O'Reilly: 'Some of These Tea Party People Are Nuts'
The National Tea Party convention was held this weekend in Nashville, Tennessee, and has, predictably, been a hot topic on cable news. Tonight Bill O’Reilly took his turn, discussing the third party phenomenon/movement with Fox News pundit Brit Hume and offered a frank and candid assessment on some of the participants of the Tea Party movement. “Some of these tea party people are nuts! They are! They’re crazy!” Read more here.
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Rick Mercer
You know things are screwy when the wingnuts think O'Reilly isn't conservative enough.
Hobbes
It's good news in a way. Any candidate that would pass muster will be so conservative as to be unelectable. Remember Barry Goldwater?
pepperoni
People Now Not Conservative Enough: Bush, McCain, Guiliani, Steele, O'Reilly, Reagan if you really read his record.....gee, I hope G-d is still conservative enough :-)
Holtzhog
O' Reilly has lost his edge! I wonder about him
faye2
I understand O'Reilly want's BO on his show, but his constant kiss as- way of agreeing with him is sickening to watch! That and his beauty gueen matching line up of screamers instead of serious people speaking on the issues of our day is the reason I rarely watch him anymore. Plus he talks too much and interrupts any serious discussion. He's ruining his own show--talk about nuts!
Annette
Some of these crazy libs are nuts. So what. Any group is made up of many different types of personalities. That doesn't mean the movement is nuts.
Burton Pauly
Bill you're right, because there are a lot of nuts in the Tea Party folks. But there are many more nuts in the liberal movement. And most of us nuts have enough common sense to really know who the nuts are. And common sense will prevail in the end.
mrg807
Mr O'Reilly, I like many of these well and not so well informed people have decided you are a bit to high horsey to stomach anymore...You deserve your opinion, however yours is not the only opinion going, and you and Mr. O have to realize all of your diploma's don't give you the corner on intelligence.
faye2
O'Reilly is the only person who can match Obama in arrogance! I stopped watching him months ago!
Hobbes
Wow...even a conservatard sees reality from time to time.
polly
Bill forgot to mention that the members of Congress and the Obama Administration are "NUTS". Vote them out and save the country. The Tea Party is the only hope we have of changing Congress and restoring the Constitution.
Zerep11'
TO FOX - I SEE YOU TOOK YOUR "GOLDEN-GOOSE" O'REILLY OFF OF THE "FRONT PAGE". WHAT'S THE MATTER? AFRAID OF THE TRUTH? YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE KNOWING THAT O'REILLY IS OFFICIALLY A "SELL-OUT" AND THAT FOX IS HEADING THAT WAY THEMSELVES? SO HOW MUCH WAS FOX PAID TO CONVERT? AND IT'S NOT JUST O'REILLY. I NOTICED ON FOX & FRIENDS A FEW MORNINGS AGO HOW THEY BLASTED THE GUEST (FEMALE) JUDGE (WHO KNOWS THE LAW) OVER CIVILIAN -VS- MILITARY TRIBUNALS FOR TERRORISTS. FOR A MOMENT THERE I THOUGHT I WAS WATCHING MSNBC. YEPPER, WE ARE ALL DEFINITELY ON TO ALL OF YOU FOR TURNING YOUR BACKS ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA - ALL "SELL-OUT". REMEMBER THIS ~ NOTHING (AS IN NADA), LASTS FOREVER... GOODBYE BOZOS - ZEREP11.
trishm
I detest "brown-nosers," and Bill O'Reilly has turned into one. His arrogant and egotistical remarks are tiresome. I have stopped watching his show.
It is a sad, sick day in the United States when people are ridiculed and called names because they want less taxes, government control, and more jobs.
60's was better
I couldn't agree more. I quit watching him for the same reason plus his self promotion all the time. He needs to get over himself.
J Doughtery
When the whole room erupts at the notion of re-instating a Civics "Literacy Test", then they're all nuts -- not just 10%.
J Doughtery
@1776: Nice to see you embrace your racism openly.
