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WARNING: Bill O'Reilly wants to father your kid watch!

youtube.com — O'Reilly thinks he can teach our children proper behavior, and we can't think of a worse father figure than an angry, hate-filled shock jock notorious for telling guests to "Shut up!" We wondered what would happen if kids read O'Reilly's book and then saw the real O'Reilly for themselves.

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  • delrin500, on 08/07/2008, -8/+26I hope BillO get a nasty Venereal Disease
    • saggygrandma, on 08/08/2008, -0/+9come on man, thats a bit nasty don't you think... because that would involve some poor woman having to actually sleep with him which would scar her for life.
      • hipnerd, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1But she'd get some free falafel out of the deal. We have to factor that in.
    • Tippx, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2No Spin zone closed due to AIDS!
  • bcamp1973, on 08/07/2008, -10/+15I didn't know billy O could write
    • doctorfungi, on 08/08/2008, -17/+3I wouldn't criticize someone like that if you can't end your sentence in a period or capitalize a name.
      • dupems, on 08/08/2008, -2/+7Why even bother telling him something as pointless as that? Please jump into oncoming traffic.
      • Murdats, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5There is a large difference between can't and don't.

        Also your name isn't capitalise either so I wouldn't criticise people for that if I were you.
      • flashback99, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1he's got better grammar than our president.
    • Archer007, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Its called ghostwriting.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriting
  • mikex3x4, on 08/07/2008, -8/+5wow.. they shouldnt have people like this
  • pmagoo, on 08/07/2008, -9/+35It amazes me that personalities like Bill O'Reilly are permitted to befoul our airwaves. If he were employed by any reputable organization in the business world, he would almost certainly find his career cut short as the result of his loud, boorish, and crude behavior. No professional organization would tolerate that, nor could he have survived the sexual harassment charges he selttled, the racist comments he is well known for, or his intolerance of others.
    Do you suppose he survives because he married the boss's daughter?...that's the only way he be permitted to stay around in the "real" world.
    • doctorfungi, on 08/08/2008, -4/+3Like Bill or not, he pulls in ratings. In the business world, that is exactly what his boss would be looking for.
      • jaxcs, on 08/08/2008, -4/+1media is not corporate
      • willfe, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2jaxcs: Bahahahaha! Fox News sure is a corporate entity. They loves their cash :)
      • strangewill, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1What do you mean? All the Bill I see is on Youtube making fun of his ass, Fox gets NOTHING.
      • hipnerd, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Sure, he pulls in money. But so do drug dealers and Brittany Spears.

        The ability to make money should never be the sole criteria by which you judge someone's merits.
      • jaxcs, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1@ willfe

        Fox news is of course a corporate entity but the people they choose to put on tv as commentators are not standard corporate types.
    • DagonNL, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Isn't what this guy is doing and saying seriously illegal in the US? *shakes head*
      • ErickStevenson, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Just look at Fox news like comedy central, but with less actual facts.
    • willfe, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1*Anyone* can befoul our airwaves -- that's the spiffy part of the First Amendment. The sucky part is morons like O'Reilly make use of this. The most effective way to combat someone like O'Reilly is to use *your* voice, not just on Digg, but anywhere you can where you think it'll help. This means having the balls to engage in an argument with someone who brings him up and seems to support him. It means writing rebuttals to his outrageous statements and publishing them. It also means writing to the show's producers to complain about his stupid rants, to the show's sponsors to complain about them supporting such an insane windbag, and to your friends and family to discourage them from supporting him or watching his shows.

      He is a grade A peddler of fear, hatred, doubt, and uncertainty -- the single best antidote for that is education. Folks don't always *want* education, but it's fun to try :)
  • kazz67, on 08/07/2008, -5/+35http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE&feature ...

    Well,someone had too! ;o)
    • SatoriSeeker, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4THERE'S NO WORDS THERE !

