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Bill O’Reilly Explains Rise Of Liberalism As Rise Of ‘Simpletons’

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on May 28, 2015 · Flag

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A Gallup poll showing a record number of Americans calling themselves socially liberal can only mean one thing to Bill O’Reilly: a record number of American dumb-dumbs. Oh, and we’re all doomed.

O’Reilly’s Talking Points last night was devoted to explaining how, despite his best “looking out for you,” a new Gallup poll found that “Thirty-one percent of Americans describe their views on social issues as generally liberal, matching the percentage who identify as social conservatives for the first time in Gallup records dating back to 1999.”

Rather than consider that there might be a failure of conservatism, O’Reilly insisted that Americans must be brainwashed ignoramuses. His proof? His agenda-driven, hit pieces known as “Watters World” segments.

O’REILLY: So why is it happening? I call it the “Watters’ World” syndrome that more Americans are simply ignorant of the consequences involving social behavior.

As Talking Points has often pointed out, the rise of the net has taken people away from the real world and put them in a fantasy world. That’s one of the reasons I created “Watters’ World” where Jesse Watters asks folks about what they know about the real world. On liberal issues, it’s kind of frightening.

By the way, just a few months ago, O’Reilly swiped at a group of Vermont high school students for taking a Watters World’s segment seriously. In response to the students’ detailed critique of the segment, O’Reilly told producer Jesse Watters, “I don’t know if they and their instructors quite understand the satiric element that you bring, see.”

But last night, O’Reilly continued suggesting that Watters World segments are all the proof you need that the rise in liberalism is due to a rise in American “simpletons.”

O’REILLY: Now, granted Watters’ World is just a small slice of life, but I believe only about 50 percent of the American people take the time to understand important issues. Half the country does not. They are simpletons—unwilling and unable to discipline themselves into formulating a philosophy of life.

I don’t think you need to take any more time to “understand important issues” to know that  those “simpletons” are almost certainly the same people who call themselves liberal.

But wait, it gets worse. The guy who allegedly sexually harassed (and talked very dirty to) a woman who was not his wife, whose daughter says she saw him physically assault the woman who was his wife and considers him an absentee father, and the guy who just lost a custody lawsuit with said ex-wife, had the nerve to lecture the rest of us about morality.

Along with his off-the-cuff analysis for public opinions on gay marriage, abortion and the death penalty, O’Reilly said this about single parenting:

O’REILLY: Although some Americans can raise children outside of marriage very well, this trend has badly damaged our society, often leading to poverty and lack of supervision for children. Millions of kids are getting hammered.

Support for President Obama is also due to ignorance, according to O’Reilly. “Many Americans simply have not grasped Mr. Obama’s overall political philosophy,” O’Reilly declared. “They voted for him because of his charisma and his historic position as the first black man to achieve the White House.”

And now for the fear mongering:

O’REILLY: Going forward, talking points believes America is in for a big shock. I don’t know how that shock is going to be delivered. But I do know we are heading in the wrong direction on just about every important issue and the polls back me up. Two thirds of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Whether it’s another brutal terror attack here or an economic collapse of some kind, I cannot tell you.

…But when the bill comes due, and something awful happens, this country will quickly snap back to traditional thinking.

Soooo, Americans are too “simple” to form legitimate opinions on just about anything else, but when they say the country is headed in the wrong direction - well, they must be spot on.

Watch it below, from May 27's The O’Reilly Factor.

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Richard Santalone commented 2015-05-30 09:11:36 -0400 · Flag
@sandman2 And furthermore Sandman2, don’t forget that Bully O’Lielly is a 1967 graduate of Chaminade High School, an ELITE (which naturally means its annual tuition is VERY EXPENSIVE) private all boys Catholic high school located in Mineola, NY on Long Island (just for everyone’s info I’m originally from Long Island — I grew up in Seaford, NY — ergo, I know very well that Westbury, NY, i.e. O’Lielly’s childhood hometown which is near Mineola, is a VERY TONY suburb that has LOTS of posh and swanky homes that go for AT LEAST $1.5 – $2 MILLION AND UP). It’s also long been ONE OF THE TOUGHEST PRIVATE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS to get into. Mark my words: ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NO ONE gets into Chaminade unless he meets AT LEAST TWO of the following prerequisites:

