It is of little surprise to many of you that I have no love for the O’Reilly Factor on FOX. I’m just not a fan.
Regardless of your political views, I don’t think it’s tough to admit that Bill O’Reilly has an incredibly abrasive personality. He’s constantly cutting mics and calling people pinheads. So I have to admit, I was amused and a little impressed to see this clip, in which Boulder High School student Jesse Lange calmly and intelligently delivers his rebuttal to Bill O’Reilly. The kid even comes with documents that he cites during the course of the “debate”. His conduct is more impressive than many adult guests on the show.
This link goes out to an article from an obviously liberal site - just ignore it and scroll down to the video, if you don’t care for the bias (although it’s worth skimming for some background facts).
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I admired the kid too. Thanks for the unbiased report!
Jesus, and there is people who actually like that show? this O’reilly seems like a very narrow-minded person.
Check out the movie, “Al Franken: God Spoke”, where the liberal point of view looks entirely normal in comparison to O’Reilly.
That’s still rediculous to say “this extreme example makes O’Reilly look okay!” which is entirely unrealistic.
O’Reilly is ridiculous. Thank goodness that there people out here that still have common sence and the intelligence to research their subjects and accurately report the truth. Good job Jesse!!!
I cant stand the man, he is an absolute waste, and his tv show is a complete joke! Its hard for me to imagine that people actually watch that show to hear news, but instead i think most people simply watch it to see how big a dick hes going to be, its sad that its considered a news show.
An outstanding example of youth and vigor overcoming age and treachery - very impressed by jesse lange, esspecially the ending where he tells bill he has read his book in a very nonchalantly defiant manner
and here comes the bias… ;)
As one with Republican values such as myself, I can still say that O’Reilly makes the rest of look bad. Believe me, most of us except the extremists try and avoid associating with him.
Honestly, I’ve never equated O’Reilly with a Republican. I just think he’s an asshole masquerading as a political pundit.
So you’re implying that he’s a closet Liberal?
no that would be a “Jackass” no an “Asshole”
the difference is small but it is there
Why does a person require to be a Republican of a Democrat. NOT being one does not automatically make you the other.
I’m a visiting scholar to the US from New Zealand. We had a guy a bit like that O’Reilly joker as our nation’s top interviewer, until he called Kofi Annan a ‘cheeky darky’ and got booted. People like this get theirs. Give it time.
Wow, he called Kofi Annan a ‘cheeky darky’? There’s no way anyone was getting away with that … dumb move.
ah this is america when someone is an asshole we pay them more… we’re backwards like that
Unfortunatly Sketch, in the US, the editors have the last word, and they generally like to cover stuff like this…
((im headed to the Uni of Waikato! wish me luck!))
Good luck!
I normally don’t write on here but I gotta give props to Jesse.
They should just take Bill off the air already.
In Australia people like O’Reilly don’t get past commercial radio. Unfortunately, many uneducated people here listen to them.
“You took it out of context” - Bill O’Reilly
I literally laughed when I heard him tell Lange that. O’Reilly doesn’t want to admit he got his butt served in that debate. What a retard.
I laughed at how his face lit up with an idiotic grin at the name of his own book, but then he got all flustered and started cutting Jesse off as soon as he realized how pwned he was getting
Hahaha, I noticed that too.
I like the kid. He had the info down and nailed the guy every time. He has to be smart to be able to hit that hammer down so O reily had to cut him off like that. Guy has skills.
oh and, i dont care if i spelled the newscasters name wrong, its not worth a second thought! XP
YOu should read the o reilly factor for kids
“I have read it bill”
I’m very conservative but I’ve never liked Bill. Regardless of what he says, the factor puts his spin on everything and doesn’t help liberals or conservatives. He takes practically everything out of context and does what he can to cause a media sensation for his own personal benefit. Good job Jesse!
It’s nice to know that people on both sides of the fence find O’Reilly to be a bit of a blowhard!
Wow……Just wow.
He got served a nice hot plate of verbal ass beat.
Smart people:1 O’Reily:-4
I just have to love how Lange quotes the O’Reilly Factor and has Bill accuse someone else of taking a passage out of context, when he so obviously grabs quotes out of thin air himself. Made me laugh.
