Bill O' Reilly to come to Dublin

Charlie

Not sure if this is the right place to put this but, I was watching the Factor tonight and Bill O' Reilly stated that he would be visiting Dublin in April to speak at Trinity College. I can only presume that it is one of those phil. events.

Hobbes

anyone know what he is speaking about?

Stargal

There's nothing about it on the Phil website yet. For high-profile guests like that it's often a one-on-one interview followed by a question and answer session.

silverharp

I've heard interviews of him speaking on energy issues and to be honest he came across as an poorly informed populist wind bag

flogen

meh.... I say to this what I said when the Love Ulster rally was announced; let him come, say and do what he wants and we'll all continue to ignore him... or we could just put him up against any of the decent debaters in this country and watch him wilt, then shout (then we cut the mic).

lostexpectation

ah the TCD phil surprisingly full of poorly informed populist wind bags

smallpaws

Bill " I'm a CULTURE WARRIOR" O Reilly works for Fox news and is basically a cheerleader for the Bush administration. He spends most of his time deciding that any American citizen who disagrees with whatever fresh Constitutional rights violation horror GW visits upon us is a traitorous,amoral, Anti-American terrorist-loving pussy who should be deported to Guantanamo ASAP.
I hate that guy.

thelepo

Hobbes wrote:

anyone know what he is speaking about?

Practising bigotry I would think.
John

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

awesome, can't wait.

Stargal

From the weekly Phil e-mail (including original spelling and grammatical mistakes...):

ON Thursday April 12th The Phil will be hosting an interview with controversial right wing U.S anchor man Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor.

Mr. O'Reilly will be answering questions and members are invited to email
Their questions to presidentATtcdphil.com and we will try to ensure
that as many
As possible are answered.

Hope to see you at these events.

Sounds like he's going to be picking and choosing the questions that he wants to answer, which is a pity. Would have preferred to see him answer questions from an objective interviewer.

DrFunkenstein

He's a waste of space..
Wonder if he's gone off the falafel fetish he has....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KU02lsfH8


Ohh yeah he has his own private police force..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up4eEahEt0g&mode=related&search=

"you will be held accountable"

Nick_oliveri

FFS, what is he, the President? He should snswer questions posed to him on the night and stop being such a pussy.

RNC at the Phil!!!!

Snickers Man

Can anyone go to these events, or do you have to be at least a TCD student?

Kevster

I hate the guy but I'd love to go to this [supposed] lecture. Keep posting about dates and times. Wait actually; are you sure it wasn't one of those Dublins in the USA? There are quite a few as far as I recall. One of them might coincidentally have a college named Trinity too.


Kevin.

Stargal

Kevster wrote:

I hate the guy but I'd love to go to this [supposed] lecture. Keep posting about dates and times. Wait actually; are you sure it wasn't one of those Dublins in the USA? There are quite a few as far as I recall. One of them might coincidentally have a college named Trinity too.

Uh, I don't know if you're joking, but just in case you aren't: It's on April 12th at 7pm in the GMB in TCD. The one in the centre of Dublin, not some random American one.

Snickers Man wrote:

Can anyone go to these events, or do you have to be at least a TCD student?

If you're not a TCD student then you have to be signed in by one (for a high-profile evenht like this then the student will also have to be a member of the Phil). Failing that, you could get in touch with the society and see about getting a press pass.

Kevster

... ..I see how you might hve thought that I was joking . I was very much being serious, however. If I'm in Dublin that day I'll go to it and see if I can get in somehow. I don't currently know anyone in Trinity. Where on the campus is the GMB by the way?

Thanks,
Kevin.

Stargal

Kevster wrote:

... ..I see how you might hve thought that I was joking . I was very much being serious, however. If I'm in Dublin that day I'll go to it and see if I can get in somehow. I don't currently know anyone in Trinity. Where on the campus is the GMB by the way?

Yeah I wasn't quite sure

When you walk in through Front Arch, the Campanile (bell tower) is directly in front of you and the GMB is the dark gothic building to the left of it. Here's a picture of it - as you can see, once you walk into Front Square, you can't miss it.

Kevster

Mazel-tav! Thank you.

Kevin.

JeanClaude

DrFunkenstein wrote:

Ohh yeah he has his own private police force..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up4eEahEt0g&mode=related&search=

"you will be held accountable"

P.M.S.L. "Fox security, Hannity and Colmes come to your house with billy clubs"

Stargal

Venue has been changed to the Ed Burke Theatre in the Arts Block, which is on your right as you walk in the Nassau Street entrance. And it's at 7.30pm now, not 7.

cousin_borat

Do you think he'd answer why Heraldo was wrong if I emailed the question

aphex™

I'd imagine the spectacle would be much like going to see the hippos in the zoo, they tend to just wallow in their own ****e and not bat an eyelid at anything or anyone, but just grunt angrily.

I'd much rather see Colbert. Maybe nobody would get the jokes until after O'Reilly's appearance. Colbert has his own ice cream named after him. Now there's a sign of success.

This is the kind of crap O'Reilly loves. Remember: DON'T question the prez. It's unamerican. He is your President and it's disrespectful.

singloud

Al Franken writes hilarious stuff about him, check out Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them. The chapter on O'Reilly is amazing.

Snickers Man

It's probably unfair to bring this one up again.

Or is it?

It's the transcript of a deposition made by a female former colleague who sued him for sexual harrassment.

Line 81 is particularly pathetic.

