Olbermann Transcript on O'Reilly & San Francisco

[stewert]

Here are a few comments from Keith:

And Bill O‘Reilly‘s invitation to al Qaeda to attack San Francisco. He now says it was only satire. But he says anybody who disagrees with him is hurting America. Why won‘t he just stand up and say, The falafel stops here?

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OLBERMANN: We rejoin you now and pause our COUNTDOWN for a segment full of fiery ‘splosions and bizarre creatures and -- No, it‘s not time yet for the Bill O‘Reilly segment.

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Is it satire to invite al Qaeda into an American city in order to attack it? Speaking of women wearing sushi, that‘s Bill O‘Reilly‘s story, at least his latest version of it. But in San Francisco, the city board of supervisors does not see the spoof.

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Full Transcript:

OLBERMANN: “Patriotism,” Dr. Samuel Johnson famously wrote, “is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” If that‘s true, Bill O‘Reilly has reached his last refuge. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is looking at a resolution calling for O‘Reilly to be taken off the air by his TV masters, FOX News, and his radio syndicators, Westwood One.

Our third story on the COUNTDOWN, the man who has been to all but about 1 percent of the population an obnoxious and perverted but fundamentally buffoonish character is in the deep woods now. He has not only amplified on his call to have al Qaeda attack San Francisco, he has also defended it while at the same time doctoring the transcript of it, while at the same time claiming that all those who criticize him are against America.

In a moment, the San Francisco supervisor leading the call for O‘Reilly‘s dismissal will join us here. First we go back to where this started.

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BILL O‘RIELLY, HOST, “THE RADIO FACTOR”: Hey, you know, if you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I‘m not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I‘m the president of the United States, I walk right in to 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 Colt Tower? Go ahead.

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OLBERMANN: While redacting that particular part of his radio program from a week ago from his Web site, last Friday O‘Reilly went on someone else‘s radio program, a conservative talk show, and defended his position.

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O‘REILLY: And what I said isn‘t controversial. What I said needed to be said. And I‘m not—I‘m just—I‘m sitting and I‘m looking at a city that has absolutely no clue of what the world is, none. You know, if you had been hit on 9/11 instead of New York, believe me, you would not have voted against military recruiting. Yet the left-wing, selfish land of Oz philosophy that the media and the city politicians have embraced out there is an absolute intellectual disgrace.

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OLBERMANN: Then last night on his TV show, he backtracked slightly, calling his comments a, quote, “satirical riff,” before insulting San Francisco voters yet a third time and threatening his detractors on the Internet, for good measure.

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O‘REILLY: What did the citizens of San Francisco think was going to happen after they voted to oppose military recruitment? We‘re in the middle of a war on terror, and these loopy voters did something like this and I‘m not supposed to call them on it? Come on. Can you imagine this happening during World War II?

So I‘m glad the smear site‘s made a big deal out of it, because now we can all know who was with the anti-military Internet crowd. We‘ll post the names of all who support the smear merchants on billoreilly.com.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

OLBERMANN: And you thought Senator Joe McCarthy was dead. San Francisco‘s Board of Supervisors is now debating putting a measure on its agenda next week calling for FOX to fire the big giant head, or for his radio people at Westwood One to discontinue his radio program. The man leading that charge, supervisor Chris Daly joins us now from San Francisco.

Thank you for your time tonight, sir.

Full Transcript Here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10068190/

[davidinalameda]

1. they couldn't have gotten anyone else but Chris Daly?

oh lord

[EFerrari]

2. Don't start with me.

:)

Did you notice how the Chronicle article fingered Chris as "vitriolic" instead of O'Reilly? But when you read the article, there's no vitriol in any of Daly's statements.

/typo

[EFerrari]

3. Another Chris Daly story:

Last summer, I had a 72 hours deadline to complete a project I'm sure you remember. So, I called the World.

First, I called popular politician A -- remember, the one that nearly beat Gavin? He took my call but was rude and said, can't help ya.

Chris didn't return my call until after business hours. When he did, I could hear he had a baby on his lap. He talked to me for about 25 minutes and was as helpful as possible.

I've got a bunch of these. :)

[davidinalameda]

4. the Chron hated Daly

that's pretty much a given

but why not get Aaron Peskin, the board president, and I think the Coit Tower is in his district

[EFerrari]

5. You'd think. But, it's Daly's project: LINK to video

On edit: Chris did a great job. There's a video clip floating around here. You should peek.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5370204

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. He's still there?

I guess some things will never change.

[Sabriel]

7. I just looked at his web site, and my name's not on there yet.

Should I email and complain, or be patient?

[EFerrari]

8. I'd email. And while you're at it, snail mail him your phone book.

Let's get that list started!

[Skip Intro]

9. I didn't see any names posted. Maybe you have to be a "premium" member?

or maybe he's just full of it

[EFerrari]

10. Boy, that's a hard call. n/t

[stewert]

11. Maybe ?

Maybe he's just full of it ? Of course he's full of it, and so far there is no list.

As I predicted there is no list and there never will be. It was all talk from the king of right-wing Nazi idiots.

[EFerrari]

13. stewart, in your opinion, should we use the WOR

street addy or send our phonebooks to Faux HQ?

/typo

[stewert]

14. FOX........

I would send them to the FOX headquarters in New York. Flood his ass with phone books, now that would be funny.

[EFerrari]

15. So far, we have San Francisco, Chapel Hill and Brooklyn.

And, Canada.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4305180

[DS1]

12. Actually, I'm sure that if San Francisco didn't have to PUT money

into the Federal redistribution coffers, they'd be a hell of a lot better off :eyes:

[EFerrari]

16. Official "Make O'Reilly's List Thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4309241&mesg_id=4309241