I don’t often appreciate Bill O’Reilly of late. Tonight, he was pretty darned good.

MoCoM on July 14, 2008 at 10:36 PM

I had the same reaction to that “make them pay” business. Make who pay? The anonymous posters, or the LA Times? Good luck on either score.

I appreciate O’Reilly, especially his relentlessness with child abusers and the judges that enable them, but there’s really no getting around the fact that he’s a pompous blowhard.

Nice to have you back, Allah.

Infidoll on July 14, 2008 at 10:47 PM

Agree, O’Reilly is only tolerable in small doses, but this had to be said, and he said it well. I hope he keeps it up.

If I had a subscription to that rag, I’d cancel it now.

MrLynn on July 14, 2008 at 10:51 PM

“anyone who does this will pay.”

O’Reilly has no other power to do anything .. except mention these people and what they say on the national forum that he has. “Pay” as in, shine the light of day on their comments. Maybe their boss will see a comment O’Reilly shows and find a way to fire them. Maybe someone who spews vitriol and hatred to a recently deceased man who died from cancer will be recognized by their family or friends and be known for the lousy pimple on the arse of humanity that they are. O’Reilly is not being a ‘tough guy,’ he is hurt, angry and wishes that he could do something but of course he can’t.

He’s expressing his outrage over people who deserve scorn that they will most likely never get. I don’t see any of these vermin either watching O’Reilly, or relenting from their hate. A little less hate to Bill O’Reilly however, would be appreciated. But I don’t expect this here.

wise_man on July 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM

As well he should, Tony Snow was an honorable man and deserves respect. Hell, Tim Russert received respect from HotAir; what is it with these dems?

carbon_footprint on July 14, 2008 at 11:01 PM

You have to be a pretty low piece of scum to write bad things about Tony Snow.. I didn’t know that he had any enemies.
Chakra Hammer on July 14, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Bush Derangement Syndrome does not stop at one man, or the people he selects to work with. Not even his family. Not even in times of personal tragedy.

Tony Snow was and still is their enemy because of the man he worked for. It’s a mental illness.

wise_man on July 14, 2008 at 11:03 PM

Anonymity gives them the license to speak honestly and truthfully about what they feel. Rather than silence them and drive ti underground, it’s better to have it out in the open so we all know what we are really up against.

Anonymity also shows how cowardly they are. Do you think they would say these kind of things in regular conversations with friends, family, co-workers, etc? No.

terryannonline on July 14, 2008 at 11:06 PM

Nice to learn that the LATrine will have a new boss.

jgapinoy on July 14, 2008 at 11:08 PM

TheBigOldDog

That makes sense. He’s been on the NY Slimes’ case for weeks.

jgapinoy on July 14, 2008 at 11:10 PM

TheBigOldDog

Wait. Your first comment was profound. Your second was goofy. You don’t think usernames make people “braver”?

jgapinoy on July 14, 2008 at 11:12 PM

Nice to see the Light of truth shining brightly
on the caring,compassionate Left!

And I agree with some of my fellow commenters,
anonymity shows the real truth of these people!

canopfor on July 14, 2008 at 11:13 PM

What’s with all the tough-guy talk from O’Reilly about making people “pay”?

I wondered about that as well. And I wish him luck in that endeavor. Honestly I love Bill for bringing this type of stuff to light. The Dhimms get away with this type of BS way too often.

A little less hate to Bill O’Reilly however, would be appreciated. But I don’t expect this here.

wise_man on July 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM

I like Bill quite a lot, I turned my husband onto him, which was a feat, he’s a bit skeptical, and I’m not the most adept at explaining subjects at times.

4shoes on July 14, 2008 at 11:15 PM

These are people who physically attack conservative speakers on stage and people are actually surprised they are glad Tony died and are willing to say so in the open?

TheBigOldDog on July 14, 2008 at 11:19 PM

4shoes

TheBigOldDog is on to something. O’R will make the LATrine & Kos pay, not the anonymous creeps.

jgapinoy on July 14, 2008 at 11:20 PM

It’s a mental illness.

wise_man on July 14, 2008 at 11:03 PM

Even more than that, hatred is a sickness of the soul. It’s an epidemic among leftards.

infidel4life on July 14, 2008 at 11:21 PM

TheBigOldDog on July 14, 2008 at 11:15 PM

Well, I took a second look at some of the commentators that Patterico posted and I’ll admit some left their full names for everyone to see. So you probably have a point. People who know these people probably know about their hate. However, many only put their first name or used alias like “Hell’s Receptionist” and “Bush hater.” I don’t know how out in the open “Hell’s Receptionist” and “Bush hater” are with their hate.

terryannonline on July 14, 2008 at 11:24 PM

terryannonline on July 14, 2008 at 11:24 PM

I just wanted you to question your assumptions. It’s dangerous to make assumptions about these people.

