Bill O'Reilly, how do you sleep?
By: Cahir O'Doherty | Published Sunday, October 17, 2010, 1:35 PM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 9:52 PM
I'm willing to bet
Bill O'Reilly is chuckling contentedly in his mansion out on
Long Island this morning.
Why shouldn't he laugh? He scored a home run on
The View this week, where his incendiary comments provoked co-hosts
Whoopi Goldberg and
Joy Behar to walk off the set.
It was television gold. It was terrific for his ratings and even better publicity for his brand new book, the imaginatively titled: Patriots and Pinheads. In Bill O'Reilly's world you're either one or the other, unless you're a Democratic president and you're both, of course.
Bumper sticker rhetoric is often good for a cheap laugh. No one knows that better than you Bill. But between all the bestsellers and the big bucks, can I ask you spare a thought for the innocent people you carelessly maligned in the pursuit of healthy book sales, Bill?
Muslims, you said, killed us on 9/11. You said this on national television, not on your front porch. You didn't say
Al Qaeda, you didn't say Wahhabi fundamentalist extremists financed by the Saudi's, you didn't even say Jihadists or terrorists - you just said Muslims killed us on 9/11.
That can only mean one of two things: all Muslims did it, or some Muslims did it. When you're making scattershot charges like this is there any point in splitting the difference?
The media let it pass. They do this more and more these days. They're so used to hearing
Fox News defame the world's second largest religion they probably don't even notice it anymore.
But someone should say it: loudly and repeatedly. This kind of talk is deeply wrong. It's divisive and hateful and reactionary and damaging and it's beneath this great nation. We used to be better than this, in public at least, and you know it Bill.
In Pinheads and Patriots you lament the incivility that has replaced discussion in
America. You write that Glen Beck and
Rush Limbaugh "and many other conservative radio commentators believe pretty much the same thing: that the President is a force for pernicious change, a committed socialist in a two-thousand dollar suit. These guys pound
President Obama into pudding just about every day, and millions of Americans are spooning up the dessert. But I'm not so sure this scorched-earth strategy aimed at the President is good for the country."
Come clean for once Bill. You damn well know this scorched earth strategy is not good for the country. You know the anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim Tea Party hordes inspired by Fox News won't vanish with the November elections. You know what this means for the political life of this nation. You know it better than all of your conspiracy-theory believing, extremist inspiring colleagues combined.
And how do you know it? Because you're not like them and you never have been.
You're the working class boy who went to the fancy prep school; you're the
Harvard grad who prefers to rub shoulders with Irish cops and firemen; you're the Irish American who does the heavy lifting at Fox for the conservative establishment who never invite you to their patrician enclaves. You don't really belong to the people you're defending. You don't even like most of them, you often say.
That outsider perspective has carried you very far from your humble origins. It's allowed you to strike a chord with the millions of disenfranchised Americans who call you their champion. When you tell them that Muslims killed us on 9/11 they believe Muslims killed us on 9/11. They won't split the difference if you don't, Bill. People are either pinheads or patriots, after all.
Who's looking out for you, you often like to ask the American people. Then you give them that conspiratorial grin.
I want to put a version of that question to you Bill. Who's looking out for the 1.7 billion people you're defaming so carelessly? They're also our friends and neighbors here in the U.S. It was news to them to hear they'd attacked us on 9/11. Who's going to be fair and balanced about them? Who's looking out for them?
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.pattbaa | Mar 04, 2011, 01:49 PM EST
This info culled from the Feb. 11 issue of "Esquire" magazine "Mr. Roger Ailes ( CEO of Fox News ) earned a reported $23,000,000 in 2009, but it's chump-change compared to the $1.000,000,000 in profits that that Fox News earned Ailes's boss , Rupert Murdoch." "Nice Going Roger & Rupert , thanks to Bill 0 , Sean Hannity ----
Irishjule | Oct 21, 2010, 03:44 PM EDT
There are many good Muslims, but MUSLIMS attacked us on 9/11 and attacked our ships and embassies years before that. It was a Muslim who shot and killed so many people at Ft. Hood in Texas. It wasn't Irish, it wasn't Germans, it wasn't Poles, or Greeks, or French...it was MUSLIMS. O'Reilly and others who oppose the mosque have NEVER said that ALL Muslims are jihadists or terrorists, but those people are Muslims. By the way, Islam is not only a religion but a political movement as well.
