“Because I’d always be right,” O’Reilly said.
“And I know you’d always think you’re right,” Lauer added.

Advantage: Lauer

Any music deal comes with piles of drugs. It’s an industry artist control issue.

I love it when conservatives go on nationally syndicated shows that are not on Fox & expose themselves as the most ignorant people on the planet. Keep up the good work Bill.

This is your brain on drugs = Whitney Houston.

This is your brain on FOX = idiot Bill O’Reilly.

Any questions?

The moral of Bill’s story….

“If only Whitney would have listened to him, and the rest of the media acted like him, she would still be alive today”

–Your humble correspondent.

Kind of sums up Bill-O’s persona.

I’d rather be on drugs.

O’Reilly will have the last laugh when Willie Nelson overdoses on pot.

O’Reilly wins again….& again & again
It’s becoming boring..Where is all this liberal intellect????
ROFL

Because we all know that everything is about winning when you’re just sitting around talking about shit.

ROFL ROFL ROFL

What does ROFL mean?

 What did he win?

Did he win a falafel for his bathroom?

LOL

Dang it, you beat me to the falafel joke!

Bill is right the media sensationalizes the druggie superstars because it sells. Everybody loves to watch a car wreck.

Jesus, who cares? Am I the only one who thinks this is the dumbest f-ing topic imaginable, and certainly not worth a moment’s coverage by NBC or Bill O’Reilly.

Can you imagine anyone on Earth using O’Reilly as a cynosure for living their life? This man’s opinions and attitudes are uglier than the south side of a north bound bull. He is truly the ugly American.

Oh, I get it now.  He typed his comment then fell on the floor and rolled around laughing.  

Right, people do drugs because of the media. TO hate how the media “glamorizes” drugs like crack & meth. They make it seem as if crackheads & methheads are hard rollers by depicting them as those who live in the ghetto or trailer parks.

>>O’Reilly wins again<<

HOORAY, HE REALLY PUNKED THAT DEAD CHICK!!!!  Woohooo!!!!

I have one.  You are saying being on drugs is good because people with amazing talent use drugs, and if you appear on Fox you are an idiot?

I’m not sure you know this, being how obviously out of touch with reality you are, but Whitney Houston was an amazing talent BEFORE she became involved with drugs.  Once she became hooked on drugs her career was over and any attempts at performing were pathetic in comparison to her ‘before drugs’ performances.  Fox News is the leading cable news channel and O’Reilly’s show has been number one for about 10 consecutive years.  Being first brings perks, they can afford the brightest and best people, and they can put on quality programming.  Perhaps you should just get back to your bong and continue wasting your life away.

I think it means
Get on your knees……

 I don’t drink or do drugs and I was saying they are both different kinds of idiots.
Nowhere did I come close to praising her drug use.  You imagined that.
Stop reading everything through your warped perspective, kthx.

But thanks for the Houston history lesson.

Bill O’Reilly is a total egotistical blowhard, but there is a large element of truth in what he says.

The media DOES give a wink and a nod to those who do drugs.  There is no contingent of people who talk about it in more than a general way  (like a news expose on the dangers of heroin with unknown participants)…until someone famous is out of control like Charlie Sheen, or dead like Whitney.  Way after the fact.  Then everyone murmurs how tragic it is, what a waste of a life and talent, how terrible.

And it’s not just about drugs.  It’s about whole lifestyles where partying is glamourized and not seen as something undesirable.  What’s the harm?  Its’ a party!  Sensationalizing less than healthy behaviours, either in the news, the tabloids, or even in sitcoms.   Let’s rewind that footage and show Snooki in a bar fight…

It’s a cultural thing.  

There’s that witty liberal humor i was talking about!!

Thanks, so you weren’t editorializing on your first line but were on the second. Not sure what that adds to the discussion.

You mean the discussion you were having with yourself?
The one about O’Reilly must be right because he has the highest ratings?

Leave me out of it please.

The only drug the media glamorizes is marijuana & we don’t see people dying from that. Crack & meth are always depicted as harmful drugs that turn you into ghetto/trailer trash. Never seen a positive depiction of heroin either. I’ll admit they did glamorize cocaine though, but that seems to have stopped since the economy went down. Now the only drug that’s really glamorized is alcohol.

I live my life by Bill O’Reilly’s commands. That’s why I got my sweetheart a box of falafeld for Valentine’s Day.

Right-wingers believe in personal responsibility unless it can be blamed on the media or Hollywood.

Then it’s their fault.

