1. Comment #95448 by alexkx3 on December 8, 2007 at 11:12 am

I thought she did rather well. She wasn't as polite towards O'Rielly's stupidity as Dawkins and Harris were.

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2. Comment #95459 by Tomcat on December 8, 2007 at 11:49 am

I think she morally dumbfounded him. O'Rielly was reduced to "I know what you're saying makes sense, but I just know it's wrong."

Way to go, Lori!

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3. Comment #95475 by jbblack on December 8, 2007 at 12:23 pm

One thing I noticed was that she politely refused to allow him to steamroll her into a corner, just kept plodding merrily along with her point and wouldn't let him sidetrack her.

I also noticed that O'Reilly, when it was clear that she wasn't going to back down to him, started referring to the Atheists demands for inclusion as "Whining." That's the best he can do? As if it were wrong to demand that one's government protect the rights of all citizens rather than only those of the majority.

He says he wouldn't whine if the tables were reversed and Christians were a minority in a primarily secular ntaion, but from his incessant whining about the self-made "war on Christmas", we all know THAT is a bunch of BS.

Lori, should you be reading this, you handled Bill quite well, and with style. Great job!

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4. Comment #95503 by jaytee_555 on December 8, 2007 at 1:12 pm

For a TV presenter to invite someone on to a program just to interrupt the end of every sentence as the point of the sentence is being made, is the dirtiest trick in the book. O'Reilly is a disgrace to his trade, and a total shit. Lori Lipman Brown did very well to keep her temper in the face of such loudmouth bullying.

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5. Comment #95522 by Geoff on December 8, 2007 at 2:07 pm

I'm not from the US, but I understand a new president has to swear to "preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States" (or words to that effect).

Sounds to me as if he couldn't honestly do that.

OK, I realise that honesty and politics don't mix all that well, but still...

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6. Comment #95533 by HeathenAngel on December 8, 2007 at 2:37 pm

jbblack--"He says he wouldn't whine if the tables were reversed and Christians were a minority in a primarily secular ntaion, but from his incessant whining about the self-made "war on Christmas", we all know THAT is a bunch of BS."

Got it in one.

BillO' is the ultimate hypocrite and liar for claiming that he wouldn't be in the least upset. He has demonstrated it time and time again; his incessant whining about the war on Christmas, his belly-aching about how Olbermann points out his flaws, his threats to people who dare mention, let alone watch Olbermann.. and now, leftist blogs and websites (calling them satan worshipers), and the list goes on.

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7. Comment #95600 by Theocrapcy on December 8, 2007 at 5:28 pm

O'Reilly makes me want to kick him really hard in the face whenever I see his smug, ignorant head.

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8. Comment #95602 by Bueller_007 on December 8, 2007 at 5:37 pm

"One thing I noticed was that she politely refused to allow him to steamroll her into a corner, just kept plodding merrily along with her point and wouldn't let him sidetrack her."

Partially to her credit, yes. But O'Reilly was actually surprisingly well-behaved in this video. (Relatively speaking.) If he had been on his "top form", she wouldn't have been able to get a word in edgewise.

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9. Comment #95609 by Frankus1122 on December 8, 2007 at 6:41 pm

I understand that the "One nation under God" thing came into being in the US in the 50s to distinguish them from the godless commies. However, if their constitution requires a separation of church and state how can they force children in school to say this?
I think there is a really big problem with this Romney guy. I see him as setting the stage for a theocracy.
No, I can't really see that happening. There are too many denominations. They sort of have a wishy-washy Christian influenced theocracy now. I see him as trying real hard to strengthen it. I see a nation where you need to have faith in order to be a citizen. Isn't that what Bush the First said? Wasn't he the one who introduced Romney the other day?
Yuck.

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10. Comment #95613 by bruce on December 8, 2007 at 7:16 pm

Bill O'Slimy wouldn't get upset if the tables were turned??? And this is the same guy who "whines" about the so-called war on Christmas every year. He's in the majority and he's already whining. He'd probably be a suicide bomber if he were in the minority.

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11. Comment #95628 by monoape on December 8, 2007 at 8:57 pm

O'Reilly - an odious, ignorant, arrogant little fuckwit.

In his opening, he exposes his homophobia and conflates (his evident view of) 'perverted' gay marriage with atheism.

That aside [breathing deeply], does anyone else see the similarity between Romney and Max Headroom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z-Ud8rbt4Q)?

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12. Comment #95629 by Diacanu on December 8, 2007 at 9:01 pm

Ah, loofa Bill, what a piece of work.

Loofa Bill, and tried-to-rape-Bette-Midler-with-poppers Geraldo.

What a lovely network FoxNews is.
Bring the children in, push 'em up close to the screen. Give them miniature American flags to wave. Yipee.

