O'Reilly's pissed! An anonymous poster at Daily Kos called the Pope a "primate"!

[11 Bravo]

Well, our boy Bill-o is on the warpath, and he wants to kick some butts! I say we just let him run with this one. You know that nobody on his crack staff has the guts to go to him and say, "Umm, sir, the Pope actually IS a primate. And furthermore, boss, it gets worse. It seems that YOU are a primate, too."
Nah, let's just let loofah-boy continue to froth at the mouth, all the while demonstrating exactly how fucking stupid one can be and still hold down a job at FoxNoise.

[SoCalDem]

1. Bill-O seems to spend a lot of time online

:)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. From his mama's basement, no doubt. nt

[Bluebear]

The pope is a homo sapiens too, Billy!

Get yourself all lathered up!

[TlalocW]

14. At one time he also...

Dabbled with becoming a thespian.

TlalocW

[Kokopelli420]

16. Wasn't O'Reilly trying to change the name of the species to "HETERO Sapiens"?

Or was that Hannity? I can't tell those FAUX fools apart sometimes.

[Az]

2. Um... actually Primate is the title of a member of the clergy

Its not just for biology anymore.

Main Entry: pri·mate
Pronunciation: 'prI-"mAt or especially for 1 -m&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English primat, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin primat-, primas archbishop, from Latin, leader, from primus
1 often capitalized : a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation
2 archaic : one first in authority or rank : LEADER
3 : any of an order (Primates) of mammals that are characterized especially by advanced development of binocular vision, specialization of the appendages for grasping, and enlargement of the cerebral hemispheres and that include humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers)

[kenny blankenship]

15. As the Bishop of Rome, the Pope is also the Primate of Italy

[MrMickeysMom]

3. One difference- the Pope has opposable thumbs

Eh? :thumbsup:

[LiberalFighter]

19. Only after reconstructive surgery

[SoonerPride]

4. Moreover the Pope is a Homo

Sapien.

duh.

[GliderGuider]

5. Hey! *splutter*cough*

You forgot the coffee-up-the-nose warning!

:thumbsup:

[Az]

6. Just to reiterate. Primate means Church leader

Thats the origin of the word. Look at my post up above.

[Phredicles]

10. Right - Church leaders were called Primates before the name was applied to

monkeys and our other cousins, weren't they? And then somewhere along the line some biologists decided that simians were to the animal kingdom what church leaders were to the human world, and that's where the name came from.

[AllegroRondo]

21. I hope someone has alerted Olbermann

this should be good.

[11 Bravo]

11. Understood.

O'Reilly made it clear that yours is not the particular useage of the term to which he takes offense. You will agree that there is another, perhaps more commonly used, definition?

[Phredicles]

13. I'd be interested to see the comment that got O'Loofah all worked up;

did the poster mean church primate or ape primate? Granted, the pope is technically both.

[Az]

27. Yeah, kind of flying in the dark here, even so

The Pope is the one person in the world that the word Primate most applies to. He is both definitions clearly.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Orally is clueless... as always

[ananda]

8. Maledict a primate!!??

What an insult to primates.

[Scout]

9. oh Bill you silly, we are ALL primates ... although quite often

I do prefer the non-human primates to the human ones...!

[bunkerbuster1]

17. Oh, it's the "hateful" lefty blogosphere again!

We're such meanieheads! And the righties are always so sweet and never swear or take the Baby Jeebus' name in vain.

These fuckheads have to trot out some variant of this story every couple of months. Move along, nothing to see here.

[Catherine Vincent]

18. I don't know why he's upset.

It's not like he knows the person that said it. It's just an anonymous person. That reminds me of what a friend of mine said years ago about the Pope. I had asked her if she saw the Pope on tv or something like that (he was in the news) and she retored "No, I didn't look at that clown!". It actually hurt me that she said something like that knowing that I was a Catholic. She didn't care how I felt or anything, she just went on with the next subject. I was shocked. I was also young and naive back then. She was a baptist and I just figured all baptists consider the Pope as a clown and catholics as not being a real religion.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Waaaaah. The Truth Hurts. I'd be more worried about the Pope's record re:Covering up for Pedophiles

in the Priesthood, but that's just me.

Primate? We're all Primates. Some of us are just bigger shit-flingers than others, Billo.

[ejbr]

22. How can someone call him a "primate"

when many of us think he's an asshole?

[Bitwit1234]

23. I wouldn't go that far but

I don't think he has 01% the character that the previous pope did. And Billy chug chug is right primate is a name we should reserve only for THE REAL PRIMATE bush.

[Swamp Rat]

24. O'Reilly is NOT a primate!!!

He's an intergalactic reptilian babyeater.



:D

[noonwitch]

25. I knew he was some kind of reptile

I like the photo-shop, though.

[AngryOldDem]

26. I think Bill should have Bill Donohue of the Catholic League on his show.

I bet Donohue's in a tizzy over it too. Watching the Bills rant and rave over this would be worth wasting a hour. :popcorn:

[trogdor]

28. Not only that.

Pope Benedict is an ape.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

29. I agree with O'Reilly.

Der Popenfuhrer isn't a primate. He's some sort of slime mold or scum.