maloney | Oct 21, 2010, 12:14 PM EDT
The disenfranchised in America is about to do a 180 degree turn. The ones who feel empowered now (you know who you are) will be put back under their rocks. You had your shot at your way & it failed, rejected by all but the radical fringe. Sanity will be returned with the Nov. vote.
killowen | Oct 20, 2010, 01:36 PM EDT
Well educated souls who leave to enrich other lands. A beat that goes on giving. Thanks to the poodle folks with their severed poodle piece of country. The Clintons are pushing for that British poodle head piece of old erin. Ms. Clinton helping the crown like hubby did by bringing Gerry Adams in from the cold. Knightings are due them. Living in or coming from a poodle looking island with its severed head in the control of long occupier neighbour makes for severe dysfunctional behaviour. A people whose usurped harp flys on the Sasanach standards - proclaiming ireland as being in union with them. Next year, 2011, their queen is to arrive to cement their claim. Then the wild exhuberance of that tiger era which is but a pu$$ssy cat version whose nine lives are up. Mysterious oligarch Abramovith, Chelsea's owner is going to sue the irish Gov for billions - another hit on their taxpaying unfortunates. Sad to say but it gets worse with cutbacks that will last for years upon years. Religion that gave them a sense that there was a tomorrow leaves them feeling like lemmings - making for diminished sexual interest.
DennisQ | Oct 20, 2010, 05:03 AM EDT
One important reason we need a new 9-11 Commission is to take a serious look at the way unfounded assumptions have become deeply entrenched. Not only is the evidence that Muslims did it a lot weaker than is commonly believed, it is also completely untrue that Muslims throughout the world celebrated the event.
Here's a challenge to all who believe Muslims endorse the 9-11 terrorist attack - document this assertion. There isn't any documentation for it, because it's not true. The people who agitated for war on Iraq made it up. And they've been discredited as complete liars.
reinkefj | Oct 19, 2010, 09:13 PM EDT
When moderate Muslims stand silent, then Bill has every right to call them on it. Same as when Irish Catholics don't condemn IRA violence, they need to be called on it. If you want to criticize Bill, it should be about not critiquing the interventionist foreign policies that got us in this mess. We've been mucking about in global politics when George Washington warned about "entangling alliances". Time to get out of the "empire business" and bring the troops home. Let Japan, Germany, South Korea, and all the rest step up to their own security requirements. That you can critique Bill on; not 9-11 religious affiliation. imho
maloney | Oct 19, 2010, 09:07 PM EDT
Bill sleeps like a baby. Right makes might. Plus the extra added pleasure of driving libs crazy.
2BorNot2B | Oct 19, 2010, 05:00 PM EDT
To seanO'mal-born --- Spewing vile(sic)? The actual word is BILE..look it up! --- As for tu-rd... what? Are you in 3rd grade.. or looking at a mirror??? --In your case either of the two options is plausible given your meager and quaint opinion of 'the Crusades.' -- If my version is 'comic book' I'd be interested to hear what your 'reeeeally serious version' actually is and who it was written BY and FOR.. Written by Dan Brown for presidents resentful of the white race, who bow low to muslim Sheiks of araby, and readers who believed his sloganeering and went to the ballot box with eyes wide-shut to elected him? Mmmm, yeah...that should be a credible version! --- Your opinion happens to be just a tad long on 'wishful fiction' and short on specifics. Please elaborate and support with evidence, or STFU, can you?
