Video: O’Reilly rips Frank
posted at 8:28 am on October 3, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Before we started watching the debate at Trocadero’s, the crowd watched the O’Reilly Factor on Fox to get warmed up, and Bill O’Reilly certainly did that with Barney Frank. O’Reilly and Frank raged at each other last night in an interview that generated much more heat than light on the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
I walked into Trocadero’s in the middle of this interview, and so I missed the pretentious page-flipping of Frank when the interview started. What was he looking at, the bailout plan that he made necessary by defending Fannie and Freddie while the two went bankrupt?
I’m surprised that Frank appeared on Fox at all, and certainly surprised that he appeared on the Factor. I’d expect Frank to be in hiding, doing regional TV in Massachusetts at most. Even with that said, I’m disappointed (but hardly surprised) that O’Reilly turned this into a shouting match. It might feel good to yell at Barney Frank — and it did, according to the crowd reaction — but that interview called for a prosecuting attorney, one prepared to dispassionately slice Frank to pieces with facts, quotes, and figures. A shouting match lets Frank off the hook, and it buries whatever good points O’Reilly makes in this exchange.
Let’s get Hugh Hewitt to interview Frank, and see the difference. That would force Frank to actually defend his record, and in doing so, expose the collapse as a Democratic failure in social engineering that will cost all of us a fortune in the coming years.
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Bill is ignorant, he can’t make an economic point at gunpoint. Mark Levin would have toasted Frank and leave no feather unburned.
Aristotle on October 3, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Frank shouldn’t be yelled at he should be beaten, tarred, feathered and ridden out of the country on a rail.
The hell with playing nice with these people. Democrats are out to destroy this country and whether because it’s because they hate this country or because they are incompetent and corrupt, doesn’t matter.
Frank is a traitor and a criminal. He should be standing on a gallows or before a firing squad today.
NoDonkey on October 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM
Boy Ed, I agree with you but I watched it and damn it was fun, bring on Mr. Hewitt. Was hoping you be on line for the VP fun talk last night.
foxone on October 3, 2008 at 8:32 AM
Franks said one accurate thing, Bill is a bore. Other than that, turn out the lights, lock the door and see who comes out on top.
moxie_neanderthal on October 3, 2008 at 8:33 AM
ooops….not plural (Freudian slip) Frank.
moxie_neanderthal on October 3, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Democrats are masters of telling people they can’t believe their lying eyes and ears. Biden lies 16 ties in the debate and the spin goes on. Change is coming. The choice is clear.
volsense on October 3, 2008 at 8:36 AM
O’Reilly got a bit carried away but it was amusing. Typical Frank, just dismissing him and calling him stupid.
JammieWearingFool on October 3, 2008 at 8:39 AM
Barney Frank thinks that a jedi mind trick of saying I didn’t do anything wrong would work!……FAIL!!!
Bill is reflecting what everyone is feeling and thinking. Tar and feathering is way too good for Barney.
grapeknutz on October 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM
Exactly. O’Reilly blew a great opportunity. And, yes, Hugh Hewitt would be great, but I don’t know that Frank will do any more interviews.
Buy Danish on October 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM
Bill is an ass clown who thinks he is the watchman on the wall.
He lost all cred with me when he paid out more in hush money after his phone sex harrassment problems than I will ever make in my life.
I would like to see FOX do a expose on the FM/FM issue and connect the dots. Maybe Brit Hume could host it. O’Rielly just makes me wanna hurl.
RobertInAustin on October 3, 2008 at 8:41 AM
O’Reilly has really been going off the deep end lately on this Fannie/Freddie mess. I knew there had to be a personal side to it and the other night he finally admitted he had lost a bundle in the collapse.
He needs to stay away from economic discussion, especially when he has emotional, personal ties.
cntrlfrk on October 3, 2008 at 8:41 AM
Frank’s a Congressman acting like a child. O’ is a journalist acting like a prosecutor. Mark Levin would have sliced Frank in quarters….
Time to dump this POS out.
jbh45 on October 3, 2008 at 8:42 AM
I don’t think Bill blew anything. What? As if that’s the first and last time someone will confront Barney Frank about this mess? Nah. Trust me. There will be more to come.
