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O’Reilly Defends Stephanopoulos From Dick Morris’s ‘Unfair’ Claim He Is A ‘Paid Hitman’

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Dick Morris started off the week on Monday by going after ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, a former colleague of his during his tenure with President Clinton, for being a “paid Democratic hitman.” That comment was made on Hannity, and tonight Morris was on The O’Reilly Factor, where host Bill O’Reilly made him elaborate on his point and chastised him for claiming there was an exchange of money between Stephanopoulos and the Democratic National Committee.

RELATED: Dick Morris: ‘Newt Could Very Well Win In South Carolina’

Morris explained that he believed Stephanopoulos was the first to bring up contraceptives as a serious national issue during a debate earlier this year, and it was not until recently that the Democrats took that ball and ran with it in the debate currently in the air about the Catholic Church having to abide by a mandate from the President. “This is all of a piece to set up contraception as the new social issue replacing abortion to separate the left and the right,” Morris argued, a claim O’Reilly didn’t entirely see the merit to. “If I was Stephanopoulos, I’d slap you with the biggest lawsuit in the world,” he told Morris, noting that he understood the framing of the contraceptive issue but adding that it was a big jump to make between that conclusion and the transfer of money. “Certainly, George Stephanopoulos is obsessed with contraception,” O’Reilly ceded, but “you can’t say he’s on the take, he’s in their pocket.”

Morris lay clear that he thought Stephanopoulos “had been contracted by the Democrats to lay a hit on Romney,” and added his personal experience: “you neglect to realize that I worked with him, and in fact for a year he basically worked for me, and we were constantly doing that.” O’Reilly once again argued that Morris had “taken it too far– you can’t prove it and it’s not fair.” Morris finally ceded that he did not believe Stephanopoulos had taken “a paper envelope with 20s,” but insisted there was little difference between that and what he believed was actually going on. O’Reilly remained unconvinced for the rest of the segment.

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  • Anonymous

    Dick Morris always has bloodshot eyes. Why? um….

  • Centrist79

    Lets face it Morris is a hack.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    One thing is certain: Dick Morris loves him some paid prostitutes…and their toes.

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly is a left wing whack job.  Who cares what he thinks?

  • Anonymous

    He may be right, he’s an unpaid (by Obama campaign) hitman.

  • 12voltman1

    Left of who? John Birch?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Wow, Morris gives me the creeps sometimes, so I can just imagine what he does to some of you Lefties here! lol

  • Gloves Oliver Donahue

    “O’Reilly Defends Stephanopoulos From Dick Morris’s ‘Unfair’ Claim He Is A ‘Paid Hitman’”

    He does it for free.
    Brings up meaningless liberal issues so he can chortle with his fellow Obama henchmen and journolists about it later.

  • Anonymous

    Is there a lower form of life than “toe sucker” Dick? I think not. Just because he runs to whatever side waves a twenty dollar bill at him doesn’t mean everyone does.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    There’s plenty worse than Steph, he’s always been pretty fair, just reflexively left of correct!

  • Anonymous

    Seriously…

    Ladies out there, hate to make you hurl the day after valentine’s day…

    But this guy liked to act on his toe fetish with prostitutes.  Just think about that.

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Proof?

  • Anonymous

    ‘I began to connect the dots!’ Dick Morris

    That’s just too funny and he said it with a straight face!!!

    Almost as funny as matching your name Dick. 

    Matched with Tator or Hertz or Burns…

  • Anonymous

    Stephanopoulos is a hit-man, but I’m not sure he’s a paid one, unless his salary at ABC is being referred to.
     

  • Verreauxii

    Steph. didn’t fish that questioning from thin air. His colleague (Jake Tapper) had questioned Santorum a few days earlier on the same topic. Right here… 
    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/santorum-explains-06-loss-still-supports-state-right-to-outlaw-contraception/

    Does Dick “Toe Sucker” Morris think Tapper is also a paid hitman for the Dems?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    GOP must DEMAND Congressional Hearings as to how deep the Media-White House corruption goes by bringing in Brock & the rest of the Media Matters / Obama Team.

    Or, maybe Obama wants Holder to investigate?
    I’m sure he does!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Was the White House-Media Matters cabal modeled directly after the propaganda campaigns of the 1930′s, or did they add some variations?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     How cliche.

