Bill O'Reilly On "Daily Show": Obama Fears, The Secular Revolution And A Teddy Bear (VIDEO)

Fox news blowhard Bill O'Reilly stopped by "The Daily Show" Thursday for the first time since the election and stayed two segments. In the first Jon Stewart comforted him about his pre-election fears over Barack Obama, even giving him a stuffed animal to snuggle.

Later, talking about the secular revolution in America, O'Reilly told Stewart, "If you go to Alabama, you're going to be killed... they'll stone you to death." The argument turned to the traditions of America, with Stewart arguing the next step is gay marriage, which O'Reilly called, "your Greenwich Village opinion." O'Reilly then denied there was diversity in the Village to a jaw-dropped Stewart and insisted America is a center-right country.

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Comments

[VicksieDo]

O'Really is a wannabee Voldemort. Hate the guy.

[joeyfoto]

O'Reilly is a side-show freak. He broadcasts pompous platitudinous nonsense to gain market-share among those who are attracted to such empty certainties... He is just selling books and ad-time on TV; that's understandable. What I have never understood i what the people who are delighted by him get from the experience. I mean, he is so obviously full of himself and little else, how could being in agreement with such a jerk make anyone --- over 15 --- feel good about themselves.

Bill O'Reilly is just a grammar school bully with a circus act on TV, whose Arbs do not depend on me. If I wanted to hear the bluster of baseless opinion, I'd hang out in bars.

[amce]

I've gotta say, Stewart's comment about the American tradition being a progression of civil liberties was really awesome.

And O'Riley's comment about the bear summed up his philosophy entirely.

Although, I have to say, I love Bill-O when he chats with Stewart - I feel like there's actual some kind of respect between the two of them, which is really the problem with O'Riley's show. O'Riley can be entertaining and likable even in his stubbornness as long he respects his guests - when he starts shouting them down, that's where he gets obnoxious.

[gawd]

A panda bear? That just shows you how two people can look at the same thing and get a totally different impression...it also shows you that Bill O'Reilly, even when wrong will argue his point anyway.

[GregorZap]

The error by O'Really sums up the Republicans completely. They will show you a polar bear and insist it is a panda even when you can see for yourself, right there in their hand, is a polar bear.

[carlgt1]

I'm a fan of Stewart, but I think it's terribly hypocritical of him to basically give O'Reilly a free pass & free publicity, yet when Stewart went on Begala's & Tucker Carlson's show he excoriated them for being hateful & hurtful to America etc etc. O'Reilly is about 1000 times worse than Tucker Carlson (& Begala).

[tdbach]

You missed the point of his lecture to those guys, who were supposed to represent Left and Right views. He was saying that this staged shouting match between ideological poles doesn't serve the nation or political discourse - and that they are just a part of the who deteriorating discourse on cable and radio, where it's debate for show, not to inform.

Completely different situation than being a HOST and having someone with a...ahem...questionable ideological slant on. He challenged him with humor (it is a Comedy Central show after all) and treated him with dignity - which is more than you can say for O'Reilly when he has a guest he disagrees with. Do unto others...

[ansonort]

I actually can't watch Bill O'Reilly. I feel almost clinically sick when I see him on a video-byte. Is there a medical term for this?

[richardbell]

Bovine Fecalaphobia?

[GregorZap]

I don't know what the condition is, but the cure is a rectal cephalectomy, or more plainly, to have ones head surgically removed from their as$. I think to do so might threaten his life on FOX, however. It's a very risky procedure.

[sammyscout]

In 3rd grade he was a thug (he said it) and yet people (repuk3s) think he's a saint. What 'dya think he grew up to be.

[sammyscout]

I was excited to see the headline but what a toss; what happened to that Johnny boy that handed it to the fools on crossfire and had their show cancelled. I waited for him to bring out the bs that Oreally's foundation is built on and it never came. It never came. Jonny, at least you could've defended Obama better by showing some other oreally clips from before the election. Oh What a let down, Jonny boy.

[kpjoe]

What a toss? He brought out hot chocolate and a teddy bear!!! The foundation of ORLY's bs is his audience. The Limbaugh audience. You think his audience watches the daily show? You think those clips and his persona during this interview made him look like a viable news source for ANYONE that would check in with Stewart for headline jokes?

This thread is ridiculous for many reasons, but the idea that someone watching this interview would think a - ORLY might sell more books because of his appearance, or b - Stewart has some fake journalistic integrity to live up to - is the height of Ouroboros mentality. It's a comedy show on COMEDY CENTRAL ffs!

