one of our producers Matt Roberts recognizes that I'm in trouble when big pants comes out here
so he put together some responses for me yeah that's what you think I'm not buying that
where did you hear that
whatever
now listen to this our first guest is an Emmy Award winning a broadcaster
whose nightly program The O'Reilly Factor recently celebrated 100 100 consecutive
months as cable televisions number one news program hey you see what I'm saying
ladies and gentlemen here's Bill O'Reilly wow that's you know when I look at that a hundred
months how many years is a hundred months eight and a quarter wow nice going number one in the
cable news and congratulations uh take us through the the history were you always a news commentary
or were you a reporter of hard news I was a reporter I started in Scranton Pennsylvania
and worked my way up worked at Channel 2 in New York ABC News CBS News and I did Inside Edition
one of your favorite programs uh and then I went back to school went to Harvard got a master's
degree in public administration designed the factor in Cambridge Massachusetts came back they
hired me a fox and here we are so when you say working your way up does that really apply to Fox
hey come on relax but now
I want to tell you in this book is a crazy bestseller how many weeks have
been on the bestseller list six months on Investigation now see here's what
breaks my heart about this because in my mind I think of you as a goon
and but then when you look at [Applause]
sure look at how sweet horrible that kid is and it breaks my heart because
I have a sweet adorable kid like that and I think oh great what if he too becomes a goon
you know
do you want me to respond to any of this or no
you know there's been a lot of stuff going on yeah um let's let's talk about this uh the big
thing uh with Rush Limbaugh the new face of the Republican party now how did that happen is that a
good thing is that what they need now and what's going on there well I think it was uh a Carvel
James Carville you know James you've been on this program and uh somebody else they said well let's
uh throw this out there the rushland buzz running the Republican party and the media ran with it and
so there it is yeah I got out of talk radio about four months ago uh four weeks ago four weeks ago
it seems like four months I'm the luckiest guy on Earth who did that help Rush Limbaugh his ratings
went through the roof I used to compete with him on the radio so you know they they're the little
wise guy stuff involved with that but it helped Rush Limbaugh so now his ratings are higher he's
happy and uh but does it mean anything is he in fact the titular head of the Republican Party
does he represent the constituents I don't believe so I don't check in with the Republican Party very
often so I don't think so and then what was the deal where uh the Republican party in in the face
and the gesture of Richard Steele uh offered uh Rush Limbaugh an apology I don't think they want
to offend Rush Limbaugh he's got uh 15 hours Air Time a week on a radio so I don't think you do
any Republicans or conservatives want to offend the man because it just you know ready isn't that
the dog wagging the tail here I'm sorry I think with all due respect and I know you're uh you know
how do you make it a big deal out of nothing here I don't think this is an important thing
I was excited about it I wanted I want Rush Limbaugh to be the new face well he's tubby
he's
he for a long time he had his a housekeeper by an illegal drugs and I thought well if this is
what the Republican party needs there you go you're signing up that's yeah right you're on
board do you really think it's nice to do that to limbado I mean really I mean it's a serious
question the they set him up as a straw man right like no no nobody takes this I think he
set himself up why he's a radio talk show guy he goes on the radio just like you go on TV right he
does his show you either like it or you don't nobody forces you to watch or listen to you or
Limbaugh why she shot the guy I mean why bother that's a good question yeah oh yeah whatever
can you prove that
all right now here now you know why I'm number one for 100 months now uh but here's here's what I've
always thought about uh Rush Limbaugh uh yourself and your your buddy Glenn Beck even admitted no
you think we're the same Limbaugh and I are in the same please will you just give me a minute
um I I always thought that uh I'm sorry as Michael Steele I think I said Richard
Steele but I always thought that Rush Limbaugh could have been a TV weatherman could have done
Sports uh he could have hosted a game show but but somebody said uh rush we got this uh
we need a right-wing uh commentary Niche can you oh yeah I can do that do you know him met
him a couple of times yeah I've been on the show didn't you used to be a TV weather man
yeah okay but but now I'm not the face of the Republican party you're not I thought
you were uh but it just it just seems to me like he's too smart to believe what
he's saying look and I feel the same way about you you're too smart to believe what you said
oh hold on
don't make me come up there yeah don't make him come out there oh that's your coach give
me one example of something that I've said that I'm too smart to have said just one
you're gonna you're gonna boycott Sean Penn movies yeah I don't I
don't want now that's a good one Dave and I appreciate you uh having a discourse now
it's my 10 bucks right yeah I can go see what I want yeah right I mean let me talk [Applause]
all right now this guy runs down to Venezuela there's a lumbada with Hugo Chavez okay I don't
like Google Chavez I think he's a tyrant so I'm going I don't really want to spend
10 bucks on this guy if Clark Gable Dave and I know you feel the same way if Clark Gable
had cozy it up to Francisco Franco in the 30s I wouldn't have got to see gone with the win
right all right but strictly speaking one of two things uh your boy cut of Sean Penn when
is the last Sean Penn movie you saw period I saw Mystic River Clint Eastwood movie excellent
film okay and he's a good actor by the way so I'm suffering here from my art yeah but and
just mine but it's going to be on your conscience when you put him out of work
um and two have you ever met Hugo Chavez I have talked really talking what was that
