O’reilly avoids canned talking points????? Really? 

Ron Paul is getting all of the upside from this. Bill’O is so desperate to try to shut him down he sent one of his producers and in the process looked like an even bigger idiot.

You tell em’ Ron..

Why should Paul go on the O’Reilly show and get shouted down?  Paul’s answers need time and intelligent thought to understand – this is way too much for O’Reilly to handle.  It is a lose-lose situation for Paul.  

Elements on the right see Paul as a threat.

Definitely agree.  O’Reilly is a jackass, and will just be rude and condescending to Paul.  There’s nothing to gain from appearing on the show.  He WAS getting little to no attention, but that has changed, some, since the first week after Ames.  I say Paul has better things to do with his time now.

I hardly think Ron Paul handles all of his own calendar, and understand he had a previous NH engagement when OReilly asked him the first time.  Now that Ron was blindsided by this, and pointed out that OReilly isn’t really a journalist, the campaign is more likely to NOT have Ron on in the future, although previously they had said he’d be happy to go another time.  

O’Reilly talks over people and cuts their micraphones.  Someone who isn’t rude and blustering is at a decided disadvantage to be able to get out their own side of the conversation.  So why bother?

But if O’Reilly promises not to speak over Ron and not to cut his mic, I bet Ron would go.

Ron Paul is right. O’Reilly is no journalist. He is a bumptious, bilious, buffoonish bag of butane.

Off course Ron Paul is right, Billo the Clown is not a Journalist, he is a joke. 

I’m not a huge fan of Bill, but I think this is a big mistake for RP. He’d reach more people in one night than he normally does in a month of appearances elsewhere.

How in the world could anyone with a brain cell think that the two have similar points of view? What a laughable assertion. 

I like Oreilly.  He can be a bit of a blowhard  at times but he is man enough to air that video.  In all honesty I think most people would have just not aired the story.   

“We dont need a history lesson!” (Line from O’reilly during a previous Paul interview, when Paul begins lecturing the audience as to why Iran hates our policies, as opposed to our “freedom.”) “Last time he was on the show, he started talking about Lawrance of Arabia or something..” (Line from Bill Oreilly last night.) Its simple, Oreilly is not concerned with facts, but rather entertainment.

Shut him down? Ron Paul whined about not getting media attention. Bill O’Reilly has the most watched cable news program. He invited him to appear on it how is that shutting him down? Ron Paul fans might be the blindest bunch of supporters I’ve seen. Hell I don’t even watch O’Reilly but know that Ron Paul comes away looking like a fool with this comment.

Bill-o’s incredible ego has tripped him up more than once.

Well Shit!!
There ya are, right there!

Ditto!

O’Reilly is best suited to the scandal rags of his past. He is no journalist in any real sense of the world.

“world”… evidently, you either

Journalism: The profession of reporting, photographing or editing news stories for one of the media.

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LOL Ron Paul is right.  Bill O’Reilly has no journalistic credibility whatsoever.  If Ron Paul goes on his show, O’Reilly won’t even let the guy talk and make up stuff to make it seem that Ron Paul is wrong.  Then the next day he’ll select the emails that side with him and have Bernie Goldberg and Dennis Miller kiss his ass so it seems like O’Reilly won the debate.

When Paul whined about not getting “media” attention, he really meant is buddies over at MSNBC (a real ratings bonanza, I’m sure).

No biggie:

Ron Paul’s not really a candidate.

 Why should Ron Paul oblige Bill O’Reilly?  He gets all the exposure by having Bill cry about him every night. 

 What part of “Bill O’Reilly isn’t a journalist” did you not understand?

awesome post for journalism..I am impressed by it..

Fact: Ron being on TV too much would end his outside shot at people taking him serious.

1. O’Reilly isn’t a journalist. Paul’s answer wasn’t “I only go on journalist programming”. He was making a factual statement.

2. O’Reilly may have invited him via his show, but thats only effective if Ron Paul watches the show, which I am sure he doesn’t. So, to say a blanket invitation on his show is a formal invitation is silly.

