Bill O'Reilly Blasts Politico Co-Founder on Tea Party Bias: "It's Bull. You're Not Telling the Truth"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 3:54 PM
Bill O’Reilly slammed Jim VandeHei from Politico last night for defending the state-run media’s atrocious coverage of the National Tea Party Convention. The media published only 2 favorable reports on the event out of hundreds.
O’Reilly accused VandeHei of lying about the media’s coverage of the event:
(Via BreitbartTV)
Bill O’Reilly said this in his Talking Points Memo before destroying VandeHei:
As you may know, the Tea Party held a convention in Nashville over the weekend. Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker and spent some time defining the movement, beginning with President Obama…
The Factor” began to research the mainstream media’s coverage of the Tea Party. We found only two – two — positive comments amidst thousands of reports: one by The Detroit News, the other by the Associated Press.
I mean, this is stunning. The establishment media cannot even admire the spirit of the movement, that is Americans getting involved and trying to improve their country.
Look at it this way. You can disagree with the Tea Party people, but the spirit of honest citizen involvement in government is noble. Is it not?
Yes, the Tea Party deal has elements of extremism in it. For example, I think folks who push the birther nonsense are very misguided and some of those people embrace the Tea Party.
But the American media will never embrace the Tea Party. Why? Well, generally speaking, they look down on the folks. They think you are dumb.
But the Tea Party is around, and it’s only going to get stronger.
And that’s “The Memo.”
Good for Bill for pointing out the obvious bias.
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ar05075 commented:
Pathetico is a joke anyway. Get ‘em Bill.
LYNNDH commented:
Surprising, since Bill is not a Tea Party fan. Is he turning too?
ml commented:
I don’t trust Politico!
Joel commented:
What the MSM is doing is criminal.
And it is criminal to support them by purchasing their product or viewing their sites.
AuntieMadder commented:
Good for O’Reilly for pointing out the obvious bias. Bad for O’Reilly for taking yet another unsolicited shot at birthers.
Opus #6 commented:
Go get ‘em, Bill!
karen commented:
As he says Game Over. We know the media looks down on us. We KNOW the media overwhelmingly helped elect Obama.
We will not forget. I want to see more and more of the media called OUT. Game Over!
AuntieMadder commented:
LYNNDH
February 9th, 2010 | 12:58 pm | #2
Surprising, since Bill is not a Tea Party fan. Is he turning too?
I doubt it, LYNNDH. As the last line of the post reads, he’s just stating the obvious bias. One doesn’t have to support the Tea Parties to acknowledge them as a force and one that’s not going away any time soon.
ExZonie commented:
I don’t understand why MediaMatters is highlighting this reel. Huh??
gus commented:
Ok I’ll repeat this again.
Liberals grow up in liberal run school districts. They go to liberals Universities and are indoctrinated by Lib Professors, they want to save the world so they go to LIB Journalism schools. They eat with Libs, they have sex with libs, they hang with libs and then they get hired by libs. They all run in a pack and report the exact same lib nonsense. Listen to Rush every week, he’ll have a montage of libtard reporters saying the exact same words.
So why would be surprised when Conservatives don’t get treated fairly by these hacks.
Neo commented:
The MSM helped give us “The Won,” now a large portion of the electorate sees anything that the MSM disses, like the “Tea Party,” as probably a good idea.
jj commented:
I like O’Reilly even though I don’t always agree with him and I can respect anyone that has a different opinion, as long as they respect mine.
When they attack and criticize me, then all bets are off.
bg commented:
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arguing facts with ideologues is like trying to light a
fire with two wet stones (word play on whetstone)..
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bg commented:
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gus @ 2:10 pm #13
yes, and we can thank PC et al..
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wanumba commented:
Hey, that’s a nice office for POLITICO. That’s the logo on the wall? Are like, those staff striding thru or just passersby? So, corporate kewl.
They hiring? Ahem.
pontoon commented:
How many of Ya’ll remember the 1994 elections?
There is a palpable sense of energy and rightious outrage that is totally blowing away what happened in 1994. People this is gonna be HUGE. I have many of my Democrat friend crossing the isle to vote the bums out. This is about our country and what is right not party affiliation. Tsunami of pissed of voters, motivated and waiting to voice thier displeasure.
CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!!!!!!
Old One commented:
The present day reigning leftist political class are to tone deaf and hear nothing other than the cacaphony of their shills strumpets in the stone deaf media, wackodemia, NGOs, and the far left. Politico, did the French aristocrats listen to the peasants and the middle class? Of course not.
The French haughty ones called the folks churls, rabble, and the then equivalent of rednecks too and we all know how well that worked for the hubris ridden insidier elites of that day !
jonyjoe101 commented:
Bill o reilly is all over the place. Sometimes he’s friendly with the leftists, then he turns on them and yells at them.
