O'Reilly: U.S. may have to "level cities like Tehran"

[CatWoman]

On the December 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly asserted that "we may have to" "level cities like Tehran, kill hundreds of thousands of people," which, he explained, the United States has "already done in Germany and Japan." O'Reilly then argued that such a move would be necessary, for example, "f Iran takes over Iraq and then fosters a revolution inside Saudi Arabia ... and gets control of all the oil and says we're not selling to the USA, we are going to level that country, because you ... need gasoline to live."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200612060008

[no_hypocrisy]

1. OK, explain to me the difference between Bill O'Reilly and

Father Charles Coughlin as far as their nihilistic tendencies go.

[tanyev]

57. Or Bill O'Reilly and Osama bin Laden.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Merry Christmas Billy boy...

Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men, and all that other horseshit.

[badgerpup]

35. Now there's REAL war on Christmas for ya...

...in the spirit of the thing as well as the letter.

Bill, may you have ALL the gasoline you could ever desire. May you be FILLED with the richness of gasoline. May it fill your SUV, your house, your studio...your mouth, your nose, your belly, your lungs...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, "nye kulturny Culture Warrior". :sarcasm:

:nuke:

[maddezmom]

3. why does this idiot stay on the air?

:puke:

[Ron Green]

27. Sadly, lots of people respond to his brand of entertainment.

[ck4829]

4. Those are some real Free Market values there.

:sarcasm:

[walldude]

5. Because "I" need gasoline to live?

Maybe "you" need gasoline to live Bill. Maybe you are willing to kill hundreds of thousands of people so you can cruise around in your limo or SUV. As far as I am concerned I don't need "gasoline" so badly that I am willing to kill for it. Then again, I have a conscience, unlike some adulterous sexual harassers I know.

[krispos42]

60. Not to defend Loofah Boy here, but we do need gasoline to live

Our economy is critically dependent on fossil fuels. If the tap was turned off tomorrow, we would have a depression that would make 1929 look like a so-so day on Wall Street.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure that Loofa Boy has his head up his ass. Assuming for a minute that Iran took over Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia (thanks, there, Georgie. Heckuvajob) and refused to sell oil to us, that would have to mean that they would be selling the oil to other countries, like China and the EU. Which would mean that those countries would be buying less oil from countries like Libya, Russia, Mexico, Canada, and Venezuela. So, then the market would self-correct, moving oil from different countries to other countries, just like before. The crude that the US used would just be more South American and Russian, while China, India, and the EU would be more Middle Eastern.

The big threat is that they would simply stop selling oil altogether. That would devestate their economy, but the people might be willing to take the pain because it would hurt the Great Satan (us). But I'm sure that a total and complete ban on all foodstuffs to the new Iranian Empire would bring them around in a short while. Perhaps some Roundup sprayed on their farmland, killing all plant matter, would assist them in coming to this decision.

[bloom]

6. I always have to wonder if assholes like him

aren't saying what Rove (or whomever) wants them to say.

Getting the Republican horde ready for WWIII or whatever, as the case may be.

[roamer65]

7. LOOFAH...

O' Falafel. Sorry, I just can't take him seriously. LOOFAH...

[GreenTea]

61. Youzz just don't get it, do youzzz?

[SammyWinstonJack]

80. Does he even take himself seriously? He's just in it for the money and attention it gets him.

Otherwise, I think he couldn't care less. Just like Limpballs and Hannity. Problem is, those he is wanting to kill for their oil, probably do take him seriously and that is the real reason they hate us, for the attitude that we think we are entitled to their oil no matter what we have too do to get it, like kill them all for instance.

[ljm2002]

8. What a wretched, evil man he is

It is truly amazing that people go for this stuff. I've heard people say that we need to level Iraq, just blow the place up. Yes, in their tiny evil little minds, that would solve the "problem" just fine...

This is what our lovely mass-brainwashing media has produced, people with no moral compass whatsoever. And sadly, the same people are presented as -- and think of themselves as -- the only moral force in our country.