  • Anonymous

    hahahahaha @ the constant comparisons many fasists make between the nazis and the obama administration…..calling wingnuts out on the BS doesnt even bother em anymore…..by election i expect you to drop the tri cornered hats and go straight to the jack boots and brownshirts

  • Anonymous

    Wasn’t Morris’ tenure under Clinton cut short when he let a prostitute listen in on a conversation with the president? Only FOX would employ this chump.

  • Anonymous

    Of all the people who have zero integrity, Dick Morris still manages to have the least. He’s never came upon and ethical line he wasn’t willing to cross.

  • Verreauxii

    Good going there….Joseph McCarthy!

  • Anonymous

    The Leftist media corps (‘Corpse-men’) is full of OBAMO-lovers. Steffy is one of many.

  • Anonymous

     The GOP is already distancing themselves from your type.

  • Anonymous

    Clinton played hide the cigar with the intern and Morris  is the chump?  HAHA

  • 12voltman1

    It’s what came to mind at the time.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     You might be right for the time being, what with the Congressional Hearing schedule already so backed up.

  • 12voltman1

    History is always repeating itself.

  • 12voltman1

    Jealous?
    LOL.
    Sorry, I couldn’t hold back. Nothing personal.

  • 12voltman1

    And besides the Tea Party is just a new name for the John Birch Society.

  • 12voltman1

    He’s lower than pond scum.

  • Anonymous

    Well yeah! Morris was fired and relegated to working for the butt crack of America, Fox news. And Clinton, managed to stay in office,despite multiple attempts to bring him down,  and still managed to preside over one of the most economically prosperous times in our country over last 20-30 years. So yeah I’d say Clinton takes this one hands down. Not to mention, as a woman, doesn’t Dick creep you out a bit? with the whole toe sucking thing.. ewwww. 

  • Anonymous

    The Blaze called, they are missing their village idiot! Please return back to your padded room at once! ( pssst! @GRBSPR:disqus i’m talking to you)

  • shonangreg

    This guy is one closeted dick. Rachel Maddow, for one, has long been castigating conservatives for supporting the Personhood initiaves (in Colorado and Mississippi). The way they were worded, they would have banned some common forms of birth control and even fertility treatments for couples who wanted to have children. It was way over-reach by a bunch of social conservative extremists and the Republican aspirant leaders went right along with the charade.

    Virginia is about to pass one into law.

    Kudos to O’Reilly for holding Morris to task, but a much deeper strike against Republicans Gone Mad could have been struck here. Conservatism doesn’t need to cater to its extremists to get in power. They actually need to stop cowtowing to the nuts in order to get back into influence. O’Reilly knows this and presents himself as an independent. He is the perfect one to do to  today’s Birchers what William F> Buckley did a half century ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley,_Jr.#Defining_the_boundaries_of_conservatism

    We really do need a functioning conservative party. Even us liberals would benefit from having a rational, equal adversary for governance. Fighting the sick man of religious extremism infects us and brings us down.

  • Anonymous

    Your only jealous Clinton didn’t play hide the cigar with you…lol

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    What I find odd about O’Reilly is that despite his standing as the ratings leader in cable news he continually parades through D-List pundits. I mean, Dick Morris, Bernie Goldberg, Michelle Malkin, and Sarah Palin are beyond being laughable fools. These are the best he can bring on?

  • Anonymous

     You stole my meme!!!

  • Anonymous

    lol these stupid conservatives dont want their positions exposed
    because it would scare the country

  • Anonymous

     Dick Morris: always a solid bet against in Vegas.

  • 12voltman1

    To Uniqunewyork:
     I thought that the first time I heard of the tea party.
     Really.
     I wouldn’t $hit ya.:)

  • Anonymous

    You only gave yourself 15 guest likes this time Norbit? What happened? usually you would give yourself 20 – 30 guest likes.

    You’re falling off man.

  • Anonymous

    there is no way you gave yourself 12 likes for that comment.

  • Anonymous

    You mean Clinton who gave W a budget surplus?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    Billdo scrapping the bottom of the barrel, AGAIN, to fill up his air time?

