CBS's Smith Labels Bill O'Reilly 'Bloviator-in-Chief' Over 'View' Appearance
On Friday's CBS Early Show, after news reader Erica Hill reported on Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's heated Thursday appearance on ABC's 'The View,' co-host Harry Smith proclaimed O'Reilly to be "the bloviater-in-chief" and that "he was in full bloviation mode yesterday."
Hill began her report by declaring: "When Barbara Walters introduced the conservative talk show host on 'The View' Thursday, she ignited a major fuse, turning daytime TV into dynamite." Hill described how O'Reilly's statement that "Muslims killed us on 9/11" caused left-wing hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to walk off the set. Once she concluded her piece, Smith said of O'Reilly: "He loves all this attention." Hill replied "he thrives on it." Smith added: "He was so happy to see their reactions to him."
Fellow co-host Maggie Rodriguez criticized Behar and Goldberg for walking off: "...it can be very hard to keep your emotions in check when a guest says something that you don't agree with, but you don't walk off, you sit there and you challenge them with information, you bring up the counterpoint." She concluded: "...their show is called 'The View,' they should accept all points of view."
Smith then threw out the "bloviator-in-chief" label and offered some advice on how to handle O'Reilly: "...he's been on the show bunches and bunches of times, and he's not a guy you particularly go head to head with....he wants to get under your skin. If you're going to come back at him you need to figure out how to do the same thing."
Apparently Smith used that tactic during an April 14, 2009 interview with the FNC host, when he snarkily asked O'Reilly: "Couldn’t hold a job at any other place?...Is this the longest continuous employment you have ever had?"
Here is a full transcript of the October 15 segment:
7:30AM ET SEGMENT:
SMITH: First, we want to take a look at a little walking episode on 'The View' yesterday.
RODRIGUEZ: Good one.
SMITH: Two of the hosts walked off the set when the conversation got a little heated. Erica Hill along with us this morning with the story. Good morning.
ERICA HILL: Some walking, some huffing and puffing, although I don't think it's from the brisk walking. It was really a little bit of a battle yesterday. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly was the guest and it didn't take long before the sparks began to fly between him and some of the most liberal co-hosts.
BARBARA WALTERS: Please welcome Bill O'Reilly.
HILL: When Barbara Walters introduced the conservative talk show host on 'The View' Thursday, she ignited a major fuse, turning daytime TV into dynamite.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Daytime Drama; O'Reilly Causes Set Walk-Off on 'The View']
JOY BEHAR: This is America-
BILL O'REILLY: Hold it. Hold it. Listen to me, because you'll learn, alright? Thank you.
HILL: The explosive topic, the controversial Islamic cultural center planned near Ground Zero in New York City.
JOY BEHAR: I'm an American.
O'REILLY: Let me break this you to, 70% of Americans don't want that mosque down there. So, don't give me the 'we' business.
BEHAR: Where's that poll? Where's that poll? I want to see that poll.
O'REILLY: You want to bet on that? You want to bet? I'll show you that poll in a minute.
BEHAR: All I'm saying is I'm American, too.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: 70% of Americans don't want-
O'REILLY: 70% don't want it down there.
GOLDBERG: But why is that? Bill, why are we saying-
O'REILLY: Because it's inappropriate.
GOLDBERG: Why is it inappropriate?
O'REILLY: Because Muslims killed us on 9/11!
GOLDBERG: No. Oh, my god! That is [bleep].
O'REILLY: Muslims didn't kill us on 9/11, is that what you're saying?
GOLDBERG: Extremists. Excuse me, extremists did that.
O'REILLY: What religion were they in?
WALTERS: Doesn't matter what they are-
GOLDBERG: What religion was Mr. McVeigh? Mr. McVeigh was an extremist as well and he killed people. What the hell?!
O'REILLY: I'm telling you, 70% of the country-
BEHAR: I don't want to sit here.
O'REILLY: Go.
BEHAR: I don't.
O'REILLY: Go.
BEHAR: I'm outraged by that statement.
O'REILLY: You're outraged about 'Muslims killing us on 9/11'?
HILL: The dispute led to co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walking off their own show, leaving Walters to defuse the situation.
WALTERS: You have just seen what should not happen.
HILL: And Walters addressed both her co-hosts and O'Reilly.
WALTERS: Now, let me just say to you in a calmer voice-
O'REILLY: Sure.
WALTERS: It was extremists. You cannot take a whole religion and demean them because-
O'REILLY: I'm not demeaning anybody.
WALTERS: Yes, you are.
HILL: Goldberg and Behar did return after O'Reilly apologized, but the story didn't end there.
O'REILLY: I loved that exposition today. Didn't you?
HILL: On O'Reilly's prime-time show on Fox News, the incident was a major topic all night.
ALICIA MENENDEZ [SENIOR ADVISOR, NDN]: You see how that might be condescending?
O'REILLY: A little bit.
MENENDEZ: That's good, that's a good admission.
O'REILLY: But you know, I am often offensive. I think everyone knows that.
HILL: And on her HLN show, Behar wasn't about to let it go, either.
BEHAR: Today on 'The View,' Bill O'Reilly had a real pinhead moment.
