O'Reilly on the Blogosphere: "I'd Go in With A Hand Grenade"

[Human Torch]

O’Reilly on Blogosphere: ‘I’d Go in With A Hand Grenade’

Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, political strategist Larry Sabato bemoned the “blogs on left and right” and “the things they come up with daily, the vitriol, the vile nature of the comments.”

O’Reilly said that he knew “for a fact that President Bush doesn’t know what’s going on in the Internet.” O’Reilly then said, “I have to say President Bush has a much healthier attitude toward this than I do. Because if I can get away with it, boy, I’d go in with a hand grenade.” Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/19/oreilly-blogosphere-grenade/

Transcript:

SABATO: It’s very personal. And you’ve mentioned the blogs earlier.

O’REILLY: Oh, it was off the chart.

LARRY SABATO: Well, we both have experienced this. The blogs on left and right, and I mean way left and way right, the things they come up with daily, the vitriol, the vile nature of the comments. And then they have hundreds and hundreds of people e-mailing.

O’REILLY: I know for a fact that President Bush doesn’t know what’s going on in the Internet. I know that for a fact because I did ask around.

SABATO: Well, he’s lucky.

O’REILLY: But.

SABATO: He’s lucky.

O’REILLY: He is lucky, because these are hired guns. These are people hired — being paid very well to smear and try to destroy people. And that’s the difference, Dr. Schiller. That had never happened before. I’ll give you the last word.

BROWN POLITICAL SCIENTIST WENDY SCHILLER: Well, I think that one thing is for sure. The millions of voters that go to the polls in 2006 aren’t spending most of their working hours during the day reading blogs on the Internet. They’re working for a living. They’re taking those kids to school. They’re going on with their lives. So yes, there’s a lot of vitriol out there. It’s a marketplace of ideas. It’s a free country last time we all checked. And it still is. It’s a great country.

O’REILLY: All right.

SABATO: It’s free for that reason.

O’REILLY: I think - I have to say President Bush has a much healthier attitude toward this than I do. Because if I can get away with it, boy, I’d go in with a hand grenade.

[hatrack]

1. And Bill-O? It would end up down your throat with the pin out!

Fucking dimestore cowboy phony "culture warrior" ASSHOLE.

[HelloDubya]

25. Dang falafel ALWAYS gets stuck in his throat!

[hippiechick]

2. His chickenshit ass didn't serve in the military ...

... and he wants people to believe he'd get within a MILE of a grenade?
Yeah, Bill ... WTFever.... :eyes:

[BOSSHOG]

3. No you wouldn't bill, you are a candy assed coward

A coward who made the decision not to serve your country when the opportunity presented itself. You are a loud mouth lying motherfucker cowardly sissy who does not deserve the constitutional liberties you so "conservatively" take for granted.

[Cha]

4. That's pretty fuckin' VILE!

Yeah, I know you're an armchair grenadist, bo.

[Lasher]

5. Osama bin Reilly strikes again.

Tough guy. That would be the first time he ever touched a grenade. He never served in the military but likes to say things like this, hoping people will think he did. That's typical of chickenhawks like him, talking tough after he's too old to serve.

[hashibabba]

6. O'Reilly is delusional...

"... these are hired guns. These are people hired — being paid very well to smear and try to destroy people. And that’s the difference, Dr. Schiller. That had never happened before."

Hey! Where's my check?

[Lasher]

9. Me too, am I rich yet?

:shrug:

[Downtown Hound]

7. What the hell does that mean Bill?

You're going to go into cyberspace with a hand grenade? You're going to pull a Tron and convert your molecules into electricity and come and take us all out? God, O'Lielly is such a fool. Put that guy in any real kind of fight and the only thing he'd be able to do before he ran off leaving a streak of urine behind is yell, "Shut up!"

[TexasLawyer]

8. "These are people hired — being paid very well to smear"

Shoot, I haven't been getting my pay checks!

[calimary]

22. Why yes, rove and mehlman certainly ARE, aren't they, big giant

head?

[Bitwit1234]

10. blog and posts

If anyone would go to the MSN site Fray and read the posts you would see who the vile and hate filled ones are. There is not one republican poster that does not post messages that have name calling of the Clintons, Pelosi and any democrat that happens to mentions anything negative that bush or the republicans have done.