    Billdo, why don’t you rake through the coals the other morons in the Fox line up who allow and advance such stupidity. Clue:

    BOLLING: Can I just throw a conspiracy theory out here?
    Here’s what I thought. I was sitting at home this morning, I watched it.
    I saw [Santorum's] win. Then I listened to all the talking heads say,
    ‘Oh my gosh, Obama really screwed up here. This is a great opening for
    Conservatives and the Right.’ and it dawned on me-
    BOB BECKEL: Screwed up on what?
    BOLLING: Good point. Going after this Obamacare, making sure Catholic
    employers are required to provide sterilization and abortions and
    whatnot.
    BECKEL: Alright.
    BOLLING: So, it dawned on me, what if they were trying to derail this
    big Romney train that won Florida handily, that won Nevada handily.
    They go, ‘How are we gonna break up this train? How are we gonna break
    the Right up?’ And they did. They picked the very, very right side,
    partisan issue.

    “It [killing OBL] wouldn’t have happened if he [President Obama] had his way, and that can be proven, as well, on tape.”

    I am just going to mention other instances. The trio of clowns in the morning, Crapputo, The Donald and Van Suckup.

  • Anonymous

    The worst two people on planet Earth featured on the worst television broadcast.

    I think that it’s entirely justified in saying that the world would be better off with out all 3.

  • Anonymous

    neither one of them are conservative.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Was it even worth your time to post that idiocy?

  • Anonymous

    You essentially just explained how Steph is a left-wing hack. You just insinuated that he couldn’t do his own research and therefore took Tapper’s line of questioning.

    Epic fail Steph. Epic.

  • Anonymous

    He’s left of Birch for sure. At least Birch believes in individual freedom – inspite of the fact that he is a little loopy.

    But the reality is Billy is left of much of that which is Constitutional. The Constitution is the center of all conservatism. He is left of it with the idea of spending, debt increases, sound money, foreign aid, and welfare programs. Not to mention that both Bill & Morris are two peas in a pod – they both want to spread a version of Democratic Enlightenment to the rest of the world, especially Afghanistan, through the use of force and foreign aid.

    He’s far right of the Constitution about the role of the military and the unauthorized use of it’s power. He’s completely unconcerned about civil liberties and the government’s violation of them. Additionally, Bill & Morris would sacrifice, forgo, and entirely eviscerate every American freedom in the pursuit of security.

    A very scary thought indeed. Ask them and both men believe that we are not fighting the war on drugs – and want police and drug dogs in our education system. So the trillion dollars from the treasury in the past 40 years to go fight this losing drug battle
    is us not giving enough effort? Us not trying to win? A trillion dollars is now seen as not trying hard enough to fight it? I don’t freaking get these idiots.

    They are in fact both big government Statists with every similarity to Communism that an be drawn. They attempt to be in line with the times and deliver a message in pre-packaged soundbites. But when you look at their positions they are not very dissimilar from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.

     

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely. It only took 5 seconds to type up.

    It’s hard to find a bigger pig then Bill O’Reilly. Oh wait Dick Morris comes to mind. Maybe Bill Clinton is up there on the list too. While we’re having fun tossing out networks I’d throw MSNBC on the trash heap as well. Hannity and Beck need a good tossing too. Lawrence O’Donnel, Chris Matthews, & Nancy Grace can join them.

    Horrible. Freaking horrible news whores.

    They’ll say anything for a cushy anchor position.

    Dump em’ all of them. Bunch of scheming bastards.

  • http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns.org/ mavigozler

    When the highlight of your show is a guest segment on which convicted toe-sucker Dick Morris appears, you need to re-evaluate your entire raison d’etre.

  • Verreauxii

    You are obviously devoid of any comprehension skills. I simply disabused the MYTH that Steph’s questioning came out of “nowhere.” That was the critique the week right after that debate. It was a relevant question. This was the FIRST GOP debate after the Iowa caucus. Santorum had basically won (not confirmed at the time) that contest and he had just reaffirmed those remarks in that interview with Tapper. Pretty sure George had seen it…duh. It’s customary for the winner of such elections to have their pet causes, policies or remarks highlighted more intensely and his/her rivals comment on them as well. That is why the question came up. Do you actually follow politics….AT ALL? They have been doing this for the past 18-19 debates!  You seem to forget Limpballs getting mad at Fox News for being too rough on the GOP candidates!
    http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-rips-fox-news-for-having-gop-candidates-tear-each-other-up/ 
    Were Chris Wallace and Brett Baeir also being leftist hacks?The first excuse for a rightwinger to refuse to answer questions is to play victim of “media gotcha.” Don’t blame the media for your own candidate(s) moronic positions or stupid answers. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes it is. Bill is the catfish of cable news.

  • Anonymous

    1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes
    tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs,
    and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols
    on clothing and in public displays.
     