      F- C K IT ! GO GO

      Haha i have to download this for my music collection its pretty catchy.
    • ErickStevenson, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3haha

      idunno idunno idunno *****!
  • griffinmyth, on 08/07/2008, -6/+13O'Reilly is a good example of the fact that media in American is a business without scruples. If he helps FOX appeal to a certain subset demographic desired by sponsors it matters not at all what he does, what he says, or how he behaves. Moral or ethical principles don't enter into it at all.
    • piznut, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1>>Moral or ethical principles don't enter into it at all.
  • Lazor, on 08/07/2008, -13/+0I used to watch this guys show 2 years ago.
  • homercles337, on 08/07/2008, -7/+9You who we have to blame for trash like this trashing our airwaves? Reagan. He abolished the Fairness Doctrine and less than a year later Faux News set up shop spewing their hate.
    • dupems, on 08/08/2008, -1/+11You know who we have to blame for trash like this trashing our airwaves? The people who watch it in droves.
  • mindfixed, on 08/07/2008, -10/+5Hey...there's a lot of really DUMB people on this planet...that's why BillO Lielies exist. In some respect you have to give him credit for raping the minds of the morons.
    • beautifulleper, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1If you have no ethical sense of the greater good then he would get credit.
      You are quite smug! I agree that there is a lot of really dumb people on the planet. That also means that those of us who are smarter have a responsibility to relay information to the public as free from bias as possible. Otherwise very dangerous sociological consequences can plague the populous. And unfortunately in my opinion it is that very smugness that can cause smart people such as yourself harm.
      • Murdats, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1you can relay all you want, doesn't help if no one listens.
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
      • beautifulleper, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0It is not a matter of listening. If the words are read at all, the brain absorbs them. And then through its complex neural networks increases the potential of idea's eventually clicking. I think if you are a reasonably intelligent person that being smug reduces this long term subtle effect. This is why freedom of speech is so important and why I love the digg community even with all its imperfections.

        It is a opportunity for us more aware to try to get people to think. Since the brain has been proved to be elastic in recent years it is possible with perseverance and a sense of responsibility for your own psychological health and then the health of your greater society that people can make a big difference having open discourse.

        The subconscious brain absorbs even that which it rejects. I know this to be true, cause some of my best friends have angered me with their ideas and maybe hours, days and sometimes even years I will realize part of what they were saying is true.

        I think the best time to be hopeful is when there is no hope left. And I do not mean the abstract type of hope. But a active hope cemented in conscious action. Maybe I am too much of an idealist.

        I haven't always been this way. I have been very smug for the last 4 years. Then I started to realize it was making my life harder. That to wish for something better in myself and to try to reach for it has gave my life more color.

        I decided either try to reach for something better or live life as if I were the walking dead. I often times feel like a crazy person, but when I look around me, I feel like a lot of people are crazy, but they don't even know how they are crazy. I think I am quite aware of where I make errors. So I think it is important for me to try to help other people realize they make errors in judgment.

        I can only do this through a calm perseverance.
    • SeaFour, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1He would get my respect if he did respectable things. Until then, he is a mean and despicable liliputian of a man.
      • beautifulleper, on 08/08/2008, -1/+0he is no more despicable than any other ugly animal in the world, flies, maggots, ***** roaches and so on. All animals created by nature. I may have less respect for him than lets say a butterfly or a elephant. But he a natural phenomena like all the animals on the planet.
      • SeaFour, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0At least cockroaches, maggots, and flies aren't racists.
  • davidows, on 08/07/2008, -8/+35
    SHUT UP, BILL!

    Just who we DON'T need perverting and polluting the innocent minds of our future generation.
    • Zarchon, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2Yes, those innocent minds should come here to Digg where they can learn truth.
    • backgen, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2What we COULD do is teach our kids just how ridiculous he is...and then we could all sit together and enjoy the great comedy that this guy puts out everyday!
  • any1particular, on 08/07/2008, -7/+6Bill and Fox news are Vile, Vexatious and frivolous.

    It is disheartening to know that so many Americans fall for this obvious Republican rhetorical machine-Fox News & Co.

    It is more proof of America's diabolical Pathology.
    • Zarchon, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2Oh give me a break. Republican rhetoric? Let me tell you my experience when it comes to politics. MOST liberals I know, not all, simply repeat that which they have heard elsewhere. If you ask them any questions in depth they totally don't have a clue. I was a Democrat right up until I was spouting my stuff and some OLDER gentleman asked me WHY I said what I said. I honestly couldn't back up what I was talking about so I looked into it. After that I became a Republican. I did it on my own, I wasn't brainwashed. I still see the left as being hate filled, lying hypocrites. NOTHING here on Digg has done anything to change that point of view. Why do I come here? Because I like to read the oppositions point of view. I don't go to a blog to read people repeating the things I say or reinforcing the point of view I came to on my own.
      • jaxcs, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1The choice of Democrat or Republican is really the expression of world views. The ability of non professionals to articulate ideas really should be of no importance to you. You don't compete ideas with the weakest members but the strongest. If you think most liberal dems don't know what they are talking about, be assured that there are plenty of conservative reps who simply parrot ideas as well. It sounds to me that someone older who you respected changed your value system when you were still trying to form ideas about the world.
      • Pittance, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1I used to think the same as Zarchon, that democrats were lying, hate filled pigs. But that was due to being forced to listen to talk radio (hannity, limbaugh, savage, etc) for 4 years to and from school every day. Its hard not to absorb that kind of stuff.