we're an interpreter oh really about called him a pinhead three is inter it's a short conversation
uh now anyway let's talk about you like you go shopping no I think he's squirrely I don't like
the idea that he nationalizes the media he's nationalizing the banks the term limits were
extended right I think he's fast he's trying you know Raul and Fidel I got in his ear and he's uh
and he's got this thing right there that I think needs to come off so you and I are on the same
page on this right on Hugo Chavez I don't know what he's up to but boycott and Sean Penn movies
no I like Sean Penny can go anywhere he wants I don't care I don't care no now let's talk about
your buddy uh Glenn Beck uh there's a piece on him in the times the other day and he said what
I think coalesces this whole deal which deal is that which is you're too smart to say the things
you say we were him everybody you rushed Glenn Beck uh he said at the end of the piece Glenn
Beck says if people take what I say as gospel they're idiots and I I don't think that was
the exact quote that was the exact quote no he he called himself a um a rodeo Club Rodeo yeah
but at the end he said if people take what I say as gospel there idiots well because he wants you
to do his own research look Glenn Beck is a talk show host right Rush limb was a talk show so not
Journal well what are you you're a talk I'm a journalist now what's the difference I don't
know I got a degree I paid a lot of money for it where's your Journal is it you're right on my wall
I covered when Al covered stories uh you know so what you do is mostly commentary
now it is yes yes but it was a hard news reporter but those guys
are basically entertainers and they admit you're an Entertainer someone
somewhat no we're informational driven we give information today which is why I know a lot
right that's just why I've been number one for 100 months yeah you're not that entertaining uh
[Applause]
so uh if I'm not that entertaining why am I so popular yeah they're always stupid yeah come on
now uh but no but but I think Glenn Beck and and maybe he got caught up in the moment of Candor
but I think he speaks to this I think you guys know exactly what you're doing you've been very
successful at it but the truth of it is you're not speaking your conscience so where's Charlotte
tennis is what you're saying Charlotte and it's show busy you know this is why wrestling is
popular everything I say I believe and I believe everything Beck says he believes yeah but and do
you what percentage of stuff do you make up none now if I make anything up they just rip me up in
the New York Times or whatever I I mean we have a very good research staff just like your staff
very good they find out the facts we come in we present them we give an opinion we bring out an
opposing point of view that's why we're number one Dave come on now no okay I get it now Bill thanks
all right we're back here with uh Bill O'Reilly now let's talk about something else I saw our old
buddy Al Franken uh was running for Senator up in Minnesota and the and the the race was very
very close and so close that a mandatory recount took place uh the votes were examined the ballots
examined that heretofore have not been examined and the lead was 230 something for Al Franken uh
and now it's they're awaiting some adjudication uh and after that if Norm Coleman is denied he'll
have an appeal process what does this all look like to you you know I'm going to recuse myself
because I don't like Al Franken and it's not fair to me to go on and say bad things about him I
don't want to do that but it's a mess I mean they want to count ballots that haven't been counted
and there's lawsuits over every ballot and and look I'd like to see just another election here
just have another election and have everybody Jimmy Carter and all the boys go in and watch
what goes on and and that's what I'd like to see right but it's right now it's just why would there
need to be some sort of people watching what goes on some sort of observers no there's some cheating
in elections in America that happens here yeah unfortunately but but this one it's interesting
because and I'm interested in that you don't want to talk about it because you don't like
uh Alfred but that doesn't stop you nightly from talking about people you don't like very rarely
we only talk about people you like I'm gonna I'm gonna send over some tapes so you're gonna
watch the show I know what the hell is going on all right I have no idea I can't find the show
I don't know where it is you're right I am at a handicap I've never I've never seen the show um
if you had watched a show you would be much smarter you wouldn't have to say whatever I
can't stay up that level okay it's on at 8 pm Dave oh all right uh but the thing about the Al
Franken race whether you like him or not I happen to like Al I don't know Norm Coleman and he's was
the incumbent Senator but it's fascinating because they always say every vote counts and it looks
like now however this comes down whether it's 200 votes whether it's a thousand votes oh my gosh how
many live in in Minnesota five million six million people I don't know that's just a remarkable that
in this country the system will tolerate that the slicing it that thin it is and uh I'm I feel bad
for the people in Minnesota they should have a senator and they should have the representation
but this thing's going to go on forever because it's now litigation City and that's what it is
right so if the if the decision does not go uh Norm Coleman's way he then can appeal and the
whole thing will be repeated you can go to the Supreme Court that's how far and you know that'll
be by the time I get around I'll be uh six years from now I'll be in boating again you know what
it's interesting to me uh uh a year ago we had a guy on on the show a seating sitting Democratic
congressman and during the commercial I said what do you think will be George Bush's Legacy and he
said to me George Bush when he's out of office should be arrested and tried for war crimes and
I laughed Democratic senator said I'm shocked and I I laughed I thought this guy's this guy's a coup
but now I see that there's this is gaining some traction yeah and Spain they may they may do it
look I think we should all give President Bush a break for just a little while what history
whether you like him or not the man was handed a really tough plate after 9 11.
