The Further Fictional Adventures of Bill O'Reilly

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Falklands Drama: Cornered Narcissist Bill O'Reilly Lashes Out

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As the media casts a spotlight on his fake journalistic endeavors, Bill O'Reilly is becoming more and more unhinged. Last week he threatened to send David Corn of Mother Jones to a "Kill Zone," and this week he made threats against a writer for the New York Times.

He's a classic loud-mouth bully who can dish it out but can't take it, thin-skinned and violent. And why is he so defensive? Because he has been caught lying over and over again and there's no way out.

From New York Times

Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. “I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”

“I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly told me. “You can take it as a threat.” http://t.co/gXsH3Zqaig
— Emily Steel (@emilysteel) February 24, 2015

.@emilysteel At least @oreillyfactor didn't tell you that you deserve "to be in the kill zone."
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 24, 2015

"(O'Reilly is) the biggest Kahuna in all of cable news - a man who at any other news network would be in a fight for his professional life right now, but so far for him apparently no consequences."
~ Rachel Maddow

Statement from Fox News:



But reporters are not backing down. If anything, they are digging deeper into O'Reilly's mountain of lies.

The Guardian is investigating O'Reilly's coverage of the Los Angeles Riots in the 1990s when he worked for Inside Edition.

From Talking Points Memo

Six former co-workers disputed O'Reilly's tale of being bombarded with concrete and bricks by rioters while covering the 1992 unrest in Los Angeles, according to the Guardian.

“They were throwing bricks and stones at us,” O’Reilly told an online interviewer in 2006, according to the Guardian.
“Concrete was raining down on us. The cops saved our butts that time," O'Reilly added.
O'Reilly repeated the story to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt this month.
“We were attacked, we were attacked by protesters, where bricks were thrown at us,” he told Hewitt, the Guardian reported.

“It didn’t happen,” one colleague from "Inside Edition" told the paper. “If it did, how come none of the rest of us remember it?”

. . .

Hunter Walker of Business Insider points out that O'Reilly's "heroic" version of himself in Buenos Aires saving a cameraman in a combat zone during the Falklands War was included in a novel written by O'Reilly called "Those Who Trespass." When Art Imitates Ego! However, it is mostly fiction:

From Business Insider

In O'Reilly's novel the protest was broken up by soldiers, or as the author put it, "combat-ready shock troops dressed in full battle gear and armed with machine guns." At this point, Michaels, one of the characters described as O'Reilly's fictional "alter ego" realized he "had to get away" with his cameraman and soundman. As Michaels and his crew escaped, the soldiers let loose on the crowd.
"Without warning, they began firing directly into the crowd," O'Reilly wrote, adding, "Hundreds of people immediately fell onto the cement."
O'Reilly wrote that Michaels "saw one man take a bullet squarely in the right eye" and he "was killed instantly." He described "ten thousand tightly packed demonstrators ... desperately trying to get away from the gunfire any way they could."
These scenes written by O'Reilly contradict contemporaneous reports of the real-life protest, which do not describe widespread gunfire or any deaths.

In another book, O'Reilly claimed that he saw some war action in Northern Ireland and El Salvador in addition to Buenos Aires, but under scrutiny he is backing off.

From Washington Post

In his 2013 book, “Keep It Pithy,” the Fox News host recounted,“I’ve seen soldiers gun down unarmed civilians in Latin America, Irish terrorists kill and maim their fellow citizens in Belfast with bombs.”

On another occasion, he said, “I’ve covered four wars,” and ticked off El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s, the 1982 Falklands conflict, Northern Ireland and an unspecified conflict in Israel. “I’ve seen the best and the worst.”

. . . O’Reilly traveled to Northern Ireland in 1984 to research a book about the Troubles, according to Fox News. The book was never finished, and it’s not clear whether he covered the conflict for any news organization. At the time, he was working for a Boston TV station, WCVB, but his then-boss, Philip S. Balboni, said that O’Reilly covered only local news and did commentary for the station.

