O('Reilly) Canada

What do you think O'Reilly is talking about when he threatens "serious pain"?

I was really hoping this would be about the computer book publisher.

What do you think O'Reilly is talking about when he threatens "serious pain"?
he is referring to fox news

The really sad thing about this is that, as snarky as Doyle is being, he's mostly right and considerably more urbane than Mr. O'Reilly but many Americans will see it as an anti-American, liberal elitist Candian thing worthy of condemnation.

as snarky as Doyle is being
he is a TV columnist

who cares if some americans think a toronto tv columnist is elitist?

Did they set this up to boost their respective ratings?

Doyle has no ratings.

doyle is actually a pretty good critic,i like him

He's a lot better than Jason Chow at the National Post, who is actually a pretty good critic, but just not for TV because he doesn't seem to be able to enjoy it. I think he'd be better for movies or something. He's a good writer, but he just seems to hate everything, and not in a very entertaining way.

who's that goofy post tv guy? the "funny" one?

Feschuck, Scott Feschuck. He's now a Paul Martin speechwriter.

really? huh

He called the Globe a far-left paper and Doyle a Canadian intellectual.
Damn, don't you hate it when somebody calls you intellectual?
That he considers the Globe to be a far left paper was good for a laugh or two.

seriously!! remember when the globe was considered the conservative paper, before you-know-what?

Now it's just the slightly-less conservative paper.

Like the Grits are now the slightly-less conservative party.

the day joe effing clarke said: "vote lib" is when the ndp started looking really good.

politicians in being total scumbags shocka!

(i question the psychological stability of anyone who runs for any office, even the dog catcher is suspect!)

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Huckle-Buck,

I meant that he could boost their circulation.

Dear Sirs,

O'Reilly is a SERIOUS moron.
I am sorry his comments get airtime, as he is a huge embarrassment to most Americans.
He obviously drank from the same bottle of Stupid as our president.
And its all about money ofcourse. To those using their pee brains.

We have alot to learn from our neighbors to the North, please invade us and take over soon.
Perhaps that way we can alter the DNA of all this right wing inbreeding...
And, when you capture Mr Bill, please feel free to castrate the boob so that no more vitriol is passed on genetically in that particular overripened bloodline.
thanks,

Jeff Law
Houston, Texas

"pee brains"

We worthless cowards are frightened of the gathering storm clouds.

The NYT last Sunday ran the most frightening anti-Canadian bile from O'Reilly viewers imaginable. It never ceases to amaze me that people a)think things like this and b)find it perfectly reasonable to vent this incohesive bile in public

To: Doyle, John

Subject: you are a [expletive]

Please don't sleep on your side, because your tiny little brain will roll out your ear, you communist [expletive].

To: Doyle, John

Subject: Fox and your newspaper

. . . I imagine you are one of those middle-aged creeps sitting on your fat [expletive] drooling with envy at the success of others. From your photo it appears you have a receding hairline.

Charles

And several summarily withdrew their states' welcome:

To: Doyle, John

Subject: Fox News

Your [expletive] attitude exists because you are Canadian. Canadians are worthless. Canadian equals coward. You don't need just Fox News Channel. First you need to stop being Canadian.

Steve

In Texas. Stay Away.

To: Doyle, John

Subject: Your article

This article was written by an idiot. Canadians are far too dumb to appreciate Fox News anyway. Don't confuse their little heads with the facts. . . . My husband has been forced to work in Canada for awhile this spring. He said most Canadians are [expletives].

Have a good day.

Ruth, from the wonderful state of Colorado.

(Don't come for a visit.)

But most simply accused Mr. Doyle and his readership of being inferior, envious or worse . . . Canadian!

To: Doyle, John

Subject: what a joke - Fox

. . . Clearly you believe Americans must be stupid. But clearly not as dense as Canadians, who are spoon-fed their news by heavily tilted "non partial" partisans such as yourself.

Your problem, you creep, is that you are Canadian.

Regards,

Ron

To: Doyle, John

Subject: nice try [EXPLETIVE!]

{hellip}True freedom of speech and diversity of opinion TERRIFIES you left-wing [expletives]. That is why your "1st Amendment" equivalent has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. You Canadians are really quite sad to us Americans. We generally feel sorry for you and your weak, dependent country.

John

Springfield, Va. ****USA****

To: Doyle, John

Subject: Your article

Why don't you just shut your damn mouth. Your lucky we don't attack Canada next. We hate communists here.

Wow.
It's amazing what passes for communism post-1989.

"It never ceases to amaze me that people a)think things like this and b)find it perfectly reasonable to vent this incohesive bile in public"

The problem is, once somebody like O'Reilly goes public with crap like that, many of their followers will...follow. In their minds, he validates their own very worst behavior. It's very "Monkey see,monkey do". What scares me is how alot of this capitalizes on people's individual prejudices. America has actually grown more bigoted in the last few years.

Stupid people make me happy.

they piss me off.

I react both ways!

Stupid people removed from personal contact with me give me no small amount of glee. Stupid people I have to deal with everyday are not so amusing. Sometimes they are. Anyway, Bill O'Reilly seems like a cartoon from here, but I suppose he is, by and large, absolutely evil.

I dunno, I always pictured absolute evil as smarter and better-looking. I think he's just a doofus.

