This guy — and I’m sorry I don’t know his name — is my new hero. Can’t really set up the following must-watch killer video any better than “Rat” of RatTube, from whence it was found, did:
Yes. Very good. Can we please get the good father his own TV show? Perhaps at 8pm ET on Fox “News” where they currently show nothing but Anti-American trash?…
And that’s what America really looks like. Which is why you normally don’t get to see it on TV. Not sure where the video actually aired, if anywhere. Though the questioner was O’Reilly’s reporter/hitman, not surprisingly, I’ve yet to see any clips of that interview on his show (though, admittedly, I don’t get to take out the trash every day.)
(Hat-tip to “CD”)
UPDATE 8:34pm PT: Turns out the man in the video above is a Catholic priest by the name of Rev. Michael Pfleger, and apparently Bill O’Reilly did use a part of the interview above on his show. Approximately 5 seconds of it. On April 2. And yet, despite how well Pfleger deflects the nonsense tossed at him by O’Reilly’s ambush reporter (as seen in the above, not on his show) O’Reilly has been flogging the same “racist, hate-monger” nonsense for weeks.
As if that’s not bad enough, after the 5 seconds shown from the above interview, O’Reilly went on to do a full 6 minute segment discussing whether or not…wait for it…Pfleger should be sanctioned by the Catholic Church!
I wish I was kidding. Watch for yourselves…
And why doesn’t the interviewer ever appear on the screen? Who is this shill? He sounds and acts like a snipper surprised he can’t hit his mark. Too bad this happens so seldom..or is left on the edit room floor.
It is not very often that we find a person this skilled, sure footed and knowledgeable who can keep turning back the accusations and false statements of the hit man.
That man is a true believer.
(and he also kicked that little wing nuts ass, he-he)
That was a true Christian, not like the ones we see on the evening “News”
What a wonderful man.
I would do anything, anything, to have Martin back.
Wow that was awsome, that fox reporter got smoked like a trout! I dont think they’ll be playing that interview. If they do it’ll be all chopped up and of course out of context. It takes a special person to be able to hold their ground in an interview like that. These people deliver their questions and statements like a machine gun and its so hard to follow because its 90% bullshit! So your standing their reeling trying to replay their comments in your head to make sense of it and if you pause to long youve lost. Hats off to the reverend.
Its a big game to these assholes isnt it, I’ll lob a buncha crap at you but you cant do the same. No no, you have to respond promtply, eliquently and with the truth or we’ll replay you sound bites forever and say how stupid and wrong you are. Or if you dont respond right away then they say see Im right arent I nah nah.
How do these people for FOX and so forth muster up the strength to do this day after day. I mean what are they thinking to motivate themselves? How does pounding nails in Americas coffin and vicariously their own give them such zeal? …money?…greed?…a really twisted sense of values?…
um, holy crap that was incredible.
It almost makes me feel like going to church…HIS church!
Who was the idiot interviewing him? He got his ASS handed to him!
That was Father Michael Pfleger, a very smart, interesting guy who jousts with authority on a regular basis in Chicago.
The idiot interviewer was trying to trap this preacher, and the preacher was relentlessly counter-trapping him! I don’t think this guy with the microphone was ever put in his place like this, that’s why it kept going on. He thought at some point, he’d get his “soundbite” from the preacher! It never happened, and the preacher made a fool out of this guy, and exposed him as a sensationalist trying to trap him into some soundbite!
Brad,
Thank you for spreading the truth.
You have to know that Fox sends out the newer, more inexperienced guys because of something like this interview. They think of their lower echelon the way our government thinks of our troops. They’re expendable.
Fox sucks so hard, but the scary part is the part of America that listens to this shit for their news, and ingests the predigested crap that they send out there.
We have a hometown paper, and the online comments are unbelievable. And this is their base. There’s no shortage of fucking, self interested idiots
Father Flanagan is a good person. I’m glad he stands for good causes. he deserves props.
Well, that little videoclip will never be put on Fox in its entirety. I can only imagine how it will ultimately get cut and spliced to maximize words like “racist,” “bigot,” and America-hater.”
I have to say that I wasn’t so much interested in what the interviewee had to say, because it was just very well articulated truth, but in what the Fox interviewer had to say. He could not just interview the guy. All he could do was try to get his interviewee to get drawn into his “hates America” “racist” “bigot” talking points.
