You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Conan's Tribute to Tim Russert. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

Had to change embed to a TYT clip, because I couldn't find the raw clip anywhere anymore.

What a blast from the past though. A year ago she was a sometimes-panelist on David Gregory's Race for the White House, and Tim Russert was both alive and hosting Meet the Press.

Race for the White House became 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. after the election, Gregory got to replace Russert on Meet the Press. David Shuster became the host of 1600, and Rachel Maddow now has her own show which for a while was beating the pants off everyone in the ratings.

And today, 1600 is dead and gone, and Ed Shultz starts his new show in that timeslot (another progressive talk-radio personality).

Your video, Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman slapping Bill O'reilly, has made it into your personal Highest Rated Videos listing. Congratulations on a job well done. For you contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Thanks for linking that its really good. Especially this entry:

43. You

Charges: You think it’s your patriotic duty to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when it’s actually because she’s just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and don’t understand why they’re so ungrateful. You think Tim Russert was a great journalist. You’re hopping mad about an auto industry bailout that cost a squirt of piss compared to a Wall Street heist of galactic dimensions, due to a housing crash you somehow have blamed on minorities. It took you six years to figure out what a tool Bush is, but you think Obama will make it all better. You deem it hunky dory that we conduct national policy debates via 8-second clips from “The View.” You think God zapped humans into existence a few thousand years ago, although your appendix and wisdom teeth disagree. You like watching vicious assholes insult each other on TV. You support gun rights, because firing one gives you a chubby. You cuddle falsehoods and resent enlightenment. You think the fact that 43% of whites could stomach voting for an incredibly charismatic and eloquent light-skinned black guy who was raised by white people means racism is over. You think progressive taxation is socialism. 1 in 100 of you are in jail, and you think it should be more. You are shallow, inconsiderate, afraid, brand-conscious, sedentary, and totally self-obsessed. You are American.

Exhibit A: You’re more upset by Miley Cyrus’s glamour shots than the fact that you are a grown adult who is upset about Miley Cyrus.

Sentence: Invaded and occupied by Canada; all military units busy overseas without enough fuel to get back.

>> ^debu:
Why is it anytime someone stands up to this windbag it's a slap or pwnage? I've yet to see either..


I doubt you will actually ever see O`Reilly get "PWNED" on TV. He might be a douche, but he is also a professional.

It's interesting and refreshing to see someone say "I don't know" - which, to me, is intellectual honesty. On CNBC, everyone has an opinion - even when they're full of sh*t. You can see the same thing in the Krugman/O'Reilly
http://www.jimgilliam.com/2004/08/krugman_vs_oreilly_full_transcript.php
http://www.videosift.com/video/Clip-of-Tim-Russert-Paul-Krugman-vs-Oreilly

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Typical liberal sift bias. You mention Paul Krugman's Nobel prize, but somehow fail acknowledge O'Reilly's Polk.


And his Peabody!

I completely agree with you on that point and I hope that I have at least attempted to live my life as such. I sincerely hope that I haven't come across as a person completely consumed by hate and anger in this thread, but instead simply a person expressing a wider felt emotion. I'm just hoping for the best for everyone.
On a slightly lighter side note, every time I see an interview like this with mr. bill I think of the same joke.
What do you tell a man with two black eyes?
nothing, hes already been told twice.
usaully makes me smile

>> ^phelixian:
^MrConrads.. I agree. It makes me think of talking to my mom about George W., I'd always have to stop her from being hateful and tell that the only way to truly change someone like that is to love them and hope that your love can illuminate the errors in their ways. It sounds silly, but I really do believe that, even when I'd love to see BillO take a smackdown..... eh verbally.

Wow... Tim Russert was epic fail there. Way to lose at moderating.

Thank you for your response, I really appreciate it. I hope I'm not alone when I say that I'm reaching a point of desperation for finding solutions other than yelling back. I'm at a loss right now though.
I should probably get my own blood pressure check sometime soon

In reply to this comment by poolcleaner:
A single upvote for your comment is not enough.

The saddest thing about hate mongers like O'Reily is that they raise hate within their opponents. In real life one simply ignores such people to remain sane, but O'reily is out there on television so it just eats you up.

