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Bill O’Reilly Calls for Gun Registration on Letterman: ‘Just Like You Have to Register Your Car’

Feb. 12, 2013 11:37am Billy Hallowell

Bill OReilly Calls for Gun Registration, Corrects David Lettermans Automatic Gun Comments

Bill O’Reilly (left) and David Letterman (right) (Photo Credit: CBS)

On Monday night, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” where he defended the U.S. government’s use of drones and answered David Letterman’s questions about gun control. During the exchange, O’Reilly called for gun crimes to be “federalized” while also laying out a proposal on gun registration.

Other subjects that the two men covered included the film “Zero Dark Thirty” and the new Esquire article that documents the purported life struggles of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden.

But while the appearance covered a variety of topics, O’Reilly’s proposal for guns were some of the most interesting. Here’s a transcript of his comments:

“Here’s what you do with guns…you federalize all gun crimes, number one. You take it out of the local jurisdiction and state and you federalize it, right? So therefore if you’re caught in a gun crime holding up a 7-11, you get a mandatory 10 years if you’re convicted in a federal pen, on top of whatever Slurpee you stole.” [...]

The second thing you do is, if you buy a gun, you have to register the gun — just like you have to register your car, alright. Now, people say ‘Oh, slippery slope, they’re gonna come–. Hey, this makes it easier for the government to take a thug who has a gun that’s not registered and put him in jail for 10 years.”

Later in the interview, Letterman expressed some confusion surrounding the difference between automatic and semi-automatic weapons. After the host asked why people need automatic guns, O’Reilly corrected him, noting that these firearms are illegal (although he didn’t get into the nuance of acquiring permits for them).

“What about the … automatic weapons. I still don’t understand the need for an automatic weapon,” Letterman said. “I’m not against guns, but I don’t get the automatic weapons.”

O’Reilly tackled by trying to explain the difference between automatic and semi-automatic weapons.

Watch the relevant part of the exchange, below (and see a longer portion of the interview here):

(H/T: Mediaite)

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DeavonReye
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:54am
Bill is a freakin’ idiot. I never watch him, nor listen to anything he has to say anymore. Gun registration will do NOTHING to save lives, . . . anymore than car registration doesn’t keep people from dying in drunk driving accidents.

You’re a moron, Bill.

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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:03pm
  “Hey, this makes it easier for the government to take a thug who has a gun that’s not registered and put him in jail for 10 years.”
  
  Umm, no. What an idiot. If the thug’s gun is not registered, then it will be less likely for the government to know he has it, until he does his deed…
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:12pm
  I use to watch Bill a long time ago and I saw this coming way back then…..Bill has been moving further and further left of the centrist that he claims to be.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:13pm
  registration leads to CONFISCATION
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:14pm
  B ill drank the Kool-ade way before Glenn did. that is why I watch neither of them.
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:15pm
  One thing that HAS had an impact of the number of deaths from drunk driving are the extreme consequences of being caught driving under the influence. It used to be a lark, people would always drive while intoxicated and it was common to order a drink “for the road”. Our laws now severely affect the lives of drunk drivers-so much so that the culture of drunk driving has completely changed. The same can work for gun violence. Any crime committed with a gun should receive huge, mandatory punishments. You will certainly see fewer and fewer gang-bangers flashing their guns on the streets and more of them serving 10+ years in prison. That will most certainly set an example for the next generation.
  
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- Xiccarph
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:18pm
  Yeah, I can just see all the violent criminal types pushing and shoving to the front of the queue to register their guns like the good law-abiding citizens they are!
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:18pm
  driving a car is not a right. Screw Progressive bIlly O’
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:20pm
  Bill O’Reilly,
  
  you are wrong on this issue. I can’t believe you would seriously propose loading the FBI with local 7-11 holdups and gun registration issues. DUMB. Also, I dislike your pompous attitude.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:22pm
  O’Reily is another one of those republican puppets that is put out there to lead the low information voters towards more progressivism. I don’t trust a thing he says….Remember how O’Reily was a big Ron Paul basher?
  
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- booger71
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:26pm
  Oreilly is no Republican, big R or little r
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:27pm
  I had already quit watching this closet-liberal, now we need to boycott the Inside Edition has-been. Who, out there, thinks this guy is a conservative?
  