Oink on October 3, 2008 at 8:43 AM
That’s true, it was another missed opportunity to start getting to the bottom of the Democrat laws requiring banks to make risky loans, but it’s a start. It will at least get the ball rolling and McCain had better start in on the topic if he wants to win this election.
forest on October 3, 2008 at 8:43 AM
When you have one person screaming, and the other trying to keep calm, you tend to go with what the calm person is saying…O’Reilly could have conducted the interview much more effectively….at the same time, Frank was obviously planning to treat O’reilly like a chump, and just mow right over him. cuz it was just Fox, after all….he really got a surprise, haha.
Bottom line, Frank needs to be the subject of one of these tons of congressional investigations.
I’m sleepy, sorry for the incoherence.
surrounded on October 3, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Let Megyn Kelly interview Frank.
fossten on October 3, 2008 at 8:44 AM
Nothing really became clear because of all the shouting – but hopefully it has brought some light of day to the issue because of the spectacle.
Naivet’e is my middle name.
tru2tx on October 3, 2008 at 8:47 AM
+1
surrounded on October 3, 2008 at 8:47 AM
One thing we know for sure, Bill likes his falafels.
moxie_neanderthal on October 3, 2008 at 8:49 AM
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Now there you go.
tru2tx on October 3, 2008 at 8:49 AM
I’ve never seen anything quite like that, but I don’t watch O’Blarney anymore. Amazing.
I think Ed’s right, and the screaming just let Barney’s frank off the grill. He should be sitting in front of a judge and jury. He doesn’t run and hide because he is a) incapable of shame*, and b) he knows the liberal media has his, ahem, backside covered.
*Remember, this is the promiscuous queer who’s boyfriend was running a queer prostitution ring out of Frank’s Georgetown love nest. No apologies, and no penalty.
Jaibones on October 3, 2008 at 8:50 AM
The problem with a shouting match with someone like Frank is the people don’t see what he really did wrong. O’Reily is known for being a jerk. I think he is a jerk. So when he yells like that, people just see him as a bully and they miss entirely why Frank should take part of the blame for this mess.
sammypants on October 3, 2008 at 8:50 AM
Put them in the cage and let them have a slap fight.
AubieJon on October 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Have him go on Glenn Beck. I heart Beck.
sammypants on October 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Frank needs to be confronted by all types…the ranters and ravers express our heart and what we want Frank to hear. Hewitt would be more logical and surgically take Frank apart. The fact is, everyone, every personality type, should have a shot at Franks…he deserves no respect.
right2bright on October 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Bill didn’t even bring up the 2004 comments, but it was hilarious all the same. YOU’RE A COWARD!
lodge on October 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Has anyone mentioned how much they hate O’Reilly yet?
wise_man on October 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Bill kicks his azz, but I thought his head was gonna explode! I was waiting for him to scream “WE’LL DO IT LIVE!”
Tony737 on October 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Nope. Ed’s right – Hewitt.
Megyn’s gorgeous and she looks really hot when her cheeks get that flush, but she’s incapable of measured confrontation. She’d just started carping and yelling like O’Blarney did.
A proper prosecutorial tone is required for this lisping freak.
Jaibones on October 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM
YES. Megyn would vivisect him on national television. The fact that she is a beautiful woman and Barney is a fudgepacking sausage smoker would make it that much more delicious to watch.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:56 AM
You can’t get Frank with this approach; he’s too skilled and slick.
He’s mastered the political dodge on an issue. That is, to always make a qualified critical remark about something at sometime so that you can always go back and say, “I warned everyone about this” or “I said this wouldn’t work.”
Sure, Frank sounded some warnings about Fannie Mae and/or Freddie Mac. But he was also doing everything he could to bail the institutions out and limit Congressional oversight that would weaken his goal of providing housing for low income Americans.
SteveMG on October 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Barney’s dumb put not stupid, he won’t go near Hugh Hewitt. I know that Mr. O’Reilly means well but the yelling doesn’t help. Don’t get him going on the oil companies, geesh!
Cindy Munford on October 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Correct me if I am mistaken, but Megyn has courtroom experience. I’ve seen her take other people apart on FXN before. She is impassioned, to be sure, but nothing approaching an O’Reilly fireworks display.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Well screw it.
Someone needs to yell at him. Republicans wont do it. Did you guys see the clip of Frank right before he came on from July of this year?
The guy is a weasel. He needs to be investigated, and I hope last night jump starts that investigation.
I am sick and tired of Democrats getting away with highway robbery.
Their fingerprints are all over this debacle. Which is why they want bi-partisan support for the bailout, to be able to say they had a partner in it. For future blame.