        But now I know most politicians are completely full of ***** and both sides suck. You just got to pick who sucks less.
    • ZenMojo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1...It's cable. Who cares?
  • pentomino, on 08/07/2008, -4/+19I thought Stephen Colbert was already selling his genetic material, as Formula 401.
    • Kohaxx, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1The funny part is Stephen Colbert said in an interview that he doesn't think his satirical character would ever make a good father figure because he's close-minded and abrasive. The best part is his character being modeled after Bill O and thus all the same applies 100 times more to Bill O's lack of ability to ever be a good father figure.
  • alchemistoxford, on 08/07/2008, -6/+14By his own definition -- Bill O'Reilly is a bully and a coward. That so many Americans watch O'Reilly is a travesty. America has become a nation of bullies and a Bully-Nation -- because of Bill O'Reilly and others like him -- Rush Limbaugh, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Roger Ailes, Neil Cavuto, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter and John McCain.
  • kruzen3, on 08/07/2008, -3/+15A bully used to jump on my back when I was in junior high school. One day when I just couldn't take it anymore, I bent forward as he jumped. His head landed on the hard marble floor. He never bullied me again. I later learned that that was a major judo principle:to let the aggressor's own energy carry him to his doom.
    • ninjarabbits, on 08/08/2008, -0/+8"A bully used to jump on my back when I was in junior high school. One day when I just couldn't take it anymore, I bent forward as he jumped."

      At this point in your story I was quite afraid of where it might be heading.
    • beautifulleper, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3I wish I could learn how to use that move rhetorically.
  • HarleyMonster, on 08/07/2008, -5/+2The non-thinkers love O'Reilly...pretty pathetic they would allow someone like this to do their thinking for them.
  • TheKarmaPolice, on 08/07/2008, -5/+43***** BOOK SUCKS!

    (it had to be said)
    • jtbell04, on 08/08/2008, -0/+7Sadly, at some point, he said to his publisher "***** IT! I'LL WRITE IT!"