What a pathetic example of a “journalist.”
The more I look into Father Michael Pfleger, the better I like him… love him… respect him… uphold him as an example of real humanity.
that would be have been me, that mother fucker would have ate that microphone and that camera would have been up his ass.
fuck fox news!
Looks like Billo and his people are still trying to work out the kinks in his Mike Wallace /60 minutes fetish. (he is in aye of Mike)
Don’t tell Billo ~ It only works with actual bad guys not good guys … he obviously still can’t tell the difference between the two.
Speaking of killer video … in every killing circumstance one person experiences THE END. Today I sent out another one of those messages:
And just as I promised HERE IS THE END. Enjoy America resist endjoy Amurka.
Wow. What a guy! Father Michael Pfleger has just restored my faith in the American people.
And that was no reporter. That was Say-tan!
I cannot watch Bill O’Reilly without feeling acutely ill. The way he gave the woman 30 seconds to make her point and then talked over her and attempted to trivialize what she said — and I didn’t have my stopwatch out, but I bet it was before her precious 30 seconds was up — he was so insulting to her. I presume that’s generally what he does. I don’t watch him, or any of the talking heads if I can possibly avoid it. It’s a good thing I don’t watch very much TV. I would probably smash it.
You know, Billo has a point about left wing haters… I’m starting to hate him.
Help! Perhaps I’ve been in a foreign-language environment too long, but what does “pwned” mean? Other than that, a truly inspiring post!
Would a real progressive have ever attacked Cindy Sheehan?
https://bradblog.com/?p=2359
No, they wouldn’t have.
Would a real progressive support Michael Rivero? No, they wouldn’t.
CZARAGORN-pwned
Watch for Rev Wright on Bill Moyers next week!
Thanks for the inspiring post and comments. #18 WOW. Bill Maher had Cornell West on this week. Was glad to hear the good things about the catholic church. While, I am no fan of religion, I like to see credit given for good works.This particular catholic priest is eloquent.
Thanks for blogging about this.
Can we get this priest on Olbermann somehow?
Father Pfleger has been the priest at St. Sabina’s Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham Neighborhood of Chicago since 1981. Here is the church’s contact information if you want to send a card or a note and maybe a check for the good works they obviously do. I have a few bucks left in the “Share the Love” fund, and his parish is getting a few of ’em:
Wow, this Fox reporter Pwned this guy. Way to go FOX. And thank God for his last comment about “…they decided MLK had to die…” lol, please adjust your tinfoil hat, transmission complete. What a moonbat.
Holy Bat Guano, Brad, and here I thought the Hillbilly Shill Mill had finally gone out of business…. 😛
The Deacon was wrong on one point. He said “When white people criticize America, they are critical. When black people criticize America, they are haters of America.” Seems to me that for the last seven years that if anyone other than a neocon criticizes America, they hate America – according to O’Reilly and the other Fox trash.
Bill O’Reilly: “America is a noble country. Do you agree that America is a noble country?”
First please answer what is noble about the biggest superpower in the world smashing a little country, which has been denied control of their own airspace and had the army and air force annihilated, into the stone age? What is noble about killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis? What is nobel about killin more than 4,000 Americans and permanently disabling 30,000 more? What is noble about spending the country so far in debt they may never recover? What is noble about causing more and more Americans to drop into the poverty level where more and more are now on food stamps. What is noble about trashing the Constitution? I could go on and on …. I think you get the message.
Father Pfleger’s response should be required viewing for anyone standing up to the right-wing smear machine, but there is also a profoundly disturbing aspect to this, particularly in cases where the Fox News’s prey isn’t quite as plucky and fearless as Father Pfleger. Fox News has been regularly crossing this line for the last couple of years where, under the guise of news coverage, they are ambushing and attempting to intimidate those with whom they politically disagree.
Right-wing einstein’s may respond, “60 MINUTES, 60 MINUTES!”, but their confrontations usually involve some sort of suspected lawbreaking or other forms of public malfeasance on the part of the confronted. They are trying to gather more information from or obtain the viewpoint of the subject, not trying to intimidate and harass them, score political points, or get in political pissing matches like this Fox representative (not journalist or reporter) was attempting to do. It is easy to see how such tactics would be quite intimidating to ordinary citizens caught up in the news.
