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Fire Bill O\'Reilly!

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Started by Anonymous 20 years, 5 months ago
Dear Chairman Ailes, It pains me to be the one to bring this to your attention, but one of your marquee FOX News personalities is willfully distributing inaccurate information. Although I don\'t live \"the fast life\" like people such as yourself in New York City, I do possess common sense. \"Inaccurate information\" results either from idiocy or lying, and your FOX personality, Bill O\'Reilly, is distributing \"inaccurate information\" with alarming regularity. Here are just a few examples from 2005. If you want more specific details you can visit Media Matters: May 10, 2005: O\'Reilly misleadingly claimed Real ID Act passed Senate 100-0 As proof that \"politicians are finally feeling the heat on the illegal [immigrant] issue,\" Fox News host Bill O\'Reilly misleadingly claimed that the \"the Real ID Act passed 100-0 in the Senate.\" In fact, the Senate never held a vote specifically on \"the Real ID Act,\" which requires states to verify that an applicant is a legal resident of the United States before issuing the applicant a driver\'s license. Rather, the legislation was attached to the emergency supplemental appropriation bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The only way to vote against the ID measure would have been to vote against the entire funding bill. June 7, 2005: O\'Reilly\'s tax falsehoods: 50 percent \"don\'t pay any federal income tax,\" estate tax \"unconstitutional\" Fox News host Bill O\'Reilly falsely asserted that \"50 percent of Americans don\'t pay any federal income tax\" and that therefore \"the other half is waging the whole war on terror.\" He also claimed that the estate tax is \"unconstitutional,\" an assertion the Supreme Court rejected in a 1921 decision that has been repeatedly upheld over the years. While O\'Reilly claimed that half of all Americans do not pay income taxes, figures from the Tax Policy Center show that only 37.2 percent of total tax units -- single people or married couples -- pay either zero or negative taxes, or do not file at all, leaving 62.8 percent who do pay taxes. July 25, 2005: O\'Reilly wrongly accused Cyrus Kar of possessing bomb timers Fox News host Bill O\'Reilly wrongly attacked American Cyrus Kar, an aspiring filmmaker detained for seven weeks and later released by the U.S. military in Iraq for suspected links to the Iraqi insurgency. O\'Reilly falsely claimed that Kar possessed bomb components when he was captured by Iraqi police. In fact, the Pentagon determined that the components -- washing-machine timers typically used by Iraqi insurgents to detonate bombs -- did not belong to Kar, but instead belonged to the driver of the cab he had hired. Kar was eventually cleared of any connection with terrorists. August 31, 2005: O\'Reilly falsely accused La. governor of not requesting more National Guard troopsFox News host Bill O\'Reilly falsely claimed that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco \"failed to ask for more [National Guard] troops from the feds, knowing she only had about 6,000 to control a city of 1.3 million\" and that \"[i]t was not until Wednesday, August 31st, three days after the storm hit, that Blanco admitted she didn\'t have enough security in the city.\" But according to Department of Defense officials, Blanco and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour had requested additional Guard personnel before the storm hit. September 26, 2005: O\'Reilly falsely claimed he retracts his false claims On the September 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O\'Reilly claimed that \"if we make a mistake ... we will retract, and we will apologize, and we will put it up.\" Media Matters for America has identified and corrected hundreds of O\'Reilly\'s falsehoods, made both on his radio show and on Fox News\' The O\'Reilly Factor -- the vast majority of which he has yet to retract. Rather than correct his own falsehoods, O\'Reilly lashes out at those who expose them or simply denies that he erred. October 5, 2005: O\'Reilly wrongly claimed that \"about 50 percent of the country\'s pro-life\" On the October 5 edition of Fox News\' The O\'Reilly Factor, host Bill O\'Reilly falsely claimed that \"about 50 percent of the country\'s pro-life.\" In fact, less than 40 percent of Americans identified themselves as \"pro-life\" in a recent Gallup poll, and more than 60 percent of Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that established the right to abortion. Ocober 13, 2005: O\'Reilly: Planned Parenthood \"encouraging\" abortion among teens because they \"get paid for every abortion\" On the October 13 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O\'Reilly suggested that Planned Parenthood \"would be encouraging\" young women to get abortions because \"Planned Parenthood gets paid for every abortion that they\'re involved with.\" Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, with a policy of providing services irrespective of income. Many Planned Parenthood clinics offer services on a sliding scale based on ability to pay; the organization\'s website states that it is committed to \"ensuring that financial concerns are not a barrier to necessary health care.\" These policies and rates extend to all services provided by Planned Parenthood. Chairman Ailes, your situation is dire. You have either a total buffoon or a loose-cannon-pathological-liar in Bill O\'Reilly (possibly both). You owe it to your shareholders in your fiduciary responsibilities to minimize the risk of marginalized profitability due to excessive liability, defamation and slander lawsuits. I and the undersigned all demand that you protect our investment in FOX News LLC by removing Mr. O\'Reilly from the air forthwith.

