O'Reilly: Iraqi people are "primitive," "prehistoric group"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200406180005

O'REILLY: Because look ... when 2 percent of the population feels that you're doing them a favor, just forget it, you're not going to win. You're not going to win. And I don't have any respect by and large for the Iraqi people at all. I have no respect for them. I think that they're a prehistoric group that is -- yeah, there's excuses.

Sure, they're terrorized, they've never known freedom, all of that. There's excuses. I understand. But I don't have to respect them because you know when you have Americans dying trying to you know institute some kind of democracy there, and 2 percent of the people appreciate it, you know, it's time to -- time to wise up.

And this teaches us a big lesson, that we cannot intervene in the Muslim world ever again. What we can do is bomb the living daylights out of them, just like we did in the Balkans. Just as we did in the Balkans. Bomb the living daylights out of them. But no more ground troops, no more hearts and minds, ain't going to work.

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They're just people who are primitive.

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This one made it to my sig line. Utterly sickening.

in the world

he is such a hatemongering POS

Don't they cut off people's hands for stealing a grape?

While they're not prehistoric by any means, they are certainly barbaric towards individuals, whereas the west is more barbaric in the grand scheme of things, towards entire races and countries.

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and the Taliban -- the Islamic fundamentalists -- that use the extreme punishments for crime called for under Sharia law. Iraq did not follow Sharia.

had a complex civilization when O'Reilly's ancestors were painting themselves blue and clubbing each other over the head.

I can't stomach the arrogance of that stupid man.

eom

Oh, wait.. no he didn't. Because it was CLINTON.

How very cosmopolitan.

Pardon my ignorance...

Probably O'Reilly's role model

I remember Dr. Suess' old cartoons talking about "Vater" Coughlin.

O' Reilly demonstrate she has no fucking clue.

No fucking clue whatsoever. The people who lived in Baghad 3000 ago were civilized while O'Reilly's forefather were eating mud and grunting like pigs.

Iraq was, until Reagan egged on a war with Iran, one of the most advanced nations in the ME.

O'Reilly just has no fucking clue.

nt

(shoulda been "demonstrates he" instead o' "demonstrate she.")

The "Fair and balanced" news caster, hasn't a fucking clue. Oh man, O'Reilly is right up there with those other loony toon stars, such as Donald Rumsfeld

The tip off was when he told Al Franken to 'SHUT UP'

that reminded me of Paris.... Seems to me we bombed their universities and encouraged looting. Who is primitive?


Fox, etc. probably doesn't show pictures like that. (I wouldn't know - I don't watch it.)

nt

KILLS me how these fundies can be so prejudiced when their religion, right down to the phrasing in the old testament, is as middle eastern as it gets. If this is a war between the middle east and so called "western democracy" then the middle east won thousands of years before there was a democracy or even a WEST, as fundies worship a middle-eastern God. The three major religions, dominant by CONQUEST, came out of that region. Game, Set, Match.

With all their hatred, you'd think they'd all be converting back to their pagan roots en masse. But no, they don't even make the connection. And history reveals that more often than not it is uncivilized and brutal cultures that over-run and conquer more civilized and advanced but peaceful ones ; in fact, I'd lay money on this happening far more than the other way around, so, Mr. O'Reilly, where in the spectrum does that place us?

pre the Gulf War

The World Health Organisation in Baghdad reports that before the Gulf War, 93% of the population had access to a free, modern, high quality health care system.

How many Americans have ever had access to free modern high quality healthcare?

The percentage of their population that lived in urban centres and worked in the service industries (compared to rural dwelling and agriculatural work) was also higher than in the US at the same time.

says it all about America... sorry, too much idiocy to find any more excuses.

It's been a long time since I've seen America this far into darkness.

but what I detest is that when Arabs hear about his sentiments, it will be distorted into all Americans having such feelings. This will perpetuate the hate and the violence.

genocide

an American Neanderthal no less.

