bill o`reilly embarrassed on letterman last night

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i tuned in for the hell of it and was shocked to see that o`reilly was really bad thinking and debating off the cuff...

letterman had basically no base of information.....he was just insulting....i paraphrase...

Letterman: “I’m not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling, I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap. [audience laughter] But I don’t know that for a fact". [more audience applause]...

so many points that o`reilly could have knocked out of the park...letterman admiited that he wasn`t smart on politics...but,o`reilly basically folded like a cheap tent....

i thought o`reilly was weak....i never really realized just how weak....

letterman embarrassed himself by being downright rude(rumor has it that before o`reilly came on stage,that letterman stirred o`reilly`s drink with the business end of a pencil).....

but,o`reilly was clueless...

i was embarrassed for them both...more so for o`reilly...

i actually was very disappointed with his debate with michael moore....

without the notes and the teleprompter,he`s a lightweight...
 
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gardenweasel said:
[O'Reilly]: without the notes and the teleprompter, he's a lightweight...
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Hmm, what a shock. Actually, he doesn't aspire to be any heavyweight, just to play the celebrity game for what its worth and get as much tail as he can.
 
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He was the same way on The Daily Show. John Stewart did not insult him though - he just tried to get O'Reilly to lighten up. The guy appears to have absolutely no sense of humor or ability to ever take himself less serious. Perhaps he should stick to the safe confounds of his own narcissistic FOX hole.
 
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guys on the far left, guys on the far right, they are all quite intolerable to regular people on the left, right, or middle. I think Letterman and O'Reilly both fit in this far left/far right category, and they're both assholes.
 
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Why would you go on a show where you're obviously :)shrug: ) going to be rediculed?

I haven't seen it, but if you say that he seemingly wasn't there to (or able to, maybe?) make a point...surely he has enough sense to realise he will only look stupid? (be made look stupid)

I mean really, wouldn't you havebeen straight out the door if the host stirs your coffee with a pencil!! (assuming that's true of course).
Madness.
 
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Letterman stirred the drink before OReilly came out.

Then when ORielly took a sip he looked at the audience and they laughed like hell.

Letterman has been a asshole for many years. He makes his living being that way. OReilly is one but doesnt realize it.

Letterman is a humorist. He does not really care about facts, he is entertaining the crowd. He just did it at ORielllys expense.

I like them both and enjoyed watching it.
 
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gardenweasel, when did O'Reilly debate with Michael Moore? Is there any links or print of that? Kind of like a car wreck...I'd like to gawk at it.
 
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Chadman said:
gardenweasel, when did O'Reilly debate with Michael Moore? Is there any links or print of that? Kind of like a car wreck...I'd like to gawk at it.
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wasn't it at the DNC in '04?
 
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another point of view

another point of view

The Letterman Meltdown
by Laura Ingraham

CBS's Late Show host David Letterman is supposed to be funny. He makes more than $20 million a year because he is funny. His Top Ten List is a brand unto itself. He was endearing when he did bits like his old Stupid Pet Tricks. I laughed when he ribbed Oprah and Uma.
But on Tuesday night's show, he acquitted himself as just another unhinged member of the liberal entertainment mafia when he interviewed Fox New Channel's Bill O'Reilly.

Even before O'Reilly walked on stage, Letterman acted like a spoiled brat when he used a pencil to stir O'Reilly's mug of water. (So the audience and Letterman were snickering as O'Reilly was oblivious when he went to drink.)

The most revealing exchange occurred toward the end of the segment.


Letterman: I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling, I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap. [audience laughter] But I don't know that for a fact.
O'Reilly: Listen, I respect your opinion. You should respect mine.
Letterman: Yeah, but I think there's something, this fair and balanced [Fox branding]. I'm not sure that it's--I don't think that you represent an objective viewpoint.
O'Reilly: Well, you're going to have to give me an example if you're going to make those claims.
Letterman: Well I don't watch your show so that would be impossible.
O'Reilly: Then why would you come to that conclusion if you don't watch the program?
Letterman: Because of things that I've read, things that I know.

Novel concept for a comedian/talk show host: invite a guest on your show, then insult him based on second-hand accounts of his work.

O'Reilly: You weren't aware of the big giant controversy over Christmas?
Letterman: Well, I ignore stuff like that, it doesn't really affect me. I go ahead and do what I wanna do. Let it go. It will take care of itself.

I'll bet Letterman liked all those stories about President Bush living in a bubble, detached from the real world. But what about the blue-state-mentality bubble that Letterman lives in?
Other Letterman knee-slappers:



On Cindy Sheehan: "I am very concerned about people like yourself who don't have nothing (sic) but endless sympathy for people like Cindy Sheehan. Have you lost family members in armed conflict? [O'Reilly answers no.] Then you can hardly speak for her."

On the war in Iraq: "Why the hell are we there to begin with?"

Letterman deserves credit for having traveled both to Iraq and Afghanistan to entertain the troops. But does he stop to wonder how his pro-Sheehan, anti-Bush lines would go over there?
When Al Gore or Howard Dean or Al Franken sit down with Dave it's light and funny and cozy and friendly. With O'Reilly, Letterman was dismissive, condescending, and just plain nasty. He was more Carville than Carson. Actually, even James Carville is funnier than Dave these days. And nicer, too.

Why does this matter? Be cause for better or worse, many younger Americans get the bulk of their cultural and even political news from hosts like Letterman and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, who want us to believe that their humor is non-partisan. After all, they are quick to point out, let's not forget all the Monica jokes they told when Bill Clinton was president.

But Letterman's sit-down with O'Reilly, much like Stewart's petulant attack against Tucker Carlson on CNN (calling Carlson a male-private part), was notable for what it revealed. Underneath it all, Letterman is just another liberal frustrated at the very existence of guys like O'Reilly, and of men like President Bush. You look at his facial expressions when he's talking to O'Reilly and hear his tone and you know he's thinking -- how can Americans be so ignorant? How could they elect the buffoon in the White House and how could they watch this buffoon sitting across from me?

It is painfully obvious that many of the entertainment giants are making the same mistake the "mainstream" media giants made decades ago when they began staking out biased and "edgy" political positions that offended and alienated millions of potential viewers. Eventually, this drove people to seek out alternative media outlets -- such as the Fox News Channel. If the Letterman and his ilk don't drop the persistent disdain for red state America, we can expect to see the same thing happen to their industry.

Then we'll see who has the last laugh.
 
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60% crap was about right. These guys cant believe more then half of what they say. It's about ratings.
 
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O'Reilley is a jag off

O'Reilley is a jag off

Letterman....How about having Michael Savage on your program and wage him the same questions....there will not be any laughter from the audience but many democrats just going...Hmmmmmmmmm...this guy makes lots of sense
 
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Savage would definitely love to "eat" Letterman, but probably not in the way you mean. Dave would destroy this bozo.
 
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