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Chris Dodd nails Bill O’Reilly in the latter’s Daily Kos jihad

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With Yearly Kos going on in Chicago right now, Bill O’Reilly is *obsessed* with Kos, ranting and raving about how it’s a far left website that spews hate and all sorts of horrors hereto unknown on the internet. Someone needs to turn off his Google filter in a big way if he thinks Kos is “the worst stuff on the internet” and that “there isn’t any worse.” (He’s particularly incensed about a photoshopped image that makes it look like Joe Lieberman is going to be giving a blowjob to Bush. There isn’t even any nudity, just them standing on steps so that the height differential puts Lieberman’s mouth near Bush’s crotch.) Maybe we should start a campaign to send him to the Real Doll sites?

Dodd, however, is completely ready for him.*

Of course, O’Reilly can’t even make is through the five minutes without blatantly lying about his own positions. He insists that there are no vile comments on his own posts and denies ever saying anything about it being kosher for Al Qaeda to blow up San Francisco. So “[I]f Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. … You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.” was just some sort of misunderstanding? Duly noted.

Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O’Reilly has more if you’re in need of additional laughter.

*Working on the embed. Stand by for technical assistance.

Via the incomparable Pam.

16 thoughts on Chris Dodd nails Bill O’Reilly in the latter’s Daily Kos jihad

  1. Anyone who thinks DailyKos is “the wost thing on the Internet” needs to have their mailbox filled with copies of Goatse.cx, Tubgirl and Swap.avi.

  2. 1. I have just 3 words for Bill O’Reilly: Little. Green. Footballs.

    2. Why isn’t Dodd a top-tier candidate?

  4. “He’s particularly incensed about a photoshopped image that makes it look like Joe Lieberman is going to be giving a blowjob to Bush. There isn’t even any nudity, just them standing on steps so that the height differential puts Lieberman’s mouth near Bush’s crotch.”

    Yes, there are plenty of Internet cesspools. And yes, public figures can and should be mocked. But do you really want to defend anti-gay PhotoChops?

    As the recipient of mean, anti-gay PhotoChops posted on Internet cesspools, I think we should call it what it is: mean, anti-gay PhotoChops.

  5. But do you really want to defend anti-gay PhotoChops?

    I don’t think I’m defending it, and this isn’t about the rightness or wrongness of a poster at Kos putting it up. O’Reilly is acting like this is the most revolting thing he’s ever heard of, and on that count he’s delusional. (If a fraction of the allegations in the sexual harassment lawsuit against him were true, he’s *done* much worse things.)

    To be honest, I don’t think I even would have read it as anti-gay to start with. I just thought of it as a visual for how Lieberman frequently acts towards Bush, but I could see your interpretation as well.

  6. I love that at the end, O’Reilly actually give Daily Kos a plug – “I want everybody to go to that site and make up their own minds” Way to improve their ratings, Bill!

  7. I’m with evil fizz–the transcripts of his phone calls to Andrea Mackris are the most disgusting thing I’ve seen on the Internet. Joking aside, it’s obvious Bill is not offended by homophobia represented by the visual gag (no pun intended). He’s offended by the power of Kos as a media outlet. Good for Chris Dodd for calling him on his crap. With the plug, I wonder if O’Reilly was hoping his viewers would crash Kos? Though I’m not certain he understands the Internet enough to be that clever.

  8. I know it’s been said many times before, but after watching that video, it bears repeating – Bill O’Reilly is a fucking vile excuse for a human being.

    I need to go scrub my eyeballs now after watching that piece of shit. Good on Dodd though – he stood up to the bully.

  12. I’m not sure that all his viewers would even come close to crashing dKos – it’s got more daily hits than he has viewers these days. He’s losing.

  13. Good for Chris Dodd and how very smart of his campaign strategists to put him up against The Idiot Beast.

    He came out swinging and I am impressed by Mr. Dodd at this point.

    I’d imagine that a good portion of O’Reilly’s viewers have no idea how to use a computer and he’s betting on that.

  14. Dodd was outstanding.

    The only thing I think he could have improved on was that he could have actually defended the Photoshopped image as being in a venerable tradition of political caricature. Yes, it is extreme, but it is not in any way, shape, or form “hateful”.

    It is not expressing hatred for anyone; it is simply making the point that Lieberman will do pretty much anything to please Bush and the far-right-wing neocons. It is making a legitimate political comment in a vivid manner.

    And in relation to the image being anti-gay, I really don’t see how it could be credibly interpreted that way.

    First, the fact that Lieberman and Bush are both men is completely incidental to the point being made. If Hillary Clinton had the political relationship to Bush and the neocons that Lieberman does, the joke would work *exactly* the same way if she replaced Lieberman in the image.

    Second, there is no implication that there is anything intrinsically wrong with giving or getting a blow-job–homosexually or otherwise. Getting down on one’s knees and giving someone a blow-job is used as a vivid proxy for the idea of being willing to do anything to please that person. It is consistent with the image that, under the right circumstances, it can be a wonderful thing to be willing to get on one’s knees and give someone a blow-job. The point being made is that this is not a wonderful thing when the blower is supposed to be an Independent Senator who caucuses with the Democrats, and the blowee is the Republican President of the United States.

    It’s metaphor, for fuck’s sake. But O’Reilly’s target audience is constitutionally incapable of recognizing and interpreting metaphor. And O’Reilly knows this, and relies on it. He leads them through the following reasoning process:

    Bush = patriot. Lieberman = patriot. Blow-job = vile. Homosexuality = double-vile. Therefore, Bush + Lieberman + Blow-job + Homosexuality = ugga ugga bad bad bad.

    (Yeah, I know: no politician in the US could ever admit that a blow-job is intrinsically ethically neutral, and not teh worst thing evah.)

  15. Oh, please. It’s one thing to be offended by a political cartoon. It’s another thing to call it the worst stuff on the internet and dKos a hate site.

    Anyone who ‘s been subjected to a *real* hate site knows the difference. And frankly, talk like O’Reilly’s (or similarly, whenever sympathetic rich white conservative men talk about ‘lynch mobs’ going after their indicted compatriots) in this matter minimizes what actual hate is. And I find *that* offensive.

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