What we can do is bomb the living daylights out of them...
They're just people who are primitive.
...And I don't have any respect by and large for the Iraqi people at all.
I think that they're a prehistoric group that is...
Bomb the living daylights out of them.

This goes beyond the military excuse of

someone said there were terrorists in those houses so we bombed them and killed the men, women, and children inside.

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Bill O'Reilly is saying it's ok to bomb any Iraqi. Because they're "primitive" (according to him).

What about obnoxios egomaniac.

......thats really all this is....

It IS racist and dehumanizing. Not to mention fucking IGNORANT.

When is somebody going to call that bastard on what he says? Ludacris was right.

This is hate speech, this is advocating genocide.

This is too fucking unbelievable.

:cry:

Barbarians are primitive. People who make do with limited resources are respectful. And god knows the Iraqi's have been making do with little resources, especially after the 1991 UN sanctions.

O'Reilly just doesn't have good conversations with anybody, late at night, with which to learn from. He's just a lonely guy, trapped in his own view of the world, with a vague sensation that he's wrong about everything.

That guy needs more people around him who disagree with him. I, as an unemployed individual, offer my services should you need me Bill.

In the West they beat the tar out of the Roman Empire. People should learn that calling someone a barbarian or primative doesn't make them inferior in any way, shape or form to supposed 'civilized' cultures. Matter of fact they have a pretty good track record against two of the most powerful Empires of the day.

Bill O'Shitty should bone up on history.

As for as "bombing the daylights", maybe it should start with his neighborhood if he's such a big fan of it. But I'm busy this week and next, somebody else will have to do it.. His opinion if it might change, but he'll learn an important lesson.

Perhaps we should just play O'Billy's "SHUT UP!" on loudspeakers all over Baghdad - over and over and over and....

So that's who Bush was talking about!

This is how colonizers commonly referred to Native Americans when they wanted to justify killing and slavery. (See Queen Isabella's "Cannibal Law" of 1503).

Dehumanization is a common tactic used by aggressors. O'Reilly should be careful what he says because he may end up on the receiving end of his own vitriol, as the "right" will begin to consume its own in the near future.

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i like it

nt

n/t

as the recent ruling against Gibson's(?) rant on 'My Word' in britain showed.

(a little thought to chuck out there)

or the word 'fuck' coming out of Stern's mouth do they understand.

There is no law against hate speech such as this.

--bkl

You must hate America if you think otherwise.

It makes some people in this country feel good.

That's the most fucked up part of all. A sizeable portion of the public wants to hear that they're better than other people (blacks, Jews, gays, Muslims, etc.)

The right wants people at each others' throats. They must be defeated!

...O'Reilly's radio ratings are awful.

It's only on tv that he does well, compared with other cable news shows.

:)

"...But I don't have to respect them because you know when you have Americans dying trying to you know institute some kind of democracy there, and 2 percent of the people appreciate it, you know, it's time to -- time to wise up.

And this teaches us a big lesson, that we cannot intervene in the Muslim world ever again. What we can do is bomb the living daylights out of them, just like we did in the Balkans. "

He talks as if Iraq ASKED us Americans to go in there and "liberate" them! We go in there to try and establish a "democracy" and "liberate" the people, that fails, so the answer is to "bomb the living daylights out of them" ?!? I am speechless! Janet's boob is considered an atrocity but this guy gets to have a regular show on TV and is taken seriously? I mean what has this country come to? Why is this Nazi not being vilified by every known media organization in this country?

Foreign oil.

Foreign worker exploitation that needs these 3rd world countries to use more oil.

Oil frigging oil.

Carter was right in 1980 but used the wrong tactic to get people to care.

Carter was socially conscious, Reagan was like the entertainment of the time - mentally unconscious.

For a superpower, our utter need for foreign products instead of our own will mean the end of us. Probably within 5 years, likely sooner if the terrorists blow up the oil installations over there...

Clinton isn't to blame for any of this. Reagan and Bush* are.