So where does personal accountability come in? Is the media really to blame for people doing drugs?

so Lauer the “Fluffer” says.  An empty show, an empty “host”.

What is ugly?  O’Reilly pointing out that the morality of the Country is in decline?  That stories about Lindsay Lohan who is completely out of control and on the path to destruction are fodder for the media?  Of the insaiteble appetite of the public for stories about Paris, the Kardashian’s and the public (or media) think that they are worthy of press, and making them into celebrities.  

There is nothing ugly about O’Reilly’s comments on the ugly antics that the media is glamorizing.  

I struggle to understand why you think the messenger needs to be smeared and the message ignored.

I’m glad you agree.
Hollywood and the media glamorize it
They are the ones who sell the oooohh and aaaaah to the masses.Glamorizing superstars being F’d up.
Selling 1 percenters F’d up on drugs as the the latest greatest fad.

The funny part is when O’Reilly goes into his “You know I’m always right” schtick he thinks he’s being charming, while everyone else just sees him as an ass.

Also, Snooki didnt get into a bar fight. She was punched out by some drunk guido and no one glamorized that (although I’ll admit that I did laugh when it happened).

So the media and Hollywood are to blame for people’s substance abuse problems?

Do people honestly believe that young people need any encouragement from Hollywood or the media to partake in drug and alcohol abuse? 50 years ago they were abusing drugs and alcohol without any assistance from Hollywood or the media.

First of all, Kim Kardashian isn’t known for doing drugs. Secondly, the media doesn’t glamorize Lindsay Lohan & Paris Hilton’s drug issues. They actually make fun of them for doing it & show the rest of us that they’re train wrecks in spite of all their fame & fortune.

Same could be said about Bill “the falafel fluffer” O’Reilly.

lol @ 4 “guest” likes.

I guess it’s true what they say about you right-wingers here.

I meant you calling O’Reilly an idiot.  There aren’t many serious (and honest) people who would think he’s an idiot.

They certainley contribute “their fair share.”

How do they make people abuse drugs and alcohol? 

Fifty years ago drugs were primarily being used by people who were on the lowest rung of the socio-economic ladder. Parental and societal pressure was brought to bear on people who were sloppy drunks or slutty in their sexual lives. You could count on becoming a pariah, if you violated social norms. Nowadays, we are not supposed to be “judgmental,” so all behaviors, no matter how destructive, are not only tolerated, but are often encouraged. 

For those of you who do not have children yet, be afraid, be very afraid, because society is only becoming worse and those precious babies you will hold in your arms will face a world where drugs, random sexual activity and self-destruction are the norm.

Doesn’t the Catholic Church promote alcoholism by saying wine is the blood of Jesus Christ? Looks like religion contributes its “fair share” as well.

This is a crock of shit. You sound like a grumpy old man waving his fist at kids from his porch. People idealize the past and act like things were so different 50 years ago. They weren’t. There was no 24/7 media, but people still abused drugs and alcohol and committed violent crimes. Life in America has not gotten significantly worse or more dangerous since then. The media just makes it seem that way. Your analysis is a crock.

They were ribbing each other – youknow, they were joking.  Did you watch the clip.  O’Reilly said that in a selp-depricating manner, to whim Lauer replied in kind.

One clue tht this was happening was that they were both laughing.  That is generally a good clue that people are making light of a situation.

You got owned! 

If you don’t see glamorization of drugs in the media  then you are not looking hard enough. 

Whats falafeld? 

Use your imagination.

So O’Reilly can’t figure out how tides happen, but he’s an expert on the physiological nuances of addiction?

Clearly, you’re looking a bit too hard.

The producers in the background were laughing when he said it.

I think you are just an angry, uptight lib

Only question Bill is credible in answering is how it feels to stuff a falafel up a woman’s…

Right, and I’m sure everything you just posted is backed up with facts instead of your own assumptions on what America used to be like 50 years ago or how things are now.

wow this comment is a record for you Chucky! 13 sock puppet likes? ! How long did that take you? Wouldn’t your time be better spent actually trying to come up with somehting thoughtful and intelligent?

You should be embarrassed that you know this. 

says the guys who watches Fox news!

Your point? 

Matt Lauer never fails to show just how stupid he is.
He says it is NOT slavery to be addicted.  IT IS, MATT..otherwise they would stop and think about thier children and themselves.
Houston took her own life…..I don’t feel sorry for her.
We are all born equal…it is just a matter of what you do with that equality which makes one rise above another.
She was talented…made a lot of money and still was a slave.
You will never get pity from me for this kind of behavior.

seriously? you need me to explain?
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/21/fairleigh_dickinson_publicmind_poll_shows_fox_news_viewers_less_informed_on_major_news_stories.html

I didn’t see the interview and I’m wondering if Bill-O was asked about the many inaccuracies in his latest book or why he felt his wife left him for another man??

