O'Reilly: Tom DeLay "doesn't have any power anymore"

[sabra]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509220001

O'Reilly: Tom DeLay "doesn't have any power anymore"



On his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) "doesn't have any power anymore." Attacking Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, O'Reilly said that Dean has "no GOP equivalent." He then continued, "I guess Tom DeLay might be the closest, but he doesn't have any power anymore."

From the September 20 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:


O'REILLY: Now, I don't have anything personally against Bill Clinton. I thought he did a pretty decent job managing the economy. I thought he was a disaster in foreign policy, and I think that a lot of his soft terrorism programs led to 9-11. I do believe that in my heart. But in managing the economy, he did a pretty damned good job. See, I'm not a Clinton-hater at all.

But the mail that I get -- anti-Clinton -- is just as vicious as the anti-Bush stuff that I hear. It just -- look, most of these people who have this kind of emotion invested in their political points of view have some kind of emotional damage. There's a reason why they hate Bush with a passion. I mean, Bush is a nice guy. Clinton's a nice guy. I mean, you talk to them one-on-one, they're not bad guys. So why do you hate them personally? Why? That's on you.

So people are bringing their neurosis to the table. Whether they're insecure about their intellect, you know, I don't really have time to delve into it. Once I see a Howard Dean -- and there is no GOP equivalent of Howard Dean. I guess Tom DeLay might be the closest, but he doesn't have any power anymore. Once I see Howard Dean out there viciously attacking people personally, I just say this guy doesn't deserve to be where he is, and he's shaming the Democratic Party.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. So Ken Mehlman's equivilent would be????

[kmla]

6. See picture below...

But with a clown mask....

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. *lol*

[Horse with no Name]

2. Thanks for the affirmation buddy

We KNOW now that Dean is doing a great job!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr

[mandyky]

3. Who did Dean personally slam?

Something recent?

[xkenx]

4. Boo Fuckin' Hoo

Howard Dean must be hitting them where it hurts. Keep speaking up, Dr. Dean!!!

[Larkspur]

5. When O'Lielly hears Howard Dean speak about Repukes, like him,

Bill gets a taste of what Hell will be like.

Keep telling the Truth about the Repukes, Howard, so they'll know what Hell feels like now.

[tularetom]

8. Tom (Has he been indicted yet?) DeLay?

I love the sound of repubs eating their own.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, fucking bo wouldn't know

about viciously attacking people personally, would he?

Tough Shit, you wimpering asshole!

[Child_Of_Isis]

10. Same to ya, buddy...

"viciously attacking people personally, I just say this guy doesn't deserve to be where he is"


Pot calling the kettle black.

[thefloyd]

11. Emotional damage?

People with emotion invested in their political points have emotional damage? Please. People who are emotional are not bound by dollar signs because their(Oreilly) act is remaining fair.

[KharmaTrain]

12. Plausible Deniability...The Master At Work

Should we attempt to list all the flip-flops and total bullshit O'Reilly's "stood for" over the years?

Have we yet to hear his appology about WMD? Wasn't he the one who said that if it's proven there weren't any weapons inside Iraq that he'd never trust this regime again? Now how many lies ago is that one?

When you see O'Reilly play the Clennis it's almost always to innoculate his boy blunder (on orders from Roger Ailes) and to trash some other Democrat. By saying "Clinton wasn't so bad"...this then makes any Democrat (usually Dean) who O'Reilly lies about look like Kim Jong Il. Sadly 3 million people watch and eat this stuff up every night.

[Frances]

13. Is he saying that Howard Dean has power

and Tom DeLay doesn't have power?

That's plain crazy.