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O'Reilly on teenagers' topless photo scandal: "[T]his isn't ... the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system"

Summary: While discussing ninth-grade students at a school in New Jersey who were suspended for distributing topless photographs of their classmates, Bill O'Reilly stated, "But it's an amazing amount of kids involved with this -- 20 -- in an affluent school district. This isn't, you know, the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system."
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Posted by dexteritas0071418

O'Reilly's pretty out-of-touch on this one. Does he know who Paris Hilton is?

Posted by dbeden4153 in reply to dexteritas0071418

O'Reilly is pretty out of touch with everything.  Did you catch the Bill Moyers kerfluffle?  The whole thing, not just the brief snippet and subsequent body language analysis that O'Reilly actually showed?  Just another example of how unjournalistic all of Fox News really is.  

Oh, and for those of you who didn't see the O'Reilly segment on it, he played about 10 seconds of the "ambush interview" and then went off on how Moyers and Rather are "Far left loons, way far left.  They're crazy!" 

hilarious. ;) 

Posted by pete592 in reply to dbeden4153

OMG.  I wasn't the least bit surprised at how low he had to go to salvage the clobbering that Barry got at the hands of Bill Moyers and the guys who chased him out of the building.

Bill's got the body lingo expert encased backstage with a sign that reads, "in case of unusable material, break glass". 

Posted by christopher howard in reply to pete592

I remember an episode of Babylon 5 (The Illusion of Truth) where the crew gives an interview to a hostile news corporation. You see what actually occurs in the first half of the episode and then how the propagandists cut the footage to make events appear completely the opposite of the truth in the second. I saw the original uncut version of the Moyers interview and then the footage O'Reilly presented. For some reason that B5 episode came straight to mind.

Posted by see it real in reply to dbeden4153

"O'Reilly is pretty out of touch with everything. Did you catch the Bill Moyers kerfluffle? The whole thing, not just the brief snippet and subsequent body language analysis that O'Reilly actually showed? Just another example of how unjournalistic all of Fox News really is.

Oh, and for those of you who didn't see the O'Reilly segment on it, he played about 10 seconds of the "ambush interview" and then went off on how Moyers and Rather are "Far left loons, way far left. They're crazy!"

hilarious. ;)"

I did see that, and I saw the counter-follow-up to Bill Moyers' smackdown of Bill-O's right wing punk henchpeople on Keith Olbermann.  They filmed a progressive media journalist giving O'Lielly's henchpeople a dose of their own ambush medicine as they were leaving, asking them why they didn't answer Moyers' questions about why O'Lielly refuses to appear on Bill Moyers show.

Not only do O'Lielly and his henchpeople hate losing ambush interviews, they also hate being on the receiving end  of them.

Posted by stevensm in reply to dexteritas0071418

Yes, O'Reilly is so out of touch it's ridiculous. He acts likes he's just one of the folks but, in reality, he doesn't have a clue.

O'Reilly: "This isn't, you know, the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system."

That's right, O'Reilly, those inner city people just have no decent values at all while wealthy suburb kids are usually the standard bearers for decency and proper behavior. ~snark~

His above comment reminds me of his trip to Sylvia's when he exclaimed how he couldn't get over the fact that the customers there (largely black) didn't act all crazy; that they weren't any different than the patrons at an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb.

Time and time again, O'Reilly shows that he has an undercurrent of negative bias against inner city people and black people while having a positive bias towards wealthy, suburban whites like him. He keeps outing his bias over and over again despite his protestations that's he harbors no such bias.

 

Posted by see it real in reply to stevensm

"Time and time again, O'Reilly shows that he has an undercurrent of negative bias against inner city people and black people while having a positive bias towards wealthy, suburban whites like him. He keeps outing his bias over and over again despite his protestations that's he harbors no such bias."