    2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because
    of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes
    are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because
    of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve
    of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of
    prisoners, etc.
     
    3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying
    Cause – The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the
    need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or
    religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
     
    4. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread
    domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate
    amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers
    and military service are glamorized.
     
    5. Rampant Sexism – The governments of fascist nations
    tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional
    gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are
    suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the
    family institution.
     
    6. Controlled Mass Media – Sometimes to media is directly
    controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly
    controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople
    and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
     
    7. Obsession with National Security – Fear is used as
    a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
     
    8. Religion and Government are Intertwined – Governments
    in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as
    a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology
    is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion
    are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
     
    9. Corporate Power is Protected – The industrial and
    business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the
    government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government
    relationship and power elite.
     
    10. Labor Power is Suppressed – Because the organizing
    power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions
    are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
     
    11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts – Fascist
    nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education,
    and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to
    be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is
    openly attacked.
     
    12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment – Under fascist
    regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The
    people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil
    liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force
    with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
     
    13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Fascist regimes
    almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint
    each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority
    to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist
    regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or
    even outright stolen by government leaders.
     
    14. Fraudulent Elections – Sometimes elections in fascist
    nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear
    campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of
    legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries,
    and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their
    judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
     
    Characteristics of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia)
    and several Latin American regimes.

    All Fascists regimes.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think Dick Morris has been right about anything including the what day it is.  

  • Anonymous

    Hitler and Franco were Nationalists, not Fascists.

  • Anonymous

    Dick Morris couldn’t find his A$$ using both hands. The bottomline is Dick Morris has a professional dislike for George Stephanopoulos, when he was not included in the Clinton Presidental run and George was. I don’t know were Fox finds these clowns.

  • Anonymous

    Do conservatives even like this guy?

  • Anonymous

    Another laugh – not one focused on the topic.  They were too wrapped up trying to shoot the messenger because the message sort of sucked, didn’t it.

    George in the tank – who’d have thunk??? lol

    You guys are really prepared and have absolutely no rebuttal.  No morals, no backbone, no nothing…

  • Anonymous

    Good Morris impersonation of Jim Ward impersonating Morris

  • 12voltman1

    A thought provoking and different way of looking at the pair.

  • Anonymous

    The clown is on ABC – pretending to be a journo when we all know he is nothing but a dem operative.

  • Anonymous

    Are you talking about Bill O’Reilly, Dick Morris, or yourself?

  • Anonymous

    I think we could argue that they were both.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Morris was sucking toes of hookers. Who pays hookers to suck their toes?

  • Anonymous

    Oh wait, I forgot, they weren’t hookers they were prostitutes.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, anyone that works for a network other than FOX is a dem operative in Obama’s back pocket. FOX is where the real Fair and Balanced journalists work.

  • Anonymous

    Dick Morris is right on with this. I watched those debates. I watched Stephanopoulos repeat the question of contraception to Romney about 4 times while the crowd booed his ass off for wasting time when it wasn’t even an issue of the day.
    ABC was trying to get a sound bite for the upcoming trampling of the constitution freedom of religion right against the Catholic Church.
    Morris addmitted doing this type of stuff all the time with Stephanopoulos when they worked for the Clintons.
    ABC,CBS,NBC is more than glad to play the straight man for democrats, They always have.

  • Anonymous

    Romney said he could never imagine contraceptives ever being an issue. One month later, it’s an issue. Good foresight by the flip flipper extraordinaire.

  • Anonymous

    Kind of like what conservative posters do whenever there’s an article on Jon Stewert or Stephen Colbert?

  • Anonymous

    More like ambush by a Democratic operative who apparently had fore-knowledge of Obama’s assault on religion.

  • Anonymous

    It wasn’t forehand knowledge. Santorum mentioned this on the campaign trail. Romney dismissed it as something hat will never be an issue. Apparently, Romney doesn’t know the issues that concern his party’s base.

  • Anonymous

    What the hell?  You are talking about 2 comics?  Have you got anything of substance?  You are the poster child for the uninformed, uneducated and uninterested and uncaring about the media being in the tank for Obama.  

    I realize there is no defense – but seriously, you hanging your hat on Jon and Stephen is frightening, absolutely frightening.  