Wow. Hot damn, O’Reilly got his ass handed to him by a high school kid. I’m amazed sometimes people like him can sit there and deny that which is put in front of them. I guess O’Reilly just didn’t want to admit he’d bitten off a little more than he could chew. You should know better than to misquote stuff at highschool students. Proper citation is just about the ONLY thing I learned in high school.
As a Watcher of O’Rilly myself I cant understand why people dont like him.
He has his Opinion and he delebertly gets people that are as unwavering as himself on the program for the Purpose of Butting heads with them.
It remindes me of watching the Discovery channel with the 2 Rams headbutting each other.
And the only time he calls anything on his show a Debate is when he gets 2 Pigheaded people on the show on and lets them duke it out, with himself jumping in to attack one or both sides.
What scares me more than Bill O’Rilly ans the like is that 50+% of people claim to get their news from places like the Daily Show/E! that scares the fudge outa me.
P.S. he did get Pwned :P
I don’t like O’Reilly because he pretends his show is factual.
AS for the Daily Show or E!…E! is an entertainment network, no one gets anything but celebrity news from them. John stewart said that people AREN’T getting their news from him because his jokes require people to already know the current events.
Ekibiogami, the problem is the man clearly distorts facts and makes up quotes to support his point of view.
That’s called lying, and it’s especially bad if you claim to be a newsperson.
The Daily Show at least shows the facts. Bill fails to even do that.
Plus the Daily Show is funny.
That and at times when they are not being funny they are surprisingly brilliant when it comes to politics.
Destorting the facts is what ALL news programs do.
I can watch the Daily show and come up with just as many Lies and half truths as on the factor, John just maks it Fing Halerious.
John isn’t on a news channel, he’s on a comedy channel! John TELLS people his show is fake. O’Reilly is on FOX “NEWS” where he expects people to think he’s telling the truth. He claims to be telling the truth. Stephen Colbert said that he doesn’t want his daughter to watch his show because he has to say things he doesn’t actually mean, and he doesn’t want her to see that. O’Rielly claims to be sincere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6cT-JSfdzM that’s the direct link for those who don’t wish to view the site.
Badass.
I am trying to become more politaclly alert nowadays and figured this would be a good time to ask. I am more liberal then conservative, but I try to stay moderate when it comes to reading/watching anything. Most sites and televison tend to swing left or right and end up just pissing me off claiming they are “balanced” or whatever. Anybody have any suggestions for where to find my much wanted facts without any lean-to?
Hah, don’t expect to find that anywhere. The media these days is biased, whether it’s liberal or conservative, and it’s because we’re living in such politically-polarising times. My suggestion is to get news from wherever you like it (I tend to check the BBC, NYTimes, and CNN) and then decide for yourself.
ah, BBC is probibly a good choice
What you said is verry true, that said there are 3+ Liberal Stations on TV for every Conservative one.
Radio it seems like its the other way around… go fig.
And yes, I realized I misspelled politically…
Ananth is right, there is no really balanced news. The best you can do is look at several sources with different biases, and compare them to try to eliminate the spin. I’m increasingly dubious about the credibility of the NY Times, but BBC usually reports accurate and complete (if biased) news. CNN has a fairly low bias, although as with almost any news source, you need to take it with a grain of salt.
Oh, and I think most things on TV, including news, are increasingly badly done. I read the Washington Times as my primary news source and look stuff up on the internet to supplement it. You usually get a more complete and accurate story in the papers or on the internet. TV news is rather sensationalized.
I’m quite surprised that this sparked controversy.
In england we’re taught about drugs, sex and STDs from as early as 12 and the older we get, the material we receive gets more intimate so we get used to such ideas.
I’ve never seen the O’Reilly Factor and just from that clip, i’m surprised that he’s still on the air.
I cant say how its done now, but during my middle school days (I’m a 8th semester undergrad, so not THAT far off), kids had to take home a permission slip for parents to sign for their children to attend Sex Ed classes. Being in the conservative/poor region I was in, a lot of adults opted their children out. Even then, the boys and girls were split up, and all the girls got was a video about periods and so forth. It never, even until the end of my public high school career, got more technical or intimate than that.
Now a days, more schools are foregoing the permission slips. Too many children are leaving the school system with the completely wrong idea about sex.