Largely true, with one sub-point.  The only black people that Bill "likes" and "respects" are the self-hating anti-black Negro conservatives who bash their own race and/or excuse and/or defend and/or act as apologists for his and other racist white conservatives' racism and/or also hate and detest black people more than he and his racist white supremacist conservatives do (Juan Williams, Rashonda Barber. Larry Elder, Armshill Bagman Williams, Jesse Lee Peterson, Ward "Con Man" Connerly, etc.).  Bill O'Lielly's so-called "respect" for these alleged black people is actually RACIST, since Bill and other white conservatives only have a racist white supremacist "respect" and "liking" for black people who are subordinate to them and other racist whites.

Black talk radio, such as "The Black Eagle" Joe Madison http://www.joemadison.com on Radio One's black talk radio network on XM Radio XM 169/THE POWER (Bill attacked Joe on his show once) along with THE POWER's other black talk radio host Warren Ballantine http://www.thetruthfighters.com, and WVON-AM 1690's Roland S. Martin http://www.rolandsmartin.com http://www.wvon.com, along with Clifford Kelley and Perri Small and Matt McGill, and their respective black talk radio audiences, will all be barbecuing Bill-O and his racist white supremacist audience and the self-hating anti-black Negro conservatives on the O'Lielly plantation for the next week or so. 

Posted by stevensm in reply to see it real

"The only black people that Bill "likes" and "respects" are the self-hating anti-black Negro conservatives who bash their own race and/or excuse and/or defend and/or act as apologists for his and other racist white conservatives' racism and/or also hate and detest black people..."

Glad to see you put "likes" and "respects" in quotes because I think the only reason O'Reilly has them on is that he is using them to make his point...and the fact that they are African-Americans lends some sort of credibility to his arguments.

Posted by see it real in reply to stevensm

"The only black people that Bill "likes" and "respects" are the self-hating anti-black Negro conservatives who bash their own race and/or excuse and/or defend and/or act as apologists for his and other racist white conservatives' racism and/or also hate and detest black people..."

"Glad to see you put "likes" and "respects" in quotes because I think the only reason O'Reilly has them on is that he is using them to make his point...and the fact that they are African-Americans lends some sort of credibility to his arguments."

You mean O'Reilly THINKS they lend credibility to his argument.

If you listen to any black talk radio station, whether it's Radio One's THE POWER on XM 169 or Chicago's Black Talk Radio Station WVON-AM 1690 http://www.wvon.com or the American Urban Radio Network, you then see that the dis-likes of Juan "I Hate Black People" Williams and Rashonda "I Hate Black People" Barber and Larry "I Hate Black People" Elder are even MORE hated on black talk radio than O'Reilly continues to be, and that's BEFORE these and/or other self-hating anti-black Yes' Massa buck-dancing Negro conservatives (paraphrasing the words of WVON's black talk radio host Matt McGill) act as his apologists.

Posted by see it real in reply to dexteritas0071418

Perhaps Bill can find out by making a phone sex call to her.

She'd be the first female to actually WANT a phone sex call from Bill O'Lielly.  Paris has no sense nor taste, but that's a whole other story.

Posted by RABBITLUVR

O'Reilly talking about 'values'? Oh sure...

Then again... figures Billy would go after this story.

Posted by Governor in reply to RABBITLUVR

"Then I would take the other hand with the falafel (sic) thing and I'd put it on your..."
--Bill O'Reilly at the work
(good thing he's not a school teacher)

Posted by RABBITLUVR in reply to Governor

What's really disgusting is that he probably would want to play that sick 'game' with those ninth graders.

Yeah, that's right, Billo! Go ahead and sick your 'Fox Security' thugs on me! I know you read this site so bring it on.

Posted by darkmass in reply to RABBITLUVR

"Yeah, that's right, Billo! Go ahead and sick your 'Fox Security' thugs on me! I know you read this site so bring it on." - Rabbitluvr

Be careful what you ask for.  Billo just might turn the big guns on you and send out Porter Barry!

