It just is inappropriate to openly speculate about someone else’s death. Please be cognizant she is a person, with a family. If she/her family wanted your opinion, they would ask. Otherwise butt out. This has NOTHING to do with political opinions. It is just common decency. 

I see the larger point…but O’Reilly can’t seem to refrain from hyperbole. Snoop and Willie as creeps? Because they promote smoking of marijuana? How many people die from marijuana overdose? He seems to forget that what probably killed Houston were drugs that are LEGALLY AVAILABLE! Alcohol and prescribed medicine. 

Drug and alcohol addiction is not a disease.  It is character weakness no different from a tobacco addiction.
The people say they want to quit but in reality they just want the bad consequences to go away.
They like their addictions even though they scream and shout they don’t.
A smoker loves lighting up a smoke.
A drinker loves the taste of that first sip of the day.
A crack head loves the hot burn of that first hit.
If you tried to snatch those things out of their hands they would break your wrist.

Their addictions are their best friend.

A simpler message could be, doing anything to excess is probably not very healthy

Though, to be fair, i don’t recall anyone dropping dead from pot overdose, Bill might have to realize that his pot arguments just don’t carry much weight with most people  

If that’s true, Limbaugh must really want to die…

You can certainly argue about it being intentional, I doubt it was but you can’t argue that she didn’t kill herself.

This from the guy that calls up his interns in the middle of the night with a crack pipe in one orifice and a dildo in another.

Pop culture celebrates bad behavior, perhaps because being really bad and very rich is something most of us don’t experience so its entertaining to watch.   I agree with Bill 100%, except he was asked in an earlier segment this morning if this was appropriate to talk about at this time and he said yes – I agree, except I would hope it would not be discussed Saturday as that is the day of her funeral.  Saturday is a day to celebrate and honor her.  

 From your lips to the ears of the 6-lb. 8-oz. baby Jebus!

Fox’s response to Nancy Grace :)

Addiction is a disease and should be treated as a public health issue.

Conservatism is a character weakness.

Try to snatch away their fear, greed and intolerance they’ll find a billionaire to run ads on your ass.

Fear, greed and hate are their best friends.

I could be wrong, but I think the medical community has a differing point of view.  They consider it a disease.

Although the good news is, smallmindedness is not a disease, therefore not eligible for health insurance coverage.  If not, the premiums would rise dramatically.

Perfect.

That’s what I thought, too. Bill just HAD to go and steal Nancy’s bone-headed thunder.

Drugs have been around a long time and people have been using them for a longtime. It’s easy to generalise, which Bill O’Reilly shouldn’t have done…

…But, the reality is hard drugs don’t lead to any healthy outcome!

There are lots of drugs available and not all of them are illegal…

They call everything a disease.
If your fat…it ain’t your fault. You have a food addiction.
If you owe a bookie 15 large…it ain’t your fault.  You are a gamblaholic.
Jerk off to computer porn all day….poor thing. You have a sex addiction.

When it is never your fault then there is no guilt or shame.
It is an illness you cannot control you see and not bad decision making.
You’re off the hook.

Charlie Sheen is a perfect example. He isn’t sick.  He loves to snort coke and drink.  He consciously chose to throw away his show and screw everyone who belonged to it.
He does it because he can.
Believe it or not sometimes people just don’t care.

It is a disease, and anyone who has ever worked with addicts will tell you the same thing. You can become physically addicted to drugs/alcohol and if you don’t continue taking them, you become sick. Anyone who has seen an addict go through a physical withdrawal will tell you how harrowing it is and sometimes life-threatening. It is a mental addiction as well, addicts constantly tell themselves, “Oh, I’ll just have one drink” and then inevitably lead to more and more, or think that it is allright to drink alcohol with prescribed medications and it won’t hurt me. 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. 

Winners don’t do drugs! Except the ones that do.

Considering Whitney’s daughter is reportedly on suicide watch, this is an especially crass remark.  The only reason he’s trumpeting this is because he’s refusing to back down from his stupid assessment earlier today with Matt Lauer. 