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joeyblueyes
BILL IS BEING PECKERSNIFFIAN AGAIN, HOPE YOUVE GOT PLENTY OF BROWNSHIRTS, TO TAKE OUR PLACE, TRUE AMERICANS ARE DUMPING YOU LIKE A BAD HABIT, HANNITY N BECK ARE TRUE AMERICANS, AND NOT APOLOGETIC FOR THE SAKE OF RATINGS, WE MADE YOU N WE WILL BREAK YOU
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Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns a 7% stake in News Corp — the parent company of Fox News — making him the largest shareholder outside the family of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Alwaleed has grown close with the Murdoch enterprise, recently endorsing James Murdoch to succeed his father and creating a content sharing agreement with Fox News for his own media conglomerate, Rotana.
NotsoSilent
Which administration offcial do you work for, at least be honest, this is old news and recycles itself on a regular basis.......
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Last weekend, at the right wing Constitutional Coalition’s annual conference in St. Louis, Joseph Farah, publisher of the far right WorldNetDaily, blasted Fox News for its relationship with Alwaleed. Farah noted correctly that Alwaleed had boasted in the past about forcing Fox News to change its content relating to its coverage of riots in Paris, and warned that such foreign ownership of American media is “really dangerous.” ThinkProgress attended the speech, and observed attendees of the conference murmuring and shaking their heads in disapproval:
FARAH: There’s a flaw, a real compromise in Fox that you need to understand. And if you care about national security, you especially need to be attentive to it. And that is that Fox News parent company is News Corp has a significant ownership by a Saudi prince that many of you will be familiar with because right after 9/11 this prince very famously offered Rudolph Giuliani a big multi-million dollar check to rebuild and Giuliani told him to stick the check where the sun don’t shine because this guy was basically blaming America for what happened on 9/11. Well this guy owns a very significant percentage of the News Corp and has let the world know that he can get things taken off Fox News when he finds them objectionable and has in the past. And I really believe this is really dangerous for America.
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BLCM
Bill,
Every apple barrel has a few bad ones, when you say what you did you should stress the fact that 99.9% are just hard working, people that want to remain one Nation under God. I think ya'll have some nuts at Fox to.
spiffy
Why is Palin and the Tea Party the target of all kinds of attacks & criticisms ? Is it because she is now a serious threat to the liberals because of her conservative views and large following by many middle class Americans who are expressing their concern of our country's dangerous direction. These are the people that make up the Tea Party members. O'Reilly's comment should have been expanded to include members of both Democrat & Republican political parties having there share of kooks & nuts as well.
SUKITGOP
Palin a threat? That's rich, VERY funny indeed. Thanks for the laugh.
Jim in JAX
The percentage of Tea Party members who are "nuts" or "crazy" is far less than the percentage of liberal socialists out to destroy this country in the democrat party. All you need do is look at Pelosi, Reid, Cranson, Frank, Rengel, Dean, et al.
The Kenyan is a Loser
I will agree that the radical left does not have a monopoly on nut cases, but having said that, I wonder how many of the Tea Party "Nut" are plants, sent in to give Tea Parties a bad rap.... With this administration being in bed with unions and ACORN type organizations I do not put anything past them.
sueflorida
oreilly misses the point again! The people of the Tea Party Movement do not trust obama--we do not trust anything he says because all he does is lie. You however have swallowed the bait hook-line-and-sinker. We the People are not ten percent kooks. The ten per cent kooks are all on the other side, and they are running our Country. We want our Country back, we want conservative policies, low debt, low taxes, and obama's face off tv. I am sick in my soul over this progressive movie star. You are painting yourself into a corner, Bill, the people do not respect you anymore. sue florida, jupiter, fl.
cliff
He's right in a sense that in ANY party you'll have your share of almonds. But Bill is loosing me lately. He sometimes just doesn't seem to "get it". It might take him awhile. But he still holding out hope for Obama. Most of us are WAY past hope.
sigmaalpha
This only gives the Marxist crazies on PMSNBC encouragement. But perhaps O'Reilly is just trying to get the rest of their viewers.
NoleFan
I find myself watching O'Reilly less and less. I used to have a lot of respect for him, but he has wussied up lately. I get tired of him bragging about himself constantly. I know he went to Harvard. He doesn't need to constantly remind us. The more people I meet who went to Harvard, the less respect I have for the institution. I believe O'Reilly is jealous of Glenn Beck's popularity. More people should watch Glenn. He's funny and he has a lot of good information to share about the founding of this country, the Constitution, and the history of Progressivism. If given a choice of only watching one of these shows, I'd choose Glenn Beck over Bill O'Reilly any day. Progressives don't attack O'Reilly as much as they attack Glenn. That tell's me that Glenn is spot on and Bill is rapidly moving in their direction.
cliff
Couldn't have said it better. Beck's radio broadcast yesterday was hysterical. The letter to Obama from the kid broke me up.
