Heh.

October 27, 2005 3:35 PM

Bill O'Riley's Cowards List.Includes such luminaries as Dick Cheney, Michael Chertoff, Jeb Bush, Tom DeLay... Cindy Sheehan. And many more.
posted by delmoi (64 comments total)

FUCK!

I was so certain I was going to make the list.

I have never appeared on the show, in spite of contstantly agreeing to.
posted by Keith Talent at 3:38 PM on October 27, 2005

Heh, yeah I'm pretty sure most mefities could hand him his ass. Ah well.
posted by delmoi at 3:41 PM on October 27, 2005

"I don't really want to debase myself to the point of appearing on your crappy show."
"Only 'cause you're afraid! Chicken!"

Yeah. Bill O'Reilly is taking inspiration from kindergarten children. Shocking.
posted by kafziel at 3:42 PM on October 27, 2005

The one part of the Colbert Report show I love is when Stephen challenges long-dead luminaries to appear on his show and adds that he thinks they are cowards for refusing to answer the request.

I wonder if the Colbert Report will drive O'Reilly into retirement. Not everyone has a 30 minute show making fun of them every day on TV.
posted by mathowie at 3:44 PM on October 27, 2005

Bill O'Reilly is the biggest chickenshit coward in the conus. This = irony.
posted by stenseng at 3:45 PM on October 27, 2005

Shut up, shut up, shut up!
posted by ericb at 3:46 PM on October 27, 2005

By this logic, Former Baseball Executive George Bush is the biggest coward of all for not ponying up $5 to join MeFi.
posted by mkultra at 3:47 PM on October 27, 2005

you're right! What a pussy!
posted by stenseng at 3:48 PM on October 27, 2005

bah!

when is this pompus ass going to get run down by a mob of out of control wackos?

Bill O'Reilly , you're on my list, bitch.
posted by nola at 3:49 PM on October 27, 2005

I like that he lists NPR even after his infamous Fresh Air walkout. What a chump. People still listen to this guy?
posted by elwoodwiles at 3:50 PM on October 27, 2005

elwoodwiles: I like that he lists NPR even after his infamous Fresh Air walkout. What a chump. People still listen to this guy?

Brave people do.
posted by Joey Michaels at 3:52 PM on October 27, 2005

The man who asks that disagreeable guests have their mikes turned off?

Does his own name top the list?
posted by dreamsign at 3:59 PM on October 27, 2005

I know you are but what am I?
posted by aaronscool at 4:02 PM on October 27, 2005

Jane Fonda. We actually even sent a camera person out to Jane Fonda and said, "Jane, Bill would really like to talk to you. He would be very respectful."

Sorry, Bill. Jane only accepts roses and boxes of chocolate.
posted by ed at 4:04 PM on October 27, 2005

the producer of "Outfoxxed" Jim Gilliam has been keeping a very keen eye on our Mr. O'Reilly, but my favorite was his video compilation about a year ago titled "the O'Sexxxy Factor"
posted by tsarfan at 4:05 PM on October 27, 2005

Hasn't Media Matters said they'll meet with him, but he keeps denying them??
posted by afx114 at 4:08 PM on October 27, 2005

The one part of the Colbert Report show I love is when Stephen challenges long-dead luminaries to appear on his show and adds that he thinks they are cowards for refusing to answer the request.

Totaly. Actualy, I think Jim Brady is still alive. Colbert should call O'Riley and ask him to be on the show. That would be classic. :P

By the way, I'm just going to go ahead and say it. Colbert Report: Funnier then The Daily Show!
posted by delmoi at 4:09 PM on October 27, 2005

Who gives a fuck?
posted by gwint at 4:12 PM on October 27, 2005

Gosh, imagine that...a whole bunch of people don't want to be badgered by an asshat in front of millions. Who would've thought it?
posted by alumshubby at 4:15 PM on October 27, 2005

