Awesome. This kid did such a good Bill O'Reilly impression that he was asked back for a sequel. He is the next angry Haley Joel Osmont. "I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO YELL AT YOU! GAY GAY GAY GAY!"
To compare with the original Barney Frank yell-off, you can find it here.
Sometimes even Billbo is right on the money…but only on Opposite Day, where up is down, black is white, and The O'Reilly Factor features our man with a plan in a 10-gallon. Bill went off on Lehman Bros. CEO Dick Fuld, which technically right now is like punching fish in a barrel but hey we'll take it since it's always good to see that even Darth Vader will turn on Emperor Palpatine when the stakes are high enough.
Of course, before launching into his nuclear attack O'Reilly needed to explain his choice in headgear to a puzzled audience:
Stephen Colbert spoke at the New Yorker Festival this weekend, and left his Bill O'Reilly persona at home. Instead, Colbert gave a rarely seen look at his Kaufman-esque technique for becoming the liberal media's favorite angry conservative:
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We'd like you to take a look at something. Last night, presidential debate moderator hopeful Bill O'Reilly had Rep. Barney Frank on his show, to slam him for supposedly recommending to America the type of crappy investments that got us into this economic mess. Screamed O'Reilly while demanding Frank step down as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee: "C'mon you coward! … You're a coward!" Shining moment stuff here, folks.
And then there's this clip, of a wee version of the Fox News pundit, who is to Bill O'Reilly what Tina Fey is to Sarah Palin. CONTINUED »
Officially removed from reality, media critic Jon Friedman takes a moment from away from repeating what everybody else already said about Sarah Plain to suggest something approaching absolute idiocy: Have Bill O'Reilly moderate one of these presidential debates.
Yes, O'Reilly, the guy who tells his guests to shut up, bullies them into a corner, SCREAMS INTO MICROPHONES, and refuses to acknowledge the sound logical arguments of people he disagrees with? Yes, that guy.
It's because these presidential debates are so boring, and lacking viewership (only 52 million tuned in, a drop from previous debates), that Friedman wants to install Fox News' brand of sensibility into the public forum. Nevermind that O'Reilly sits at the top of partisan hack pundits, spews vitriol for a living, and would jerk off John McCain so given the chance. But sure, handing over the debate questions to a crazy person sounds like a wise decision. CONTINUED »
Bill O'Reilly appeared on his old Harvard professor Marvin Kalb's show, The Kalb Report, this past weekend, proving that at one time O'Reilly was accountable to someone, if only for a G.P.A. bump. Kalb and O'Reilly spoke congenially for the most part, and then Bill got personal:
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not acting. I couldn't act for 13 years straight, I'd have to be Laurence Olivier. If I was acting all this time I'd make Marlon Brando look like Luke Perry."
Then of course, O'Reilly accused his old professor of being an elitist, despite the fact that Bill only knew Kalb from Harvard University, the tallest of the ivory towers. Pinhead spotted.
But the best part of the interview is what Billbo wants written on his tombstone:
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Bill O'Reilly isn't just targeting talk radio lately. The man is on some sort of brilliant tear about the nature of sitcom finales as well, which Jeff Bercovici found out by actually reading one of O'Reilly's books so we didn't have to. The book of essays, entitled A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, deals not only with the current electoral climate, but such hard hitting and culturally relevant issues like why Larry David chose such a cop-out ending for Seinfeld:
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Strange times are indeed upon us when David Broder is defending objectivity in journalism, and Bill O'Reilly rails out against talk radio for being "conservative-dominated ideologues, Kool-Aid drinking idiots."
While it's common knowledge that Bilbo had a short fuse (in fact, there is a compiled list of his funniest blow-hard tactics around here somewhere), never has the pinhead so venomously attacked…well, himself.
Maybe Mr. O'Reilly just spent more time than usual on a road to self-discovery last night on his conservative radio talk show, The Radio Factor?
The audio of O'Reilly's flame-war with Limbaugh and his ilk, after the jump:
After condemning members of the hacker group Anonymous for leaking Sarah Palin's personal email information, conservative blowhard Bill O'Reilly found his own site in jeopardy after the "hacktivists" retaliated the only way they know how:
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O'Reilly has a history of telling people on The O'Reilly Factor to "shut up." But like charges of bias, he denies it. And just like his mythical interpretation of his own non-bias, he's a total liar. [Slate]
Earlier: Our favorite O'Reilly moments.
