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O’Reilly on Blogosphere: ‘I’d Go in With A Hand Grenade’

thinkprogress.org — O’Reilly said that he knew “for a fact that President Bush doesn’t know what’s going on in the Internet.” O’Reilly then said, “I have to say President Bush has a much healthier attitude toward this than I do. Because if I can get away with it, boy, I’d go in with a hand grenade.” Watch it:

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  • seraglio, on 10/12/2007, -7/+57Watch your backs. As a Culture Warrior, I bet he has tons of hand grenades.
    • killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -68/+17Arrest O'Reilly!! He made a joke!! This is America, you don't have a right to make jokes!
    • UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41"This is America, you don't have a right to make jokes!"

      This was never about free speech, we all assume he has that right. We are merely excersizing our right to point out his stupid statements.
    • oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34@killinger777
      Then O'Reilly should back off of Stewart/Colbert for mocking him if he has such a good sense of humor.

      O'Reilly is pretty flagrant to begin with... most people wouldn't believe he was joking even if he was.
    • dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17if the world gets a picture of ol'willy here, they'd think americans are just as ***** up as middle eastern fundamentalist terrorists - blow that which you can't submit!

      o'reilly - you need to be put behind bars for just what you said - i bet no ***** feds are going to rapp on your door tonight cause y'all got your hands too deep into *****'s asshole. boy must that hole be big.
    • iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -25/+2It's good to see Digg can come out to bash at least one anti-war nutcase...
    • catullus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17@UGM2099: exactly. excellent comment. i always get so annoyed when someone defends their idiocy by saying "well i have the right to free speech". yes, one does have that right. just because speech is permitted doesnt mean what the person's saying is not stupid
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11O Reilly: "I'm gonna pull a Jihad on those bloggers!"
    • Chongo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Well hell, I would too, but for totally different reasons... like killing people
    • Monolith2, on 10/12/2007, -13/+11Wow... someone says he wants to throw a hand grenade at... a blog. Seriously, guys, i think he's serious. We all know how vulnerable blogs are to hand grenades.
    • PYREX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@Killenger777

      what disturbs me is he probably meant it.

      oreilly HATES anyone who's educated enough not to fall for his BS psudo-outrage scripts.
    • thefirstenemy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5He's a total dick. I'm sure everyone remembers when him and the other dude with the stache were talking about TDS and The Colbert Report about how "they do okay", not good but okay, when they actually get higher ratings than he does.

      He's a complete moron. And this is just another statement that shows how much of an idiot he is, I'm ashamed he calls himself an American.
    • TakeAction, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I watched this Live and I could Not Believe HIM...... He said "ALL OF THOSE BLOGGERS ARE HIRED TO SPREAD CRAP ABOUT BUSH"......this is not the exact words...BUT WTF is he talking about. Then he said... "PRES BUSH DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS BEING SAID ON THE NET". Well NO KIDDING........Bush is like my dad...struggles with trying even use a mouse. Man we are in serious trouble if the Democrats don't win the house and senate. PLEASE VOTE DEM on NOV 7th. I realize it may not be the best choice...but it will put a halt to all of this B.S.!! DO NOT VOTE 3rd party....it is a wasted vote. The GOP is betting that people under 30 "Do not Care & Will not VOTE". This is our one chance to save the nation......unless the OCTOBER Surprise is BOMB IRAN. Get ready...because that would scare people like my 70 year old dad to keep this admin in power. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!! NOTE..... I am not a hired blogger.....just love what this country "USED" to stand for. And I want it back!
    • littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Drive-By O’Reilly is the biggest fool I've ever seen in the history of professional journalism (and with O’Reilly I use that term as loosely as it can be used).

      Just compare him to someone like a Walter Cronkite:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite
      There's just absolutely no comparison.

      O’Reilly is an embarrassment. Really, just an embarrassment. Running around spewing his ***** and writing a bunch of books? I don't care how many books this fool sells. It just shows you how stupid the masses have become.

      And this is who Fox throws up to interview Bush?

      Figures.

      These are sad times for the US. Just sad.
  • hawkeye17, on 10/12/2007, -18/+82O'Reilly should stick to things he knows about...like Sexual Harrassment.
    • Dradis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38And telling people to, "Shut up! Just shut up!"
    • monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7And phone sex.


      And having him, Bill O'reilly, accusing other people as "hired guns" is just lol ...
  • killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -22/+27BROWN POLITICAL SCIENTIST WENDY SCHILLER: "Well, I think that one thing is for sure. The millions of voters that go to the polls in 2006 aren’t spending most of their working hours during the day reading blogs on the Internet. They’re working for a living. "

    Truer words have never been spoken.

    And if you actually watch the video, you will notice Bill laughs as he says the grenade thing. If you are really offended by this, you really need to check your priorities.
    • HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -41/+14Agreed.
      Anyone who posts stories (in the truest sense of the word) from paranoid conspiracy sites like thinkprogress.org needs to check their priorities. It's disgusting that there are enough mentally unstable people using Digg to get several whacko stories from there on the front page every day.
    • cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20With other words: The millions of voters that go to the polls in 2006 are ill-informed.
    • inkyblue2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24it's not paranoia in the sense of "omg he's got a grenade", it's paranoia in the sense of "people actually believe this insidious *****".
    • xenuxenuts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24I don't go to thinkprogress, so I checked out their front page.

