Newt Gingrich Bowls Over Bill O'Reilly: Obama Is a Socialist (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 22, 2010, 7:47 PM
This was definitely not the answer Bill O’Reilly was expecting…
Newt Gingrich tells Bill O’Reilly that Barack Obama is a socialist:
Bill O’Reilly: So the question becomes, “Is the president a socialist?” Let’s remember the definition of socialism that the government controls property and commerce. Does Mr. Obama want to seize your house? I say no others say yes but there’s no question the president wants income redistribution and more government control over things like health care… Talking Points believes the fed should have some oversight on health care companies but the price can be driven down if the companies are allowed to compete nationwide. Why doesn’t the president try that before he sets up another big brother operation in Washington? Look these things are complicated. To call Obama a socialist or communist is over-simplifying. Americans need health care relief. There’s no question about it. But, it can be done using competition in the free market place and common sense like tort reform where lawsuits against medical personnel are scrutinized.
As we said last week, name-calling gets us no where. Good solutions to complicated problems will rule the day. Or, am I wrong? And, that’s a memo and now for the top story, joining us from Washington FOX News analyst Newt Gingrich. He has a free newsletter that you can sign up for at Newt.org. So do you think President Obama’s a socialist?
Newt Gingrich: Sure. Of course he is.
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Jo commented:
Bozo is Socialist, and the worst leader of any state in history of the world.
Militant Conservative commented:
Don’t care. already knew. Hey Bill, your irrellevant too.
Me and my second amendment don’t care about you.
bitterclinger commented:
BOR proceeded to ask every guest thereafter if they thought Zero was a socialist. He seemed genuinely surprised when they said Yes! Is he really that dense or that naive? Socialist is the mildest moniker I’ve heard used for Precedent Toonces.
I gave up on BOR long ago. What a blowhard know-nothing.
jerryl commented:
bill is a rhino
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bg commented:
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OT.. ht RG
ROTFLMBO!!
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PRICELESS!!
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bg commented:
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hey Bill, little do you or Obama realize
it, but we can watch out for ourselves..
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wildwood commented:
Yeah, well, Bill has been off the reservation lately, pretending to be open-minded. Newt’s been cuffed, so he’s toeing the line.
Snake eater commented:
Is Obama a socialist?
yes.
and an incompetent, arrogant, racist, narcissistic, ignorant one at that.
sybilll commented:
bitterclinger – Precedent Toonces
Hope you don’t mind if I steal that. This healthcare kubuki theater crap has made me phsyically ill all day, and I needed a laugh. You delivered.
And, saying Obama is not a socialist is like saying my abusive ex-husband is not an a$$hole.
Bruce commented:
“To call Obama a socialist…is oversimplifying the situation.”
Sometimes the simplest explanation is best.
Scrapiron commented:
O’Reilly is operating under threat of death or he volunteered to stick his head up O’Dumbo’s a** and help with the daily colon cleansing.
Mo commented:
That was really fun to watch!!! Bill O has been getting on my nerves lately and he and Rush are starting to get in a p#ssing match!!!
Gride commented:
“‘To call Obama a socialist…is oversimplifying the situation.’
Sometimes the simplest explanation is best.”
Occam’s Razor
jim commented:
BOR has been a BORE for a very long time.
Self-consumed blowhard. I think he’s kind of sweet on the Marxist in Chief.
Logus commented:
Newt’s still trying to get back into the graces of the Tea Party after his support of Scozzafava. Newt is a party man first, principles and ideology second. Newt is not a strong conservative. He’s willing to make too many compromises where they count.
RedBeard commented:
O’Reilly isn’t stupid, but he does seem a bit obtuse, judging by his odd reaction to Newt’s simple truth.
Saying that Obama a socialist is no more shocking than saying that water is wet.
Dell commented:
Bill O has a problem looming. It’s called ratings. Hannity’s ratings are climbing; Greta’s ratings are strong; Beck’s ratings are through the roof, and SP will put a spike in the ratings mix when she starts appearing on a regular basis. The “man”, himself – so very used to being #1 – may not even be #1 on his own network, say nothing of the rest of the cable world.
Personally, I can only handle so much of Bill’s smug, know-it-all attitude.
One or two more shows like this and you can expect Obama to have a change of heart and sign on for a go-round or two with O’Reilly.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Has anyone seen the Dallas Tea Party school Keith “the leftist” Olbermann?
http://the-raw-deal.com/2010/02/22/keith-olbermann-schooled-by-dallas-tea-party/
What a joke he is…
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
Jim commented:
If Bill O’Reilly were a politician he would be a big government republican not hesitating to throw his weight or federal power at any cause he deemed fit.