My initial response was removed. Why? That makes no sense. I merely said that this post is full of it. The world was not some magical place with no violent crime or drug abuse 50, 60, 70 years ago. It is not significantly more dangerous now. The murder rate was much worse in the ’30s than it is now.

I very rarely agree with you Bill, but on this one I do. I also believe that the media exploits famous people’s hardships (whatever they may be) because with big headlines it also brings money. At the same time I don’t think it’s the medias job to help someone get sober and it pretty much comes down to personal responsibility. It takes a lot of work and anyone that is associated in anyway with rehabilitation of substance abusers knows they also need a clean and sober support system around them. Something I think is very hard for famous people to have. You have to cut yourself off completely from anyone that uses or enables the user. You have to stay away from places, events and people that supply the substances. At least until you become strong enough to reject it on your own. Unfortunately, there are some people that just can’t or won’t be saved. I suppose their inner demons are just to much for them to bare. 

I’m a bit confused with your comment. On one hand your saying that people are slaves to their addiction, which in my mind tells me that they have no control and then you say she took her own life. While many people end up od’ing, it is not conscientious planned suicide. No one is suggesting that you should feel sorry for her. But there is a thing called empathy.

Sorry, Bill, I’m following the advice of the stellar voice of Tony Bennett, who said we should legalize drugs. Drugs in my car, drugs at work, drugs in the office, drugs at school, drugs flying a plane, drugs at UN meetings, drugs in warfare … do you feel me folks?!

Many inaccuracies?   Do you mean actual meaningful ones or some of the made up ones like typos?   

Get a life.

“One of the bigger mistakes in his 325-page book is a reference to
Lincoln doing business in the Oval Office when in fact no such room
existed in the White House until almost a half century after he was
shot.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/8877817-418/bill-oreillys-killing-lincoln-book-criticized-for-errors.html

Bill points out a truth that frequently gets lost-  its possible for it to be BOTH a disease AND something that involves free will (when many diseases do not). 
We need a third category: 1. disease   2. free will- not a disease 3. BOTH

How can you compare pot to crack? Pot is nowhere as harmful as alcohol and should be ok to use in moderation like alcohol. I do agree with Bill that Whitney did it to herself (not that she deserved to die). It all comes down to personal responsibility. You do what you will with your body, but there are consequences for your actions.

The media often jumps on sensationalism and reports stories to get ratings. One really has to be a rabid partisan hack to disagree with that based on who is saying it.

The media sure didn’t help, when they put Whitney and Brown on a reality show….”Being Bobby Brown.”

It highlighted the lives of two people on a downward spiral to hell!

Could we expect a different ending?

Why? It’s common knowledge for anyone who keeps up with pop culture.  That video of her getting socked was all over the internet and news media.

I was a teenager 50 years ago.

Back then, very few kids knew of anyone smoking pot, let alone hard drugs.. Those who ‘just’ smoke pot, were considered the dregs of society. Can you imagine what the average teen back then would think of the drugs of today?

Before the birth control pill, girls were a lot more careful as to having casual sex. The pill did nothing but bring about the ‘sexual revolution.’

Both have led to the current  destruction of a civil society.

I googled to refresh my memory, here’s what I found in multiple articles at different sites:  ”O’Reilly acknowledged the errors, describing them as “four minor misstatements” and two typeset errors, “one involving a date,” and said they’ve been corrected.”   

 I don’t know that I would be appalled about reading of a President in the White House 150 years ago sitting in a square or oval room.  Other than the visual I thin it makes about as much difference as which bedroom he slept in.
.

Maybe that was true for you. Did you grow up in suburbia? Guess what? Girls were having casual sex long before the pill came along. Teenagers were getting pregnant long before the pill came along. There was an opium epidemic. You must have lived in a bubble. Your experience is not representative of life back then. 

Did I say I was apalled? I’m not. Just stating that some reputable organizations have declared that the book is factually challenged. 

Bills right on this one. Media wink and move on. Trying to make Houston a martyr.

Read for yourself!!

“Lincoln sites spurn Bill O’Reilly’s book because of errors”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/8877817-418/bill-oreillys-killing-lincoln-book-criticized-for-errors.html                                        

You’re just mad because you bought the book!!

