Literary Showdown Bill O'Reilly has finally conceded the race to Hillary

[papau]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/kurtzhoward/

<snip> Literary Showdown Bill O'Reilly has finally conceded the race to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For weeks the Fox News star has been pushing the notion that his book ("Who's Looking Out for You?") would outsell the New York senator's book ("Living History"). But bulk buying, he declared, would not count, because "the Democratic National Committee has bought a ton of her books and gives them away for contributions."

After an e-mail exchange with DNC spokesman Tony Welch, O'Reilly last week acknowledged that the organization has not yet bought any Clinton books, though it plans some promotional giveaways.

"It was just for sport," O'Reilly says. "We wanted to see if we could beat her. Everyone loves a horse race."

Says Welch: "It was a silly attack that he tried to get some juice from. On this one he was wrong -- the numbers indicated which book people liked best."

O'Reilly told viewers that Clinton's book had outsold his, 1.1 million to 800,000. Actually, says Robert Barnett, Clinton's lawyer, "Living History" has sold 1.5 million copies and, he disclosed, an additional 1.2 million overseas. He also praised O'Reilly's 800,000 in sales -- the commentator's third No. 1 bestseller -- as "a fantastic accomplishment."

O'Reilly calls himself "the dumbest guy in town" for not realizing how books can be promoted onto bestseller lists and says he believes Clinton's political committees bought a large batch of hers (only 1,200, says Barnett, and those aren't included in retail sales figures). But he has wised up: Billoreilly.com has sold 25,000 books purchased from Barnes & Noble.<snip>

[trumad]

1. O'Liely still makes excuses

It basically tells us that there are 800,000 thousand fools out there buying his Shit!

[teach1st]

2. O'Reilly: Just so we don't forget

Has O'Reilly apologized yet?

ABC's Good Morning America
Interview with FOX's Bill O'Reilly
March 18, 2003:

"Here's, here's the bottom line on this for every American and everybody in the world, nobody knows for sure, all right? We don't know what he has. We think he has 8,500 liters of anthrax. But let's see. But there's a doubt on both sides. And I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right? But I'm giving my government the benefit of the doubt. . . .

: ". . . if he has 8,500 liters of anthrax that he's not going to give up, even though the United Nations demanded that he do that, we are doing the right thing. If he doesn't have any weapons, then we are doing the wrong thing. So, we'll see."

: "f weapons of mass destruction aren't found...I will have to apologize because I bought into it."

[Taeger]

3. Debate: Bush vs O'Reilly ..

Who would win. You may think that O'Reilly is a shill for Bush, but he isn't. O'Reilly shills for himself. When the Bush train gets him where he wants, he rides it.

Both of these guys are flaming narcissists. And narcissists by definition CANNOT like each other.

So the question is ... who is more incompetent on facts and issues. Who would lie the most. Would any truth be told ... AT ALL?????

Personally, I think that O'Reilly would eventually threaten to kick George's ass. George is a pussy, but by O'Reilly standard, he's an adonis. I think George would resort to bashing O'Reilly over the head with a Microphone.

[grannylib]

4. Good point...it would be more important to O'Lielly to be seen as The Man

and he would probably horsewhip Chimpy