Bill O'Reilly Jokes About Waterboarding His Staff

Bill O'Reilly discussed with Shepard Smith today why he held back the full tape of Rev. Jesse Jackson caught by Fox News on a hot mic.

"I'm not in the business of hurting Jesse Jackson, because it does hurt Jesse Jackson," he said. "And I'm not in the business of creating some kind of controversy that is not relevant to the general subject: one civil rights leader disparaging another, over policy. So we held it back. Some weasel leaked it to the internet. That person wants to hurt Jesse Jackson."

"Do we know who leaked it, and what's happened to that person?" Smith asked.

"No, but I've got the waterboard right over here," O'Reilly responded.

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Comments

[jeanrenoir]

O'Reilly's been the perfect idiot court jester and media bully for the Age of W, the age of the "macho" Fox network and the American idiot neocons who ran the Bush foreign policy and hijacked the American military to use as a bludgeon for Israel. But the age of suicidal bluster is almost over. Maliki will kick Bush, the neocons, and Israel out of Iraq faster than Obama can, and when Obama takes over the military, you can be sure it won't be simply a tool of Israeli intimidation anymore. The grotesque and absurd era of stupid, thuggish American bullying will finally be over for good, and America will return at last to the community of civilized nations, as Italy did after its period of self-destructive fascist windbags.

[UnbiasView]

Come HuffPost, I know you can do better than that . . . lighten up.

[NABNYC]

We know what Bill O'Reilly likes to do with his staff. "Waterboarding," is that what he's calling it now? In the shower? Got to get those bodies wet before you can use the loofa on the smooth, glistening, skin of his victims -- I mean staff.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

Oh yeah, and one other thing - when you're talking to someone about something that happened while you were on the phone, the gesture with the thumb and little finger is unnecessary and stupid.

We all know what talking on the phone is like. We don't need your little visual.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

So there was no plan by Fox to release part of the tape one day, then wait a couple of days and then say "oh, wow - there's more".!!!

Fox wouldn't have knowingly tried to prolong the coverage of the story and further embarrass everyone concerned, would they?

Furthermore, to even have billo say that he wasn't involved and wouldn't have done it it rich. He'd put out a tape of ANYTHING if he could stand back and pretend to be outraged. What a jerk.

As Bill Clinton said, if everyone had a live mic 24hrs a day, everyone would be embarrassed about something.

[Yasriel]

Can we really believe this crook?!

[Nolewoman]

No.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

Um, that would be a big NO