3. That twit that was interviewing Paul had a childish grin on his face the whole time. That, to me, would be telling enough that O’Reilly plans to do nothing but belittle Paul.

Poor Bill. He likes himself too much to care.
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I don’t think many of you watch “The Factor” on a regular basis. Yes Bill has had his moments of talking over people and cutting their mics and he became notorious for that, but he more often than not gives people a fair chance to share their thoughts. 
Paul can’t complain that he is ignored if he’s skipping an opportunity to speak to 3 million + people just because he doesn’t like the host’s style. 

Paul is right.  O’Reilly’s quick format where you get your 3 answers in 10 second clips is pointless.

Paul is right.  O’Reilly’s quick format where you get your 3 answers in 10 second clips is pointless.

He’s just trying to clown Ron. Look at the clip above. He claims he doesn’t want to disrespect Ron Paul and in the next breath takes a cheap shot at him.

He’s just trying to clown Ron. Look at the clip above. He claims he doesn’t want to disrespect Ron Paul and in the next breath takes a cheap shot at him.

Bill O’Reilly has not read the constitution. Put him on a polygraph. 

Agreed.    While I’m not fan of O’Reilly his interviewing style has improved in the past few years.   Paul should see this is an opportunity.   

Paul is too independent to put up with O’Reilly’s obnouxous ‘ pappa knows best ‘ attitude, as are most thinking, or themselves, people.

O’Reilly becomes a bit more democrat ( full of sh*t & unbearable ) with each passing day.

Paul is too independent to put up with O’Reilly’s obnouxous ‘ pappa knows best ‘ attitude, as are most thinking, or themselves, people.

O’Reilly becomes a bit more democrat ( full of sh*t & unbearable ) with each passing day.

He’s been on Bill O’Reilly before and Bill yelled loudly and belligerently about how he doesn’t care or want to hear about the history of US intervention in Iran.  If a person is not interested in tracing the steps back from where we came from, he probably shouldn’t have a job earning money as political and news analyst.  How much can a person really analyze with that kind of attitude?

If America had more critical citizens, O’Reilly would be lucky to have a job at the National Inquirer.  Since so many here are dominated by fear, he gets to tell his ridiculous stories of how a country which hasn’t attacked another nation in over 100 years, Iran, is going to pepper the US and Israel with nuclear bombs on a show that lots of people watch.  This shows popularity is one of the many strong examples of the sad state of affairs we’re in.

Let me give you a couple of things to think about.
O’Reilly is documented as the most popular cable news guy out there.
Ron Paul needs O’Reilly. O’Reilly doesn’t need Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is insulting a whole lot of people’s opinion of a very popular media figure. Is that wise for a Presidential candidate.?
I like a lot of what Ron Paul is about, but things like this damage my opinion of him.

If O’Reilly isn’t a journalist, he’s about as close as you can get for a news commentator. That’s what I don’t get about “O’Reilly isn’t a journalist” or why Ron Paul would avoid him.

An awful lot of reputable and credible people find O’Reilly quote worthy. Not bad for someone with “no journalistic credibility.” Perhaps you should expand your horizons and the scope of what you read.

An awful lot of reputable and credible people find O’Reilly quote worthy. Not bad for someone with “no journalistic credibility.” Perhaps you should expand your horizons and the scope of what you read.

Look up Bill O’Reilly’s bio. Apparently you don’t know anything at all about him.

It has been amusing going through the comments here. They want to beat O’Reilly down, but they really don’t have any idea why. It’s the hate first, ask questions later crowd.

Yeah, it’s not the smartest thing in Ron Paul’s position.

He didn’t whine. He said the media establishment is afraid of him. So Bill O’ sends his producer and Ron got to answer the Iran Nuke question and the Gold question without being interrupted. He shut him down because he got his exposure on his terms. 

