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Title: O'Reilly: Tasered UF student "biggest wimp in the United States of America"
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URL Source: http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190009
Published: Sep 20, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-09-20 17:31:06 by Kamala
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O'Reilly: Tasered UF student "biggest wimp in the United States of America" During the September 18 edition of his Fox News television show, while discussing the recent incident involving University of Florida student Andrew Meyer, who was shocked with a Taser after a confrontation with police that began while he was asking questions of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) during a September 17 campus forum, Bill O'Reilly asserted: "I've been tasered for a story, and all I can say is: He is the biggest wimp in the United States of America." O'Reilly added: "And I don't say that with any kind of bravado, but the overreaction to being tasered -- it's not -- it's an electrical shock is what it is." Also, only moments after showing a video clip of Meyer being shocked, during which the he cried out, "Don't tase me, bro. Don't tase me," O'Reilly stated: "It's not pleasant, but that idiot, he wanted this to happen. He wanted the cops to do it." Citing an increase in the number of reported deaths associated with Tasers, the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has launched several studies into the effects of the stun guns, and the Justice Department initiated a "multi-agency technical evaluation of taser technology." From the September 18 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor: O'REILLY: "Impact" segment tonight: Tasering freedom of speech. Twenty-one-year-old University of Florida student Andrew Meyer interrupted a forum for John Kerry yesterday by refusing to stop talking. [begin video clip] MEYER: I'm not even done yet, I have two more questions. If you were so against Iraq, then how come you're not saying let's impeach Bush now -- impeach Bush now before he can invade Iraq? Why don't we impeach him? Impeach Bush -- Clinton was impeached for what? A blow job? Why don't we impeach Bush? All right? Also, are you a member -- are you a member of Skull & Bones in college with Bush? Are you in the same secret society? KERRY: That's all right. Let me answer his question. MEYER: Excuse me? Excuse me? What are you arresting me for? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! [end video clip] O'REILLY: All right, now, he was arrested -- and when Meyer resisted, this is what happened. [begin video clip] MEYER: Help me! Help, they're arresting me! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: Stop -- do you want to be tased? Stop resisting. UNIDENTIFIED MALE POLICE OFFICER: You'll be tased if you do not -- MEYER: If you let me go, I'll walk out of here. Just let me go. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: Quiet down and -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE POLICE OFFICER: Roll on your stomach -- UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: Do it now. UNIDENTIFIED MALE POLICE OFFICER: Put your hands behind your head. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: Do it now! [...] MEYER: Get the fuck off of me, man! I didn't do anything. Don't tase me, bro. Don't tase me. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: Stop -- MEYER: I didn't do anything. Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: Do not -- MEYER: Ow! Let me go! UNIDENTIFIED MALE POLICE OFFICER: Get up! MEYER: Let me go! UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: What are you doing? MEYER: Let me go! Ow! UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Why are you doing that? MEYER: Oh, my God! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: Back up! MEYER: What did I -- UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Why are you doing it? MEYER: What did I do? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police brutality! UNIDENTIFIED MALE POLICE OFFICER: Stay back! MEYER: What did I do? UNIDENTIFIED MALE POLICE OFFICER: Stay back! [end video clip] O'REILLY: Now, I've been tasered for a story, and all I can say is: He is the biggest wimp in the United States of America. With us now, attorneys Jeanine Pirro and Lis Wiehl -- both are Fox News analysts. And I don't say that with any kind of bravado, but the overreaction to being tasered -- it's not -- it's an electrical shock is what it is. WIEHL: Right. Right. O'REILLY: It's not pleasant, but that idiot, he wanted this to happen. He wanted the cops to do it; he wanted to disrupt the forum; and to me, I think he should be prosecuted. —A.I.
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#1. To: Kamala (#0)
If you deliberately engineer a situation where you're going to be tasered, I don't think that makes you a wimp. Other things, maybe. But not a wimp.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
i so loathe this man.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
I'd like to see O'Lie-ly tasered. I don't think he'd be all he-man after he came round, he'd be crying like a baby...or is it like a wimp?
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
Bill O'Reilly Calls Tasered Student "Biggest Wimp"- 9/19/07
There are worse things in the world than being tased. Having been tased, run over by a car twice, shot, stabbed, and poisoned twice, I would have to say, Poisoning is the most unpleasant thing you can go through.
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
Oreilly is on the blacklist.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition No. The biggest wimps are the Republican crybabies over "General Betray Us."