2BorNot2B | Oct 19, 2010, 03:57 PM EDT
To manhattan --- Re: your question as to why the leftard Kool-Aid drinkers hate Bill O' there's a story doing the rounds that could be applied to those of any nationality suffering from terminal ENVY --- A lobster fisherman off the Mass. coast unloads from his boat a couple of large bins full of newly caught lobsters, one bin is open, the other securely shut with bars and locks. --- A curious bystander asks why the one is closed and the other not. -- The fisherman tells him the unlocked bin need not be shut because it contains 'Irish lobsters'... he has no need securing them because as soon as one of them tries to go for the top... the other ones take care of pulling him down.
patrick1945 | Oct 19, 2010, 03:08 PM EDT
They were Muslims. It's not up to O'Reilly to explain any differences, it's up to the Muslims themselves to explain the differences between 9/11 Muslims and others of the Islam faith. So far Muslims have done a poor case of making this point.
manhattan | Oct 19, 2010, 12:15 PM EDT
2bornot2b, I wonder why these cool aid drinkers hate Bill O'Reilly so much.? I bet they never listen to him and to knock him for graduating from Harvard and being rich, could it be that bad old irish way of knocking any one with irish blood that has become sucessful? I love reading your responses. Keep up the good work.
kell7757 | Oct 19, 2010, 10:26 AM EDT
"You're the working class boy who went to the fancy prep school; you're the Harvard grad who prefers to rub shoulders with Irish cops and firemen; you're the Irish American who does the heavy lifting at Fox for the conservative establishment who never invite you to their patrician enclaves. You don't really belong to the people you're defending." I wouldn't even know where to begin. Your thought process is so clannish, and non-individuated. It's so dependent of membership within a particular group, and opposed to the whole idea of thinking for oneself. I have to wonder if was it clannish Irish Americans who did this to you, or the Catholic Church. Only feeble minded brainwashed people join a group and then line up their views with their group and sing along in unison. This is the beauty of being an individual. You can express your opinion freely and not worry whether or not it lines up with any particular group. I'm Irish American, but I express my honest opinions freely, and if other Irish Americans reject me for it, I don't have a problem with that. I'd rather be rejected for who I am than accepted for being a fraud. This article reflects the worst kind of clannish non-thinking.
kell7757 | Oct 19, 2010, 10:09 AM EDT
This article is like a lesson in stupid. Is this how your mind really works? Are you still in high school?
TaranOconner | Oct 19, 2010, 02:11 AM EDT
ALL Muslims believe in the Koran. The Koran commands Muslims to KILL INFIDELS. The definition of Infidel is ANYONE that is NOT Muslim. Get the Picture Yet!! DUH! When the Radical Muslims take over---ALL Muslims will be, at that point, FORCED to be RADICAL OR BE KILLED! READ the Koran! Understand your Enemy--
DennisQ | Oct 19, 2010, 12:01 AM EDT
I'm starting to entertain the idea that Osama bin Laden never existed. He's a mythical character like Finn Mac Cumhaill. Osama and his magic dog Brann roam the world over, appearing to some, but staying mostly hidden. Occasionally he appears in a video, but not the ones put out by the CIA, which don't even look like him.
Perhaps the Osama legend is the reason Druidry on the rise all over the world, not just in Ireland. The mighty fear him and launch devastating wars on countries where he has never even set foot. Eventually the Osama legend will merge with those of Bigfoot, Paul Bunyan, Gilgamesh, and Odysseus. They will re-enact the Cattle Raid of Cooley and the destruction of the Sennacherib. But if he sees his shadow on February 23rd, his birthday . . . there will be six more weeks of winter.
maloney | Oct 18, 2010, 06:46 PM EDT
cahir...count the number of comments, keep up the good stuff.
maloney | Oct 18, 2010, 06:43 PM EDT
My favorite muslim thing to do: keep your women quiet in the darkest corner of the darkest room of your house. Keep on giving the love to the ones that want to cut your heads off. Who will push your liberal marxist crap after a good stoning? I'm not talkin about pot.
seanomelbourne | Oct 18, 2010, 06:35 PM EDT
I see 2bornot2b is still spewing his vile and hate message what a tu-rd. His comic book version of the crusades is tragic.