O’Reilly didn’t mention seeing any terrorist bombings in Northern Ireland during a radio interview with syndicated host Hugh Hewitt last week. Instead, he told a milder story: “We went on a raid in Divis Flats with the police. And it was a pretty intense situation. There was stuff being thrown, arrests being made, all of that.”

“Were you in fear of physical harm?” Hewitt asked.

No, O’Reilly replied.

O'Reilly also tried to use photographic evidence to "prove" that he saw nuns being shot in El Salvador. He doesn't seem to understand the difference between "seeing" a picture of something and "seeing" something in person, yet he always uses first person when he talks.

From Talking Points Memo

“While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence that were never broadcast, including depictions of nuns who were murdered," he told Mediaite.

During a Dec. 14, 2012 episode of "The O'Reilly Factor," O'Reilly talked about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. He compared it to something he said he'd seen earlier in his career.

"I was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head," O'Reilly said, according to Media Matters.

He explained to Mediaite on Wednesday that he brought up El Salvador while discussing the Sandy Hook shooting to talk about "evil."

"I used the murdered nuns as an example of that evil," O'Reilly told the website. "That’s what I am referring to when I say ‘I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head.’ No one could possibly take that segment as reporting on El Salvador.”

Media Matters also pointed to a Sept. 27, 2005 episode of O'Reilly's radio show in which he said, "I've seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador."

Media Matters also found a good example of O'Reilly claiming that he covered a dramatic story in person when actually he was several states away at a TV station.

George de Mohrenschildt was a Russian emigre who befriended Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and testified before the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination. On March 29, 1977, the same day he was contacted by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, he committed suicide at his daughter's home in Florida. At the time, O'Reilly was a reporter for Dallas' WFAA-TV who regularly reported on stories related to the Kennedy assassination.
O'Reilly has bizarrely inserted himself into de Mohrenschildt's story, claiming in books and on Fox News that he was outside the house seeking to interview de Mohrenschiltd at the time of his death.

. . . In his 2012 best-selling non-fiction book Killing Kennedy, O'Reilly writes on page 300 that as a "reporter knocked on the door of de Mohrenschildt's daughter's home, he heard the shotgun blast that marked the suicide of the Russian ... that reporter's name is Bill O'Reilly."

. . . "Bill O'Reilly's a phony, there's no other way to put it," said Tracy Rowlett, a former WFAA reporter and anchor who worked at the station with O'Reilly. "He was not up on the porch when he heard the gunshots, he was in Dallas. He wasn't traveling at that time."
Byron Harris, a reporter at WFAA for the past 40 years, agreed that O'Reilly had not traveled to Florida for the story and accused him of stealing his reporting on de Mohrenschildt's suicide from a newspaper.
According to Harris, O'Reilly "was in Dallas. He stole that article out of the newspaper. I guarantee Channel 8 didn't send him to Florida to do that story because it was a newspaper story, it was broken by the Dallas Morning News."

"Muddy the waters, and establish plausible deniability" = #OReilly learned from #Reagan's spin masters @thenation http://t.co/QEz3rJyqMW
— Holly Blomberg (@HollyBlomberg) February 27, 2015

Bill "Baron Munchausen" O'Reilly surveys Falklands War http://t.co/YmD19WUj5D pic.twitter.com/MoixvK5PVX
— GoodTwitty (@GoodTwitty) February 25, 2015

Stewart Tears into O’Reilly: ‘No One’s Watching Him for the Actual Truth’ http://t.co/PhvmSGqRyQ pic.twitter.com/u7rTApehYM
— Blue DuPage (@BlueDuPage) February 25, 2015

Bill O'Reilly and the Truthiness Defense http://t.co/DAy8A2g28o @TIMECulture #BilloReillyMisremembers #BillOReilly pic.twitter.com/O6szKDfuJq
— bennydiego (@bennydiego) February 25, 2015

"Reporting live from the beaches of Normandy, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News." pic.twitter.com/cN0FDGLGTt
— David Waldman (@KagroX) February 28, 2015

Is Assassination the New GOP Talking Point?

