Bill O’Reilly Gets Torched in Afghanistan
Fox News instigator Bill O’Reilly always likes to talk about how much he “supports the troops,” except his idea of support usually involves promoting the life and career of Bill O’Reilly.
Gawker tracked down these photos on the Everqueer tumblr, a blog maintained by a soldier serving in Afghanistan.
He captioned the above photos this way:
Some jerk sent us two boxes of this awful book (SPOILER ALERT: George Washington — Patriot; George Soros — Pinhead) instead of anything soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan might need, like, say, food or soap. Just burned the whole lot of them on my Commander’s orders.
Hint to American TV celebrities who want to use “supporting the troops” as a way to promote themselves: Maybe you should take some of your royalty $$$ and buy some headphones or video games or even some Amazon gift cards and sent those to the front. We’re sure the folks who pack the stuff for you at Operation Shoebox would be thrilled to get those copies of Pinheads and Patriots if you really have to hand them out to someone:
![Der Gro?mufti von Jerusalem [Amin al Husseini] bei den bosnischen Freiwilligen der Waffen-SS. Der Gro?mufti ist auf dem Truppenubungsplatz ein[getroffen] und schreitet die Front der angetretenen Freiwilligen mit erhobenem Arm ab.](http://images-undertheradar.military.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/nazicollaborators300.jpg)
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We’re Americans, not Nazi’s. We don’t burn books. Just send Mr. Riley a note to let him know where he can pick them up…
How dare you insinuate American soldiers on the front lines in Iraq are anything even remotely resembling Nazis. Is there some intellectual, scientific, or cultural content of this drivel that makes the book more important than the message being sent back by our troops? Would your idea have garnered even close to as much attention? I didn’t think so. Go back to school.…
I don’t think J Null meant that American soldiers were behaving like Nazis…his rather witty approach, even if somewhat unclear to some or many, was to challenge Mr. O’Reilly to go to Afghanistan and get the books for himself. If I’m wrong on what I have infered, then hey…I was never a Nazi! ;)
Just a hint, your grammar is wrong. It is not Nazi’s its Nazis.
– Grammar Police
It is a bad thing to burn a book…even O’Reillys’ book. However, he is an arrogant , self-promoting person who uses Fox to promote himself and make money. He abuses the system to appear a loyal supporting demegogue, which he could use some lessons from the Navy Commanders being recycled… shape up or ship out. Just my opinion, or “my OPINE”.
Your opine on Mr. “O” is great..I been on same track about him. I must admit however, that “Mr O” is patriotic in a sense though this patriotism is rather misdirected. I have him in my book as a Mr. “O” who is very patriotic to his own self interest and his complete love for money and power. Thank you Sir..
If Bill wants to use the “I support the troops…” line for personal gain, then the troops can burn the books to keep trash from accumulating. They burn all their trash, no room for it on bigger bases and certainly no room for it out in the O.P.s
I hope these gifts reach the front line troops. I know from experience in Vietnam, most of the Special Forces A teams in remote locations were bypassed (too dangerous for the delivery). I survived on rice and ketchup for about three weeks and whatever else we could catch. The rice paddy rats weren’t too bad-tastes like chicken.
The article seems to imply that Mr. O’reilly sent the books but the quote just mentions ‘some jerk’. I seriously doubt Mr. O’reilly sent the books himself and though I don’t agree with everything he says on his program, I do watch his show and like the way he presents things. To burn the books was rude and uncalled for. Maybe some soldiers in the troop might have wanted to read them.
I think the point is that none of the soldiers wanted the books, so they got rid of them. Had the soldiers wanted them, they could have kept them.
“Think” thought she was a **** and “crapped” herself !
How do you know none kept them? It is obvious this was purely meant as a drive by smear piece. Shotty Journalism. The book burning is more of a revelation of the type of soldiers we have now days.
You know, your right D.Smith. We have these soldiers these days that protect Bill and his right to be wrong about almost everything (except how to be an ***, he gets the things that don’t matter at all right here and there) and expect that their rights should be honored as well. The thought of such things… Dude it was a few books that were going to take up space in a place that space is a premium, yes two boxes of books would make a difference. If the dudes wanted to keep them then I am sure the commander would have let them. If for no other reason than to have something to debate about latter when beer and woman start getting talked out.
The writer says he “burned the whole lot of them on my Commander’s orders.” That commander needs to be identified and disciplined. Let the soldiers getting these packages choose for themselves what they want to read and what they throw away. We don’t need military commanders acting as censors for their troops.
And why not? I do agree that they (military personnel) should be allowed to read certain literature to a degree. I believe that politics has no place on the battlefield. There focus should be on living not what pundits say.