      1. Story on republicans saying democrats "support" Nambla because they support the ACLU and the ACLU once defended NAMBLA. This republican tactic could work on people who don't understand what the ACLU is.

      2. Story on Bush saying "New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman could be right that the current spike of violence in Iraq is jihadist equivalent of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam." Seems pretty reasonable to print this. I'd also say it's reasonable for Bush to say that.

      3. Story on a Republican letter sent to democratic Hispanic voters which said "if you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that can result in incarceration, and possible deportation for voting without the right to do so." Seems reasonable to point out, no matter which party did it.

      4. This story.

      5. "POLL: Two-Thirds of Americans Believe There’s A Civil War In Iraq." Again, I don't see a problem with this either. Dictionary.com defines "Civil War" as "a war between political factions or regions within the same country." Seems like a no-brainer to me. Of course, we have people that differentiate between "conflicts" and "wars", so maybe there is no civil war, just a civil conflict.

      So, looking at a sample of the 5 latest stories, I don't really see anything that's way out there. Of course, there could be crazy stuff on the site that I didn't see. To me, it just sounds like they lean left. Big Whoop.
    • shaymoz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0it's a new satire thing they started. they're trying to compete with the daily show
      http://www.djlosch.com/post_retrieve.php?pid=65
  • Nitrodist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42I think O'Reilly meant that Bush doesn't know what's going on in the internets.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Clogged tubes in the White House?
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"I hear there's rumors on the internets.."
  • tokyomonster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Of course Bush doesn't know what's going on with the internets, there's simply way too many to keep track of.
    • drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32He can use Microsoft's new "Tube Manager 2007"
    • deim0s, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22How are you supposed to keep up when your staff sends you an internet at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and it doesn't get to you until yesterday?
    • lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"He can use Microsoft's new "Tube Manager 2007""

      Or just purchase MS DumpTruck Manager 2007 RC2

    • fohat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2If he pays money for a release candidate, he's a bigger fool than I thought...
  • baxtermadux, on 10/12/2007, -9/+38o'reilly doesnt like free speech... the blogs are the most fair medium we have. there is no censorship. unlike the oreilly factor.
    • killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -29/+6Free speech does not include blatantly libelous accusations.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10killinger: There's a difference between "accusation" and "opinion".
    • mraustin1337, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22"Free speech does not include blatantly libelous accusations."

      Yes it does.
    • nalf38, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6no, it doesn't.

      the supreme court has ruled again and again that free speech has limits.
    • iTorrey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Because he is a Trotskyite Neo-Con, not a conservative. It's a Neo ConJob! They pretend to believe in freedom in order to slowly shift what 'freedom' means to something that is called by other names such as oppression and tyranny.
  • loculi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14"O’REILLY: I know for a fact that President Bush doesn’t know what’s going on in the Internet. I know that for a fact because I did ask around."

    That comment was a hoot for me, it reminds me of a petulant little tattle-tale who is threatening to tell on their siblings to daddy Bush.
    • TootsMutant, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Hey, there's all manner of really hostile "tubes" out there, and who's gonna protect him?
    • dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3It's not tubes anymore, this message is being sent from a tank cannon!
  • OMGWTFROFLMAO, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18terroristic threats now?
    • NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Terroristic threats from a terrorist. Who would have guessed?
    • Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Indeed! Those sound like the vitriolic shouts of an "enemy combatant"! we should revoke that man's rights to due process and hold him indefinitely without charges -- it's the American way!
    • drmobutu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Yeah! He made a terrorist threat against American Citizens! That makes him an Enemy Combatant!

      I demand that Bill O'Reilly be locked up immediately, for our protection!

  • LHopi, on 10/12/2007, -13/+9Anyone want some falafel?

    /obscure joke...
  • muleking, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15You should go with a vibrator, thats more your style O'Reilley
  • kirkja08, on 10/12/2007, -15/+8He meant that Bush doesn't read the blogs... ok, who gives a *****. And the grenade thing was a refrence to how smart he thinks he is. Non-story, no digg. Lets get back to talking about how great we think Olbermann is.
  • pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22violence towards those who express a different political vew? naw, that's not terrorism at all.
    • drmobutu, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8Even if O'Reilly said it in jest, millions of people heard it, and one "lone nut" might actually decide to do it.

      Somebody ought to write a letter to the FCC, complaining that O'Reilly is inciting politically motivated violence.

      Just lilke you don't have the right to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater...
  • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11He must think the hand grenade will blow open the tubes...and create an information leak.
    • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9twas a joke before christmas and all through the site
      the peoples complaining with all of their might.
  • GoodWillHunting, on 10/12/2007, -15/+8O’REILLY: He is lucky, because these are hired guns. These are people hired — being paid very well to smear and try to destroy people. And that’s the difference, Dr. Schiller. That had never happened before. I’ll give you the last word.