1. LOTS OF $$$$

2. STRAIGHT A’s (or near straight A’s)

3. THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS — Bully O’Lielly was NOWHERE NEAR an honors student when he attended St. Brigid’s School (an expensive private Catholic elementary school, naturally) which is located in Westbury, NY in the late 1950s and early 1960s — BUT according to Marvin Kitman’s book “The Man Who Would Not Shut Up”, his father William O’Reilly Sr. PERSONALLY KNEW one of Chaminade’s guidance counselors. That’s how Jr. got his admission ticket to Chaminade punched in 1963.
Sandman2 commented 2015-05-30 01:26:23 -0400 · Flag
@richard Santalone

Not only did O’Reilly admit this on his failed radio propaganda show, but he also complained that they were “so poor” that they occasionally had to DRIVE, when normally they would fly!
Now that he’s making $30 million/year he must think they were homeless and destitute back then!
Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, and totally lacking the basest perspective of how actual ordinary poor working folks struggle in this country.
How much more money must he make before he can afford to purchase some compassion?
Brian McGill commented 2015-05-29 20:16:34 -0400 · Flag
Bill was sure upset the other night when discussing the decline in people calling themselves Christians. He seemed very bothered that people would not be conducting themselves in a moral way anymore. Yes, the same Bill O’Reilly that regularly lies in his news stories, sexually harasses his female co workers and commits battery on his own spouse. What a fine example of Christ like behavior Bill. Maybe it’s all the hypocrites like you that are driving young people away from the church.
Gary Oliveira commented 2015-05-29 14:37:57 -0400 · Flag
I think rhetoric such as this is one of the reasons why conservatives are loosing so much ground with young people. He is arrogant and dismissive of ideological differences, rather than trying to articulate a coherent argument as to his policy stances (stating ‘because the Bible’ is not a good reason to deny legal and financial benefits to consenting adults). Instead of explaining why he holds his particular beliefs, he labels everyone else as uneducated and lazy, which is a piss poor argument. I guess since it is O’Reilly and he really only appeals to Neo-Cons, his statements are used to shore up the base and engage a sense of impending doom which is the only thing Fox News does anyway.
Richard Santalone commented 2015-05-29 12:00:53 -0400 · Flag
From Doug’s comment:

“The GOP and teaparty are adopting a tactic the Libertarians have used for a long time……..They have zero interest in meaningful debate. They want liberals to shut up and take their bullshit without question.”

Translation: The GOP and tea partiers want liberals to ALWAYS RESPECT, BELIEVE AND BLINDLY OBEY AUTHORITY — NOT TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES AND ASK QUESTIONS!

’Nuff said.
Richard Santalone commented 2015-05-29 11:55:17 -0400 · Flag
@ Gary Oliveira and Doug

AMEN 1000 TIMES!

It’s PAINFULLY OBVIOUS to any working class THINKING person who posts here (including me) that Bully O’Lielly will NEVER, EVER wake up and realize that VERY, VERY, VERY FEW AMERICANS are fortunate enough to “hit the birth lottery” like he did. Here’s a FACT: in one of the early chapters of Sen. Al Franken’s bestseller “Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right” (I have a copy of this book) Franken gets O’Lielly’s OWN MOTHER to admit a POSITIVELY EYE-OPENING AND JAW-DROPPING FACT: the O’Reilly family went on Florida vacations on a regular basis when Jr. was growing up. Clearly, one does NOT need to be a brain surgeon to figure out that NO FAMILY IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS would go to Florida for vacations on a regular basis unless that family was VERY COMFORTABLY WELL-OFF!

