If O'Reilly Is So Bad Why Do So Many Like Him?

[Gary Sisco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHUGCkROwJE

[rollhead]

http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2007/04/...-go-ballastic/

[Gary Sisco]

If O'Reilly Is So Bad Why Do So Many Like Him?

Because there are a lot of idiots. What else is new?

[rollhead]

Geez, Gary. It took you almost a year to answer your own question.

[stonemonkts]

Lots of people liked Hitler too.

[Gary Sisco]

Careful thought, man. Nothing more.

[Gary Sisco]

Yeah, and Hitler liked dogs. See? It's just like the Quakers say.

[shrugs]

A lot of people believe they are entitled.

[crawjo]

They like him because he's angry. He yells at people, and I think his viewers live vicariously through that.

[Sandi22]

I knew a woman who only seemed to like mean people, the most outrageously ornery ones. Not close to criminal however. She didn't seem to understand nice, it didn't appeal to her. To meet her you would think she was the nicest ever, but underneath it all she was just like the people she was attracted to. She just never had the nerve to show herself as she actually was.

[stonemonkts]

Originally Posted by crawjo

They like him because he's angry. He yells at people, and I think his viewers live vicariously through that.

If it were that simple, I'd be on TV too.

[stonemonkts]

Nice is ok if you need your tire changed, but otherwise pretty boring.

[Sandi22]

There's a difference between nice and dull. I had some pretty off the wall friends, I mean, you wouldn't have believed them, the need to shock and stir things up was in their bones, but, they were trustworthy good hearted crazies. That's the difference. Like Mike Zutell getting thrown in the Tijuana Jail due to his strip to the brass band after the fights were over, and the crazy things that happened afterwards which involved lots of other friends and then the Tijuana police driving him all the way to Hermosa Beach, coming in and having beers, after their 3 hour trip in a gray paddy wagon, the tourists looking for cameras, thinking a movie was being filmed. No,.... good, .... but not dull,.... nice to my way of thinking, ....not mean, .... but hardly boring.

[Gary Sisco]

He's a jerk but he's paid to be a jerk and paid well. This society has a hard time distinguishing show business from politics. Take his paycheck away and see what he has to say.

Liking is a peculiar concept anyway, for reasons already alluded to. Demogogues are always popular. If they weren't, they'd not be demogogues.

And being popular with people who get their political concepts from talk shows says more about the people than it does about the professional mouths.

Lennon was right when he said The Beatles were bigger than Christ. They were.

[Hudson Boy]

O'Reilly is too soft. He's against Capital Punishment.

[Gary Sisco]

And here we hear from the tough boy peanut gallery, to boot. All kind of tough guys behind keyboards these days.

Not so many wanting to wear a uniform, though, I've noticed, where their alleged toughness might actually count for something besides pixels on a screen.

[Hudson Boy]

This topic ask the question of why O'Reilly is popular. I don't like him, and his position on Capital Punishment is one of many reasons. I don't see what this has to do with "uniforms".

I'm against the draft - even though I was 4F and ineligible for military service. We should have a professional army, and no conscription unless absolutely necessary.

Your Coast Guard service in Vietnam is duly acknowledged and appreciated.

[Gary Sisco]

yak yak

talk is cheap, partner.

[stonemonkts]

Originally Posted by Sandi22

There's a difference between nice and dull.

Yeah, I know.

Many nice people are dull, and boring. Some dull people aren't very nice.

[Dr Dave]

If Hostess Twinkies are so bad, why do so many like them?

[Gary Sisco]

Because they don't like food? ;-)

I had a friend who once left one on his kitchen window sill to see how long it would take for one to become hard with staleness.

It never did.

Everthing in there but food.

Kind of like there's everything in talk shows but politics.

Everything int h

[Sandi22]

There was a time that it was thought that the preservatives that were in such foods would work as an anti aging supplement for people. This must have sounded like a godsend to those into such foods.

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by Dr Dave

If Hostess Twinkies are so bad, why do so many like them?

Twinkies are cool if they are deep fried.

[Hudson Boy]

Originally Posted by Dr Dave

If Hostess Twinkies are so bad, why do so many like them?

I remember an experiment that a consumers' group lab did, in which a group of rats was fed a diet consisting exclusively of Twinkies (or a very similar product), and another group was only fed the cellophane packaging. The rats that ate the packaging lived longer than the ones that were fed the Twinkies.


There are many brave Twinkies researchers out there tirelessly conducting new experiments, such as these:


"I was out getting coffee yesterday and a friend was telling me about a research study that one of her fellow students is doing.