I don’t think Paul sees a point in it. O’Reilly makes no effort to try and understand Paul’s gold argument (or any argument – he just wants to mock the man) but, he keeps asking about gold with no intent to listen. It’s the most simple concept but, they laugh at the idea. What good would it do Paul to go talk with him? It would be a waste of time. His viewers must be just as idiotic. That’s why they listen.

Gold/Silver are physical things. Today’s currency is paper that can be printed or a number that can be made bigger by adding zeros into a computer. When this happens it makes all the US money floating around the world less valuable (more money to represent the same end value… it’s like making the pieces in a pie smaller – same amount of pie – less pie for each). Gold/Silver, since they are real – cannot be made. It’s a set amount – and because of that it creates monetary stability and keeps value constant and real. The Fed has made a mess out of the monetary system but, are all to blind to see.

With a gold standard – you can still have paper money if you wish but, each note has to represent a value in gold. Gold that is sitting in the bank in which the note came from. That way a can of coke doesn’t cost 100x the amount 60 years later. It would cost the same. Stability. It’s important. America will wake up eventually… when it’s too late.

‘Bill O’Reilly’s Not Really A Journalist’ da truth.

But BillO won a Peabody..or Polk.
He cut his teeth on the finest journalistic program in Western media…”Inside Edition.”

Ron Paul said, “O’Reilly’s not really a journalist”, whata’ burn.

O’Reilly is 95% monologue, especially if he doesn’t agree with the interviewee. That’s journalism? No, that’s not journalism, O’Reilly’s more like a media hit man. You know, the network bulldog, the one with the big mouth who won’t stop barking. 

If true, (seems likely) it was very clever.

so basically, if he shares your opinions you like him. You’re just a partisan hack aren’t you?

Hey, NonElite, Have you ever watched how O’Reilly reacts to someone he doesn’t agree with?  That’s not an interview.. I agree with Ron Paul. He needs to give his time to PROFESSIONALS, not big-mouthed egomaniacs like O’Reilly.

who has journalist anymore? nobody

I wouldn’t go on that damned show either.  Nor Rachel’s.  Nor Chris Matthews.  Nor Lawrence O’Donnell.  It’s all a planned attack, like a sleazy lawyer would do.  Ed Shultz would do it, too, if he were smart enough.  Hannity tries, but just comes off like a smarmy little bastid.

Heck, I don’t want to beat him down.  I enjoy his show from time to time and it can be entertaining.  Nobody’s perfect, sometimes being on TV has a way of shining a light on a persons less admirable aspects.  O’Reilly never would have survived so long without a few positives, as well.

NonElite, Ron Paul is the most intelligent and well-informed candidate on EITHER side of the 2012 race. However, the explanations for his positions do not match up with a Bill O’Reilly hatchet-job interview. RP knows exactly how O’Reilly operates, and he chooses to not play this game with a NeoCon like O’Reilly.

I fully support Ron Paul’s choice. Maybe O’Reilly is most popular because he turns his interviews into a debate, and most viewers like that kind of excitement, like a journalistic duel, bullfight or gladiators . You know, like the brawls on Jerry Springer.. (-:  Ron Paul also knows that O’Reilly will fight dirty, like he usually does. NeoCONS don’t like Ron Paul.. O’Reilly’s one of the attack dogs.

Sadly, they may be little more than a memory in todays soundbyte, gotta’ have it quick, society.

Did you mean when O’Reilly calls his guests on their BS or when he interrupts them when they start to blather on with their talking points, trying to run the clock out? Yeah, I’ve watched him a lot.
I’m not saying that I agree with him all the time and when I don’t, I say so.

So, NonElite, is your last name O’Reilly? Maybe his sister, son, MOTHER??  Bill…is it YOU???

Looks like you are losing the debate here NonElite.. 

 Right, like Bernie Goldberg and Dennis Miller who have no spine of their own.

I didn’t think you were one of the offenders.

I don’t think so myself.

Just presenting what I know. Hey, I’m not exactly O’Reilly’s biggest fan, but he doesn’t deserve some of the stuff being said here.
As a matter of fact, I don’t believe in being a big fan of any individual in the media or politics.