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- mrunner
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:27pm
  I do watch him for the entertainment value. Kinda like watching Christie. They have both shown their liberal slant, but are entertaining none the less. The fact that he is calling for federalism over state rights, and is ignorant that gun registration is the path to confiscation from law abiding citizens, has his elitism and ignorance on full display. Obviously he has been in the big city too long. The New York Nanny State has fried his logic and sense of history.
  
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- fastfacts
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:30pm
  You know who is a hero on this subject, Chris Kyle’s wife, she stood strong yesterday and gave a great eulogy, not blaming the tool that was used against her husband. Check out her eulogy: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2013/feb/chris_kyle_wife.html
  
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- Maji
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:30pm
  Just think after a year and half…I almost watched ten minutes
  of his show before I turned!
  
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- momrules
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:33pm
  Perfectly stated Devonreye. I no longer watch O’reilly and often wonder why anyone does.
  
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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:35pm
  Stopped watching O’reilly in 08 when he described Obama as a good guy with wrong ideas.
  
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- DeOppressoLiber
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:36pm
  Stop watching Fox and Bill O do not buy his book. Boycott him, hit him in his wallet.
  
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- chucksue351
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:37pm
  bill wants a police state were the police will willy nilly pull you over to search for a gun yeah right bill
  
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- JQuentinEvermann
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:38pm
  Bill has lost a lot of common sense, and a lot of viewers, in his old age.
  
  It’s time to go to pasture old friend, your golden tongue has tarnished.
  
  You have stopped speaking for the people. You’re like that a-hole who talks badly about the company in the smoke-pit and then defends them when you bring up a point in a meeting.
  
  Your pockets are lined with our cash, but this doesn’t mean we still support you. It’s time to turn off Fox when he comes on, and send a letter to the station.
  
  Bill, your time is over. Please, STFU and go home.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:40pm
  Vigrously prosecute any crime that uses a fire arm……….like a ‘hate crime’….armed robbery gets extra penalty cuz it’s a gun crime……………….REGISTRATION = CONFISCATION…………..
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:49pm
  Pinhead or Patriot?
  
  Pinhead.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:50pm
  I watched his show perennially 4 years ago. I haven’t seen it since; I feel like a betrayed fool.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:50pm
  Hey folks – you forgot that Bill has armed body guards so he doesn’t have to go an buy a gun and fill out all that nasty government paper work (back ground check). It’s like Mayor Bloomburg wanting to dis-arm all the folks in NYC except his 4 armed body guards. The important people must be protected or our country will colasp without the elite leadership. The little people are like sewer rats and can be replaced just by breeding.
  
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- mlite9
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:53pm
  Bill is no longer interested in ‘watchin out for the folks’ as much as being the most correct guy in the room, no matter the topic or how desperately wrong he is. He needs to leave oil and gas prices alone, for example, on which he is a complete moron. Entertainment value only, the pompous @ss. Talking Points only (if I can stomach that), then *click*
  
  Registration=Confiscation
  
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- Seymour
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:59pm
  I agree. Bill O finally lost me last night. He’s gotta stop slamming talk radio and believing his own press as does this administration. Too many congruencies here for my taste. O’Reilly lost his rear end in radio so it must be bad. Thanks for the memories Bill but you have now turned into a distasteful vegetable that’s not really good for anyone on the left or right.
  
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- Penn
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:00pm
  Bill O’Reilly is a lot like Brainless Joe Biden. They both think they are the smartest men they have ever met. They both have big mouths so they can insert their feet easier. Although Joe does have that plug thing going on.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:06pm
  @booger71, I disagree O’Reilly is the voice of the Republican establishment. The republican party is a joke.
  
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- 700P
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:11pm
  Bill is a Pinhead.
  
  Another good reason the northern half of the original 13 colonies could be t-walled off and offered in exchange to Canada for part of their western provinces. They no longer understand America.
  
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- xjeeper
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Bill O, Roger Ailes, etc. would support a license for free speech, Internet regulation by the FCC, because we have a dying media (not just mainstream) that wants to slam the door on all new media(the Blaze, Brietbart, Huffington post….) reguardless of Ideology. Fascism is big business conspiring with government to close the door to new competition in exchange for their souls. What ever you call it, progressive, liberal, socialism, The New Deal, The Great society, National Socialism, They all end the same way. The Media elite will be put up against the wall as soon as they are not needed anymore, which is just as soon as the guns are gone.
  
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- Soulfire1975
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:34pm
  Owning a car isn’t a right. It isn’t in the constitution. So NO.
  
