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Bill O’Reilly On Fox News’ Front Row Seat: Believe Me When I Tell You, I Will Be There

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In case you couldn’t tell by the twinkle in Bill O’Reilly’s eye tonight, it’s a good day to be working at Fox News. While some people may not be thrilled with the network getting the bump up to the front row, the Factor host couldn’t have been happier with the White House Correspondents Association’s choice. He warned viewers tonight that he planned on hogtying Major Garrett and getting right up in Robert Gibbs’ face.

O’Reilly was having a lot of fun with the choice. He implied that President Obama might have wanted to stop the choice if he had been able to and he seemed delighted imagining himself or any of Fox’s other stars sitting in the seat:

“Ok, but, you know, I might be able to sneak down there, [Fox News Washington correspondent James] Rosen, and tie Garret up. Sure, I’m a Fox News credentialed guy and I can sit in the front row and believe me when I tell you, that I will be there sometime down the line. And Glenn Beck might be there. Hannity might be there. I mean it…whoa!”

But then PoliticsDaily.com’s Lynn Sweet had to go and be Little Miss Buzzkill from the land of No Funnsylvania and point out to the giddy host that he already could do that at any time and he always could have. He’d just had to do it from the second row. And then James Rosen piled on by remarking that the very tall O’Reilly really can’t “sneak” anywhere.

God, O’Reilly needs some guests who like to gloat more for segments like this. Where’s Bernie Goldberg when you need him?

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  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    GREAT BILL!!
    First question: Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang that took over parts of Laredo in an act of war. I know your side wants answers to those questions!!

  • Azarkhan

    “Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang”

    “What’s very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other things and then, behind that, they drag us into court with the ACLU,” Sheriff Babeu said….

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70324

  • Bootleghaircut

    Then be sure to have Glenn Beck ask if Obama hates America and if the end of times are near, not that he’s saying they are and god he hopes he wrong, is gold still a good investment?

  • juan

    Can’t wait for Beck or Hannity to be there!

    Gibbs will really STAMMER!

  • Azarkhan

    “Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang”

    The audio message in Spanish is a bit garbled, but the text is clear.
    It’s offering $1 million for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head and $10,000 for anyone who wants to join the Mexican cartel.
    A man who wants to remain anonymous says his wife received the text message Tuesday evening. It also included an international phone number and instructions to pass the message along.
    “She showed it to me..I was kind of disgusted..I reported it to the Sheriff’s department yesterday..they said they were going to direct the threat squad on it.”

    http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/mexican-drug-cartel-sheriff-arpaio-07292010

  • felixw

    The Democrats should worry less about the front row at the White House press conference, and more about the voters back home. An impartial composite of recent polls show that the Republicans have built up a 6% lead nationwide in the race for congressional seats.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/generic_congressional_vote-901.html

    By my reckoning, any party with more than a 3% lead in this measurement will enjoy a landslide victory. For the Republicans to push out by 6% at this state suggest a whacking of historic proportions for Pelosi and company.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Can’t wait for Beck or Hannity to be there!

    Gibbs will really STAMMER!”

    Last time Gibbs and Hannity went to head Gibbs crushed him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2AaqcaMkU8

    Don’t click on the link unless you want to see Sean “Sputtering and Stammering”

  • Azarkhan

    “Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang”

    Last Friday, investigators seized 4,000 grams of cocaine worth about $500,000, 1,900 pounds of marijuana valued at $5 million and $87,000 cash.
    Nick Roti, chief of the organized crime division, said the drugs were packed in cardboard boxes and stacked inside a bedroom.
    Police say Gonzalez-Nieto is not a U.S. citizen, and may be working with a Mexican drug trafficking group.

    http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-southwest-side-drug-bust-aug2,0,1538715.story

  • Azarkhan

    “Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang”

    $1.7 billion worth of pot seized in California. Authorities in California have seized $1.7 billion worth of pot and arrested 97 people. The $1.7 billion pot bust also included Mexican nationals.