Lighten up - Stewart did what he always does - point out the absurdity of these egomaniacs.

[chendri887]

Bill O'Reilly, you are a sad, sad man.

[AnnaAlabama]

Please come visit Alabama Jon! We would love to have you here!!!

[Isher]

Yes we would!

[mamacat]

I enjoyed the show. It is sad that Bill O consistently embraces rationality but rejects logic and reason. On the other hand, that is how he makes his living, and a very good one at that.

[captainindustry]

what a boring boring man. i have a half-dozen uncles who could take his place over night, and no one would even notice. God Bless Obama!!!

[Amalek]

Please don't invite me over for Thanksgiving

[robiform]

I loved Keith Olbermann's take on the Bill-o appearance on "The Daily Show". (Of course, everyone knew that KO would have a take on it!) He showed the clip of Bill-o calling the teddy bear a panda, and then there was a clip of two baby pandas (aww, so cute!) while KO explained the difference between a teddy bear and a panda bear! I guess Bill-o studied science at the same place as did Sarah Palin!

[Rhadamanthus]

Tolerance fails T-shirt test (severely edited by me due to this post's constraints)
Original by John Kass, Chicago Tribune, November 13, 2008
Catherine Vogt an Illinois 8th grader has a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment for extra credit and decided to wear a T-shirt to school and record comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore simple words: "McCain Girl."
Immediately, "People started calling me very stupid and making comments about how I should be killed," Catherine said. "In one class, I had a teacher say she will not judge me but was surprised that I supported McCain," Catherine said. One student even suggested "You should be crucifixed.' I was like, don't you mean 'crucified?' "
Other comments by classmates that she recorded included she be "burned with her shirt on" for "being a filthy-rich Republican." Only a few times did anyone say anything remotely positive about her McCain shirt. One girl pulled her aside in a corner and whispered, "I really like your shirt."
The next day, in part 2 of the experiment, she wore a T-shirt with "Obama Girl." Suddenly Catherine wasn't so stupid anymore. "People liked my shirt. They said things like my brain had come back, and I had put the right shirt on today," Catherine said.
We're all so wonderful aren't we?

[shall01]

Go to Faux and tell your swan song story...

[Amalek]

I am sorry. I don't get the point.

To paraphrase Guisot and Clemenceau (and not Churchill as widely misunderstood) "A girl who is not a democrat in the eight grade has no heart. A spinster who is not a republican has no brain". There is nothing scarier than a heartless child.

"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
- Robert Anton Wilson Let the poor girl grow up before you send her over to the dark side.

[JohnJay60]

The Robert Wilson quote makes NO SENSE. Conservatives accept liberal ideas (social security, medicare, clean air, equal rights, womens' right to vote) and consider them so obvious they forget that the conservative opinion, at the time, opposed all of these progressive measures.

So, by definition, a conservative always thinks they're conservative even though they've embraced liberal ideas of the prior decades.

[mamacat]

Many versions, but I prefer the one, "If you aren't a liberal when you're young, you have no heart. If you aren't a liberal when you're older, you have no brain." Hey, to each his own.

[sammyscout]

beautifully put, Amalek. very nice.

Im sure the story is true, there is another side though. A schoolgirl was shot and killed in Texas for wearing an obama tshirt to school. This was illinois, that was Tx, depends on where you were. Wasn't a church (of black members) burnt in the south somewhere and also a black couples car torched on the night obama won. Surely we can tell which is the dark side. After Obama won, st0rmfront, a radical whit3 supr3macist website reported 2000 new signups a day from their normal 89 a week. Need I go on....

[Chironomid]

Do you actually think I believe that story for a second? What a pile of b*s. People are total chick#nsh!t about expressing their opinions out loud in person - it'd be amazing if even one of those comments were true. Only on the Internet would someone give that a moment's credence.

[AZ4thatone]

Unfortunately, this story is true. The girl was in junior high. I feel that it was a bunch of kids reacting to what they have heard at home and on the news. Her pic was posted with both t-shirts she wore and her story. It's also worth mentioning that she is from Illinois. To me, it just proves how far we still have to go despite how far we've come. Bigotry and hate are passed down from generation to generation. Unfortunate but true.

[downwithbs]

Even if the story is true, it pales in comparison to the real-life campaign rallies of McCain and his running mate, whose epithets against Barack Obama prompted the crowd to shout "Kill Him!" and "Terrorist!"

[preatorius]

This guy always thinks he is right, no matter what.
Its a TEDDY BEAR!