      He did not do it live.
  • snowcrazy, on 08/08/2008, -3/+19O'Reilly is a boob, anyone that gets owned by a teleprompter is a boob!
    • dupems, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Don't you talk to Ron Burgundy that way.
    • KingGorilla, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2And I'm Bill O'Reilly. Go ***** yourself America
    • Pittance, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Go ***** yourself San Diego.
  • DuggDowner, on 08/08/2008, -5/+9Bill O'Reilly died for our sins.
    • lanzemurdok, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6i understand that you were joking, so i'm digging you up. What i can't understand is the person that dugg you down. Why? did they think you were serious? were they like.. "OH WHAT A STUPID JOKE, LET ME PRESS THE THUMB DOWN" Was it a douche? was it someone that take ***** too seriously? man, the internet is full of stupid people.
      • KingGorilla, on 08/08/2008, -8/+1Dude, burying is what separates the cream from the crop, the wheat from the chaff, the Siegfrieds from the Roys. And I admit I buried him twice. I swing that kind of lumber
      • flashback99, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3there are religious nutjobs who think you are offending their dear lord (not sure whether this is god or bill btw)
    • Archer007, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Other way around.
    • Pittance, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3We can only hope one day he will be crucified. It worked out so well for Jesus, being dead and all.
  • electricwaffles, on 08/08/2008, -4/+3NOOOOOOOO!
  • InsightfulFemme, on 08/08/2008, -5/+19What horrifies me the most, I think, is the number of people who think of Bill O'Reilly as a reliable, reasonable source of commentary on current events and the human condition. And this book should not be in the hands of children - it's barely worth tossing in an incinerator. Bill, you ought to be ashamed. You project, my dear - your own inadequacies are quite evident. What we desperately need is some meaningful dialogue on how to deal with the hateful people (like O'Reilly and so many others) whom we encounter in everyday life. Like McCain, for example - ooops, did I say that out loud?
    • markgl, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3I do. I watch him everyday. I don't see what your hatred is for this guy. I think his analysis of events is for the most part spot on.
  • MommaLu, on 08/08/2008, -2/+5Just the image the title gives made me shutter. ewwww
  • grits68, on 08/08/2008, -5/+3More citizens are speaking back to his evil, baseless opinions . . . anyone who knows an ounce of US history knows his tone is the same as an American fascist of an even scarier time: Charles Coughlin . . . but O'Really's fans don't read books. Even among the idiocy of the blithering TV screaming heads, he means less than zero folks, ignore him.
  • foto2kast, on 08/08/2008, -3/+1When I first saw this I imagined the Pythons were back with another clever routine (remember 'Hilter for a better Meinhead'?). Then I realised O'Reilly, America's favourite fascist, was 'serious'.
    What astounds me is that any 'developed' country would lend any credence or acceptance of atavistic drivel as that spewed by Bill O'Reilly and his co-hort. Their level of hypocrisy and corruption are insufferable to anyone in the developed world. I thought we had learned from the horrors of the 20th century.
  • pieceofred, on 08/08/2008, -4/+2fukke orielly
  • SatoriSeeker, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2That's brilliant, well done!
  • Phatlip012, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3We'll do it live!
  • Qtip42, on 08/08/2008, -3/+5Neocons are evil, right down to their cold black hearts which pump not blood like yours or mine, but rather a thick, vomitous oil that oozes through their rotten veins and clots in their pea-sized brains which becomes the cause of their Nazi-esque patterns of violent behavior.
  • intendo, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2The best way to teach Bill and Fox a lesson is to boycott any advertiser on FOX.
    • davidwasman, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2As much as I want to agree with you, 80% of the commercials on Fox are the same as MSNBC and CNN.
  • ZurMacht, on 08/08/2008, -2/+5O'Reilly isn't a shock jock, that is insulting to Howard Stern and Opie and Anthony.
  • xerograde, on 08/08/2008, -3/+5O RLY O'REILLY?
  • mrno, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Bill kills kids.
  • drewfer, on 08/08/2008, -1/+5I saw the book in a book store but when I opened it I said, "I can't read it, there's not words on it!
  • damian7, on 08/08/2008, -8/+1Please nobody mention that they think the little blonde girl in the video is "hot", PLEASE
  • Bologner, on 08/08/2008, -4/+1I hate BillO, but if you think these kids were actually acting of their own accord, you are a dolt. This was a (VERY) pathetic attempt and I hope Robert Greenwald puts out better stuff in the future.
  • MrTito, on 08/08/2008, -2/+14The funniest part to me was this line at 1:12:

    "He's telling other kids to stay calm, when he's acting like this."

    Other kids. Kids identify him as one of their own by the way he whines and acts stupid. ***** awesome.
    • Gregus1032, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1Well, when you're shown a bunch clips that are out of context (some of them are) it tends to skew your opinion.

      As much as i dis-like bill's opinions and actions I will admit from the quotes they showed, it looks like a good book to go by. It doesn't sound like the book is saying "be like me". It sounds like "Be like this". Although I haven't read the book, nor do I plan to.
  • Reaktor5, on 08/08/2008, -2/+6Those kids are actually smarter than Papa Bear.
  • EugineMW, on 08/08/2008, -6/+4I think Bill is great. Plus, after reading Digg (which leads me lots to huffington/kos/moveon/etc.), I guess I need to watch him to get things from a different perspective to form a non-biased opinion.
    • Sevfan, on 08/08/2008, -3/+4You have fun with that. Tool.
      • markgl, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Oh my. nice burn. you really got him. pfft....
  • topgigmedia, on 08/08/2008, -5/+1Ignore the bastard and don't give his idiot ways or self any more free publicity. He is worthless and a waste of time even mentioning, let alone exposing your children to him in any capacity. He is a fraud and a front for Fox News and I suspect that even he doesn't bye his own bullsh*t.