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December 29, 2009

We just hit 1,000 signatures. Post this link to your Facebook wall and text three friends who are tired of these falsehoods right now.

Reached 1,000 supporters

December 27, 2009

October 24, 2008

The feedback I keep getting is that people are tired of the constant stream of misinformation coming from FOX News. I am currently working on a formal packet to send to the network leadership. Please email the FOX News public relations office today to demand accountability.

Reached 100 supporters

February 24, 2006

195 Comments

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Dan O'Brien
11 years ago Featured

The FDA prohibits selling alcohol and cigarettes on TV.....Someone needs to stop O'Rielly from the harmful venom that he spews out on a daily basis. He is corrupting the minds of the ignorant.

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Orianna Morales
11 years ago Featured

Bill O'Reilly continues to shove propaganda down people's throats financed by FOX, but now, he has purposely lied to further his interests, while tarnishing the integrity of our veterans. When will FOX react?

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John Waller
11 years ago Featured

Good for the goose, good for the gander. Brian Williams BS will get him canned. So should Bill's. These prima donnas don't get it that the news isn't about them. A pox on both their houses.

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Tina Smith
11 years ago

Bill is Mentally ill and needs to be held accountable for his behavior. Get this guy off the air NOW!

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Tina Smith
11 years ago

Bill is Mentally ill and needs to be held accountable for his behavior. Get this guy off the air NOW!

sherry bunn

Bill is a hypocrite and a woman beater. He needs to be fired

Denis Quirke

We have stopped watching this idiot because of his lies.

louis

bill is is an outrageous scubag that be in jail and sentiens to death

louis

bill o liely is isis thug

louis

bill is a nut case on drugs

Caroline Rogers

Get him off the Air immediately!!!

louis

what a joke this guy is oh wait hes not a guy hes a fagget

louis

what a joke this guy is oh wait hes not a guy hes a fagget

louis

what a joke this guy is oh wait hes not a guy hes a fagget

Anonymous

Disgraceful racist fogey who needs to be replaced. Irresponsible news anchor. Out of touch on serious issues.

CHINA F SMITH

Besides a liar, he is also a racist.

william r ronaldson

I worked with illegal immigrants in the construction industry in Los Angeles in the 1980's . The only way our company could be competitive was to hire them and lay-off our more experienced and higher paid workers.

gofuk yurself rena

go fuck your self rena

Grady Youngblood

Bill O' Reilly Movie Killing Jesus Not Bibical Truths.

Rex & Ruth Roberts

Bill O' Reilly is a very disgusting egotistical person and we would like Fox much better without him on there , bragging about himself ...he is disgusting pinhead !!!!

Elayne Eason

He is a racist! He needs to leave

Eugene Park

I hope this may happen, God save us all. For there still to be McCarthyism and such stupid misleading speaker guiding public sentiments with the poorest manners and being a textbook case of fallacies and irrational thinking, do the USA a favor and kick him off the fking air

Anonymous

Bill is a disgraceful human being. I wish for him to not be in a position in which he can influence others.