  Bill is a good man just is keeping himself in the dark on what really is going on in this country when it comes to the reasons and why the gubment wants to do what they are trying to do.
  
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- RemoteCoderz
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:40pm
  @DeavonReye I can’t say it any better than you did.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:31pm
  Bill was an Absolute Moron on this point. Criminals obviously will not register their guns and the government won’t know they have one. Just plain stupid.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:52pm
  oreilly, nwo talking head meat puppet, there are only two people on tv that love to hear the sound of their own voice more than oreilly,.. obama and pisss morgan!
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:55pm
  Bill sees the world only from his point of view. He has a registered pistol. Bloomberg has not tried to take it (yet). So to him confiscation is just a paranoid delusion. He figures if he can register his gun so can you. Bill is a very wealthy person, and though he often refers to his blue-collar roots, it’s a memory and not a way of life for him. He lives and works in a high security building. When he needs it, he hires armed security. He will always be safe. He thinks he does, but he does not understand what it is like to be middle class in America anymore. If America suddenly turned into a police state, he would just move to another country and live like a king.
  
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- watchmanwatch
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:00pm
  I could not agree more; Bill is an arrogant buffoon… He loves Lincoln and anyone that really has done their homework on Lincoln knows he was not the saint Bill thinks he is… Also you never see Bill ask the really tough questions and anyone that makes their 2nd home on the View is a lost individual that just wants to get all the publicity they can as that is one den of vipers… Ask any country that has registered their guns; they eventually got confiscated and then you are at the mercy of the thug that will not register their gun; and the government that wishes to take over their people like Syria, and all the fallen nations in the past…Wake up people and read real history and not that made up crap they publish in those books they want to call history books.. Think I am lying; do some reading and research and find out for yourselves..
  
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- legiwatch
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:23pm
  Ditto, he lives way to the left of the RHINOS he agrees with on his show. He is a Federalist!
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:45pm
  o’rielly is not speaking for this American. You have jumped the shark bill……
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:58pm
  This O’Reilly also wants to ban assault rifles, even though rifles are used so little in killings they’re a non-issue Now it is gun registration.
  
  There’s no way doing either would prevent any deaths that have occurred so far, since the criminals wouldn’t be registering anything. And registering tells the government where to go to collect the guns.
  
  The only thing more gun control would do is succeed in harassing people who commit no crimes or gun violence and criminalize law-abiding citizens.
  
  O’Reilly is getting close to retirement and he’s been moving toward the left noticeably due to the fact he doesn’t want to be excluded from their circle, hoping to be invited on various lefty shows to expound on his “brilliant” concepts.
  
  My wife and I quit watching about a year ago.
  
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- ilandgrl
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 5:05pm
  Just add this to the list of reasons I stopped watching Bill. He’s not a conservative and doesn’t believe in the government staying out of our backyards let alone our gun lockers.
  
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- Jinglebob
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 5:41pm
  O’Rilley is not the person to be put up as knowledgeable about firearms. In the past he has made several mistakes on the air about the available of “machine Guns.” As an historian, he should know that registering all firearms makes it easy for the government to take them from you. Note, Germany, Canada, etc. etc etc..
  
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- myrwo6
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:22pm
  TRigus; If you don’t watch either of them, then how do you know it’s bad to watch them, idiot! Oh, that’s right. You listen to what others say. Idiot!
  
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- USNVET66-70
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:27pm
  During a port of call I met a gentleman who was from Shanghi China. He asked me about gun registration in the U.S. He then said the first thing the communists did was register guns. Then they came to the door and if you didn’t give up the gun you were shot.
  Lets not make the same mistake by listening to a man who has an armed security detail.
  
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- Kinnison
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:55pm
  Yes, he’s a moron. He is in the pockets of the Republican elites, and that’s all he associates with. He has become a mouthpiece for Carl Rove et. al.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:30pm
  California is right now proposing confiscation of guns of LEGAL OWNERS…And guess how they know where to go to confiscate those guns??? REGISTRATION!!!! I will never watch Oreilly again…I’ve had it with this A-Hole Progressive…
  
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- KeystoneState
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:14pm
  Oh, Bill is right on as always, it’s not like he plays a “middle of the roader” or anything! Such a voice of reason for the “common man”! He’s Lucky the “Hard-Right” FOX News doesn’t fire him for his extreme moderate views, otherwise he may lose his multi-million dollar contract! We wouldn’t want to lose a national treasure like “Thoughtless Bill” would we? POFS! Is he still Glenn’s Buddy? I still remember when they had their little road show, anyone else?
  
