‘Bourne’ flick is ultimately un-American

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I find it amusing that not one of those here (not to name names) who seem to be in line with O'Reilly's politics doesn't call him on his hypocrisy. And some were even so bold as to suggest that this post was nothing but a smear on Bill, as if no surprise here...the Bill haters are jumping all over him. He's a circus performer and people watch him because, like Jerry Springer, he can stir up their emotions with gut reactions over meaningful debate. No one can debate O'Reilly... he raises his voice, challenges them on whether they get outraged by wedge issues that he pumps at his audience and they lap it up.

Bravo to O'Reilly to gain that many saps to watch him, but if anyone here thinks that his show tackles real political debate with substance, then I've got some real estate on Mars to sell you.

[Cassandra+Yuibi 0]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

I found this post on another forum about O'Reilly's comment. Sums it up pretty well.

This would have been a great column if the Onion wrote it FOR O'Reilly. But being that it came directly from the source, it's less funny "ha ha" than funny "what an idiot."

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Researchers at Indiana University have just published the results of a study that provides academic validation that O'Reilly is a textbook propagandist. Amongst the key findings is that:

"...the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims to present the world, as he sees it, through political rhetoric."

The study itemized seven propaganda devices as defined by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis:

* Name calling - giving something a bad label to make the audience reject it without examining the evidence.

* Glittering generalities - the opposite of name calling.

* Card stacking - the selective use of facts and half-truths.

* Bandwagon - appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the crowd.

* Plain folks - an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their ideas, are “of the people”.

* Transfer - carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of something we respect or dispute to something the speaker would want us to accept.

* Testimonials - involving a respected (or disrespected) person endorsing or rejecting an idea or person.

O’Reilly was found to have employed six of the seven nearly 13 times each minute. This is an important statistic because it is not merely the use of these devices that define their effect. It is the repetition and the absence of any substantive debate that produces the desired manipulation of free thought. This is why O'Reilly repeatedly interrupts and cuts off his guests - to keep them from diluting the rhetorical Kool-Aid. And contrary to his assertions that he doesn't "do personal attacks," IU has documented the reality that any cognitively functional bipedal hominoid has already figured out - O'Reilly is a bullying buffoon:

"O’Reilly called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night." [see the Stalking Points Memos]

Of course, O'Reilly didn't invent these tactics. They have been used before by governments, churches and corporations. The notorious American racist/anti-semite/nazi sympathizer, Father Charles Coughlin, served a bit of each of those masters. But O'Reilly has an unprecedented platform from which to spew his bile. And he is not merely a pundit expressing his opinions. He routinely calls on his disciples to act on his directives, whether they be boycotts, petitions, marches, or political activism and voting.

http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Play/OReilly_Words/index.html

[Cassandra+Yuibi 0]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

I'm sure in his mind this forum is full of terrorists because we affiliate with foreigners and even MARRY THEM. We will surely, all burn in hell for these series of undisputably un-American acts.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

I'm sure in his mind this forum is full of terrorists because we affiliate with foreigners and even MARRY THEM. We will surely, all burn in hell for these series of undisputably un-American acts.

Well, I'm going to be cleansing my soul tonight with a good dose of the O'Reilly Factor. It's like detergent against terrorism and American-haters.

[Cassandra+Yuibi 0]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

I'm sure in his mind this forum is full of terrorists because we affiliate with foreigners and even MARRY THEM. We will surely, all burn in hell for these series of undisputably un-American acts.

Well, I'm going to be cleansing my soul tonight with a good dose of the O'Reilly Factor. It's like detergent against terrorism and American-haters.

I like watching him because its like watching a cat-fight. Minus the hair pulling (mostly).

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

I'm sure in his mind this forum is full of terrorists because we affiliate with foreigners and even MARRY THEM. We will surely, all burn in hell for these series of undisputably un-American acts.

Well, I'm going to be cleansing my soul tonight with a good dose of the O'Reilly Factor. It's like detergent against terrorism and American-haters.

I like watching him because its like watching a cat-fight. Minus the hair pulling (mostly).

It's definitely an adrenaline rush...although for me, it makes me want to punch Bill right on the mouth.

[Cassandra+Yuibi 0]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

I'm sure in his mind this forum is full of terrorists because we affiliate with foreigners and even MARRY THEM. We will surely, all burn in hell for these series of undisputably un-American acts.

Well, I'm going to be cleansing my soul tonight with a good dose of the O'Reilly Factor. It's like detergent against terrorism and American-haters.

I like watching him because its like watching a cat-fight. Minus the hair pulling (mostly).

It's definitely an adrenaline rush...although for me, it makes me want to punch Bill right on the mouth.

Try being one of his guests. I swear most of them are just visualising jumping across the table and strangling him while he interrupts them to tell them how un-American they are.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Bill O'Reilly is good at finding something un-American about everything.

I love the Bourne movies- they are fun and interesting! But at the end of the day it's just a movie- get over it Mr. O'Reilly.

Careful...you're sounding un-American.

I'm sure in his mind this forum is full of terrorists because we affiliate with foreigners and even MARRY THEM. We will surely, all burn in hell for these series of undisputably un-American acts.

Well, I'm going to be cleansing my soul tonight with a good dose of the O'Reilly Factor. It's like detergent against terrorism and American-haters.

I like watching him because its like watching a cat-fight. Minus the hair pulling (mostly).

It's definitely an adrenaline rush...although for me, it makes me want to punch Bill right on the mouth.

Try being one of his guests. I swear most of them are just visualising jumping across the table and strangling him while he interrupts them to tell them how un-American they are.

I saw Phil Donahue get into it with him ...two red faced Irishmen ....hehehe. Phil actually put Bill in his place, calling him Billy while being very articulate, but passionate.

Edited August 14, 2007 by Mister Fancypants

[thetreble 19]

I would have liked to see Phil calling him Billy. I just find Bill to be pathetically annoying. As someone said, will find something that doesn't exist in a lot of issues that are more or less clear cut. I'm sure I, as a foreigner, am his worse nightmare. Unless he counts illegal immigrants to try to go to sleep when he's up at night.

Watching his show is definitely like being at a circus, fancypants. Lots of loud voices and pointing of the magical finger.

[Marilyn. 340]

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[Dr_LHA 3]

I love it when people on Fox News talk about media bias.

Me too.Guess what? So does the majority of people.

Nielsen Media Research

OK. I've thought about this over a few hours, and I don't get it. What the hell do FNC's ratings have to do with the flip comment I posted?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I just don't get why Bill didn't pipe up in 2002 and 2004 when the other Bourne movies were released. They're really not all that much different.

He just needed something to rag on, and a popular movie was an easy target.