The biggest wimps are the Republican crybabies over "General Betray Us." I read an column by Michael Kinsley which nailed that point down so strongly. Here it is: How Dare You By MICHAEL KINSLEY Goodness gracious. oh, my paws and whiskers. Some of the meanest, most ornery hombres around are suddenly feeling faint. Notorious tough guys are swooning with the vapors. The biggest beasts in the barnyard are all aflutter over something they read in the New York Times. It's that ad from http://MoveOn.org — the one that calls General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. forces in Iraq, general betray us. All across the radio spectrum, right-wing shock jocks are themselves shocked. How could anybody say such a thing? It's horrifying. It's outrageous. It's disgraceful. It's just beyond the pale ... It's ... oh, my heavens ... say, is it a bit stuffy in here? ... I think I'm going to ... Could I have a glass of ... oh, dear [thud]. Welcome to the wonderful world of umbrage, the new language of American politics. You would not have thought that the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly would be so sensitive. Sticks and stones and so on. Yet they all seem to have taken one look at that ad and fainted dead away. And when they came round, they demanded — as if with one voice (or at least as if with one list of talking points) — that every Democratic presidential candidate must "condemn" this shocking, shocking document. The ad is pretty tough, and the pun on the general's name is pretty witless. You could argue that since the verb betray and the noun traitor have the same root, the ad is accusing the head of American forces in Iraq of treason. The ad can also be interpreted — more plausibly if you consider the rest of the text — merely as questioning the general's honesty, not his patriotism. But whatever your interpretation of the ad, all the gasping for air and waving of scented handkerchiefs among the war's most enthusiastic supporters is pretty comical. It's all phony, of course. The war's backers are obviously delighted to have this ad from which they can make an issue. They wouldn't trade it for a week in Anbar province (a formerly troubled area of Iraq that is now, thanks to us, an Eden of peace and tranquillity where barely a car bomb disturbs the perfumed silence — or so they say). These days, mock outrage is used by every side of every dispute. It's fair enough to criticize something your opponent said while secretly thanking your lucky stars that he said it. The fuss over this http://MoveOn.org ad is something else: it is the result of a desperate scavenging for umbrage material. When so many people are clamoring for a chance to swoon that they each have to take a number and when the landscape is so littered with folks lying prostrate and pretending to be dead that it starts to look like the end of a Civil War battle re-enactment, this isn't spontaneous mass outrage. This is choreography. The constant calls for political candidates to prove their bona fides by condemning or denouncing something somebody else said or to renounce a person's support or to return her tainted money are a tiresome new tic in American politics. They're turning politics into a game of "Mother, May I?" Did you say "Here is my plan for health-care reform"? Uh-oh, you were supposed to say "I condemn http://MoveOn.org's comments on General Petraeus, and here is my plan for health-care reform." All this drawing of uncrossable lines and issuing of fatuous fatwas is supposed to be a bad habit of the left. When right-wingers are attacking this habit rather than practicing it, they call it political correctness. The problem with political correctness is that it turns discussions of substance into arguments over etiquette. The last thing that supporters of the war want to talk about at this point is the war. They'd far rather talk about this insult to General Petraeus. It just isn't done in polite society, it seems, to criticize a general in the middle of a war. (Although, when else?) The Republican front runner, Rudy Giuliani, is another tough guy who has seized the opportunity to reveal his easily bruised soft side. He is running TV commercials saying Hillary Clinton "stood by silently" while http://MoveOn.org ran its despicable ad. Another way of saying this would be that she had nothing to do with the ad. But Rudy accuses her of "joining with" http://MoveOn.org and "attacking" General Petraeus, although the only evidence he can muster for this accusation is a clip from Clinton telling the general at a hearing that his reports of progress in the war "really require the willing suspension of disbelief." For this, Giuliani demands an "apology," not just to the general but to all American troops in Iraq. He accuses her of "turning her back" on America's brave soldiers "just when our troops need all our support to finish the job." When we try to untangle this web of accusation and innuendo, Giuliani appears to be suggesting that it is unacceptable for a Senator to express skepticism about anything said by a general in uniform. If he believes that, he does not understand democracy. I am shocked by this. In fact, if Giuliani doesn't apologize, and if the other Republican candidates don't condemn this commercial, I think I'm going to faint.
dude you should probably move out of your nieghborhood it doesnt appear to be much fun to live in
Why settle for the lesser of two evils, vote Cthulhu!
Excellent column.
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“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
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"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#9. To: Kamala (#0)
Tasered UF student "biggest wimp in the United States of America"
I've already said too much.
#10. To: MUDDOG (#9)
No.
#11. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#7)
Having been tased, run over by a car twice, shot, stabbed, and poisoned twice, I would have to say, Poisoning is the most unpleasant thing you can go through.
#12. To: Paul Revere (#10)
I've already said too much.
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