Video: O’Reilly calls for boycott of Fox’s O.J. interview
posted at 10:05 pm on November 16, 2006 by Allahpundit
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How often do you see someone on TV ask viewers not to do business with his boss?
The man’s got guts. Grit. Nerve. Spunk. Backbone. And most of all? Balls.
Here’s the segment plus a little refresher course with Tom Lange and Chris Darden on what happens when the Juice is loose and in a foul mood. The best part about this whole O.J. shinolastorm, for my money? More of teh funny from Dave!
Update: Geraldo’s disgusted too. For the record, while both Fox Broadcasting and Fox News are owned by News Corp, they’re not otherwise related.
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I agree with Bill..I just don’t getwhat Fox is thinking!
Pam on November 16, 2006 at 10:09 PM
I can’t believe anyone at Fox (or other company) is even considering running this OJ crap.
V5 on November 16, 2006 at 10:09 PM
Hey O.J., did ya find the “real killers” yet? No? Better check another Florida golf course.
Tony737 on November 16, 2006 at 10:10 PM
Nuke OJ, Nuke OJ. /snark
V5 on November 16, 2006 at 10:10 PM
Mark Fuhrman totally bitchslapped Skeletor on H&C. Get some video of that if you can.
JammieWearingFool on November 16, 2006 at 10:14 PM
No, not really, he’s just a spinless Republican weasel who doesn’t have the guts to admit it and likes to pretend he’s an “independent”. And now he’s using the O.J. debate to try to tie it in with abortion? What an exploitive creep. I didn’t see him complain when Fox News itself, and not the overall corporation, used Terri Schiavo as a campaign prop for the GOP and a marketing ploy at the same time.
To now listen to him feign outrage is just a little amusing. Murder victims as a marketing ploy, off limits, but braindead women, ok? Right.
Grebrook on November 16, 2006 at 10:15 PM
Good for Bill. I can’t agree more. Unfortunately Greta couldn’t wait to re-air her O.J. interview from two years ago - of course, in the context of O.J.’s new book. I guess there was no new news on Natalie Holloway to rehash tonight.
thedecider on November 16, 2006 at 10:18 PM
Judith Regan’s explanation at Drudge seems reasonable to me (if not a bit hyper-emotive, to the point of being obnoxious).
And, for what it’s worth, I’m so sick of O’Reilly’s dillusions of grandeur and his calls for boycotts. Enough already. We get it, you think you’re important.
DaveS on November 16, 2006 at 10:18 PM
Are you actually standing on a ledge as you type this stuff?
thedecider on November 16, 2006 at 10:20 PM
I’m actually looking for hints on how to off my wife and her lover. So, I’m tuning in for sure!
lorien1973 on November 16, 2006 at 10:25 PM
BALLSiam7545 on November 16, 2006 at 10:25 PM
Too bad that, when it comes to actually saying balls, O’Reilly doesn’t use them.
steveegg on November 16, 2006 at 10:27 PM
That having been said, I have to give kudos where they’re due. Thanks O’Reilly and Rivera.
steveegg on November 16, 2006 at 10:28 PM
Unfortunately Greta couldn’t wait to re-air her O.J. interview from two years ago - of course,
Let’s remember - OJ MADE Greta - the trial put her on the map
iam7545 on November 16, 2006 at 10:29 PM
Hopefully enough Americans will have the good sense of right and wrong to NOT tune in to this shameless attempt by a murderer to profit from his crimes.
Grebrook, your ability to inject hysterical liberal paranoia into this most simple of issues is quite amusing. Were you dropped on your head as an infant?
infidel4life on November 16, 2006 at 10:30 PM
Good theory, but I’m thinking paint chips.
Slublog on November 16, 2006 at 10:32 PM
You mean gum-balls, right?
Kevin M on November 16, 2006 at 10:33 PM
Mark Furman’s spiel on Hannity and skull-head was great, he just comes out and says that OJ is out of his mind and a remoresless sociopoath.
Tune the murdering thug out and send him away.
bbz123 on November 16, 2006 at 10:39 PM
Even worse, a whole lot of folks will tune in.
AZ_Redneck on November 16, 2006 at 10:40 PM
TV ain’t Sunday night ‘Bonanza’ with Hoss and Lil’ Joe no mo’.
Griz on November 16, 2006 at 10:50 PM
I’m not watching. This man should be a pariah.
jman on November 16, 2006 at 10:50 PM
You have to pick and choose your battles.
