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- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Conan + Colbert = awesome
- shawbin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Wow, it adds a new spin on things now that we know Colbert is invincible. No one can stop him now.
- modularsky, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24news: rosa parks is dead. Her corpse does not care what Stephen Colbert says.
- pexor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19"Sixty percent of what you say is crap!"
- Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16There are actually some people who think she was overrated, so he was probably mocking them.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14They both rock ass. Conan is the best late-night talk show host on tv. The others have outgrown themselves.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14That is priceless - Rosa Parks' children apologizing.
- takai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15That site is definitely a going to get its ass kicked by Viacom...
- Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Yeah like 2 or 3 times... but who cares! I love this clip. =)
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Wow.. colbertondemand.com
The internet gods have granted my wish. - toppgun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10blasphemy!
- kazolar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8it's called a joke. I'm so effing tired of everything being turned into sensitivity garbage. No one bitched and moaned when Chappelle did his reperations bit. This is what's ruinging society -- no one can take a joke. Sensitivity, the country is so effing sensitive its discusting, humour and sattire is a good thing, Uptite jackholes who can't take a joke -- liberal guilt.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wasn't this on WHO CARES THIS CLIP IS FREAKEN AWESOME a few months ago?
- GruntboyX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here is a video link of most of the interview in original form.
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2686831
while the colbert clip version is funny. You can definately see how liberal bias and crafty editing make it look like Letterman owned orielly. When in reality orielly was prepared and informed about what he said, and Letterman was just trying to make comedy. By the end of the segment the audience was confused and applauding orielly and not letterman. ....or more likely the guy holding the applause button was confused. Either way The Colbert version is a Michael Moore editing job of segment to make it say what what they wanted. Orielly was hardly owned. Doesn't change the fact he is a blow hard , but crappy edited segments doesn't help prove that orielly is lying nut job. It only discredits the voice of the legitimate people trying to go toe to toe with him.
digg for comedy only.
No digg for substance. - KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They were not confused; they plainly saw that Bill had a point and a moral position and Dave had ***** all.
- socbret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In case anyone is interested in seeing the Letterman show with O'Reilly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=feRUXAztsAw - compbuilder00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Now Enter the Cone Zone !!!!!!!!!!
- GruntboyX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6For those interested in the whole interview and not just the famous sound bite here you go:
Letterman: Our first guest is the host of Cable Television's number one news program - The O'Reilly Factor - it can be seen five nights a week on Fox News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill O'Reilly. Bill come on out. Welcome back.
O'Reilly: Thank you.
Letterman: Happy New Year. Welcome back to the show. Tell me and people what you did before the O'Reilly, Factor, Foxnews thing.
O'Reilly: I was running the deli downstairs with that guy they have.
Letterman: Is that a fact?
O'Reilly: So, you can build on that career he's making.
Letterman: Yea, but seriously.
O'Reilly: I did a show called Inside Edition. Then, before that, I was a correspondent for ABC News, Peter Jennings, and before that CBS News.
Letterman: So, you're a life-long news journalist?
O'Reilly: Yea.
Letterman: How were your holidays? Good?
[laughter]
O'Reilly: I had a nice winter solstice, yea.
[long pause and laughter]
Letterman: Okay.
O'Reilly: You can't say - you can't say Christmas.
Letterman: You can't say Christmas?
O'Reilly: No.
Letterman: Why is that?
O'Reilly: Because it is politically incorrect and we did a lot of reporting on this and, uh, that was the big thing we were doing leading up to that. While you were in St. Barts, we were leading up to the Christmas holidays by saying 'Hey, how come we can't say Christmas?'
Letterman: I wasn't aware that you couldn't say Christmas. When did this happen?
O'Reilly: Sears, Kmart started it, said no more Christmas. It's all happy holidays or winter soltstice. I actually got a card from a friend of mine, it said 'Have a Blessed Winter.' I live in New York. You know what you can do with your blessed winter. You know what I'm talking about? Are you with me, Dave?
Letterman: I wasn't aware that this had happened.
O'Reilly: You weren't aware of the big giant controversy over Christmas?
Letterman: Well, I ignore stuff like that, it doesn't really affect me. I go ahead and do what I wanna do and you know I say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Happy Hannukah.