So I suppose if the Taliban began distributing mindless propaganda to our troops we should allow that too? Where do you draw the line at what THE SOLDIERS TASKED WITH DEFENDING DEMOCRACY (whether they are or not that is what they signed up to do) what they can and can’t do? Until you are over there getting shot at just **** because your opinion means nothing.
This is not a **** throwing contest brother-in-arms and yes I have been to many hot spots. However, there is no need to to be rude. We can agree to disagree, but my opinion is just as important as yours. But honestly, what is your point? If the Taliban decided to handout fliers our troops would burn them. I believe once diplomacy does not work, then politics is out the window. It is about keeping SOLDIERS alive not ******* off civilians.
Who wrote this article? Hint to bloggers who want to disparage people: get your facts straight. The man has personally donated thousands and thousands of dollars to Wounded Warriors and has done FAR more for the troops than most, maybe all, celebs. Burned on the commander’s orders huh? So in other words, some officer doesn’t like O’Reilly, got his panties in a twist from the gift, and ordered the books burned like some facist. Wow, what a great example to us all…
He also insults veterans who disagree with him, and loses his temper like a child. I would burn his books just like I’d clean my kids crayon scratchings off the living room wall.
So you burn the books of people you disagree with? Says quite a bit more about you than it does him…
we need more commanders to take charge and keep these insane rich pigs away from our troops with thier propaganda.
Obviously you have not read any of O’Reilly’s books and done any homework on his contributions to the troops. I’m not crazy about the guy myself but I at least investigate before branding a person “insane rich pig”. Quit being a sheep and following what the “bottom feeders” are trying to do to our country. Don’t get me wrong.…..I understand how you feel and felt the same until I found out by disenfranchising myself from the “donkey/elephant/media” pounding.…..I look at life differently. The troops have the right to decide on what they what to read .….period. As far as I’m concerned we should bring all of the troops home and the U.S. needs to quit meddling in other countries business.
Any Questions ? O.K.…hit the road dawg
Came from a blog *********…that name says it all, remember there are liberal ass*oles in the military too!
Sir,
I thought we were all green!
Apparently there are conservative ***#oles as well… ***#ing officer… Says everything anyone needs to know about you…
Cpt. instead of name calling liberals “ass*oles” maybe you would like to educate me and the other middle of the roaders on the finer points of President Bush’s 8 years in office.
dmn can’t believe a military officer playing politics
I would be happy to recieve a Bill O’Reilly book and am infact reading his most recent now. I have also listen to others on tape will driving cross country and even while headed to Theater on tour. Because O’Reilly is successful does not make him a bad person…rather, like said in a previous post he has personnal given and participated in raising TONs of money for soldiers like me.
I applaud public support by public figures. The fact that they then are recognized for it.…well good for them, they should be.
Much rather have the support of the American public than criticism from the ignorant knuckle heads.
I spent eighteen months in Vietnam. Some ladies from a church in Kansas sent us xmas stockings for Christmas. Soap, wash rags, razors, chewing gum and a deck of cards, in my prayers I thank them. When I came home, I could not believe how much liberals hated us. If someone had sent us a book, by the time everyone read it, it would be worn out. I believe there is no place in the world for book burning, unless complete government control is your goal.
Soldiers nowdays are spoiled, i wish i had a book in viet nam in 1968. Kids now want to be entertained. Maybe they cant read.
The blog quotes: “Some jerk sent us two boxes of this awful book…instead of anything soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan might need, like, say, food or soap…”
But the author wrote: “…Maybe you should take some of your royalty $$$ and buy some headphones or video games or even some Amazon gift cards and sent those to the front…”
What good are those Amazon gift cards going to do for troops in an isolated outpost?
George Soros is a pinhead btw.
I guess the military has become so pc that the 1SG or senior NCO in charge didn’t kick the commander up in his *** and just put the books out on a stand and let them pick and choose. If you don’t have food and soap, well think of the four p’s.
I don’t agree with everything he says nor anyone else for that matter. BUT, he does a lot of charitable donations to a number of worthwhile organizations including the Wounded Warrior Project. Burning books was a favorite event for the NAzi regime. If the book burning took place at the order given by a commander, he needs to read the contitution first and then resign!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Beeso,
Military personnel defend the constitution. They have UCMJ so the laws in the constitution do not protect them.
Good point. I don’t know how many times I heard “The military is not a democracy” when I served.
I read it all from both sides to make my own opinion. Many years ago while on tour in SW Asia I was never aware of our landing on the moon till I returned…would have been nice but someone decided no news was good news. We have become too sensative. I found the book offensive, funny, and interesting, made me think which is what books are supposed to do, not spoon feed information. I believe the word is f r e e d o m ? Book burning is a no in my book.