2BorNot2B | Oct 18, 2010, 05:24 PM EDT
To those like killowen and The OldProfessor (of what?) who say that 'a Christian/Catholic' was responsible for the killing of hundreds of Americans in the Oklahoma bombing, I'd like to offer you the keys to my new car if you can offer proof positive that McVeigh detonated the bombs while yelling "I'm doing this for the Pope and the Catholic Faith!" or, "Die you dogs, in the name of Jesus Christ!" --- In fact, I'd like to see evidence that any TERRORIST attack has been carried on in the name of Christianity. To those who might venture to name the Crusades... got news for you; those wars (not terrorist attacks) were initiated to stop the harassment by muslims of Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, and to recover Christian sites that had been over-ran, taken over and desecrated by muslim troglodytes.
irishfez | Oct 18, 2010, 05:09 PM EDT
Very Very Very well said. I hope Bill O'Reilly or some of his sick fans read this. He is an embarrassment to Irish Americans
hancock | Oct 18, 2010, 03:45 PM EDT
I know Muslims must love homosexuals too.
2BorNot2B | Oct 18, 2010, 03:11 PM EDT
As for the hopeless holl-on-back gurl(??? yeah, sure... whatever.. just like Cahir) spitting out those oh very optimistically enhanced figures for muslims... if those big numbers ever turn out to be true, and their dominion of the West ever comes to pass... let's see how much cheering for mu's she and Cahir have time to do before they castrate, behead or otherwise stone them to death for their 'quaint' ways.
2BorNot2B | Oct 18, 2010, 03:01 PM EDT
1.7 billion people --- OK, I know the males in that culture have up to 4 wives (the ones they can actually declare, the rest... too numerous to quantify), and that they use the as pleasure slaves, baby-churning machines and mu-religion-statistical-enhacement tools... but 1.7 billion since just 9/11/01? -- Someone should check their nose... like Pinocchio's it just keeps growing... and growing.
manhattan | Oct 18, 2010, 02:50 PM EDT
Cahir,Dennis Q and good ole hollabackgirl, Greetings from Ben Laden he loves you all.
hancock | Oct 18, 2010, 11:52 AM EDT
Hey holla why don't you move to a Muslim country and see hoe extreme they realy are.
hollabackgurl | Oct 18, 2010, 10:37 AM EDT
It's pathetic to vilify 1.7 billion people for the actions of 19 extermists. O'Reilly knows better, he just doesn't act better.
kell7757 | Oct 18, 2010, 09:48 AM EDT
I'm surprised they didn't put their fingers in their ears and say I can't hear you loudly.
kell7757 | Oct 18, 2010, 09:46 AM EDT
It reminded me of 7th grade cafeteria antics. I won't sit with her. I won't talk to him. He says things I don't like. Just pathetic and childish. They showed their true colors. I can't physically be around someone who doesn't think exactly like me. I just can't stand it. They did a fabulous job of showing how immature they are.
kell7757 | Oct 18, 2010, 09:43 AM EDT
"You don't really belong to the people you're defending. You don't even like most of them, you often say." Have you ever heard of the expression, he's his own man. He has the right to express his views, without first checking to see if he belongs to a group of people who agree and accept him. He just happens to express what he believes, and lots of people just happen to agree. Whether or not it's a perfect fit for the right wing, or the tea party, or whether or not they accept him into their fold as fully as you think they should, will be left for quibbling journalists to hash out.
DennisQ | Oct 17, 2010, 11:50 PM EDT
Where is the evidence linking Muslims to the September 11th attacks? I hope it doesn't depend on Mohammed Atta's "miracle passport" that survived the plane crash and was found on the street that afternoon.
Osama bin Laden has the most recognizable face in the entire world. He's six foot seven, very gaunt, and needs kidney dialysis to keep him alive. He is believed to have coordinated an international network from a cave outside Bora Bora. How did he do this? Apparently with runners, carrier pigeons, and a shortwave radio. With a bounty on his head worth millions, his organization somehow manages to repel infiltrators.
At some point, the weight of all the improbabilities has to burden the story, don't you think? At every point where bin Laden needs to reach into his bag of tricks, he's able to do it! At some point, ordinarily skeptical people should start saying Pshaw! to the by now well-encrusted legend of the mysterious leader of Al Qaeda.
