O’Reilly Gets the Better of Schumer
By Don | August 29, 2008
Bill O'Reilly flexed his muscle and cowed Sen. Charles Schumer to accept his trems for appearing on his television show.
From TVNewser.
Johnny Dollar has the audio from the Radio Factor as Fox News analyst Lanny Davis describes nearly being bumped from the TV Factor because Sen. Chuck Schumer didn't want to go on with him.
It took O'Reilly to make the appearance happen. Davis even paraphrased him. "I simply saw you say, 'I make the decisions here. Sit down!'"
And, taking a cue from the Factor, you can tell by Schumer's body language he was thrilled to be on with Davis.
This only underscores the problems the Democrats have when a sitting U.S. Senator doesn't want to appear on a national program with another Democrat. What was he afraid of?
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Second Rule of Life, “One does not discuss anything with an Idiot. First they will bring you down to their level and then beat you up from experience”.
Schumer should have simply turned around and walked away from the Idiot. That was His Error in this nonsence.
Since Obamalini’s blackshirts are now putting up the body of a letter I sent to Pelosi on August 23, 2008 on my user page in Wikipedia up for deletion, below is the body of this letter.
Madame Speaker:
On June 24, 2008, you stated without hesitation calling for the reinstatement of the “Fairness Doctrine” in an effort to deliver “balance” to talk radio. On August 1, 2008, you called for an adjournment of Congress for summer recess and then shut off all media linkup over the Republican support for offshore oil drilling. On August 12, 2008, FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell stated that the doctrine could also apply to the Internet and blogs. This has me concerned as a listener to talk radio and as an editor to Wikipedia (User: Miller17CU94, ranked #553 in number of edits as of July 23, 2008.) because you are using this as an effort to censor a hobby of mine.
It also concerns as an American that what you (and many within your party) are doing is unconstitutional. What you and many in your party, led by Maurice Hinchey, Dennis Kucinich, and Louise Slaughter in the House and Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, and John Kerry in Senate, is a direct violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution which states as follows:
“Congress shall make now law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; of abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
This is part of the Constitution that you, every member of Congress, the President, the Vice President, every cabinet member in the Executive Branch, and every member of the Judiciary (including the Supreme Court) is sworn to take whether they serve for any duration in office, whether it is two years for the House, four years for the President and Vice President, six years for the Senate, or for the lifetime for judges. Why do you refuse to defend this amendment of the Constitution?
Let us also consider the financial aspect of what you are proposing. Given the state of the media in this country today with layoffs that are occurring at many newspapers, such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Washington Post, and in television like ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN, are laying off employees in order to stay competitive. Let us also not forget that most of these companies such as Time Warner (who I personally despise), General Electric, Viacom, COX Communications, Newsmax, New York Times Corporation, Washington Post Corporation, Disney, and the Tribune Corporation also use Internet for revenues. These revenues are caused by advertising fees for ratings in network radio and television. Satellite radio and cable television uses the combination of user fees and advertising revenues to earn money. Most Internet companies use advertisements that generate costs for hits to advertiser’s website on their website, such as a political advertisement on The Drudge Report as an example. All of this revenue generate profit for the corporations involved and in turn, generates taxes to the government. The only things that are making any decent money these days in the media are talk radio and the Internet. Why do you want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg?
Why do you want to have about half of the country who listens to talk radio (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, Mark Levin, Mike & Mike in the Morning) in the country or watch shows that you don’t agree with such as FOX News, be mad at you? Why do you want to make most of this country mad at you if they cannot access the Internet sites that they like such as The Drudge Report, DailyKos, Huffingtonpost, Yahoo!, or Wikipedia? It seems as if your lust for power and control has overridden any logic and judgment you may have in love and respect for this country.
I would like to remind you of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Drumhead” that first aired during the week of April 29, 1991 in which Captain Jean-Luc Picard is trying to stop a witch hunt from happening aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from the lead investigator, retired Admiral Norah Satie, by invoking this quote shown below:
“’With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first though forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.’ Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie … (Norah’s father) … as wisdom and warning … The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged.”
Are you going to expand this censorship beyond talk radio and the Internet? Why do you and your party have more respect for Karl Marx’s 1848 book The Communist Manifesto toward the control of communications (Section 2, Part 6 - newspaper, magazine, radio, television, and Internet) than you do toward our own Constitution’s First Amendment? Madame Speaker, this is the United States of America, not the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin!
Given who this will be sent to, I look forward to your character assassins within the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and their personal attacks along with potential subpoenas of Messers Conyers, Dingell, and Waxman, and Senators Inouye, Leahy, and Lieberman in an attack on a private citizen much like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s letter last year to Rush Limbaugh. I also look forward in you efforts to imprison me like what President Woodrow Wilson did to 150,000 of our citizens during World War I.
The genie is out of the bottle, Madame Speaker. Good luck trying to put it back in.
Here is a body of a another letter that is also under fire from Obamalini’s blackshirts on a letter sent to Jim Marshall (D-GA-8) on July 5, 2007 that is also under deletion on my user page in Wikipedia. Note: Jay Mariotti resigned from the Chicago Sun Times on August 28, 2008.