Apparently, this guy has gone out and buried dozens and dozens of Twinkies in various areas of the United States. Every six months, he goes back and checks the level of decay in the Twinkies (they were buried without the wrappers). So far, there has been VERY MINIMAL decay, and he has been doing this project for the past six years.

Also, he's been doing a study with rats involving Twinkies. He feeds one group of rats Twinkies for the span of their lives, and the other group he feeds regular healthy rat food. When the rats die, he buries them, and then goes back to check periodically on the state of their carcasses. The rats that have been fed healthy food are all but skeletons now; but the rats he fed Twinkies are in PERFECT CONDITION!!! Again, he's been doing this for SIX YEARS!"

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=691149

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by Hudson Boy

O'Reilly is too soft. He's against Capital Punishment.

O'Reilly is a good Catholic boy, Marist College grad, etc. He is angry like a lot of those Catholic priests who used to paddle me and pull my hair during my 12 years of hard-time in parochial schools.

There was one priest, Father Goff, who always emitted this tell-tale sign that told me I was on my way to an hour kneeling in the hallway because his nose would turn a bright crimson.

Another priest, Father Tribou, paddled students (including me) with a canoe paddle with holes drilled in it. The holes cut down on the air resistance. He could swing that thing with a great deal of speed.

What O'Reilly, and my priests and a multitude of other Good Catholics have in common is this sanctimonious rage, which they allow themselves to express when they are in safe places.

If O'Reilly wasn't surrounded by his Fox studio security force, who escort out people who say things he doesn't like , he would no doubt be a modest and gentle soul.

Just my two cents for this Easter Sunday.

Happy holiday, Rev. O'Reilly:

[Hudson Boy]

Originally Posted by rollhead

O'Reilly is a good Catholic boy, Marist College grad, etc. He is angry like a lot of those Catholic priests who used to paddle me and pull my hair during my 12 years of hard-time in parochial schools.

There was one priest, Father Goff, who always emitted this tell-tale sign that told me I was on my way to an hour kneeling in the hallway because his nose would turn a bright crimson.
Another priest, Father Tribou, paddled students (including me) with a canoe paddle with holes drilled in it. The holes cut down on the air resistance. He could swing that thing with a great deal of speed.
What O'Reilly, and my priests and a multitude of other Good Catholics have in common is this sanctimonious rage, which they allow themselves to express when they are in safe places.
If O'Reilly wasn't surrounded by his Fox studio security force, who escort out people who say things he doesn't like , he would no doubt be a modest and gentle soul.
Just my two cents for this Easter Sunday.

Happy holiday, Rev. O'Reilly:

I don't know about his modesty, but he's not the tough guy that people think he is. O'Reilly is from the suburbs, which is fine - but that's not the "streets".

I have had ample experience with inner-city Catholic schools' insanity. O'Reilly was probably educated by nuns in primary school. Boys and men who had nuns had a different experience than those of us that had brothers and/or priests as instructors as children. There are also significant differences between the working and lower middle class schools vs. the better ones like those that he attended in Long Island. He went to Chaminade High School in Mineola, which is a very highly regarded Catholic school that boast a 99% rate of college attendance by it's graduates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaminade_High_School

I find it ironic that he's against the death penalty - just like his more liberal counterparts are. He claims hard time in jail is a punishment more befitting the crimes that death-penalty advocates claim warrant capital punishment. I think that it's more humane, and just, for society to painlessly put them out of their miserable existence.

[shrugs]

Originally Posted by rollhead

There was one priest, Father Goff, who always emitted this tell-tale sign that told me I was on my way to an hour kneeling in the hallway because his nose would turn a bright crimson.

The Christian Brothers made us kneel outside in cement that had gravel in it.
Hallway would have been a cakewalk.

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by shrugs

The Christian Brothers made us kneel outside in cement that had gravel in it.
Hallway would have been a cakewalk.

Actually, we did that too. But it wasn't as punishment. It was for the May Day celebration.





Hudson Boy:

As far as O'Reilly being against the death penalty -- it is pretty typical of hard-core Catholics who are also against abortion.

[shrugs]

Originally Posted by rollhead

Actually, we did that too. But it wasn't as punishment. It was for the May Day celebration.





Hudson Boy:

As far as O'Reilly being against the death penalty -- it is pretty typical of hard-core Catholics who are also against abortion.

I think I remember that celebration from the first Catholic school I went to.
But for some reason, I don't think we celebrated it at the CBS. In fact, since there was only a small chapel in the school, we hardly ever went to service.

[Sandi22]

What is it about Catholic schools? Why is it that it instills such wildness?

Did you catch O'Reilly on "The View", his little, for a second, grabfest with Joy? Odd wasn't it?