October 22, 2008
The View
Bill O’Reilly takes on the Viewbots. Elisabeth must have looked forward to work for once having some back up. It’s only fair. She’s going to Florida to introduce Gov Palin this weekend.
I enjoyed the body language – his legs splayed. Look how he is turned away from Sherri – clearly finding Joy to be his biggest threat. I forget how much space he takes up outside his words. I find it curious that Whoopi was “sick”.
A few snippets.
PART 2
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O’REILLY: He’s a Communist!
The crowd doesn’t like it. Check out tabloidist Walters.
O: Lighten up! This is The View – this isn’t 60 Minutes! [He points/] What’s wrong with you?
I don’t think they realized he was putting them down.
BEHAR: It’s about name-calling today.
O: Oh, Joy.
BEHAR: You know what a ‘red flag’ that is – Commie in this country.
O’ mocking: Did I offend? Did I offend you?
BEHAR: No. It’s just ridiculous!
O: Let me take that back. He’s a socialist – he’s not a Communist.
Tabloidist Walters prattles on about Bush and the bailout.
WALTERS; What do you say about that?
O: I say you can’t trust the government for anything.
WALTERS: Trying to help the economy now is the wrong thing to do?
O: No, you have to do that now because they screwed it up so badly.
WALTERS: Isn’t that Socialism, Bill?
SHERRI: Yeah, that Socialism – Communism -Communism, really?
O: Sometimes Socialism is good. Sometimes Communism is good.
BEHAR: Look, you heard it here.
O: Look, I have a bust of Lenin in my office.
WALTERS: Bill O’Reilly says sometimes Socialism is good.
Elisabeth: You want the same government that kind of messed things up…
O dismisses Elisabeth off by pointing to a woman in the audience and saying: She gets it. This lady gets it.
ELISABETH: Do you want the same government that’s pretty much been screwing things up for a while in terms of power – do you want them controlling your money?
O: Look, you guys are partisan. I’m not a partisan. Look, my job is to keep an eye on all of these people, alright. And they’re all in the theater of the absurd to some extent. You take it way too seriously, Joy.
BEHAR: No, I don’t.
O: Your name is Joy, you should be joyful!
Then he described when John McCain was on and how Behar treated him — rudely.
WALTERS: Can I go on about you instead of you picking on us?
Now she gets a glimpse of what Elisabeth feels everyday.
O: Are you going to say nice things about me?
What he desperately wants.
WALTERS: Not necessarily.
BEHAR: We’ll never get a word in edgewise.
Walters turns it over to Sherri who has a question about barry.
O’ to Sherri as he points at her: I love you, by the way.
SHERRI laughs: I’m gonna get all emotional.
WALTERS: Kiss of death.
They laugh, O points at Walters and says: Very good.
BEHAR: She’s not on your side, Bill.
O’: I don’t have a side.
BEHAR: Yes, you do!
O: What is wrong with you?
BEHAR: You’re on FOX TV- you have a side.
O’ makes the cross sign with his fingers: Oh, I’m FOX.
BEHAR grabs his arm: I want to ask you something. Ever watch the Keith Olbermann Show?
O: She’s grabbing me!
BEHAR; Olbermann hates you.
O: Everyone hates me.
BEHAR: Why does he hate you.
O: You do…he does.
BEHAR: I dislike you. I don’t hate you.
O’: They’re just jealous.
BEHAR: Oh they’re jealous.
They laugh but he really means that.
O turns to SHERRI and leans away and says: Now what was your question?
SHERRI reads barry’s quote: “I am convinced that if there were no FOX News, I might be 2 or 3 points higher in the polls because of the way I am portrayed 24/7 is as a freak. I am a latte-sipping, New York Times reading, Volvo driving, no gun owning, effete [she pronounces it as "EF-FE-TE] politically correct arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?”
How do you fell about that quote?
O’: I think it’s accurate.
Then he talks about how he doesn’t take sides, how barry was treated fairly, how because these folks want to have power over “us” his job is to shake them if he can.
SHERRI: Then why won’t Sarah Palin come on your program?
O’: I don’t know. I want her to come in. I have outfits she can wear! I want her to come in. If the governor is watching come on in.I’m warm and cuddly. Look at the book – look at the picture on the book – that is the real me
Then O’ on video goes postal on Barney Frank and they discuss it.
BEHAR: We’ll have him on and he can tell us.
O: And you’ll believe every word of it
BEHAR: I don’t believe anything you say or that he says.
O: No.You don’t believe anything.
BEHAR: I believe what I read sometimes.
O’ asks Sherri if she’s got the Kool-Aid for Joy.
O to BEHAR: You know why? You’re a Kool-A drinker.
BEHAR: You drank the Kool-Aid on George Bush for eight years!
O: We were just as tough on Bush as we were on everybody else.
Goes off on Barney Frank.
WALTERS: As you can see from this discussion, he is the same pussycat he has always been. You know how I feel about you. I love being on your program.
O: You’ll ruin your reputation.
WALTERS: I didn’t say I love you. What I did want to say is look at this picture.
Then they show an altar boy type picture of O’ on his book.
BEHAR: That’s what the devil will look like when he comes.
O: Damian.
WALTERS: When we come back we’re going to find out what made that sweet little boy turn into this.
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They come back from commercial and he blames his present being on a nun and his parents. The Joy shows a picture of him standing between two mustachioed men all three wearing sombreros and says: I thought you were against gay marriage.
He talks more about his upbringing – spars with Joy. Then Walters reveals that he writes in the book that he doesn’t like “American Idol” and “Dancing with the Stars”.
O: I’m not against it. I understand the diversion. But I don’t think people should build their lives around that stuff. Because there’s important things going on. The more you know, the more aware you are–
WALTERS: Yeah, but can’t you have some entertainment?
O’: Yeah and that’s why we watch ‘The View’!
BEHAR: We are in the NY Times on a regular basis these days. DO NOT minimize the effect of The View!
O: I didn’t want to say this but if Sarah Palin didn’t get it – Behar.
BEHAR: I shop at Kmart.
WALTERS: Sarah Palin won’t do this show either.
Then they carry on about “escapist entertainment” and how young people addicted to internet.