Watch him long enough (in my case years) and you will notice that he rides the fence. He will wait and see what public opinion is and then alter his show’s themes to match.
Bill is also very ignorant and his staff is mediocre. Bill in tonight’s TP memo doubts Obama wants control over your house. He obviously didn’t read or bother to investigate the Cap and Trade bill which passed the house. The federal government’s reach would have extended into your home as you would have to have it inspected for green efficiency standards before selling it. If that’s not taking control of someone’s home I don’t know what is. Bill also doesn’t give a damn about the constitution. My home was built in Missouri and rests in Missouri. I purchased my home in Missouri. Under what interstate commerce clause does the federal government have any grounds to implement such measures.
wanumba commented:
O’Reilly is playing a semantics game. He’s pushing the idea that calling names is childish – which it is, but if someone is a “socialist” by the definiton of the term, then it isn’t name-calling, it’s correct nomenclature. He’s not separating “name-calling” from “naming.”
The Left has torqued the language and terms of debate so much that their cheap and inaccurate name-calling – “NAZIs” “fascists” and so forth is so insincere when the real thing comes along, the reaction is a dismissive “that’s stupid.”
It has almost destroyed debate in the USA and the world, and we’re close to the point of having people be literally unable to communicate with each other because they are using two different dictionaries for the same language.
All plays into the hands of the Progressive – rather Regressive Left.
ObamaIsAMarxist commented:
I’m trying to fathom how stupid O’Reilly is.
… … …
Pretty damned stupid, I’d say.
Jim Ryan commented:
Socialism allows personal effects to be private property: your furniture, your house, your bric-a-brac. It holds that the state should own everything else, especially businesses.
It takes a bloviator with a graduate degree from Harvard’s school of government not to know this.
AlaskaHome1959 commented:
Name-calling gets us no where? There is an old saying: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” It is not wisdom to refuse to call socialism by it’s name, it is not wisdom to refuse to call a socialist by it’s name. To refuse to do so is foolishness. To belittle those who call things by their proper name is also foolishness.
dries commented:
Right on the spot Dell. Orly has been getting snippy with Beck for some time. I guess a dinosaur doesn’t like when “folks” watch others, think for themselves & need nobody to look after them. Especially if “care” involves paying premium membership prices.
Jim commented:
Oh one more thing. Bill O’reilly was destroyed in the ratings on talk radio by Limbaugh…… They eventually cancelled the Radio Factor.
O’Reilly can’t stand the fact that right wing views dominated him so I think he really loves pushing this RINO crap on his #1 rated cable show.
The funny thing is, even though he draws 4 million viewers a night, Limbaugh draws over 20 million each day.
Corporal Vere commented:
BOR hasn’t figured it out.
He is not as smart as you and me.
The majority of the people know O is a socialist and think he is ruining the country.
All you need to know about BOR: either review the tapes of, or get the list of interview questions he asked Obama and compare with the questions he asked Sarah Palin.
Case closed.
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gus commented:
O’Reilly is in love with himself.
Of course Obama is a Socialist, in fact he’s really a MARXIST.
This entire health care crap is COMPLETELY ABOUT GOVERNMENT CONTROL. NOTHING ELSE.
Opus #6 commented:
O’Reilly keeps saying that socialists want to take your house. He’s wrong. Communists want to take your house and all your property. Socialists want to tax you to death so everybody lives in drab sameness, no matter who has what talents.
I’m getting really tired of O’Reilly. First he says he is for gun confiscation during hurricanes. Now this. WTH!
noislamocommie commented:
O is an islamocommunist.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Obama’s economic antithesis, Bob McEwen explains solutions at CPAC:
http://the-raw-deal.com/2010/02/22/cpac-bob-mcewen-on-american-economics/
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
UncleZeb commented:
I have disliked BO for years. Everyone I told this too couldnt believe someone as conservative as I am would say he is an asshat but now they are beginning to see him for the overgrown bully that he is.
red commented:
What’s sad about O’rly is that when he first came on the air, her was confronting guests with documents and facts. It was a little ineffective, he wasn’t as prepared as he should have been. But I figured he would get better, but he got worst and forgot about the research and documentation.
VaGal commented:
Has Bill not noticed the people that Obama has had around him his whole life? Is he not paying attention to the people that he is appointing? Did he not know that Obama was in the New (Socialist) Party in Chicago? [Which was reported right here on GP.] Of course, Bill kept insisting that Bill Ayers was just a “guy in the neighborhood” because Obama looked him in the eye and told him so. I don’t think “fair and balanced” means what he thinks it means. I know the Oath Keepers are also less than impressed with Bill after his stupid comments regarding the confiscation of guns in NO after Katrina. He better watch out or Geraldo will start getting better ratings than he.
