Thom Hartman just said Bill O'Reilly is profiting from Christ's death

[CatWoman]

as he is a major share holder in Mel Gibson's movie.

Who woulda thought, eh?

[Richardo]

1. Hm. Wonder how many other RW shills have a piece?

Sure would explain all the hype on RW radio and TV.... :think:

[sadiesworld]

2. Gotta rile up the fundies, and hopefully inrease their ranks...

before the GE. Coincidental?

[Dr.Phool]

3. I saw a guy

Last night on the Daily Show who is selling crucifixion nail jewelry!:crazy:

[nostamj]

7. uh, that's OFFICIAL tie-in merchandise

nice, huh? i'm waiting for the 'crown of thorns' tiaras to show up on the QVC

[TacticalPeek]

12. Perhaps a Miracle Cup of Blood at MickieD's?

Sorry if it's lunch time in your zone, but after the pornogory scenes they promo on TV, it fits.

Yecch! Talk about moneychangers!

[arcane1]

4. someone said on DU last night... (somewhere)

that some KBR subsidiary was financially involved in Mel's movie, too. Not sure how true that was..

[oasis]

5. I gotta check Bill out tonight for his "unbiased"opinion of the critics.

[Liberal in Ohio]

6. I heard that Gibson optioned Oreilly's book

He mentioned it on the factor the other day in the intrest of "full disclosure" -- i guess he didn't feel the need to disclose his financial intrest in the Passion...

[newyawker99]

17. Hi Liberal in Ohio!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TacticalPeek]

8. O'Really must be ashamed of his stake in the movie,

or he would disclose it every time he opens his yap about it.

In fact, wouldn't there be some securities regulation or ethics rules about not disclosing your stake in what you are boosting?

Not suprised, though.

[Fenris]

9. Mel's producing of Bill's pseudopornographic novel!

:D
Conflict of interest!

[Cat Atomic]

10. Wait- you mean Bill's not "lookin' out for the folks"?

I am both shocked and awed.

[treepig]

11. yeah, he and millions of others

profiting from christ's death is probably one of the more enduring scams from the past two millenia.

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. my thoughts

I think that it is just wrong in general for anyone to profit off a movie like this. Now I'm all about artistic freedom but if you are going to do make this movie and hype it the way Mel has (eg. the next best thing to actually being at the crucifixion) I think that the truly WWJD? thing would be to donate all the profits to worthy charities. I donno I could be looking at this the wrong way but it just feels wrong to me...Especially if O'Reilly is looking to benefit

[TacticalPeek]

14. Why stop at donating the profits?

Why not sell all they have and give everything to the poor?

Too much trouble? Not practical?

'That's not what He really meant, blahblahblah.'

Love that mammon, dontcha Bill and Mel?

[dflprincess]

18. Makes those 30 pieces of silver Judas took

look like chump change.

[BigDaddyLove]

15. I've been trying to find a link to back-up the claim about.......

O'Reilly being an investor in 'The Passion', but have yet to find one.

Where did you find yours?

[KharmaTrain]

16. Any Link Yet?

I've looked around and haven't seen the O'Reilly connection here. If you can put the link, that would greatly enhance the discussion.

As a Jew, I have no interest in anything New Testament (nothing but a best seller IMHO) or the ramblings about the content. I know from the stories my grandmother told me of younger years in the Stetl in Poland (the Jewish segregated area) where her village was regularly ransacked by Russian Cossacks...and their reason? The Jews killed Jesus.

Over the years I've had some very spirited discussions with Christian acquaintances over this issue and each faith has some version that equates Jews with the death of Jesus. Most will then quickly denounce it or downplay it, that has been a mantra in Christianity that extremely prevelent in fundie areas and, even worse, around the world...especially in Europe where Anti-Semetism is on the rise.

I've sensed that the hype on this flick has been orchestrated to the Right Wing/Fundie crowd...see if they can make box office money off this group like they have with books and broadcasting. It dovetails into the political as the Repugnicans claim they are the party of Christians and any backlash against the movie is obviously "libbies, commies and athiest"...yes, us immoral people.

Betcha Mr. O. will never come clean with his interest. What's even goofier is his fascination with Hollywood. He claims how he hates it, how evil the movies are and so on...yet will swoon at any celeb that dares to venture on the set...look how he toned things down on Rosie after she came on.

This guy's ego is so over the top it's laughable. I will throw on his garbage...always in reruns...and laugh at how blatant his hypocrisies are and how thin that ego is. He's let his fame get to his head...hard to make one even bigger...and just twitches into near spasms when he's called on his overt partisanship and bias.

Come to think of it, does Mr. O. have a shell corporation? A production company? One that he can funnel money into ventures like Gibsons (which he says is self-financed) and others.

As one for free speech and expression, Gibson's movie shouldn't be censored or banned...I expect this to blow over shortly as the first big box office weekend will come and go (that's the real game here) and soon it'll pass into the syndication/distribution money cycle...(PPV, Cable, International distribution, DVD, rentals...so on). No doubt, the producers must be very happy...the got millions in free publicity...every local news crew is camped out at the local theater to get reaction...and people, even if they're not interested in the story (or message) will go to see it, just to see what all the noise is about.