That forum has banned more republicans for filth and I mean filth than any other political content. They never comment on any thing happening in the news like the rest of the board all they do is slur and smear and slam. And darn look at drudge, and Malken too of the worst smearers out there.

[warrens]

11. Be sneaky, Bill. Stick it up your ass first...they'll never see you coming

[zulchzulu]

12. Tip for Bill on how to throw a grenade

Bill, to throw a grenade, pull the explosive pin on top of the device and throw it at your target.

Then put the bulbous decorative pin protector part of the device in your pants to hide it from your victim.

Sit on the ground and put your head near your crotch where the bulbous pin protector is.

Then count backwards from 100...

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Hey, O'Really !! Neah neah-neah neah neah. . .

:P

[BootinUp]

14. You know Bill O is a secret blog warrior somewhere

Come on out and play Billy boy.

[Human Torch]

16. O'Reilly probably reads and posts regularly...with a "nom de plume"...

I'd be looking for nicknames like "Spoonman" (apologies to Soundgarden):

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553528718&view=excerpt

Costello knew he was in mortal danger, but he wouldn't accept the thought that he could lose his life. His mind struggled to find words that might save him. He believed someone would intervene. This is absurd, he thought. This can't be happening. He was Ron Costello, GNN's chief White House Correspondent. Costello tasted the salty flavor of blood running into his throat. He gagged, struggling to speak. Finally, the correspondent's last words on Earth left his mouth: "Why, why are you doing this to me?"

The intruder responded by savagely grabbing Ron Costello's windpipe with his left hand and squeezing hard. Costello gasped, his mouth opening wide, blood trickling down his chin. The assailant's right hand, now holding the oval base of the spoon, rocketed upward, jamming the stainless stem through the roof of Ron Costello's mouth. The soft tissue gave way quickly and the steel penetrated the correspondent's brain stem. Ron Costello was clinically dead in four seconds.

Finally came the response the White House correspondent had asked for: "For Argentina, that's why."

[BootinUp]

18. I could never read

a Bill O'Rielly book, that passage right there fucks with my mind too much. I am not a psychologist, I am not prepared.

[Human Torch]

19. "Ron Costello" was widely seen as...

...O'Reilly's "catch all" name for his critical peers. I'm sure that if you checked around in his office you'd find a photo of Keith Olbermann with "Ron Costello" written on it...perhaps in crayon.

:evilgrin:

[Hippo_Tron]

15. Larry Sabato needs to update his fucking website

He hasn't done so since August and the election is 2 weeks away. I might think more highly of him if he'd actually have current analysis for each race.

[BlueStateBlue]

17. I thought he was going to give Schiller the last word! n/t

[Vickers]

20. I bet if I handed him a grenade he would piss his pants.

What a fucking ridiculous coward!

[Uncle Joe]

30. My exact thoughts

He's not really brave, he just plays it on T.V. because it's his megaphone, the internet threatens his ability to so easily brain wash the American People with his vile poison and he's scared about that too.

[savemefromdumbya]

21. didn't he some sexual harassment proceedings?

[Disturbed]

23. OLiely is a scum.

He vehemently defended Water boarding. He claimed that it was totally necessary and that the method succeeded in extracting names of al Q. members and other info from an al Q member that was in one of the secret CIA prisons.

[calimary]

24. Umm... how does this NOT render him an unlawful enemy combatant?

Threatening actual violence to/on the internet? Very possibly inciting the same from his true believers? Domestic terrorism, anyone?

[truthisfreedom]

26. "These are people hired — being paid very well to smear..." o'liely is

delusional if he truly believes this. paranoid to the max. he has no idea what his kind of vitriol inspires in people...

[11 Bravo]

27. I would love to see O'Reilly with a live frag in his hand.

After he shit himself, he would doubtless fumble the grenade, thereby blowing his worthless ass to Hell.

[sakabatou]

28. He'd end up like Leeroy Jenkins

[Donald Ian Rankin]

29. This is manufactured outrage

Given how little fuss there is on DU about similar clearly-rhetorical flourishes aimed at conservatives, I don't think this is worth getting worked up at. He hates us, we hate him, no one is actually planning to throw hand grenades at anyone else, and this is no big deal.

[ncteechur]

31. O'Lielly is like the Yosemite Sam of cable TV.

[TankLV]

32. Hey fuck face (oreally)! I'm angry and I VOTE!

And I'm angry because YOU support these WAR CRIMINALS and PEDOPHILES!