Tuesday, November 15, 2005

O'Reilly Does New Satirical Riff On McCarthyism

Last night was a particularly awesome episode of the O'Reilly Factor.

Bill O'Reilly opened up the show, in his Talking Points segment, by addressing the San Francisco controversy. Or rather, his particular spin on it. O'Reilly's summary of the situation: The San Francisco vote was disrespectful to the military, which is a big no-no, so military veteran super-patriot (?) Bill O'Reilly was honor-bound to call them on their Communist actions on his radio show. At this point, he cuts to the clip that started the controversy... sort of. Bill actually only played the first part of his rant, in which he said that if he were President, the city would no longer get federal funding. O'Reilly cuts the clip off there and states:
"And then I went on to do a satirical riff with a serious point."

Since O'Reilly does not elaborate after that, play the rest of the clip, or mention it again, I though I'd refresh everyone's memory as to what that serious, satirical riff was:
“If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, ‘look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."

You know, just riffing and making some serious points.

He then moves on to his main topic- The "far-left smear sites" that have launched a vicious campaign against him. He says our statements that he encouraged terrorist attacks (which his viewers would think was baseless, since he never played or acknowledged that quote) was stupid, even for these "guttersnipes".

He says that he is glad the "smear sites" have made a big deal out of this, because now he is going to, according to his Talking Point screen, 'name names'. He says that "now we can all know who is with the anti-military internet crowd". Did you see how he turned it around back onto his critics? Instead of him being the bad guy for saying it's terrorist open season on the Coit Tower, the blogs are the bad guys, because (somehow by finding his statements odious) they are anti-military. He shoots, he scores!!! Fascism wins the game! O'Reilly says a full list of these anti-American websites will be up soon at billoreilly.com... Stay tuned!

He ends by stating those who want to deny recruiters access to schools are "working against their own country"... "PERIOD".

I can see myself being called to Fox News headquarters to testify before O'Reilly, head of the Roger Ailes Un-American Activities Committee- "Mr. Wilcox, are you now or have you ever been a member of the anti-military, far-left smear conspiracy?".

Ohh, I'm getting tingly just thinking about it.

Crooks and Liars has video:
Bill O'Reilly's Hit List

NewsHounds has a transcript: O'Reilly: It Was Just a "Satirical Riff" And, Oh Yeah, Just to Set the Record Straight, San Franciscans Who Voted Against Recruiting Are Traitors

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