    According to officials the marijuana growing operation was controlled by Mexican drug cartels. This brought a conclusion to a three week sweep in central California by law enforcement. Agents located tracts of land in remote areas of Fresno, Madera and Tulare counties.

    http://www.newsoxy.com/world/17-billion-worth-pot-seized-california-14036.html

  • chucken

    O’Reilly no matter what the issue it’s always about Bill O’Reilly. It’s a shame this ignorant asshole who paid 10 million dollars in his 2004 sexual harassment lawsuit must place himself in every story.The White House briefings are a complete waste of time and I wish President Obama would have at least got a more articulate spokesman than Robert Gibbs who is cringe worthy to say the least.

  • newzmaker

    I think O’Reilly has a mancrush on Obama. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  • Azarkhan

    “Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang”

    (AP) SAN DIEGO (AP) – A Mexican law enforcement official who worked with U.S. authorities was charged with sharing confidential information with drug traffickers and arranging the arrests of his drug boss’ rivals, according to a far-reaching indictment against a gang that ferries drugs along California’s border with Mexico.

    Jesus Quinonez, the international liaison for the Baja California state attorney general’s office, was among 43 defendants named in the federal racketeering complaint that alleges murder, kidnapping and other crimes. They are accused of working for Fernando Sanchez Arellano, who is widely considered the most-wanted drug kingpin in Tijuana, Mexico.

    Quinonez, 49, was arrested Thursday in San Diego during a traffic stop….

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/23/ap/national/main6706580.shtml

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Azarkhan said:
    ….

    You sure are postin’ a lotta links, except the one to the lies your side spread this weekend.

    I don’t blame you for avoiding that link. lol

  • Azarkhan

    “You sure are postin’ a lotta links, except the one to the lies your side spread this weekend.” BFD

    If you’re so fucking ignorant not to see what is happening, there’s no hope for you. But others will get the message

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    I KNOW, ASK GIBBS WHY OBAMA SUPPORTED THE RELEASE OF THE LOCKERBIE BOMBER!!!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Azarkhan said:
    you’re so fucking ignorant

    y so srs?

  • Bootleghaircut

    “If you’re so fucking ignorant not to see what is happening, there’s no hope for you. But others will get the message”

    Yeah their tin foil hats are already picking up the “signal”

  • BatBoy

    When Bill Shows
    Gibbs will be a No-Show!

  • Bootleghaircut

    Big_F-ing_Deal says:
    August 2, 2010 at 9:35 pm Big_F-ing_Deal(Quote)
    1 0
    Azarkhan said:
    you’re so fucking ignorant

    y so srs?”

    You didn’t realize he was angry ALL THE TIME?

  • Azarkhan

    “Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang”

    Last month’s “Project Deliverance” federal drug-trafficking sweep netted arrests and drug seizures across the country — but not in the Alamo City. In the Western District, administered from San Antonio, the operation produced arrests in El Paso, Midland, and Alpine, charging defendants with links to Mexican drug-trafficking organizations out of Ciudad Juárez. Following the sweep, authorities trotted out more ominous assessments. “Drug trafficking across the Southwest border has led to a surge of drugs in neighborhoods across the U.S.,” said Kevin Perkins, assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division.

    http://sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=71324

  • chucken

    Bottleghaircut on your link did you hear the smoking gun of all Sean Hannity’s lies?He clearly said he is a JOURNALIST!! That is one big fat fucking lie that Fox News has said is not true and even Sean Hannity has said is not true.Gotcha!!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Azarkhan said:

    u mad?

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Bottleghaircut on your link did you hear the smoking gun of all Sean Hannity’s lies?He clearly said he is a JOURNALIST!! That is one big fat fucking lie that Fox News has said is not true and even Sean Hannity has said is not true.Gotcha!!”

    well that clears that up- as I have said all liberals are hypocrites but all conservatives are lying douche bags.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Bill’s just lookin’ out for the White House Correspondent folks . … The President’s Employee (the Alabama Doughboy ) (The Cinnabon withLegs ) ( The Stammering Sleazeball ) Gibbs will not be happy to see O’Reilly . Gibbs will be out of there faster than a box of Twinkies disappearing from his desk drawer .

  • newzmaker

    I’m starting to think ‘bootleghaircut’ is Rachel Maddow in drag.

  • Azarkhan

    “u mad?”

    Not really. I’m eating chocolate cake and listening to this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY&feature=related

  • Bootleghaircut

    “I’m starting to think ‘bootleghaircut’ is Rachel Maddow in drag.”