Dennis

Bill looks like an IDIOT TRYING to debate Mr. Trump - LOOSERS BIG BIG time !!!!!

Dennis

Trump makes Bill O look mentally impudent ! ! !

Jason Viars

Lying bully posing as a journalist.

Shirley Fey

This man has caused nothing but trouble. We need him fired because of his racist and bias reporting of the news. Please fire this toxic man.

Joe johnson

dan rather look a like fire him

Anonymous

Such an ignorant human being

robert watson

Do what's right....fire him!

Joe McCoy

Get him off!

Thomas Ryan

drags his wife by the neck down the stairs, spreads racism and hate on a national scale. Deserves more than being fired

Jesse Brown

This man is evil and so evil that he won't even let people who try to defend themselves talk! He also tries to deny historical past, which is sick as we try to teach that those who deny the past are doomed to repeat it i.e. the holocaust!

darryl mincer

He is the personification racism, hatred and ignorance.

Anonymous

I feel people like him should NOT be on television! His recent remarks about low income people (BLACK people particularly that can't get job because MOST of them have tattoos on their foreheads) should have been the straw that broke the camels back and it calls for action to be taken NOW!

EG Williams

It is amazing that this racist is still allowed to headline any news program.

sharee scott-medina

He makes inaccurate and racial reports on a public spectrum and this type of disparity should not be tolerated in such a large platform.

Anonymous

He might as well be a one person tv advertisement for trump. What a useless, vitriolic pathetic excuse for a human. Doesn't even pretend to be impartial! Can him!

Joe

Fire this idiot.

Dylan Gordon

Complete ignorance and his defense of Slave labor was repulsive

Kelly Creel

Slavery apologists and history revisionists have no place on "news" channels, even though Faux News isn't news anyway. Just go.

Anonymous

This man has no place on Fox after his comment on slavery. Fire him please.

Anonymous

Free slave labor is okay if they're well fed and housed?? Bill is a menace to modern civilization and should be fired.

Edward Slon

Why not mention how slaves were beaten, raped and murdered bill? It's more relevant than what they ate or where they slept.

Gary Baker

Wow. Mr. O'Reilly is a bigot through and though. Maybe, he can find a new position with " The Donald." Look at America, we are a country of diversity. Look at the RNC, it doesn't look like the America I know.

Robert

He is a racist and should be fired!

Anonymous

WOW Slaves well fed and housed?!! Oh THANKS master! :-/

Anonymous

He crossed the line and then blamed it on everyone else! A total coward and a bigot. already irrelevant but this is too much!

mark

get rid of the bigot

Robert Chapman

O'Reilly is also guilty of (Sexual Harassment ). O'Reilly knows the Truth about 911 and is afraid to tell it.

A J Bosh

Fire this misogynist immediately; his bile has been on the air far too long.

Stephen

Down with the All Spin Zone!

JR

The poles are in!! This guy contiues day after day to be a major league ass....... paying him is absurd.

nathaniel watts jr

O'Reilly is a hate monger and liar. He uses his show as his personal hate platform and calls it news.

JOE JOHNSON

like all commentaries he thinks he important! he is not! he is a commnentary ie dan rather!

Ross

We do not like you we what you get fire and we not what around you and get fire in Fox News get you get you fire

Shelley Mitchell

Just as others have crossed the line and unprofessionally and disrespectfully made a racist comment should be fired no exceptions

T Jackson

O'Reilly should not continue to be provided with a space to spew his racist misogynist comments. He is nothing but a hateful little man who is far past his sell by date - be gone bigot!

Anonymous

I have a wig too, I am a cancer survivor but Bill is a raciest, sexist and bigot. He has no idea of peoples plights and situations and he does not care. He is a bigot and should not be in the public eye.

Anonymous

He should also be fired for his most recent comment regarding Maxine Waters.