O'Reilly: Here's why it matters. You with me on this?
Letterman: Yea.
O'Reilly: Okay. Ridgewood Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. The song - Silent Night. [singing] Silent Night, you know? Knocked out the words and told the little kids to sing 'cold in the night, no one in sight, winter winds whine and bite, how I wish I was happy and warm, safe with my family, out of the storm.' They replaced the words to Silent Night with that. Now, with all due respect, I even think the baby Jesus would say 'gimme a break.' You know? You want another one ?
Letterman: No, but let- I don't-
O'Reilly: Woah, Woah, Woah, when great tradition-
Letterman: But what does this prove? It proves that one community-
O'Reilly: It proves there are pinheads at the Ridgewell [sic] uh Elementary School in Wisconsin.
Letterman: Right.
O'Reilly: That's what it proves.
Letterman: Right.
O'Reilly: Here's another one, you want another one? Or are you bored with this?
Letterman: I'm kinda- think we should move on.
[talking over one another]
Letterman: I mean but isn't this the kind of thing uh uh once or twice every twenty years somebody gets outraged and says oh by god we gotta put diapers on horses isn't it just about, it's just so what, let it go, it'll take care of itself.
O'Reilly: No. There is a movement in this country by politcially correct people to erode traditions and the Christmas tradition is the most cherished in the country. Look. How absurd is it?
Letterman: But I don't -
[talking over one another]
Letterman: I don't feel threatened.
O'Reilly: It's not matter of you feel threatened.
Letterman: I don't this is an actual threat. I think this is something that happened here and it happened there and so people like you are trying to make us think that it's a threat.
O'Reilly: Wrong.
Letterman: Because nobody said happy holidays to me and then said Merry Christmas, oh I can't say Merry Christmas.
O'Reilly: Well, here's why it gets to be more than that, because it's in court. there are lawsuits. in plano texas, another grammer school, umm the kids were told not to bring in Christmas colors like napkins that are red and green. That's in court; that's being litigated. Now you can say 'Oh, that's just a little thing, it doesn't affect you,' but it isn't. The erosion of the culture and the protection of tradition is important in this country.
Letterman: Yea, but are we really describing an erosion here? It's two examples one in Wisconsin and one in texas.
O'Reilly: I got a million of them.
Letterman: Oh, you got a million of them? Okay. Fine.
O'Reilly: Umm, and they're funny ones. Memphis, Tennessee, Bible Belt, library. They have a little display where you can, say you are in a duck hunting club you can bring in a dead duck and put it there and advertise you duck hunting club. We kill ducks. Show up at 9 o'cloCk and we'll blow some ducks out of the air. Okay. There was a church that wanted to advertise a Christmas pageant so they brought in the manger scene and the library said you can the manger scene in Memphis Tennessee, but you can't have the baby Jesus, Joseph, or Mary or the wise men. We're not sure about the shephards. That was a big debate. Now, how stupid and crazy is this?
Letterman: I don't believe you.
O'Reilly: It's true.
Letterman: I don't believe you. I don't...I don't believe you.
O'Reilly: You think I'm making this up?
Letterman: I do.
O'Reilly: Then I could write for your show. [reaching for cup on Letterman's desk] This mine?
Letterman: Yes. Let's talk about your friends in the Bush administration, things seem to be darker now-
O'Reilly: They don't like me.
Letterman: -then they might have been a year before how do things look to you?
O'Reilly: It's pretty rough, but they're not my friends in the bush admin. they're not kicking the door down to be on my show, in fact you have an easier time getting pres bush to come on here than I have getting him to come on the factor. But I think that the Iraq thing has been full of unintended consequences and it's a vital thing for the country and it's brutal, it's absolutely brutal. We should all take it very seriously. This simplistic stuff about hating Bush or he lied and all this stuff, does the country no good at all. We've got to win this thing. You have to win it. And even though it's a screw-up, giant, massive, all right, right now, for everybody's protection, it's best for the world to have a democracy in that country functioning and friendly to the West, is it not?
Letterman: Yes, absolutely.
