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Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is the host of a popular American cable television news analysis program, The O'Reilly Factor on the .
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All quotes are from his Fox News show, The O'Reilly Factor , unless otherwise indicated.
On Media Matters for America:
(Media Matters for America records O'Reilly's shows and highlights excerpts they believe are offensive or erroneous.)
- "the most vile, despicable human beings in the country... the worst [] non-criminal element in the country ... despicable, vile [] ankle biters" [1]
It should be noted that in above quotes, O'Reilly did not mention Media Matters. Since several other websites frequently comb through his shows in an attempt to portray O'Reilly in a negative light, one should not assume he was addressing Media Matters.
- "just Joseph Goebbels Nazi stuff" [2]
- "Media Matters! ... That's like me calling up some Klan operation. Why don't I call the Ku Klux Klan up" [3]
- "a far-left bombthrower Web site" [4]
On sticking up for Christmas:
- "... nobody sticks up for Christmas except me. Did Peter Jennings stick up for Christmas last night? I don't believe he did. How about Brian Williams, did he? Did Rather stick up for Christmas? How about Jim Lehrer -- did he? Did Larry King [say] "hello, I love Christmas" -- did he? No." (9 December 2004) [5]
On poverty:
- "It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period." (16 June 2004)
- "Winston Churchill said that democracy was the worst possible form of government, except for all the others. Maybe we can say the same about capitalism. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few... Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. (The O'Reilly Factor : The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life) [6]
On Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11:
- "So who turns out for the screening of this movie Fahrenheit 9/11 last night? You ready? Now, here are the celebrities that turn out. Here are the people who would turn out to see Josef Goebbels convince you that Poland invaded the Third Reich. It's the same thing, by the way. Propaganda is propaganda. OK? Billy Crystal. Martin Sheen. Leonardo DiCaprio. Ellen DeGeneres. David Duchovny. Sharon Stone. Meg Ryan. Ashton Kutcher. Demi Moore. Norman Lear. Rob Reiner. Jodie Foster. Chris Rock. Larry David. Jack Black. Matthew Perry. Diane Lane." (10 June 2004)
On the ACLU:
- "Finally, the ACLU -- we talked about this yesterday and I -- and, you know, I have to pick on the ACLU because they're the most dangerous organization in the United States of America right now. There's by far. There's nobody even close to that. They're, like, second next to Al Qaeda." (2 June 2004)
On Bill Moyers host of the PBS show "NOW":
- "Bill Moyers on PBS , he's -- hides behind the label of objectivity. He's about as objective as Mao Zedong, all right. I mean he's a Far-Left bomb-thrower who actually runs a foundation that funds left-wing organizations. I mean the guy's a joke. Get out of the news business, Bill." (14 June 2004)
On illegal immigrants:
- "We'd save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes--they're not going to do what they're doing now, all right, so people aren't going to die in the desert." (6 February 2003)
On Africa:
- "I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam" (6 May 2002)
On African-Americans:
- "Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it" (25 February 1999)
- "I don't understand why in the year 2000, with all of the media that we have, that a certain segment of the African-American community does not understand that they must aggressively pursue their child's welfare. That is they have to stop drinking, they have to stop taking drugs and boozing, and--and whites do it, too! Whites do it, too!" (17 January 2000)
On homosexuals:
- "That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier." (7 July 2000)
On those who support separation between church and state :
- "You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for." (12 September 2003)
On ugly women:
- "The most unattractive women in the world are probably in the Muslim countries. You can't see them. So you are assuming that if [they're] dressed head-to-toe in black and I can only see eyebrows, there's something going on. I could be wrong."
Andrea Mackris sex scandal
- "You would basically be in the shower and then I would come in and I'd join you and you would have your back to me and I would take that little loofa thing and kinda soap up your back...rub it all over you, get you to relax, hot water...and um...you know, you'd feel the tension drain out of you and uh you still would be with your back to me then I would kinda put my arm - it's one of those mitts, those loofa mitts you know, so I got my hands in it...and I would put it around front, kinda rub your tummy a little bit with it, and then with my other hand I would start to massage your boobs, get your nipples really hard...'cuz I like that and you have really spectacular boobs..."(1 September 2004) [7]
- Partial transcription of a phone conversation between Bill O'Reilly, 55, and assistant producer Andrea Mackris , 33.
About Chevy Chase
- "There is no question that Whoopi Goldberg's foolish comments at a John Kerry fundraiser hurt Kerry--who had no idea how to handle the situation. Chevy Chase should have learned from that. Even he has to know that calling the president of the United States an "F" is not going to be accepted by most Americans. Now you don't see this kind of thing on the Right. You don't see prominent conservatives cursing out Democratic members of Congress, for example. Now I know talk radio can get rough but nothing like what these Hollywood nitwits are throwing out there." [8]
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