The Right Wing is on an Assassination kick these days, and their favorite topic is shooting President Obama. I've seen two rants about it just today. I suspect this is a new Koch-approved and ALEC-funded GOP talking point.

Is that all they have? Or is it beginning to sink in that they may not win the Senate or the next Presidential race? They have to blame someone, and President Obama is always there to absorb all their hatred and bigotry.

This is scary since just recently a man with a knife recently stormed the White House, and another managed to shoot the Presidential residence several times while the Secret Service was out-of-order! So they have to take these threats seriously, maybe more seriously than in the past.
Keystone Cops from Hell: President Obama and the Secret Service

And some people who have called for assassination several times, and even been warned by the Secret Service need to be incarcerated. Like, yesterday.

Let's start with Ted Nugent. I've listed his threats before:
Ted Nugent Calls for Armed Revolution
Ted Nugent Wants Obama to "Suck His Machine Gun"
Nugent Threatens Mayhem Again

Here's what he wrote today on Facebook, via PoliticusUSA

GUNRIGHTS HERO PROFESSOR JOHN LOTT blew the freedom haters & gungrabbers outta the water with his stats/facts broadside MORE GUNS = LESS CRIME suckerpunch truth bludgeon. Read the book, share the truth with your elected officials give away as many books to as many people as you can to de-sheeple the braindead masses with their peace&love disease. Make a donatoin [sic] to the CRIME PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER to destroy the Obama/Holder/Clinton/Schumer/Pilosi [sic]/Boxer/Feinstein/Durbin/Bloomburgh [sic] propaganda jihad against our right to self-defense TRTKABA. JOIN THE NRA! Be the best American you can be. Freedom or their evil carcasses for traction back to it.

Yeah, blow them away. With guns. All our elected official. Just shoot them dead. It's the American way, according to Ted Nugent. The Left on Twitter immediately began to contact the FBI and Secret Service, while calling for Nugent to be arrested:

.@jcjawbreaker @liberalforeverX @politicususa Ted Nugent calls for Assassination of our President & when will the FBI arrest this POS? @FBI

— Jeanabella (@Jeanabella) October 15, 2014

Do the country a favor and arrest Ted Nugent for stochastic terrorism, Secret Service. Redeem thyselves.

— Sarah Reese Jones (@srjones66) October 15, 2014

.@AderemiOladipo When Dixie Chicks said they weren't proud of Bush, they were shunned. But media is ok w/ constant assassination calls for O

— Sarah Reese Jones (@srjones66) October 15, 2014

This next one is from a public servant in Missouri named Debbie Dunnegan Waters. She wants to know why the Military can't just, you know, assassinate the President? I mean, isn't that legal? I guess she's never heard of a "military coup." Not the brightest light, and this is MISSOURI after all, where the cops shoot unarmed men multiple times no matter what the situation. At the least, she should lose her local government job over this, don't you think? She is up for re-election as Jefferson County Recorder of Deeds. Apparently an education in political science is not part of the requirements of her job, LOL.

Jefferson County, MO recorder of deeds seems to have called for the U.S. military to attack/oust President Obama http://t.co/KxucGovAv4

— Chris Good (@c_good) October 14, 2014

From St. Louis Public Radio:

“What she posted is really troubling,’’ said Sean Nicholson, executive director of Progress Missouri, a progressive activist group that is displaying Waters’ Facebook item on its website. “What in the world does she mean by ‘action against our domestic enemy...supposedly the commander in chief?’ "?
Braxton Payne, who works for a local Democratic consulting firm, is credited with first publicizing Waters’ comments. He said he posted the link several times on Twitter because he was outraged with her Facebook comments, especially since she is an elected official.

From Talking Points Memo

"Something innocent and simple got twisted into a disaster because it's an election," she said. "I meant no ill intent toward the president. I meant no ill intent toward anybody."
Her Facebook account is private, but Dunnegan said she has not deleted the post and doesn't seem worried how it might impact her re-election bid.
"I think it could hurt it as much as it could help it," she said.