Posted by RABBITLUVR in reply to darkmass

Yeah, I'm really quaking! :P

Posted by darkmass in reply to RABBITLUVR

While Porter was drying his shorts over the men's room hand dryer afterwards, he was caught saying to himself, "So this is what O'Reilly meant when he was muttering, 'Oh my god, I'm sending Biscuitfling The Clown into the O.K. Corral'."

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski

O'Reilly's values include sexual harassment of colleagues, so it sounds like this school's 'values' are right in line with his own!

Posted by shaggles

Nice.  Inner city kids don't have a value system.  That's just for affluent folks.  O'Reilly is such an elitist snob.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to shaggles

Inner city kids don't have a value system. 

There's a good chance that inner city kids don't have the high-tech equipment to take and share these photos, and PCs in their bedrooms away from where their parents can see what they're doing.  I think it's EASIER for kids from an affluent school to do this.

Posted by plhamel4926 in reply to wzwriter

Ha values...Here last fall an affluent suburban girl--now 18 and thus an adult--stole money from a young Girl Scout selling cookies. This happened very close to where I teach achool. A few days later media was there and so was the theif, who was boasting to the reporters what she did. The media called the police. In an interview she said that she was not sorry for what she did to the child because she had to give the money back and she still had charges.

Affluence and values are not compatible. 

 

Posted by wzwriter in reply to plhamel4926

Affluence and values are not compatible. 

Agreed.

EXHIBIT A - Paris Hilton.

EXHIBIT B - Nicole Richie.

EXHIBIT C - The Hernandez Brothers.

Posted by k2 in reply to wzwriter

Menendez brothers!

Posted by wzwriter in reply to k2

Correct.  I wish MMFA had an "edit" feature.....

Posted by pbg in reply to wzwriter

Yeah, man, what you got against the Love & Rockets guys?

Posted by see it real in reply to wzwriter

Affluence and values are not compatible. Agreed.

EXHIBIT A - Paris Hilton.

EXHIBIT B - Nicole Richie.

EXHIBIT C - The Menendez Brothers.

EXHIBIT D - Nick Bollea/Nick Hogan, son of Hulk Hogan.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to see it real

Updated list: 

EXHIBIT A - Paris Hilton.

EXHIBIT B - Nicole Richie.

EXHIBIT C - The Menendez Brothers.

EXHIBIT D - Nick Bollea/Nick Hogan, son of Hulk Hogan.

EXHIBIT E - The Kardashians.

EXHIBIT F - Donald Trump (serial marriages)

EXHIBIT G - Lou Perlman (boy band empresaro, swindler)

EXHIBIT H - The high school football players in Glen Ridge NJ who sexually violateda mentally challenged classmate with a miniature baseball bat and a broom handle.  I believe a TV movie was done a few years back based on this case.(http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/glenridge-verdict.html)

Posted by parcival in reply to wzwriter

Further updated list:

John McCain. (Read on his first wife. It's not so pretty, let alone "heroic.")

Posted by see it real in reply to wzwriter

"There's a good chance that inner city kids don't have the high-tech equipment to take and share these photos, and PCs in their bedrooms away from where their parents can see what they're doing. I think it's EASIER for kids from an affluent school to do this."

Also, just recently, 2 affluent white subruban teenagers just recently had to issue a You Tube apology for their vicious and stupid "Fire In The Hole" pranks throigh their local drive-thru's.

Next, there's Nick Bollea, the 17 year old rich white punk son of Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, who's currently serving an 8 month sentence for causing an accident while he was driving in an illegal street race that put his best "friend", an Iraq war veteran, into a coma that he will likely be in the rest of his life.

Guess the racist white supremacist Bill-O doesn't want to talk about THOSE white kids, right?

Posted by see it real in reply to wzwriter

"Inner city kids don't have a value system.

There's a good chance that inner city kids don't have the high-tech equipment to take and share these photos, and PCs in their bedrooms away from where their parents can see what they're doing. I think it's EASIER for kids from an affluent school to do this."

