Bill O'Reilly Snaps...Again video

This has got to be one of the funniest videos I've ever watched.

Video is 1:34 long.

Wow, wow, wow.

Thanks for sharing that. Hi-effin-larious.

OMFG!! He's human!!

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"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to
change it." -- Barack Obama

That happens more often than one think, especially since these kinds of SNAFUs and FUBARs wind up screwing up the time constrictions of shows.

This one by Casey Kasem was a classic, the "Snuggles Affair." It went over the air without him knowing it IIRC:

kasem and snuggles - Google Video

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Around 200,000 Irish immigrants served in the Union and Confederate armies in the American Civil War, often forming their own regiments and, at times, fought each other. At Fredericksburg, the Union’s Irish Brigade faced the Irish McMillan's Guards of Cobb's 24th Georgia entrenched in a sunken road behind a stone wall. Ordered to make a suicidal charge, it became one of the most famous events of the Civil War. The re-enactment portrayed in the movie Gods and Generals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVCxEupPag

Holy 1990, Batman...

love how people dig shit up fromj a decade ago and pander it around like it is brand new. And this isnt directed to the poster of this thread...this is all over the networks also saw a piece on it on some show yesterday as i was flipping the channels........

dude this is like 10 years old, he had hair then..... and frankly I am not surprised...the angriest I have ever seen him was this kids who's dad got offed on 911 in the towers saying we in effect brought it on ourselves and sppted the lefty we earned it culture......he went off...

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Obama-e fungis nati homines....

heh - obviously very old..I do believe he was having a bad day..pretty funny...somewhere there is a video of Dan Rather blowing up like this.

We landed people on the moon????

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"Compassionate Conservatism"?!?! That is a stupid phrase. Conservatism is inherently compassionate. It is liberalism that is cruel for the sake of maintaining a constituency.

OMG, that was great!

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"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." - Oscar Wilde

Yeah, he blew up, but it actually seemed warranted.

He was supposed to read the telepromter like almost all news shows.... the teleprompter was not working, but they were telling him to keep going even though the show was just being taped.

It just seemed like mildly incompetent production of a show to me... the crew didn't seem to be communicating very well.

O'Reilly got impatient..... To me, it makes him a hothead to some degree, but I see why he was agitated.

The most enlightening thing to me from viewing the clip is that Inside Edition was essentially a tabloid show. The O'Reilly show is really modeled in that same vein.... a tabloid show masquerading as a news program.

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Screw Change!! Let's have a Seamless Transition of Power and Policy.. John McSame in 2008!

I'm not particularly fond of O'Reilly, but, seriously, for you to arrive that that conclusion displays that you could not have possibly actually watched the show much, at all.

It is not a "news program" nor does it pretend to be. The Factor is an "opinion program" centered around "news items". It is clearly presented as such.

This is a hell of a lot more honest than, say, any of the three broadcast networks' 6:30pm "news" programs, which truly are similar to what you describe..."opinion journalism masquerading as news coverage".

Along the same lines, I have very little "problem" with the NYT leftist opinion columnists and what they say - at least when it is on the editorial page(s). It is when they stock the above-the-fold front page with misleading headlines and "news" stories rife with bias that I have a problem.

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"Compassionate Conservatism"?!?! That is a stupid phrase. Conservatism is inherently compassionate. It is liberalism that is cruel for the sake of maintaining a constituency.

agreed....the "news " shows today, are merely ponds for personalities. In affect they are all tabloid shows…ask Katie.

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Obama-e fungis nati homines....

No, it often pretends to be.. O'Reilly routinely claims to have "broken" various stories. If you're in competition with other news agencies to be the first to cover a story, you're trying to be a news program.

It is an opinion show, but O'Reilly has a news background and he fancies himself as a journalist as well as a bloviating know it all. He's incorportated the tabloid style of 'Inside Edition' into "The Factor" and it shows. He's created an entertaining show as a result. O'Reilly has about the same journalistic legitimacy as the 'Colbert Report'.

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Screw Change!! Let's have a Seamless Transition of Power and Policy.. John McSame in 2008!

It is entirely possible for him to "break" a story and still be a news opinion program. When he does that, he clearly couches as, "Here's what's happening and here's what I think/feel [too often "feel" IMHO] about it...". That is all that it is. It is very similar to what might happen on The Daily Show - yes, you'll get "news" items from it, but realize it is going to be slathered in unvarnished opinion (with a comedic aspect, in this case).

In either example, you are a fool to use it as an actual source of news. If either brings something up that is "news to you", you owe it to yourself and the people to which you blather your opinions on the subject to find some more objective information on the topic, first. This is simply just understood.

More commonly O'Reilly will seize something he judged to be under-covered or ignored and go after it from that angle, though. It's not necessarily "news" up to that point - maybe warranted some Page 19 coverage - but he aims to bring it to the forefront as a sort of advocate (does this a lot RE: cases involving child abuse or, sadly, murder). This does not change the fact that the show is clearly an hour long editorial on the news.

The major resentment of O'Reilly from the standpoint of the left stems from the fact that there is no equally effective "liberal" alternative - in terms of audience share and, yes, impact. They've tried. If nothing else, they can take solice in the myriad things O'Reilly is downright liberal about - he's just as ferocious in those matters as it his in his conservative ones.

It is interesting to see how the left tries to disparage O'Reilly in the same vein they did (still do?) Matt Drudge and his website (primarily). Both are overwhelmingly popular. Both are apt to put a slant on things (if nothing else in their selection of items to address), but both, undeniably, take shots at both sides of the political spectrum. The Left poo-poo's them at thier own peril and, in the case where either of them make a point for the left, at the risk of weakening their own arguments.

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"Compassionate Conservatism"?!?! That is a stupid phrase. Conservatism is inherently compassionate. It is liberalism that is cruel for the sake of maintaining a constituency.