Will O'Reilly's Vile Attack on Arianna Huffington Finally Get Him Kicked Off the Air?

I know, I know. It's wishful thinking, but I can dream, can't I? This isn't the first time the cowardly BillO has attacked Arianna and obviously it won't be his last. You see, the conservative media is a bit unnerved right now and are acting like fools, as is evident by this latest Factor smear. He's upset because some idiots left terrible remarks about Nancy Reagan on the HuffPo comment threads. Unfortunately it does happen on the Internet (including my website as well, CrooksandLiars) as much as we guard against it. Most sane people understand this fact.

You can see the video of BillO here.

O'Reilly: I have no respect for the woman. I think that she is hurting the country...

O'Reilly: What's the difference between the KKK and Arianna Huffington? What's the difference?

Ham: I think there is a difference,.

O'Reilly: I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis. It's her, It's her, It's her...I didn't say she's a Nazi.

Ham: Alright.

O'Reilly: There's no difference between what the two do.

Say, what? OMG. What the heck is he talking about? Yea, Bill, if Arianna actually had a hand in genocide, you poor ignorant fool---you might try to say they took similar actions, but let's look at you. O'Reilly says Americans should start holding people accountable for what they say, so I think BillO should have already been fired for saying this about Michelle Obama:

O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels...

And he still has a job? He has the audacity to compare Arianna to the KKK and then want to lynch Michelle Obama if he feels she wasn't jingoistic enough. Jesse Jackson brought up BillO's rant on MSNBC after Tuesday's debate and said that this type of rhetoric can lead to violent episodes in our country. Maybe that's what he's after.

I spoke with Arianna about it last night and she feels he really crossed the line. He's been crossing the line for years now, but nobody ever called him on it before the blogs showed up. Hey Bill, we're not going anywhere. I wonder if he'll go to Sylvia's and discuss lynching Michelle Obama over a late night meal with FOX's Juan Williams.

You may not agree with all of Arianna's politics, but where she's full of grace and elegance---O'Reilly is an angry, pathetic, right wing media parasite. Print that, Howard Kurtz!.

UPDATE: (Nicole) I don't think Billo knows who he's dealing with:

Arianna's courage comes from a mother who stood up when others would have run, a single Greek woman who faced down real Nazis, real soldiers with real guns, real Nazis who killed millions of innocent people and came close to destroying our world, not blowhards with a falafel.

Fire away Billy, I promise you that Arianna can take all you can dish out, and a hell of a lot more.

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Comments

[django707]

O' Reilly is not a parasite. He is a propagandist. Propagandists do not get fired. O' Reilly's job is to focus and feed the hatred of his targeted demographic. That demographic being the idiotic, fundamentalist fool most screwed by the system O'Reilly represents. It's interesting to watch how he bullies the more moderate interviewers who cross his path. Couldn't one of them think to ask how it is that Arianna Huffington is just like the nazis? Because she created a fascist police state? Started wars of global conquest? Persecuted the Jews? Occupied neighboring countries? Was she behind the burning of the Reichstag? Or any other building's destruction?
O' Reilly understands, as all propagandists do, that you don't have to make sense or have any facts to back you up. You just have to repeat and hammer and repeat your message. The lie will become a truth. Just hammer. Repeat. Hammer. Repeat. See, now, doesn't that lie just feel kind of like something true? It just rolls off the tongue.

[wittgene]

I don't understand how Mr. O'Reilly can go around and advocate the lynching of a black women. Don Imus lost his job for a less favorable comment. Black people lost thier lives because of lynching. How can the American media accept the lynching of black people and condone this violent act against Americans. Moreover, unless Michelle Obama concur, Mr. O'Reilly will lynch her because of her ideology. This is very shameful.

[BOfever]

Please provide a link or some evidence of Billo advocating the lynching of a black woman. The Obama quote was not advocating it, you may want to look up the meaning of the word.

[realpolitic]

O'Reilly said he would lynch her. What else does that mean to you? Tea for two.

[anelder]

"I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence." O'Reilly's exact words:

Those were his words. Now you do the work.

I so often hear someone say, prove it, upon hearing something they disagree with. I'm much to old to do your work. If you are genuine in wanting to know the truth. Look it up. Most often, I find, people who make that statement really aren't interested in truth or facts. They know that more often than not the statement will end the discussion.

[ohnonotagain]

Not only that but isn't she the wife of a presidential candidate. Just goes to show what the MSM really thinks about either that office, or that person? You make the call!!

[realpolitic]

The link you want is Bill O'Reilly's own radio talk show.

[PublicDefender2008]

Just another example of the "fair and balanced" hate speech that dribbles out of Bills mouth every night.

Is anyone really surprised??

[BOfever]

I think it was hate speech which he cited in his piece, people on this website were hoping for the death of a former first lady. In a normal world those people posting that should have been called out . . . but then again we know the posters on this site actually mean it.

[realpolitic]

O'Reilly is crazy. He must always find something to be outraged at. Without outrage, he would sink to the bottom of the ocean and drown, as a shark will that does not continue moving.

[desmirl]

Not watching Bill O'Reilly is one of the ways I amuse myself.

[mrdontplay]

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Thank you O'REALLY for all you do.