  • Anonymous

    Hmm, Fox is up to its old tricks, first Hannity, then O’Reilly, with their latest stooge, assasinating someone’s character with impunity.  It seems the charge is George Stephanopolis uses skills he learned in his previous job in his present job.  Shame.    

  • Anonymous

    Right now, those 2 comics seem a lot more sensible than the clown car which is the Republican primaries. What’s really frightening is that uneducated nut jobs like you don’t see that.

  • Anonymous

    So Tina what you are telling me is you will rally around a has been nobody who Hannity brings in once in awhile when he needs someone to agree with him. Correct.

  • Holistic

    Bill O is stupid on this one.

  • Anonymous

    Dick Morris??  FOX still runs Dick Morris??   Geesussah!

  • Anonymous

    He knows what a hit man is because he has been one for the Bush/Cheney crowd for years. It is kind of like calling the kettle black.  Mr. Stephanopolis is a fair and honest interviewer and I am happy he is back on the show.  He does not back down on his questions and often probes more than the person being interviewed wants but that is what makes him good.  We have missed him….this is his niche’. I hope he soon addresses the all out war against “Women’s rights” staged by the republican party.  Many things are happening all over the country and it is not all about abortion only….they are getting into very personal female areas and I and many other women would like to know what is going on.   Are they are trying to kill the President’s health care bill with this nonesense?  It is funny that this party (republicans) to which I once belonged has changed so much that I do not recognize them.  They were the party that use to work together to get things done…Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy often did this but this new republican party is so full of “hate” and I’m sorry but that is what I feel ..that I could never vote for one let alone go back into the party to which I once was so proud.

  • Anonymous

    Please find some kind of resemblance of a life! What a fairy tale you have weaved.

  • Anonymous

    Bill is dumb period! 

  • Anonymous

     Sure! I have a lighthouse I want to sell you as well.

  • Anonymous

    At ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN & MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    Bill …how about the meeting Mr Issa and  the republicans had today to discuss women’s rights  and contraceptives and would not allow one woman…..this is real life and you need to start reading some good material and listening to some intelligent shows.  Check out Virginia where they have passsed a bill to give “vaginaL” ultrasounds to anyone wanting an abortion and the woman has no say …it will be done without her permission.  Maybe you need to get real.  How is it wrong when Mr. Santorum says President Obama is pushing too much govt. intervention with his healthcare bill and yet he feels it is o.k. for him …as he has said twice…if he gets to be president he will address contraceptives as he feels it disturbs the nature of things…..is that not govt. intervention?.

  • Anonymous

    You could argue it but that would not make you correct.

  • Anonymous

    Then why did Hitler model himself after Mussolini?

  • Anonymous

    He did not, he model his philosophy after Marx and Engles, he just could not say so in public. You keep trying though.

  • Anonymous

    You clearly don’t know anything about Hitler. Stop trying to impose your ignorance on others. Clown.

  • Anonymous

    Here you go

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism_and_German_Nazism

    So sick of having to educate you clowns.

  • Anonymous

    Really, I don’t? Okay.
    Na·zism
    noun ˈnät-ˌsi-zəm, ˈnat-
    Definition of NAZISM
    : the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer.

    Seems Merriam-Webster disagrees with you.

    Where was the racism from Mussolini that Hitler patterned his own beliefs from? Why were Italy and Germany different in their understanding of how the State should perform: Corporatism in Italy and Totalitarianism in Germany? Why was Italy fascism Traditional and German National Socialism Modern? Why did their foreign policy objectives differ? Why did each have different sources of traditional authority?
    It also appears the Mises Institute disagrees with you.

    As well as Lawrence University.

    Want to keep this argument going? I can prove your lack of intellect for as long as you want to be proven to be uneducated.

  • Anonymous

    Wikipedia is the best source you could find? Seriously? Most colleges and Universities will not allow students to use it because it is such a terrible source.
    See my post where I actually link to information from a UNIVERSITY.

  • Anonymous

    So your saying Fox picks up all the ABC, CBS,NBC,CNN & MSNBC rejects

  • Anonymous

    You’re not a college or university bud, you’re just some internet troll. Also, obtaining a masters isn’t that difficult, I have one & so do most of my friends. Lastly, Wikipedia has several sources which outweigh the opinion of some obscure professor from Australia.

  • Anonymous

    LOL did you even read your link? Lawrence University acknowledges Hitler was a fascist. Not only are you dumb & uneducated but you’re also an illiterate!