TheBigOldDog on July 14, 2008 at 11:27 PM

Beauty AND brains…errr…hold on…where is she…?

C’mon, they cheered when he was diagnosed, cheered when he died. No big surprise. I’m saving my outrage for later.

tlynch001 on July 14, 2008 at 11:34 PM

I have to admit I am a very regular O’R viewer, and also that I often laugh out loud at his rants. He does think himself so very important and powerful at times. I caught the ‘they will pay’ comment tonight myself and thought…..how? But there was no doubt he was mad as hell at said comments and striking back in anger and grief over the passing of his friend. I admire him for his loyalty. And, if I ever find myself in a situation of real injustice, good heavens i would surely want that man on my side! Coz he will get on a case and hammer it and worry it to death. Just ask those at the NYT or the Governor of Vermont for example. :D

dustoffmom on July 14, 2008 at 11:37 PM

I’ll give HuffPo credit for removing the vile comments that were up there before. Does not excuse the daily marxist (daily kos) for their vile comments.

nazo311 on July 15, 2008 at 12:19 AM

Gawker is another left wing hate site that is celebrating the death of Tony Snow. Remember this is the same site that called Tony Snow when he was diagnose with cancer a “Human Being” because he worked for the Evil Bush Administration.

ZoneDaiatlas on July 15, 2008 at 1:11 AM

The left shows it’s lack of class.

Johan Klaus on July 15, 2008 at 1:36 AM

FWIW, Bill posted the email address for the Tom Curley, the AP’s CEO on his website. His email is tcurley@ap.org.

Here is the email I sent him. It will be summarily ignored, but I’m hoping this jackass might get some inkling of a clue if he gets enough angry email. I did attempt to be polite.

Dear Mr. Curley,

I was quite disappointed to read this line in your obituary for Tony Snow:

“With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster’s good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook - if not always a command of the facts - he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses.”

I did not see the word “Editorial” printed anywhere on this story, and I doubt that was an oversight. This sort of loathsome political commentary is exactly why the Associated Press has gained such a poor reputation in recent years. Editors should not tolerate underhanded political sabotage in any story, let alone an obituary.

While I do not believe they were always factually accurate, when the sad occasion comes for the AP to write stories about the passing of Dee Dee Myers, Mike McCurry, and Scott McClellan, I trust you will leave out any more venomous praise.

I have contacted your editorial department about this, but I think you should personally be aware that people - a large number of them - do not appreciate this ghoulish editorializing in an obituary.

Douglass Daniel should be disciplined for such lack of integrity, but an editor had to approve his story. Send them both to work for a college newspaper. You should be ashamed of your news organization’s coverage of this story.

If you are incapable of maintaining any sort of standards at the Associated Press, it’s time to fire yourself.

Clean up your act, sir.

Cordially,

__________

On the other hand, these are the same guys who give terrorists free publicity for beheadings, so I’m not exactly optimistic here.

fiatboomer on July 15, 2008 at 1:49 AM

AP + LA Times = Toilet Paper after warm beer and sloppy joe night.

Seven Percent Solution on July 15, 2008 at 2:29 AM

Bingo!

These people are truly insignificant, and only come out under the guise of anonymity. They hide behind their keyboards, because if confronted in real life, they would cower and crawl away.

The tolerant ones, the left, have been reduced to hurling vile insults from afar. Unable to compete in the arena of ideas any longer, they simply shout down anyone who doesn’t agree with them, and smear.

It’s a shame these people can vote.

rightside on July 15, 2008 at 12:00 AM

All said, without disagreeing with one word Rightside wrote! I miss the days when you couldn’t “Google Earth” a video of my front door.

Fishoutofwater on July 15, 2008 at 3:53 AM

I rarely watch the Factor since Michelle left the line-up but I can understand O’Reilly’s disgust. Tony Snow was widely admired and it’s a shame some commenters have gone too far expressing their hate. In the end, they will “pay” but I doubt Mr. O will have much to do with it. Karma will collect on this tab.

Zorro on July 15, 2008 at 6:46 AM

I think the tough guy act may be related to the fact that Mr. O’Reilly considered Tony Snow a close friend. He’s obviously outraged that a good guy was trashed by these loons and concerned that Mrs. Snow and her kids would be troubled by this garbage. Mr. O’Reilly is probably just intending to shine a bright light on the loons and the entities like the Los Angeles Times that enable them.