I think the absolute evilness comes not from the fact that he actually is a hate-spewing moron, but that he plays one for profit. That he plays so purposefully to the basest prejudices and cajoles his audience to not think, just to be angry; to not understand, just to threaten "serious pain" to anyone who doesn't share their own myopic worldview. I seriously doubt he actually holds much in the way of conviction, he's just a crass opportunist, exploiting the dormant bigotry behind America's current (constant???) paranoia.

Huckle-Buck

Read the section in Al Franken's book about him. It's hilarious and infuriating.

Been there, done that. You bet.

Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly denies anger at Canada, ultra-right label
TORONTO (CP) — Fox News Channel commentator Bill O’Reilly wants it known he’s not really as rabidly controversial as he’s being portrayed by other media outlets, including at least one in Canada.
On Friday, O’Reilly took exception to reports that he is an “ultra-conservative” and that he does not like Canada. In recent days, the outspoken American TV personality has been involved in a running dispute with Toronto’s Globe & Mail newspaper, and in particular its TV columnist, John Doyle, who wrote that Fox News should be allowed on Canadian cable and satellite services because viewers in this country could use a good laugh.
O’Reilly also complained about several points in a Canadian Press story on Thursday.
“Hey you pinheads up there, I may be pompous, but at least I’m honest,” O’Reilly was quoted as saying in a New York Times story. But the commentator says he was referring to Globe & Mail staff, not Canadians in general, who he says are good people.
“I got nothing against the Canadian people but in the last few years you’ve swung dramatically to the left,” he says. “And we in America have some questions about that.”
Doyle says he still finds O’Reilly hilarious.
“He’s been stung by Canada because a writer at a Canadian newspaper said he was entertaining in his operatic arguments and revealed that many of his followers are only capable of writing abusive, foul-mouthed responses to those they disagree with,” says the columnist. “He’s a joke and Canada needs to see this joker. We won’t take him seriously and that’s what really annoys him.”
Meanwhile, O’Reilly denies reports that were published widely — including in the New Yorker — that he physically threatened Jeremy Glick, a guest on his show, a relative of a victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and an opponent of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. He says it didn’t happen and that there are no witnesses who can say it did. Reports quoted Glick alleging that after the broadcast, O’Reilly threatened to tear him to pieces for being anti-American.
“Ridiculous, absurd,” O’Reilly maintains. “Twenty people in the room. He was escorted out and that was the end of him.
“Not one human being, outside of this man, who is a known far-left activist, not one name verifies what he said.”
O’Reilly also says the broadcast happened more than two years ago — in Dec. 2001 — not last February, as reported.
Further, he denies reports that he invited his supporters to initiate the write-in campaign that saw hundreds of hostile e-mails flood Doyle’s e-mail inbox at the Globe & Mail. In fact, he says he openly deplored those e-mails but that Doyle failed to mention that.
As for an account that he is perceived by many as “an ultra-conservative shark on a political feeding frenzy,” he says no one has ever called him that.
“Shark, sure, fine. Just call me a shark, I’m happy. Sharks will be mad, I’m happy. Ultra-conservative? Absurd.”
O’Reilly resents the image he has in Canada of a “right-wing loon who is running around out of control.” He says he is the victim of a left-wing smear campaign, but that the American far right doesn’t like him either, noting that G. Gordon Liddy attacked him recently.
But O’Reilly believes the Canadian media to be “primarily a left-wing concern” and says he has hundreds of letters from Canadians who agree with him. He says between 85 and 90 per cent of the Globe & Mail’s editorial opinions would be considered liberal in the U.S., including such issues as drug decriminalization, gay marriage, detainment of prisoners in Guantanamo and support for Iraq.
He says one thing would settle all arguments he’s had with the paper’s TV critic and that is if Canadians could only see Fox News and judge for themselves that it is not rabidly right wing, as has been suggested. An application has been submitted to the CRTC by the Canadian Cable Television Association.
“If you had us up there to balance CNN, you’d give people a choice, they’d hear other points of view. Not conservative points of view — this is not a conservative network.”
He also stands by opinions he’s expressed on several recent Canadian issues. He says he understands the mayor of Vancouver is setting up free heroin clinics in the city.
Not quite. A safe-injection site is open in the city’s drug-riddled downtown eastside and researchers hope to set up another clinic to provide free heroin to addicts to see if prescribing the drug can improve their lives. City approval has been received, but the study still needs Health Canada’s blessing and government security standards must also be met.
But the biggest bone O’Reilly has to pick involves two U.S. army deserters who are seeking asylum in Canada. He has argued that if Ottawa grants that asylum, the U.S. should boycott Canadian products in protest, a move that he says could cripple the Canadian economy.
“That’s the big issue right now, that Americans expect these people to be extradited back here.”
Two American servicemen recently went AWOL from their units and, claiming political refugee status, fled to Canada to avoid deployment to Iraq where they believe the war is illegal under international law. They will face the Canadian immigration and refugee board.

There was a really great column in Saturday's Globe & Mail by Heather Mallick about being a guest on O'Reilly's show.

bring on the boycott of canadian goods i say. just try it¡
no more petrol and no more electricity for the east coast.
i don't think it occurs to many americans how important the relationship with canada (their no. 1 trading partner) truly is.

But Mexico is their most important economic ally, and Gr. Brit is their best friend! GWB said so, so it must be true.

O'Reilly has every fucking right to say whatever the hell he wants to. It's a free country, dammit!!

What should he bother with things such as truth and decency when he's got freedom.