O'Reilly: Okay, so let's stop with the lying and the this and the that and the undermining and let's get him. That is putting us all in danger. So our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good. But we believe that the United States, particularly the military, are doing a noble thing, a noble thing. The soldiers and Marines are noble. They're not terrorists. And when people call them that, like Cindy Sheehan called the insurgents 'freedom fighters,' we don't like that. It is a vitally important time in American history. And we should all take it very seriously. Be very careful with what we say.
Letterman: Well, and you should be very careful with what you say also.
[audience applause]
O'Reilly: Give me an example.
Letterman: How can you possibly take exception with the motivation and the position of someone like Cindy Sheehan?
O'Reilly: Because I think she's run by far-left elements in this country. I feel bad for the woman.
Letterman: Have you lost family members in armed conflict?
O'Reilly: No, I have not.
Letterman: Well, then you can hardly speak for her, can you?
[applause]
O'Reilly: I'm not speaking for her. Let me ask you this question.
Letterman: Let's go back to your little red and green stories.
O'Reilly: This is important, this is important. Cindy Sheehan lost a son, a professional soldier in Iraq, correct? She has a right to grieve any way she wants, she has a right to say whatever she wants. When she says to the public that the insurgents and terrorists are 'freedom fighters' how do you think, David Letterman, that makes people who lost loved ones, by these people blowing the Hell out of them, how do you think they feel, what about their feelings, sir?
Letterman: What about, why are we there in the first place? [applause] The President himself, less than a month ago said we are there because of a mistake made in intelligence. Well, whose intelligence? It was just somebody just get off a bus and handed it to him?
O'Reilly: No.
Letterman: No, it was the intelligence gathered by his administration.
O'Reilly: By the CIA.
Letterman: Yeah, so why are we there in the first place? I agree to you, with you that we have to support the troops. They are there, they are the best and the brightest of this country. [audience applause] There's no doubt about that. And I also agree that now we're in it it's going to take a long, long time. People who expect it's going to be solved and wrapped up in a couple of years, unrealistic, it's not going to happen. However, however, that does not eliminate the legitimate speculation and concern and questioning of Why the Hell are we there to begin with?
O'Reilly: If you want to question that, and then revamp an intelligence agency that's obviously flawed, the CIA, okay. But remember, MI-6 in Britain said the same thing. Putin's people in Russia said the same thing, and so did Mubarak's intelligence agency in Egypt.
Letterman: Well then that makes it all right?
O'Reilly: No it doesn't make it right.
Letterman: That intelligence agencies across the board makes it alright that we're there?
O'Reilly: It doesn't make it right.
Letterman: See, I'm very concerned about people like yourself who don't have nothing but endless sympathy for a woman like Cindy Sheehan. Honest to Christ.
[audience applause]
O'Reilly: No, I'm sorry.
Letterman: Honest to Christ.
O'Reilly: No way. [waits for applause to die down] No way you're going to get me, no way that a terrorist who blows up women and children.
Letterman: Do you have children?
O'Reilly: Yes I do. I have a son the same age as yours. No way a terrorist who blows up women and children is going to be called a freedom fighter on my program.
[mild audience applause]
Letterman: I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling, I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap. [audience laughter] But I don't know that for a fact.
[more audience applause]
Paul Shafer: Sixty percent.
Letterman: Sixty percent. I'm just spit-balling here.
O'Reilly: Listen, I respect your opinion. You should respect mine.
[applause]
Letterman: Well, ah, I, okay. But I think you're-
O'Reilly: Our analysis is based on the best evidence we can get.
Letterman: Yeah, but I think there's something, this fair and balanced. I'm not sure that it's, I don't think that you represent an objective viewpoint.
O'Reilly: Well, you're going to have to give me an example if you're going to make those claims.
Letterman: Well I don't watch your show so that would be impossible.
O'Reilly: Then why would you come to that conclusion if you don't watch the program?
Letterman: Because of things that I've read, things that I know.
O'Reilly: Oh come on, you're going to take things that you've read. You know what say about you? Come on. Watch it for a couple, look, watch it for a half hour. You'll get addicted. You'll be a Factor fan, we'll send you a hat.
Letterman: You'll send me a hat. Well, send Cindy Sheehan a hat.
O'Reilly: I'll be happy to.
Letterman: Uh, Bill, it's always a pleasure.
[laughter]
O'Reilly: Thank you very much. Happy New Year.