Ah, the Australian Scrooge McDuck. Do you ever wonder about what you would say to 77-year-old Rupert Murdoch if you were ever in the same room as him? Well, now Esquire graciously provides you with a list of insightful soundbites from the man himself without the nagging context of "questions" from the reporter, meaning you can just insert your liberal hippie rant into one of the spaces in the margins and then choose whichever sad, callow response best suits the topic at hand:
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Bill O'Reilly is 59-years old today, so let's send warm birthday wishes (because K. Olbermann won't) to the Fox News anchor on his special day. Because really, what's the life expectancy rate for a guy who yells for a living? Talk about blood pressure.
Have a good one Billbo, and may all of your Death to Lefties dreams come true. As our gift to you, but more so our readers, here are the O'Reilly's best-of moments from this year:
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Lots of speculation yesterday on whether or not Bill O'Reilly was going to make Barack Obama cry when he finally got him into the No Spin Zone. Seeing that O'Reilly went easy on Hillary Clinton once he got face time with her was a mark in the "pro" column; that Obama agreed to be on a show that was basically a ratings lead-in to John McCain's nomination speech was a mark in the "con" column.
So how did the deathmatch between Nas-hating O'Reilly and Lil Wayne-loving Obama turn out? So good:
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Barack Obama acquiesced and agreed to appear on The O'Reilly Factor, after much taunting and mashing of teeth from Billbo himself — and a little intervention with Roger Ailes.
Trap? Perhaps. But Obama's visit to the Fox newsroom for the first time will happen tonight, as O'Reilly teased during much of last night's show.
That's tonight, as in the final night of the RNC, when John McCain will be making his nomination speech. Watching beady-eyed Bill lob cheap shots at Obama is definitely preferable to watching beady-eyed McCain make some lame jokes at the podium.
Though viewers tuning in to the loaded question segment may be disappointed: O'Reilly has this tendency to go all sincere once he's finally finagled candidates onto the program and has to deal with them face-to-face. (See: Hillary Clinton.) Cutting off Barack's microphone, however, is remains an option.
Remember when Dennis Hopper used to be edgy? When every word out of his mouth was an eff-bomb, but it was hard to notice because he was always so tweaked out? From Easy Rider to Apocalypse Now to his epic failure The Last Movie, Hopper was a counter-culture icon in the 60s and 70s, and has come to represent a whole generation of bad-assery since then. Then he teamed up with Kelsey Grammer to ruin movies about America. CONTINUED »
Is East Coast Avengers' track "Kill Bill O'Reilly." [Listen at Wired]
Bill O’Reilly’s a bully and a hypocrite — this much we all have known for quite a while. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to watch the children to whom O’Reilly had decided to dispense advice for money come to this conclusion on their own.
CBS News SVP Paul Friedman says he didn't report on the John Edwards scandal because the network "saw no reason to make his life or the life of his family any worse, until it became well-documented or he admitted it, which is what happened today." Uh huh. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz says he " came to believe that we should publish a story. But I don't get paid to make those decisions." Riiight. And Politico's Michael Calderone insisted there was no coverage in his space because "it was decided that writing on the rumors — without confirming them — simply validates the Enquirer," which, it's been shown, got much (if not all) of the story right.
But you know who also claims to have had the story about Edwards' affair but opted out of reporting on it? A one Bill O'Reilly, who, like Friedman, was doing the kind thing and not making Elizabeth Edwards' life miserable! Instead, O'Reilly just smeared Edwards as a shitty senator. "And that is the true story," he said last night. "The Factor painted an accurate picture of John Edwards without harming his family." Now, is that "accurate" with one "in-" or two?
Bill O’Reilly likes calling people pinheads. He called 50 Cent one a while ago, and, now, after joining Color of Change and MoveOn.org in a Fox News protest, Nas has joined the pinhead ranks. O’Reilly wasted a lot of breath last week deriding Nas, saying, among other things, that “new album is a bomb, a disaster, a catastrophe … Two years ago, his last album sold 355,000 copies in its first week, and this one has sold 187,000 copies. Not good. I hope I’m not a ‘racist’ for pointing that out.” Not racist, but completely wrong:
Know what you get when you spot isolated instances of various television personalities wearing a tie of a certain color? A Times trend story! Eric Wilson spotted folks like Brian Williams, Keith Olbermann, and Bill O'Reilly all wearing ties of a purplish hue in recent weeks, which is apparently their way of announcing they're staying neutral in this heated political climate, where, duh!, wearing a red tie is an obvious sign you're in McCain's camp and wearing a blue tie is the equivalent of licking Obama's feet.
So certain of this trend, Wilson even hooked semi-respectable people into his charade, getting GQ creative director Jim Moore to declare, "Purple is the new neutral," and Bergdorf Goodman's men's fashion director Tommy Fazio to insist, "There are other ways of not being partisan.”
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