And once again our GOP leaders, drool at the mouth and follow suit, unable to to make a firm stand against them.
Wake up GOP and quit playing nice with them. Your only going to regret it.
TheHat on October 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Screw the interviews. McCain and Palin need to build the case against Frank and Dodd and all the other Dem Fannie and Freddie enablers and tie them to Obama.
And then McCain and Palin need to say that Job 1 is emasculating or at least blunting any control that Frank and Dodd have over our financial system. Their states will send them back to Congress and Obama will do nothing to blunt these tools. This is McCain’s ticket–if he still has a chance. Frank and Dodd are loathesome individuals. They’ll be easy targets. More Willie Hortons.
BuckeyeSam on October 3, 2008 at 8:59 AM
I dunno. Megyn can cut right to the bone without blowing her stack a la O’Reilly. I’d pay to see that
interrogationinterview.Pablo on October 3, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Wrong. Megyn’s an attorney. Obviously you’ve missed some of her skewering interviews lately, most notably the senior editor of US Weekly. Go check youtube.
fossten on October 3, 2008 at 9:00 AM
What a bunch of Nancy boy’s on this post. I loved it, and it was deserved by Frank. What would talking about it have done? Frank would have just done the liberal things and denied everything, and just say “No I didn’t” over and over ignoring the facts. Bill provided us with some great entertainment, doing what we all would like to do. He will come on tonight, Bill, and give some humble apology for crossing the line. Do you all really think the libs would come on and have a real talk? Please. Thanks for the memories Bill!
gator70 on October 3, 2008 at 9:01 AM
Hey, if McCain won’t attack, he yields the stage to guys like O’Reilly to diminish the impact by over-yelling. McCain is W-E-A-K. Palin for President.
Fletch54 on October 3, 2008 at 9:04 AM
barney frank
eh on October 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM
I think Franks and the rest of Nancy Pelosi’s Coven, should be measured for ORANGE JUMPSUITS. C-Span kind of keeps a record of what goes on in the Senate and the House.
Dr Evil on October 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM
O’Reilly typifies what I loathe about this whole election cycle. Unhinged populism on economic issues only harms us.
Ennuipundit on October 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM
I must add to this, my friend from Mass told me he was getting the tickets fixed for the johns who got them parking illegally while in the residence, then when confronted, claimed he knew nothing about it.
I don’t think Barney would allow to be interviewed by someone such as Hewitt. O’Reilly just let him off easy. Barney boy needs to be indicted and prosecuted.
4shoes on October 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM
I’m embarrassed that O’R is thought of as a conservative. I thought he was, too, until I listened to that Levin segment the other day.
jgapinoy on October 3, 2008 at 9:08 AM
O’Reilly is 100% on the mark!
Barney Frank is a coward. In fact he’s a dirty yellow coward.
The man should be forced out of his position and then forced to resign from the House.
He is a disgrace, and he has now hurt untold numbers of people by his ignorance and his stupidity.
pilamaye on October 3, 2008 at 9:11 AM
After that interview, the MSM will only throw Styrofoam balls at this disgrace of a man.
jencab on October 3, 2008 at 9:12 AM
I couldn’t disagree more. Frank knows O’Reilly is a lightweight who will go into the interview totally unprepared and therefore easily rolled and that’s exactly what happened. Despite all the video and all the quotes about Frank’s repeated efforts to block reform, including Britt Hume’s outstanding work on Special Report, O’Reilly plays up 1 quote about future prospects.
TheBigOldDog on October 3, 2008 at 9:12 AM
I’m one of the few who enjoyed his yelling at Frank. I wish McCain would get that passionate.
People have lost their entire savings because of people like Frank and Dodd. All week I’ve been hearing Dem’s blaming Bush and not pointing the finger at themselves. When they are questioned on it, they say “it’s not the time to place blame.”
Everyone should be yelling and screaming at them.
moonsbreath on October 3, 2008 at 9:13 AM
She would have conducted that interview prepared with the facts and by the end Frank would have been a quivering pile of goo and she would have done it without resorting to name calling or yelling. That’s why she’s a professional and O’Reilly’s a demagogue hack on his way down.
TheBigOldDog on October 3, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Barney Frank is a Massachusetts loser, bumbling idiot. I was cheering O’Reilly on, big time.
