Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Obnoxious Windbag of the Day

During last Thursday's "The O'Reilly Factor" on FOX News, O'Reilly was embroiled in a heated discussion with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) regarding some of the content on the extremely popular liberal blog, the Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/). Of course, this content is considered by O'Reilly and other individuals on the right to be highly inappropriate. In fact, O'Reilly has gone so far as to describe the Daily Kos as a "hate enterprise", comparing the web site to the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party. However, when Dodd confronted O'Reilly on comments he delivered during a November 8, 2005 broadcast of "The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly" after voters in San Francisco approved a measure to prohibit military recruiting at public high schools and colleges, O'Reilly screamed at Dodd: "No, you're wrong. I didn't say it here. You don't know what the hell I said."

Actually...the following is a transcript of O'Reilly's rantings from that 2005 radio broadcast:

"You know, if I'm the President of the United States, I walk right into 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 Coit Tower? Go ahead.'"

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