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13. Comment #95701 by jbblack on December 9, 2007 at 2:17 am

Geoff said,

I'm not from the US, but I understand a new president has to swear to "preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States" (or words to that effect).

Sounds to me as if he couldn't honestly do that.

OK, I realise that honesty and politics don't mix all that well, but still...

Well, you have to understand that politics is the world's second oldest profession. And it's very closely related to the first.

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14. Comment #95713 by Bueller_007 on December 9, 2007 at 3:00 am

"Ah, loofa Bill, what a piece of work.

Loofa Bill, and tried-to-rape-Bette-Midler-with-poppers Geraldo.

What a lovely network FoxNews is.
Bring the children in, push 'em up close to the screen. Give them miniature American flags to wave. Yipee."


You forgot two of the worst. Mark Fuhrman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuhrman) and Ollie North (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_North) are regular contributors/commentators.

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15. Comment #95715 by Diacanu on December 9, 2007 at 3:09 am

Bueller_007-

Wow, no shit?
Geez, I deleted FoxNews off my channel dial years ago, so I didn't hear.

Damn, that just sickens the heart, a media outlet being run by such slime.
Not as heart sickening as Saudi Arabian gang rapists, but it's up there.

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16. Comment #95783 by Bueller_007 on December 9, 2007 at 7:40 am

Yeah, and they actually have the gall to invite Fuhrman on to discuss RACIAL PROFILING (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLQi5n2AToM) and Ollie North on to advocate ATTACKING IRAN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apniG9yKHZ4).


Simply disgraceful. How much more blatantly biased can a 'news' source be?

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17. Comment #95804 by TyKonderoga on December 9, 2007 at 8:38 am

Lori should have asked Bill to replace the word "religion" with "whiteness" and "the religious" with "white people" -- then asked him if objections should still be characterized as "whining" on the part of the minority...

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18. Comment #95810 by Dr Benway on December 9, 2007 at 8:59 am

I'm with Bill. Religion is entirely trivial and irrelevant. Only whiners pay attention to God, Dog, Bob, or whatever it's name is.

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19. Comment #96040 by Inferno on December 9, 2007 at 8:18 pm

Pathetic. Is this what constitutes an interview or even a discussion on fox news? O'Reilly refuses to let any point go to the stage where the discussion just turns into a tit for tat contradiction.

O'Reilly needs to watch that Monty Python sketch "The Argument Sketch"

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20. Comment #96048 by arthursanford on December 9, 2007 at 9:47 pm

Everything you'll ever need to know about Bill O'Reilly:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0748,tomorrow,78489,9.html

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21. Comment #96213 by Murray Keedis on December 10, 2007 at 7:06 am

I would love never to see Falafel Bill's name in print or his blotchy, angry visage on TV or his petulant, hate-mongering voice on radio. He is one angry dude; which is odd because he's part of the establishment - white, Christian, Anglo.

How many times has he experienced being in a position that to speak out would label him a "whiner"? And think of all those "whiners" in recent American history: Rosa Parks and MLK? Whiners. Muhammad Ali? Whiner. Those who finally took down Sen. McCarthy? Whiners. Vietnam War protesters? Whiners. Those who impeached Nixon? Whiners. Those who continue to fight for equality and civil rights? Whiners.

Roll back about 160 years, Bill O'Reilly would have been another drunken "mick" - part of an Irish invasion that wasn't warmly welcomed. When the Irish, new to America, wanted to be treated with respect, I wonder if they were called whiners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American

Bill O'Reilly is certainly a master debater. Scream, rant, tell people to "shut up", cut of mics, interrupt, threaten dissenters with Fox "security" - all tactics that prove he's an insecure, pea-brained, proto-human at best and a Ted-Haggard-lovin'-Rush-Limbaugh-worshipin'-GW-Bush-lickspittle-unthinkin'-drone-of-the-state at worst. Not much separates Bill from his media-censoring counterparts in the parts of the world, such as Iran, that keep Bill awake at night (when he's not calling female employees and sexually harassing them).

History will either forget this small, rage-monkey or he'll be remembered as leading the vanguard of everything that was wrong with America and the West in the late-20th, early 21st centuries.

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22. Comment #104814 by jonny_harman on December 29, 2007 at 2:04 pm

Listen to Bill 3/4 the way through. Something like: "I do respect atheists ... but the whining, the incessant whining, about inclusion - it's ridiculous". Yeah, nice demonstration of respect.

Also, way to do an interview - just keep talking over her, and don't let her answer half of your questions, why don't you? These are desperate people resorting to bullying tactics and rhetoric to protect beliefs that they know must always be exposed as fallacies in the face of logic and evidence. This might be the information age, but we're still in the dark ages in the face of reason.

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