and I think he tried to do the best he could obviously he presided over
an economy that collapsed that's on his sheet presided or ignored I don't know I don't know
I'm not going to insult the audience but
for that ladies and gentlemen the Democrats control the hill for two years okay Frank and
Dodd were in charge of the finance committees in the house in the Senate so if you think Bush
ignored it then the other guys ignored it well because nobody gave us a heads up nobody all
right so why don't we just calm down on this bush thing let history unfold okay all right
take me down this road uh history unfolds how many years we unfolding 10 15 20. I don't think
six years 100 years what will what will vindicate what will make him look like a great president I
think look you're going to have people study the man you're going to have people study the record
and you're going to have information come out because we have a 24 7 news site what
information information about decisions he made what he did um why the economy collapsed did he
know the economy as serious as it is a global problem is only part of it uh the situation in
in Iraq as far as I know the only positive thing I heard about this Administration was he was a
great supporter of Africa and that you can't take away from the guy and God bless kept us protected
we weren't attacked after all right that's big right but now what about and then and then a 500
000 Iraqis uh killed uh five thousand American men and women killed for for what reason to
get rid of Saddam Hussein that country and into a hotbed of terrorism where it hadn't been a hotbed
of terrorism before I'm not going to defend the Iraq War I don't think it was worth going there
and I've said that on a year many times I don't think the blood and treasure was worth it I'm
thankful we won that war I'm thankful that we were victorious because now Barack Obama's road
is easier because we won that war if we had lost it his Road would be harder but I'm not going to
justify the blood and treasure it was a mistake a historical mistake if the Bush Administration had
concentrated perhaps on Afghanistan they talk about making Barack Obama's job easier than it
would have been immeasurably easier now to have sidestepped the the massacre because in order
to concentrate on Afghanistan you would have had and still today to invade Pakistan that's where
those people are hiding okay so unless you go in Pakistan territory and get them which Pakistan
does not want and would cause a big wider War they're going to sit there now we're dropping
Predators on them and we're wiping some of them out but that's not that's a simplistic solution
to a very complicated problem what do you know about Paul Bremer's role in the war in Iraq he
was the administrator in Iraq at the worst time okay so Paul bremmer has some explaining to do
he was in Central Central America right Central America he was involved in before Bremer yeah I
don't know what he was involved with before I can't accurately say but he's the one that
they believe brought death squads to Iraq I don't believe that for a second uh Bremer was
the administrator the American administrator under his two legit went South and thank God
for General Petraeus who got in there and turned it around okay let me just say something here
as as ignorant as I am and there are a few people more ignorant than I am
I didn't I didn't realize the deficit that this country had established for itself or been forced
into for eight years until the previous tenant left the house the money deficit you're talking
about the the state of the United States globally right until we got a guy in there who was actually
and who knows if he's doing the right thing but at least he's doing something but to me the United
States government was essentially closed for eight years I think there could have been a lot
more open about what they did and I don't think President Bush is going to go down in history I
think he'll be in a lower tier of presence but I don't think he's a venal man I don't think he's
a murderer I don't believe any of this garbage and I think it's unless you have proof to accuse
a president of being uh deceitful to of being a criminal of torturing people all right well
forget that what about what about just negligence what about accusations of negligence but you talk
about do I think he was negative let's talk about Cheney The Cheney is the venal one right I don't
have much use for the vice president you don't like dick I don't yeah I don't like the way he
handled the whole situation he wouldn't come on my program is that right yeah I mean I asked him
a million times to come on he wouldn't I don't like that form of governance if you're going to
do something come in and explain what you're doing that's what our country's all about and again it
seemed to me like his idea was let's just get in and get as much money for our Rich buddies and
get out and that'll be that's it look that's over here maybe simplistic but that's their breakfast
I know the chain doesn't need any money well hey hey we'll be right back on the factor 100
once the number one news cable show Bill I'm going to ask you about this we have this videotape do
you want to show it or do you not want to show it yeah you know what I'm talking about yeah
this was the uh some weasel sold a videotape uh to an internet uh site where of me cursing uh
you know on the air you were taping something for yourself that's why I was really offended by this
I have so much better stuff than that really and I'll give it to them at a discount I mean
they can you know I mean it's like oh there's a rally cursing like I don't curse you know
Irish guy is cursed that's in the DNA you curse okay you curse a lot and we're loud we say bad
words so what it just come to me if you want to see me cursing I got plenty of tape on it
you sure you don't want to show you no I really don't know my mom's watching you
know you know what yeah your mom's watching Mom said well mom's watching Leno is she
um not a bomb on it mom likes me oh God all right Dave uh all right well
bill I think we're done here I'd like to see it about six months for a cleaning
[Applause] um the number one uh the cable news show for the last
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