O'Reilly says he's going to "hang" Bill Moyers

[Syrinx]

I was just watching the late replay of Bill'O. He was talking with Newt Gingrich about Jeremiah Wright.

In his "Talking Points Memo," O'Reilly said Wright and Moyers and Louis Farrakhan (?) should go on a vacation to Iran, "because they would like it there."

:wtf:

He "opined" that Moyers, Wright and Obama "hate America," because they have the temerity to criticize past and current U.S. policies.

O'Reilly said, after all that, "We're not going to hang Moyers until we watch the segment."

Not only did O'Reilly admit to a premeditated metaphorical "lynching" of Moyers, and by extension, of Obama, he admitted that he hasn't even seen the interview on which his supposed anger is based.

I watched the Moyers interview of Jeremiah Wright in its entirety. I thought Mr. Wright came off as a thoughtful, soft-spoken, kind-hearted man. I wish he had chosen his words more carefully when he spoke of Obama as a "politician saying what he had to say."

But the media will prove, once again, just how shallow they are, and how "dumbed down" they think the American public has become, by again taking a quote out of context, and marginalizing the decency of an American patriot. Dan Abrams already did it earlier Friday night. And we can expect a barrage of it, come Monday, and probably earlier.

I guess the moral of this story is that if you criticize our country's support for despots around the world, you "hate America." If you want to make America a better, more fair country, if you stand up to support the Constitution against the abuses it has received during the last eight years, or throughout history, you "hate America."

In the views of these phony "patriots," you can only love America if you support abuse of power, illegal wiretapping, the elimination of Habeas Corpus, torture, racism, hate, and a two-tiered society of the dirt-poor and the filthy-rich.

You can't really love America, I guess, unless you bow down and pray, not to God, but to the pasty, puffy faces of the Republican blowhards on the cable-tv dial.

If that's the case, I guess I hate America.

But that's the thing. I don't hate America. I love it with all my heart. And I want to see the criminals that have perverted it's meaning to be punished for the things that they have done. I want America to live up to the promise of it's ideals.

I want Americans to realize again that our constitution, and the lives of our citizens, mean a hell of a lot more than empty slogans and shiny, red, white and blue lapel pins.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. He lied.

"O'Reilly said, after all that, "We're not going to hang Moyers until we watch the segment."

Not only did O'Reilly admit to a premeditated metaphorical "lynching" of Moyers, and by extension, of Obama, he admitted that he hasn't even seen the interview on which his supposed anger is based."

If a clip played during his show and he said "he hadn't seen it", then he's a liar.

There is no way that he wouldn't be able to get a copy of it ahead of time and view it, if only to satisfy his curiosity.

No way.

He's delaying this so Luntz and Rove can pick through it for stuff to twist.

That's what propagandists do.

[Syrinx]

4. I think it's possible that he only saw snippets

Not that I'm vouching for O'Reilly's honesty, though. :)

[ColbertWatcher]

18. His own mother wouldn't vouch for him! n/t

[JoFerret]

20. Unlike KO. A person of integrity

such as Moyers will always be objectionable to O'Reilly types.

I thought the Moyers/ Wright interview was Moyers on his game. Shows how TV can be.
The KOs and O'Reillys should stop ranting and do something useful.

That will only happen when we stop watching them in large numbers.

[SeattleGirl]

2. As I said in a thread in GD-P:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5691928&mesg_id=5692078

And you are so right, Syrinx.

I'm so sick of the "jingoistic flag-humpers" (to quote thecatburgler).

The fuckers who call for the heads of people like the Rev. Wright, Bill Moyers, et al, while shitting all over the Constitution, are the MOST hypocritical assholes of all.

[Syrinx]

5. I agree

I'm not a violent person. But I'd love it if O'Reilly picked a fight with me. He's bigger than I am, but I'm younger. I'd love to kick his balls off. ;)

[SeattleGirl]

8. Yup.

I just do not understand why people like O'Reilly can get away with shit like this, yet if a Dem said anything even 1/4 as bad, they'd be tarred and feathered.

[Marr]

21. They can get away with it because their ugly statements are

supportive of the powers that be, and their vitally important myths.

[kevinbgoode]

9. Especially when they left Pat Robertson alone

after he called for the State Department to be nuked.

[SeattleGirl]

14. And Hagee, and Parsley, and any other white preacher who says

ugly and truly offensive things, like gays and feminists, etc., being responsible for 9/11.

Or like a white choir singing "(Why Should) God Bless America (?)" at a repuke debate.

It's the color of the skin, and anyone who says it's not about that is either dumb, ignorant, or flat-out racist.

Tell me, where does it say that it's okay for white preachers to preach shit like that, but it's not okay for black preachers to tell the truth?

Tell me where it says that race is not an issue in this country.

(Questions NOT directed at you, btw, just thrown out there for answers.)

[dkf]

3. After seeing the interview I finally understand what true character assassination is.

Our media is simply out of control and is doing a disservice to our country.

How can we change it? Something needs to be done.

[Syrinx]

6. I'm verging on hopelessness

But I see a few rays of sunshine peeking out from behind the clouds.

[DFW]

7. That's just O'Really's way of saying he envies guys who are hung

[JoFerret]

10. Bill Moyers was great

He is a true asset.
Obama has repudiated Wright.

[KG]

11. it's telling that so many listen fools like o'reilly who expresses his infantile world view

in such a pre-adolescent fashion.

listening to rush, hannity, beck and others is like overhearing a junior high school playground conversation.

[Breeze54]

12. That's typical O'LIEly crapola!

"... because they have the temerity to criticize past and current U.S. policies.

Don't you remeber him calling for the heads of the anti-war deomonstrators
and him saying they weren't Americans and that they should leave the country?

Same old bullshit, different day. Why do you listen to that gasbag and torture yourself?

[Syrinx]

15. only because I wanted to watch me some tv :)

And that was the only thing, from about 200 channels, that I found remotely interesting. That's sad.

Most of the rest was about obviously spurious penis hardeners, and oldies albums. :(

[Breeze54]

16. 200 channels?!?

Holy shit! :P

I have ten channels and can find something interesting most of the time

or I'll just go online but 200?! Yikes! :crazy: I'd have watched a rerun

from an old comedy sitcom before I'd watch O'LIEly! :P

Use Pay Per View more often! :rofl:

[Syrinx]

17. can't afford ppv

Maybe before the Bush economic plan.

I'm trying to buy milk and gasoline.

[Perry Logan]

13. Like most wingers, O'Reilly mistakes meanness for toughness.

You see this all the time among conservatives. They mistakenly think that saying and doing mean things makes them tough. That's one reason why wingers say such nasty things.

Needless to say, wingers are anything but tough.

[L. Coyote]

19. VIDEO: Rev. Jeremiah Wright On Bill Moyer 2008.04.25, Part 1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=124168&mesg_id=124168

[poppysgal]

22. Jefferson, Adams, Washington,

just to name a few of the early "protesters" for the Constitution and firm believers in our right to question the government, for after all-we are suppose to be a government of the people and for the people and governed by the people. O'Reilly can kiss my a**.:tinfoilhat: