Bill O'Reilly Wants To Arrest Everyone, Starting With Obama Flacks

Gads, Bill O'Reilly...always with the suggestion of extrajudicial seizure! OK. Here's the story so far: this past Monday, Obama spokesman Bill Burton got into a heated exchange with Fox anchor Megyn Kelly after he criticized the news channel for its "agenda driven political programming."* This enraged Kelly, because despite the fact that Fox has delivered the proof-of-concept on whether people will watch "agenda driven political programming" (NEWS FLASH: They will, in droves, MSNBC is emulating it, and kicking CNN's ass in the ratings as a result), it is official diktat at Fox to zip up their petticoats and act affronted by the suggestion that anything of the sort is happening. So, Kelly and Burton tussled! And I'd bet that your Fox-aligned bloggers out there in the world all cheered at her spunk! And that the Obama-philes all thought Burton was great! And everyone ended up loving the person they were predisposed to love all the more, and an otherwise unremarkable exchange between Anchor and Strategist got a lot of attention.

So, naturally, Bill O'Reilly wants someone to place Bill Burton under arrest, for daring to be mean to Megyn Kelly.

Yeesh! That's O'Reilly's answer to everything! That's why it seems that there always has to be someone on hand at the Factor to talk O'Reilly down from his addle-brained "arrest everyone who crosses me" fantasia. In times past, this used to be Megyn Kelly's job!

*Part of Burton's complaint was Fox's daylong flogging of a 2001 radio appearance Obama made, in which he "disavowed the views" of the "more robust liberal jurists of yesteryear [who] believed in affirmative economic rights." Fox was among those who wrongly believed -- because listening and reading for COMPREHENSION is just too hard for some people -- that he was taking a point of view that was diametrically the opposite. To be fair, Fox was not the only news agency to cover this story incorrectly.

Comments

[RationalDubSteppa]

08:01 PM on 11/28/2008

If billo-the-­clown wants to arrest somebody he should begin with himself for sexual misconduct against one of his colleagues­. He may have forgotten about that little snaffu of his, but we sure as hell have not.

[RationalDubSteppa]

07:57 PM on 11/28/2008

My personal litmus test that I employ towards those people I know who claim to be conservati­ves or republican­s is whether or not they watch and enjoy billo-the clown. If they do then I know that there is not much brain matter between their ears and that its time to move on.

[BLCS]

10:04 AM on 11/13/2008

What a joke. O'Reilly seems "outraged" at this critical compromise of security. Strange that he wasn't quite as outraged when somebody in the Bush administra­tion "out'ed" the identity of an undercover CIA operative tasked w/ tracking rogue nukes in the former Soviet Union. Oh yeah, wasn't that when Bush said "if anybody knows anything, they need to come forward", then said, "if it's anyone in my administra­tion, they'll be going to jail". Oh yeah, and then after dragging their feet and failing to comply w/ subpoenas, in the end if turned out be Bush's very own chief-of-s­taff, Scooter Libby?

Oh yeah, that's right! Remember that one, Bill?? Who deserves more jail time, Libby or someone who snuck into Palin's yahoo account?

I guess it's completely lost on Bill that Palin and her staffers set up Yahoo accounts after their legal counsel advised them that private email would be outside the purvey of any future court-orde­red subpoena..­.

Nothing suspicious about that, Bill! (Just move along, people. Nothing to see here!!)

[littlewing157]

09:31 PM on 11/01/2008

It's usually very easy to spot a Fox viewer. They spread the same lies, use the same talking points; in other words they can't think for themselves so they call the competitio­n names and make up lies to protect their fragile egos. They're not high-infor­mation types either and usually talk about ratings and such. That's how they keep off the real topics; they get into the ratings, then a fan of MSNBC will correct them and then it's a lot of ugliness. Takes all kinds, I guess..

[RationalDubSteppa]

07:58 PM on 11/28/2008

Isn't that the truth brother. Like clock work they repeat everything they hear... fox viewers take the saying "Monkey see, monkey do" to heart.

[jazzB3player]

04:56 PM on 10/30/2008

Bill O'Reilly is a coward...a loud mouthed coward. I am sure it won't be long before he says something so totally stupid he is sued for everything­. FOX ( faux) News is a right wing outlet. There is nothing fair or measured in their presentati­on of the events of the day. As for Megyn Kelly, what a joke...Bil­l Burton should have told her to Shut the #$%& UP!!! She followed the usual FOX tack of shouting over the top of her "guest". FOX SUCKS!!!

[peeweeH]

04:50 PM on 10/30/2008

I would like to use this post to thank Bill for his excellence in honest commentary­.

[ljcwi]

04:19 PM on 10/30/2008

There's a song from the 60's, I don't know the name of the band but the signature line was "they're coming to take me away haha hehe hoho, they're coming to take me away".

[manndan]

04:44 PM on 10/30/2008

Napoleon XIV

[honestpolitician]

03:59 PM on 10/30/2008

Kieth Olbermann is gonna be all over this!!! he shall be named the "Worst Person in the Woooorrrll­dd" once again... (I think it's at least 40 times now)

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[enlighteninglad]

04:15 PM on 10/30/2008

Is there any question in anyone's mind now that Billo the clown is, in fact, a clown?

[ljcwi]

04:31 PM on 10/30/2008

I wish Keith would tally up the "Worst Person in the Woooorrrll­dd" recipients for 2008 and have an awards ceremony to start 2009 with, starring numbers 3,2,1. Just imagine the acceptance speeches by billo, klannity , and ann coulter,

[RationalDubSteppa]

07:59 PM on 11/28/2008

Klannity..­... ROTFL!!!!!­!!! Luv it... Klannity!.­.. lol never have I seen one word simultaneo­usly describe a person and a state of mind.

[nansofast]

03:12 PM on 10/30/2008

Because governor Palin was reluctant to use state email to hide her subversive
messages to friends and allies, she got caught. It's fitting that she wouldn't use
a paid mailbox and that her info was out there for anyone to find.

Billo is ridiculous­. He needs to learn how to listen
instead of talk all the time.

[fireW]

02:43 PM on 10/30/2008

Bill-O the Clown should start by arresting his mouth for thousands of counts of deliberate­ly uttering libelous and false statements to the public.

[DorkimusMaximus]

02:34 PM on 10/30/2008

Hey Governor Palin, if you're looking for real issues of sexism, look no further.

Sure, O'Reilly is joking, but you don't have to look very far to see the egomania of this. You just have to ask yourself why he would even joke about such a thing?

Because the big scary man was big and mean to the innocent female commentato­r. And the O'Reilly joke? Have him arrested!

To imply that women need protection from men because they're women? THIS is sexism.

[blueknight41]

02:34 PM on 10/30/2008

This is more reason too pass a new FCC fairness doctrine.

[gbw1954]

02:32 PM on 10/30/2008

Billo fix your comb over dude you are looking a little exasperate­d!

[BluePrideSMW]

02:07 PM on 10/30/2008

he'd like to see 1968 again...

Abraham, Martin & John:
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=Ge32xtm23­rQ

[BlackJAC]

02:06 PM on 10/30/2008

Will Billo even show up for work next week after McCain loses the election? Or will he have a complete on-air for-real psychotic episode?