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- captjack63
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:08am
  COULD NOT AGREE MORE. U are so right.He is a moron.All these TV hosts’ think they know what their talking about and how to explain to another idiot the difference .O’Reilly stepping into $hit every time he opens his piehole.
  
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- milez5
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:14am
  Bill is not a moron, just misguided.
  The only purpose of a gun database is for the government to know where all of the guns are, in order to do what? That is the big issue. Nancy Lanza’s guns were all legal as are most guns in the USA until they are used in a crime.
  The problem with making all gun crimes federal is that he assumes that the federal government is somehow better at prosecuting gun crimes than the states are. Why? where is the evidence for that?
  There is no reason on earth to make the federal government bigger and more powerful than it is.
  We have all the laws we need regarding guns, we just need to enforce them a bit better than we have been.
  
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:01am
  @MomRules I have listened to O’Reilly for years and now do on the radio to hear his commentary. The reason? I like more than one viewpoint on any subject. Does it mean I always agree? No. He is a New Yorker. I am a proud tried and true Texan. Highly unlikely I am going to agree with this man on gun registration. I learned more from Glenn in his Fox years and consider him the best. Still do and my coffee a month is still sent to his tv site. But I am a radio addict now with Rush and Mark Levin (who is my favorite)–he brooks no nonsense and I virtually agree with everything he has to say. I do not ever want to be an uninformed sheep.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:27am
  Oh boy…I’ve been wanting to read “Killing Lincoln” for awhile….it now should be in the bargain bin at Barnes and Nobles by this weekend….thanks Bill.
  
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- wallawalla
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:33am
  Agree, I will not watch him anymore.
  
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- jkdblaze
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:24am
  I used to watch Bill all the time. He has slowly moved to the left. No more, I am so done with him! He needs to check his attitude at the door when he does his interviews as well!
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:28pm
  Another asanine oreilly opinion. He is entitled to it though.
  
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- toto
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:43pm
  O’Reilly just doesn’t get it. It’s always a little dumbfounding when supposedly intelligent people completely miss the point and the fact that what they advocate will not do one thing to prevent the crazies from doing harm. Plus registration is ALWAYS the first step to confiscation. Now they will know where and what guns you have, not good. The left is NEVER satisfied with first steps. Just LOOK at HISTORY, with which ever subject you choose.
  
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- ENIGMA28724
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:44pm
  I agree, he is a moron. Registration just makes it easier for the government to know whose house to target for confiscation searches. Just look at countries and even states [the People's Republic of Kalifornia and others] that have registration and how it eventually is used to remove firearms from the citizenry. Our government has no business knowing what we own as long as we are not using them illegally. Oh, and fat chance of getting the criminals to register theirs. Only in a liberal’s dream.
  
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- roscoe569
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:03pm
  Indeed
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:29pm
  Would you register your SUV if YOUR governor was speaking of confiscation?
  
  Registering cars is about $$$, nothing else.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:52am
If O’Reilly was one-tenth as smart as he thinks he is, he would cured cancer by now.

He’s just another useful idiot progressive.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:24pm
  time to separate the wheat from the chaff
  
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- justangry
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:55pm
  Harvard is a disease on our country. I think the only person that has escaped that global socialist hellhole unscathed is Tom Woods.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:03pm
  “Hey, this makes it easier for the government to take a thug who has a gun that’s not registered and put him in jail for 10 years.”
  
  As if the treat of going to jail would make a criminal reluctant to buy an illegal gun. How utterly childish and naive.
  
  These elites who live in their own bubble have no business telling us what we need to have. They have no idea what the real world is all about.
  
  Boycott the ba*****s show. Watch Hannity and Lou Dobbs instead….but boycott this worthless A—–e.
  
  He wants to ban rifles too.
  
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- watchmanwatch
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:19pm
  amen…
  
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- WalkThePath
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 5:05pm
  Non registration of guns smacks of racism. Typical GOP behaviour. Why dont these neo cons realise that the sooner we get back to passing our children through the fire to Molech, the sooner we can Move On. Its like JROOK said “Democracy is democratic”.
  
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DTOM47
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:52am
The blind leeding the blind.