  • Anonymous

    First you carnal-rectally inverted individual, I am not your buddy, nor did I make the claim of being a college or university.

    Secondly, with your lack of intelligence I doubt you have friends the rest of us can see.

    So Wikipedia has sources that are Ph.D.’s that are incorrectly quoted and that out ways the correct citation of another Ph.D. how?

  • Anonymous

    From your own link moron,

    “To know what socialism and fascism are, let us begin by examining some historical examples of each. Fascist states have included Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Tojo’s Japan, Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, and possibly Peron’s Argentina. If we were to focus on each of these concretes, we would observe numerous differences. For instance, Hitler’s Fascism was racist. Mussolini’s was not. Mussolini’s fascism involved belligerent nationalism. Franco’s did not. What unites each of these concretes into a group of similars can be seen in a common definition of fascism: “A governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation (industrial, commercial, etc.)” (American College Dictionary, New York: Random House, 1957).”

    LOL EPIC FAIL BY YOU!

  • Anonymous

    From your own link moron,

    “To know what socialism and fascism are, let us begin by examining some historical examples of each. Fascist states have included Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Tojo’s Japan, Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, and possibly Peron’s Argentina. If we were to focus on each of these concretes, we would observe numerous differences. For instance, Hitler’s Fascism was racist. Mussolini’s was not. Mussolini’s fascism involved belligerent nationalism. Franco’s did not. What unites each of these concretes into a group of similars can be seen in a common definition of fascism: “A governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation (industrial, commercial, etc.)” (American College Dictionary, New York: Random House, 1957).”

    LOL EPIC FAIL BY YOU!

  • Anonymous

    Since you only want to read the first paragraph: read on you idiot:

    Once we remember the possibility of the existence of such a system, the differences between socialism and fascism become trivial, superficial and, above all, non-essential. Differentiation of socialism and fascism from capitalism permits the recognition of their similarity. They do differ from each other, but only in the way in which the scalene and the isosceles differ from each other: in degree, but not in kind. Socialism and fascism are each forms of statism, forms of government in which the government is given complete or extensive control over the lives of its citizens.

  • Anonymous

    Keep reading you epic failure:

    Once we remember the possibility of the existence of such a system, the differences between socialism and fascism become trivial, superficial and, above all, non-essential. Differentiation of socialism and fascism from capitalism permits the recognition of their similarity. They do differ from each other, but only in the way in which the scalene and the isosceles differ from each other: in degree, but not in kind. Socialism and fascism are each forms of statism, forms of government in which the government is given complete or extensive control over the lives of its citizens.

  • Anonymous

    Since you’re obviously an ILLITERATE DWEEB,

    “Fascist states have included Hitler’s Germany”

    From your own link!

    LOL @ Hitler not being a fascist, only a Nazi sympathizer would claim such a thing.

  • Anonymous

    Keep reading you intellectually challenged individual:

    Once we remember the possibility of the existence of such a system, the differences between socialism and fascism become trivial, superficial and, above all, non-essential. Differentiation of socialism and fascism from capitalism permits the recognition of their similarity. They do differ from each other, but only in the way in which the scalene and the isosceles differ from each other: in degree, but not in kind. Socialism and fascism are each forms of statism, forms of government in which the government is given complete or extensive control over the lives of its citizens.

    Why did Italy have the National Fascist Party and Germany the National SOCIALIST party?

  • Anonymous

    Again moron, Italy had the National FASCIST Party, founded by Mussolini. Hitler was leader of the National SOCIALIST party. Marx wrote about Socialism or Fascism?

    Yeah, I sympathize with the Nazi’s, that is why my grandfather fought them.

  • Anonymous

    LOL I can’t believe you claimed that Hitler was not a fascist & then tried to prove this claim by providing a link that says,

    “Fascist states have included Hitler’s Germany”

    Talk about SELF OWNED!

  • Anonymous

    What’s going to be your next claim? Was Hitler not a German either? LOL go to bed kid.

  • Anonymous

    Lawrence University disagrees with you,

    “Fascist states have included Hitler’s Germany”

    OWNED!

  • Anonymous

    “Hitler’s Fascism was racist. Mussolini’s was not.”

    Learn to read your links before you post them you clown.

  • Anonymous

    Once again moron, you stop reading before the author proves you wrong. It also incorrectly labels Tojo’s Japan as Fascist, and Franco’s Spain, as well as Pinochet’s Chile, and Peron’s Argentina. It further goes on to show the similarity of Fascism and SOCIALISM.