Also, the inner city kids likely don't have the availability to the women that Bill knows, and the inner city kids can't make unwanted phone sex calls to these women, like Bill-O does, and/or most of the affluent suburban white kids do, all the time.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to see it real

Also, the inner city kids likely don't have the availability to the women that Bill knows, and the inner city kids can't make unwanted phone sex calls to these women, like Bill-O does, and/or most of the affluent suburban white kids do, all the time.

According to BO, all those inner city kids can do is get after-school jobs in black-run restaurants, bringing the patrons their mo-fo iced tea.....  :-)

Posted by watershed

Inner city=working class+minority=valueless?

 

Posted by see it real in reply to watershed

"Inner city=working class+minority=valueless?"

According to right wing racist white supremacist conservatives like Bill-O and Drugbaugh and Hannity and Ingraham and Levin and right wing racist white supremacist conservative and the anti-black self-hating black conservatives like Juan "I Hate Black People" Williams and Larry "I Hate Black People" Elder and John Mc"I Bash My Own race So White Conservative Elites Pay Me Big Money"Whorter, the answer is yes. 

Posted by mary59

Bill...another porno puritan, managing to chastise "young people", insult inner city kids, and reveal just how obsessed he himself is with sex.

Next week on the O'lielly factor: "how naked trout are writhing in the streams of America, and what we can do about it."

Posted by pearlene_scott1602 in reply to mary59

Next week on the O'lielly factor: "how naked trout are writhing in the streams of America, and what we can do about it."

That's funny.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to pearlene_scott1602

Next week on the O'lielly factor: "how naked trout are writhing in the streams of America, and what we can do about it."

That's funny.

Watch for O'Reilly to ask John Ashcroft to head up a campaign to get curtains installed to cover the streams, like he did with those semi-nude statues at the Justice Department.....

Posted by mary59 in reply to wzwriter

And I didn't bring up those salmon flinging themselves up the fish ladders ;-)  O'lielly's producer confronts Bonneville Dam director about display windows showing fishy antics...

Posted by worrierking

I think a solution to the problem with values not being taught in the public school might be to start teaching the youngsters from this book:

"The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families"

There is a used copy available at Amazon.com for $.01.

It's a bit overpriced as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by mary59 in reply to worrierking

They'll have to use yen pretty soon.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to mary59

And one yen will get you 47 copies...

Posted by NiceguyEddie in reply to wzwriter

You'd have to pay me for the time it would take me to read that filthy, poorly researched, misinformed pile of tripe.  And I wouldn't accept minimum wage to do it either.  I've read just enough of it to know that my time is worth more than that if I were to read the rest.

Posted by sportsguydave in reply to wzwriter

Sorry ... I just don't have the yen to pay for ANYTHING written by Billo....

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to worrierking

Real subtle, Worrierking. Hinting at Father's Day gift ideas, eh?

All you other hint-dropping dads, I heard another recommendation on the radio yesterday; The roast of Dennis Prager on DVD. Yes, you can hear Prager roasted by Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and others, probably involving a lot of Hillary Clinton and Obama jokes.

BTW, this was recommended by Prager. Imagine the look on dad's face when he unwraps that!

Posted by mary59 in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

I'd buy one if they use real charcoal for the roast...

Posted by worrierking in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

Do you know if it's available on Blu-Ray?

I was just at the Dennis Prager Store and only saw DVD copies.

It says his friends roasted him slowly.

Is this some kind of snuff film?

I hope not.

Posted by plhamel4926

In public school they don't have -- teach values anymore, civics or any of that.

I am a teacher in Florida. The 7th grade Social Studies curriculum is civics. Not to mention that as early as 2nd grade we teach in social studies what civic responsibility is--our rights as citizens--and responsibilities. I am sure most states have a similar curriculum model. Where does BO get his information from? Does he even do research at all before he goes on with something?