Benana
O'Reilly is right but should have just said "10% of our population is nuts" He did say about the same % of other groups are nuts too.
However - for me - this is Strike 1.
Recon
They never should have poked the hornet's nest.
Jenney
While he is partially right, he is falling into the same hole the lib media is in. Unless we start seeing cars burning, store windows broken, and hundreds of arrests, he shouldn't presume to have a % of tea party goers labeled that way. I haven't seen anyone act out of line, get disrespectful. Holding a sign with a message in bad taste doesn't make someone crazy. Hannity has remained the same person, he has no personal agenda.
Geneva.man
All you Tea Party People are Klansmen. Please put on the white pointy hood.
It is so obvious to everybody that you want to, ha ha.
Rick350
Its ok to disagree and have an opposing point of view, but try being intelligent. Its complete morons like you that show how out of touch liberals are. And you'll whine and throw at tantrum when the GOP retakes the House and not understand why.
SUKITGOP
I resent that remark. I'm a liberal but certainly not out of touch. And the GOP re-take the house? That's hysterical. Good luck, that's a rather "out of touch" remark if I've ever heard one.
Sick and Tired
I personally think that O'Reilly has a man crush on Obama.
Poli7
OReilly is ok about 75% of the time - but he should make himself clear when he states percentages about kooks in the tea party movement! I have attended some of these meetings and most participants are intelligent, concerned and very articulate about what's happening to our country! O'Reilly joined up with Beck because Beck is sincere, intelligent, and does his homework. I have learned more about history and our country from Beck's program! He is able to connect to the American people because of his passion and OReilly wants to be associated with that!
Sharon in Mn.
I have finally figured out why O'Reilly is enamored of obama. Their ego's seem to be the same size. I used to watch him but I just can't listen to this gas bag anymore who thinks he knows everything . Tired of him interupting and talking over his guests. In fact, why does he even have guest on? Very rarely do they ever get the chance to finish a thought much less a sentance. Calls everyone by their last name, which I find extremley rude. Yeah, just can't waste my time watching him anymore..........
Karen Ann
I agree with Sharon. It has become painful to watch O'Reilly in the last year. The ego-centric performances,the "it is all about me" attitude and demeaning guests is so unseemly! SAD!!! But O'Reilly would tell us to "stop drinking the Kool-Aid and get a sense of humor".
Yambanjin
It's the Harvard education. They all think they are better than everyone else. The Ivory tower of conceit.
SUKITGOP
No actually O'reilly is just "Reasonable" he doesn't put his foot in his mouth as much as the rest of the Fox News talking heads. I guess any sense of maturity, reason and "Common sense" just eludes you guys. Not surprising though.
Daves Marine Electronics
Jagshemash! This man Billo, he like a small boys yes? He like a small boy nuts yes? In my country we say to let a woman drive a car is like to let a monkey fly a plane, very dangerous yes.
Atticus Finch
Wow, I agree with O'Reilly? Please don't tell Keith.
ps54
Well he is probably right, but that is not to be taken out of context. No matter what group of people, when you lump them all together, there are bound to be a few nuts among them; it's the law of averages. Most tea-baggers are sincere, down to earth conservatives who are fed up with the current administration's intent to drive this country straight to hell. But as in any group, not everyone in any group is the same. Haven't the democrats proven this??? They are not all liberal socialist nut jobs!
samdunaway
well ya got them nuts every where look at nancy and harry
palin2012
This toady person (O'Reillyy) is on the run-of -the mouth against Palin, yet he defends Obama, because someone placed a birth notice for him as proof.
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This gigantic buffoon tops for ratings only, slides down his own pole with his mouth wide open trying to take anyone down with him, politely and subsequently.
Rick350
Good grief, chill out. I am a big fan of O'Reilly's and he is probably right, there are some kooks on the far right. So what? It doesn't diminish what the TEA party is about. And I just love the moronic liberals who are all aghast at this. They have no problem with left wing loons and MSNBC and Daily Kos, etc. Many of these left wingers are so left wing, they left America