Flyover Sam commented:
Obama’s no socialist. Read Lenin’s first, second and third letters (March 7-26, 1917) and you’ll understand that he’s carefully following the path toward second revolution that his mentor Lenin prescribes.
The first step was ridding the nation of King George. Unfortunately, the system still exists (as do the capitalist Octobrists who brought Obama to power, including Soros, Progressive Chairman Peter Lewis, etc). but that’s what the second revolution is all about. ObamaCorps and other efforts already underway carry out mirror efforts to Lenin’s preparation for the second “October” revolution which finished the job and placed the Soviets into power.
While O’Reilly and others find the “socialism” tag objectionable, much more serious work is underway that will change this nation as we know it. Michelle’s been clear about what her husband brings. Who’s fault is it if we’re not listening?
wanumba commented:
Check out Ghaddafi’s Green Islamic Socialism out of his “Green Book.”
Farrakhan, Wright are Ghaddafi fans, and Farrakhan’s trips to Libya suggest a possible financial connection. Curiously, Obama’s socialism is never far from the word, “green.” “Green Czar” Van Jones even said “green jobs” for the city was about “redistribution.”
LilMissSunshine commented:
The end of the video was hilarious! When Newt answered Bills question with the point blank statement that Obama was a socialist, O’Reilly looked really disgusted! Is it possible that O’Reilly could be ‘wrong’ about something? LOL I love to see these proud arrogant elitists being contradicted and their ego’s squelched just a tad!
jonyjoe101 commented:
Finally the majority of the people here in this blog see Bills true colors, he’s one of the 3 puppets. He’s been compromised, the obama administration has threatened to release all the “goods” on bill o’reilly sex scandal if he attacks the whitehouse. Bill payed off his accuser just like Michael Jackson payed off his accuser, like kobe bryant payed off his accuser.
Rush is also a communist just like Bill and Obama, they are 3 peas in a pod. Bring up Obamas lack of birth certificate on Rush’s show, he’ll hang up on you. Everyone is scared of the truth.
S. Wolf commented:
Snake eater #8
No need to be redundant.
Franco commented:
Two possibilities here
1. O’Reily is ignorant and has a different definition of “socialism” than the rest of us.
2. O’Reilly is playing the semantics game the left uses which is essentially DENIAL BY NARROW OR OVERLY TECHNICAL DEFINITION.
IE Back in 1921 Trotsky said “blah, blah” and Lenin said “Blah blah blah” And therefore since Obama and friends don’t match up exactly (and how could they – since we are living in modern day USA) he is not a “Socialist”.
Reader commented:
I think O’Reilly has gotten worse since his interview with Obama.
I’ve always have wondered why some Fox employees even go on his show because he treats their opinions like they are inferior and inconsequential to his points.
With a wave of his hand ‘be gone you lesser mortal.’
bg commented:
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O’Reilly should have stuck with watching out for our kids..
i canceled my cable news years back when he
agreed with Harry Ried that the “war was lost”..
but he did do a terrific job when it came to the defense of children..
and since i haven’t heard anything in here about it, i really don’t
know if he did any shows about FISTGATE/GLSEN or not..
if he did KUDOS, if he didn’t, he’s definitely either being bought off or blackmailed to keep his mouth shut (sort of like what CNN did in Iraq)..
i’m getting more & more worried about how
much info is being deleted from the net..
even with the info i can finally manage to get to, the links won’t connect (iow: i post them but they don’t bring the page up when i click on them),
heck, some Cached links to article’s are also disappearing..
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Reader commented:
Now that was good!
brooklyn commented:
O’Reilly continues to play this facade. He is so desperate to appear above the fray, he has lost sight of reality.
Play it fair, over keeping it real?
That is “Spin”, Mr. O’Reilly.
bg commented:
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Nathan R. Jessup @ 9:36 pm #32
thanks..
i’m glad people keep posting different speakers
as i didn’t get to view the event in it’s entirety..
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chili palmer commented:
A better question for Gingrich would be when are you going to go on a world tour saying there is no global warming, that it’s the greatest crime of our lifetime. Then, when are you going to retire in shame to private life. Gingrich is an embarrassment, as is anyone who wrote a book supporting global warming. It is a shame anyone gives him the attention he clearly craves. Nothing he could say is newsworthy except that he is retiring.