Would that be the same Bernie Goldberg who takes him to task so frequently?

Would that be the same Bernie Goldberg who takes him to task so frequently?

I think Ron Paul would stand up well debating with O’Reilly. It would be an excellent opportunity to prove himself to the public that he hasn’t convinced yet. As I said, I like the guy.

Billy Oreilly is an elitist Ivy Leage punk who obviously does not understand History or economics 101. For your information slime bag the Federal Reserve Act was in 1913. It was created after the scare or 1909 caused by the same bankers who through back door secretive deals managed to gain control of the strings of our money supply. Congress is the only one that the Constitution allows to print our money. In the 1930′s the Fed began a process to try to take the dollar off the gold standard. Up until this time for every dollar the Fed had they had to have gold to back that dollar up. This kept them in line and gave a little more accountability then what ponsi scheme they have going on today. Now they can create as much money as they want. For every dollar they print the private bankers at the Fed get interest payments from the United States treasury. We pay them 5% to print our money. They take something of no value and call it legal tender with nothing to back it. I wish this was the end of the story but it is not. The fed now recently has a new scam up their sleeves called quantitative easing We have been graced with two of these scams thus far and it looks like Benjamin Franklin Bernaky plans a 3rd one. Under this scam they lend money directly to banks like Goldman Sachs but with no interest charged to them and then Goldmans sells that money to the US  treasury but at a huge cost. And along comes a spider because Goldmans stock goes up and then they invest in the stock market keeping it artificially going up. The only problem is the US is broke and the money we now borrow is paying just the interest on the money that the fed has thieved us with. 

It’s very, very funny to watch Mediaite right-wingers criticize Fox News. It’s like watching a pervert chastise his penis.

Gee do you think it might be that O’Reilly’s poll doesn’t include him as a candidate for president on O’Reilly’s website? Do you think that sort of blatant discrimination might tell Dr. Paul that, well, you’re full of poo, Mr. O’Reilly? What I find funny is the way you drive off millions of faithful viewers, Mr. O’Reilly. Millions. TENS of Millions. Mr. O’Reilly. Mr. – I bet my sponsors really find that AMUSING – O’Reilly.

Gee do you think it might be that O’Reilly’s poll doesn’t include him as a candidate for president on O’Reilly’s website? Do you think that sort of blatant discrimination might tell Dr. Paul that, well, you’re full of poo, Mr. O’Reilly? What I find funny is the way you drive off millions of faithful viewers, Mr. O’Reilly. Millions. TENS of Millions. Mr. O’Reilly. Mr. – I bet my sponsors really find that AMUSING – O’Reilly.

Sailing said: “O’Reilly talks over people and cuts their mics”
C’mon when’s the last time BillO cut someone’s mic? He did it years ago maybe twice. Get off it already. I do, however, think he’s a buffoon, egomaniac, bully, and all-around jerk. Paul was right to decline.

One thing they both have in common is that they’re both big-time racists. Maybe they can bond over that.

Umm hello? Ron Paul and Bill have diametrically opposed viewpoints. Paul is a classical liberal and Bill is an authoritarian protectionist. I agree it would be an enjoyable interchange to watch but please educate yourself on basic political theory. ;)

NonEliste claims: “An awful lot of reputable and credible people find O’Reilly respected and quote worthy”

Who?!? Can you name one NonElite?

Who???

O’Reilly is a joke.    His show is one of the worse shows on TV.     I am ashamed that there was a time when I actually watched it.   Going on 7 years sober!

He pretends to be intellicutal, but then he gets people on his show and he just basically talks over them, and just wants to lecture them.    Always saying – well we don’t have much time, to keep people from making points.

It’s a disgraceful TV show.

It reminds me of the time Ron Paul went on “the view” back in ’07, They all attacked him right off the bat about his pro-life views.  He could barely get a word in. What the hell does the pro-life deal have to do with the future of our country?  They only had him on the show to get all the women viewers to get pissed off and have a bad opinion of him because of one of his many views. That’s why he may be a little cautious about going on a show like O’Reily’s. I believe RP is doing things perfectly this time around.