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kadster01
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:51am
O’Reilly is a liberal. End of story.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:22pm
  O’Reilly is a liberal, huh? Cool, What is boehner? Liberal? Rino? some form of orange sea creature? Do they have to be full-on bat-sh1t crazy to be conservative? There really is no point in commenting, when you willfully shoot yourselves in the feet at every possible opportunity. You are just an angry bunch, and as South Park noted, you all must have small weiners. You have been almost entirely marginalized but you continue as if you were the majority. No wonder you fight tooth and nail to keep women subservient and black people poor…you need to maintain some semblance of power so not everyone will laugh at you when you mistakenly think the earth is flat. I actually agree that registration of guns is dangerously tied to confiscation…but I’m having a very hard time being on the same side of an issue with you baby d1cks.
  
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m14guy
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:51am
Theres a reason why he’s not on the radio any longer. Stopped watching him years ago as his true color (pink) would show every so often.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:50am
BO fancies himself a history buff. He is just a useful idiot.

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- booger71
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:24pm
  Useful for what? Making sexual advances towards his staff? Oh wait, Fox swept that under the rug years ago.
  
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PeteOH
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:50am
Can it Bill! You’re getting a bit full of yourself… A government never committed mass killings by first confiscating all of the registered cars!

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- Jarhead 88
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:44pm
  You can’t fight tyranny with an automobile, so I couldn’t care less about vehicle registration. Bill is a POS.
  
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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:49am
I can only think he got stoned by second hand smoke in the green room.

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- TheseTruths
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:21pm
  No, this is who he is — just conservative enough and just liberal enough to keep everyone watching. Just stop watching. Don’t tune in to see where the debate goes. He has been on top in the ratings for years, and he revels in it. He needs to feel it where it hurts, in his ratings. Stop watching.
  
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Uncurable wound
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:49am
ahh the leprechaun,sells out again!

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Longgonegator
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:49am
Just take a look at any of your local “Mug Shots” to see how many folks DWLSR – Driving w’License Suspended, Cancelled, Revoked. These same people do not adhere to laws and never will

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:48am
Oh, unrelated, Beck, heard you just say that Texas is the only free one left. Dude, you clearly have no idea and spout your bilge without stop. Idaho, Montana, South and North Dakota, Wyoming all kick Texas’ ass when it comes to liberty. I like Texas, but just because you find Texas more free than New York City, and from California where you lived before then, doesn’t mean it’s the freest place on earth. Get a grip, and get some experience in the rest of the Old West, who see Texas (rightly) as restrictive and full of busybodys who **** their nose in other people’s business more than they should as a “free” state.

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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:11pm
  Idaho? Isn’t that the state who want to sell land to the Chinese to create walled and walled and self-contained ‘free economic zones’? With their own chinese ‘security’, and all chinese work forces? But really might be military base? Something akin to west Berlin during the cold war, the US ‘base’ and free economic zone within Soviet territory…
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:15pm
  Or he could just look 1 state north. In Oklahoma all state offices are held by republicans, maybe not all conservatives, but having childhood memories of not being able to swing a union card without hitting a democrat, Okies seem to have awakened and reject progressive thinking.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:17pm
  A rogue proposal doesn’t mean the state wants to do it. And I’ll pit Idaho against Texas any day of the week regarding personal freedom.
  
  Here’s your experiment. Strap on a six shooter on a cowboy rig and walk down the middle of Dallas for the day, tell me what happens. Next strap on the same six shooter on a cowboy rig and walk down the middle of *any* city in Idaho for a day, tell me what happens. Same regarding any other other states I mentioned. Hell brother, do that in Ohio and compare it to Texas, tell me what happens?
  
  Want a hint?
  
  I don’t hate Texas, but I’ve lived there and it’s only as free as your social circle allows it to be. If you don’t attend the “correct” denomination church, you’re a pariah. God help you if you’re generally agnostic but a libertarian otherwise, you might as well put a “avoid at all cost” sign around your neck.
  
  In Wyoming, or South Dakota on the other hand, nobody rightly cares, it’s your business not other people’s business.
  
  The point being that Glenn has had his first taste of something approaching freedom and has gone overboard thinking that it is the end all be all, without any real experience with *true* free states.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:35pm
  Thats right ghost….That is Glenn’s narcissism – just because he is somewhere he automatically thinks he is the tip of the spear. Texas is becoming less free in a hurry (Rick Perry). The sparsely populated states have much more freedom – that is a fact. That vain of narcissism is also what made Glenn go after people like Ron Paul and Debra Medina….Just because they are more ‘conservative’ doesnt mean they are crazy
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:59am
  Ahh,
  Medina might be a bad example. She is crazy…
  
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SuperX1
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:48am
When did he become a communist? Fool!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:55am
  O’Reilly came out of the media progressive culture. He is not as far left as most. So, he has an appearance of being more right than he is. He is no intellect.
  