Redwine commented:
Well, well, well… Wouldn’tcha know it – Scott Brown turned out to be a frickin’ RINO turncoat. The screaming headline on Drudge: BROWN VOTES FOR ‘JOBS BILL’; JOINS DEM MAJORITY
Linked to: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2221899520100222
kate commented:
Bill went to Harvard.
Barry went to Harvard.
Draw your own conclusions.
J commented:
The only part of o’reilly’s show that I find entertaining, now, is watching him contort himself into a pretzel to defend obama. Sometimes, frequently, he comes off as a jabbering nutcase and that is different from what he was. My theory is, is that obama has some dirt on him.
jcraig commented:
wanumbaNo Gravatar
February 22nd, 2010 | 9:06 pm | #21
O’Reilly is playing a semantics game. He’s pushing the idea that calling names is childish – which it is, but if someone is a “socialist” by the definiton of the term, then it isn’t name-calling, it’s correct nomenclature. He’s not separating “name-calling” from “naming.”
this is it exactly, pay attention+ bgNo Gravatar
when you determine certain adjectives can’t be used because you don’t understand their definition you obscure the debate.
Mikey commented:
I have noticed lately that O’Reilly isn’t what he used to be. He now seems to be a shill for the Obama administration. He won’t let his guests talk – he talks over them. I love to hear the opinions of Dick Morris, but not on O’Reilly. He won’t let him get a sentence in to support his point of view. My advice: Just watch Hannity. He’s better anyway. Bye bye O’Reilly. You are no longer relevant to the conversation. Watch his ratings start sliding in the future.
Liz commented:
Yes, I saw this and thought surely O’Reilly must be feigning ignorance – acting. It seemed uncharacteristic of him pretending like that. Honestly, if Obama pushed any harder to take away private sector property he’d go to jail – and he still might. What part of “Socialist” doesn’t O’Reilly understand? Is he cool with the nuclear option threat of Obama’s too? Don’t tell me that Obamacare plan doesn’t take away our private rights AND private property.
Warren Bonesteel commented:
O’Reilly has become the Andrew Sullivan of TV and radio. The only thing he can do at this point is to say things that are so outrageous that the viewers keep coming back to hear what he’s going to say next. He has little to add to the political or social debate these days. His math works thusly: Viewers plus listeners equals ratings, which puts money in his pocket.
Keep watching. Keep listening. Keep putting money in little Billy’s cookie jar. …which is exactly what he wants you to do.
He doesn’t actually want you to change the political, social or economic equation in America. Not even a little bit.
He’d go broke.
LibertyReigns commented:
If anything Obama is more like a neocon like Bush than a socialist. Failed stimulus packages for the economy? Check. An unconstitutional war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Check. Continuing use of the greatest assault on liberty: The Patriot Act? Check. When you look at it closely, Obama and Bush are no different except that Obama has a darker skin tone. I’m no fan of Bill O’Rielly but Newt Gingrich is just an establishment republican, what he says doesn’t mean anything, all that I hear is bull.
Sheila commented:
BOR was entertaining and interesting back when FOX news first aired in the mid 1990s. He often pursued stories that are now routinely posted on the web. With the increase in competition from bloggers, Bill changed tactics and decided he was above it all. His extraordinary level of self esteem mirrors Obama’s; perhaps that’s why he admires him so much. As for the Harvard grad crap, Bill is pulling an Olbermann. I can’t remember were O’Reilly went undergrad, but he went to Harvard for a post-grad certification program – not a degree at all. None of this is relevant anyhow, unless a Harvard education is considered a sign of superior intelligence. Unless you are David Brooks, you shouldn’t give a damn.
Alain commented:
Bill “O”realy,was invited at the Whitehouse Christmass party and raved on the air as to how marvelous the Hussein and his so graceous wife were,he is just yearning to get another invitation.
eaglewingz08 commented:
I think Bill is just trying to protect Fox News from the socialist reaches of the Obama Administration’s media czars. He can preen on about capitalist Obama, and then should the czars start salivating for Fox’s head, Roger can show how mainstream the media programming is.
But I still miss the O’Reilly of three years ago. It seems like after Obama’s interview with O’Reilly, Obama left with O’R's stones.
Bill hasn’t been the same since.
bg commented:
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jcraig @ 8:40 am #53
this is it exactly, pay attention+ bgNo Gravatar
when you determine certain adjectives can’t be used because
you don’t understand their definition you obscure the debate.
yeah, so wanumba’s opinion in your opinion is
exactly right, so what are you talking about??
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