Ron Paul is not a racist. He has said many times that two of his personal hero’s are Dr. King and Rosa Parks. Other than the written comment in a newsletter that he didn’t write there is absolutely no shred of evidence that RP is a racist.

Believe me… if they work for big media… they are no friends of Ron Paul. And even if they were, i doubt their bosses would let them be. Need more proof?

http://trends.google.com/trends?q=ron+paul%2C+mitt+romney%2C+rick+perry&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

No more of a real candidate than you or I.. and considering this is supposed to be a democracy run for the people by the people, I think that makes US ALL REAL CANDIDATES. Though I doubt you or I could garner the support Dr. Paul has from independent minded voters. 

Or people may want to hear Ron Paul’s wacky ideas like:

- Repealing the Patriot Act… which violates our 4th amendment rights 

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

- Ending Foreign Occupation… by closing some of our bases overseas 

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

- Ending the War on Drugs… which overpopulates our prisons with non violent criminals

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

You DO know we have the HIGHEST INCARCERATION RATE IN THE WOLD…

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

Yeah, if Ron Paul was on TV too much the average american would actually understand his views and have to take their own views more seriously… but where’s the fun in that? 

Party on Wayne. 

They don’t like O’Reilly because he tells bold faced lies to the American people. He said he read the Constitution and there is no reference gold and silver. Then says Paul misinterprets Article 1 sec. 10 referencing gold AND silver. Watters states Article 1 sec. 8 verbatim, then skims over section 10.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America

It’s frustrating to see anybody you care about being humiliated and slandered… I think that’s the feelings of those posters and many Paul supporters. 

As stated above repeatedly, there could never, ever, be a debate between O’Reilly and anyone else.  It is rare that O’Reilly even engages an individual with contrary opinion in what could be described as “civil discourse”.  (BTW … O’Reilly may have many viewers, but he is not “top-tier” mainstream media.

> While they have somewhat similar politics

lolwat? They disagree on a lot of things. DADT. Iraq. Iran. The Fed. The DEA. Bailouts (Billo supported Bush’s bailouts but changed his position when Obama did it) etc. Payroll taxes. Whether or not corporations are people. The list goes on.

Why doesn’t anyone report the quote correctly? If you watch the video, I never heard this exact quote, I heard soemthing similar but not this quote…

After the market crashed in 2008, O’Reilly  was crying about how unfair it was for
him to be losing money.  And how the government needed to do something
to “save us”.  He’s a complete fraud and typical of most of the
hypocrites at FOX. 
 
What a baby.  If he actually was seriously confronted by someone without FOX security, he’d soil his
depends.  They probably have to change him on every commercial break as
it is.

After the market crashed in 2008, O’Reilly was crying about how “unfair” it was for him to be losing money.  And how the government needed to do something to “save us”.  He’s a complete fraud and typical of most of the hypocrites at FOX.

What a baby.  If he actually was confronted by someone, he’d soil his depends.  They probably have to change him on every commercial break as it is.

After the market crashed in 2008, the guy was crying about how “unfair” it was for him to be losing money.  And how the government needed to do something to “save us”.  He’s a complete fraud and typical of most of the hypocrites at FOX.

What a baby.  If he actually was confronted by someone without FOX security in the wings, he’d soil his depends.  They probably have to change him on every commercial break as it is.

There’s no reason for Dr. Paul to continue to subject himself to O’Reilly’s mistreatment on his show.  If O’Reilly wants to actually debate Dr. Paul, he should do so in some other environment where O’Reilly can’t just interrupt Paul and yell over the top of him whenever he feels like it.  O’Reilly has already proven in the past that he just isn’t level-headed enough to listen to Paul, and O’Reilly has explicitly said he isn’t willing to give Ron Paul enough time to express the intricacies of his opinions.

