O'Reilly Challenges Viewers to Debate Him

[solypsist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060117/..._bill_o_reilly

"O'Reilly has announced the Great Factor Debate Contest, in which six winners will face off with the outspoken TV commentator on a topic of their choice."


okay so he gets to pick who he's going to debate? haha! i can only imagine the vetting process which will result in the most braindead morons imaginable making it on.

let's get someone from here to do try it (usa only) and then file a report to find out what the process is/was.

I'm be in, unless part of the vetting process is the following question:

"When you're winning the debate and Bill cuts your microphone, will you lunge across the table and throttle him by his scrawny neck, pausing only to spit in his eye? Be honest."

The massive grin on my face might give that one away.

[Major Robert Dump]

Maybe I missed it, but they really need to pick the finalists before the finalists say what they want to debate.

[KukriKhan]

I nominate DevastatinDave to debate "Why Media Pundits suXX0rz",

and JAG to debate "Why Nietzsche pnwn5 Adam Smith".

I know it was specified "US only", but hell, I'll pay the airfare just to see those. :)

Here's the link for the actual contest, with rules:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181845,00.html

Apparently one enters via email: oreillycontest@foxnews.com

From the site:

Would you like to sit on the set of "The Factor" and let Bill O'Reilly have it?! The Great "Factor" Debate contest is underway and here's the deal:

During the month of February six lucky "Factor" viewers will be flown to New York City or Los Angeles (depending on which city we're broadcasting from) with hotel and meals paid for by us.

All you have to do is convince us by e-mail (and later by telephone) that you are a good debater and that you can hold your own with O'Reilly on a topic of your choosing.

Good luck

"hold your own" Hahahahaha!

I put in an app, for thehelluvit. Proposed topic: Term Limits: Saving our Government or Vast Liberal Conspiracy?

Wish me luck.

[Vladimir]

Before you compete for it I'd make sure you proofread your statements.

I'm be in, unless part of the vetting process is the following question:

You could always pull a Letterman and come up with a witty retort like: "I think you're lying." Pure genius.

[Mongoose]

Good luck, Kukri. Remember: It's not really a debate, so don't be afraid to yell or use a fallacious argument. Talk show style "debates" are decided by 4 things(In order of importance)

1) Who can present the strongest argument

2) Who can stuff the most fallacies into one argument

3) Who can yell the loudest

4) Who has the ability to cut off whose mic.

If you beat him on all 3 of the winnable points, then you'll have a chance.

[solypsist]

KUKRI: If I could finish.
O'REILLY: You can't finish, because what you're saying is ridiculous.
O'REILLY: Mr. Khan, I'm going to cut your mike now

O'reilly frames the debate.

[Strike For The South]

This isnt a challange

[Tribesman]

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Sign yourself over to O'Reilly , that covers a hell of a lot doesn't it .

[KukriKhan]

I'd count it a "Glorious Victory" if I could

a) make him sputter
b) make his eyes go wide and jaw go slack
c) make steam come out his ears, or
d) make him laugh

Any of those would do.*

@Tribesman: yeah, I cringed after reading para 666. :)

No word yet. Maybe tomorrow.

*I'm thinking of getting DDave to coach me on 'outrageous-isms'. If selected, they'll come in handy. And of course, I'll sqeeze in "Props to totalwar-dot-org and my backroom buddies!", somewhere.

[doc_bean]

*I'm thinking of getting DDave to coach me on 'outrageous-isms'. If selected, they'll come in handy. And of course, I'll sqeeze in "Props to totalwar-dot-org and my backroom buddies!", somewhere.

Eh, wouldn't that attract a lot of O'Reilly fans to the board ?

[Crazed Rabbit]

GAH! Good point. Maybe just give props to the Org and your backroom buddies. That way we won't be inundated by fanatical fans with too much free time.

Crazed Rabbit

[Mongoose]

GAH! Good point. Maybe just give props to the Org and your backroom buddies. That way we won't be inundated by fanatical fans with too much free time.

Crazed Rabbit

But if we get enough fanatics, the enemy will drown in a sea of dumb @$$s before the older, more skilled conservative debaters even have time to post!

[Devastatin Dave]

If I get on the show, I hope you guys would create a charity for bail money and possibly for medical bills to pry my fingers from Bill's neck after he cut off my microphone during my retort to one of his rantings, "Well Bill, have you ever heard of tea bagging? Well your mom and me the other night..." Oh it would be classic and a glorious moment for all Organites to charish.

[solypsist]

if you get on the show i will phone you up and req tickets to the taping (i imagine they'll have an audience for this event) and afterward host a private party anywhere midtown (near the fox studios) where you will be plied with alcohol by fashion models. oh, and you'll make the next day's edition of the post's page six.

[Devastatin Dave]

if you get on the show i will phone you up and req tickets to the taping (i imagine they'll have an audience for this event) and afterward host a private party anywhere midtown (near the fox studios) where you will be plied with alcohol by fashion models. oh, and you'll make the next day's edition of the post's page six.

I'm there. I'll register, you guys give me any topic and I'll take him on. This could be beyond hilarious. Is it live?

[Crazed Rabbit]

But if we get enough fanatics, the enemy will drown in a sea of dumb @$$s before the older, more skilled conservative debaters even have time to post!

You think O'Reilly's viewers are liberals?

Crazed Rabbit

[Mongoose]

I think they're conservatives. If we have enough of them, the lib-rull members of the forum will drown in a see of idiots, and then leave. Then us regular conservatives can sit around and talk about how much we agree with each other.

[solypsist]

hmmm...your best bet is to discuss on the pro side of the legalization of marijuana. whether you actually agree with it is irrelevent at this point; the goal is to get you on the show!

I'm there. I'll register, you guys give me any topic and I'll take him on. This could be beyond hilarious. Is it live?

[Sheep]

hmmm...your best bet is to discuss on the pro side of the legalization of marijuana. whether you actually agree with it is irrelevent at this point; the goal is to get you on the show!

I thought O'Reilly actually agreed with that? I remember him supporting it in the past.

[Devastatin Dave]

hmmm...your best bet is to discuss on the pro side of the legalization of marijuana. whether you actually agree with it is irrelevent at this point; the goal is to get you on the show!

I know what would really get him, The War on Christmas stuff. I tell him he should mind his own damn business because this "War on Christmas" is simply a promotion for a Fox News' anchor's book.

[KukriKhan]

Good thinking Dave, but we have to be topical, for Fox entertain...err News sake.

What do we have coming up?

President's Day: "George Washington; Father of the Country, or Terrorist Rebel Scum?"

St. Patrick's Day: "Abolish St Paddy Parades. They celebrate a foreign terrorist snake-handling cleric, venerated by IRA sympathizers and labor union liberals - and now co-opted by every minority group with an agenda."

I wish I'd held off now. My topic is so boring, it wouldn't make it past the first rank of grad-student assistant producers.

No word.

[Devastatin Dave]

I just read the rules, what a joke!!! No thanks, I think I'll just go to NY to pinch off a couple of Linkin Logs in front of Fox Studios with the hope that Bill will step in it. What a pansy...

[Paul Peru]

I'm sure they'll have little trouble finding lame leftwing nutters to be ridiculed.
Here's hoping at least one sentient being manages to sneak under the radar so he'll do his "shut up" and mike-cutting routine.