People and Politics by Patrick Roberts

Bill O'Reilly says Rush Limbaugh mocked him as arrogant

Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 at 01:18 PM

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In his new book 'Pinheads and Patriots' Bill O'Reilly says Rush Limbaugh set him up as "a target of derision" when he imitated him on one of his radio shows and mocked him for being a closet Obama supporter.

O'Reilly says Limbaugh, pretending to be O'Reilly said it was time to "give socialism, even communism a fair shake."

O'Reilly also says Limbaugh mocked him as arrogant saying "Nobody can be more arrogant" than O'Reilly.

O'Reilly fires back at Limbaugh saying "If you state an opinion with authority in this country you will be branded as arrogant"

Anyway he says "I kind of enjoyed being called arrogant by Rush Limbaugh. Not to many folks reach that plateau in life."

O'Reilly says that "Whenever the left wing press attacks me, saying that I am some kind of conservative zealot, I smile and think of old Rush. He would certainly disagree."

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kevinhayes | Sep 15, 2010, 10:49 PM EDT

@pflynn70 - seeing you invite it, it is obvious that the President is not a socialist so Billo is correct and Hush Bimbo (and you) are incorrect. A socialist is someone who advocates socialism, the owning of the means of production and distribution by the community as a whole. That is very far from Barack Obama's position. Just because you dumbo righties repeat it to each other in the epistemic closure that is the vast right wing conspiracy does not make it so!

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kevinhayes | Sep 15, 2010, 10:42 PM EDT

I notice there's no mention by Billo that Hush Bimbo (Michael Savage's name for Rush Limbaugh) referred to him as "Ted Baxter". Maybe that was too close to home? I love it when these rich righties take swings at each other.

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Yerffac | Sep 15, 2010, 10:15 AM EDT

Pflynn: And what is wrong with being a Socialist?

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Yerffac | Sep 15, 2010, 10:15 AM EDT

Hey, why are you following all these ugly people? Don't we hear enough about them on our news media? What is this site all about? Another wingnut outlet?

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Monsoonman | Sep 10, 2010, 12:47 AM EDT

O'Reilly loves the publicity. To him it's all good, positive or negative, makes no difference.

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McNamara31 | Sep 09, 2010, 11:30 AM EDT

Rush, a pathetic man, building his greedy fortunes on smear.

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maireadinmelb | Sep 09, 2010, 06:07 AM EDT

But well said anyway Rush!!

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seanomelbourne | Sep 08, 2010, 09:31 PM EDT

The kettle calling the pot black.

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pflynn70 | Sep 08, 2010, 02:06 PM EDT

I love Bill O'Reilly but he sometimes plays his comments to close trying to be fair, look, if your a conservative, act as one. Rush knew from the beginning that Obama was a Socialist with extreme left wing views but for a long time O'Reilly kept trying to play Obama as a plain liberal. Guess who's right?

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