Dear Mr. Marshall:
Regarding your May 21, 2007 letter that I received from you regarding the Fairness Doctrine, I strongly disagree with you on this because of the words of some members of your own Democratic Party in the United States. Who cannot forget that during the 2004 Democratic Presidential Primary on Governor Dr. Howard Dean (now your party’s chairman) continuing calling “… to take the country back from Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and Sean Hannity” and “… that he was going to shut down FOX News” which some people implied to be all of FOX (FX, FOX Sports Net, SPEED TV, FOX Movie Channel, and network FOX)? Who cannot forget that in March 2004 on ESPN’s Around the Horn that Chicago Sun-Times sport columnist Jay Mariotti calling for the stoppage of FOX Sports Net? Who cannot forget the lie that University of Southern California law professor (and former 1988 Dukakis campaign manager) Susan Estrich lying to WGST-AM 640 talk show host Denny Schaffer on the air on October 27, 2006 that Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-New York) would not bring back the Fairness Doctrine? Who cannot forget that during a radio broadcaster’s convention in Memphis on January 13, 2007 that Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) calling for the return of the Fairness Doctrine? Who cannot forget that when Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez closed down Radio Caracas TV on May 27, 2007 that the American left-wing blogs of DailyKos.com and DemocraticUnderground.com both cheered Chavez’s actions? Who cannot forget the calls during this past week by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California), and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California), Barbara Boxer (D-California), Hillary Clinton (D-New York), Richard Durbin (D-Illinois), or John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) to reinstate this during the week of June 25, 2007? As an American I cannot.
Do you want to know why they want the Fairness Doctrine returned? It is because of power and a claim of “imbalance” within the press. That sir is a lie when you consider that there are already government-sponsored radio and television programs in this country called National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting System. Additionally, in a poll conducted by MSNBC, a decidedly liberal cable news network along with the original Cable News Network (CNN), that donations from 143 journalists from American Federal Election Commission (FEC) data found that from 2004 to March 31, 2007 that 125 donated to either your party or to liberal causes, 16 donated to Republican or conservative causes, and two donated to both. Let us also not forget that the media in this country lean very heavily to the Democrats in terms of voting. It was a relief that the Fairness Doctrine was abolished in 1987 because it paved the way for more information being out in the open for people to both access and use, including the growth of cable television including MSNBC, FOX News Channel, FOX Sports Net, C-SPAN 2, C-SPAN 3, and others; talk radio where there are now over 2000 stations, satellite radio such as Sirius and XM, and the Internet, including Yahoo!, Google, and Wikipedia (Disclosure: I am Wikipedia User Miller17CU94, one of the top 1000 editors in the English Wikipedia as of May 27, 2007 at #988. Link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of Wikipedians by number of edits). How many times have you been able to appear on WGST-AM 640 in Atlanta or WMAC-AM 940 in Macon during your term as Congressman as a result of the abolition of the Fairness Doctrine? It is obvious sir that your party’s call for the reinstitution of this is nothing more than censorship. Despite claims from your leaders and most of the mainstream press of ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN, the American people are not stupid and can see this issue as plain as day as being nothing more than censorship. What talk radio does is gives the average American a right and an avenue to discuss issues of the day, especially controversial ones like abortion, the Iraq War, the war on terrorism, religion, gay marriage, culture, the state of the country, and the state of the world. This is something that we could only do in private and in the local community during the Fairness Doctrine’s reign of terror of 1949-87. As you can see, it allowed for information to be exposed and reviewed, something that our Founding Fathers wanted when they created the Constitution in 1787. It is unfortunate that there are people issues who do not want issues discussed at all because they are enlightened. Let us also not forget that despite the Pence Amendment‘s overwhelming passing which you voted, it was only for one year. Additionally, there are calls by fellow Democrats John Dingell and John Conyers, Jr. (both from Michigan) to combine the “Fairness Doctrine” and the “Hate-crimes” legislation that would make any one from talk radio a criminal (and I can assume that would be their listeners as well). That was a tactic that former President Bill Clinton tried to pull in the wake of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred C. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in blaming talk radio for Timothy McVeigh’s actions. All that is are people who are arrogant and close-minded in their views and unable to see things for what they are instead of what they want it to be.
Imposing the “Fairness Doctrine” would be a mistake for it would shut down many ways people would get part of their daily information. It would also send a chilling effect throughout the media, including print, broadcast (radio and television), and online that the government could do that next. We already know that there are many people within your party who would like to get not just FOX News taken off of the air, but all of FOX. It would not surprise me that some members of your party are beginning to pressure NFL Commissioner Roger Goodall, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, NASCAR President Mike Helton, and NCAA President Miles Brand to renege on long-term contracts to host sporting events on network FOX, on FOX Sports Net, or on SPEED TV. Do you want to see America’s Most Wanted, COPS, or The Simpsons off of the air? Will you go to the internet and try to restrict the usage of people to certain websites, like the Chinese have done to Google, Yahoo!, or Wikipedia?
For the good of the country and for the good of Free speech, oppose the reinstitution of the “Fairness Doctrine” at all costs. The genie is out of the bottle, Mr. Marshall. Good luck trying to put it back in.
August 29 at 2:37 pm | #1 | Link
Schumer was never told that Lanny(a clinton pimp}
was going to be on the show. On his radio
show O’reilly(the world’s first and last practitioner of “traditionalism”) put on a big
sharade ignoring that Schumer had been blind sided. Schumer demanded
to be on by himself. OReilly wouldn’t kick Lanny
off so the discomfort insued. O’rielly had Schumer
by the balls
OReilly complains about people not coming on his
show. In reality he’s proud of his reputation.
How bout him sucking it up and going back to PBS?
Or how bout a reality check on the Michael Savage show. Oh wait neither of them are fair are they.