    F 'em - that's all.
  • Swift2, on 08/08/2008, -7/+2Bil-O is an ass, but he speaks for all the bullying idiots out there. Focusing all your energy against HIM, though he is despicable, is a waste of time. The cause for our Big Media problems is that they're Big. Break up the conglomerates. Demand access of all points of view to the media. End the idea of "mainstream."
    When first radio and then TV began, there was some point to corporations taking a larger role than in the past: radio and TV were enormously expensive. But more and more, that's not true anymore. So a thirty or forty-person News operation operating with an RSS feed and a podcast is the same -- actually better -- than some dude working for Rupert Murdoch if he's a right-winger or for Disney or Time-Warner or General Electric if they're only moderately right-wing. If you actually want to know something, go ask news people, rather than some hairdo personality whore.
  • ErickStevenson, on 08/08/2008, -6/+0You know the best way to deal with people like ORielly is just kill them... no I'm kidding.... not really... but anyway ignore them and move on, you can't reason with these people, they just end up frastrating you. An ass is an ass, nothing good ever going to come out of it. If people actually listen to his "advice" that's their problem. A world without ORielly is a better world for all of us.
  • greaseddeafguy, on 08/08/2008, -8/+3what a pathetic waste of 2:43. Its funny how butt-hurt people get over Bill. Is he a loudmouth, yes. Should you waste your time making a silly video, no.
    • nycmac247, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1"butt-hurt"
      see you in the airport restroom stall...is that your foot, tapping mine?
  • charlietuna, on 08/08/2008, -3/+1Ironically (and I DO mean ironically), as Bill-O gets more people incensed over his vituperous babble the higher his ratings go. So in a way all this "buzz" ups his salary. He's sort of the side-show freak of Faux news.
  • tehknotte, on 08/08/2008, -4/+5video fails at making bill o'reilly into a bully. buried for innacuracy. i didn't see one part in there where he was bullying. you have to see the geraldo rivera video in context , and the WE'LL DO IT LIVE! never had him insulting anyone directly on the set... he was just having a bad day.
    • IIAmusedII, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2Oh yeah? Well, SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
      • tehknotte, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1but of course it will look bad if you just see a compilation of the times he said "shut up" :S
  • Bodhinature, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2The best thing to do with Bill O and his other cohorts is to ignore them and reach out to those who need real info.
  • stealthc, on 08/08/2008, -5/+4BillO is a bully, yes, but his comments about Sylvia's Restaurant were actually not racist at all. He was saying that even though this was a restaurant in the middle of Harlem run predominantly by black people, it did not fit the stereotypes one might have of a "black restaurant." And it didn't sound like he was complaining about that fact.
    • an0nymous, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2Hmm. I must disagree:
      "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." Later, he added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea."

      The racist bit was that Bill apparently has a very low opinion of black people. He just can't. get. over. that they don't act all crazy and you know *black* screaming for their ice tea, M-Fer, while eating in nice restaurants.
      The experience didn't fit HIS stereotypes.
      • stealthc, on 08/09/2008, -1/+1Semantics. He's a tactless douchebag who observed that a "black" restaurant defied stereotypes. There's plenty else to crucify him for without picking that particular nit.
      • an0nymous, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1The stereotypes in question were only held by himself and a few Stormwatch members.
    • nycmac247, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1wow

      " ...it did not fit the stereotypes one might have of a "black restaurant."

      by the word "one" in the sentence above you mean "***** racist pig" then I agree!!!

      Always an excuse from you guys...always an excuse...

      Sincerely,

      ***** Lover
      • stealthc, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1"You guys?"

        ***** racist pig indeed.
  • wayzup, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3Bill O'Reilly and those like him are best left completely ignored.
  • banderwocky, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3HAHAHAH! Bill self pwnd. Fool.
  • Pramma, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1How again did this guy dodge registering as a sex offender?
  • akchrs, on 08/08/2008, -2/+4Isn't it funny that Bill O'Reilly has double, sometimes tripple, the viewers as Keith Olbermann? Just saying.
    • Cyberdactyl, on 08/09/2008, -1/+2O'Reilly is passionate but honest. Olbermann is dishonest and passionate.

      Most people want honesty, that's why his ratings are 3 times that of MSNBC.

      The most humorous aspect of the ratings battle is MSNBC picks out an extremely narrow demographic spectrum that slightly surpasses FOX and says "All we want is the 18-26 year old viewers." That had me rolling.
      • ZenMojo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Dishonest? At least he cites his sources instead of just running off at the mouth.
    • ZenMojo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Double the viewers? Triple? Not quite.

      And if numbers = quality, then Return of the Jedi (adjusted for inflation) is a better movie than the Godfather.
  • MysticSavage, on 08/08/2008, -2/+3GET THE LOOFA...WE'RE DOING IT LIVE!!
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