What an arrogant asshole! Just because someone doesn't want to come on his show means they're a coward? Reality check Bill, these are busy people who have better things to do than grind partisan talking points on your show.
posted by gagglezoomer at 4:17 PM on October 27, 2005

"Y'know, y'know, we even sent a camera crew down there, down there to the Trilateral Commission. They won't talk to us. Cowards. Splizlak the Venusian Lizard Lord? He's on... He's on Meet the Press, he's on... He's on Wolf Blitzer. But he's afraid of us. Same with the Free Masons. We wanted to do this, this show about the DaVinci Code. We tried to get a member of the Grail onto our show, but they're cowards. They throw these bombs, about the Christ, Mary, the whole nine. Standard anti-religion stuff, and they're afraid to be on The Factor."
posted by klangklangston at 4:21 PM on October 27, 2005

Give that man a falaffel flavored dildo.
posted by Balisong at 4:24 PM on October 27, 2005

... One of these days, while he's in the middle of a particularly harsh diatribe, his head is going to explode. It'll be Fox's greatest moment, one that will be replayed more often than even Howard Dean's scream. Hannity will call it a Hillary plot, Hume will cite it as a reason to drill for oil in Yosemite, and Greta will declare a portion of O'Reilly's skull to be white, female and missing. ...
posted by amberglow at 4:30 PM on October 27, 2005

so when you point the finger exactly how many are pointing back at you?
posted by any major dude at 4:37 PM on October 27, 2005

You people "get it."
posted by fungible at 4:42 PM on October 27, 2005

The was really boring. He thinks whoever won't come on the factor is a coward? Wow, he must have a lot of content for his show.
posted by nickerbocker at 4:49 PM on October 27, 2005

Apparently Bill is too cowardly to let Robert Greenwald come on the show.

"I have asked Billy to debate the merits of my film, OUTFOXED, over and over again. He name calls, he attacks, he diverts. But one thing he doesn't seem to have the guts to do is have a real discussion about the facts of OUTFOXED."
posted by Tenuki at 6:12 PM on October 27, 2005

The Colbert Report was pretty dang funny, but I feel bad for the guy because he keeps messing up his lines. First and only episode I've seen so far, he messed up lines at least 3 times in the first half of the show.
posted by nightchrome at 6:15 PM on October 27, 2005

Something that I do like about Bill is that he is vaguely non-partisan. He's a bully, and thus respects power. Now that Bush has been bogged down in Katrina, Fitzmas and Meirs, of course Bill is going to go after the administration. Same with Tom DeLay. Sometimes when people's fortunes change, he has them on so that he can lap at their taints and show how willing he is to be proven wrong (and thus how "fair" he is).
Maybe when the administration's over, he and Bolton can have a show together.
posted by klangklangston at 6:21 PM on October 27, 2005

"By this logic, Former Baseball Executive George Bush is the biggest coward of all for not ponying up $5 to join MeFi."

Beg pardon?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:24 PM on October 27, 2005

Well when I want to whack myself out of sense I choose Howard Stern..at least potty jokes and sexual references are as stupid but more entertaining then O'Reilly.
posted by elpapacito at 6:32 PM on October 27, 2005

I think Bill is just there to make money. Just being a loudmouth for the sake of the dollars. Not that it doesn't take a certain type of disposition for that job.

--

I'm with nightchrome on Colbert. He should really loosen up. Do the character rather than the lines. Maybe take some improv classes or something. He seems like such a cerebral guy. That can get in the way sometimes. You've got all this great material and you want to hit it. Really, he should just relax into the role instead of relying on the words.

Once you get into character like O'Riley, the rest becomes easy. The Do of furious populism.
posted by Smedleyman at 6:38 PM on October 27, 2005

O'Reilly is the coward. I know of someone who used to come on his show and wants to come back to debate him on a certain issue, and O'Reilly refuses to invite him back.

