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sabra

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:34 PM
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Round Four: Bill O'Reilly Hits Back at Nick Kristof("absolutely clueless")

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001700733

Round Four: Bill O'Reilly Hits Back at Nick Kristof

NEW YORK In round four of their heavyweight battle, Bill O'Reilly hit back at New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Monday, calling him "absolutely clueless" adding that he has "no idea what is happening in the country."

Earlier, O'Reilly had labeled Kristof a "leftwing ideologue" and the columnist responded on Sunday by calling O'Reilly a "bully," adding, '"Let us pray that Mr. O'Reilly will understand that the Christmas spirit isn't about hectoring people to say 'Merry Christmas,' rather than 'Happy Holidays,' but about helping the needy."

Today, in his Talking Points Memo posted online, the Fox News TV personality, syndicated columnist and radio host, wrote, "While I always appreciate prayers, Mr. Kristof, you are sadly misguided in your descriptions. As everyone who watches this program knows, we donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the poor each year through proceeds from BillOReilly.com.

"In fact, the website was actually set up to help the needy, and I think it's safe to say that this year alone, I've donated more money to help the poor than you have in your entire life. What say you, sir?

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LeftNYC

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:37 PM
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1. Battle of the nitwits: Kristof and O'Reilly

:toast:

:smoke: :popcorn:

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sabra

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:37 PM
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3. make mine buttered. :-)

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LeftNYC

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:38 PM
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4. Want a chili dog with that? nt

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Richardo

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:37 PM
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2. I say "Prove it, you insufferable lying jagoff windbag"

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CornField

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:39 PM
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5. Wasn't there a story in the Bible

about how the very rich men were placing plates of gold before God and one, poor woman came forward with only one coin? If I remember correctly (It's been years since I attended Protestant church services), the rich men ridiculed the woman for her small offering. Jesus, on the other hand, shut them all up by praising the woman because she actually gave more than the very rich because she had so little and provided from that freely and without hesitation.

I wonder how God looks upon O'Lielly, his plate of gold for the poor and his exfoliating scrubbers.

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Sandpiper

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:39 PM
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6. I like how O'Lielly threw in "Judeo-Christian hallmarks"

I had no idea that Jews were upset about not being wished a Merry Christmas.

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hwmnbn

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:40 PM
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7. I know he donated a tidy sum to....

Edited on Mon Dec-19-05 05:40 PM by hwmnbn

a lovely female intern. I wonder if he's counting that?

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SillyGoose

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:42 PM
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8. What a pompous ass. nt

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gordianot

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:42 PM
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9. I want to see Bill go to Iraq.

I also hope they do full real time coverage on Fox News. He should go door to door and take names for his black list.

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GrumpyGreg

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:46 PM
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10. God almighty,it's like a catfight.

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mark11727

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:58 PM
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14. Didn't Woody Allen once say that wars should be fought with socks...

...full of horse manure...?

Quick mental picture.

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GrumpyGreg

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Mon Dec-19-05 06:03 PM
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16. I don't know if he said it,but if he didn't he should have.

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gizmo1979

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:52 PM
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11. I find it frightening

That O'Reilly's show is the Number 1 rated cable shows some weeks.Who the hell is watching that drivel?

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:55 PM
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12. Wait, if all that money came in through his website

How does O'Reilly figure that he's donated all that money? Who got the tax write-off? And is O'Reilly incorporated as a charitable organization? Then why would he have a .com URL and not a .org URL?

Something smells like a big steaming pile of billshit to me.

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mark11727

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:59 PM
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15. BILLSHIT! BWAH!

:rofl:

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stewert

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Mon Dec-19-05 06:21 PM
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19. O'Reilly Info......

O'Reilly donates the PROFITS from the money he makes selling his craptor gear, and that money comes from the people who buy the crap, not him.

So you can bet your ass he is getting a tax credit for all that money he says he donates. On top of that, IT'S NOT HIS MONEY. Not to mention he refuses to say how much he makes in gross sales and how much he donates, yet he demands other people disclose that info. I would bet he pays his cousin Shemp $150,000 a year to run the store and then what's left goes to charity.

So he gets the tax credit from donating other peoples money, what a deal, I wish I could get a deal like that.

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gratuitous

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Mon Dec-19-05 06:32 PM
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20. Well, I think I'll take old Bill at his word, then

As soon as he shows me his tax returns, proving that he's donated, out of his own pocket, in excess of 20% of his gross (not net) earnings for the year. Otherwise, I'll put my record of giving up against his any day of the week. And I won't even factor in hundreds of hours of unpaid volunteer time to my congregation, its district, the homeless shelter or the food agency. I'll bet I still whip O'Reilly's ass when it comes to charitable giving.

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MrMonk

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:57 PM
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13. If the website was set up to help the poor

(which I suspect is pure bullshit), then it wasn't O'Reilly making the donations, but rather his devotees. Nothing out of O'Reilly's pocket.

BTW, what did O'Reilly have to say about Kristoff's invitation to bring him to Darfur?

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zbdent

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Mon Dec-19-05 06:12 PM
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18. It was set up to help the poor - the poor, downtrodden

multi-millionaires to promote their BS that they need bigger and better tax cuts so that they can shower their golden joy upon the masses . . . a tinkle at a time . . .

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TNOE

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Mon Dec-19-05 06:08 PM
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17. Was Colburn correct

when he says the ancient meaning of Happy Holidays or more specifically Holidays meant Holy Days? I've been wondering about that all week.

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tsuki

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Mon Dec-19-05 06:58 PM
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21. Warning. Warning. My tinfoil hat!

This entire "War on Christmas" thing has something stirring up Scanlon's "religious whackos" for some ulterior motive. I don't think either Falafel Boy or the Saudstrailan News Organization he works for gives a tinker's damn about Christmas. But I know one large corporation that wants to stop another's success.

I have heard a lot about Target being targeted (no pun) this season, so I looked up how many times, in how many articles Target was mentioned with regards to a boycott.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/20/MNGVDFRH081.DTL

AFA boycott of Target given play in a story about Falwell

http://media.afa.net/newdesign/ReleaseDetail.asp?id=3324

Boycott Target

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/06/AR2005120601900.html

AFA boycott of Target given play in a story about WH greeting card

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901357.html

AFA boycott of Target given play in a story about War on Xmas

http://www.bennyhinn.org/yourlife/InTheNews-Religion-News/Consumers-Battle-for-Christmas.html

Boycott Target

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3299327

War on Xmas article talks about Target boycott

The first six articles on google.

Now, we know that one big chain has a data base only smaller than the Pentagon. Target is affecting their sales. Sam Walton had a model of three years max to run out all the small business in the area he invaded. I wonder how long it would take to run a mega business out?

Just my opinion.
:tinfoilhat:

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