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- paperpushermj
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:13pm
  To those need to overreact with calling O’Reilly a Communist, show they have no understanding of what Communism is and didn’t hear what he said. I heard him say that firearms should and in fact are registered. I understand the thinking that some of you see this as the first step in Government confection. That act is certainly a possibility although remote, but is seen by most Firearms Owners as reasonable.
  
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- engineerairborne
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:18pm
  I agree I don’t find this as over the top, as a lot of you are making it. The founders knew that having a Government was the act of the people giving up some of their rights for the greater good. I do not see regerstering guns as an infringment of the 2nd amendment, and it makes great sense if the it is handled in the way descriped by Bill.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:24pm
  Paper pusher-
  there is nothing reasonable about registering to exercise your rights. The government has no business knowing what guns I own or what my religious preferences are. The have no right, as specifically stated in the constitution.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:27pm
  Paperpushermj, registration is not reasonable. It only has an appearance of being reasonable, because people, like you, have capitulated for so long that it appears to be. Why should weapons be registered by the entity that we most need protection from? Law breakers don’t register weapons. So, why should the law abiding?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:29pm
  @Engineer
  
  Ah, so you don’t see it that way, thus it’s ok.
  
  Ok. I don’t see it as an infringement of your right to life, if you have to register with the government as a child and then have your career selected for you that you must follow without question and without pay, your sustenance and shelter being handled by the government. The Founders knew that government meant that you have to give up some rights after all.
  
  I don’t care what you think. 100 million of us, don’t care what you think. Register? No, no I won’t. Won’t happen. No debate, no ‘conversation’, no compromise. Get used to it.
  
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- booger71
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:32pm
  That act is certainly a possibility although remote, but is seen by most Firearms Owners as reasonable.
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  I don’t mind having a background check done on a person. But the only reason to do a “background” check on a firearm is to later confiscate it. The government does not need to know the serial number of my guns
  
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GBT2012
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:48am
O’Reilly is an IDIOT. I used to like him but realized how stupid/naive he is about King Obama and what a kiss ass he is. He actually thinks that KO watches his show and listens to his advice. IDIOT!

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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:11pm
  He wants to be liked by the media elite. He’s a pompous self entitled jerk. He’s one of those @sswipes that is always saying “there outta be a law” for anything and everything that annoys him. I think as his viewership declines, he’ll drift even more to the left. Someone should ask him about that sexual harassment suit.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:42pm
  Cav is right. He’s desperate for the love and acceptance of the media elites that hate his guts. The funny thing is, he’s already one of them.
  
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TheseTruths
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:47am
Stop supporting O’Reilly’s ratings. He wants to infringe on rights of innocent people to make it easier to catch criminals. That IS the slippery slope that is already occurring in other areas of life. Shame on him.

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- Xanderson
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:12pm
  The 2.5 Amendment to the US Constitution clearly states that …”the right to bear cars shall not be infringed”. So, airtight argument Mr. O’Reilly.
  
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Advection
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:47am
Bill lost it a long time ago. He’s as bad as certain MSNBC hosts at times. When guests say things he cannot respond to, he cuts them off, launches personal attacks, gets angry, whatever he has to do to change the subject and shut the guest up.

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blazingaway
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:47am
Bill O has lost it … the man has been completely seduced by his hubris .. I’m done watching the factor.

All I see and hear is confusion and stupidity from O as he pontificates with stupid quest who blah, blah ,blah with their idiotic, big city, NE crap on crap

Hey, this makes it easier for the government to take a thug who has a gun that’s not registered and put him in jail for 10 years.”

Right, Mr. O … sure it does … if they can’t do it now, how will they do it later with registration .

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PAPPY72
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:46am
This is an example of why I don’t watch Bill. I never trusted the guy. Always thought he was squishy about his ideology in that it’s more important for him to appear like a “reasonable” moderate than to stand up for core beliefs.

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termyt
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:46am
That’s why the Big O isn’t a conservative. Only the liberal media paints him as one. He puts more faith and trust in the feds than he does in local gov and believes the feds should be watching us – except when he’s ranting against a judge for a bizarre sentence.