Geronimo on October 3, 2008 at 9:20 AM
I’d pay good money to see Rush interview Frank, especially if he pulled out his Barney imitation in the middle of the exchange!
jgapinoy on October 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM
O’Reily lost a chunk of change on Wall St. and he has a bully pulpit to go after those he sees as his enemies. He’s not looking out for you as the show claims, he’s looking out for Bill. The only time you see MKH or her counterparts on his show it’s usually because the lefty blogs have ripped him a new one.
My biggest beef with Bill is the damage he does to conservatives. He does reach a huge audience and the MSM holds him up as an icon of the conservative movement. He is not a conservative but perpetuates the stereotype the left hangs around our necks.
My advice to Bill is be nice to the people on the way up ’cause you’re going to see them on the way down. Ooops, too late for that.
repvoter on October 3, 2008 at 9:25 AM
rotflmao …
… but Barney Frank is smart enough to choose the Factor, isn’t he? That explains why he keeps getting elected.
gh on October 3, 2008 at 9:26 AM
This was a brilliant move for Barney. He would NEVER go on with Megyn. He knew that the “Factor” was somewhere he could go to show his base (no pun intended) that they are right in thinking that Fox News is insane. Barney kept his composure just long enough for Hissy Fit boy to make an arse of himself. And Bill was too blind with rage to accurately quote the Frankmeister. Read the page dummy. Word for word. He never said swell, he never said exactly what you said he said. He inferred exactly what you said he did – but that isn’t what libs go with. You mess up one word and you are a lying hack of a reporter. Unless you are on MSNBC and then it’s OK.
Barney knew that BillO wouldn’t be able to keep himself calm. Megyn will never get him on her couch. And Barney has more than one reason for not wanting to do that.
JeffinOrlando on October 3, 2008 at 9:27 AM
Great call on Hugh Hewitt. He is the best interviewer in the country.
thedudesblog on October 3, 2008 at 9:29 AM
“Let’s get Hugh Hewitt to interview Frank”
He’ll never do it. Barney’s too smart for that.
I suspect he knew that O’Reilley would let his temper get the best of him. Once Bill blew (as he did last night), Frank was able to slip away under the cover of the smoke Bill was generating for him.
smagar on October 3, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I disagree on this. O’Reilly is the first person who actually said on national television that there are people who lost their shirts in this Fannie/Freddie mess! Barney is still pissed off that he ost his ACORN slush fund when they got taken over, but thousands of Americans lost millions of dollars in this collapse. Fannie and Freddie were long considered among the most “gold-plated” stocks out there. Pensions funds and mutual funds listened to people like Barney Frank when he said those two companies were as safe as they come. Almost every mutual fund out ther held some Fannie/Freddie stock. America’s community banks lost over $16 billion in equity with the evaporation of that stock. This is a disaster and an EPIC FAIL by the people like Frank who defended Fannie and Freddie for years.
rockmom on October 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM
I am reposting my comment about this from the Armageddon thread:
progressoverpeace on October 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM
My theory: O’Reilly intentionally made a spectacle of himself to attract MSM coverage of the exchange, and hence inject the expose’ of Frank into the broader national debate.
petefrt on October 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Somebody need to put together a YouTube of all of Frank’s deny, deny, deny, statements this week. America is not going to buy this bullshit. They want people to step up and admit they have some culpability here. Frank is whistling past the graveyard if he keeps this up.
rockmom on October 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM
What is germane about Barney’s former beau, Herb Moses, is the fact that he was a Fannie Mae Exec :
Note that Barney tried to evade responsibility in the O’Reilly interview by implying that he had nothing to do with that committee until 2007, but this evasion ignores his decades long involvement, and his abject failure to provide oversight over Moses’ employer.
Buy Danish on October 3, 2008 at 9:33 AM
I trust AP and Ed enough that I tend to watch in full most of the videos I start watching here. I stopped watching that video at 2:30.
Why do so many conservatives have so much anger that they can watch people like O’Reilly, Levin, and Limbaugh? I just don’t have the taste for the anger. Anger seems a lousy guide to make rational decisions. I don’t deny that there is place for anger. For instance, perhaps we should be angry at Iran, angry enough for war. But unless we are gearing up to fight, we should be calmer, more rational.
