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MMPeacock

January 4th 2006, 10:40 AM

Bill O'Reilly took on David Letterman last night - live. Advantage: O'Reilly.

The Political Teen has video.

http://thepoliticalteen.net/2006/01/04/oreillyletterman

Letterman recycled chickenhawk arguments, muttered "Honest to Christ!" when O'Reilly refused to back down from his criticism of Cindy Sheehan, and attacked O'Reilly's show despite admitting he doesn't watch it.

Roll back the tape:

O'REILLY: No way that a terrorist that blows up women and children is going to be called a freedom fighter on my program. (applause)

LETTERMAN: I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling that about 60 percent of what you say is crap (laughter)...

O'REILLY: 60?

LETTERMAN: 60 percent...I'm just spitballing here.

O'REILLY: Listen, I respect your opinion. You should respect mine (applause.) Our analysis is based on the best evidence we can get.

LETTERMAN: This fair and balanced...I don't think you represent an objective viewpoint.

O'REILLY: But you have to give me an example if you're gonna make those--

LETTERMAN: Well I don't watch your show, so that would be impossible. (laughter)

O'REILLY: Then why would you come to that conclusion if you don't watch the program?

LETTERMAN: Because of things that I have read, things that I know...

O'REILLY: Aw, come on. You're going to take things that you have read knowing what they say about you? (Laughter).

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Meh_Gerbil

January 4th 2006, 10:49 AM

David Letterman is a comedian.

I'm not sure why I thought I should point that out - for some reason, I'm under the impression that factiod wasn't entirely clear.

SteveF

January 4th 2006, 10:52 AM

There are two salient points here that I believe warrant mentioning:

1) Who

2) Cares

Meh_Gerbil

January 4th 2006, 10:54 AM

There are two salient points here that I believe warrant mentioning:

1) Who

2) Cares

Steve, your ability to cut to the heart of the matter is impressive.

SteveF

January 4th 2006, 11:00 AM

Your ability, as a Gerbil, to use a computer and construct sentences is equally impressive. I am actually a giant talking wombat.

MMPeacock

January 4th 2006, 12:00 PM

David Letterman is a comedian.

I'm not sure why I thought I should point that out - for some reason, I'm under the impression that factiod wasn't entirely clear.

My very point here, and if you watched this live last night, as I did, you might have seen the hard truth - Letterman wasn't trying to be funny. He asserted his on view-point supporting Cindy Sheehan at any cost to logic, and then shrugged, "I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this..." (exact words)

spiritmech

January 4th 2006, 12:05 PM

I have no love for Mr. O'Reilly. He's a silly blowhard. But Cindy Sheehan is even sillier.
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MMPeacock

January 4th 2006, 12:08 PM

I am actually a giant talking wombat.

Dear Wombat,

Spin this:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/149348.php

Top Ten Signs That David Letterman's Just Killing Time Before Retirement

10. Recent Stupid Pet Tricks include "Sit," "Shake hands," and "Hump the Leg"

9. Has become so jaded he demands that at least one guest per show get up on his desk and perform a striptease; last week's show with Nathan Lane was particularly uncomfortable

8. Old Letterman comedy staple: puckish irony; New Letterman comedy staple: nonstop racial slurs

7. To amuse himself during interviews, has begun playing drinking games; drinks when someone calls a director "generous," chugs when someone says "This script really spoke to me"

6. Wardrobe for show has degenerated into nothing but baggy sweatpants and "Who F@#%?" T-shirts

5. Features a new twenty-minute segment in middle of every show called "Dave's Quiet Time," in which audience members are asked to "pursue independent reading" or "engage in quiet group-study"

4. Questions to celebrity guests sound suspiciously similar to clues to the day's New York Times crossword puzzle

3. Last Thursday's "show" was nothing but a taped teleconference with his tax lawyers, interspersed with "wacky" sound effects and still photos of Larry "Bud" Melman

2. Standard end-of-show sign-off, "You've been great! Drive safely!" replaced with ominous-sounding "Another hour nearer the sweet embrace of blissful death"

... and the Number One Sign That David Letterman's Just Killing Time Before Retirement...

1. He's "really looking forward to" his next-scheduled bout of pink-eye

RaisingPaine

January 4th 2006, 02:48 PM

My very point here, and if you watched this live last night, as I did, you might have seen the hard truth - Letterman wasn't trying to be funny. He asserted his on view-point supporting Cindy Sheehan at any cost to logic, and then shrugged, "I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this..." (exact words)

I guess I'm missing the point here. I hardly watch TV so didn't see the broadcast...is it that Letterman didn't have a logical basis for his support of Cindy Sheehan, or that he wasn't "smart enough" to debate O'Reilly on whatever it was they were debating about or what?

MMPeacock

January 5th 2006, 12:16 PM

I guess I'm missing the point here. I hardly watch TV so didn't see the broadcast...is it that Letterman didn't have a logical basis for his support of Cindy Sheehan, or that he wasn't "smart enough" to debate O'Reilly on whatever it was they were debating about or what?

All of the above. An all round idiot who spoofed himself - live. Casey Sheehan spins in his grave daily having a lunatic Mom "defend" his honor.

Follow the links:

http://thepoliticalteen.net/2006/01/04/oreillyletterman

Letterman felt strong about “grieving mother” Cindy Sheehan, in fact at one point he said “Honest to Christ, Honest to Christ” when referring to O’Reilly’s disdain for her. However, Letterman eventually agreed with O’Reilly when the latter brought up Sheehan calling terrorists in Iraq, “freedom fighters”. By the end of the argument, Letterman became more friendlier with Bill O’Reilly when he knew that he lost the argument.

RaisingPaine

January 5th 2006, 03:05 PM

Casey Sheehan spins in his grave daily having a lunatic Mom "defend" his honor.

Personally, I'd defer to Mrs. Sheehan regarding her son's views.

However, Letterman eventually agreed with O’Reilly when the latter brought up Sheehan calling terrorists in Iraq, “freedom fighters”. By the end of the argument, Letterman became more friendlier with Bill O’Reilly when he knew that he lost the argument.

Oh, ok. I guess you would need to define "terrorists" in terms of the Iraq War. There are those that are responsible for recruiting foreign volunteers with an eye to suicide bombing and an indiscriminant view of killing civilians and are behind the majority of kidnappings (such as Al-Qaeda in Iraq). Then there are those Iraqi nationals (Sunni, Shi'ite and Ba'ath party remnants) generally regarded as "insurgents" who are viewed by many of their countrymen and the Arab League (who refused, as Allawi did likewise, to denounce them as "terrorists") as "legitimate resistance to foreign occupation". IEDs and car-bombs appear now the main weapon of the home-grown insurgency (already shown to be 90% Iraqi, contrary to earlier notions), which will hopefully be diffused by the current march towards a coalition government.

Cyrus Johnson

January 5th 2006, 03:57 PM

Ishmael

January 5th 2006, 04:04 PM

David Letterman is a comedian.

I'm not sure why I thought I should point that out - for some reason, I'm under the impression that factiod wasn't entirely clear.

Bill O'Reilly is a joke.

I'm not sure why I thought I should point that out - for some reason, I'm under the impression that factiod wasn't entirely clear.