The youth of America now can easily witness ignorance, greed, and power all at once.

[Gilda]

And he writes books aimed at children too. Touching.

[anelder]

here, here

[LeonBNJ]

I am sick and tired of hearing the O'Reilly's and his fellow wingnuts on the TV and radio. They have far too much dominance of 'talk radio', brainwashing listeners with what I consider to be illegal hate speech against anybody by people like them -racists, sexists, anti-immigrant, liberal bashing speech they spew from their butts. Worse, they never really give a constructive arguement for thier beliefs, only using fear of 'them' . They may consider themselves to be 'entertainers' but they never will entertain me, just make me angry when I come across them in my eye and ear shot.

[BOfever]

That dominance in talk radio is because of the fre market, Air America tried and failed. To be honest with you, liberal radio or TV doesn't draw big audiences i.e. Olbermann 19th in the ratings (O'Reilly #1 with his repeat show being #7, Rush & Hannity have 24+ million listeners a week . . . AA has 2 million total)

[surfcitysteven]

Great breakdown, BO, Now please explain, with all this media dominance, just how you got your asses kicked in the last election.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

O'Reilly?

The same O'Reilly who falsely blamed US soldiers in WW II for the German SS activity of killing prisoners of war in an effort to excuse certain actions in connection with the Abu Ghraib scandal?

The same O'Reilly who regularly serves as a paid hate monger for Faux News?

Why would any rational person listen to him?

He won't be taken off the air for directing his vile hatred toward Arianna and comparing her with Nazis.

Just change the channel. And don't go back.

[MikeMidCity]

Ya that's the guy. You know the kind of guy who denies the existence of needy or homeless veterans.

BILLY O THE KIND OF GUY WHO IS IN FACT A CHICKEN SHI .... er .... CHICKEN HAWK.

[msfiskvletterman]

3/1/08
7:09pm
Alexandria, VA

Ignoring him won't make O'Reilly go away. That's not working--I've done it for years.

[lisakaz]

This is a classic case of projection. Who are his advertisers? That is where one needs to attack.

[mrdontplay]

thank you.

Finally someone who gets it right.

You have to BITE the hand that feeds THEM!

[surfcitysteven]

I posted these same sentiments on an earlier blog, but it bears repeating. If it were true, and it is not, that leftie blogs are the only ones that have idiots say idiotic things, (some of my spews included), we could say that it is simply our way of venting and it, for the most part is harmless. Now the tried and true rightie ways of venting such as blowing up federal buildings, blowing up abortions clinics, shooting doctors, mailing real and fake anthrax to targets leftie, assasinations, death threats, lynching parties, advocating terror attacks on San Francisco etc, are much more harmful to this country than the rantings of a few Bozos on the Huffpo bus.

[BOfever]

Very true, both far left and far right are very hateful. I just think if blogs need to have integrity they do need to remove posts or posters that advocate the death of someone i.e. Tony Snow or Nancy Reagan in this case.

[CaveatMagnusFrater]

NO! You can't claim that far left is hateful just because you admit that far right is. Far left is about love, acceptance and compassion. Far right is about control and power.

[AirmanOne]

Ah Kundera, you really are on the wrong side of the street (as usual) but to defend Billo this way you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel

[terriw]

I'd think with what's posted here about Hillary and the vile and hatefilled headlines about her day after day after day...

Arianna ought to be able to stand a bit of her own medicine, no? Or is all that crap just reserved for HILLARY. I've never read more vitriolic and mean spirited 'commentary' ...and the HuffPo has lowered the bar right to Mr OReillys level and if you think you're any better....you're not.

Pot.kettle...and all that, you know

[pigsatthetrough]

Lets face it, a beautiful intelligent woman scares the hell out of O'Reilly. Add the fact that she has a successful web site, which also scares the hell out of him, and of course he is going to go on a massive rant and melt down. This is one case where the fox wins. Arianna, the fox that is.

[pizzmoe]

I can't image anything that would get that swine kicked off the air. It's all about the $$$

[StrayTalk]

The great legacy of the Right -from smart guy Bill Buckley and Firing Line ( mostly intelligent debate on political issues ) to Major Nutjob Bill O'Really(?) and his version of fear Factor. Thanks Fox News!

[BDuPont]

Odious though he may well be, oreilly should stay on the air. Let the world see what America is truly made of - both good and bad, and let the world judge what America truly represents. No reason to be so insecure that you feel the need to hide the warts in a closet. The good has to stand out on its own merit.

If you don't like what you see, educate your kids.

[protagonia]

BDuuPont

Agreed. Let him continue to reveal himself as he slips into madness, as all tyrants and villains do. Let his fans see what they have been idolizing all these years. Observe the descent into Hell -

Or is that BACK to Hell?

[Benny59]

Normally I would agree with you whole-heartedly but, not everyone else in the world is as enlightened as some of us are...and I am not being sarcastic. What O'Reilly demonstrates to the world about what America represents goes along with why 75% of the world distrusts, or down right hates, what this country has become. I believe that privileged commentary must partner with extra responsibility when the entire world sees it and comes away with the idea that all we do is eat our young for entertainment. Thank you and peace.