If you snap out of your selective memory, you’ll remember just what a circus that the OJ trial was (and, thanks to this, still is) and how this or that person used it for their own agenda.
There are no excuses for the other, either, however, the scenario and the cause were somewhat different.
One was about a trying suspected murderer of a victim of domestic violence and the other was about saving a life of one who could not speak for herself - in it’s own way a nameless victim of domestic violence as well.
Both are done with - remember what lessons you got out of them and move on with life.
As for the show, my recommendation to all is, no matter what, if you don’t like what is on the tube - now or any other night -
then turn it off or to something else.
Emmett J. on November 16, 2006 at 10:51 PM
I wasn’t planning to watch it anyways.
SouthernGent on November 16, 2006 at 10:53 PM
I will watch MKH and MM clips all night.
But Griz is right, Disney,the 20th Century and Bonanza was a real Sunday night of TV
bbz123 on November 16, 2006 at 11:20 PM
Bleeeccchhh!!!!!
sonnyspats1 on November 16, 2006 at 11:33 PM
…so, Greebster…sending your little darts out about *OTHER PEOPLE’S* hypocracy…yucking it up on matters of life and death, are we…all aflush with your own consistency on the subject, I see.
Kill ‘em young, kill ‘em bed-ridden, kill ‘em any way you can get ’round to killin’ ‘em…just don’t kickup any ripples in my chi.
It must positively *ACHE* to be so pure….
Puritan1648 on November 16, 2006 at 11:51 PM
…oh…and before you begin to gas on about my own utterances bordering on the eternal, allow me to point out that the folks about whom I’m so bloody-minded are all *ARMED*…not confined to a hospital bed or a uterus…I’m all for whacking the *GUILTY*….
…speaking of which, busy later?
Puritan1648 on November 16, 2006 at 11:55 PM
Grebrook, I’ve quietly watched and read your posts the past couple of weeks.
And I’ll admit. From one admitted partisan to another, you’ve impressed me with some of your posts. You’ve managed to infuriate and enrage many our our readers and posters, yet I always sensed that you really knew a lot about what you were talking about. And I would read your posts and try to learn from them.
And then you post today on this thread.
We have two dead, murdered people. And the children of OJ Simpson have to be exposed to this.
Truely, a human tragedy that should touch us all.
And even in this admittedly partisan crowd, of which I am a proud member, at this time of tragedy and horror, no-one here thought to pull the partisan card. All merely reacted to the thought of the murderer of two innocent people profiting from their death.
Until you showed up.
And of course, all of that went flying out the window.
Because of course this whole post is only evidence of….what? Bill O’Reilly is a republican spineless weaslel? With no guts?
Is that what you get out of all of this?
You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
EFG on November 17, 2006 at 12:03 AM
Good post - the short answer, of course, is no, he doesn’t!
Emmett J. on November 17, 2006 at 12:22 AM
Oh, no you didn’t…
Jaibones on November 17, 2006 at 12:24 AM
…da Greebster…
…gettin’ the *MCCARTHY QUOTE* laid on ‘im…
…that’s rich…drippin’ with irony…
…both barrels…
…rich, I tell you…
…*SNORT*….
Puritan1648 on November 17, 2006 at 12:26 AM
@EFG: Bravo, excellent post.
infidel4life on November 17, 2006 at 12:27 AM
You’re holding out on me, Butt Boy. Tell me it was just a typo. This was way over your head…admit it!
Jaibones on November 17, 2006 at 12:32 AM
You guys just don’t understand. Grebrook is the only one who’s got this right… it’s just that he didn’t go far enough.
This was all Bush’s fault… and OJ is only doing this because it helps the Republicans (Rove is paying him with money loaned by Halliburtan), they think it’ll give them just enough outrage to win in ‘08.
And OReilly? Jeez… if he wasn’t such a tool of the Rightwing nutjobs and FAUXNews, Nicole and Ron would still be alive! I mean, if not for him, Michael Schiavo would have been able to get there and save them — if he had only been able to go ahead with Terri’s wishes earlier, but no O’Lie-lly, Hannity, Rove and Chimpy couldn’t have that!!