I should seriously just avoid watching anything with him in it, because it's killing my blood pressure. lol

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
It's clips like this that leave me mostly speechless. Not because there's nothing to say but because the rage in me is louder than the peace. It has become so incredibly hard to calmly articulate responses to videos like this where the voice of reason and calm get drowned out by loud, angry, and completely unapologetic hate and ignorance. I despise the fact that my own feelings of hatred and anger precede my feelings of reason and decency. I want to call for bill's head on a plate at the top of my lungs even though I know it would only fuel the fire that's currently destroying my beloved country.
I don't recognize my home anymore, and at times I don't recognize myself.

I didn't really like this clip for a couple of reasons. 1.) Paul Krugman, an intelligent man and scholar, couldn't confront BillO in a meaningful way. It seemed that he like all of us watching was cringing at what Bill said, but instead of taking him to task and getting him to shut up, he seemed to bend under the pressure and wring his hands uncomfortably without getting a good word in edge wise. 2.) Tim Russert, rest his soul, never did his job in getting BillO to be quiet long enough for Krugman to finish a sentence or train of thought. He basically allowed him to MAINTAIN CONTROL BY BEING THE LOUDEST one present.

It's frustrating to me, because we all know that BillO is a sexual miscreant that barely knows US history, takes marching orders from the GOP, and smears more than he is actually smeared. Furthermore he lacks a firm understanding of the issues he's talking about, but finds small patches of words to cling to and say louder. He was the one blowing semantics out his ass about the economy, which is comical for his lack of foresight but sad when looking at the current state of things.

I'd like to see more interviews where he actually has an adversary with a sharper and louder tongue to pummel his lousy flaffel head into the ground. Then, in three years when his prophesied future doesn't exist, we can force feed him alternative energy, socialized health care and education, and he's damn well gonna like it!

>> ^MrConrads:
It's clips like this that leave me mostly speechless. Not because there's nothing to say but because the rage in me is louder than the peace. It has become so incredibly hard to calmly articulate responses to videos like this where the voice of reason and calm get drowned out by loud, angry, and completely unapologetic hate and ignorance. I despise the fact that my own feelings of hatred and anger precede my feelings of reason and decency. I want to call for bill's head on a plate at the top of my lungs even though I know it would only fuel the fire that's currently destroying my beloved country.
I don't recognize my home anymore, and at times I don't recognize myself.


See my downvoted comment for hate and anger.

>> ^MrConrads:
It's clips like this that leave me mostly speechless. Not because there's nothing to say but because the rage in me is louder than the peace. It has become so incredibly hard to calmly articulate responses to videos like this where the voice of reason and calm get drowned out by loud, angry, and completely unapologetic hate and ignorance. I despise the fact that my own feelings of hatred and anger precede my feelings of reason and decency. I want to call for bill's head on a plate at the top of my lungs even though I know it would only fuel the fire that's currently destroying my beloved country.
I don't recognize my home anymore, and at times I don't recognize myself.


A single upvote for your comment is not enough.

The saddest thing about hate mongers like O'Reily is that they raise hate within their opponents. In real life one simply ignores such people to remain sane, but O'reily is out there on television so it just eats you up.

I should seriously just avoid watching anything with him in it, because it's killing my blood pressure. lol

A single upvote for your comment is not enough.

The saddest thing about hate mongers like O'Reily is that they raise hate within their opponents. In real life one simply ignores such people to remain sane, but O'reily is out there on television so it just eats you up.

I should seriously just avoid watching anything with him in it, because it's killing my blood pressure. lol

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
It's clips like this that leave me mostly speechless. Not because there's nothing to say but because the rage in me is louder than the peace. It has become so incredibly hard to calmly articulate responses to videos like this where the voice of reason and calm get drowned out by loud, angry, and completely unapologetic hate and ignorance. I despise the fact that my own feelings of hatred and anger precede my feelings of reason and decency. I want to call for bill's head on a plate at the top of my lungs even though I know it would only fuel the fire that's currently destroying my beloved country.
I don't recognize my home anymore, and at times I don't recognize myself.

>> ^JAPR:
This debate had some totally bullshit "questions."
Example: "Russia. Two minutes."
Excuse me? I thought the moderator was supposed to ask questions about issues, not name broad topics/FUCKING COUNTRIES. Come on dude, do your fucking job.
Also, McCain dodges way more questions than Obama did.


I rather liked that format. It encourages the two candidates to have a conversation with each other, rather than trying to nitpick the candidates a la the late Tim Russert.

I'd rather have these guys argue between each other about policy, than have a moderator who thought his mission was to get one of these guys to hang themselves.