Letterman: Same to you. - contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Conan + Colbert ? That's too much awesome in one sitting. I wonder if he put Frankenstein on notice?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3^it's not live buddy. none of those late night shows are. that's why you see previews of whats going to happen on the new night show hours before
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3Yes, that's a good duo, but Jeff Goldblum + Conan = HILARIOUS always. By far, the BEST Conans are with Goldblum.
- KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This transcript claims only "mild applause" after Bill said "No way a terrorist who blows up women and children is going to be called a freedom fighter on my program."
If you watch the full clip, you can see for yourself how that line got more applause than anything Dave said in the whole interview. The audience made it pretty clear they thought Bill won that debate. - skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seemed like Letterman was an ass from the beginning, acting like he didn't know about the "Christmas" controversy, basically challenging him on every little thing. I don't watch Letterman all that often, but I would bet he made plenty of jokes about it on his show, but when O'Reilly remarks about it he just gives him crap.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+3I saw the Letterman episode and the Conan episode, but I didn't see Colbert commenting on them.
I can't think of a better example of someone just competely getting called out (the O'Reilly part of course). GO DAVE! - mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was a play on a skit colbert does every so often, which most of you apparently didnt get since I got burried.
- shoover, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Who ripped the show from Comedy central?
- kabewm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pay close attention to the cup of water in the beginning.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I genuinely pity humorless people.
- wolvyne, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Connan is the $h!t... Ok Colbert rocks pretty hard to.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm digging you down only because your transcript is so big, it's better if it's hidden. If people want the transcript they can click show.
- DesireCampbell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I remember seeing Colbert get shot on live TV - priceless.
- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Get to the back of the bus ajhaji!
Too soon? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1colbert is the edge.
it's such cutting satire at such a terribly fine extreme.
egh ...
worldpeace,
ben - gardnert1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If i ever see Colbert ON Conan's show... my head might just explode... in the good way! AWESOME VIDEO!
- psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Well, here's why it gets to be more than that, because it's in court. there are lawsuits. in Plano Texas, another grammer school, umm the kids were told not to bring in Christmas colors like napkins that are red and green. That's in court; that's being litigated. Now you can say 'Oh, that's just a little thing, it doesn't affect you,' but it isn't. The erosion of the culture and the protection of tradition is important in this country."
OMG!!! I remember that. It kind of pissed me off but I agree with Letterman based on the fact that oreily is suppose to be a news commentator. A couple of towns generalizing the holidays is hardly worthy of 3 minutes of commentary. But a series of segments about this subject? I'm sure others have suffered more ,and are suffering more, than I did when I got a cookie in 1st grade and it didn't have a tree on it. People can still have holiday joy without seeing merry Christmas on the windows of sears. Maybe we can replace the loss of these oh so precious words with something much more important. The virtuous part of Christmas, like giving, sharing, and being kind to others. - awstills, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You don't invite someone on your show and then call them out on national television.
- ragingchikn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Its just too bad that they ripped the video from someone else's site and then cut the video just short of giving that original site credit.
- xlocust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1what this 'blame America' crowd you speak of?
- heil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Sixty percent of what you say is crap!"
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
"99 %" - gd007, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Colbert rules.
- bdub92, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"Why are your friends jealous...?"
"BECUASE I HAVE A BIG PENIS!" - Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1You bury me because milk came out of your nose.
- h3y0w4ssup, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0wha?
- egrumling, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Wasn't this on several months ago?
- stuartjmoore, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2phft, "was it really that bad?"
- Sheir, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3http://www.duggmirror.com/videos_comedy/The_Colbert_Report_O_Reilly_Vs_Letterman_Colbert_Vs_Conan/
Just in case. - mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Maybe they should... Theyre part of the blame America crowd. I am for America. Spin that one, CNN.
- TheGeek27, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3I'm almost positive this has been posted before.
- ajhaji, on 10/12/2007, -22/+4What about her family, and the millions of people affected by her actions?
- ajhaji, on 10/12/2007, -56/+2I don't know...I think his comments were a bit too harsh. I mean, I know he was joking, but even so, jokes can hurt people, especially when you're talking about historical figures of the magnitude of Rosa Parks. Please use a bit more discretion when badmouthing great historical figures in the future, Stephen.
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