Seriously, it all makes perfect sense…. I don’t know why you guys can’t see it! You must just be blinded by partisan loyalty…. or Rove’s supersecret mind rays… or something.
dead-duck on November 17, 2006 at 12:48 AM
Dude, you need to start a blog. The world needs to know this stuff.
infidel4life on November 17, 2006 at 1:08 AM
I can’t… they would only try to silence me… I fear for my safety…. but it doesn’t matter anyway, does it? The rightwingers won’t listen, they never do.
The power of the Rove side of the Force is too strong…
dead-duck on November 17, 2006 at 1:30 AM
You’ll be safe here.
;-)
infidel4life on November 17, 2006 at 1:33 AM
If Bill O’Reilly had just sat there and angrily went on a tirade against Simpson, I would have said nothing, because there’s nothing to disagree with. But O’Reilly chose to exploit the situation by linking O.J. Simpson murdering two people with ABORTION. The two are unrelated, and it’s his attempt to try to get people to sympathize with pro-life politics in a ridiculously unrelated manner.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 1:34 AM
HAH! You don’t honestly believe that website is what it says it is, do you? You know who’s really behind it, right?
I’ll give you a hint… check who it’s registered to… then check who their neighbor’s daughter’s boyfriend’s little brother’s 5th grade teacher’s Uncle Moe went to kindergarten with back in the day…
Seriously, you people are blind…. it’s all plain as day.
dead-duck on November 17, 2006 at 1:44 AM
(note to self: why do I bother?) Had you actually listened to the piece with an open mind - instead of the garbage-filled ideology you choose - you would have understood that Bill was relating the O.J. case and the doctor who performs late-term abortions - to the decline of civilization as comparable to the Roman empire. Instead of applying your brain to the comparison, you heard exactly what you wanted to hear through the tiny prism known as liberalism. You may agree or disagree with Bill’s comparison - which would be a fair argument - but instead chose to stick to your tired, weary, far-left talking points about abortion rights because that is all you heard.
thedecider on November 17, 2006 at 1:58 AM
Yeah, “far left”, I love the cliche talking points you use. Note to thedecider, the voters out in South Dakota crushed you at the ballot box. If you can’t win in South Dakota, I guess you should consider America one giant pit of communists as a whole.
If O’Reilly wants to talk about late-term abortion, that’s his right, and I don’t really care. But to exploit the deaths of two innocent people and turn around to try to make a comparison to a hotly disputed political issue is pathetic and despicable. It was no less despicable when conservatives on talk radio and Fox attempted to exploit a braindead Florida woman and passed notes around in the Senate arguing that it would “excite the conservative base” and that they could use it against Democratic Senator Bill Nelson.
The decline of civilization? Our civilization is on the edge of decline because of abortion, a practice which has been going on for a hundred years in the very least. And some crackpot hocking a book about how he killed his wife on television. If civilization is about to collapse, there may be 1000 important reasons why it is on the brink.
This is not one of them. Talk about a cliche, hysterical right-wing nut.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 2:07 AM
Really? I’m not a fan of yours.
This one is worthy of a nut-case ready to jump off a bridge.
Apparently you do as it was the crux of your original argument, although now you seem to change your mind as your rant continues.
This one is puzzling: you state civilization is on the edge of decline because of abortion and, at the same time, you vilify O’Reilly for making the same point. It seems you might be conflicted.
It further seems you are the “hysterical” one as noted from your many posts these past many weeks. No wonder Allah states you “tickle” him. I have to agree.
thedecider on November 17, 2006 at 2:26 AM
Pure scum.
x95b10 on November 17, 2006 at 2:52 AM
Nice job ignoring the following sentence and hence the context, jackass.
No, I accidentally hit period instead of question mark at the end of those two sentences, and you can’t edit posts.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 2:59 AM
I fail to see how anyone with an ounce of objectivity can, in good conscience, believe that this asshole did not kill these two people. I think the detective made a very valuable point; no exculpatory evidence has been presented. All roads lead back to O.J. That is a fact.
x95b10 on November 17, 2006 at 3:12 AM
Grebrook, for the love of God just shut the f*ck up.
Really, honestly, truly, no one gives so much as half a damn what you think so take your turd flavored spitballs back to DU and shoot them there among people who are impressed by such juvenalia.
Pablo on November 17, 2006 at 4:49 AM
Tell it to Tom Daschle.
Pablo on November 17, 2006 at 4:51 AM
Any sponsor that would put up money to sponsor this load of crap should be boycotted until it hurts enough that they never even think of sponsoring crap like that again! (Can I say crap in this blog?)