I don't know what to think, I truly do not, when people can engage in this type of thinking. Even less, when people like O'Reilly who have access to airwaves and millions of listeners, can be allowed to spew this hateful rhetoric without ever being called on it.

The FCC really should do something about hate speech on the public airwaves. Instead they spasm over a 1-second nipple shot, and about the occasional "damn" uttered on network TV, while completely ignoring the rotten stench that emanates from blowhards like O'Reilly et al.

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[GDAEx2]

9. must..have..oil.....to live...

in my $300k mcmansion and drive my dodge durango 40 miles each way to work.

This is the way of life that is worth killing hundreds of thousands for?

Wouldn't Jesus be proud?

:sarcasm:

[lectrobyte]

10. Need gasoline to live? If that's the case, then mother Earth sure

has a nice surprise waiting for us since there's only so much to drill out... Oh yeah, fuck you, Bill.

[lapfog_1]

11. Hey Bill! You know what would be worse than them not selling

oil to us... worse for them? What about we don't FUCKING BUY IT! No need to bomb them back to the stone age or kill millions.

[PassingFair]

46. At the bottom of all of this lies the fact that they REALLY believe

that because we NEED the oil, that we have the
GAWD GIVEN RIGHT to TAKE it from them.

We NEED it.

We CAN take it.

So we WILL take it.

MIGHT makes right.

What would YOU do without O-I-L, little girl (chirp, chirp, chirp, like a little bird...)



The crazies in charge REALLY believe we have the RIGHT, if we
have the POWER, and that we'd better secure it now, before THEY get nuclear.

They don't see it makes them worse than Hitler and Stalin put together.

T-H-U-G-S

[bidiboom]

12. Bill, why don't we level DC or wherever you live

That would solve a lot more problems. :sarcasm:

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Fuck him. O'Really is just another bully with a big mouth. . .

and tiny balls.

:evilfrown:

[YOY]

14. Gosh golly gee whiz Bill

So lets cut Gas out of the equation in lieu of some better form of efficient and cheep fuel! How's that sound to ye?

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Hey bill-o ever heard even in passing of

peak oil?

[Recursion]

16. Umm... "foster a revolution in SA"

yeah... I'm sure the Wahabbists in SA are just eager to join a shi'ite revolution. What a moran.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. They's all A-Rabs, Aint They?

Well, actually, the Iranians aren't. But still.

[Recursion]

25. Neither are the Iraqis... and neither Arabs nor Iranians wear turbans

funny the moranity that gets stuck in the popular culture...

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Well, whoever they are, they're sittin' on OUR GAS!

Dammit, I need my fix, fuckers!

[hfojvt]

56. are you saying that you don't?

That it would not bother either you or this country if gas suddenly went to $6 or $10 a gallon?

I can guess who would not be bothered that much. Bill O'Reilly for one. Suppose he now spends $5000 a year on gasoline. If he suddenly has to spend $15,000 or $25,000 for the same amount of gas, that's not gonna make a dent in his millions.

Not gonna bother me either directly since I bike almost everywhere, but then wouldn't utility bills go way up too, and the price of everything else that includes transportation would go way up. But we could still get oil from Russia, Venezuela and Mexico.

[Warren DeMontague]

64. I'm saying this country has an EXTREMELY dysfunctional relationship with petroleum.

Would it suck if gas went to $10 a gallon? Yeah, although probably not as much for me as it would for these idiots who drive massively outsized SUVs and pickup trucks for no other reason than to feel manly.

The question isn't really "what would happen IF gas got to be $10 a gallon", but rather "When will it?" I mean, look, I understand that:

A) We live on a sphere, right- (I really think many of our problems start with the fact that some people seemingly don't) and that sphere is a ball with a finite volume.

B) Oil is a substance which we extract out of the ground.

So, since we live on a finite sphere, and oil comes out of the ground, even if the Earth was made entirely of oil (a ludicrous concept) even then, sooner or later, the shit would run out.