If we aren’t angry, we can engage in more rational dialogue with center-left, who are most of the Democratic voters. The center-left is not the Kosists. They are people who can be persuaded. I’m now telling the story of how anti-racism led the current banking crisis to my center-left friends in a calm, rational. I believe it does unsettle their political faith.
thuja on October 3, 2008 at 9:33 AM
While O’Reilly fulminated, Frank slipped away in a fog of self-righteous blubbering. Everything on The Factor ends up being about Bill. Bill’s indignation, Bill’s opinion (ill-informed though it may be), Bill’s ego. Bill, the populist, just wanted to go off on Frank for ratings.
whitetop on October 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM
There is room for both anger at, and rational debate with, Barney Franks. But Franks certainly deserves the anger of the entire US directed right at him, without any question. The fact that he doesn’t feel this, yet, and has no qualms about leading the charge to “fix” the mess that he was instrumental in creating shows that a lot more anger needs to be directed right at him.
Franks need to be scared … very scared. The rational arguments are already out in full view on Youtube clips, and Franks doens’t care. He needs to know that many feel he should be treated as the traitor that he is, with the attendant punishment that traitors get.
progressoverpeace on October 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Fixed it for him.
JohnnyD on October 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM
You’re exactly right and the last three words he said before going to the break were…this isn’t personal. BS
repvoter on October 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM
it may have been wrongeheaded, but it felt so good. It’s as close to accountability Frank will ever get. So enjoy.
vinman on October 3, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Yeah, I know she’s a licensed attorney and she’s very bright. But every time I see her with an opponent, she’s in reckless attack mode. She doesn’t do the careful questionning game, and she doesn’t let her victim’s own words punish them. She wants to punish them herself.
I don’t think you can really win that way.
Moot point – Frank is done sitting for interviews with opponents. The next one would be a product of a subpoena, and that ain’t happening.
Jaibones on October 3, 2008 at 9:47 AM
Three words:
“roll the dice”
The Monster on October 3, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Bravo! Parading out Barney Franks to lead the charge to “fix” the mess that he was so instrumental in creating shows a brazen cynicism that needs to be crushed.
petefrt on October 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Exactly right. Sad, but true.
JeffinOrlando on October 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM
WOO HOOOOOO!!!!! That was fun! Now I know why they keep Bill around. Did you see Frank start his NLP technique with the left hand when he felt threatened? Didn’t work, did it?
Bill nailed him good with ‘everybody else is wrong but Barney Frank’ and the guy is such slime that he couldn’t even utter a perfunctory ‘yeah, maybe I screwed up’.
Even his boyfriend ought to be ashamed of him today.
But I’m with NoDonkey on this:
sigh…the good old days.
rishika on October 3, 2008 at 9:53 AM
I agree O’Reilly doesn’t know what he’s talking about much on points here, but the shouting rage of it all really made me laugh. Somebody, even if it is O’Reilly needed to yell at Barney Frank and call him a coward. But of course, Frank has no shame.
CP on October 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM
HILARIOUS!!!! Bill O’reilly saying the things we can’t!
bloggless on October 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM
I bet Barney had diarrhea after that.
bloggless on October 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM
I hate Bill. But I loved that.
LtE126 on October 3, 2008 at 10:04 AM
You are an enlightened individual, good Sir.
The fact that I was able to read this at 10:00 AM this morning, assures me that it will be a good day. That of course is mixed with the fact that I’m going to see American Carol with my super hot conservative southern belle.
leetpriest on October 3, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Bill has lost a bunch of money, obviously. Although entertaining, he missed an opportunity to pin Barney to the wall. The arrogance of Frank and his Dem compatriots is astounding. I want to see these guys in a court of law not a tv show.
d1carter on October 3, 2008 at 10:22 AM
O’Reilly rips Barney Frank a new one.
The old one was worn out.
saint kansas on October 3, 2008 at 10:28 AM
My theory: O’Reilly intentionally made a spectacle of himself to attract MSM coverage of the exchange, and hence inject the expose’ of Frank into the broader national debate. – Pete
Yup yup. Otherwise the story goes down the memory hole. Thanks Bill, you make people hate you, but it’s for the greater good.
Tony737 on October 3, 2008 at 10:28 AM
I must have missed that. When did he say that? Can you cite this with a link?
wise_man on October 3, 2008 at 10:29 AM
O’Reilly is such an idiot. I hate Frank, but when O’Reilly sounds like this, it makes Frank look sane in comparison.
Lance Murdock on October 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM
O’Reilly is a BUFFOON and didn’t make his case clearly enough.
Frank deflected everything with ease, simply because BillO was only shouting.