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- paperpushermj
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:33pm
  I pretty sure he has never claimed to be a Conservative. He self Identifies himself as a Independent
  
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JRook
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:45am
Wow a flash of rationality. I remember all the conservatives who said of Bush’s Patriot Act. If your an honest, law abiding citizen you have nothing to worry about. Well if you are an honest, law abiding gun owner…. than what do you have to worry about?

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- DeavonReye
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:56am
  The Jewish people were good, law abiding people, too.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:57am
  I despised the Patriot Act and DHS then, and I do now. And look what happened with those things? TSA taking pictures of, strip searching and groping our children and wives.
  
  Great analogy JRook, you prove the point when you thought you were opposing it.
  
  You don’t get to register a right. Sorry. If you want to register, then you need to repeal the 2nd Amendment. You can’t do that. Your calls for pre-empting a right are rejected.
  
  Tell me to register and I will not comply. Tell me to turn in anything, and I will not comply. Tell me I can’t buy any more of XYZ part (magazine, stock, etc) I’ll make the damned things in my basement and sell them on the black market. You’ll get not one more inch from me and others like me.
  
  You are dismissed.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:59am
  Well, there are some differences, if you are not blinded by ideology. With the Patriot Act, Bush was not looking to take anyone’s rights except a certain amount of privacy under very specific criteria. Also in there was a requirement for judicial review, even if it was after the fact. Those who supported the Patriot Act then reasoned that that was acceptable at the time.
  
  Many of us learned a very valuable lesson with that and far fewer of us would support even the original PA today, let alone what it has become under the current administration.
  
  They are now talking about forced registration and forfeiture of personal property. Under the PA, we lost a little privacy, but if no laws were being broken, we got to continue on our merry way none the wiser. Under the gun proposals, we go on a list, will be forced to give up property, and will never be allowed to have that property again. So, if you like being able to keep what you paid for and continue on living like you do now, there is something very real for law abiding citizens to fear here.
  
  So your comparison falls completely flat.
  
  So your comparison falls flat.
  
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- team1blazer
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:49pm
  Rookie, ask anyone in Great Britain how registration of their firearms worked out. I don’t have a problem with registering as a gun owner, but as far as WHAT guns I own, it’s nobodys business.
  
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:45am
Don’t worry about the government abusing their power. O’Reilly is looking out for you. He’s gonna take care of them.

Freaking clown.

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woodyee
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:45am
Those of us who stopped watching his show for obvious, pro-American AND patriotic reasons, have now been totally and unequivocally vindicated.

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diamondcutter
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:44am
this is why i stopped watching fox news. ever since bills superbowl interview with the (king). bill changed. what does he have on u bill?

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:43am
Hey, how about this. If you don’t want searches of your person and effects without a warrant, how about we register everybody and track their behaviors, Bill? And hey, while we’re at it, if you don’t want to lose the ability to speak as you will, you need to register your identity and opinions with the government and will then be issued permission to speak, how’s that Bill?

O’Reilly has never seen a freedom he wasn’t willing to compromise in order to appear in the middle and “reasonable”. This is why he is on Letterman, he’s pre-compromised and they know it.

Demand I register, I will not. Demand I turn in anything, I will not. Ban high capacity magazines, and I’ll make them in my basement and sell them to others without your permissions. It’s a right, Bill, you don’t get to put restraints around it.

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- cdn1979
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:52am
  actually, i believe the right is accompanied by the words, “well regulated”. so yes, rules need to be put in place.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:59am
  I believe you’re using the canard “well regulated” in the modern sense, and not in the original sense of “well practiced”. So no, you get nothing. Not even further debate. Your kind gets nothing more and there’s nothing left to say to you. You mean nothing and your desires mean nothing, you will get no compliance from nearly 100 million heavily armed individuals. You’re being minimized, get used to it.
  
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- DefyTYRANNY
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:25pm
  Hahaha, yet another lib mouthpiece throwing out “Well Regulated”.
  
  You know how the word G a y no longer means the same thing as it did as recently as the 1950′s?
  
  Well regulated is the same. Perhaps actually research before you open your mouth.
  
  Nevermind, that would take effort. I forgot who I was talking to.
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:37pm
  Here’s a little Gedankenexperiment for your perusal.
  
  Suppose firearms had never been invented.
  