Jill1066 on July 15, 2008 at 7:13 AM

These people are hateful, paranoid and believe deeply in a vast right wing conspiracy. To them O’Reilly is a powerful high ranking member of that conspiracy and he has just told them that they know who they are and there is no place to hide. I’m betting many of them are now living in fear waiting for the inevitable knock on the door from the BushHitler thugs coming for them. Of course nothing will happen to them and in a few weeks they will be all happy in the knowledge that they once again outwitted the stupid hacks and thugs of the vast right wing power elite.

jmarcure on July 15, 2008 at 7:40 AM

Liberalism has always been and will always be about emotion not facts. They can’t help themselves! They hate and it shows. Hopefully Americans see their ideology for what it is. I think that is why they are summarily rejected on a national level more times than not in election after election after election. Shhhhht! Don’t tell them though! They think that stomping their tiny little feet and banging their tiny little fists in acts of tiny rage will actually get people to support them!

sabbott on July 15, 2008 at 7:59 AM

One of the most disturbing comments I’ve ever read. Care to publish your contact information, Terryann, and shed the shackles of your anonymity? “Anonymity” is not the problem, it’s the Liberal deconstruction of everything that ever made USA a great civilization. Great that is, while it lasted.

Fishoutofwater on July 15, 2008 at 3:48 AM

Actually I’m not anonymous. You just used my name, Terry Ann, and if you use click on my link it goes to my Web site, it tells you which state I live in. I have pictures of myself in my Web site. So I’m not hiding under a guise of anonymity. I’m out in the open.

And why do you have to go the extreme? Because I’m not giving out my address, therefore, I’m anonymous.

Never in post did I say we should do away with anonymity or anything of that sort in the post. I think it could be a positive thing. Allows more freedom. But let’s face it has its bad qualities. I truly doubt some people would post some of the stuff they do if they had their name behind it.
That’s all. Don’t read too much into comments, OK.

terryannonline on July 15, 2008 at 8:44 AM

Oh, I KNOW that there are indeed many people who absolutely believe things like this, and run to the lefty web sites for validation from the other loons….I was just checking to see if one of them had wandered over here and busy posting that drivel. As one of the ‘Bush-Nazi’s” myself I just didn’t want to start pushing back if it was not warranted. >grin

dustoffmom on July 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM

When I picture a DKOS daily reader I see a member of the “alternative lifestyle” community that is probably at a hip local coffee shop for other like minded “folk”. I’m seeing lots of piercings, tattoos and very little employment among the group but mommy and daddy parcel out enough green to keep junior in bad clothes, bad hair, apple hardware/software and every protest of Republicans. Nazis, Dictators and Christians possible…

sabbott on July 15, 2008 at 10:15 AM

This whole idea of respect for the dead is ridiculous. Respect is earned, people seem to think that respect should be gratuitious. If the man shows you no respect by being a propagandist, for an administration that lies and steals from you, he deserves no respect in death, whether he did it with a smile or not is irrelevant. It is not hatred, it is giving the man the “respect” he deserves, the respect he gave you. Many salesmen have tried to screw you over with a smile on their face. If he wanted respect he could have spoke out, kissing the collective @sses of the beltway elite does not make someone a nice guy. Just from a conservative angle the man served as a mouthpiece for one of the most destructive administrations to conservatism in my lifetime. Thanks for socialized health care and this global warming nonsense because their failure to be conservative when they had the majorities is what killed us, those that made excuses for them were the enablers of this. Tony was an enabler. All his death means is one less enabler. And moreso for Tony because some of his earlier work showed that he had some good in him, but where did it go?

LevStrauss on July 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM

I think making them pay is done by shedding light on it, shouting that they are scum from the rooftops. Good job, Bill.

I used to watch Bill O every night, but I’ve gotten rather sick of having to watch all the blurred out women’s body parts, or worse having to turn the DVR off quickly when my ten year old comes into the room to tell me goodnight so she doesn’t ask what the blurred stuff is. That said, I do really appreciate that he exposes the radical liberal judges, educators, legislators,etc., particularly in light of child safety/welfare cases. He does us all a good service in many ways. Just enough with the tabloid crap!

pannw on July 15, 2008 at 11:12 AM

This whole idea of respect for the dead is ridiculous. Respect is earned, people seem to think that respect should be gratuitious. If the man shows you no respect by being a propagandist, for an administration that lies and steals from you, he deserves no respect in death, whether he did it with a smile or not is irrelevant. It is not hatred, it is giving the man the “respect” he deserves, the respect he gave you. Many salesmen have tried to screw you over with a smile on their face. If he wanted respect he could have spoke out, kissing the collective @sses of the beltway elite does not make someone a nice guy. Just from a conservative angle the man served as a mouthpiece for one of the most destructive administrations to conservatism in my lifetime. Thanks for socialized health care and this global warming nonsense because their failure to be conservative when they had the majorities is what killed us, those that made excuses for them were the enablers of this. Tony was an enabler. All his death means is one less enabler. And moreso for Tony because some of his earlier work showed that he had some good in him, but where did it go?

LevStrauss on July 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM

While I am 200% for free speech and have no problem with differing opinions, in this instance it would just be so nice if you weren’t here.

Glynn on July 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM