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The next time you hear somebody complaining about how news organizations have abandoned hard reporting for celebrity twins updates and mummy funerals and “will breathing air kill you, eventually?” alarmism, just point them to this fine bit of journalism by Bill O’Reilly. Instant rebuttal. [YouTube]
10:32 AM
on Wed July 8 2009
By
Sara K. Smith
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It’s much easier to pick apart body language than complicated issues like health care or the economy. And let’s face it, O’Reilly’s audience isn’t really sharp enough to understand such complex issues anyway.
She “studied non-verbal communication”? I once watched an operation on Discovery Health, can I be her surgeon?
Can we just hold off on showing ORLY until he finally freaks out and shoots himself in the face live…f*ck it, we’ll do it live…on teevee? Also?
You know, I’m really not convinced yet that Barney Frank thinks Bill O’Reilly is an irrelevant egomaniacal blowhard. Let’s roll that tape again!
Hopey dont play that game: She’s one of Bill’s “interns.”
You would certainly know all about baiting, Bill. You’re a master baiter.
How are we actually able to see Mr. O’Reilly with the number of journalistic awards that must litter his studio and office?
As an Expert on Everyfuckingthing, my professional opinion is that Barney Frank is giving Bill ORLY exactly the amount of attention and respect he deserves. Perhaps more. He should have taken off his shoes and started picking his toe nails.
Of course, Barney could prove O’Reilly is irrelevant by not going on his fucking show and providing grist for the mouthbreathing reactionaries that populate the Fox News viewership and message boards.
“Tonya Reiman’s passion for body language began in her first year of college at Pace University when a psychology professor came nose to nose with her in order to demonstrate the significance of “personal space”. Building from that pivotal moment, she later graduated from Pace University and began her independent research of non-verbal communication. Due to the disciplines’ non-traditional nature, Reiman was forced to create her program as she studied.”
So much comedy gold, so little time.
Can’t. bear. to. watch. If Orly’s spewing something from his Orly orifice, then it must be: a) wrong, b) stupid, c) ignorant, d)racist, e)sexist, f) a pointless & futile waste of time/space/breath/lifeforce or (my personal choice) g) all of the above.
This lady has been watching too much “Lie to Me.”
I’ve got a body part to show ol’ Bill.
They spent three whole minutes on this bullshit?
We should get some sort of “personality expert” on here and find out what it means when Bill’s being a mouth-breathing, sophomoric asshole.
“Next up on the O’Reilly Factor — slow-motion video of the kid behind the counter at McDonald’s spilling my fries, with analysis of how I calmly ignored the little asshole’s deliberate attempt to provoke me by showing contempt for my lunch and a 30-minute panel discussion of how completely unaffected I am by his behavior. Four psychologists will talk about how unconcerned I am after the break.”
If I was on O’Reilly I’d be playing Madden 09 during the interview.
“He’s not a stupid man.” “Of course not — he’s been on television.”
Such a high level of discourse. But of course — they’re on television! Well, Fox News. That’s kind of like television.
They should get a room. The sexual tension is off the scale.
WHA? Barney frank is a tad slovenly?!! STOP THE PRESSES.
Gee Tonya, even with your bleached hair and 70s-ish coppertoned suntan I still noticed your big buck teeth that are getting laid over your upper lip as if to make an “F” sound…hmmmm. What could it mean? F-F-Frank, I have F-F-F-Feelings F-F-For you?
I’m sure Bill spends a lot of time thinking up ways to get his falafel closer to her body language.
that glitzy non-verbal communication expert should check her voice- what a horrible grating high-pitched tone she has when she talks. send her to a “voice Verbal communications expert!”
If Barney wanted to show Bill some body language I’m sure it would have less to do with his nails (unless he was trimming up that middle finger for a very specific purpose) and more to do with…….oh wait, I better not say that, not even here.
Billo isn’t fit to be Barney’s dildo…
wildeoats: People, she STUDIED psychology and nonverbal communication. FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!!! Goddamn it. When are you going to respect REAL academic credentials and not just your ivory tower elitist, east coast universities and their admissions standards? Not only that, she’s a trailblazer, creating curricula as she goes.
On the other hand, I really liked O’Reilly’s attempt at nuance, i.e. the difference between “rude” and “boorish.” If there’s anything this asshole knows, it’s excelling at each trait. and “you were surprised?!?” blondie, give me 150 seconds alone with you and my loofah collection and then maybe you’ll be surprised. and then again, maybe you won’t.
Of course the simple explanation is that Frank didn’t realize he was on a split-screen.
But yeah, Frank shows ORLY the proper amount of respect, which is to say “none”.
Memo to future guests on O’Reilly: when Bill talks to you, wag your tail.
Two comments.
First, Billo - Barney doesn’t hate you, he doesn’t give a shit about you.
Second, Tonya - what am I communicating nonverbally when I grab my crotch and point at your mouth?
