Bill Oreilly and Katrina gun-grab

[BarbC]

Bill O'Reilly is an elitist.

I recall he did purchase a handgun but, as with all elitists, only he and very few people are "qualified" to be trusted with one.

 

[cmort666]

He has several other things off thread that get to me. This stupid new or highly unused word of the day segment, getting a panel stirred up and trying to overtalk each other, (hannity does it too) gets to me and I usualy channel hop.

O'Reilly shares a trait with Howard Stern.

When he doesn't get the answer to a question that he WANTS, he keeps asking the same question over and over.

Stern - "So, have you ever made it with another girl?"
Starlet - "No."
Stern - "So, you like girls, do you?"
Starlet - "No."
Stern - "How many girls have you kissed?"

O'Reilly - "So, you support releasing all serial killers from prison?"
DA - "No."
O'Reilly - "When do you plan to release all serial killers into the community?"
DA - "Never."
O'Reilly - "After you release all of the serial killers, whom will you release next?"

When Stern does it, it's funny. When O'Reilly does it, it's just tiresome.

 

[redlevel]

O'Reilly is a liar and the truth is not in him. I have been aware of this for some time. He trashed our local school system a few years back for sponsoring an "all white" prom. That was not the case and he knew it, but he presented his distorted version to take the heat off himself about some racially tinged remarks he had made at a personal appearance. This was on all the major cable and network news at the time. Ironically, ABC presented a much more "fair and balanced" version than did O'Reilly.

I am not surprised by his comments. I saw the clip, and no, the remarks weren't taken out of context.

 

[BarbC]

O'Reilly - "So, you support releasing all serial killers from prison?"
DA - "No."
O'Reilly - "When do you plan to release all serial killers into the community?"
DA - "Never."
O'Reilly - "After you release all of the serial killers, whom will you release next?"

O'Reilly - "So when did you stop beating your wife?"

 

[sonny]

I'm afraid I'd have to see a transcript of his comments before I would feel comfortable emailing him about them. Do you have a link?

I see that several folks have posted a link. However, it is NOT the first time he's defended the "government's" right to take the guns from private citizens, during a stated emergency, specifically during Katrina. I emailed him last time also, several years ago soon after the hurricane.
Sonny

 

[Jerry in SC]

Bill O'Reilly is an elitist.

I recall he did purchase a handgun but, as with all elitists, only he and very few people are "qualified" to be trusted with one.

Exactly....he has been hiding behind that "for the folks and fair minded" mantra. An "I'm smarter than you" elitist.

 

[Leonard]

Bill O'Reilly disappointed the hell out of me with his Katrina gun remarks very typical liberal attitude of shrugging it off as no big deal it was an emergency.

 

[Sebago Son]

Charities and O'Reilly

".... I just hope and trust that "all proceeds go to charities" is factual."

Charities that O'Reilly himself finds palatable no doubt. Would be interesting to see what they are... anyone ever get a list? Wonder if it includes the hip & trendy 'invisible left' organizations such as Oxfam?

Also, I'm sure that he takes a healthy "Charitable Deduction" from his taxes with your money.

In return there's lots of political currency coming back his way I'm sure.

The only thing O'Reilly does that makes me smile is when he rips the nips off Keith Olbermann and even then I have to wonder if this is just "theater"... I'll just pick that up on Utube rather than tune in.

 

[Jetpilot007]

It makes me sick that the Elite SUPER Pinhead, O'Reilly, can possess a handgun but not the common folk.

With that attitude is he any different than Other Political Pinheads?

He probably can't even shoot center of mass at 1 yard because his Head is to Big!

 

[Black_Sheep]

Woah there Bill! If ever there's a time when law abiding citizens should exercise their right to bear arms it's when social order collapses like during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Are you a Patriot or Pinhead Bill? His stance on the gun grab makes him the latter...

 

[darmtn1917]

He does not see the 2nd as a RIGHT - he sees it as a privilege that the government should be able to give or take based on "need" -elitist

 

[Velocity]

Unfortunately, the ONLY effective way to deal with this lunacy is to hit them in the pocketbook. At the end of the day all the media cares about is profits, it's no longer about 'news' or keeping people informed.

The real statistics on legal gun ownership, CCW, etc and the dramatic drop in violent crime and murder in those jurisdictions is just not being out out there as aggressively and blatantly as it should be.

"Our" NRA should be spending money distributing these statistics in every piece of mail, in every newspaper in America, as widely as possible.