Posted by NiceguyEddie in reply to plhamel4926

Yeah, but you don't cram Bill O'Rielly's 'values' down their throats, so that means you're not teaching them anything.  (Amazing how binary the right can be.)  Now excuse me while I go wash my hands for suggesting, in type, that Bill-O actually has any values.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to NiceguyEddie

Yeah, but you don't cram Bill O'Rielly's 'values' down their throats, so that means you're not teaching them anything

His values include the proper use of a loofa/falafel, right?

Posted by see it real in reply to wzwriter

"Yeah, but you don't cram Bill O'Rielly's 'values' down their throats, so that means you're not teaching them anything.

His values include the proper use of a loofa/falafel, right?"

That, and Bill-O's "values" also include the "proper" way to solicit unwanted phone sex from women. 

Posted by parcival in reply to plhamel4926

PL,

The point is that o'leilly researches nothing. He says what his ignorant audience wants to hear. The "right" has mastered that: providing gurus with their plaitudes and moralisms with no substance whatsoever.

Posted by tommy

Oh Bill, you know, if you really want people to lay off of you, and you can be sure Olbermann will have this little gem up tonight, then you are going to have to stop subtly taking swipes at people you find unseemly or unworthy or something.  You have no one to blame but yourself, geeshhhhh.....

Posted by see it real in reply to tommy

Either this is a different poster pretending to be Tommy, or this is something even Tommy can't be an apologist for.

Posted by NiceguyEddie

Does this 18th century blowhard really think that rich, white boys like seeing girls topless any less than poor black or latino boys?  Regardless of how you feel about the behavior, and as bad as it is, he's overreacting, why the hell would he think it would be more prevalent in the inner city?  (Or with non-whites?)  Does this guy EVER go on the internet?  (Or that white girls are less likely to take their tops off than black girls?  Apparently he's never been to a concert either.)  Puttig aside the behavior in question (which is inappropriate, no matter how amusing I find it personally) it always amazes me when these guys are "shocked" to discover that (their) rich, white kids are every bit as fallible (as human, really) as everybody else. 

(Of course anything that involves exposed flesh pretty much ties this guy up in knots.  Explains why he had to sexually harrass his producer over the phone.)

 (This guy sure must have been a fun date in HS, huh?)

Posted by jeter2

Our eldest son taught for three years in one of the most affluent towns in northeast Massachusetts [he's since married & gone to teach in central Ma.] and he found many of these "rich" kids to be sorely lacking when it came to accepting discipline nor were they a particularly virtuous group of youngsters. Another words Billy-Boy, affluence does not equal morals or values.

Sometimes it's just the opposite...

Posted by NiceguyEddie in reply to jeter2

Hear, hear!!!

Posted by parcival in reply to jeter2

Jeter,

I professionally deal with middle schoolers most of the year. What you say is true: I find the most valueless individuals--and the least disciplined--to be the wealthiest. I admire teachers to try to instill some values, beyond blind consumption, to them. But it must not be easy. There's the beauty queens who care about nothing, but can't wait for someone to take their photos--and their 13 or 14!--and the jocks... Well, so much for the stereoptypes. But those stereotypes didn't come from nowhere!

Posted by August Heat

I'm telling you, Fox Comedy Channel is getting funnier and funnier. 

Too bad Fox doesn't specialize in comedy.  What is wrong with those folks over there? They're really started to lose their grip on where America is socially.  That was a seriously insensitive comment.  Especially since many of the parents who watch O'Reilly live in a metropolis.  Why would you even go there?

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to August Heat

I saw this last night. The crepy part was how focused BilldO was on asking "how did they talk these girls into it?", almost like he was begging for the secret password.

Posted by vysotsky

O'REILLY: See, what I don't understand is how girls this young could be persuaded to put themselves at risk by posing in this way for a cell phone camera. What was the persuadability factor there?

Come on, Bill, if you're looking for tips on how to get young girls topless, you should be more subtle than to just come out and ask!

Posted by see it real in reply to vysotsky

Maybe Bill asks girls to take their tops off during phone sex.

Posted by chavez_frank9414

I wonder if O'Reilly has ever seen a Girls Gone Wild Video or even a ad for one. The girls who appear in those (although college aged) are almost always middle class suburbanites. 