Can we go back to what we actually know? Buildings came down on September 11th, and a lot of people were killed. Within only two hours, the American government had already solved the crime. They knew who did it and why. The story has not changed even slightly in the intervening nine years. Pshaw!
hollabackgurl | Oct 17, 2010, 11:17 PM EDT
For information on the Tea Party's anti Muslim ties you could start by Googling this: "Tea Party Forging Links With Violent, Anti-Islam British Right-Wingers." Apparently you're not up to speed on what's happening in the movement, vincem13.
hollabackgurl | Oct 17, 2010, 11:05 PM EDT
The Tea Party president Tim Ravndal was kicked out of theTea Party over an exchange on his Facebook page that condoned violence against homosexuals. Tea Party hero Carl Paladino recently commented that gay-pride parades are "disgusting." The National Tea Party movement hosted their first annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and they invited a roster of speakers that together form an army of anti-gay talking heads. Rand Paul has taken a staunch stand against same-sex marriage. Christine O'Donnell calls gays, including her own sister, "dysfunctional." Tea Party Patriots groups hurled anti-gay epithets at Barney Frank and Michelle Bachman's anti-gay crusade is a matter of record. I could go on, but I've made my point.
vincem13 | Oct 17, 2010, 10:53 PM EDT
So the Tea Party are "anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim"? I would ask you for your documentary proof, but being a statist mouthpeice, you and I both know that none exists. Are many of those in the Tea Party movement opposed, as are most Americans, to marriage being defined other than "one man and one woman"? You bet. I have never heard or seen anything from the Tea Party hateful of homosexuals- and you haven't either (it will be our little secret). Are most of the members of the Tea Party opposed to rampant uncontrolled ILLEGAL immigration and in favor of thorough border control? Yes, again. Have they said ANYTHING against lawful immigrants or a lawful immigration policy? You know they haven't. The Tea Party has never said anything hateful or disrespectful of all Muslims- but don't expect them to be tolerant of any extremists or terrorists of any denomination or stripe who threaten the United States. I know that to you this is evil, but to most of the rest of us it is called "Patriotism".
manhattan | Oct 17, 2010, 10:30 PM EDT
Bill O'Reilly sleeps very well thank you. Because he didn't say "extremist muslims"you call him racist? Ben Laden is loving you Caca oops I mean Cahir. Your PC nonsense is sickening.
killowen | Oct 17, 2010, 10:08 PM EDT
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McNabb1966 | Oct 17, 2010, 09:18 PM EDT
The fact that Al-Quaeda hijacked planes and flew them into buildings pretty much confirms that they are "extremists." So the fact that O'Reilly didn't go the extra 3 syllables and qualify his statement by saying "extremists" was no reason for Whoopi and the other one to walk out on their own show. Clowns like Whoopi and her husky sidekick shouldn't attempt "righteous indignation." It's not a good look for them... They should be thanking him for elevating their ratings. They need HIS help, not the other way around. That's why my advice to O'Reilly would be to NOT demean himself by sitting with idiots who want to split hairs about the difference between "rape" and "rape rape" and NOT waste his time boosting their ratings. And for all the kool-aid drinking wingnuts out there, it goes without saying that terrorists are extremists. The fact of the matter is that we're talking about MUSLIM extremists in the case of 9-11. If you want to be credible, then you need to at least come to terms with the basic facts of the issue.
TraveLynn | Oct 17, 2010, 08:03 PM EDT
Unless you are a total idiot, anyone knows darn well that he was speaking of Muslim extremists. He is not (or Americans, for that matter) against Muslims. It's the extremist versions who hate us for just being born here that we don't care for. It's people like you, not Bill O'Reilly, who get the extremists in an uproar. You're causing trouble by pointing out silly crap like this. If those two dumb broads didn't walk off, no one would have even heard about his appearance on the show. Do us all a favor and keep your progressive drivel to yourself. The funny thing about progressives is they are as closed minded as far right conservatives. God forbid you disagree with a progressive liberal, they just might walk out of the room on you. That ain't so bad though...
mayoman | Oct 17, 2010, 07:56 PM EDT
Well said, Cahir. Bill O'Reilly is a man that casually and unconsciousably spreads his darkness in an effort to sell a few hundred thousand loathesome books. And yet he apparently never reflects on the toxic fallout he creates, or of the people that his hate impacts. He really doesn't give a damn for anyone he views beneath him. He is one of the the worst among us.