Shame on Fox and shame on the sponsors!
LonelyMassRepublican on November 17, 2006 at 6:20 AM
I’m disgusted with Fox and with Regan Books which is going to publish this. I’m working part time at a bookstore and am practicing my stone face for the time when I have to ring up this waste of trees at the cash register. I’m a voracious reader, but if I was stuck on a desert island with nothing but this book, I’d use it for toilet paper and never read again.
Ellen on November 17, 2006 at 8:11 AM
Ok, where did you pull that from? Don’t answer that !!!
honora on November 17, 2006 at 9:38 AM
You know, this is the internet. It is entirely possible that the reason Greg cannot remember what happened during the OJ trial is that he/she (I’m not sure which) was either too young to understand what was going on at or wasn’t even born yet.
His/her rantings would not surprise me had they come from a 10-15 year old.
Esthier on November 17, 2006 at 10:17 AM
Grebrook, the parameters of this HotAir post consist of the embedded video, Allahpundits written words, and whatever facts and opinions the commenters here can bring.
You have stated three times that Bill O’Reilley has made some sort of connection between abortion and the OJ situation. I see no evidence of this what-so-ever in the embedded video clip.
If you have some sort of supporting documentation for this, such as additional video footage, or transcripts, please provide them.
If this abortion-OJ connection comment by O’Reilly is merely supposition on your part, please say so.
If you are just going off of your memory of the complete Fox broadcast, please say so.
EFG on November 17, 2006 at 12:15 PM
EFG, I agree. I have no idea where this abortion comment is coming from, but I certainly do not see it in the embedded video.
Esthier on November 17, 2006 at 12:45 PM
Allah Pundit EDITED THE VIDEO you fool. Look this is the transcript of O’Reilly’s talking points memo:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230180,00.html
He cut off about 20 seconds of the video where O’Reilly started to whine about Dr. Tiller out in Kansas and attempted to link the two together.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 1:16 PM
Grebrook, we know the video is editted. That would be why EFG specifically stated:
But just because you either intentionally skipped over this or just misunderstood this, I do not feel the need to call you a fool.
Esthier on November 17, 2006 at 1:35 PM
I just read the link, and I’m not convinced you have a leg to stand on here. He’s not just talking about abortion, he’s talking about late-term abortions, abortions where the fetus can and would otherwise survive outside of the womb.
And it relates specifically to his topic about profiting off of death, $5,000 per viable fetus, where the only difference between it and any other baby is the barrier of a womb.
Esthier on November 17, 2006 at 1:46 PM
I wonder if this boycott will be more or less effective than OR’s boycott against France….
honora on November 17, 2006 at 4:42 PM
It was an entirely self-serving screed. Enough already about the divorce! It doesn’t justify giving this sub-human residue a public forum. Every penny from the book needs to go to the victim’s families.
Valiant on November 17, 2006 at 4:49 PM
Yes Grebrook, I knew that the video was edited. Rare indeed is the embedded video clip that isn’t edited. But thank you for pointing that out.
Well, now I have the link to support your original claim about O’Reilly. Fifteen and one half hours and innumerable comments later, but none-the-less here it is.
Which brings me back to my original observation.
Here we had a post. Which by any reasonable definition of its parameters had no articulable partisan slant. In fact, Allahpundit even went so far as to edit out of the video anything partisan. Anything that could distract from the message about OJ. OJ profiting from the death of Nichole and Ron and the effect that could have on the children. He edited out that which you find so objectionable.
The reference to abortion.
And there the matter could have rested.
Until you showed up.
Grebrook, have you ever been to a funeral? I have. Too many times. And I’ve stood side by side with mourners who didn’t like me or others. And yet, I never once thought of them as people who couldn’t comport themselves respectfully and appropriately at those times. And they’ve never once disappointed me, despite our differences.
What about you, Grebrook? If I knew you, if you were a close friend or family, could I feel safe in bringing you to the funeral of someone? Could I trust you to pay your respects along side others? Would you? Could you? Or would you grandstand? Would you shout that so and so was a weasel, or an idiot? Would laying a smack-down be the only thing that would be important to you?
I wonder Grebrook.
Your conduct on this thread really makes me wonder.
EFG on November 17, 2006 at 6:27 PM
[Grebrook - who else]
How so?
RD on November 18, 2006 at 3:10 PM