Bill O’Reilly is getting some props for appearing on Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report" (click here to watch some of the clips) and for having Stephen Colbert as a guest on his Fox News Channel show. "O’Reilly deserves credit for being a good sport, because his was the thankless role," a New York Times critic reported. "The imitation was a lot funnier — and sharper-edged — than the real thing." Among Colbert’s digs: "You and I have taken a lot of positions against the powers that be, and we’ve paid a heavy price," Colbert told O’Reilly. "We have TV shows, product lines and books." And when O’Reilly said that his combative persona was "all an act," Colbert responded, "If you’re an act, then what am I?"
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Got it recorded.Didn’t have time at lunch to watch it.Phillip, you have now gone to the top of the favorite editors list.Colbert ROCKS!(imaginary victory lap)
Colbert/Stewart in ‘08!!!!
Bill O’Reilly knows how to make more money and he is milking it for all its worth. The man is just a shill, a snake oil salesman that has found his sheeple that will keep him rolling in dough for a long time.
Tracy, there may be validity in your tongue in cheek remark.
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=200
This is a link to a study of where Americans get their news. In the 18-29 demographic, 29% get it from TV Comedy shows. Scary.
Well, I guess it’s more informative and balanced than Olbermann.
If we played a drinking game and drank everytime he plugged some of his crap, the game wouldn’t last long.
I watched it, although I don’t normally watch that show.
OReilly was okay,nothing to write home about. Colbert I find too pretentious to the point of being a human cartoon.
Nothing about that Daily Show draws me back to watch it.
Could be an old cronie thing, but it just doesn’t appeal to me at all.
I would like to ballpunch the next person who uses the word “sheeple.” I’ve heard it from lefties and righties, and to me it means “I’m as braindead as the group I want to disparage.”
Please make your personal attacks more original and more entertaining. You might take as an example the legend of LBJ, recounted here by Hunter S. Thompson.
“All I really wanted to tell you was this ancient and honorable story about how Lyndon Johnson first got elected to Congress, when his (heavily favored) opponent was a wealthy local pig farmer….
Remember that one, James? Sure you do. It’s a wonderful story, and I suspect it will cheer you up.
It goes this way: The year was 1948, as I recall, and Lyndon was running about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go…. He was sunk in despair. He was desperate. And it was just before noon on a Monday, they say, when he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference at two or two-thirty (just after lunch on a slow news day) and accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children….
His campaign manager was shocked. “We can’t say that, Lyndon,” he said. “It’s not true.”
“Of course it’s not,” Johnson barked at him, “but let’s make the bastard deny it.” ‘
You see? Personal ad hominem attacks can be so much better than what you are doing now.
Love and kisses as always
Russell
heh Funny story Russell.
Yep – a good one Russell. Sounds like the InsightMag story being bandies about on another thread.
“I would like to ballpunch the next person who uses the word “sheeple.” I’ve heard it from lefties and righties, and to me it means “I’m as braindead as the group I want to disparage.”
Russel..THANK YOU.I’ve been wanting to say that for some time……..
JM, yes, that the whole point.He’s a human cartoon.Made in the image of the very realBillO.
The word “ballpunch” just makes me double over in pain.
Maybe I should wear cast-iron jockeys to lunch tomorrow.
Jon Stewart has done more to bring young people into the political arena than anyone in our history.Amazing.It used to be…tune in, turn on, drop out.Now it’s……tune in, turn on, get the vote out.
Are dittoheads any better than sheeple? What’s the difference? since I’m neither, just clarifying.
dittohead is different in that it is what Limbaugh devotees call themselves.
Balls—-HA!Good one.Just don’t say it.It was cool the first three or four THOUSAND times woody used it.
So dittoheads don’t follow Rush Limbaugh like sheep. I still don’t get the difference.
I’m no “sheeple” nor a “dittohead”; however, I must confess to being a “parrot head”.
red – that part is not clear … he says he will tell his followers what to think … so make your own judgement on that.
I didn’t say that floggytesticles.
But…yes, JM. you must be too old.
I love all three, Colbert, Stewart and Olbermann.
O’Reilly could have tried to be a little more funny- but no way. And he’s the one who thinks he has the authority to connect with kids HA.
I was almost hoping for a John Steward/Crossfire type moment, but nope, didn’t happen.
Stewart/Colbert for president :P Tracy.
O’Reilly is a pig without a disguise.Bill’O knows the more trouble he causes, the more money he makes. He has stated this. His goal is to earn tons of cash so his family and his future descendents will have a higher protection from poverty, crime, lawsuits, poor health care, etc.He has his personal live in order….he is just a jackass on TV.
His personal life is in such order, he has to ask his female staff for sexual favors…on the phone.
Fairly often, I read you people accusing Cons of being echo chambers for Rush and Hannity etc. and it doesn’t help your case. There is so much more you could throw. The “sheeple” term, while humorous, is silly. When you underestimate your “enemy” you only up the chances you will lose the “war”.That said, Bill O is the pompous ass that Rush is called, but isn’t.