Snickers Man

Speaking "live from Eye-yur-lend" on his own show last night Billo claimed he was in Dublin to receive a "big award" from the Philosophical Society at Trinity College. [endure the ad and then after about 2.20 mins on videeo]

What award did he get?

Was anybody there last night? Any good?

Hobbes

He didn't get any award.

http://www.newshounds.us/2007/04/12/oreilly_misspeaks_all_the_way_from_ireland.php

Snickers Man

So is his assertion that he did a blatant lie or is there some misunderstanding that could have led him to interpret the event as an award?

EG did they give him a book token for Fred Hanna's as an honorarium or something?

Hannibal_12

Snickers Man wrote:

Speaking "live from Eye-yur-lend" on his own show last night Billo claimed he was in Dublin to receive a "big award" from the Philosophical Society at Trinity College. [endure the ad and then after about 2.20 mins on videeo]

What award did he get?

Was anybody there last night? Any good?

I was at it, he is a spectacular idiot, completely delusional but hilarious in his simplistic compartmentalised view of the world, he'd be funny only so many take him seriously.

wowy

He was awarded with the Honarary Patronage of the Society.

Snickers Man wrote:

So is his assertion that he did a blatant lie or is there some misunderstanding that could have led him to interpret the event as an award?

EG did they give him a book token for Fred Hanna's as an honorarium or something?

Snickers Man

wowy wrote:

He was awarded with the Honarary Patronage of the Society.

I see they did the same thing for Joanna Lumley the next day. (I know who I'd rather cosy up to)

Is this something they award to all their guest speakers?

wowy

There are varying degrees of the Patronage-Bronze (e.g Tommy Tiernan, Joanna Lumley), Silver (Bill O'Reilly, Al Pacino) or Gold medals (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mohammed El Baradei, Desmond Tutu). It's awarded for outstanding contributions to their fields.

Snickers Man wrote:

I see they did the same thing for Joanna Lumley the next day. (I know who I'd rather cosy up to)

Is this something they award to all their guest speakers?

Snickers Man

Compare and contrast the treatment afforded to George Galloway, anti-war rebel former British Labour MP on the Late Late when he appeared last September with that of O'Reilly last night. (clip not available on the site yet but I'm sure it will be)

On the Galloway clip, 7.5 minutes in, Pat Kenny invites Eamon Delaney, editor of Magill, to have a go at Galloway from the audience. Galloway takes a bite out of him, rolls him round his tongue and then spits him back into the dirt where he belongs but notice that there were NO comments from the audience solicited when Mr O'Reilly was in the guest's chair. Was this at his own insistence?

Nor, as I understand it, were any questions allowed from the floor when he addressed the Phil in Trinity. all questions had to be submitted in writing in advance.

And this from a man who claims that the highest praise he can give is to call somebody a "stand-up guy"!!

Just goes to show that opposites attract.

wowy

I'm not defending him, I think that he's a sensationalist hypocrite, but I'm just merely explaining the Phil's involvement in this. As regards the questions at the event, it was at his request that they be submitted beforehand. I don't know why that was, considering that it wasn't that he screened the questions. Some members of Phil council chose the best questions to put to him. Part of it is understandable, from the Phil perspective, in that if you're picking random people from the audience, you don't know how good the question will be, but at least if you can see all the questions, the best ones can be chosen. It's happened at other Phil events where stupid questions are asked and it can eat up time from the event.

Snickers Man

I wasn't having a go at you. (the mods don't like that sort of thing anyway;) )
My posting the RTE links was just a general comment aimed at educating anyone who is interested about the style of this O'Reilly creature.

Thanks for explaining the procedures of the Phil and its awards process. It's been a long time since I attended a Phil meeting (My TCD student number begins with a 7) and I remember some spectacular barnies when people from the floor were given the opportunity to respond to the guest speakers.

jank

so was this guy on the late late aswell.
He was also on the Matt Cooper show yesterday but I missed it.

Anybody have it?

LostinBlanch

jank wrote:

so was this guy on the late late aswell.
He was also on the Matt Cooper show yesterday but I missed it.

Anybody have it?

Listened to a bit of it on the Matt Cooper show, except it wasn't Matt Cooper. They played some of O'Reilly frothing at Heraldo (sp?) and then had O'Reilly go on about how right he (Bill) was about everything. Called himself an investigative journalist :eek:

karen3212

Yes I saw him on the Late Late as well. The interview was friendly and soft. I'm still shocked by how much people in the US hate the French, do they not realise that they will be pissing off some Canadians as well with their hatred of the French? I just can't believe the few I've met seem to think they themselves are such a special people, everything is better in the US and all that. It drives me nuts at work, I always get the feeling that my cousin whose over here now(just got her citizenship) loves Ireland so much she wants to turn it into the US. Oh and she gets very insulted when I call it the US, she likes to think they own all of America!!!!!

Lirange

karen3212 wrote:

Yes I'm still shocked by how much people in the US hate the French,

Most Americans have little to no opinion of France. They don't give much thought to France in their daily lives I assure you. Political windbags such as O'Reilly and politically active conservative radicals may vent their spleen about the "cheese eating surrender monkeys" but France is not a topic of relevance or passion to most in the U.S.

Hobbes

Actually what O'Reilly mentioned about Americans hating the French is total bollox. In fact around the time O'Reilly implemented his "Lets boycott the French" the imports of French goods actually went up.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200508020002

karen3212

The americans I've met here are always making snide remarks about the French. They are generally over 35, and I guess(but it seems obvious from their comments) Republican voters. Come on, if the few I've met who travel are anti-French then I have to wonder about the ones that don't travel at all.