{"id":5291,"date":"2007-11-13T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5291"},"modified":"2007-11-15T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:05:39","slug":"video-oreilly-lashes-back-at-cuban-calls-him-anti-american-for-distributing-new-depalma-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5291","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: O’Reilly Lashes Back at Cuban, Calls Him ‘Anti-American’ for Distributing New DePalma Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brad Friedman from Richfield, Utah…<\/em><\/p>\n

In what may be one of his most ironic public statements to date, far-Right Fox “News” commentator Bill O’Reilly charged last night that Dallas Mavericks owner and media mogul Mark Cuban’s “arrogance is horrifying.”<\/p>\n

He then went on to call the billionaire blogger<\/a> Cuban “anti-American” and noted, approvingly, that “during WWII President Roosevelt might have incarcerated” him and “General Patton would have slapped the tar out of him.”<\/p>\n

Why? Because Cuban’s cable television network, HDNet<\/a>, is distributing Brian DePalma’s new film Redacted<\/i><\/a>, apparently. <\/p>\n

That, and Cuban laughed at O’Reilly last Friday, along with thousands in the crowd, at the keynote address we reported on<\/a> from the BlogWorld & New Media Expo<\/a> in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

After Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur, had earlier noted in his address that while he might feel O’Reilly was “a moron,” for the various attacks the news commentator had unleashed upon him, he had thought better than to blog that point, noting that the written word hangs around forever on the Internet.<\/p>\n

When The BRAD BLOG<\/a>, who was present at the speech, later asked him during the Q&A if he felt O’Reilly’s attacks have been a “net plus or minus” in regard to Redacted<\/i>, the amused Cuban said that he was “very grateful” to O’Reilly, who he called his “new best friend” for all the attention he’d brought to the otherwise small film release.<\/p>\n

We covered the brouhaha late Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last night on The O’Reilly Factor<\/i>, the Fox “News” host shot back, promising still more publicity for the film, by calling for the public to show up outside theaters showing Redacted<\/i> with signs reading “Support the Troops.” O’Reilly claimed that he will personally be at theaters holding up such signs, charging that “Mark Cuban has a grudge against his country” and that he is somehow “putting our troops in danger.”<\/p>\n

At the end of the segment, O’Reilly promised that he would “have more information about what we’re going to do and when we’re going to do it…coming up.”<\/p>\n

His “Talking Points Memo” tirade (video below<\/i>) charges that “subsequently the effort became extremely<\/i> difficult,” after opposition to the Iraq War was brought by “the far-left.” He then went on to include a quick, out of context video clip from Cuban’s BlogWorld address. He did not show the part in which Cuban said he was “very grateful” to O’Reilly, or that he considered him his “new best friend.”<\/p>\n

Here’s O’Reilly’s “outraged” comments from last night’s The O’Reilly Factor<\/i> on Fox “News,” along with a discussion with a Republican and a “Democratic” analyst which follows. (Thanks to Alan Breslauer for the video!<\/em>)…<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/b> Cuban blogs<\/a> on the ridiculous O’Reilly situation, in a piece which begins “I’ve grown to love Bill OReilly. Seriously. If there is anyone who can publicize a political movie, it’s Bill and I truly appreciate that about him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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