Bill O’Reilly:  Confused by the tides, expert on situations he wasn’t a part of

Why bring up Snoop Dogg and Willy Nelson? Whitney Houston didn’t die from marijuana.

How about this.. BILL should lead a charge to END this cultural obsession with the deaths of grown celebrities. I dont care how Elvis died, Hendrix, Heath, Whitney, Michael.. Why dont we just say: “Whitney Houston was found dead in her hotel. No foul play.” IF you really care so much about “the children” stop trumpeting this stuff so that “the children” have so much to ask about (and learn about). She had a great voice, sung some classic tunes, gave us some classic moments.. do we really need anything added “for the children”.. OR are we just hypocritical enough that HOW a person dies is the most important part of their life? The only other thing I can add is how people like Bill will feel (honestly I know he wont care) when/if it is determined that Whit died from something as simple as getting in a hot bath after drinking two-three glasses of wine? I’ve watched ADULTS get woozy and rescued from hot tubs because they had a few drinks and the temperature causes a head rush. Its not worth front page discussion.

Bill O’Reilly:  Pinhead or Pinner head?

Fox News, Just a little more flesh just a little more blood a little closer to the edge a little deeper in the mud.

Limbaugh is sober now. 

 Whatever you do, never, ever, tune in to HLN.

 Ditto.

This idiot knows nothing. Marijuana cigarettes?? That’s a phrase out of the middle ages. Marijuana has nothing to do with Houston’s death, Billy boy. She died from prescription meds, like Rush Limbaugh has an addiction to.

So Rush attempted suicide?

This will be devestating news for Nancy Grace!  She claims to have evidence that Casey Anthony murdered Whitney by forcing dugs down her throat while she held her head under water!

To steal a joke from Jeff Ross, Tim Russert is dead and Limbaugh is healthy as a horse.  Where is the justice in that?  I don’t think Russert would have been in the tank for Obama like Chris Matthews.

He’s like Captain Kirk.  Trying to go where no man has gone before.  Reminds me of the Baron Harkonnen in Dune.

What do Russert or Matthews have to do with the price of tea in china?

As a former addict (I was a walking advertisement for the PDR), suicide is seldom if ever contemplated.  I overdosed twice, and thought nothing of it.  Was all part of the fun and glamor.
Houston, knew she could die, as did I…but the addiction generally prevails.  And dying, isn’t so bad
given the euphoria of most chemical cocktails.  The irony for me, and what lead to my involvement was after my mother died from cirrhosis when I was 14, and she left a script of Tuinal behind.  I fell in love, and wondered why alcohol was legal, given it killed her just before her 38th birthday.  With the American Pharmaceutical Cartels and Alcoholic Cartels, no war against these two formidible killing agencies and their partners is winnable.  And for you goons who would deceive the masses by labeling marijuana a dangerous drug, it just so happens to be the natural remedy, I used to cease and desist my meth habit.

Well done.

Something as simple as a butterfly flapping it’s wings, or a man getting a thrill up his leg could send prices soaring or spiraling.

I get a thrill up my leg when a butterfly flaps his wings. 

 im sure you’ll shut up when they develop medical terminology for ignorance……

They may be the most idiotic thing I have read on any post. I think medical science would disagree with everything you post. What is your view of mental illness? I think you may be in fact mentally ill

Bill O’reilly wants this to be about Bill O’reilly

Why all the supposition?  We don’t even KNOW what killed Whitney Houston?

In this case, Twas the beast, that killed the beauty.  The beast being the industry itself, and all thing affiliated with it…including easy access to drugs.  The only “true love”, is the dollars the talent (commodity) generates for his/her principalities.  Fans are nothing more then social leeches, who feel a need to cling on to what they percieve as greatness.  Whitney, without a voice would be like any other Yo Yo, flocking to see talent…not greatness. Had she really believed in what she was singing in the song, The Greatest Love of All…”Everybody’s searching for a hero. People need someone to look up toI Never found anyone who fulfilled my needs. A lonely place to be So I learned to depend on me.” she’d still be alive and thriving.  She did kill herself…unknowingly and with a lot of help from her friends.  Friends, who cared more about the commodity then the individual.  Unfortunately, for Houston, she walked in everybodys shadow, lost touch with her talent, and allowed the beast to consume her.  Another song says it best…That’ Life.