This is nothing less than abject abuse of media power for political purposes, and, if we had a FCC that was worth squat, should be stopped.
I was so happy to hear Father Pfleger’s comments and his relentless denunciation of the right wing talking points of the FOX “reporter”. It’s time that we all stand up to this nonsense (incl the crap questions that Gibson and Stephanridiculous spewed forth at this week’s debate) and let these people know that we’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. The media and others treat us as if we’re idiots.
I wrote an op-ed defending Rev. Wright that was published in my town’s paper this week, giving out some facts about Wright’s life and service to his country and community thru his military service and church. Have gotten several positive responses from people I know, incl some I would have never guessed would be in support. Hearing Father Pfleger’s comments makes me even more sure I was on the right track with my op-ed.
I’m sending a letter of support to Father Pfleger.
My Catholicism is deeply lapsed, but I swear I felt it stirring there for a second. While I’m sure that I would not have tossed Farrakhan’s name in there as an example of a “man of God”, it was delightful to see Pfleger refuse to take any crap from the slimy little Fox reporter. As for the priest’s remark that “they” decided Martin Luther King had to die, he didn’t say who “they” are, but it’s documented in FBI files that J. Edgar Hoover’s policy was to withhold from King any warnings of death threats or activities against him. Hoover preferred to look the other way and let King fend for himself. (In fact, Hoover preferred to harass King with wiretapping and threats of blackmail.) Pfleger is hardly off the mark.
Thank you for posting these videos … I am going to distribute the URL to everyone I know!
Zeno
He’s not off the mark about Farrakhan either. It only takes listening to him in context, just like with Wright, just like with Pfleger, to know the truth. Farrakhan, for however impolitic, has been greatly maligned. Most people just hear his name and think the worst. He’s NOT anti-Semitic, for example, and if you listen to the speech he gave at Rosa Parks’ memorial service, you will probably agree. I think it’s on his website. It’s on mine.
There is a clip within the second O’reilley video clip above titled “whites, jews, and catholics for Farrakhan” which I recommend to be viewed by doubters of Rev. Michael Pfleger’s words.
Fox News is the perfect example for why we need have the fairness doctrine re-instituted and why we need to reverse the FCC rulings allowing so many stations to belong to one group, company or person (Rupert Murdoch). And why we need to have real ethics in journalism again. Anyone who watches and believes Fox news or people like Rush (to the next vicodin dealer) Limbaugh, are too brainwashed and too stupid to vote. It should be a crime to be that stupid!
Here’s the Farrakhan speech I was talking about. It’s 16 minutes.
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If you watch the whole video the priest invited Reverend Wright not Farrakan. He only mentioned Farrakan in passing. Bill O’ makes that the focus of the whole diatribe. This is typical of the Fox way of doing things. Talk about taking things out of context.
I sure would not give O’Reilly’s web site a hit, even if he did not charge for access, but I would like to know if he has the whole video on the site. I do not think he has the guts to let his flying monkeys watch the entire thing.
Father Pfleger has had Minister Farrakhan to speak at his church at least once, but I think twice. Which is not just a good thing, but a GREAT thing.
Found the video on the Fox News website. The reporter is ‘Factor’ producer Porter Berry.
Porter Berry? is that some kind of new whine?
THIS VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Foxed???
Flo ~ That was funny !
Thank you Brad for showing the views of a informed Chicagoan. While I do not share the beliefs of the monotheistic religions that most faithfully support in this country, the US corporate mass media propaganda machine mainly serves their 1%er master’s interests. Father Pfleger repeatedly exposed Fox’s lead douchebag with a microphone simply by pointing out that it is the reporter’s opinion that is both sensationalist and inaccurate. No picture of this reporter sort of reminded me of the “No pictures” of the invisable investment bankers running this country from whom he ultimately draws his paycheck.
wow! that was great. we need more like him. the interviewer was ignorant and could never hold his own with a true critical thinker. talking pints never work on the truth. they will be exposed everytine. bravo priest,bravo!
Who spreads more hate than Bill O’Riley? Fox News and Bill O’Riley’s Show prove that private media groups, like corporations have too much control over what happens in politics. We need to use the Internet as the real source of independent news. “Boycott the O’Riley’s of the world”