Great comments about this:

I realize Dunnegan is slow, but surprised she is so cognitively challenged; how can she suggest a "Coup" against Obama and then say, "No ill intent toward The President." (A good anti-psychotic might help her.)
~ John DM on Huff Post

It is amazing how often people who like to call themselves American Patriots so often advocate behaviors that occur only in despotic non-democratic countries and seem to have no real understanding of the Constitution they say they love except for the 2nd Amendment -- and the First Amendment as long as it is only THEIR speech they want protected.
~ Karen D. on Huff Post

um, this is, well, an offense that lands most people in jail and under psychiatric evaluation and heavy guard immediately, with little likelihood of release. So, let's imagine that a black man had said this. Does anyone think he'd still be free, or even alive?
~ Lisa G. on Huff Post

But this is what they do. They get into small, local offices and wreck havoc. Liberals have got to start putting pressure on those city, county, district elections with fervor.
~ Eugene Krebs on Crooks and Liars

I served for 25 years on a active duty with the U.S. Navy. I retired in the mid-1990s. I can not believe the utter ignorance ignorance and stupidity of people like this woman. She writes that she can't understand why the military doesn't revolt and depose the President. I, like every other servicemember, took an oath to protect and defend the constitution. Overthrowing the fairly and duly elected President isn't part of the oath. I served under Presidents from Nixon to Clinton. I didn't like Nixon; I knew he was a liar and a crook. I didn't like how repair parts weren't always available to my techs because Carter had cut the DoD budget. I thought that Reagan was trigger-happy and practiced a bit of brinksmanship. Bush the ok was "eh, just ok" in my opinion. Clinton was a good President. But I never once, ever in any way, thought about overthrowing the President. I was dedicated to my shipmates and my ship. I served with pride, without politics.
~ Mark Zandrini on Crooks and Liars

Gun-Nut Mom Jokes About Assassinating President Obama

The group "Moms Demand Action" and leader Shannon Watts have had success recently getting both restaurant chains as well as Target stores to ban people from Open Carry who want to scare people with assault weapons. Now there is a backlash group called "Moms With Guns Demand Action" started by a woman named Kathy L. Perkins.

Moms with Guns Demand Action



Obviously the founder of that group thinks Shannon Watts and anyone who wants to curb firearms is unpatriotic, while she is a "real 'Merican." Perkins enjoys parading around with a gun strapped to her back in front of Girl Scouts and talking about the 2nd Amendment. But this week she took her love of weapons and shooting a little too far - into the realm of murder, as in "assassination." On her Facebook, she joked about assassinating President Obama. And now Kathy Perkins is on everyone's radar, including (hopefully) the Secret Service, the FBI, and even the NSA, if they are paying attention.

Screencap Via Liberaland

#Racist Founder Of Gun Rights Organization Kathy Perkins Wants President Obama Assassinated http://t.co/nvlOes8h4B pic.twitter.com/ujPeXHgYUb

— WarOnWomen (@WarAgainstWomen) July 13, 2014

As of tonight her Twitter account @MomsWithGuns has either been suspended or deleted, and so has the "Moms With Guns Demand Action" Facebook.
Another Facebook Group called simply Moms With Guns (the same name as Perkins' Twitter account, is denying that Perkins was ever a member, or that they have anything to do with her. In fact they refer to her as their "current parasite" because they are getting some flack from people who dislike Perkins.

About her flight from the Internets, via Liberaland

Ms. Kathy Perkins, founder of Moms With Guns Demand Action, who defiantly shared her thoughts on our twice-elected president by writing, “Where is an assasin when you need one?” [sic] and has called for an armed uprising, has magically disappeared. So, she either ran, or the black hovering helicopters she’s been hallucinating have actually gathered her crazy self up and hauled her in for questioning.
She wanted to “Take this country back by force” and now presumably, she’s run from the Internet.