Posted by see it real in reply to chavez_frank9414

"I wonder if O'Reilly has ever seen a Girls Gone Wild Video or even a ad for one."

Knowing Bill-O, he likely has a huge Girls Gone Wild Video secret collection.

Posted by eweston8542983

Tonight on The O'Reilly Factor. Watch Bill's head explode while preveiwing The Media Matters Posters Gone Wild video.

"Remarkable!", says Bill Kristol."All thats left is the top of the spinal cord",He gushed!

Fox News statement, When brains explode, They explode on Fox News!

Posted by see it real in reply to eweston8542983

"Tonight on The O'Reilly Factor. Watch Bill's head explode while preveiwing The Media Matters Posters Gone Wild video. "

Remarkable!", says Bill Kristol."All thats left is the top of the spinal cord",He gushed!

Fox News statement, When brains explode, They explode on Fox News!"

Biggest surprise in this segment: That people working on Fox News actually had brains to begin with. 

Posted by nerzog

Bill's attitude may have its roots in the Nineteenth Century myth that poverty is a result of immorality. This Gilded Age Social Darwinist hokum still permeates today's Republican Party, as is demonstrated by certain posters on this website frequently, whenever government aid to the poor is discussed.

It's only natural that a Nineteenth Century throwback like O'Reilly would assume that wealthy kids must be morally superior.

Wealthy teenagers are just as "naughty" as poor teenagers.... the difference is that their parents can afford lawyers and therapists.

Posted by plhamel4926

Wealthy teenagers are just as "naughty" as poor teenagers.... the difference is that their parents can afford lawyers and therapists.

Who enable their aberrant behavior.

Posted by see it real in reply to plhamel4926

"Wealthy teenagers are just as "naughty" as poor teenagers.... the difference is that their parents can afford lawyers and therapists.

Who enable their aberrant behavior."

Not only do they enable it, in some cases, some of the white suburban teenagers' wealthy kids are also engaging in it and/or participating in the naughty behavior with their spoiled maladjusted wealthy brat kids. 

Posted by see it real

Once again Bill O'Lielly reveals his racist, white supremacist side.  Betcha the right wing conservative anti-black Negro conservatives like Juan "I Am Bill's Happy Negro That Hates Black People" Williams will be defending Bill, and/or acting as Bill's #1 self-hating Negro conservative apologust.

Papraphrasing the words of WVON-AM 1690's http://www.wvon.com black talk radio host Matt McGill when McGill justifiably barbecued Williams as, in McGill's words, not mine, "...a buck dancing, Yes Massa, self-hating, Negro conservative sellout."

Posted by thedailyphosdex

Quoth Mr. "No-Spin Zone:"

"[W]hat I think this is is lack of a values education. In public school they don't have--teach values anymore, civics or any of that. You can't tell the kids what's right and wrong. You get in trouble. And if kids at home don't have parents who set boundaries, and many of them don't, then it's inevitable that some of them will do this. I still think that they're incredibly dumb."

And you'll never guess what the Fox Prolefeed crowd really has in mind for their ideal of "values education"--which, simply put, is nothing short of xenophobic jingoism, racism and bigotry @ the expense of core skills, reinforced by enforced social isolation which could too easily be a pretext for incestuous LeTourneauism.

Posted by shopouts747

O'Reilly is going through a lot of tissue thinking about those photos.

Posted by see it real

I challenge Bill-O to appear on "The Black Eagle" Joe Madison's show on XM 169/THE POWER http://www.joemadison.com or appear on Roland S. Martin's show on black talk radio station WVON-AM 1690 http://www.wvon.com and repeat his latest racist white supremacist comments to a BLACK TALK RADIO audience.

Let's see and hear what kind of reception he gets then.

Posted by usappa00

I mean you would expect this talk out of racists but not Bill O'reilly.  He's white and rich.