O’Reilly actually broke Canadian law in that clip. Assuming that everything is taken verbatim from that video, O’Reilly slandered someone’s image and name, and could be taken to court for libel. I’m not sure if US law has something similar, but it might be something to look into.
I think if I had been Jesse, I would have actually accused him of that, regardless of if US actually has a law regarding slander and libel. The idea of seeing O’Reilly squirm because he’s been threatened with a potential lawsuit is just hilarious.
The U.S. does have those laws. I’m not sure it would work though.
There’s actually a petition of grievances against Bill O’Reilly circulating the Boulder area which happens to mention “slanderous statements made on air” by him. I would assume that if they don’t get the apology they demand, they will actually sue. Maybe wishful thinking on my part, but not too unreasonable.
Wow.
I have never seen the O’Reilly Factor, but what I find the most ridiculus is actually the reaction from that conference/panel thing. Every semester in my highschool, there is a week where among other things, we discuss drug use, gay rights, molestation (rape and domestic), self defence and such. And there has been no objection or protests regarding it. And we hear from former addicts about drug use and alcoholism. And we get gay people doing Q&A. Last semester we had one famous actor, who also ran a children’s show for two years after coming out of the closet.
Is this a culture difference or something? I mean, why even pay attention to the fuzz around this?
As I said in the forums, I prefer to take my news from a wide variety of sources, simply because that allows me to see as much of the bigger and smaller pictures as possible, thereby allowing me to decide how I’m going to use that information to the best of my ability. I agree with you Ananth that there are a lot of really biased media organisations around today, though I also believe that there are still some around that take pride in doing their best at being impartial or as close to it as possible considering the political and legal environments present. SBS World News Australia and the Newsdesk section of the College Radio Station that I work at being among them.
Another thing is that the media funds its business activities by attracting the largest audience that they can thats possible. In the case of Fox News, in a lot of the markets that it broadcasts to, theres a lot of conservative individuals present. As a result, Fox is always going to try to attract as many of them as possible in order to maintain their businnes interests. Ditto with Sky News in Britain, however their audience is based towards moderate audiences, since thats what the majority of the Brits are.
Like it or not, the majority of the majority of the media is profit driven. In other words, remove the need for advertising revenue, and you would see a lot more honesty in the news.
I really cannot stand that O’Reilly guy, watching his show just makes my blood boil. I did enjoy watching this one though, thanks for the clip. It’s nice to see someone speaking calmly back at the guy and giving some good proof.
Ah, what a stressful show to watch. I just want to pop that geezer in the jaw.
omg, this dude is a dick. hes not even letting a teenager finish his sentence. me + O’Reilly = O’Reilly in the hospital. and i don’t even watch his show because he acts like a dickhead
wow. That kid is amazing. I really wish someone would take Bill O’Reilly down. That’s not good, smart, or accurate news. What bothers me most is that so many people watch that crap and believe it. I get spoiled in Austin and forget that a lot of Texans are as crazy as that guy.
Heh, he calls Jesse a pinhead and then proceeds to question the other interviewee about whether he was scorned or mocked for speaking out.
Owned. O’Reiley got owned.
this reminded me of u guyz. ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsqi2QHXaFI
man i’ve looked everywhere for this video and its not running for me.. could be my firewall.. but in gerneral i wouldn’t be surprized if oriely did get pwned… at work i listen to lumbaugh and hannity… both of them do much of the same… honestly in the end i just wish someone who claims to be republican could actually debate without having to cut people off or in the end trying to boil something down to an impossible to answer yes or no question… and then later resorting to namecalling..
as for the issue honestly i think i’d like to be the guy my son learns from when it comes to issues about drugs or sex.. why can’t schools realize its the parents job to raise the kids.. and the schools job to teach them academics.. its the few lazy parents that really just mess it up for all of us i guess..
A quick observation, Andrew looks to be reading off an auto cue and becomes a bit edgy and worried half way through as if he didn’t know what to do .
hahahaha, O’Reilly has been owned in the face enough times you think he would give up. But I have some major respect for Jesse Lange, I don’t care where you fall politically but O’Reilly is an ass, and he deserved to have his ass handed to him on a platter. Congrats to Jesse for speaking out, and a big “what the hell” to Andrew..show some guts man..no cue reading, tell us what you really think..not what O’Reilly wants you to say.