    Predictable but I’ll take that as a compliment as clearly she’s much better educated than you and has her own tv show while you are just a small pathetic little race baiting miscreant.

    the best thing I could compare you to is a pile of maggot ridden dog shit.

  • Azarkhan

    “the best thing I could compare you to is a pile of maggot ridden dog shit.”

    Is that the BEST you can come up with??

    PS: U mad?

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Azarkhan says:
    August 2, 2010 at 9:45 pm Azarkhan(Quote)
    0 1
    “u mad?”

    Not really. I’m eating chocolate cake and listening to this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY&feature=related

    Bullshit.

    He cleaning a gun and reading his favorite parts from revaltions; he’ll be a real treat in about an hour.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Azarkhan says:
    August 2, 2010 at 9:48 pm Azarkhan(Quote)
    0 1
    “the best thing I could compare you to is a pile of maggot ridden dog shit.”

    Is that the BEST you can come up with??

    PS: U mad?”

    The real hubris here is thinking newzmaker is worth my best material. A common problem amongst your average self obsessed mopey myopic rethuglican.

  • Azarkhan

    “He cleaning a gun and reading his favorite parts from revaltions; he’ll be a real treat in about an hour”

    Take out Revelations and put in reefer you got me pegged. Best description:
    “the guitar is just nasty as hell”

  • the real john t

    Do these ignorant RWers on here even realize to get to ask a question at a White House press conference you have to be called on first. How many times did Bush’s press secretary call on Hellen Thomas. Almost never. So I sure as hell wouldn’t go celebrating so soon. Same advice goes to O’Reilly.

  • newzmaker

    Bootleghaircut said:
    “Azarkhan says:
    August 2, 2010 at 9:48 pm Azarkhan(Quote)
    0 1
    “the best thing I could compare you to is a pile of maggot ridden dog shit.”

    Is that the BEST you can come up with??

    PS: U mad?”

    The real hubris here is thinking newzmaker is worth my best material. A common problem amongst your average self obsessed mopey myopic rethuglican.

    You seem like a really angry crazed liberal. I hope your mom has double locks, on your pad in the basement.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Take out Revelations and put in reefer you got me pegged. Best description:
    “the guitar is just nasty as hell””

    Lies on all fronts.

    that..”music” sounded like two dumptrucks fucking…kind of like the music angry teenagers listen to when they get to be about that age and are feeling confiused.

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

    Perhaps I have misguessed your age indeed.

    Explains quite a bit about you sonny-Jim!

  • Azarkhan

    “The real hubris here is thinking newzmaker is worth my best material.”

    The real hubris here is newzmaker thinking he is worthy of challenging me! That punk bitch can’t hold my jock strap when it comes to insults.

    (that’s better!)

  • Bootleghaircut

    “You seem like a really angry crazed liberal. I hope your mom has double locks, on your pad in the basement”

    And you seem like an ignorant race baiting peice of shit; wait a minute-it doesn’t just “seem that way” you already proved your utter lack of intelligence!!!!!

    But hey thanks to “writer” we all know that anybody who plays the “mom” card is clearly a black person. I will pass the information around. We need more “color” around here. thanks for joining and provingf that even black people can be race baiting idiots-its not the skin-ITS THE INTELLIGENCE STUPID!

  • Bootleghaircut

    “The real hubris here is newzmaker thinking he is worthy of challenging me! That punk bitch can’t hold my jock strap when it comes to insults”

    Well what do you know? he’s right! I told you he was trainable!!!! And since he’s had to try to lift the weight and failed on so many occasions he speaks from experience!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Feldman/1158574704 Josh Feldman

    Fox News isn’t actual news, but then neither is MSNBC. Both channels are more opinionated than anything, and thus shouldn’t be taken seriously as news organizations.

  • newzmaker

    Bootleghaircut exposed! Here’s his pic.

    http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/acne.htm

  • Azarkhan

    “Well what do you know? he’s right!”

    To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it is all about what the meaning of hubris is.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Bootleghaircut exposed! Here’s his pic.”

    Truly only the really stupid do shit like this and they do when they’ve run out of ideas and braincells.

    You won’t ever see me doing soemthing this stupid-but hey your fellow conservative most likely think you’re a friggin’s genius!

    Just imagine stupid little idiots posting revenge pics all day long. Yes you are bring a real sense of class to the site jackass.

