Oakes Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 For those who didn't get the email: Dear Admirer of Ayn Rand, Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, is scheduled to be interviewed on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday, December 13, 2004. The topic will be Iraq. This program airs at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern Time. Please check your local listings for exact times in your area. ARI Media Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praxus Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Awsome! I was waiting for another one of the ARI guys to get on Major News. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex_banana-eater Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Darn it! They just legalized Fox News here, so none of the cable companies have picked it up yet. Tell us how O'Reilly reacts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoso Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 You must be from Canada, eh? :-) I'm probably the only person on here who actually likes Bill O'Reilly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfarmer Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 You must be from Canada, eh? :-) I'm probably the only person on here who actually likes Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly has some good ideas but I view him like a Robert Staedler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed from OC Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 O'Rilley has some good ideas but I view him like a Robert Staedler. That gives too much credit to O'Reilly. Stadler was a genius whose ability was used to sanction the state. Bill's no genius. Didn't he used to co-host Entertainment Tonight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfarmer Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 That gives too much credit to O'Reilly. Stadler was a genius whose ability was used to sanction the state. Bill's no genius. Didn't he used to co-host Entertainment Tonight? Not that I know of... Are you thinking of John Tesh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed from OC Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Not that I know of... Are you thinking of John Tesh? It was Inside Edition. My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoso Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 I respect O'Reilly. He's a real American success story, and he achieved the success by himself. Yeah, he had a kinda tabloid-news past, but he was just doing what he could to get started. I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but I actually agree with most of it. The main issue where I disagree with him is separation of church and state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolboxnj Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Bill O'Reilly takes pretty much every antithetical postition to Objectivism, but he's still a great host. Dr. Brook was on O'Reilly this summer and was given his say so I guess we cannot complain all that much. I still watch O'Reilly and listen to his radio show for some reason. Perhaps for the entertainment value more than anything. He's probably the most wishy-washy guy on radio, at least. He takes traditionally conservative positions and then a couple "token" liberal positions (not to mention his slight anti-corparatism, ambivalence toward the death penalty and call for government involvement in the "flu vaccine crisis" which was no more than an election ploy from the Democrats) in an attempt to be "fair and balanced". It's pathetic. There's nothing I can't stand more than a closet conservative (or authoritarian fascist, to be extreme about it) who is always bashing the "leftist media". Well, what the heck is he? He covers his agenda up with these "token" liberal issues so he can say to his detractors "hey, I agree with you on this one issue!" when they say he's a conservative. The latest horrific use of Image Theory from the Right (connecting present issues to unrelated events, mostly in foreign policy) is calling for the tightening of immigration laws for terrorist-related issues. Every conservative on the radio has been calling for the tightening and using the 9/11 attacks to justify their position, using the death of 3000 Americans to push their agenda. But, I'm rambling and perhaps even wrong. TB =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 I didn't see Brook on the show. Did I miss him when I was flipping through channels? It seemed like the bulk of the show was about Scott Peterson being sentenced to death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praxus Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Yah it's just finishing and it seem's he isn't going to be on. Maybe he's going to be on Hannity and Colmes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoso Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 It was cancelled b/c of the Scott Peterson case. Maybe he'll be on again in the future some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megan Robinson Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 ARI emailed me this evening and said he wouldn't be on due to breaking news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praxus Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 I can't beleive that people actually care this much about the Lacy Peterson case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoso Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 I didn't used to, b/c I never understood why it became national news. However, my hatred for Scott Peterson grew pretty intense, and I became very interested in the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolboxnj Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Ugh, I got home early just to watch the 11pm broadcast. Yaron Brook > Peterson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montesquieu Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 O'Reilly is intolerable. His propagation of the so called "Judeo-Christian" founding of the United States, which he expounds upon all the time is dangerous as well as counter-factual. And he never has any serious historians of the founding on to discuss his theory which tells me he knows it's bogus, or he is just that stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles T. Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 He is just that stupid. I detest him extremely. Some things he has said: "I think that wealthy people in this country should be able to keep half their money." (paraphrasing from memory) "If I'm sitting in a bar and Christina Aguilera or Brittany Spears walks in and says, 'Let's go," who's going to pass that up? I'm just being honest!" Basically admitting he would cheat on his wife if the woman were "hot" enough (and the girls he chose for his example tell you something about him, too). He said this in the context of how men are weak, they can't be expected to be loyal or faithful all the time, that's "just the way it is". He's fond of saying that, and chalking peoples' flaws up to "human nature". I haven't written them down, so I can't cite them all, but I have heard him say scores of stupid, rotten things. He's despicable. I heard someone say his ratings are beginning to slide since that recent scandal of his, which he managed to downplay pretty effectively by settling out of court and arranging a non-disclosure agreement. I hope it's true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfarmer Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 I haven't written them down, so I can't cite them all, but I have heard him say scores of stupid, rotten things. He's despicable. (We should probably start a new thread if this one goes on much longer.) I understand that, when the Iraq war was about to begin, he found an obscure family memeber of a victim of 9/11, brought them on his show, and berated them because they were a pacifist and had signed a petition against the war in Iraq. Now, mind you, he didn't explain to them why the war in Iraq was justified. He just called them stupid that they wouldn't support the war in Iraq since their family member had died in 9/11. (Why people like him insist on making 9/11 and the war in Iraq a package deal I'll never understand.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward j williamson Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 O'Reilly and Fox News are good for that, scheduling an excellent speaker and then cancelling with some so-called "breaking news". Yeah, as if this Peterson crap couldn't have waited, or Fox couldn't have dealt with it as part of their regular newscast segment. O'Reilly was looking for an excuse to bump this speaker and he found it! I also made changes in my schedule in order to see it. Damn, just damn! :cuss: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Well anyone who receives a newsletter keep me posted about any rescheduling. I want to see Brook go up against O'reilly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodOrigamiMan Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 O'Reilly and Fox News are good for that, scheduling an excellent speaker and then cancelling with some so-called "breaking news". WTF mates... I ended up watching Trading Spouses when I thought O'Reilly was supposed to be on. Fox News isn’t living up to the good things I said about them after the election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoso Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Well anyone who receives a newsletter keep me posted about any rescheduling. I want to see Brook go up against O'reilly. Since it's about the Iraq war, they would probably be in agreement w/ each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Capitalist Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 O'Reilly has his good and bad moments - the bad ones about America's founding, for example. That and he provides rationalizations in favor of Jesus as a "philosopher", even "the world's greatest philosopher" at that. I hated how he rudely laughed Peikoff down about using nuclear weapons, and I think he tries extra hard to fit in with Middle America and to be liked by them. I think he began as a first-hander pundit with his own opinions and axes to grind, but has become a kind of second-hand puppet of the traditionalist Americans, saying to others what he assumes his audience would like him to say to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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