Therefore, unlike many in this country, I don't consider it my God-Given 'Merkin right to an infinite supply of cheap (and I hate to break it to ya, but $3 a gallon is cheap) gas. If the American People want energy that is never going to run out, they should damn well stop driving big honkin' penis substitutes that run on gas and start supporting research into renewable energy.

The bottom line with this whole thing, in this whole thread is, even if the people in the Middle East did cut off the oil spigot, it's their land and their natural resource. We're not "entitled" to it any more than they are entitled to the water from the Colorado river or the wood from our old-growth forests.

And to argue that $10 a gallon gas is enough of an "outrage" to justify killing innocent people... well, I know you and I have had our disagreements in the past, but I can't imagine that's what you're trying to say here.

[lebkuchen]

17. the result of lack of fairness in the media

insanity

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Is Bildo running for GOPer prez yet?

He'd be a dandy.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. GIMME MY GAS!!!

MINE! MINE! MINE!

[kiki]

21. Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Bill-O! n/t

[Selatius]

22. Yes, let's repeat Dresden again.

Killing tens of thousands of civilians is going to make Iranians condemn their own government more quickly.

:sarcasm:

[Norquist Nemesis]

23. One of these days "The O'Reilly Factor" is will cut to commercial

and return to an empty chair. In the background, the audience will catch a glimpse of Bill-O as he's hauled off in a straightjacket and he'll be heard ranting and the top of his lungs.

One of these days.

[Sapere aude]

24. It is about oil isn't it? How long does it take radiation to subside after a place is nuked?

Who would want to work in a nuclear attacked oil field?

[YOY]

26. Haliburton

...for a premium contract of course

[Liberal In Texas]

42. Sure, don't we all want radioactive gasoline? n/t

[Az]

29. Gosh, and they wonder why Iran is so defensive

THe only thing they can think of that will keep America from wiping them out are nukes. They notice we don't bully countries with nukes. So it seems like a good idea to them to get some.

[LSK]

30. he must really like being on KO's worst person in the world list

[Warren Stupidity]

31. The odd thing is that the Iranians don't refuse to sell oil

we refuse to buy it. But we musn't get confused by mere facts.

[Jacobin]

32. Here's a thought:

Why not try BUYING the fucking oil instead of trying to steal it?

[RaleighNCDUer]

49. Afraid of the cost - they might jack up the price by 50%.

Of couse, even that would be cheaper than another few hundred billion spent on a war.

[pdxmom]

33. I want them to take O'Lielly, Bush, Rush, Hannity and the whole lot

of them that call for this crap and FORCE them to spend 1 month actually out on patrols with the troops. Make them work in the hospitals. Make them face the firefight and talk to the innocent Iraqi families. These warmongers have no idea, no heart or compassion and to them, the world is their video game.

[Seattleman]

71. Cranial Rectal Inversion

Those guys have their heads so far up their asses that they couldn't find daylight with a team of search dogs.

[GenDem]

34. Why is this blow hard given a forum?

He's a neurotic waist of human excrement, spewing hate, and proselytizing the worse kind of destructive warfare like it's OK.

[AliceWonderland]

36. The scary thing is, he has a *listenership* in his calls for genocide.

I keep typing things and erasing them, because I can't find anything strong enough to express my revulsion.

[PsN2Wind]

37. They really need to pry that asshole

out of the studio, give him an M-16 and a Kabar and turn him loose on all those enemies of America.

[Cleita]

38. Ay! There is a segment of our population that really believes

that they way to solve our problems is to "kill them all" or "bomb the crap outta 'em".

I wonder how we are going to kill this mentality before it reaches our future children since the real problems we need to solve have nothing to do with imagined enemies in third world countries.

[MzNov]

39. What can you say?

This guy is a big fat cowardly blow hole. Nothing he says matters. The best thing is to ignore him.

[imouttahere]

40. This is why dickhead cheney said the american way of life.....

is not negotiable. If we hadn't been pissing off every other country in the ME for the last 80 years or so, we might be able to negotiate. Now our entire economy is dependent on cheap fossil fuel. It won't last forever and we'll start feeling the effects of this short-sightedness sooner rather than later.