O'Reilly is a bully. If a person does not accept an invitation to be a guest on his show he rips that person a new asshole on national TV.
posted by sultan at 6:45 PM on October 27, 2005

Bill O'Reilly is a coward because he has turned down several cordial invitations to come to my house and get smacked in the mouth.
posted by Jon-o at 6:52 PM on October 27, 2005

The most positive thing I can say about Bill "Baba" O'Reilly is that Hannity is a bigger fuck-apple than he is. OH! another positve: I use video clips from O'Reilly and Hannity to illustrate false arguments in first-year writing classes. I espouse no position to the students, but prep them with the major argumentative fallacies, then play clips from a range of sources including the Fox Boys. The assignment is to show the fallacies--they work in groups--and many times I let the students pick which segments they want to use to back up their claims. Funny, Hannity & Hume seem to get the most citations. The Air America folks get their share, but the students show me that Franken et al do more sound research than Roger Aisles (sp?) crew.

What I want to know is how's come Ludacris didn't make O'Reilly's guest list??? thanks greg beato and soundbitten
posted by beelzbubba at 7:00 PM on October 27, 2005

O'Reilly's meltdown on NPR's Fresh Air was absolutely hilarious. It can be heard here and was discussed on MeFi here.

LOL, Jon-o.
posted by neuron at 7:01 PM on October 27, 2005

In Colbert's defense, it's probably pretty intimidating starting your own comedy show that follows the insanely popular Daily Show, and trying to live up to the expectations of that audience.
I should also point out that Stephen Colbert does the voices for both Reducto and Phil Ken Sebben on "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law", and for that has my undying adoration.
posted by nightchrome at 7:23 PM on October 27, 2005

Colbert's problem is that it's a 3-minute segment stretched into a whole show.
posted by amberglow at 7:29 PM on October 27, 2005

He's really whiney about these people who won't come on his show in the radio segment that's printed at the end of that page. That's what I hate about O'Reilly. It's not the overblown, self-important bombast. That's just entertainment. Not my taste, but whatever. But it's that whining in between, about how tough it is to be Bill O'Reilly.
posted by nanojath at 7:33 PM on October 27, 2005

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
posted by Heywood Mogroot at 7:37 PM on October 27, 2005

Imagine O'Reilly getting snippy with a totally uncensored Dick Cheney. He'd eat Bill alive. O'Reilly may be an asshole but Cheney is a whole different ballgame.
posted by mullacc at 7:55 PM on October 27, 2005

Yes. I am also a coward because I would refuse to appear on "Big Brother" or "Trading Spaces". I would, however, agree to appear on "American Idol" so long as I could get a chance to rugby tackle Simon Cowell.
posted by Decani at 8:04 PM on October 27, 2005

He should really loosen up. Do the character rather than the lines. Maybe take some improv classes or something.

You're kidding, right?
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 8:13 PM on October 27, 2005

Why do we bother to keep talking about this fuckhead?
posted by interrobang at 8:28 PM on October 27, 2005

Big Time Cowards.
posted by soyjoy at 8:30 PM on October 27, 2005

I like the way he called the entire Oil and Gas Industry a coward. Those dudes are sittin' back and lightin' their expensive cigars with thousand dollar bills just a-laughin' away....
posted by jefbla at 9:01 PM on October 27, 2005

Do you think we could organize a MeFi meetup to take place at the taping of an episode of the O'Reilly Factor?
posted by Jon-o at 9:16 PM on October 27, 2005

Colbert Report: Funnier then The Daily Show!

Um. No. Funny skit on the daily show. Not funny for 30 minutes. After watching a couple episodes, I'll check back on the show in 6 months if it's still around and hope that it has found it's stride. Until then, it's an amusing and overlong skit, at best.
posted by my sock puppet account at 9:24 PM on October 27, 2005

... you guys are really obsessed with O'Reilly (vs O'Riley).
posted by tomplus2 at 9:29 PM on October 27, 2005

I think this is the first time everyone in a MeFi thread has agreed with each other. Armageddon must be just around the corner.
posted by Devils Slide at 9:45 PM on October 27, 2005

Nuh uh!!!!