  • Anonymous

    Actually idiot he was Austrian. Did you even take a World History class?

  • Anonymous

    From the article YOU posted,

    “Socialist states have included the USSR(1), Communist China, socialist Sweden, socialist England, Cuba, North Korea, and a handful of lesser regimes in Eastern Europe, East Africa, and Southeast Asia.”

    Wow, no mentioning of Nazi Germany. What did you get your masters in? Bating?

  • Anonymous

    Bating? They offer degrees in baseball now?

    So why was Nazi Germany controlled by the National Socialist Party again? Forgot that fact didn’t you?

  • Anonymous

    Bating? They offer degrees in baseball now?

    Why was Nazi Germany controlled by the National Socialist Party again?

  • Anonymous

    LOL @ you posting a link that said,

    ” Fascist states have included Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Tojo’s Japan, Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, and possibly Peron’s Argentina.”

    “Socialist states have included the USSR(1), Communist China, socialist Sweden, socialist England, Cuba, North Korea, and a handful of lesser regimes in Eastern Europe, East Africa, and Southeast Asia.”

    LOL you destroyed yourself with your own link.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, you really are a selective reader are you not?

    You seem to forget that Nazi Germany was controlled by the National Socialist Party.

  • Anonymous

    LOL you’re backtracking from your own link now? Can’t blame you, this does destroy your whole argument,

    ” Fascist states have included Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Tojo’s Japan, Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, and possibly Peron’s Argentina.”

    “Socialist states have included the USSR(1), Communist China, socialist Sweden, socialist England, Cuba, North Korea, and a handful of lesser regimes in Eastern Europe, East Africa, and Southeast Asia.”

    OWNED!

  • Anonymous

    I backtracked how? I pointed out errors in it. That is not backtracking.

    What was the name of Hitler’s party again?

  • Anonymous

    No, I’m not a selective reader, but your argument was that Hitler was NOT a fascist. Your own link proves you wrong. I’m done with this conversation. Not gonna argue with someone on whether Hitler was a fascist or not. Everyone who knows what facism is or who Hitler was knows that Hitler was a fascist. Kind of hard to believe someone with a masters couldn’t pick that up.

  • Anonymous

    Hitler was not a Fascist, he was a Socialist even saying so himself:

    I am a Socialist, and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow. . . . What you understand by Socialism is nothing more than Marxism.

    To Otto Strasser, Berlin, May 21, 1930

    In this respect I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people. I am not the slave of a few international banking syndicates. I am under no obligation to any capitalist group. I sprang from the German people. My Movement, our Movement, is a German people’s Movement, and it is only to this German people that we are obligated.

    Delivered at Munich, Germany, February 24, 1941

    Wow, from the PRIMARY Source Adolf Hitler himself calling him self a SOCIALIST, not a FASCIST.

  • Anonymous

    So you went from a so called intellectual argument citing sources on the difference between fascism & socialism and when your own article proved you wrong, you’re going on “what was the name of Hitler’s party”? The conservative party in Australia is known as the “Liberal Party” so that makes them liberals?

  • Anonymous

    He doesn’t deny being a fascist either. Also, no one is going to say they’re a fascist. I’m sure Hitler never said he’s a genocidal maniac either.

  • Anonymous

    Where does he ever claim to be a fascist?

    We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.

    Hitler- May 21, 1927

    Then will come a National Socialist State tribunal; then will November, 1918, be expiated; then the heads will roll.

    testimony at a trial of German officers, Leipzig, in 1930.

    National Socialism is not a cult-movement—a movement for worship; it is exclusively a ‘volkic’ political doctrine based upon racial principles. In its purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and leadership of a people defined by a common blood-relationship. Therefore we have no rooms for worship, but only halls for the people — no open spaces for worship, but spaces for assemblies and parades. We have no religious retreats, but arenas for sports and playing-fields, and the characteristic feature of our places of assembly is not the mystical gloom of a cathedral, but the brightness and light of a room or hall which combines beauty with fitness for its purpose…. We will not allow mystically-minded occult folk with a passion for exploring the secrets of the world beyond to steal into our Movement. Such folk are not National Socialists, but something else—in any case something which has nothing to do with us. At the head of our programme there stand no secret surmisings but clear-cut perception and straightforward profession of belief. But since we set as the central point of this perception and of this profession of belief the maintenance and hence the security for the future of a being formed by God, we thus serve the maintenance of a divine work and fulfill a divine will—not in the secret twilight of a new house of worship, but openly before the face of the Lord… Our worship is exclusively the cultivation of the natural, and for that reason, because natural, therefore God-willed. Our humility is the unconditional submission before the divine laws of existence so far as they are known to us men.

    speech in Nuremberg on 6 September 1938

    Where is your quote from him saying he was a fascist? Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison for being a….SOCIALIST.