Posted by skylights769622

Of course O'Reilly thinks young people have a values problem. They're breaking overwhelmingly for Obama! The only explanation is that today's kids are utterly depraved!

Haven't all of O'Reilly's viewers died of old age yet?

Posted by goddy49377

The bias and ignorance portrayed in O'Reilly's statement that "this isn't, you know, the inner city", ... is so typical of his and the thousands of other racists that watch his show.  He knows exactly what he is conveying and to whom.  What did you really expect from someone who makes the kind of a comment that he did about the patrons' behavior in an African-American owned restaurant.  O'Reilly dined with Reverend Al Sharpton at Sylvia's, I believe it was last year, and couldn't believe that the patrons were like patrons in any other restaurant.  Why, they were sitting down and not even asking for their mother------- iced tea.  What a cretin this guy is, but, unfortunately, there are many just like him, and, they want to rule the world.  O'Reilly is one of the most perfect examples of why we need Barack Obama to win the election in November, 2008! 

Posted by sourcer

O'Reilly is rich and he is stupid so he ought not to equate living in an upper class suburb with great intellect.

Posted by nerzog

"You can't tell the kids what's right and wrong. You get in trouble."

That's an enduring Right Wing myth, a residual from their decades-long war on public education. It's code-speak for "The bastards won't let us teach about Jesus in Public School!"

My daughter has attended Public Schools for ten years, and she's been told many times by many teachers what is right and wrong, and she's gotten in trouble a few times, as well. The problem is that Theofascists like Bildo can't imagine teaching morality without wrapping it in supernatural fantasies.

Posted by historygeek001 in reply to nerzog

They don't want to teach about "Jesus," they want to teach a carefully edited version of Jesus' ideas that has been selected to reinforce their decidedly non-Christian values. 

No comment.  O'Reilley is right on mark.  Values are not taught in schools.  It might offend someone.

Gerry 

 

Posted by ws84

Values that include a loofa.

Posted by cpinva

is it just me, or does he look like he's aged a lot recently?

 of course inner city kids have no values, bill o'reilly says so.

 and this is what passes for insightful commentary on fox?

Posted by MissDee

Once again nedia-don't-matter and its sycophants prove that your'e more far more interested in attacking O'Reilly and anything conservative over word twisting than actually recognizing that 14 year old girls displaying themselves topless on the internet is a very wrong thing. Or perhaps it's a case that family values and parental control over young teens is something the ulra-libs can't stand as a concept?

 

Posted by August Heat in reply to MissDee

Okay re-read your post and re-read the story.  The article isn't about little girls taking it off like Las Vegas strippers.  Everyone agrees with you there.  But to equate inner city kids with no values because they live in the "inner city", which is a buzz word for ghetto, is by and large racist and at the very least elitist.  But I guess in your world saying 'crime is bad' and 'you expect a black person to engage in crimes' are the same thing huh?

Posted by August Heat in reply to MissDee

Once again nedia-don't-matter and its sycophants prove that your'e more far more interested in attacking O'Reilly and anything conservative over word twisting than actually recognizing that 14 year old girls displaying themselves topless on the internet is a very wrong thing. -Whoever

Secondly, put a coherent sentence together if you're gonna come here calling people sycophants.  Stop regurgitating O'Reilly's talking points.  Next thing you'll be telling us how piffy his show really is and how posters at Mediamatters tend to bloviate.

Posted by parcival

Lots of great comments here.

The frightening thing, though, about o'lielly is that, because he's a "media personality," people take "him" seriously. I was talking with an NBC exec years ago in Washington and he said that, AFTER o'lielly's phone sex settlement, the other networks couldn't keep up with Faux! So, despite his behavior, DESPITE WHAT HE'S KNOWN TO DO, people like my father in law still "respect" him.

In that sense, o'leilly's not unlike, say Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. None of them believe a smidgen of what they say. They don't believe in anything in particular. They spout off to an audience who "respects" them because of their media positions, and they know what that audience wants to hear. And THAT'S what's frightening.