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Bill O’Reilly slams Super Bowl GoDaddy and Taco Bell adverts as insulting to men - VIDEO

Pundit says commercials were 'voyeuristic' and 'offensive to men'

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Published Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 8:05 AM

Updated Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 9:14 AM

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Irish American Fox anchor Bill O'Reilly

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Another day, another O'Reilly Factor outrage. This week the pugnacious pundit is giving out about the state of the weekend's Super Bowl commercials, two of which utterly incensed him.

According to Mediaite, the ads that got O’Reilly’s goat were the ad for GoDaddy.com starring Bar Refaeli and Taco Bell's senior-citizens-on-a-bender spot.

O'Reilly slammed GoDaddy’s ad as being offensive to men and he felt the Taco Bell ad disrespected the elderly. Lashing out during his Talking Points Memo segment, O’Reilly played clips from both ads to outline why they angered him so much.

First O’Reilly said he found the sight of a supermodel making out with a young man who looked like a nerd stereotype 'hard to watch.' He labeled the ad 'purely voyeurism' and 'offensive to men.' The idea that a supermodel could find this young man attractive blew his mind.

But Taco Bell's ad didn't rate any higher in O’Reilly estimation. O'Reilly said he thought it portrayed elderly people as 'clowns, desperate and frivolous.'

It especially bothered him because 'we have a lot of problems with senior citizens in this country.' If we were a country like Japan that has deep cultural respect for elderly people, maybe Taco Bell could get away with an ad like this, he mused.

But as it is, O’Reilly said the ad 'turned my stomach. We need to care for our elderly, not demean them.'

Check out the ads that got O'Reilly's goat below

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Smyrnian | Feb 07, 2013, 07:27 PM EST

Disgusting ads. O'Reilly was right - again.

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McNamara31 | Feb 07, 2013, 09:14 AM EST

O’Reilly is insulting to men...Oh, on second thought, let's make that the entire human race.

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cillowen | Feb 06, 2013, 10:42 PM EST

a no brainer even a sh..head like o'reilly jumped aboard.

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MegK311 | Feb 06, 2013, 06:38 PM EST

I don't always agree with everything Bill says but he is often right on the money and he was about the two commercials.As an older person I found the Taco Bell really offensive. We older folk do not look good with our sagging skin and other signs of aging. We can also have fun without acting silly in the way they did in the commercial. I feel embarrassed for the seniors who made the commercial.

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seanomelb | Feb 06, 2013, 04:50 PM EST

AS an elder I find O'Reilly offensive and lacking a sense of humour. I wonder if walter had have been Brad Pitt lookalike would he have been offended,I doubt it

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Smyrnian | Feb 06, 2013, 02:59 PM EST

O'Reilly was right on both counts.

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joreilly | Feb 06, 2013, 01:44 PM EST

Does anybody really care about what BILL O' likes or dislikes.Bill should do what I did ,and do, hit the 'Mute" button during the ads and enjoy the GAME

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michaelidaho | Feb 06, 2013, 12:39 PM EST

His politics aside, O’Reilly is right on in criticizing these commercials. I would go further and say it shows how low class, infantile and sex-obsessed American culture is. It is really sad, considering that millions of dollars went into media productions that were unable to rise above the intellect, maturity and humor of a bunch of adolescent delinquents.

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Eschetic | Feb 06, 2013, 12:14 PM EST

'Can't say that i was all that impressed with the ad in question either - I'm not honestly sure WHO the target audience was except the relative minority who chuckle at the irony of a politically incorrect parody, but SERIOUSLY now: who really cares WHAT Bill O'Reilly thinks on ANYTHING? The man's an embarrassment to his species with his clueless diatribes on anything his managers think will rile up his right wing base.

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CitizenWhy | Feb 06, 2013, 11:35 AM EST

O'Reilly needs to be promoted to Vice pope at the Vatican.

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wjb1tex | Feb 06, 2013, 11:01 AM EST

I thought the Go Daddy ad was very bad. They have gone from funny risque to over the line. Not because opposites can attract but much more like O'Reilly said voyeurism. On the other hand I live in a retirement community and everyone here thought that was very funny. We could even identify some of the characters as residents here. Including ourselves. I think younger people have no idea how fun crazy older people can be.

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SingleDonald | Feb 06, 2013, 09:43 AM EST

I saw the Go Daddy commercial, during the game. I said how lucky that guy was!

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