Stupid Stupid Man….. O’Reilly is.
originalpechanga on October 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Thanks for responding to me, but I’m going to have to disagree with you. You illustrate the problem with conservative anger. We have some people who really should be tried for treason, because they have actually committed treason; for instance John Kerry and his lies about the activities of American soldiers in Vietnam which constitute active abetting of enemy propaganda and the New York Times explaining to terrorist how we tract their money. We should not be using the word “treason” for economic stupidity, because it trivializes our call for the enforcement of the laws about treason.
thuja on October 3, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Frank can talk about 2007 all he wants. But he can’t dismiss the tapes of him and other lefties saying for years that Fannie and Freddie should not be looked into. And yes, they have blamed everyone but themselves.
madmonkphotog on October 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM
What fossten said. Fox should have turned Megyn Kelly loose on him.
raz0r on October 3, 2008 at 10:50 AM
I like LITTLE O’REILLY better.
Hope to see them make LITTLE O’REILLY vs. LITTLE FRAG
Brat on October 3, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Nothing wrong with that.
Yes, I agree with you on this. I have been very conflicted about what the actual charge should be against people who actively work to undermine our Constitution and destroy our government, though not through an alliance with any actual enemy. I use the charge ‘treason’ because I cannot find any better category to fit this sort of behavior into. It is behavior that is as dangerous and threatening to our country as treason, but it is lacking the embodied enemy. So, that’s how I come to that. If you have another criminal category that better describes this behavior, then I am open to considering it, but so far as I can see, ‘treason’ is the closest.
progressoverpeace on October 3, 2008 at 10:54 AM
O’Reilly and Frank going at each other is like watching two gorillas fighting for the alpha role in the pack. It is all about two powerful creatures getting down, dirty, and animalistic. The only real purpose is to show you are the more aggressive one. Maybe ion the case the more arrogant one. All they really managed was to make everybody think both of them are idiots.
Hawthorne on October 3, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Bwahahahahaha!!!!
Look you Bill O haters, this is the opening salvo in the war to hang this bailout on the necks of the socialists.
Bill brings righteous indignation to it. A feeling that MOST Americans identify with when dealing with their frustration with the Washington elites and their condescending attitudes toward regular folks. “My Boy Lollipop” has been put on notice. And his blathering claims of civilized debate are simply his way of deflecting the outrage that people should be feeling about this debacle.
csdeven on October 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I’m a little torn on this. I think O’Reilly actually started out trying to nail the facts on Frank, but when he started out-and-out lying and practicing CYA, O’Reilly blew up.
I’m not sure what else O’Reilly could have done at that point. If you have someone who was willing to listen to HIS OWN WORDS, and flat out lie and say that’s not what he said… I don’t know what else to do.
You’re trying to make the case that someone is willing to listen to logic, listen to their own words, and own up to them. Clearly Frank doesn’t care about logic or truth. He believes that truth is whatever you say it is. How do you handle that type of person?
dominigan on October 3, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Talon on October 3, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Bill O’Reilly was heroic here, venting spleen on behalf of millions. It was a public service. I don’t always agree with him but he’s the only man or woman in the media who can call out the BS. I know Filibuster Frank from my days as a young Democratic staffer on Beacon Hill. He’s a terminal partisan, and quite literally never stops talking. The shoutdown was perfect.
rrpjr on October 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Don’t believe Bill “O”?
Try The WSJ pop quizz ref. by Hotair. http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/02/pop-quiz-quotes-from-the-collapse/
diogenes on October 3, 2008 at 11:16 AM
If you have watched his show lately he has said he lost money in Merrill stock and some others…it’s not a secret.
d1carter on October 3, 2008 at 11:16 AM
It took Oreilly to make Frank look good. He handled this just awfully. OReilly took one quote (one of the more favorable to Frank, actually) and completely ignored everything else. Then went mental on him for no reason – no reason, that is, if you don’t understand the issue.
Just awful for OReilly.
lorien1973 on October 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Two things. One: Frank set the tone by disrespecting O’Reilly with his little props at the beginning of the clip.
Two: I can’t be certain but am pretty sure that around 3:02 Frank said, “Do you know who you’re talking to?” That was right after O’Reilly said, “That’s B.S.” for the first time so I can’t be certain due to the volume. I’m not willing to give Frank the bennefit of the doubt.
srhoades on October 3, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Sadly, we can’t really criminalize stupidity and incompetence. A Constitutional amendment requiring congressmen to pass an economics class is rather unlikely.
thuja on October 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM
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