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Nov 7, 2015

Reagan Spin Zone: George Will vs Bill O'Reilly

‘You’re a Hack!’ O’Reilly Explodes at George Will for Attacking His ‘No-Facts Zone’ Book

by Josh Feldman | 8:52 pm, November 6th, 2015VIDEO797

Bill O’Reilly exploded and repeatedly calledGeorge Will a “hack” tonight in a fierce battle over whether O’Reilly’s book Killing Reagan is factually accurate.

O’Reilly’s gotten criticism from people close to Reagan over the book, and he fired back by saying they don’t want the truth being told. Will yesterday took things one step further when hetore into O’Reilly’s book and called it a “no-facts zone.”

Well, responding last night was not enough for O’Reilly, and he invited Will on today. To start, O’Reilly said that Will libeled him and claimed Will was supposed to call him before running the column and didn’t.

Will said he had no such obligation and snarked that it wouldn’t be the first time O’Reilly’s gotten something wrong. When O’Reilly kept on the point, he asked, “Do you want to talk about Bill O’Reilly or Bill O’Reilly’s book?”

O’Reilly moved on to Will taking issue with his use of a memo by a Reagan aide. The memo features what Will called “slanderous assessments” of Reagan that its own author disowned. O’Reilly said he only did so “under heavy pressure” and Will literally laughed out loud.

O’Reilly confronted him on a bunch of statements from people close to Reagan to refute what Will was saying and accused Will of “actively misleading people.” Will shot back by saying O’Reilly’s “something of an expert” in that field.

When Will called out O’Reilly for not talking to pivotal Reagan administration figures, O’Reilly shot back that he didn’t want anyone with “skin in the game.” He insisted Killing Reagan is laudatory, but Will said not only is that untrue, but charged that “it is doing the work of the left” to discredit Reagan.

O’Reilly cried, “You’re a hack! You’re in with a cabal of Reagan loyalists who don’t want the truth to be told!”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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click on this link below to see the video from mediaite showing the confrontation:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/youre-a-hack-oreilly-explodes-at-george-will-for-attacking-his-no-facts-zone-book/#ooid=ZjNm1veDrmS-it0P_S5TlpSnKD3WAsgL

copied from mediaite.com

Jul 31, 2015

Finding Bill O'Reilly: Russell Brand Howard Beale and Catholic Guilt

Russell Brand: Bill O’Reilly Is On the Brink of Becoming Howard Beale

by Ken Meyer | 8:00 pm, July 30th, 2015VIDEO123

In his newest online video, Russell Brandcommented on Bill O’Reilly‘s continuing support of Donald Trump for his refusal to change himself for media standards of political correctness. Brand found it interesting that O’Reilly could be so indignant about how the press has treated Trump in the wake of his repeated controversial statements.

While going over O’Reilly’s Factor “tip of the day” about how the media is not looking out for the best interests of their audiences or their interviewees, Brand said that he was getting a Howard Beale-ish impression from him.

For those who have never seen the acclaimed film Network, Beale is an anchorman for a fictitious news show that uses him for ratings when he decides to speak with no filter about all the “bullshit” he sees in the world. You can watch his most famous rant for context here:

To this, Brand thought that O’Reilly was on the cusp of going down the same road:

“You think for a moment, ‘Oh my God, Bill’s on the precipice of telling the absolute truth, of saying, I’m part of the problem, I work for Fox News day after days, I’ve been representing corporate interests, I’ve been sticking up for Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, unseen figures whose name you’ll never know because they’re so ensconced in power, their power continually veiled, but I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.’”

Brand conceded that O’Reilly was correct about media manipulation, but noted the irony about how he himself is part of the media. Brand wondered what sort of thinking allowed O’Reilly to separate himself from that construct, while everyone else, including Brand, continues to focus on Trump.

You can watch the video here:

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copied from Mediaite...........

Jun 21, 2015

Calling O'Reilly Out on False Facts......

Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

here is where O'Reilly is actually wrong....as in incorrect.....

Forever Sean Hannity began his radio show by saying the goal was to "take back America."

Every time I heard that I thought take back America from who?

He finally quit using that line after President Obama was reelected.

It was not only a mean statement as the opening and premise of the show but it was also stupid.....who voted for President Obama.......

Who makes up the voting population of our country--we are a beautiful coat of many colors--now everyone has a place in the political conversation thanks to President Obama.

This is what Fox News can never get.

They are not only offensive but they are out of touch with reality.

Also, on thurs night he said he would have a factual piece on gun control and why the UK system would not work here in the US. He was going to have the true facts and figures to prove it.

Well, on Friday night he completely skipped over the issue.....why.

Let him have on his show law enforcement from the UK or other countries in Europe and display the facts and figures...would that work here in different parts of the country....how does it actually work there.

For instance what kind of gun issues do they have in the city of London compared to New York....I dare O'Reilly to do it and see what facts are actually out there.

Let O'Reilly have Piers Morgan on his show and really get down to the true facts of gun control if he loves America so much as he claims.

Instead on Friday night he shouted about the 2nd Amendment and stated it would never go anywhere and that is all there is.

It was like he had a conversation with Roger Ailles about actually showing gun control and solutions of the problems but at the end of the day Roger said no.

O'Reilly is always claiming no spin and the facts.....let's see if he is really up to it on guns.....or is he afraid of the truth?

from Salon.......

FRIDAY, JUN 19, 2015 06:07 AM PDT

Bill O’Reilly attacks friend of deceased pastor for linking Fox News’ rhetoric to Charleston massacre

"I know he was your friend," O'Reilly said, but Pastor Pinckney would have disappointed in your attacking Fox News VIDEO

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Bill O'Reilly, Todd Rutherford (Fox News)

Thursday night on “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly spoke to Charleston lawmaker Todd Rutherford, a friend of Pastor Clementa Pinckney, about comments Rutherford had made earlier on CNN in which he claimed Fox News’ rhetoric is partially responsible for Dylann Roof murdering nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Rutherford told CNN that when Roof “watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they’re really not [and] use that coded language, they use hate speech, they talk about the president as if he’s not the president” — that primes people like Roof to “walk into a church and treat people like animals, when they’re really human beings.”

O’Reilly took issue with both Rutherford’s characterization of the network. “You said something that bothered me a little bit,” he said. “Are you going to stand by [what you told CNN]?”

“Absolutely,” Rutherford replied. “It’s disturbing to African-Americans to watch stories on Fox News as to whether the president is truly the president, or whether he was really born in this country.”

O’Reilly denied that anyone on Fox News had ever espoused birther beliefs — when, in fact, many Fox News personalities, including Hannity and “Fox & Friends” regular Donald Trump, did so on numerous occasions — and then attacked Rutherford for saying that Roof watched Fox News, because there’s no evidence that he did.

Despite having just played the clip in which Rutherford claimed that Roof watched programming “like Fox News,” O’Reilly insisted that he claimed Roof watched the network itself, and couldn’t be disabused of the argument. “You said, ‘he watches Fox News,’” O’Reilly erroneously repeated.

“You’re equating what Dylann Roof did in that church to our commentary?” he asked. “Are you saying that Fox News justifies brutal crimes against black Americans?”

“You said that,” Rutherford replied. “This is exactly what I’m talking about. You are inflaming the rhetoric.”

“I’ve got say,” O’Reilly concluded, “I know you’re a good friend [of Senator Pinckney] and I know you’re upset, but I don’t think he would’ve embraced your kind of rhetoric today.”

Watch the entire interview via Mediaite below.