Do you see that there is alcohol in your car? At your job, in school. etc..? I don’t know of any organization, corporate or otherwise, that allows its members to imbibe alcohol (except congress) in those places. As long as drugs are illegal there is more danger to our children because drug dealers don’t ask for I.D. It is not possible to regulate illegal acts. When we had prohibition in this country people didn’t stop drinking, but it made a lot of people a lot of money in ways that were harmful to our economy and our society. Bill is somewhat correct when he says that addicts act willfully in using drugs initially but addiction destroys will. Education will do more than lawmaking to reduce addiction but nothing will ever completely end it.

He did afterall claim to be the second most powerful man in the world.

Bill O just shows how old and out of touch he really is with his stupid commentary comparing a couple of potheads like Willie Nelson and Snoop Dog to hardcore cokeheads like Whitney. Burn one and relax Bill.

But it does not appear that she died from crack. So why mention her being a crack head? That’s the way O’Reilly thinks. More likely, and none of us really know yet, but there were reports of “powerful prescription drugs” on the scene. Crack is unlikely. More likely it is oxy and alcohol. Who is the drug dealer? Probably a company that Bill owns stock in.

Your “screen name” says it all. 

Cindy is exactly right. Our front door was unlocked in the morning and not locked again until bedtime. I never heard of a “carjacking” and kids who were abandoned by their families were raised by other family members or people from their churches. 

It wasn’t “perfect,” but it was a lot better and no one expected to be given things for free. Work was respected and politeness counted.

We seem to have changed society to accommodate the lowest common denominator instead of raising the level of civil behavior.

Nope….I grew up in the heart of the city of Buffalo NY! Raised by 7 uncles and my dad.

If anyone was subjected to ‘life,’ it was me! I could have easily followed a different path, but didn’t.

 I never said there were no drugs, or sexual activity. It wasn’t a rampant, daily part of life, as it became in the 60′s.

Yes, girls did get pregnant, many having to go into homes for “wayward mothers.” Ashamed, many giving their babies up for adoption.

Of course, kids were having sex, but not the all out assault on sexuality that happened with the 60′s generation.

The 60′s became the “Anything Goes” Generation! And so it continues, today!

People like you is the one to be blame coz you always have bullshit excuses for bad behavior, truth hurts!

No, the media is not to blame and neither is being abused as a child or losing your job or any of the other myriad of excuses that addicts like to offer up to blame for their addiction. It’s called the blame game and addicts are quite adept at playing the blame card. Anything to get out of taking personal responsibility for their actions.
 
One of the first things we teach in alcohol and drug rehab is that you must take responsibility for your actions and you will be held accountable for your actions. We also inform family and friends that they too should hold the addict responsible for their actions. Even if that means flushing their pills or emptying their booze or steering them away from places that serve alcohol. An addict will result to any means to get to their “stash”, even going in the bathroom to hide, which is quite common with addicts.

I worked in a residential treatment program and I had no qualms about holding addicts accountable for their actions, I would rather them get pissed off at me for holding them responsible than finding them dead in the bathroom.  One last thing, we also inform addicts that if you don’t stop — total abstinence — you will either wind up dead or in prison. 

Clearly your blind!

The “disease” concept is nothing more than a way to get insurance companies to cover rehab. Old AA members, those that learned how to get sober back in the days before rehab facilities, will tell you privately that it’s B.S. If you don’t drink alcohol, you won’t get drunk; if you don’t do drugs, you won’t die of an overdose. (You’ll die sometime, but it won’t be from an overdose or from your respiratory system shutting down due to excessive medication.) 

I have a feeling that there may be a life insurance “issue” surrounding Houston’s cause of death. 

There’s a term for that it’s called ” Enablers”

Wink? Every person on the planet knows about Whitney’s drug issues, marital issues, singing issues, and frickin what brand of toilet paper she uses, and with the camera’s rolling no less. And that is called a “wink”. That’s LOL stupid.

Once hooked….a person goes into denial and “personal responsibility” is moot.

GOOD ONE!

 Lauer never has an advantage. He’s on a morning talk show for goodness sakes!

Your first statement doesn’t make sense because that’s not what Seek was talking about. The media glamorizes Lindsay Lohan. Instead of having an ad campaign where they go after the mother and the father, they let it slide. Period.

Please don’t ever procreate.

 Kelly was right. If you know this, you spend far too much time in alternate reality.

I cracked up over kelly’s comment. So true.

Was there a lot of crime in the heart of Buffalo in those days? Regardless, there is still a lot of revisionist history going on so that people can take shots at Hollywood and the media. Kids were doing drugs and having sex long before the ’60s. And of course they were a part of daily life before the ’60s. Again, there was a major opium epidemic in America long before then. Not to mention insanely high rates of homicide and other violent crime during the depression and prohibition.