killowen | Oct 17, 2010, 07:53 PM EDT
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killowen | Oct 17, 2010, 07:52 PM EDT
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DeaconJack | Oct 17, 2010, 07:39 PM EDT
What a ration of pisswa from this so-called son of Erin!!!Why don't you go to ANY muslim country and TRY to speak your mind???---and, the sooner the better!!
etig1130 | Oct 17, 2010, 07:38 PM EDT
The war against Christianity goes back over 1000 years...and according the Muslims, it won't end until the world is under their domination. Most of Europe is on its way to sharia law. The low birthrate in Europe will give way to a Islamic society. They will conquer Europe without firing a shot. Will the U.S. have to send their boys "over there" for a third time?
mandokeith | Oct 17, 2010, 07:00 PM EDT
Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg(not even her real name) are posers. Their "righetous indignation" in defense of the Muslim name was poorly played. Whoopsie wasn't even brave enough to walk out until joy joined in. Then they come back? What a show for the housewives! Yay! Bill O'Reilly is a fire brand, and we need those people on both sides to keep us on our guard and keep the feelings real. Otherwise we will settle into the upcoming malaise of muslems overtaking America and fighting the gay rights advocates and while watching the illegal immigrants take over Arizona............
mandokeith | Oct 17, 2010, 06:17 PM EDT
Why was anyone expecting anything different from a bigot who works for the mouthpiece of American fascism? Civility? Why did The View give him yet another forum to promote intolerance and hate speech? Is the Klan next on their guest list?
seanomelbourne | Oct 17, 2010, 06:02 PM EDT
Interesting article Cahir. Maybe Mr. O'reilly lacks a conscience,you know the old adage"If it's not about money it's about money."Selling his soul may come easy to him.
rcrdskpr@aol.com | Oct 17, 2010, 05:39 PM EDT
lets see, it wasnt catholics or protestants; nor jews or italians; not hindus or pagans. bill was right, it was muslims of the islamic faith.
ciarrai | Oct 17, 2010, 05:29 PM EDT
Bill O'Reilly doesn't need to sleep because he is a vampire and, as we all know, vampires don't need to sleep because they are really dead. I put O'Reilly in with the other creeps, Hannity and Palin. They survive only by creating irritation and controversy. They are truly anti-American and the FBI ought to check the 3 of them out.
fuchsia | Oct 17, 2010, 04:49 PM EDT
I agree very much that Fox is leading people in a very dangerous direction; scorched earth sums it up well. O'Reilly plays fast andloose with the truth and lies easily and often. When I see hate-filled comments like the ones here below it makes me want to weep. Ofcourse Muslims condemned the 9/11 attacks. How can anyone think ALL of them think alike, while taking such pleasure in tearing into anything they disagree with in columns like this?
SligoHorse | Oct 17, 2010, 04:38 PM EDT
Just wondering who attacked Pearl Harbor to bring the USA into WWII and who attached Poland to start WWII. Yes it was Japan and Germany, also what about the 1000's of Irish who had to deal with being called terrorists while scraping a living in Maggie Thatchers England, suck it up Mohammed........
TheOldPerfessor | Oct 17, 2010, 04:05 PM EDT
If you look up the actual facts, most of the 9-11 hijackers were Saudis. That made it more poignant when I saw Bush kissing the Saudi prince on the cheek and holding hands with him. True, Muslims did kill us on 9-11. Christians killed us in Oklahoma City and during World Wars 1 and 2. Buddhists bombed us at Pearl Harbor. There are now five sushi restaurants outside the gates at Pearl Harbor. At a certain point you have to move on. As for O'Reilly, I wouldn't believe any matters of substance from a man who can't even tell the truth about where he grew up. For years he claimed that he grew up in Levittown, rather than Westbury according to his mother. He had teams of worshippers spin the facts to show that this was true. Unfortunately, you can go into a major library on Long Island, have them bring up the 1958 phone book and see O'Reilly's dad listed in Westbury.
galway2001 | Oct 17, 2010, 03:38 PM EDT
bill o' reilly was right,they were muslims i dont hear or see any muslim out there condeming what they did.whoopy goldberg and joy behr should be fired the name of the show is the view but it has to be their view.barbara walters has no GUTS.
