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Three BuzzFlash Readers Comment on Bill O'Reilly Going Bonkers On "Fresh Air"

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Bill O'Reilly Interviewed by Terry Gross on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 [LINK]

Buzz:

Did anybody else hear Bill O'Reilly on Fresh Air today? I couldn't stop laughing. His accusations of what everybody else is supposedly doing to him sounded more like a laundry list of his own tantrums and tactics. I thought Terry Gross was giving him a pretty easy time of it, letting him dig his own grave, and even steering away from touchier topics to talk about his growing up in Catholic school, his difficult relationship with his father (boy, was that revealing—apparently, his dad is a first-class bully who beat up Bill on regular basis), and how he became politicized. O'Reilly repeatedly stated he has no patience with people who attack him personally, and yet, if I'm not mistaken, he told Gross in one instance that if she didn't agree with him, she "couldn't read," and in another that if she thought otherwise he didn't respect her.

Finally, he launched into a tirade about how it would be clear from the transcript that she'd only invited him on the show to ridicule him and promote NPR's left-wing agenda. Then he abruptly left. It was hilarious. In fact, what will be crystal clear from that transcript is what a giant narcissistic baby Bill O'Reilly is. Oh, oh, oh, and lest I forget, he made a big deal at the beginning of the show about how all his enemies use only partial transcripts of his shows/interactions to bash him, and how he believes in citing only full transcripts, and, yet, he's posted a partial transcript of his Fresh Air appearance on his website.

A Buzzflash Reader

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Dear Buzz:

Did you happen to hear Terry Gross' Program "Fresh Air" today on PBS?She interviewed Bill O'Reilly yesterday (the program aired today,10/08/03) as he makes the rounds touting his new book, "Who's lookingout for you?" or some such.

Near the end of the program, she tried to cite a quote from a "People Magazine" review of the book, but O'Reilly lost it and wouldn't let her read it. He threw a tantrum, became quite abusive, and stalked off the show.

Mr. O is a typical bully; he can dish it out, but he sure can't take it. What a coward! I do hope the assorted media pick it up and run with it.

He takes great offense when he perceives that he is being attacked personally, which was his greivance with Ms. Gross, but ironically, the quote she was trying to cite was the reviewer in "People" telling how after he reviewed O'Reilly's first book "The Spin Zone" critically,O'Reilly went on his own show the next day and ranted about the critic, calling him a pin-head. I guess personal attacks are fine as long as O'Reilly can do the dishing.

Bully for Bully-Boy Bill.

Ron Weinert

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Buzz:

Bill O'Reilly stomped out of an interview with NPR's Terry Gross. I don't mean to put down Terry Gross; she's very good at what she does, but she's not a political commentator and is about as hard-hitting as whipped cream. But O'Reilly couldn't even get through one of Ms. Gross's softball interviews without throwing a temper tantrum. This man is very, very sick. Please go to link above and listen to it.

Some of O'Reilly's comments, along with calling Terry Gross a "smear merchant":
" Conversation got completely out of hand ... I knew that people were not going to be fair ...I enjoyed telling the woman off."

Oh, and he said that on his Fox News he's only told people to shut up "about five times in seven years." I suspect that is inaccurate, but I don't watch O'Reilly so I can't say. He also denied that he EVER claimed he won a Peabody Award.

I don't mean to be vulgar, but shit, O'Reilly, just how big a wimp are you? What a pathetic little wuss you are!

Does anyone have an email address for O'Reilly? I think he deserves lots of email calling him a sick, pathetic, little wuss.

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