HILL: A moment viewers won't soon forget.
O'REILLY: You're outraged about 'Muslims killed us on 9/11'?
HILL: He uses that term 'pinhead' a lot and he was also on 'The View' promoting his book, which is called 'Pinheads and Patriots.'
SMITH: He loves all this attention.
HILL: This is – he thrives on it. And you know what? It brings great attention to his show, great attention to 'The View,' so for all of them-
RODRIGUEZ: It worked out for everybody.
HILL: There you go.
RODRIGUEZ: You know, we anchor live TV for two hours and it can be very hard to keep your emotions in check when a guest says something that you don't agree with, but you don't walk off, you sit there and you challenge them with information, you bring up the counterpoint. Maybe they have a little more leeway because it's not a news show, but their show is called 'The View,' they should accept all points of view.
SMITH: He is the bloviater-in-chief, though, and he was in full bloviation mode yesterday.
RODRIGUEZ: He loved it.
SMITH: He was so happy to see their reactions to him. And so, I think in a situation like – he's been on the show bunches and bunches of times, and he's not a guy you particularly go head to head with.
HILL: No, and you know what you're getting, too.
SMITH: Well, he wants to get under your skin. If you're going to come back at him you need to figure out how to do the same thing.
HILL: There you go, advice from Harry Smith.
SMITH: Yeah, there you go.
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Comments
Something about Harry
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:27pm.
There is something about him I don't like.........
I got it, he is a hack liberal who can only spew hack liberal thoughts and doesn't challenge Dems and is afraid of "rethuglicans"...
That would make him "typical" of liberal pu%%ies.
I am no fan of O'Reilly, but they still call him things like "Conservative talk show host" or "Ultra-Conservative yakmeister"....
I guess compared to a dopey pu%%y like Harry he "seems" to be ultra-conservative....
Smarmy Smith
Submitted by libBuster on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 5:24pm.
I too find Smith rather smarmy and difficult to watch. He is an intolerant liberal pretending to be tolerant.
There's something about him ...
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 6:49pm.
He's so smarmy and oily, his hair slid off. He's hairless (and clueless) and his name is "Harry"!
And he doesn't "spew liberal thoughts," he oozes them! <g>
BTW, you ever notice how Harry loves to "lean forward" in his interviews? Is he allowed to do that MSNBC thing at CBS?
Behar abd Goldberg are intolerant.
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:32pm.
They can't stand to be confronted with opinions or views that are different from thier own. That's what "The View" really means. To them it means THE view. To them, their's is the only correct view.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
How about...
Submitted by BuffNBone on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:52pm.
... A View, One View, My View, or since I get the impression they are just a bunch of cows, the Myopic Moo?
Useful
Submitted by Thoreau on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:55pm.
One use for O'Reilly is that he gets something randomly correct once a month. His other purpose is that he's a lightning rod for the left that think they know what Conservative means.
Between Palin, who isn't in office and ain't running for office, and O'Reilly, who just yells about neocon crap all day, they have their eyes fixed. And this is good. It allows everyone else to move around them unnoticed.
In what areas does O'Reilly
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:27pm.
In what areas does O'Reilly fail the "true consevative" test?
[By the way, I do think there are plenty who are well to the right of BOR. It's just that he combines his moderate conservatism with his inclination for obnoxious politically partisan asshattery.]
Jer
I'm still waiting
Submitted by gfrrman on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:46pm.
for someone to tell me what BOR said that was false!!...crickets
"Socialists eventually run out of other peoples' money"...Margaret Thatcher
Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 1:08am.
Given BORs continual, nauseating excusals or "benefit of the doubt" to Obama vs. hitting him with heat, at about a ten to one advantage to the butt kissing stuff, exactly who does O'Reilly direct his inclination for obnoxious politically partisan asshattery at?
Liberal media, I'd say; but I don't know how that translates to being politically partisan ---?
MD
The two dumb asses on Their
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 5:04pm.
The two dumb asses on Their View were exposed for the dumb asses they are. The libs can't stand it. Harry why don't you go on with Bill and let him expose you for the dumb ass you are.
I saw the incident here
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 5:25pm.
I saw the incident here yesterday. There was nothing that O'Rielly said that did not true. Whoopi and Beher where the nuts in this case. Harry and company are dishonest here! The "early" show is just not worth watching period!
Muslims DID kill us on 9/11!
Submitted by ChrisNH on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 9:22pm.
O'reilly was RIGHT! Muslims DID kill us on 9/11! He didn't say that ALL Muslims are terrorists, so why the whacked out response from a couple of NOW NAGS?
These idiots require a cause/target
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:19pm.
to show how they're somehow wonderful and when they can't find one they manufacture some lose association that they infer in the worst (best for them as it's the target du jour) possible way.
Here's another loser.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:15pm.
I'd love to see him speak about O'Reilly to his face. It would be funny to see this piss ant squirm in his chair.
Liberals in general
Submitted by gfrrman on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:49pm.
are COWARDS. We have the poster child of one in the WH.
"Socialist eventually run out of other peoples' money"...Margaret Thatcher
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