You're a stupid poopy-head and I hate you!

Plus you smell like an elephant's butt.
posted by bigbigdog at 10:24 PM on October 27, 2005

Armageddon must be just around the corner.

No it's not!


there, I have just saved the world. make check payable to.... You know, all those people wont talk to me either. Is it coward, or wisdom?

YOU DECIDE
posted by edgeways at 10:26 PM on October 27, 2005

After moments of deep introspection I have come to the inescapable consclusion that Paris Hilton is now more newsworthy than Bill O'Reilly.

That is all.

Thank you.
posted by RavinDave at 11:15 PM on October 27, 2005

Nuh uh!!!!

You're a stupid poopy-head and I hate you!

Plus you smell like an elephant's butt.

That's more like it! Now that's the MeFi I know and love.
posted by Devils Slide at 11:50 PM on October 27, 2005

i would enjoy it if o'reilly camped out in cindy sheehan's front yard until she agreed to come on his show.

i'd also enjoy watching dick cheney take him apart on the air. because that's what would happen. o'reilly is a loudmouthed bully, but cheney is the iceman with the savage tongue.

ghod, why am i concocting fantasies about people i can't stand?
posted by piranha at 12:15 AM on October 28, 2005

Being a guest on O'reilly's show is in the same league as being on Rikki Lake or Springer. The people on the list aren't cowards, they [or their handlers] are showing some sense of intellect.

And Colbert rules, ok?
posted by birdherder at 2:35 AM on October 28, 2005

Meh. O'Reilly made my douchebag list a long time ago. If I walked by him as he was seated in a restaurant I would arrange to fart when my ass was nearest his head.
posted by clevershark at 6:15 AM on October 28, 2005

After moments of deep introspection I have come to the inescapable consclusion that Paris Hilton is now more newsworthy than Bill O'Reilly
posted by RavinDave at 2:15 AM EST

Especially since Teen People Magazine just named her Number One!!!*
*most egotistical celebrity

Colbert...gets a 7 out of 10
O'Reilly...gets a smack in the face with a vibrating falafal
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 7:30 AM on October 28, 2005

Call me a coward too. I wouldn't cross the street to piss on O'Reilly if he were on fire.
posted by RockCorpse at 8:51 AM on October 28, 2005

I am in the colbert is funnier than the daily show crowd. Not that the daily show is bad, just that colbert is a fucking genius. His interviews are grat and aren't so obviously edited like the one's on the daily show. Plus you can tell he refuses to dumb down his show, wish the daily show does do at times.

Plus he made fun of Rosa Parks when she died, who else has the balls to do that?
posted by afu at 9:29 AM on October 28, 2005 [1 favorite]

Is Colbert Report stylistically similar to O'Reilly's show? Or is it more a general mocking of all the dick-head talkshows?

I'm finding it to be rather uneven. Love the interviews, though -- I'm getting the feeling that they're almost entirely improv.

The astrophysicist the other day freakin' rules! He needs to produce a kid's guide to the universe. He has brilliant, simple explanations.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:50 AM on October 28, 2005

From ericb's shut up link:

To Our Brothers and Sisters in the Great White North
"Canada shouldn't have any say [about the Guantanamo prisoners] at all. I mean, just shut up about it."
— Bill O'Reilly, April 16, 2003

Why, because their American prisoners, not Canadian prisoners? Then the US shouldn't have had any say in how Saddam treated his prisoners, or any other country that they've interfered in. Hell, it wasn't the US's business what Hilter was doing to people, I mean, just shut up about it.
posted by raedyn at 10:00 AM on October 28, 2005

Yeah, damn that Hilter.

Seriously, though, I agree with your sentiment, raedyn.
posted by jenovus at 11:40 AM on October 28, 2005

Hilter

You wouldn't have much fun in Stalingrad, would you?
posted by Jon-o at 8:52 PM on October 28, 2005