O’Reilly Pushes Back: Addresses Kennedy Commenters, NBC, Beck

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by Steve Krakauer | 8:05 am, August 27th, 2009

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oreilly_8-27 Bill O’Reilly weighed in on several of the stories we’ve written about here this week last night on The O’Reilly Factor.

And some of the ways he addressed the big stories of the day – the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, his ongoing feud with Keith Olbermann and the Glenn Beck boycott – may surprise some people.

Yesterday we wondered if O’Reilly would “shame commenters bashing Kennedy,” and Joe Coscarelli guessed, “It seems doubtful.” Well – O’Reilly did just that. “Unfortunately there have been some vicious posting on the internet about Senator Kennedy, and they are disgraceful,” he said. “If you are a religious person, you know the bible states quite clearly that personal judgments should be made by God and God alone. All of us are flawed, and none of us have the right to demean a public servant who just died.”

This is classic O’Reilly – take the high road, but by not making “personal judgments,” he can introduce all aspects of the Kennedy legacy, both good and bad. Overall, O’Reilly was gracious, dubbing Kennedy a “patriot,” which in the No-Spin Zone, is about as good as it gets. Here’s the clip:

So while Kennedy was a patriot…NBCU President Jeff Zucker was a “pinhead.” Really though, Zucker just served the role of place-holder for Olbermann. This comes on the heels of an Olbermann personal attack on the FNC host that we thought O’Reilly wouldn’t respond to. But he did. “Last night on MSNBC, someone said the people, you guys, who watch Fox News are paranoid and racist,” said O’Reilly. “Pinhead, doesn’t begin to cover it.”

This is about as close to saying the words “Keith Olbermann” O’Reilly has gotten to – and the MSNBC host is likely to love the attention. While our predictions haven’t been right recently, look for an O’Reilly mention on Countdown tonight.

And finally, O’Reilly had Glenn Beck on to chat about the boycott against him. In reality, it served mostly as a way for the 5pmET host to gain more exposure for his “special” this week.

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libra blue

So we should ignore the fact that Kennedy used his power and money to beat a murder rap? Give me a break! Today if we heard that someone had left the scene of an accident that killed someone and neglected to report it for several hours afterward we would immediately believe that this person was covering up something.

Dead or alive, why should the rich and famous be exempt from this criticism? Not only that, Kennedy did his best to help his nephew William Kennedy Smith beat a rape charge. The facts are the facts, just because someone dies it doesn’t make him/her a saint.

I think some of these people who are so upset over Kennedys death are older individuals who equate it with the loss of their youth or younger ones who haven’t bothered to educate themselves about the sleazy Kennedy history.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Clifford-EElisary/1434665168 Clifford E.Elisary

Morons like this is just not worth the effort to educate…….
libra blue

@Clifford E. Elisaryl, I guess it would take one to know one wouldn’t it?
Pam1151

It sure looks to me that one has to take a “Am I Mean Enough” test before they post on here. Let’s hope some reasonable people show up eventually!!
chris19046

For Bill to say we have no moral right to judge someone else….if we follow this flawed logic then we do we have laws against murder, rape, incest etc… they are all moral judgments against people!!! I only wish I could have heard St. Peter at the Perle gates tell the Senator … no way Ted you are going to burn in hell for all eternity! He is a murderer and a coward for at least not trying to say the young girl from drowning. He was a womanizer. He broke another of the 7 deadly sings… gluttony. He was a pig and and alcoholic. His family made hundreds of millions of dollars on the backs of other alcoholics. How many lives did his family ruin. The Kennedy family destroyed anyone who got in their way. There is a reason why GOD has given that family so much tragedy. They deserve it. I say good riddance. Burn in hell Ted.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Karr/1391839087 Ryan Karr

@chris19046

I guess I didn’t know God had a screen name. Are you God? You seem like the person that would think Jerry Fallwell would go to heaven.

@libra blue

Did you come over here because you were losing arguments on tvnewser?

And by the way…. both of you are going to hell
libra blue

@Ryan Karr, Wow I didn’t know I had a stalker! On the contrary I was looking for a more intelligent dialog than what was happening on TV Newser and I thought I had found it until I saw your ignorant comments.
libra blue

@Ryan Karr, BTW, I don’t believe in hell.