  • Anonymous

    Never said he said he was a fascist but just because you don’t say you’re something doesn’t mean you aren’t one. Like I said, I doubt if he ever said he’s a genocidal maniac either, but does that mean he wasn’t one?

  • Anonymous

    So he says he is a SOCIALIST and you want to make him a fascist? That makes sense to only the mentally challenged.

  • Anonymous

    Ok dude he wasn’t a fascist, he was a nice guy who believed in freedom & liberty. Whatever you say bud.

  • Anonymous

    Never claimed he was that either. But you feel free to keep lying.

  • Anonymous

    You said he was NOT a fascist. That was where this all began. Do you stand by his original claim that he was NOT a fascist? Before you answer that, read the definition of fascism,

    Main Entry: fas·cism
    Pronunciation: ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
    Date: 1921
    1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
    2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
    — fas·cist -shist also -sist noun or adjective often capitalized
    — fas·cis·tic fa-ˈshis-tik also -ˈsis- adjective often capitalized
    — fas·cis·ti·cal·ly -ti-k(ə-)lē adverb often capitalized

    You’re telling me that doesn’t describe the 3rd Reich?

  • Anonymous

    He claimed to be a SOCIALIST, over and over again, what part of that do you not understand? Can you prove yourself to be any more stupid?

  • Anonymous

    Only if I could prove myself to be you.

  • Anonymous

    You seem to have this notion that if you’re socialist you can’t be fascist. If you actually read that article YOU posted, you would see how the 2 terms are not mutually exclusive. Unfortunately, you’re too dumb to know what that means & I don’t feel like drawing you a venn diagram to prove my point. If I were you, I would go yell at your teachers for not teaching you basic concepts that most people understand by their sophomore year in high school. LOL @ Hitler not being a fascist. Okay clown.

  • Anonymous

    Actually in their sophomore year in high school students are still studying US history. So again you are wrong.

    My own source said they were similar, and did not diametrically oppose each other, that does not make them the same. They both Diametrically oppose Capitalism. Once again you prove yourself to be Bozo.

  • Anonymous

    So far you can’t prove your own premise.

  • Anonymous

    Sure you do, and the day I can’t see where those two reefs are lying I’ll come and buy it off you as well.

  • Anonymous

    Sure you will! Rellay! Liberal ,Progressive, Socialist, Communist are unable to achieve anything without the help of the government?

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    Preedance wrote, in response to DWBIII:
    Sure you do, and the day I can’t see where those two reefs are lying I’ll come and buy it off you as well. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    No I did not say that! The point made is that once these people have become disallusioned from all of the false rhetoric that they move on to better things at Fox where the news is fair & balanced.

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    Truth001 wrote, in response to DWBIII:
    So your saying Fox picks up all the ABC, CBS,NBC,CNN & MSNBC rejects Link to comment

  • Anonymous

     I’m sure Dick Morris can’t run anymore. Heart attack risk and all.
    He has to be walked, very slowly.

  • Anonymous

    I agree…the only thing missing is the white sheets.

  • Anonymous

    Comments like that are as vacuous as the cavern in your head when the country which is forging ahead is China.  They are even developing a genuine space progam while Americans endure the ignominy of a crazy presidential hopeful conjuring up a pie in the sky moon base – 51st US state.  Perhaps, Government isn’t as incompatible with achievement, or the big baddie, that your ayn-clad, road to nowhere, ideology would have you think it is.  Meanwhile, if you think of yourself as the muggsie who pays taxes so people like me can live on easy street, I hope you know I will enjoy the thought of you stewing over that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RGTZFAT3NJTIX277KKIALYTVN4 Alexia

    Preedance I would prefer that you find a job other than sucking tax payers dry. But then agian you will not because you are one of the entitled.

  • Anonymous

    Alexia, you are too ready to believe that I do not work and that I am living off the taxpayer.  I think you should maybe re-examine your prejudices.

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