    Ironic that this is a ThinkProgress.org story. That's exactly what some have accused ThinkProgress.org of doing on Digg:
    http://digg.com/politics/ThinkProgress_org_is_pwning_Digg_com_Netscape_com_Reddit_com
    • zip22, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10and what most would accuse bill oreilly of doing on the air.
    • Muyoso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its amazingly true, half ot the political stories submitted are from that site, and yet no one cares that people are being paid to flood digg with complete liberal propaganda. But no use for me to comment, as I will be dugg down because of my wrong (conservative) OPINION.
  • fallenone05, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18I'm all for O'Reilly coming in with a hand grenade, as long as he keeps holding on to it when it explodes
  • 3rdeyepro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Um I dont believe that all these "bloggers" or people that make commenta about this administration are paid to do so. They think that just because someone is voicing an opinion that they must have been paid to do so? Granted some bloggers are paid to write on all sorts of topics but I think the media is trying to discredit any discussion on the internets...
  • tsf5000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I like the part where he says "These are people hired — being paid very well to smear and try to destroy people" as if that's not what he's doing. What a douche.
    • megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The one thing almost all fascists, like O' Reilly, have in common is the complete absence of introspection. They can look in the mirror all they want but they never see the neurotic clown staring back at them. Instead, they project, project, project, always in plain sight of an enormous audience.
  • tfinniga, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0When I first read the headline, I totally thought it was talking about Tim O'Reilly..
    http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/tim_bio.html

    ..and that he had just gone insane or something.
  • dralezero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Does that make him a terrorist?
    • hcl40u, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yes but... remember its the President's job to decide who's the enemy combatant and we all know how O-Reilly and Bush are best pals.
  • Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Did O'Reilly say something last night? I was watching, but I don't seem to remember. Oh well.
  • xenixninja, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Most people should have a look at Outfoxed.
    It's documentaries like Outfoxed that makes you wonder how free The land of the free really is.
  • larowebr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4O’REILLY: He is lucky, because these are hired guns. These are people hired — being paid very well to smear and try to destroy people. And that’s the difference, Dr. Schiller. That had never happened before.

    Bloggers are getting paid for this?! "Very well"?!

    How do I get on the payroll?
  • minox, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0On a lighter note:
    http://www.digg.com/celebrity/The_Joys_of_Wearing_Rubber_Boots
  • tjmasco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm surprised no one has commented on the fact that his statement was given AFTER giving the last words to someone else. I guess by now, everyone already knows O'Reilly's game.
  • jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Pop Quiz:

    What the difference between Bill O'Reilly and Pat Robertson?

    Nothing...


    Seriously, Bill is a psychopath
  • Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Bill O'Reilly is a moron. What else is new.
  • goostoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is possibly the greatest thing I've ever heard. O'Reilly should be praised. I've been looking for a way to describe my feelings on the non-stop squawking and posturing that's taken the internet by storm with this nonsensical buzzword.

    "I'd go in with a hand grenade" - Quote of the Year
  • jedikv, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3oh dear, more crap from think progress......digg is being hijacked.
    • Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Are you disputing the accuracy of the quote?

      Because if you're not, then you're talking *****.
  • countrygirl31, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There is a political fear about the internet and to make out people on the internet appear as bad. These past 6 years, the first time in history where billions of people are coming together and sharing ideas, opinions, and beliefs. This influences alot of things if we are all able to talk and express. The government use to count on us reading the newspaper and maybe sharing out views with a small circle of friends or group before the internet was this big. Now someone in MA can talk to someone in OR or CA about their opinions and ideas. Something that didnt happen years ago. They didn't see that people who had ideas about what is going on could inflence on another which vastly underminds what the government needs us to believe about what is going on in the administration. It also doesnt leave us the way they want us, less informed and making choices that otherwise would be done after words from a whitehouse speech.

    Just as last week Chernoff spoke of the internet as a terrorist training camp and that he was coming together with HLS and local police and officals to find people that are using the internet as a political tool.
    The key word in his speech was the words political tool. the government is more afraid of the internet because we are sharing ideas or disproving some things that the government has regergitated.

    O'Reilly is jumping on the bandwagon to help to government prove that activists and people with freedom of speech and opinion are just as dangerous as a terrorist. when in fact, he wants to help make people fear sharing. Bloggers are what the government fears. It is a an old fashioned Soapbox with a larger group listening.
  • jivatmanx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4you're right goostoff. He's the a ***** modern-day nostradamus.
    Here's another few other epiphany he has graced mankind with:

    "If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?" -on finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, March 18, 2003

    And heres some of his sagely advice to the American people:

    "If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'" --after San Francisco voted to ban military recruiters from city schools, Nov. 8, 2005

    And, of course

    "I would execute everyone at gitmo"



  • TwwIX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2i'd give up free speech,just to shut him the ***** up.
  • LoneRanger85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It was a JOKE! He was GRINNING!
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