O'Reilly's point is worthless outside its narrow context.

one of those pro-lifers who feel all life is sacred? I find it chilling how some people who demand that all fetuses are given the chance to be born can turn around and decide who, after having been born, are not up to specific standards and can be bombed, or given the death penalty or tortured for the benefit of those who do measure up. What makes them feel they are entitled to make these decisions. I would be curious to see how he answered that. I suppose rather than thinking about it, he would blubber, stammer, grow red in the face and call me a fu**ing terrorist. He really is not a very smart man, he just got a big mouth and no pride.

No, O'Reilly is pro-choice, except for so-called "partial birth abortion."

having to go to Canada to feel like he is a normal human being. MICHAEL MOORE interviewed by Canada TV.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1821749

Fight, fight, help the people who deserve it.

instead. O'Reilly does not deserve to even appear in DU.

I'm thinking about moving to Canada. I don't care how cold it is. I can't take it anymore. This country is barbaric. I'm so angry that I feel this way.

part of the population has taken over. The inmates are running the asylum and threatening the rest of the population. AND WE ARE LETTING THEM. I am sure thinking people are still a majority, but except for a small minority of AWARE people they are following like sheep led to the slaughter.

Who in FUCK is this numbnuts, to call anyone primative or prehistoric? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Clean up your own house, dipstick, before you start griping about someone else's.

He will lose.

Not surprising. The man is evil as well as ignorant. The man must not believe in karma, pity, he's earned a trainload of bad karma. Even his Pope can't alter that.

morans who he represents. they are stupid people who no matter what always believe their shit don`t stink..fuck them all

"Bomb the living daylights out of them"

Why is it always the repugs who are so filled with hate?

:eyes: :silly: so they can see what nice people we iz :eyes: :silly::crazy:

He'll have a field day on Monday with quotes like these.

sack of shit! Sorry for the curse word.

And he finally let it.

N/T

that's all you can really say about him.

No, wait. Yes I can.

Here is to you Billy boy...

put on a uniform and go to Iraq. I'm sure he would last a long time there. He'd be crying to come home after the first car bomb went off anyplace near him. He's nothing but a big blowhard.

whatever else he is doing, he is critisizing this administration for going to war and he is saying that was a wrong thing to do..........

Who does this man think he is? How can a person suggest bombing innocent people, just because they are "primitive", or just because he thinks they are? Even if there are tribespeople living in primitive conditions compared to your lifestyle, shouldn't you try to help them, educate them?

One thing I'll say, nobody would dare speak like this in my country on radio or TV. This is way over the line. That there are millions of people in the United States listening to this guy and agreeing with what he says scares the hell out of me.

because...that's so blatantly racist, even for him it's pretty outrageous.

I think he meant it.

You can listen to the audio clip yourself at the link in the first post of the thread, and make your own judgement.

This POS doesn't even have the BALLS to admit that he is a Nazi repuke like Rush or Hannity. I rate Bill O'Shitty up there with Dennis Turncoat Miller. Worthless pieces of shit that waste good air. May the both get Gangrene of the scrotum.

'primitive' and prehistoric' cause he himself is as 'primitive' and 'prehistoric' as anyone can get. :puke:

Send him to Iraq...NOW! Then we'll see how much respect he has for them. My g-d. The man is a whackjob. :grr:

Asshole, yes. But that is not a strong enough term for this creature. He's a cannibal, in the pejorative sense.

See post #26

Sadly, O'Reilly's sentiments are representative of a lot of ignorant Americans. This country has too many idiots like O'Reilly, and that's why we're headed for a major, major fall.

I want to know more about this inflammatory rhetoric (since I didn't see it myself) and if anybody has acted on it - contacted the FCC, etc.

So you can't say "FIRE" in a theatre but you can say "kill all rag heads" for example, on TV to millions of viewers (including children)?! What says the FCC about this?

Please, give us Janet's nipple!

Since DUs lead article today is on O'Reilly... :kick:

To be "fair & honest" he should be wearing a "brown shirt"
It is amazing , sad , scary (insert adjective ) that this man has a such public platform.