’Nuff said.
Steve St John commented 2015-05-29 00:59:34 -0400 · Flag
Really, Bill?!?!?! Liberals are the simpletons!?!?!?! I suppose “God, guns, and guts” is what passes for intelligence in his world.
Elemental Fraction commented 2015-05-28 18:33:48 -0400 · Flag
Bill never reads the comment sections from foxnews or foxnation. They take simpleton to an entirely new level but find it acceptable in conservative republican world.
marco commented 2015-05-28 18:04:20 -0400 · Flag
Only Fox can take people from the real world and send them to a fantasy world far far away. He wants to talk simpletons, let’s start with a one track parrot…Sean Hannity. He has guests like Bo Dietle and Geller dumber so he can look intelligent. Does anybody think Watters has an IQ above 100? He edits responses while having that smirk on his face to show his dwindling conservative zombies that he’s more than half ass. He’s full on ass and so is O’Reilly.
Jan Hall commented 2015-05-28 17:32:03 -0400 · Flag
I hope my comment wasn’t too “Pettish” Last night’s “tip of the day” on The O’Really? Fact?or was “Try not to be Pettish”.—— Et Tu? BO!
Jan Hall commented 2015-05-28 17:08:20 -0400 · Flag
More of the same from the great Narcissist Junior O’Reilly. (“The problem with the country today is that everybody isn’t like me”) so says Junior.——-Perhaps O’Reilly Sr. was demonstrating the “neck drag down the staircase” on Junior back in the 1950s, and dropped Junior on his head?
Gary Oliveira commented 2015-05-28 16:30:14 -0400 · Flag
Notice he says it is a tie, and that people who now say they are liberal must have their head in the clouds and do not know a thing about the real issues. Even though poll after poll shows that it is conservatives who are the most uninformed about the issues. O’Reilly got it all wrong, then lied about the Gallup poll results.

Here is what Gallup actually said:

For the first time since polling began in 1999, Gallup found that there are more social liberals in the United States than social conservatives.

Gallup reported that the number of respondents who called themselves social liberals has increased to 31%, while the number of self-identified social conservatives has fallen to 30%.

Earth to Bill O’Reilly: 31 to 30 is not a tie.

The number of Democrats who refer to themselves as social liberals jumped from 47% in 2014 to 53% in 2015.

The number of Republicans who call themselves socially conservative has declined from 60% in 2014 to 53% in 2015.

Democrats who used to call themselves social moderates are moving to the left while Republicans are experiencing a decline in social conservatives. The polling matches the overall trend in the country.
Gary Oliveira commented 2015-05-28 16:19:20 -0400 · Flag
Everything that ever moved this country forward, and made it better, happened over the vehement opposition of conservatives. The abolition of human slavery, and child labor. Pure food and drug laws, granting women the vote, Social Security, Medicare, and the Civil Rights act are but a few things on that list.
Doug commented 2015-05-28 15:17:47 -0400 · Flag
This tactic is no surprise. The GOP and teaparty are adopting a tactic the Libertarians have used for a long time. If you don’t think and feel exactly the same as them you are

(a) Sadly misinformed about the “evils” of government, and need to be shown the “truth”.

(b) Locked in cycle of dependency caused by evil government programs and regulations such as Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, unemployment insurance, public education, the EPA, the FDA, the IRS blah blah blah …..

Or © You’re simply an idiot and cannot be trusted to make decisions or participate in the political process.

This just an attempt to marginalize people who do not subscribe to their ideology and de-legitimize the liberal viewpoint. They have zero interest in meaningful debate. They want liberals to shut up and take their bullshit without question. The GOP has become an ideological dinosaur. Their base is dying off and they have more interest preserving their outdated and harmful rhetoric than accepting that society has evolved on many issues, but then again most of them deny evolution anyway.
Gary Oliveira commented 2015-05-28 14:56:52 -0400 · Flag
O’Reilly comes across as an angry insufferable person who lies and lives a miserable loveless life. . Cheat, steal, lie, sexual harass, abuse, and die empty and alone because nobody likes you is Bill O’Reilly’s future. Simpletons are those Americans who keep following Fox News down the rabbit hole of hate, intolerance and dishonesty.
Erich Pomfret commented 2015-05-28 14:32:45 -0400 · Flag
Read my past comments and it would be hard to believe I voted Republican for many years. I might still be one except for the idiotic extremism shown by people like O’Reilly and the rest of today’s conservatives. Simpletons indeed.
Lakeview Greg commented 2015-05-28 14:09:55 -0400 · Flag
I am still wondering why FNC continues to allow a probable wife-beater to have a show?
scooter commented 2015-05-28 13:44:55 -0400 · Flag
All watchers of FOX and O’Reilly’s show are simpletons – no I take that back. They’re complete and total dumbshits, too stupid to breathe without being told how and what for.
Gooch X commented 2015-05-28 13:35:52 -0400 · Flag
I agree…most Americans are simpletons. Most probably don’t understand how the ocean tides work, for example.
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The guy whose daughter recently accused him of assaulting her mother and being an absentee father lectures the rest of us about our morality.








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