Canada vs Bill O'Reilly

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It's someone's fault I appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Tuesday night to discuss a column I wrote welcoming the presence of American deserters in Canada.

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Al Franken calls Mr. O'Reilly a "lying, splotchy bully," and proves it in his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, but Mr. Doyle thinks he's a great comic creation, I guess, like Britain's The Pub Landlord, this guy who's always ranting about how Great Britain used to be called Fookin' Fantastic Britain until all the immigrants arrived.

But Mr. Doyle is Irish and he likes his comedy blacker than a raven's eyeball. I should have remembered this, more fool me.

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Mr. O'Reilly is not a smart man. He's like one of those old guys you see on the street ringing a bell and shouting about eternal damnation. He talks to his trousers. You know the type. They let wasps nest in their hair so they can lure weasels, trap 'em and eat 'em slow over the summer.

We were supposed to be discussing American deserters fleeing to Canada; instead, he went off on some wild thing about the mayor of Vancouver injecting people with heroin and unless Canada shapes up, "we" will boycott you and destroy your economy, just like "we" did to France.

I said France seemed to be doing fine. He implied that France now looked like Dresden in 1945. I hadn't heard that.

http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040501/MALLICK01/TPComment/Columnists

Feud escalates between Toronto columnist and right-wing U.S. commentator
JOHN MCKAY



TORONTO (CP) - Should an escalating spat between a right-wing U.S. media personality and a Toronto TV columnist be added to the agenda of cross-border irritants Prime Minister Paul Martin and U.S. President George W. Bush will thrash out during their meeting Friday in Washington?

After all, the issues that currently divide many Canadians and Americans - from the Iraq war to same-sex marriages - seem to be embodied in the verbal mud-slinging between Fox News Channel commentator Bill O'Reilly and the Globe and Mail's John Doyle.

O'Reilly was once the nice-guy host of TV's syndicated Inside Edition, but now to many resembles an ultra-conservative shark on a political feeding frenzy, taking on all comers on his Fox TV program, as well as on his radio show and in columns and books. In his Wednesday online column (www.billoreilly.com), he proposed a boycott of Canada and its products if two U.S. military deserters who fled to Canada are given the asylum they've requested.

He has, as well, called Canadians dishonest pinheads - and worse.

O'Reilly decided to take on Doyle after the columnist endorsed a proposal before the CRTC to bring the Fox News Channel into Canada, adding that Canadian TV viewers needed a good laugh.

"O'Reilly makes our Ed the Sock look like a reasonable chap," Doyle wrote in his Thursday column, which he began by calling Fox News and its supporters "the lunatic fringe of the American culture."

http://www.recorder.ca/cp/Entertainment/040429/e042909A.html

[Killarney]

1. hilarious!

[glarius]

2. I saw a video clip on TV of O'Reilly threatening that Americans would

boycott Canadian products and ruin our economy....What the lame-brained O'Reilly seems to forget is that if the American government riles the rest of the world enough (including Canada) we can return the favour and boycott American products....That's a dumb game to play, leading nowhere, but then who said O'Reilly was smart?

edit..When I saw O'Reilly snarling his threat, he looked just like he did when he was yelling "shut up...shut up...shut up!" to Al Franken...The same ugly expression on his face...I think the man is capable of a lot of violence!

[Hamlette]

3. great article

I love the quote at the end. It reminds us that in other cultures the opposition is referred to as "loyal". We Americans are an aggressive, combative lot.