Several months back he certified Obama a US citizen, last week he told Glen Beck that Obama hasn’t produce his real birth certificate. Beck disagreed and considers Obamas fake computer generated “birth certificate” as authentic.
It’s like oreilly is in conflict with his “inner liberal feelings”. He is a conflicted person.
On the otherhand Glen Beck is a full blown communist.
JS commented:
Regarding O’Reilly’s mention of The Detroit News – if the comments were made by Nolan Finley I am not surprised. This editor is spot on with many of his opinion pieces. Definitely worth reading his columns if you want the pulse of Detroit…*if there is a pulse in Detroit…*
Latteda commented:
While I have been reading Gateway Pundit for several years, I have not been so inclined to post as I am now. I celebrate the Tea Party Movement. It is showcasing the patriotism and values of everyday Americans. It is, indeed, grassroots and a movement to be reckoned with. Partisan politics is fast disappearing in middle America and is being replaced with a complete distain for politicians and the media. I find it hilarious when media heads claim that the internet is the reason their readership and ad revenues are down. It’s as though their Ivory tower is sound proof or something. Americans are telling them, loud and clear, that their politics is what is taking them down but they refuse to listen. I put Child Molesters, Politicians and Journalists all in the same category of low lifes and wastes of oxygen.
archer52 commented:
This effort is an orchestrated effort. Over at Hotair they caught the new Captain America comic describing the tea party members as an out of control hate filled white folks. This is not an accident or a way to sell comics. In fact, I’d bet the people behind it had contact with elements inside or associated with the White House. Why? Because this type of technique was used by Mao in Communist China. Here is my post-
Here comes the “big character” posters of Mao’s China. The Obama crew learned well from the Chairman.
Posted February 9th, 2010 by admin
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/09/great-news-captain-america-ready-to-take-on-evil-scourge-of-er-tea-partiers/
Over at Hotair they caught this Captain America comic episode where the crime fighters are targeting an out of control group. The group is openly protesting holding signs. Here is the paragraph.
“In preparation for the infiltration, Marvel Comics depicts the two super heroes out of costume and observing from a rooftop a street filled with what can only be described as a Tea Party protest. The scene shows crowds of people in city streets carrying signs that say, “stop the socialists,” “tea bag libs before they tea bag you,” and “no to new taxes.” Naturally, the people in these crowds are depicted as being filled with nothing but white folks…”
All kidding aside, as Hotair misses the point, this is very dangerous stuff. They are targeting your children by using a tool easily accessed by your kids- the comic book. Why is this important? Mao and the communists learned early on that if you told a lie enough times in enough places to enough people, it became the truth. In China they favored plays, big and small “character posters”, editorials, reports finding the “target” guilty of whatever would get the target executed or imprisoned. The fans of Mao in this White House have learned well from the Chairman. He spent forty years terrorizing his subjects with false accusations backed by all the forms of communication accepted by the public as proper methods of relaying facts.
We absorb the NYT, Joe Klein at Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, MSNBC, CNN, local papers, local TV, and loads of other forms of communication, not to mention the false reports generated by the government. Just recently, we hear that Obama is creating a new agency that will track climate change. This occurs right in the middle of the huge meltdown of the global warming factions. It turns out that the “science is not hardly settled- at all.” Yet, Obama persists. Why? In my previous post I mention how the head of a progressive organization involved in this process let the cat out of the bag. Stuart Varney missed it. The man, Dan Weiss, states that the advantage for the having this new organization is to allow for a central place for all climate information to be collected and reported. “CENTRAL PLACE” which the progressive pro-cap and trade group will control. We already know they lied. Now they can control the lie. But that wasn’t the key. What he said in effect was this- “If a developer wants to build on the shore, he can come to the agency and find out if the land will be underwater in twenty years.” Then he smiled that Cheshire cat smile. What he didn’t realize was what he just revealed, (http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/02/09/dan-weiss-from-american-progress-is-an-idiot-period/) yet reveal it he did. Let me ask the same question I asked in the post- Can you name one piece of land that was submerged by the past thirty years of global warming? No, and neither can I, but Weiss is guaranteeing we will get a list of places that will be submerged, which just happen to be the shoreline a developer might want to build on. A real two-fer for him. First he gets to scare us into things like cap and trade, and he gets to block development. Hmm…..
Now the next time you see a comic or a paper or a report or a magazine pushing Obama’s line, think twice before you believe in it. It is probably a lie. A big lie.
zmdavid commented:
The MSM does not hate Sarah Palin and the Tea Partyers. They are pretending to hate her because they are practicing Alinsky. It isn’t personal, it’s just their job as radicals.
JaneLovesJesus commented:
The MSM is making themselves more and more irrelevant with every lie they tell. I pray that more and more people see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears what an embarassment they have become.
Keep promoting blogs (like this one!) so people will realize there are alternative sources to the MSM.