O'Lielly on NYT writers: "We'll just have to get into their lives..."

[edbermac]

O'Reilly on NY Times' Rich and Keller: "We'll just have to get into their lives" if "personal attacks" continue

From the January 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: In the weeks to come, we'll cover the story in a fair and balanced way, even giving the benefit of the doubt to The New York Times. But there is no doubt, ladies and gentlemen, that the Times has been unfair in its coverage of the Bush White House. And the paper also routinely uses personal attacks to hurt people with whom it disagrees. If that does not stop, Bill Keller and Frank Rich -- to name the two main culprits -- will not have a happy new year. As they say in the auction world, fair warning.

WILLIAMS: Well, I couldn't - I was listening to your -- your memo, your "Talking Points," and there you are threatening Bill Keller and Frank Rich. And I thought, what are you going to do to them if they engage in the politics of personal attack against the president?

O'REILLY: It's a good question, Juan. And I don't see it as a threat. I mean, I think you have to say to people, as we do with all our guests here, this is what's likely to happen. And if they continue, those people continue to attack people personally, as Frank Rich does almost every week, and Keller allows it, then we'll just have to get into their lives.

WILLIAMS: There's a new sheriff in town.

O'REILLY: You know, I'm not -- I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it.

WILLIAMS: All right.

O'REILLY: But I can't allow this stuff to go unchecked. I'm the only person on television that's going to hold these people accountable, the only one, because everybody fears them. But both of those men have led lives. And if they want to attack people personally, Rich in print and Keller allowing it, then we're going to have to just show everybody about their lives.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601030003

I'm sure they're shaking in their shoes, Mr O'Loofah...:sarcasm:

[grytpype]

1. nazi scum

[salin]

2. the dude's megalomania is spiraling out of control, again.

Two to three years tops before he has frothed his way into an embarassing Morton Downey Jr moment - as he tries harder and harder to be more inflamatory and get more attention... because he is becoming so much more greatly dismissed as a wackjob due to his more and more inflamatory schtick. Anyone else see the inevitable cycle spinning out of control for ole Bill?

[gordianot]

4. The same time Bush has his and Cheney's pacemaker fails.

[Batgirl]

7. Yeah, but O'Reilly himself might not be capable of

reconizing it when it happens. He'll be in his room at the "nervous hospital" bragging to fellow patients and staff members, about how "I'M the only one standing between all of you and that asteroid that's headed for earth! ME! No one else has the guts to stand up to that asteroid except for ME! Hear that, you lowlife smear merchant of an asteroid? You're going to have to go through ME, pal!"

[salin]

14. that is such a good orielly impression (post crack up)

props!

[tularetom]

10. You got it!

Like mann coulter all o'lelly has going for him is outrageousness, and once you've heard it, it ain't interesting anymore. So he has to become more and more outrageous in order to stay in the public eye. But there's a problem with this - eventually the outrageousness crosses over into wackoland. This I think is what is happpening with o'lielly - he has to go sa for to top himself his rants are losing credibility with even the most loyal sheeple. Like you, I look for an on-air meltdown, complete with purple face, veins standing out and a stream of obscenity-laden invective. It wouldn't be that hard to provoke it either. Hope somebody gets working on it soon.

[ixion]

3. this guy is the poster boy for the 'Pompus Ass' club

really, and entirely in my opinion, O'LIElly is a pompus blowhard windbag who should take his own advice and shut the hell up.

[Straight Shooter]

5. "I'm the only person ... that's going to hold these people accountable."

Yeah, sure, right, Bill, whatever you say. Just like you swore you would hold the bush administration accountable if no WMD were found in Iraq.

Yeah, you big bad man, you. Go home and whip yourself into a falafel frenzy.

[lpbk2713]

6. Must be off his meds again.

Needs megadoses of felafel.

[LynnTheDem]

8. "And if no WMD is found, I will NEVER AGAIN TRUST the bush administration"

Gee...who was it said that???

Stupid MFing rightwingnut Dil Do'Lielly, I believe.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Bill needs to stuff a falafel

where the sun don't shine. He wants to get personal? Yeah Billy Boy, let's get personal.

[wryter2000]

11. Oh, Frank Rich is soooooo scared. n/t

n/t

[FredScuttle]

12. I'm sure Frank Rich is trembling

I'd love to see a weeklong series in the Times - "Falafels and Man's Strange Sexual Obsession With Them"

Or, conversely, they could do an in-depth series on sexual harassment scandals at cable news channels.

[Initech]

13. Jackass O'Reilly is at it again!

What a dick!

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[Deja Q]

16. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it.

Then don't. Stop being a two-faced twerp about it.