Freedom has a price and every person in the military knows it. Once they signed up they gave way of all there freedoms to defend the constitution.
This is wrong and the Commander should be talked to about this. If he or she does not agree with the person or the books then they should still give the soldiers the opportunity to read them or even sent them to another camp. I knew a lot of Soldiers when I was in Iraq did not care what the book was they just wanted to read something!
The picture was tracked down on a site called “*********” sends alarm bells about the article. From the pictures I see they could have been taken in San Francisco. It looks like something made up by one of the DADT group. I don’t know any stright troops that would by any where near a site that called itself *********.
What exactly is your point? You don’t like ******? Or their opinion doesn’t matter because they like some assplay now and then? What a waste of space.
I’m sick of soldiers making themselves look spoiled. If you don’t like the book, don’t read it!
I get how he is promoting himself, I do. But this makes people who were going to send us headphones, videogames, or amazon giftcard think twice, and that’s just it.
Think twice before you insult someone who’s giving you something for FREE!
When I was in Iraq the sailors I were with enjoyed receiveing any reading material, some of them may have enjoyedthe books. It’s sad that a commander who didn’t like Mr. O’Rielly, for whatever reason, would destroy a gift. How Ungrateful.
Burning books is simply stupid. This makes no statement but lowering yourself to lower than you protested. If you disagree with someone, show professionalism and voice it through letter or video. Americans are better than this.
No doubt the commander’s order to burn Mr. O’Reilly’s books was pleasing to the CiC & should enhance the officer’s career opportunities — especially if the current POTUS survives re-election.
Do you really believe what you just said? Somehow the president is going to shower him with promotions and rank. Wow!
Bigoted twerp huh? With that ignorant statement you have just verified that the burning was indeed politically motivated as did your article (I’m taking it on faith you’re not simply some troll). Trying to backpeddle to make it look like you were “just disposing of trash” makes you look like a coward as well. Since when do soldiers blog about burn piles? I’m also skeptical about how… if you’re SO remote and there’s NO delivery service or base post… the boxes of books made it out there to begin with. Most FOB’s I’ve been to didn’t have post, mail was held back at a larger base. But, whatever… The simple fact is you burned books you didn’t agree with it a most Nazi-esque fashion and now you’re trying to back away from it after proudly blogging about it.
I usually do not support book burning, but this has to be a very notable exception. It gets cold in the Afghan desert, and O’Reilly’s books serve practically no other purpose (well, it could be argued ********* and his unit could have used them as emergency toilet paper). However, using those pages to wipe one’s behind could potentially have the opposite effect–making the rear filthier than it originally was.
Anyway, it was funny to read this. Wonder what that arrogant toe rag O’Reilly thinks about all this.
Only communitsts and marxists burn books. Identify the commander who told them to burn the books and relieve him of his command.
So Mr. Abrams,
You are implying that our fighting forces are aligned with Marxist and Communist?
Perhaps this “pinhead” should do some research — a lot of O’Reilly’s royalties goes to charity — didn’t he recently raise and contribute $400,000 for the Wounded Warriors Project?
This Kool-Aid drinker may spout tolerance, but he sure doesn’t practice it!
Next time let’s have some more background in the photos; these could have been taken in your backyard.
since this pinhead hates mr. o’riley so much maybe he can get some love from hanoi jane and the rest of the hollyweird scum he’s trying to kiss up to. is this the some pinhead that ordered all Bible’s burned also?
Not a big fan of FOX News or anthing that O’Relilly does (it is apparent to any objective observer that O’Reilly does everything he does for his own financial benefit), but in all fairness, the video states that they have sent 4,000 MP3 players to the troops.
Sending his own book to troops that could care less (and at the same time need other things he could have sent instead) does seem a little narcistic though
According to a different website about donating items to troops, they cannot accept hard-cover books (among various other items), so it would seem that any hard-cover book couldn’t have been kept without violating regulations. Possibly they could’ve been given away, but not kept.
When will we start enlisting people over 15.
Probably wouldn’t of burned them but I also don’t like reading (unless it really interests me) on a deployment. I do enough of it already on the job. I finished Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” last tour and now I’m reading Amity Shales’ “The Forgotten Man”.
Where was this at? Might also have to do with why they got rid of them. Also… seeing how the Tumblr blog name is “**********” so I think we can agree he might of gotten them himself and burned him on his own.
Besides, I work with a guy who wears a Bill O’Reilly shirt aroudn here (a FOB in Afghanistan) all the time. Someone had an agenda and you helped military.com congradulations