Monsoonman | Oct 17, 2010, 01:40 PM EDT
I like the liberal compassion, they walk out on those who they don't agree with instead of conversing with them. And of course they are so compassionate towards others....with other peoples money. I remember a few years back when a governor of a state set up a special fund for donations to worthy charitable causes instead of burdening the taxpayers with it. The governor put in the first 50 thousand. After a year the fund had 55 thousand.
killowen | Oct 17, 2010, 01:13 PM EDT
Since 9/11 we've been killing so many angry muslims that makes our number seem like a knat's blip on the tele.
killowen | Oct 17, 2010, 01:09 PM EDT
Roman Catholics aree killing us. That McVeigh crazy. Jews are attacking our quest for ME peace. Nutenyahoo fruitcake.
pflynn70 | Oct 17, 2010, 12:30 PM EDT
Ok "ding dong" who was it that killed over 3,000 innocent people on 9/11? Or is it that your like the two rude idiots who ran off the show because they had nothing to come back with? If you love the Muslims, go & live with them, or should I say "Radical Muslims. You reallly have your hear so far up your "arse" that you cannot see daylight.
jdi2269 | Oct 17, 2010, 12:14 PM EDT
cahir,,,,have you been smoking niall's dope????
tbrowne34 | Oct 17, 2010, 12:13 PM EDT
O'Reilly states an obvious truth and Cahir and the girls on the view get their panties in a twist over a small semantic matter that he said Muslims instead of Muslim terrorists. He was correct in his statement, it's certainly not defamation they were all Muslims who hijacked the planes without much as a peep from the majority of the rest of the muslim world. Everyone but the dimmest bulbs and some politcally correct liberal weenies knows he doesn't literally mean every Muslim in the world attacked the WTC so stop the phony indignation. You and your ilk are in a progressive lockstep minority who will coddle and protect murderers until they are sawing your head off with a rusty blade.
Pittsburghkid | Oct 17, 2010, 12:07 PM EDT
Let get to the meat of the issue. O'Reilly is against the ground zero mosque. This is why the nutty woman went off the handle. Ground Zero is sacred ground. Muslim alway build a mosque over conquered grounds. They did this in Jerusalem, Turkey, and Spain. They are not going to build a victory mosque on groung zero. I do not care what those postmeno. women say.
maloney | Oct 17, 2010, 11:53 AM EDT
Since when does 1.7 billion people need looking after? The muslims not only killed Americans, they also killed their own, muslims. cahir, I don't think you care about the muslims at all. I think you just want to stifle free speach by saying anti-gay, anti-immigrant & anti-muslim ideas are wrong. Your attempt to scare people from saying anything you don't agree with will not work as you & the progressive movement are desperate to have it your way. Your way will soon be the highway.
MarthaAnne | Oct 17, 2010, 11:50 AM EDT
You write about Bill O'Reilly as a working class boy who went to fancy prep school and Harvard and who prefers to rub shoulders with cips and firemen, and who is not invited to conservative "patrician" enclaves. Well, my father, son of Galway immigrants whose mother was a household servant and father worked in a soap factory NEVER felt he needed to hang out with cops and firemen and he was born in a working class Irish area in America 35 years before Bill O'Reilly. My father, son of the true working class immigrant Irish, graduated with highest honors from MIT and worked as a lead engineer on the Apollo projects and HE WAS NOT A BIGOT LIKE O'REILLY AND WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE STUPID ARROGANCE TO SPEAK OF THE TERRORISTS AS "THE MUSLIMS", HE DID NOT NEED TO INSULT PEOPLE FOR THEIR UNFORTUNATELY BEING OF THE SAME RELIGION OF OTHERS WHO HARMED PEOPLE. My father was as smart, or smarter than Bill O'Reilly and a gentleman who had respect for others. Just having him stand next to O'Reilly people would have seen that this has NOTHING to do with O'Reilly's ethnic Irish roots and EVERYTHING to do with O'Reilly's small minded, mean spirited and, more than everything, angry, bullying personality.