    You are now dismissed; and don’t expect me to ever acknowledge you again.

    Moron.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it is all about what the meaning of hubris is.”

    SUCCESS! NOW I’VE GOT YA QUOTING LEFTISTS!!!!!! WHO KNOWS WHAT NEXT!!!!

  • newzmaker

    Bootleghaircut said:
    “Bootleghaircut exposed! Here’s his pic.”

    Truly only the really stupid do shit like this and they do when they’ve run out of ideas and braincells.

    You won’t ever see me doing soemthing this stupid-but hey your fellow conservative most likely think you’re a friggin’s genius!

    Just imagine stupid little idiots posting revenge pics all day long. Yes you are bring a real sense of class to the site jackass.

    You are now dismissed; and don’t expect me to ever acknowledge you again.

    Moron.

    Thank you.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    newzmaker said:
    I hope your mom has double locks, on your pad in the basement.

    Oldest and most cliched insult in the history of the intrawebs.
    The ol’ ‘mom and the basement’ putdown.
    I’d like to think we are more sophistimicated here.

    Get some new material or stfu, kthxbai

  • newzmaker

    I’d like to think we are more sophistimicated here.

    Get some new material or stfu, kthxbai

    Your ["u mad?"] response is about as dumb-assed as it gets. LOL.

  • lanquihue

    the real john t said:
    How many times did Bush’s press secretary call on Hellen Thomas. Almost never.

    There’s a good reason, though, Thomas didn’t ask questions, she made speeches. Which is funny, since The Dirty Sanchez over at CNN bemoans the fact that Fox got a front row seat because they’re not a “real” news organization? Yeah, and like Thomas actually qualified as a serious reporter. She was a joke, and had been for decades.

  • The Real Royal King

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    GREAT BILL!!First question: Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang that took over parts of Laredo in an act of war. I know your side wants answers to those questions!!

    That was a great story. Or not.

    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN
    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE SEA
    FOX NEWS ALWAYS LIES
    WHEREVER BONNIE MAY BE.

  • The Real Royal King

    Bootleghaircut said:
    “If you’re so fucking ignorant not to see what is happening, there’s no hope for you. But others will get the message” Yeah their tin foil hats are already picking up the “signal”

    Holy Brigham Young, thanks be to Joseph Smith for tin foil.

    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN
    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE SEA
    FOX NEWS ALWAYS LIES
    WHEREVER BONNIE MAY BE.

  • The Real Royal King

    lanquihue said:
    There’s a good reason, though, Thomas didn’t ask questions, she made speeches. Which is funny, since The Dirty Sanchez over at CNN bemoans the fact that Fox got a front row seat because they’re not a “real” news organization? Yeah, and like Thomas actually qualified as a serious reporter. She was a joke, and had been for decades.

    That, and the W Administration’s utter, paralyzing fear of Ms. Thomas.

    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN
    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE SEA
    FOX NEWS ALWAYS LIES
    WHEREVER BONNIE MAY BE.

  • lanquihue

    The Real Royal King said:
    That, and the W Administration’s utter, paralyzing fear of Ms. Thomas.

    Umm, yeah, I guess that must’ve been it.

  • the real john t

    lanquihue said:
    There’s a good reason, though, Thomas didn’t ask questions, she made speeches.

    And how in the hell would you know? Like I said Bush’s press secretary almost never called on her. Plus, you must not work since they usually have the press confrence’s in the middle of the afternoon.

    And don’t even bother telling me I must not work either. I’ve been retired since 2003.

  • The Real Royal King

    lanquihue said:
    Umm, yeah, I guess that must’ve been it.

    Ari and Scotty were both known to suddenly be standing in puddles of their own urine when Ms. Thomas asked a question.

    By the way, that’s satire.

    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN
    MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE SEA
    FOX NEWS ALWAYS LIES
    WHEREVER BONNIE MAY BE.

  • notsofast

    the real john t said:
    I’ve been retired since 2003.

    And retarded since 1955!

  • the real john t

    notsofast said:
    And retarded since 1955!

    AWWW!!! Look there, all the little boy can do is come up with juvenile comments. He must be 13 or 14yrs old.

  • lanquihue

    the real john t said:
    And how in the hell would you know? Like I said Bush’s press secretary almost never called on her. Plus, you must not work since they usually have the press confrence’s in the middle of the afternoon.