Our doors were unlocked throughout the ’90s. There are still places like that today. Depends on where you live. You are engaging in “Get Off My Lawn/Grumpy Old Man” talk, looking back with rose-colored glasses. The lack of carjackings in the ’50s hardly proves that life was better back then. What about segregation? Women treated as second-class citizens? It’s only much worse now for people who need to justify their political and social viewpoints. 

Excellent response!

You are right….I lived in the city and we never locked our doors, not even at night. We weren’t afraid of the outside world.

People respected each other, their children and families.

Our churches helped those having hard times. Communities cared for one another, neighbors were always on hand in times of need.

In the grand scheme of things, I’d say it was pretty close to perfect.  At least, compared to today.

 And yet……..The History Channel is making O’Reilly’s book into a documentary!

Must be that the History Channel is also flawed?

How often do you watch documentaries on the channel? I would think, if the book had that many factual errors, the channel would not allow it to be shown.

You know for a fact that no places like that exist today? How do you know that again? Oh, right, you don’t. 

I just love to go to comments where there is clearly only one that knows all there is to know about everything. It really astonishes me how much this one will hog the conversation calling everyone that doesn’t agree with him ugly names of all sorts. Never mind that we all are supposed to sit back and listen to him or her only because they are the only one that is smart enough to tell everyone how to think, why, because he or she is the only one that is correct on anything. Then again, I look at whose speaking and it says “SatanicHampster.” Well now that brings on a little more talk or does it, because he or she never listens to anyone except themselves and that is the only thing that counts.

 As soon as Larry the Cable Guy got his own show, I stopped watching The History Channel.

Really? Thats the best comeback you could think up?

Oh wow…So the office Lincoln worked in was rectangle instead of oval – who cares? That’s not much of a mistake…. Oval Office is synonymous with ‘Presidential Workspace’ and does not affect the historical nature of Lincoln’s presidency. 

So, Billo, was your buddy Rush addicted to pills or was it his free will?

 Never said “those” places don’t exist today.

Area churches and charitable, donation funded organizations help the needy on a daily basis.

Neighbors are not as willing to help, as they were in the past. Far too many believe the government will take care of those in need.

Too many people don’t want to get involved. They are self-absorbed, caring only about themselves, at the expense of the community at large.

The charitable organizations do a much better job in helping the truly poor and needy, than the US government ever could. 

I could’ve made a mom joke, but your mom has been thru enough.

Nothing you said made any sense. Please do procreate so that freak shows make a comeback.

If I were blind, how would I know you incorrectly used “your” instead of “you’re”.

People like me is to blame? Guess it depends on what the definition of “is” is.

Yes, my name says it all, TITZY.

I can understand your argument, I have witnessed what addiction to hard drugs can do to a person. The law is no way to do it though, because the law hasn’t stop anyone from using them. Crack keeps people away from crack, the law hasn’t scared anyone from using it. The law just gives them legal trouble on top of their drug addiction.

Ignorant, is calling someone ignorant, but, not explaining what was said that was ignorant. Bill was spot on in his description of Ms. Houston……….if you don’t like the man, thats ok, but what he said here was exactly right.

I think you already are.

Yes, in your day, blacks knew their place & a woman’s place was in the kitchen. They didn’t have minorities around and instead of birth control girls would put aspirin between their legs. Sure wish we could go back to that.

I sort of am actually. I’ll confess, I watched Jersey Shore in its first season.

:-)

He wasn’t describing Whitney Houston he was saying that the media causes drug use. Did you even read the article because your comment seemed ignorant.

To the contrary….I have seen many quit alcohol or drugs once the hassle of jail or prison time makes it “not worth it”
Drug programs help some addicts…but unless the user is convinced he/she wants to quit…NEEDS to quit…is tired of the shit that goes with it…..programs are useless.
Once sober/straight….a person can make a decision one way or the other.

 It wasn’t exactly free. Lawyers cost a ton o cash.

These men need to retire and go home. They are an embarrassment to television

It takes a punk to punk one.

Actually, I found the show interesting. To this day, I have seen nothing like it.

You,MrPhenomenal, are ignorant. You, sir, have no idea about the disease. Most addicts don’t expect to overdose–Its the tolerance level that goes up-thus increasing the amount of drug to get off, leading to an accidental overdose.There was no sign of Whitney being suicidal prior to this It was accidental.overdose due to addiction.