-Caveat Lector- Wednesday, February 5, update 2 http://www.the-hamster.com/
The Hypocrisy and Lies of Bill O'Reilly. In an interview with Take Back The Media about the merits of its Rush Limbaugh boycott campaign, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly took a whopper of a position: O'Reilly: Look, here's the deal. I mean, it's after Christmas, and Bose is going to cut back its advertising. I do -- I do "The Radio Factor." I know what the game is. Look, what I'm saying to you is I don't -- I don't think your boycott has led to his losing sponsorship. Be that as it may, isn't -- isn't trying to silence somebody like Rush Limbaugh unAmerican in itself? Doesn't he have the right to say what he wants to say? � STINSON: No one's taking money away from him. That's freedom of speech. He's got plenty. O'REILLY: But you don't want him to speak. STINSON: Six hundred stations... O'REILLY: You're against his freedom of speech. STINSON: I'm sorry? O'REILLY: You're against his freedom of speech. Yes, that's Bill O'Reilly calling Michael Stinson's boycott of hate radio's Rush Limbaugh 'unAmerican.' All of this is quite unusual, considering it is Bill O'Reilly who has used boycotts of sponsors as a method of action: "On Tuesday, on both his radio show and on FNC's ''The O'Reilly Factor,'' O'Reilly called Pepsi ''immoral'' for giving exposure to the top-selling rapper, calling him a bad influence on impressionable children and citing as an example his lyrical boast that he has ''hoes in different area codes.'' A Pepsi spokesman pointed out that Ludacris doesn't rap such lyrics in Pepsi commercials, where he merely appears as a funny, popular, and G-rated guy. But O'Reilly pointed out that Pepsi had a precedent for canning a pop spokesperson for behavior unrelated to its ads; in 1989, it dropped Madonna as a spokeswoman after her ''Like a Prayer'' video struck some viewers as sacrilegious. He called for a boycott and said he was switching to Dr. Pepper. (Asked on the show if there was any R&B or hip-hop figure he could support as a Pepsi pitchman, O'Reilly said, ''Chubby Checker.'')," Entertainment Weekly, August, 2002. �The top brass at the Red Cross make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, so they don't need my donations. I'm officially boycotting the Red Cross until they change their national leadership and their attitude.� O'Reilly March 13, 2002 �Ali claims that it was his group's threat of an NBC boycott (regarding a Snoop Dogg appearance on a Muppets TV special � Eric) � which the organization made public via the syndicated Larry Elder Show four days before the Muppet folks' announcement � that prompted the show's producers to make the cut. He also credits conservative television host Bill O'Reilly, who railed against the planned cameo last week. A spokesperson for the Jim Henson Company, however, countered that the Henson press release went out prior to any of the public criticism of Snoop, and added it went to Bill O'Reilly before his story ran. "They're embarrassed that they had to cave in to public pressure," Ali reasoned. "No corporation wants to be perceived as weak, they want to be perceived as strong ... and not giving in to threats from protesters. Our actions, as well as Mr. O'Reilly's ... we were the catalyst." MTV News, So if we accept O'Reilly's statements that calling for a boycott of an entertainment personality like Limbaugh is 'unAmerican' and 'against his freedom of speech,' when O'Reilly himself did the same, where does that leave him? It means Bill O'Reilly is unAmerican, against freedom of speech, and a hypocrite. Also mystifying is why O'Reilly, if he considers boycotting 'unpatriotic,' doesn't attack Sean Hannity (and not to mention Conservative Christians who boycott Disney): HANNITY: It was paid for by the organization True Majority, whose president is also the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Ben Cohen. He joins us from Burlington, Vermont. Now, Ben, you sold the company, right? BEN COHEN, FOUNDER, TRUE MAJORITY: Yes, the company was public, it got sold. I tried to keep it independent, but I lost. HANNITY: Because I was about to boycott you. My last bite of Cherry Garcia that I've ever had in my whole life because you're such a super. But... HANNITY: I'm boycotting it. That's it, Ben. (January 29, 2003) In the unusual world of Bill O'Reilly, double standards exist. Boycotts are only valid if they're started by the 'humble correspondent' himself, and if done in the name of liberal values, they're anti-American. PS � O'Reilly also gets off this lie: STINSON: I don't want to take him off the air. Are you kidding? He's told people to take the bone out of their nose and call him back. Black people. Is that not racist? O'REILLY: He's never said that, and, Mr. Stinson... STINSON: He has said that. O'REILLY: No, he has not. I know Bill O'Reilly has no life, but it's hard to believe he's listened to every single sentence Rush Limbaugh has uttered. How can Bill O'Reilly say, with a straight face, that Rush Limbaugh has never said that statement? How does he know? FAIR reports: As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." A decade ago, after becoming nationally syndicated, he mused on the air: "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?" So not only is Bill against America, a hypocrite, and against civil liberties, he's also a liar. And it's caught on transcript. 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