feeneycj | Oct 17, 2010, 11:46 AM EDT
Bill is right Cahir, although he meant to say Muslim terrorists. Bill is the first person to say that most Muslims are peace loving. He is concerned because the peace loving Muslims do not condemn the violent Muslims. If all Muslims joined together against violence, terrorism and threats, there would be a lot of peace in this world. Speak out!
patconrey | Oct 17, 2010, 11:38 AM EDT
Did I hear Bill say that an Irish Catholic did to bombing in Oklahoma City?
tom/peggy | Oct 17, 2010, 11:14 AM EDT
I wish Muslims around the world would condemn the muslim extremists. Sadly very few do. I have memories of jubilation in the streets of muslim nations around the world right after 9-11. Whoopie and Joy's stunt and that's all it was made them look foolish. Yes 70% of Americans don't want the mosque built lthere. Bill O'Reilly is very direct and I personally like that. Our President is only direct when he goes after people with political differences.
kilgara | Oct 17, 2010, 11:08 AM EDT
The fact is NO recognized muslim group in the U.S. condemned what those scumbags did to us on 9/11. If you are not part of the solution , you are part of the problem. Ban ALL muslim immigration!P.S. If you look up the word pinhead in a dictionary you'll see a photo of Cahir O'Doherty right along side the photo of his cousin O'Dowd.
luckysusan | Oct 17, 2010, 11:04 AM EDT
Well said all the way. And while Bill O'Reilly should be ashamed of the way he casually defames whole groups of people and uses his pulpit to further divide Americans from Americans and Americans from the rest of the world, the mainstream media - print and electronic - need to stand up and do some real journalism, based on research and reporting of facts rather than spinelessly roll over in the path of the Fox News bulldozer.
mhichil | Oct 17, 2010, 10:45 AM EDT
there are a lot of pin heads in america, Bill O'Rielly is but one of them. Fox News is the kingdom of idiots. This is what happens when you cut educational funding. ( and they vote!)
joanmurphy | Oct 17, 2010, 10:17 AM EDT
let the truth be heard...muslims did plan and carry out 9/11 attacks and the ny or world community of muslims never paid their respects or said they were sorry...read between the lines...we don't care and we are afraid of our own religion...Go get them Bill!
maycomb | Oct 17, 2010, 10:12 AM EDT
O'Reilly falls asleep counting dollars. Clearly, it is the only thing he cares about.
haikued2 | Oct 17, 2010, 10:05 AM EDT
So, were the killers on 9/11 Muslims? I think so. The implications are similar to YOUR clearly stupid indictment of the Tea Party Movement and anyone who is not a believer in "progressive" (but intolerant) politics and social behavior. While not all Muslims are out to kill us, there seem to be many who are. Not all English are bad either.
Christisall | Oct 17, 2010, 10:02 AM EDT
Liberal dems are paranoid; they are afraid they are losing ground, which they are, thank God. It will be a great blessing from above when obama, piglosi, and the rest lose and the move is in favor of conservatives again. . . In less than 2 years, obama has to this country on a destruction course.The arrogance and narcissism are unbelievable.
Christisall | Oct 17, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT
Of course it was Muslims who murdered nearly 3000 people, innocent people. Bill says it like it truly is and the truth just cannot be tolerated by liberals.Until regular, good Muslims stand against terrorist Muslims, they are all guilty. Bill O'reilly, go, go, go!!!Tell it like it is and drive the liberals crazy. The truth always hurts.
mcginleynj | Oct 17, 2010, 09:45 AM EDT
Bravo Bill!!!!!!!!!!!!! We all know where you stand. You make it clear. Fair & Balanced; that is Bill.
Southernpride | Oct 17, 2010, 09:28 AM EDT
They will come for the gay men first
CitizenWhy | Oct 17, 2010, 03:09 AM EDT
Taking an aspirin just before you go to bed will help anyone fall into a good sleep, including liars, ax murderers, Democrats, Republicans and even hysteric and paranoid Fox News viewers.