Bill O’Reilly is a fool though.  Come on.. Kenisian?  What?  The man accused Ron Paul of not understanding the Constitution.  That’s something NO ONE had ever dared to say, because they know that he’d school them in the Constitution and then get someone to change their huggies after they soil them.  

Bill Doesn’t know anything about economics and certainly has no chance of understanding what Dr Paul is talking about.  
Besides. Bill O’Reilly isn’t even a journalist.  He’s an opinion show host.  In other words, he’t not required to provide those pesky little facts or anything.  He’s just required to give you your opinion..  I mean.. give his opinion.

I agree. I didn’t like how Billo used this form of journalism to get his last little insult in at the end of the clip, so I did a little hunting. The second comment on this link explains the concept Paul is defending in the Constitution fairly well. Please read if you would like to learn!

http://www.dailypaul.com/42549/where-in-the-constitution-does-it-say-only-gold-and-silver-shall-be-legal-tender

O’Reilly is a talking head and nothing more.  An opinion with a stage.  A malicious microphone.  Big deal.  Paul is right (and savvy) to avoid O’Reilly. O’Reilly is most definitely NOT a journalist.

Now that’s funny!

Here’s how professional Bill O’Reilly is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjOQYtgsiw

I’ve seen Paul on the O’Reilly show before and he has been repeatedly interrupted and talked over.  It wasn’t an interrogation per se, but one could argue it was similar to that.  Also, O’Reilly began going out of his way to invite Paul onto the show only after the Ames straw poll and statements about the lack of media attention.  I think people are smart enough to look back a little and see this is really more of a defensive ploy to try and illegitimize the observations of Paul receiving a lack of media attention.  

I am a Ron Paul supporter just so everyone knows.  One thing I don’t understand is how some people exhibit such hatred towards Paul.  Having a disagreement over policy is one thing that is pretty acceptable to me (everyone has a right to their own thoughts and beliefs), but he is such a nice guy and consistent in his worldview that I cannot grasp the hatred some people exhibit towards him.  

Bill already did an interview with Ron Paul and Bill acted like the rude jackass and would not let him finish his view point.. Bill has an agenda against Ron Paul…

So Bill O’Reilly is whining and crying that Ron Paul didn’t accept his invite.  Grow up Bill.  Get over yourself.

Yeah, NonElite. Facts are sure pesky things when they go against your idealogy.
I see objective reality (including an understanding of history) is rather distasteful to you.
There are real long term consequences when the US flippantly involves itself in the internal affairs of other countries.  And bombing and invasion are not the follow up remedies, it only makes things worse. 

Then why is Bill O’Reilly making so much hay over this?   Let’s cut through the fog here, this is as much about O’Reilly’s ego now as it is about an invitation wasn’t accepted. 
If a person doesn”t get a guest on their show, don’t start smearing the person.  How many other talk shows do that to guests?  

You come across looking like a moron when paul wasn’t the one “complaining” about media coverage.  It’s so freakin obvious and disrespectful us “tiny fraction” of supporters bombarded the news agencies with this showing facts and how biased they are.  Let ron paul speak the good message that needs to be spoken and let us handle the trenches and the dirty work because that is how much we care.  So no Ron Paul is not complaining about the media and their coverage Ron Paul supporters and America is waking up to the medias lies and propoganda. 

Ron Paul doesn’t like you, because you’re a liar and have no manners. If Dr. Paul is the “gold standard” of people, surely O’Reilly is the rat-semen-mixed-with-pus-cow-farts-poison-and-radioactive-subtances standard of person.

Ron Paul doesn’t like you, because you’re a liar and have no manners. If Dr. Paul is the “gold standard” of people, surely O’Reilly is the rat-semen-mixed-with-pus-cow-farts-poison-and-radioactive-subtances standard of person.

Hrmmm although Fox reported correct on the Constitution that Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof etc…it almost seems like the Federal Reserve Bank is regulating our currency not Congress, and the Reserve is a private entity that, well… isn’t being regulated.  
Anybody says they are being regulated, I would love to see an audit report. Thanks.