[Rex]

41. Bill must have 'turtled' on his regular hooker.

Poor Bill. Life must be a living Hell. :rofl:

[ArmchairMeme]

43. Same story repeated......

I think I remember Cheney saying just last week that a Democratic congress would not stop a strike on Iran.

OReally must be carrying that message however stupid the consequences would be.

Addicts always do the same thing over and over and expect different results - it proves their insanity!

[Beelzebud]

44. Tough talk from one of the biggest pussies on the block.

I'll bet if O'Lielly saw live combat he'd shit his pants.

[ladym55]

75. Mr Wargasm won't even visit the troops

Al Franken is headed for his 7th? 8th? USO tour to Iraq this weekend. Bill-O can't possibly leave NY--his work is FAR TOO IMPORTANT. (Do I hear a chicken in the background?)

Franken says he understands WHY Bill-O won't go to Iraq for USO. It has to do with complete lack of TALENT.

Now can someone PLEASE explain to me why so many people watch and listen to this arrogant, hate-filled, chickenhawk, chickensh*t blowhard????? (and I was being polite and restrained here) Gotta love those "values" Bill-O represents. He thinks we should let the Iraqis kill each other--wipe each other out. :banghead:

[treestar]

45. Why not just buy it from them, jerk?

That's one thing that is always presumed; the US somehow has a right to that oil. Well, it's on THEIR land. Just buy it from them.

All this killing just to avoid a free market price. Rather odd coming from right wingers.

[steve2470]

47. Such a fine specimen of human civilization /not

Maybe his grandpa was in the Wehrmacht, ja ?

[NegSpin]

48. Send Bill

Just send Bill O'Reilly to live with THEM for a while. They'll give us all the gas we want to take him back.

What a guy. So he's saying our uncontrolled selfishness is a good enough reason to kill hundreds of thousands of people at once. The 'terrorists' have their own 'good enough reasons' to kill but Bill goes way beyond them.

[stubtoe]

50. Get the hook.

This guy needs to be pulled off air and pronto.

[opihimoimoi]

51. Get some ball bearings for him too...whad a nut case....

[maxsolomon]

52. can't level Tehran unless the bombers have fuel in them

9/11 wasn't pearl harbor, asshole.

[EstimatedProphet]

53. Proof that Bill O'Reilly is a worthless coward

Yeah, Bill, talk up nuking a country to take their stuff. Does it ake you feel like a big man? Does it make you feel like your dick has gotten bigger, Bill?

[Betty]

54. this man claims to be a Christian????

I hope they've got a special place in hell waiting for him.

[samsingh]

55. this guy is just plain stupid - and evil

[genieroze]

58. I don't listen to Shrill Oh LIEly. He's an a-hole.

[GreenTea]

59. Killing people, including frightened children with brown skin is the correct & fair thing to do...

As long as we have oil for us white people we have a right to kill and steal from those uncivilized dark people for their oil. That's fact, read your history books, (and your bible as well, written for us whities).

Why not, we have a better military than the brown people over there do, they should have spent more of their money on their military and buying high-tech weapons from America to protect their oil...We would of given them good deals, maybe even traded some jets for oil...But now, it belongs to us. Might Makes Right!

You understand, it's a matter of principle, our white corporations use our dark skinned people to work in our military so we be tougher, and we can steal more oil for them to gouge the white people back home for record profits... See the system indeed works!

Yes, O'Reilly is right on this one, that's our gasoline over there and we whitie's want it and need it bad, ever last drop....

Shit, get real, there's a god damn profit to be made... anyway, those damn people don't feel pain like we white people do when we can't get to work because there's no stinkin gasoline...they simply walk or ride a bike to their rug factories...we need that damn oil, and it's ours and we's going to get it...Do YOU get it yet?

And it's a good thing the new democratic congress won't get in the way, and will let the war proceed and spend our tax dollars to keep the war going, that's important.