  The American colonists waged their struggle for independence with motor vehicles, which were used to move troops from place to place, to spy on the enemy, and also as moving platforms from which to pelt the Redcoats with snowballs or stones.
  
  The British were similarly equipped, but could not match the Americans in development of ATVs, hence they won most regular engagements but were eventually worn down by irregular warfare in the backcountry.
  
  The 2nd Amendment then might read, “The right of the people to keep and operate motor vehicles shall not be infringed.”
  
  Would we then be arguing that it is unconstitutional to require that motor vehicles be registered, inspected and insured, that drivers should be licensed and periodically given written or road tests, that drunk driving should be legal, that red lights and stop signs are a violation of citizens’ rights?
  
  The details are different, but the logic seems the same.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:07pm
  Well, actually drako, the right to keep and bear arms was a traditional English (and Gaelic) right dating back at least 1,000 years. We inherited the notion from them due to how their societies were constructed and ran (and ran well actually until the Normans invaded). How 1776 did or didn’t go down has nothing to do with it.
  
  And, for the record, I don’t believe in licensing automobiles either, since liberty includes my being able to travel unhindered and unimpeded as I wish (peacefully).
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:15pm
  Bill,
  A while ago when you said “AR-47″ you should have realized you do not know enough about this subject to talk about it. Registration is the step preceding confiscation…
  Let me summarize, Registration – BAD.
  
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- Irememberamerica
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:14am
  O’Reilly has never seen a freedom he wasn’t willing to compromise in order to appear in the middle and “reasonable”. This is why he is on Letterman, he’s pre-compromised and they know it.
  
  You have that all wrong Ghost! [sarc]
  Billy Boy is just watching out for the “folks”.
  Where would we be without his constant presence in the watchtower?
  The stench of appeasement surrounds him.
  A patriot he is not.
  
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Red Meat
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:42am
Yet another northeast progressive RINO. Anyone that continues to support FOX News is a traitor.

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- GBT2012
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:50am
  No, FOX News is still the only news channel that tells the truth and tells both sides. O’Reilly is not a reporter or journalist…he’s an analyst….not the same. Bret Baier and Shepherd Smith are the best reporters on TV.
  
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- walnutportconservative
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:51am
  I will no longer send a dime to that republican party. I will support the best conservative, by direct contribution.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:56am
  What I thought Bill was smart enough to know…and I still do that’s why I don’t understand his stance…gun regulation will be just like an entitlement. Entitlements never go away and only increase in size as will Federal gun regulation if allowed to pass…..history is our teacher and Bill (Killing Lincoln) O’Reilly should know that better than anyone….
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:22pm
  @GBT2012
  
  You’re an idiot.
  
  PS: Don’t forget to buy O’Reilley’s new book or you’re a terrorist.
  
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- BADDOGGYDESCIPLE
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:53pm
  @GBT – Shep and Brett are both admitted liberals! Shep is almost unwatchable with his interjections while reporting. Fox is a joke, and the Blaze is becoming one (Sorry Glen, but it is true). Name one outlet that reports anything of substance, or more directly, anything having to do with protecting American sovereignty, or American rights. Example: Glen’s fema camp expose’ (cough), his FED expose’ (cough). Now granted, towards the end of the fox days he started raising awareness, now it’s all smart meters and veterans benefits, though both worthy causes. How about some reporting on the La Paz cooperation area, look it up.
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:41am
Bill O’reilly is a Communist ! And Fox News is becoming just like all the other Communist obama Lap Dogs !

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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:48am
  True. I’ve stopped watching it completely after the election.
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:48am
  Ditto.
  
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- PeteOH
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:52am
  Isn’t it sad?
  
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- justangry
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:22pm
  Aye the Network that gave us Romney… Any ‘conservative’ still watching Fox is just another dirty stinking Bolshevik.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:48pm
  The International Left has been trying to destroy conservative Murdoch’s media outlets since July, 2011 . They and the Obama radicals would love to close down Fox and all conservative media outlets – along with Gun control, destroying the American capitalist system, and destroying the Republican Party . Yes, that covers some of the immediate goals of Obama II…..tune in tonight for Obama Anti-Gun Media Circus ….aka The State of the Dis- Union Speech.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:12pm
  Barber, The international left didn’t force Rupert Murdoch to join the CFR. You need to stop with this ‘divide the conservatives’ rhetoric and stand on principles rather than mindlessly following the socialist R’s.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:50pm
  barber is republican version of tokyo rose
  
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