If Rush is not the pompous ass, then is he just a big bag of wind? I personally cannot see how anyone can stand to listen to the man for more than 5 minutes. He is so arrogant and rude. Is that what is really entertaining to Conservatives? How sad their lives must be.
Mega dittos, Red. Mega dittos.
How did I miss this one?
Nevermind.
Saw both Colbert on O’reilly on O’reilly on Colbert.
Colbert wins hands down.
On the Colbert Repor, someone in the audience booed O’Reilly. Billo looked like he wanted to go after the guy!
O’Reilly is a humorless boob and thus a perfect persona of the right wing.
Wow, my idea of Liberals as compassionate human beings is rapidly dwindling.
Just describe your fellow Americans with differing political concepts or ideas with your favorite insult phrase or expletive seems to be the common phrase of the Liberal.
If that doesn’t work just work on tearing down the individual with ad hominem attacks even if they are untrue or just use brute force to shout them down.
Yeah, Liberals
I’ve been around street thugs that were better mannered.
Okay, show me what your made of Liberals attack me as if you really know me. You can make up your own rules of written discourse, you usually do.
LOL JM, you right wingers act like someone who slapped the face of another guy, then look stunned when you got punched back. The audacity, then try to say that the other guy started it.
I only said you were old, in response to what you said. Stop being so sensitive, geez. And I was just teasing anyway.
I would hardly call that an attack.
No Political Mom,
I’ve just noticed that some can’t get through a single sentence on this blog without attacking the integrity of anyone with a different view.
I don’t care if you call me old, that’s not a disparaging remark in of itself. It might be a disparaging remark if you use it as a point that I don’t understand something. There is a difference of being uninformed about the latest trend and knowing what subject matter is actually conducive in gaining knowledge traditionally.
If someone declares victory in a discussion because they use ad hominem attacks then their victory is hollow.
Attacking the person and not the message is not the way to solve problems.
JM,
“Could be an old cronie thing, but it just doesn’t appeal to me at all.”http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2007/01/oreilly_was_a_g.html#comment-27975658
Seems like you kinda “disparaged” yourself.
Come on JM, you have GOT to watch the way Fleets and Golf act on here, they’re representative, and this started way back when Clinton was in office, Rush, Hannity, Coulter…
Name just ONE person on the right as hateful as they are.
I meant left.
I didn’t single out anyone. It applies to both sides.
I’ve always thought those with Liberal views were people of compassion and not condemnation.
This blog is prooving me wrong.
damned manpanzies.
Or how the chimp in the zoo got knocked up. Turns out, the Chimp genes were dominate. Explains Bush, and his victories.
Like most conservatives, BOR doesn’t get the joke.
Colbert superbly satirizes conservative idiocy by parroting GOP talking points to their logical, absurdist consequences.
To wit:
“I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.”
And:
“I know there are some polls out there saying this man [Bush] has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in “reality.” And reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
And:
“The greatest thing about this man is he’s steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday.”
And:
“Fox News gives you both sides of every story, the president’s side and the vice president’s side.”
If there weren’t a studio audience for Colbert’s show it could run on Faux News and and the Limbaugh-tomized masses wouldn’t know the difference.
Liberals don’t get it. THe media is runaway with liberal bias.
So Fox puts on both sides of the argument and the story. That is what “Fair and balanced” looks like. What “Fair and Balanced” is not is MSNBC and their constant bashing on conservatives and Fox news. Just because CNN and MSNBC have all left all the time, does not make FOXZ news the “Conservative channel”.
It is not “slanted” to equal time. FOX understands this, ans that is the reason the viewership is up and FOX leads the news services.
The only other explaination is that FOX is conservative, and by viewer numbers, so the nation is.
SO what is it brainiac liberals? Is Fox “fair and Balanced” or is the majority in the population of the US “Conservative”???
Can’t wait to hear the spin there.
There is a third possibility, the FOX ladies are much better looking than the hags they have on the other channels, and the men are, well, “manly”, not a bunch like Olberman and Andersen Cooper (wimps).
http://www.newshounds.us provides a daily accounting of Faux News shilling for the Republic Party.
Their motto is:
“We watch Fox so you don’t have to.”
OH good one Monkeyhawk. Post a link to a left winger website as conformation. At least the “Shilling” on Fox has both flavors, unlike MSNBC or Rathergate, or CNN, the COmmunist News Network. Remember Christin Ammanpour, the war slut. She is so anti-American it sucks, however, she is British, not American.
No wonder you think FOX news is slanted, if the “newshound” or “mediamatters” is where you get your story conformation of information, FOX being balanced in the middle would look slanted compared to your far left wingers.
GOOD one ther MonkeyHawk, unzipped your fly in public and exposed your bias.
you people are pathetic….The party of tolerence. feh