Sandy Mae O'donaghue

Bill O'Reilly is a racist fool! After listening to the comments he made about Ms. Watters, I believe he needs to either step down or be fired!

C Clark

Hey Bill Cosby- I mean Bill O'Reilly....your mama would b sooo proud- ...its called get a freaking blow up doll already-

Daniel byman

America does NOT need this idiot spouting hate on a supposed " news" program. Fire him today!

Joanne Montano

How many more women need to come forward before Fox takes a stand? Put morals before dollars and fire Bill O'Reilly, a serial sexual predator.

Edward Slon

His cowardly behavior should not be rewarded.

Anonymous

How can this man look so clean but be so dirty never did like him get rid of this fool now fox or keep losing money nothing good can come from this as long as I see his face on TV why would anyone want to listen to him a dishonest dishonorable lying idiot

Marc

BREAKING: Bill O'Reilly Likes To Touch Himself And Call People

Robert Freedman

Time to let Bill O ride off in the sunset.

Neisha Natale

This is unacceptable. I will never again watch his show or purchase his books. Get rid of tis sleaze ball.

Anonymous

Fire his butt. Enough is enough! How many women must it take.

Anonymous

He needs to lose his job because he is a menace to women. HE SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!!

Anonymous

O'Reilly like Trump...PIGS. Loud mouthed, rude, and 1950's thinking. We don't need either of these men.

karen prefach

It's time for all old dino's to retire.

BETSI bilyck

He is a disgrace!! Fire him

Anna Christine Johnson

Good lord. Out. Enough. Sexual predators should not be given a platform; they should be in prison. Bill OReilly is an evil man- it doesn't take much to see this. QUICKLY>

Pamela A Bankey

This man is so disrespectful to women....Maxine Waters and sexual harassment. He is an embarrassment to Fox News! I'll never watch FOX again.

Elizabeth Whitcher

Bye Bye Bill!

Enrique velez

Please Fire Bill O'reilly

Anonymous

SOME PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO TREAT AND TALK TO A WOMEN. HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED AND STOP WITH MACHO ATTITUDE

Sara Rodriguez

Fire him!

rich richman

He disrespects women and is a sexual preditor! My church is boycotting Fox now!

Diane Reitz

Stop supporting sexual harassment & sexual predators!

Holly Robinson

The jerk is unfair and unbalanced.

Connie Newton

Time to let him go!

keenan reese

Not the first time O'Reilly's shown his disgusting behavior towards his co-workers. Time to do what the law won't.

keenan reese

O'Reilly need to get what he dishes out, prison would be a better place for him.

Shelley Mitchell

A person in his position should not be able to discriminate without consequence.

Christina Raynak

If any CEO of a company were to behave this way, the company would be sued and the CEO fired. Mr. O'Reilly needs to spin out of there!

Brenda

Get rid of him ASAP.

Katrina

Fire Bill O Reilly. Get rid of him asap.

Susie quinn

Fire O'Reilly

Artemis Rose

O'Reilly is a vile misogynist and a perpetrator of hate!!! I boycotted Fox News and sponsors.

Millie Pistolesi

Please keep Bill. I love his show. Watch him every might!! He is watching out for us!!!

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Jacqueline Ross
11 years ago

I'm sick of O'Reilly demonizing Christians and being pro Islam and pro satanic worshippers like Lady Gaga, He has NO business being on this network. I don't know more than 1 or 2 people who even LIKE him. I stopped WATCHING Fox ALL BECAUSE of Him and won't watch it till he is GONE!

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Jacqueline Ross
11 years ago

I'm sick of O'Reilly demonizing Christians and being pro Islam and pro satanic worshippers like Lady Gaga, He has NO business being on this network. I don't know more than 1 or 2 people who even LIKE him. I stopped WATCHING Fox ALL BECAUSE of Him and won't watch it till he is GONE!

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Anonymous
11 years ago

He likes to point the blame but he won't admit his mistakes. I don't look at him for truth. If he represents Fox then maybe then that's not the right network for me and my family.

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