    Put down the bottle, man, you know zilch-point-nothing about me, and are a fool to assume that you do.

    the real john t said:
    And don’t even bother telling me I must not work either. I’ve been retired since 2003.

    Don’t care.

  • the real john t

    lanquihue said:
    Put down the bottle, man, you know zilch-point-nothing about me, and are a fool to assume that you do.

    Did I touch a nerve there little lanqgirl? You getting irrate little girl?

  • lanquihue

    the real john t said:
    Did I touch a nerve there little lanqgirl? You getting irrate little girl?

    Nope, just recognized that you’d run out of argument, that’s all. Have another drink, man, you’ll probably end up thinking you’re quite witty.

  • the real john t

    lanquihue said:
    Nope, just recognized that you’d run out of argument,

    I think you ran out of arguements awhile ago. Just look at your last 2 comments, hypocrite.

  • Averreauxii

    Bill O’Reilly. Hide that Lady Gaga wood buddy!

  • Pablo

    the real john t said:
    And how in the hell would you know? Like I said Bush’s press secretary almost never called on her.

    Are you kidding me? The Tony Snow/Helen Thomas exchanges were legendary, and she certainly went many, many rounds with Ari Fleischer.

  • the real john t

    Pablo said:
    Are you kidding me? The Tony Snow/Helen Thomas exchanges were legendary, and she certainly went many, many rounds with Ari Fleischer.

    I guess you didn’t see very many press conferences either.

  • Some_Dude

    Personally I think it’s sad that commercial viability, right now, overrides journalistic integrity in regards to seating.

    Fox News. They are what they are. And by and large, where it matters, they’re not journalists. But they draw a large audience within a dying medium. Same as conservative radio lures large populations of conservatives. It’s blending.

    More people listen to podcasts on their commute than those that actually sit down and watch television news. And most of those podcasts are definitely not old man/FNC.

    Conservatives love to cite our founders. Even though they have almost nothing in common with them. If our founders were to be resurrected for a day, they would be listening to the new media. And not FNC.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Azarkhan said:
    “Ask Gibbs about the Mexican drug gang” “What’s very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other things and then, behind that, they drag us into court with the ACLU,” Sheriff Babeu said…. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70324

    Sheriff Bebeu, you have a 50 year + decade record of failure in the war on drugs yet you continue to ask for more authority, to assault the constitution, the 4th amendment, the 5th amendment. You, Sheriff Bebeu, are a failure. You have no authority, no moral authority, yet you continue to ask that gov’t stack the deck in your behalf. The contradiction is that those who distrust gov’t say we should trust you. I do not trust you, Babeu.

  • More Liberty

    Some_Dude said:
    Conservatives love to cite our founders. Even though they have almost nothing in common with them. If our founders were to be resurrected for a day, they would be listening to the new media. And not FNC.

    Maybe your right, maybe you’re wrong. I have no idea who they would watch, and I sure as heck can’t make that assertion – it’s a bold statement.

  • VegasRudy

    Boy oh boy, aren’t those grapes sour?

    “God, O’Reilly needs some guests who like to gloat more for segments like this.”

    Why shouldn’t O’Reilly and Fox News gloat?

    Administration hacks and competing news agencies have tried to implant in the minds of the gullible Kool Aid drinker, Fox News is not a real news organization.

    Even though O’Reilly was being a bit frisky when he said that he, Beck or Hannity may occupy the front row seat, it would be amusing to see “Baghdad Bob” Gibbs do a Jim Bakker by curling up behind the podium in a fetal position.

  • Permatiltx

    But then PoliticsDaily.com’s Lynn Sweet had to go and be Little Miss Buzzkill from the land of No Funnsylvania and point out to the giddy host that he already could do that at any time and he always could have. He’d just had to do it from the second row.

    Um, so he could’ve gone all along? As well as Beck and Hannity? Is that what she’s saying? Well, then, now that they’ve got the front row, they will finally get their chance to…oh, who are we kidding? They aren’t showing up. I’d like to put a fund together to pay Bill O’ to actually go to a press conference. I can’t afford it, but if anyone can help. Maybe we’ll get him there. Also, since I try to be fair, will like to start a fund to pay Keith O. to show up as well.

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