Here’s what was really going on, subliminal body language-wise…
ORLY (speaking): “Jibber jabber blah blah racist/sexist/poo-filled diaper fetish no respect blah turdblossom shit stain blah”
ORLY (thinking): “Mmmm, yea Barney, scrub my back with those nubby fingernails like the loofah lover you know I am. Oooh, I’m starbursting my granny panties just thinking about your digital ministrations.”
She totally read the articles on nonverbal information at Wikipedia AND Conservapedia.
Are you kidding? Professor Woman hit the fingernail on the head! Of the finger! Respect her smartness, will you?! Frank is clearly an insolent boy sexer who, upon hearing of the soon to be failed public health fiasco, started to frantically dig at the impacted feces lodged under his fingernails. Come on! Of course Bill O’Reilly was disgusted! Of course! A good Irish-Catholic always does his shit-picking in the privacy of his own home (or rectory). Keep it in your pants Barney (is he Jewish or gay again?). It’s not like Bill comes on Barney’s show and makes obscene phone calls to interns while being interviewed, does he? No. Why? A) Because Bill is a CLASS ACT, and B) Because Barney DOESN’T HAVE A SHOW. So who’s right now?
I think Barney was hoping O’Liely was going to ask him why he and Ted Kennedy voted for inclusion of the Taunton River in Massachusetts (my fair river) in the national Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. And when Bill didn’t, Barney had a sad. And noticed a deer tick under this thumbnail.
I can’t stand Barney Frank or Bill O’Reilly but I’ve watched this clip about 10 times already because its so damned funny. Next time I have to talk to someone I have contempt for I’m using the check your nails bit.
Barney was just acting the way all JAP’s do when they’re taking one from behind.
As my dad used to say:
You can pick your asshole friends.
You can pick your fingernails.
But you can’t nail your friends’ asshole with your finger without picking out a little Santorum.
Or something like that…
thehelveticascenario: She’s just trying to be “fair and balanced.” Had Barney Frank read the Conservapedia article on homosexuality, instead of just the shitty librul wikipedia article, he would know that the back door is exit only.
Had the camera on O’Reilly been positioned differently, we would have seen him fapping away with a loofa while “talking” to his blonde bimbotard guest.
To paraphrase Barry Goldwater: “Rudeness, in the offense of O’Reilly, is no vice.”
What does it say that when a woman comes on national television in a red, low cut dress?
Somebody is hungry for Bills quivering loofa…just saying…
She also said “turning red and screaming at your audience is also rude,” but it was edited out.
An oxygen thief interviewing an empty skull. What a waste of time.
Atleast he wasn’t picking his nose!
with qualifications like “studied psychology and non-verbal communication” she cannot be refuted.
He was bating you, Bill? Gotta watch out for those homos, they’ll get you even through a satellite feed.
Oh, baiting. Totally different. My mistake.
“Can you reassure us this won’t bankrupt us, Congressman?”
“Of course not, Bill. I’m a liberal gay man from Taxachussetts and your viewers are empty-headed rednecks and old people who will never, ever believe anything I say and are only waiting for you to start yelling, tell me to shut up, and then cut off my mic. It’s not like you are going to ask me a specific question about policy that we can debate. Why I even bothered to come on here to answer health care questions from you is a mystery even to me. Shoot, I might as well pick at my nails, it helps to tune out your incessant yammering.”
Barney Frank: Only Openly Gay Person on Cable News Programming. Must be a lot of pressure.
Who is this Bill O’Reilly? Is he on some tee vee program?
Wow. I also do “independent research of non-verbal communication” all the time.
It’s called people-watching and I’ve got an advanced degree in it.
I can read you right, buster, so don’t even try it.
“Studied non-verbal communication”. Is that the excuse for pronouncing “didn’t” as “dint”?
O’Reilly: “So the slide down in the chair means what?”
Dingbat: “You can’t even analyze that! (grin)”
Is that because you have so little credibility in this subject that even Fox News was afraid to use the words “expert” or “degree” to describe you?
I don’t know who she is, but I stopped watching after her use of the word “insolent,” vaguely implying that Bill O’Loofa deserves any respect whatsoever.
My analysis of her body language is: If she wants to succeed in the highly competitive propaganda-packaged-as-news market, she’s gonna need a bigger boob job.
You can always tell when O’Reilly has gotten his ass handed to him, because he then spends the next three days or so having his lackeys come on and tell him how great he was and how the other guy loss.
Of course, if the only person he can find to defend him is his “body language” “expert,” you know he really got it good. Or he just want to cover her with falafel. It’s one or the other.
Lets look again and see if Barney Frank thinks his time is well spent talking to you Bill… Uhmm Nope. He still thinks you are a total asshat.
Regardless of your personal opinion of O’reilly or Frank, you all are missing the big picture. Barney Frank is a member of Congress, therefore he works for us. If I hired (voted for) someone to run my business, and he was so bored he had to clean his nails, he would be fired. These politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, must stop and think why we want interviews. They are managing our business, and we have a right to an honest and open interview. Frank showed a lack of class. Would you be happy if you are paying someone for a job and that person acts irritated and bored? Grow up and start demanding more form your elected officials.