Here's a strategy that will get their attention: write to the head of the news department, the CFO, the CEO of every tv network and tell them you won't patronize any of their advertisers if they continue to spread nonsense as news. Write to the ADVERTISERS themselves and tell them you will NOT buy their products since they are obviously against our freedoms. Make noise. But make it where it hurts them - in their bank accounts. Then we'll see how fast things change.

 

[cmort666]

Woah there Bill! If ever there's a time when law abiding citizens should exercise their right to bear arms it's when social order collapses like during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Are you a Patriot or Pinhead Bill? His stance on the gun grab makes him the latter...

I wish that just once, he'd have somebody on who's quick on their feet and would ask,

"Well Bill, since a big chunk of the NOPD either ran away or was too busy themselves looting to 'protect' people, should officers, the department and the city be monetarily liable for damages to anyone NOT 'protected' by the police?"

That would leave him with the choice of:

a. ADMITTING that he couldn't give a Pelosi about "the folks" and just expects them to be passive, silent victims of the first atavistic beast that comes along to savagely exploit them.

b. Pitting himself against the Fraternal Order of Police.

He'd have a seizure and fall backward out of his chair like John Belushi in his "Luck of the Irish" skit.

 

[cmort666]

He does not see the 2nd as a RIGHT - he sees it as a privilege that the government should be able to give or take based on "STATUS" -elitist

There, fixed that for you.

 

[Rule 303]

Billy Bob O'rielly is just a typical RINO Republikin Liberal who is a conservative when it comes to "his money", but a fruit cake Liberal when it comes to Social Issues.
Anti Death Penality,
Anti Gun.
Thinks the US Constitution can be given and taken back at a whim.

Typical East Coast Liberal....
I'm not very smart, but I figured out what he was about 15 minutes into the first show of his I watched. Nothing New Here.

A Conservative Poser who wants the rest of the media to consider him the "Go To Guy" in all things conservative.

Rule 303

 

[afriqueart]

A TV personality who would sell his soul to Satan to garner a few more Neilsen points.

 

[7shooter]

I remember one of O'Reilly's radio shows that my wife and I were listening to on the truck radio while I was sighting in my AR carbine with iron sights. It was during the then unsloved sniper shootings in the Virginia area. O'Reilly opined that the shootings were proof that the shooter was a highly trained sniper because an average person could not make those shots. The distances were really not that great. My wife doesn't shoot much and had never fired an AR but I asked her to shoot an IPSC target at 100 yards with my rifle. She placed all 5 rounds in the body A zone of the IPSC target. So much for O'reillys firearms expertise.

 

[sipowicz]

I must say, I am getting tired of his e-mails where he continually mentions ad nauseum how somone loved page 67 or 76 or 89 of his book to boost sales....but his show isn't news, it's commentary...usually semi-hot blonde commentary...which makes it entertaining....still, we should all write him and express our opinion on this matter....

 

[cmort666]

I remember one of O'Reilly's radio shows that my wife and I were listening to on the truck radio while I was sighting in my AR carbine with iron sights. It was during the then unsloved sniper shootings in the Virginia area. O'Reilly opined that the shootings were proof that the shooter was a highly trained sniper because an average person could not make those shots. The distances were really not that great. My wife doesn't shoot much and had never fired an AR but I asked her to shoot an IPSC target at 100 yards with my rifle. She placed all 5 rounds in the body A zone of the IPSC target. So much for O'reillys firearms expertise.

A friend, who is an EXCELLENT rifle shot (once 12th F-Class shooter in the world) suffered from the same delusion. I shot him down (metaphorically) by noting that all available evidence indicated that whoever was doing the shooting wasn't doing anything that any basic trainee didn't have to do to get out of basic training (and not even basic COMBAT training). As it turned out, we were of course right.

 

[Vegetaman]

Bill O'Reilly usually gives me a headache. He's so wrong at times... And yet he thinks if he says it loud enough, he'll be right. To be fair, a lot of media commentators suffer from this (Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, etc.). In fact, I don't even watch the shows anymore, because the only thing that is left spinning is my eyeballs when I think of all the stuff they're trying to feed me. Very rarely does a decent piece on guns ever come up (John Stossel had that good one on 20/20, though).

Also, the Katrina gun grab was one of the worst moments in our history in regards to gun owners, IMO. A mistake that I hope is never repeated. It flies in the face of exactly what the 2nd amendment is there for, does it not?

Of course, he's the first to let you know that he knows everything. Last night he was going on about how he knew Military Law, and then he argues with Megyn Kelly about law when she's the one with the law degree... Amazing.

Then again, nothing beats the night he said "I know reality better than anyone". Yeah, you would say that, in your $3000 suit and tie, pretending you give two nickels about 'the folks'. You better wise up, O'Reilly. We're on to you.