There was even an article on this blog about women liking shoes.

O'reiley was joking, y'know. Where's your sense of humor?

Misogynists and bigots always cover how their hatred and sexism as "just jokes" so that they can get away with it with no consequences. O'Reilly is a hate-monger of the uber variety that speaks on issues it is obvious he knows jack about.

Wow. I actually find this significantly more offensive than what Summers said originally. Not to defend Summers, but at least he *pretended* to say something remotely academic. In this set of comments, O'Reilly just reduces accomplished scientists to little girls who chase after shiny things.

Apparently he also said that women don't like Star Wars.

You're kidding, right?

O'Reilly a hate monger? He gets a tremendous amount of respect from the left. They all go on his show, he gets Al Sharpton to Joe Lieberman and even the far lefties like Michael Moore. He might be conservative but he's a pretty fair guy. He comes from a blue collar background and if he's kind of anti-communist it probably comes from the time he spent in El-salvador during the war down there. He was a correspondant. Really, have you ever seen his show? or just repeating what you heard?

I saw that segment, and he was definately joking. That story about women liking shoes had just come out and you even had it here on the feministing blog and y'all were making fun of it, too.

I know you're pretty fair minded too, Sarah, give his show a watch and then decide if he's a hate monger, 8pm on fox, every night.

he's kind of anti-communist it probably comes from the time he spent in El-salvador during the war down there.

That's a joke, right?

oh please. bill o'reilly is a big fat liar, not a "pretty fair guy." he is NOT from a blue-collar background. he grew up in westbury, long island. as a former resident of a neighboring town on long island, westbury is NOT blue-collar. his dad was an accountant for pete's sake. why must he lay claim to a false background to bolster his integrity anyways?

as for fair, this is the man who cut off the mic of his guest, the son of a man who had died in the 9/11 attacks, because the son dared to disagree w/ o'reilly's view of world politics. (he then, of course, threatened to tear the son "to fucking pieces" after the interview. so level-headed that o'reilly!).

as for his ability to tell the truth, i give you this one example of his not being so good at the fact-checking (aka, news journalism):

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/3178313

You are off base, here. This is the current most popular news/commentary broadcaster in prime time(cable). He does a ton of charity work and he wrote two books which helped me (and a lot of others). I'd be willing to bet you've never watched him either. Just repeating what you heard? You give one source about a disagreement in the effectiveness of GPS tracking. And debate about whether an Accountant makes enough money to be more than middle class.

Must be nice to just disparage with flippancy someone who has accomplished so much. You must have excellent self image to be able to judge someone that way.

If he's so bad why do so many Democrats go on his show and engage in open, honest debate? After Michael Moore defended his movie and debated O'Reiley my respect for him increased tremendously. The truth is that honest decent people can disagree without rancor. People who are name callers and either can't or won't back up their beliefs are hypocrits.

It really says something about people (republican and democrat) who won't go on his show, huh?

Like millions of other people, I would take Bill O'Reiley at his word, long before I took Al Frankens or his minions who quote him in lock step, comrade.

Any news paper editor who thinks sex offenders can be rehabilitated probably needs to be fired anyways. He's a danger to his community (and the children) promoting that view.

"Like millions of other people, I would take Bill O'Reiley at his word, long before I took Al Frankens or his minions who quote him in lock step, comrade."

Err... are you saying that liberals quote Al Franken in lockstep? And conservatives don't watch exclusively fox news and spew forth the Fox/GOP talking points? Because I think you're wrong. I think conservatives are more united in viewpoint than liberals.

c's comments are the typical talking points of the franken left. left, right, left...lockstep, comrade. That's who I was directing that comment at.

There's a reason why fox is popular, it reflects a fair view of current values in this country. There's a reason why the republicans won by a landslide last election. Its the same.
Most people recognized that the true values heart of the Democratic party power structure was with Howard Dean, Michael Moore, and Al Franken last election. These people gave voice to the true beliefs of the party. Howard Dean couldn't come close to winning the primary for the Democrats alone, do you realize where that places him in the National level? 75-80% of the people in this country disagree with the man. The Dems have got some kind of greek chorus in the old school media, supporting their positions against the will of the majority. Thats why they are suprised when they lose so badly?

Madelaine - The conservatives in this country are sharply divided about many issues. Abortion, Taxes, Roll of Government, Iraq, Border Policies, Immigration...etc. We run the gamut from isolationists to open border libertarians.

It is just as narrow minded of liberals to paint us conservatives with one brush (we're all trying to keep woman barefoot pregnant in the kitchen, re-institute slavery, and colonize the world as a new order theocracy) as it is for conservatives to assume that liberals are a bunch of secularist religionophobes who are trying to legalize pot, heroin, group marriages, and pedophilia.

One of the things I like about O'Reiley is he presents both sides of the agument on his show, even if he disagrees.

tfreridge,

If Bill O'Reilly's 'books' helped you so much, maybe you should try reading some of these books:

American History for Dummies
World History for Dummies
How to Tell the Difference Between Fact & Fiction
How to Stop Brainwashing Yourself
Reality Check: You Are WRONG

And stop using the term "comrade" to referer to the bourgeois class enemy in the Democratic Party.

I'm still hung up on how his time in El Salvador made him an anti-communist. He's a big fan of assassinating archbishops? He thinks it's fun to rape and murder nuns, and in El Salvador he realized that "anti-communism" is a convenient excuse to engage in that hobby? He's deeply enamored of death squads? There are lots of honorable reasons to be anti-communist, but the take-home message from El Salvador, I would have thought, is that all manner of horror can be, and was, perpetrated in the name of anti-communism.

Could it possibly be, tf, that you actually don't know the first thing about the history of El Salvador?

ulkesh - wow, you convinced me with your facts and knowledge of the subject. You are a great debater, comrade.

Sally - in one of his books he talks briefly about his time in central america. As far as I know he's a pretty strong catholic, but that didn't stop him from calling out cardnal law about his failure to stop the pedaphiles in the priesthood.

Sally - in one of his books he talks briefly about his time in central america. As far as I know he's a pretty strong catholic, but that didn't stop him from calling out cardnal law about his failure to stop the pedaphiles in the priesthood.

Surely you're not suggesting that criticizing someone for tolerating pedophilia is the same as murdering them in cold blood for saying that the government should stop slaughtering innocent people?

I'd be really surprised if O'Reilly ever said that he was converted to anti-communism in El Salvador. He might be a nasty piece of work, but he's neither that stupid nor that evil. I suspect what's going on is that you remember him saying something about Central America, you googled his bio and saw something about El Salvador, and you're so deeply ignorant that you didn't realize that El Salvador was probably not the country he was talking about.

That's fine: we can't all know everything about everything. But given that you're really ignorant, it would be nice if you'd stop presuming to lecture the little ladies about current events.

Y'all are my heroes. Trying to explain humor to conservatives is an unendingly painful task. I am frankly sick and tired of being told that I'm "humorless" because I think the oldest, most cliched, tired jokes aren't funny. I suppose it makes sense that "conservatives" would want their humor tried and true before they were allowed to find it funny. But it doesn't actually make it funny.

Weren't you the one who wrote "why can't I just like shoes? why does it have to mean something?" or something to that effect?

It was funny when you said it, too.