Monkeyboy Bush also knows there's still plenty of money to be made, and can bankrupt social security & all those other programs designed by the progressives to help the lazy of our country to boot.

Now, I don't like Bush, in fact I despise him...But, he's correct on this one...we need the oil we know that much, just as we need to get rid of all the unnecessary social programs the rich never use, it's for our own good...to protect us from the terrorist!

[demo_not_full]

62. we don't need the oil ...

or maybe I should say, yes we need it today but not tomorrow. But we didn't need it yesterday. Blah blah blah.

Many already know that we could have eliminated oil years ago with all the new technology out there that men have died for. Yes they died for inventing it. You already know WHY I am sure, so I don't need to elaborate. Besides It seems like the right thing to NOT kill others for oil. If we get into a position to where we need that oil then it's our own fault for being gullible and not taking a stand early on. I'd starve to death before I would drop a bomb on women and children. This "Bush" problem goes much deeper than what gets reported. The fact is that our entire American culture is a "dependent" one that dupes us into relying on the greedy corporations to survive. The "real" reality is that we can take care of ourselves independently more than we're taught to. A good example is a doctor making us believe we need to spend our money on pills when our cure costs $1 from the grocery store. If we knew THAT truth ole doc wouldn't be getting his incentives from the drug companies. THAT'S our culture.

[KamaAina]

63. Oh, come on. You know perfectly well it's not about the oil.

O'Really? is worried that the Iranians will curtail the supply of another natural resource that's essential to his lifestyle...

...falafel. :rofl:

edit: "Iraniana"? Clooney film sequel, perhaps?

[musette_sf]

65. yep, Faux is ginning up the upcoming

War With Iran Bringing Freedom And Democracy To The Iranian People.

And then two days later, Faux "News" throws out the following red herring story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2644479

Freedom is on the march! We must nuke Iran to bring democracy to Iran! :nuke:

And while we're on the subject, what's going on with the US Navy's Eisenhower Strike Force, which was deployed to the Persian Gulf just before the election? It's been REAL quiet on this lately...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/461

[Left Is Write]

66. So...he's advocating terrorism, is he?

[Jcrowley]

67. Pretty straightforward

Remember he's only allowed to say these things because some people who actually have power think the very same thing and have there fingers on the button.

[IWantAChange]

68. Sad truth is this gasbag has a large audience that believes his BS.

I'm sad, very sad to say that my cousin - a Stanford graduate with an MBA, law degree and practices as a CPA hangs on his every word. A lifelong Repug, he has become my 'project' for the foreseeable future. I simply provide him with facts from credible sources to refute most of Billo's talking points or rants.

[NVMojo]

69. can we level this idiot and his show?

[Seattleman]

70. O Reilly is a twit

twit........ perhaps I misspelled that.....

[Renew Deal]

72. And San Francisco

[area51]

73. love the pic.

Hope someone shows it and the one upthread (Dild O'Reilly as Hitler) to him. :evilgrin:

[Imagevision]

74. Unfortunately, O'shithead is correct, the US. will level any country that interferes with it's

survival.

[Zambero]

76. Fine, let's go with O'Reilly's plan and nuke Tehran

End civlization if that's what it takes. Just don't try and pass off any more of that secular progressive Happy Holidays crap!

[FedUpWithIt All]

77. Hmmmm, lets go back a few years....

take back the illegal invasion of Iraq and we would be able to PAY for the oil we use.

But we can't go back can we?

Bill is wrong. We cannot live THE WAY WE CURRENTLY DO without gasoline. We CAN, live in a more ethical and responsible way without using as much of it. In this case, the options are to make a choice to live differently now or wait until you have no choice. In the long run, when we are forced to rethink our way of living, people like Mr. O'Reilly will not fair so well as those who preferred to change their way of living before it became necessary.

A silver lining to every cloud.

[marmar]

78. He's like a mad rabid dog....

Someone call animal control.

[demobrit]

79. O`Reilly will become insignificant as Faux News one day