Refusing to play O'Reilly's game

[quaoar]

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/23/oregon

Many a guest has Bill O’Reilly intimidated with his verbal jab-hook-uppercut combos.

Dave Frohnmayer, president of the University of Oregon, however, was neither a guest nor intimidated.

Frohnmayer refused to cancel his appointments on short notice to drive 200 miles to Portland to appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” last week to discuss risqué cartoon depictions of Jesus.


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O’Reilly called out Frohnmayer, saying he was afraid to come on the show, and added that “that man needs to be fired.... The image of Jesus is disrespected in shocking ways.”

Though Frohnmayer didn’t appear on the show, which he called “entertainment,” he didn’t hold back in telling various publications his feelings about O’Reilly. “Being called names by him is like being called ugly by a frog,” Frohnmayer told the Associated Press.

In response to O’Reilly’s call for Frohnmayer to shut down The Insurgent – O’Reilly said that, because the publication is paid for by student activity fees, the university can shut it down – Frohnmayer told the Oregon Daily Emerald that “Bill O’Reilly doesn’t know the First Amendment from the back of his own hand, which is a shame because he takes full abuse of it.”

[genieroze]

1. O'Reilly's a pussbag.

[Initech]

2. Great quote - "The image of Jesus is disrespected in shocking ways.”

The republican party does it on a daily basis, Bill! Get your facts straight.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I hope that Frohnmayer is the Joseph Welch for O'Reilly.

Someone needs to ask that asshole "Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?"

[rocktivity]

4. Oh, that's so--COLBERT...

and this lady seems to have been bitten by the bug, too!

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