, legitimizing it." Then, referencing the flowchart he concocted and introduced during the April 23 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly added: "Now, this is very well organized. Now, we gave you this about a couple months ago, a chart that showed all the money, and that's big, big money. The assassins who work for Media Matters and MoveOn are very well paid. They make six figures. They are doing it for money."

As Media Matters has documented (here, here, and here), O'Reilly has repeatedly -- and falsely -- asserted that Media Matters has received funding from Soros. For instance, O'Reilly opened a segment during the April 23 edition of The O'Reilly Factor by displaying the "chart" purporting to depict Soros' "complicated political operation." O'Reilly claimed that "Soros and a few other wealthy radicals who help him are funneling money into the political process" by funding Media Matters, which "feeds its propaganda to some mainstream media people." Similarly, during the April 26 edition of his Fox News program, O'Reilly asserted that "the vile Media Matters outfit is denying receiving funding from any of George Soros' outfits," and claiming, "Well, that is a total lie." As evidence, O'Reilly noted that the Tides Foundation donated more than $1 million to Media Matters in 2005, "nd just by coincidence Soros' Open Society Institute donated more than a million dollars to Tides in 2005." He added: "Figure it out." In fact, Media Matters has never received funding from Soros, either directly or indirectly.

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[JDPriestly]

1. It is my understanding that one of the founders of Media Matters

was a Republican operative who got sick of the Republicans' dirty tricks, lies, twisting of facts and gay bashing, all of which he knew up close and personal since he had participated in it.

O'Reilly is a bully who is finally getting a taste of his own medicine. What a creep is O'Reilly. Just wait! When the political tide turns, and it is more advantageous to O'Reilly to be an ultra-liberal Democrat, he will turn his coat inside out and we will see his true colors. He is what is called a dominator. http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarians -- book posted on line that supports John Dean's book on the Republicans and their authoritarian personalities.

[rurallib]

3. Yes - can't think of his name - David Brooks?

drawing a blank. But IIRC that is true.

[roxnev]

9. David Brooks

was outed by Ann Colter

[rurallib]

2. I am confused. I thought we all followed Kos?

And by the way, falaffel man, when does DU get a little recognition? We think you stink like a dead skunk also.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

8. LOL

WHich evil paid asssasin am I supposed to goosestep to? I don't know!

[melody]

4. He is using the old "accuse the other side of what you're doing" attack

Very Rovian of him.

O'Reilly is a wiggly-chinned emotional adolescent. Anyone who criticizes him is "bad". Beyond that, it's a classic sociopathic Rove maneuver.

[sharp_stick]

5. I'm amused at his paranoid rantings

he's really losing it. Now that Keith Olbermann is starting to creep up on his ratings he's getting funnier and funnier. His demographic is dying off at an incredible rate and they just aren't filling in on the low end like they used to.

[stevenleser]

6. But are they more vicious than members of the media who

sexually harass their junior staffers? Who make up much of the information in their broadcasts? Who...

[MasonJar]

7. I guess he has tired of attacking Keith and Kos.