Now that Whitney’s assistants and handlers are unemployed per se….perhaps the Obamas, in a gesture of “job creation”…. could hire them as their own personal assistants.
That could work out great  for everybody involved.

Whitney’s death wasn’t just a loss for her family and friends, but also for those who thought she was very special.  She was beautiful, talented, and a kind and decent person.  I’m sorry for her struggles and her untimely death, for she had so much more to live for and give to the world.
No matter how she died it’s a great loss……let her rest in peace.

 We don’t know yet how or why Whitney died so all this speculation and posturing is ridiculous.

Could we just wait for the coroner’s final results?

more like a dickhead!

Why? Bacsue she’s black that’s why. She’d get a lot more respect from idiots like O’reilly of she was white.

Bill O’Reilly is a master at blending racism into a toxic brew of quasi-rational speculation and right-wing dogma. He is too much of a coward to say what he really means.

We don’t have the official cause of death for Ms Houston yet, but it’s obviously pointing hard towards prescription drug use combined with alcohol; a lethal combination that most people ignore.
 O’Riely is too harsh in his judgement of Whitney Houston. She did not intend to kill herself, and the reason that I know this is that she would not leave her daughter alone to fend for herself at such a tender young age. It was an accidental overdose because 48 year old women don’t generally drop dead in a bathtub at the age of 48!

 I simply have to agree…not saying that I am speaking specifically against Whitney Houston…however yes people make everything into a disease, never to be the persons fault. Right some people just do not care…especially not enough to change!

I don’t think anyone can speculate that Whitney Houston intentionally killed herself. Bill O’reilly hower brought up some very good points. There is no public service announcements directly from the music industry giving our youth a message that drugs are dangerous.
     What I want to know is why doesn’t the music industry cut their ties with singers and musicians that are addicts or at least demand rehab and make a drug use clause part of their contracts as they do in every other profession. The answer is the music industry could care less. As long as these singers make money for the industry they don’t care if they die doing it. I think the doctors who continued to provide Whitney with prescription drugs need to be held accountable the way Michael Jackson’s doctor was held accountable for abusing his position.
    If everyone knew Whitney had and alcohol and drug addiction why was she hired to perform at the music awards?

Although, I see the point he’s trying to make here, Bill is way out of line.  His intentions seem honorable enough, but he’s just not seeing the whole picture.  Now it’s come out that Whitney, indeed, did have drugs in her system, and they did contribute to her death.  But to say she intentionally killed herself – that’s way out of line.  I have never, ever gotten the feeling Whitney could ever want to do such a thing.  If you’ve seen her interviews – she was a very passionate, but very troubled woman.  She openly owned up to her mistakes – she admitted she was her own worst demon.  But she was fighting to get her life back.  The way I see it, she was on the path to doing so, but fell off the wagon.  And it’s tragic, because she was such a beautiful, talented, truly amazing woman who really did have so much life in her at her best.  Her eyes would sparkle and shine – she simply glowed with life and love.  The drugs did her in, yes, but I never for one moment would believe she wanted to die – she had too much to give, too much faith inside her, and too much to live for.  

As for the name calling…Mr. O’Reilly, that’s not the way to get your point across.  I see what you’re saying, and I appreciate your passion, but you’re going about it all wrong.  Honesty and accountability – yes, I agree – they need to be addressed.  But leave the name calling and speculation out of it.  Stick to the facts, and you’ll reach a much broader audience.

Actually, it goes a step further.  The industry is all too willing to not only allow, but PROVIDE the drugs, so long as it means more $$ for them in the long run.  It’s a very twisted, dark industry and it’s become more about turning a fast buck than the talent and the art it once was.