There is still a cached copy of her Non-Apology Apology. In it Perkins mentions "CATI" - the group "Come and Take It Texas" - referring to the Greek phrase from King Leonidas of Sparata "Molon Labe" - "Come and Take My Weapons."

I am not a member of CATI (. Haven't been for a while. I apologize for my comment "where is an assassin when you need one?" and agree it was not something I should joke about.
I don't see Obama as my President but I respect the office and though on my personal page, I should have expected trolls to be trollin for garbage to spin. I am affiliated with no gun groups but my own and if I had any power Obama would be imprisoned for treason and brought before a court of his peers where Id hope for an appropriate judgement for the crime of treason.
My comment has been spun as a call for his assassination but it was not that. I invite the FBI or whoever to investigate me. I am guilty of nothing and have nothing to hide while the current occupant of the Oval Office is guilty of high treason and needs to attack housewives to distract people from his evil.
My regret is joking about his serious crimes against our country.
I will not read or respond to the comments by haters who love spin. Its regretful that CATI was attacked for a personal post on my personal page.
I wish CATI Godspeed and success and wish to say I am not associated with them nor was my comment. They are good people with good intentions. Im against behaving unwisely and will not joke on my personal page about serious issues our Nation faces any longer. I under estimated my enemy's love of spin and hatred for Americans who love our Constitution.
Carry On Patriots! If you get attacked, know its because you are doing something good. Our enemies are vile and ruthless and wait for any scrape of spin to use against us. Im glad they are watching though because this Armed Mom wont be scared off by lies and threats and spin.

Me too, Moms with guns lady. Me too. pic.twitter.com/Iz6LgVlFwH

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 13, 2014

More threats from @Momswithguns peeps. Not just at POTUS but anyone who disagrees w/them. #DomesticTerrorists pic.twitter.com/Vj9CtBR1lm

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 13, 2014

.@MomsWithGuns founder backtracks says she "underestimated spin." You called 4 POTUS to be shot. What spin, hater? pic.twitter.com/6UC7l36yqx

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 13, 2014

@Marmel @Eykis @MomsWithGuns How many words do you think we'd have to change to make it sound like it was from a 3rd world country terrorist

— James Roberts (@SliderZ33) July 13, 2014

@simonconroy @Eykis @Marmel @MomsWithGuns And that is the scary reality of modern USA. Not north vs south, but hatred vs humanity. #SadTrend

— James Roberts (@SliderZ33) July 13, 2014

@Marmel @YatPundit @MomsWithGuns when you say "clean house of the terrorists in our offices" you mean your guns should overrule my vote.

— Beth (@elsbet) July 13, 2014

@Marmel @momschange @MomsWithGuns Is English her second language?

— Paul Z. (@zoll_p) July 13, 2014

Kathy Perkins, founder of @momswithguns about to get colonoscopy from @SecretService for terrorist threats to POTUS. http://t.co/nS4FJpbf3Y

— Nicole Bonnet (@NicoleBonnet1) July 13, 2014

Rep. Michael Grimm R-NY Threatens Reporter With Bodily Harm

This happened after the State of the Union Speech on Tuesday night: a reporter for the New York One station named Michael Scotto was interviewing Representative Michael Grimm R-NY, asking about a political donor scandal that has been in the news for months. Grimm flipped out and went completely thug, threatening to hang the reporter by his bootstraps or worse:




From NY1 News

Grimm: "Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I'll throw you off this f-----g balcony."

Scotto: "Why? I just wanted to ask you..."

[[cross talk]]

Grimm: "If you ever do that to me again..."

Scotto: "Why? Why? It’s a valid question."

[[cross talk]]

Grimm: "No, no, you're not man enough, you're not man enough. I'll break you in half. Like a boy."

In a statement, Grimm said,

“I was extremely annoyed because I was doing NY1 a favor by rushing to do their interview first in lieu of several other requests. The reporter knew that I was in a hurry and was only there to comment on the State of the Union, but insisted on taking a disrespectful and cheap shot at the end of the interview, because I did not have time to speak off-topic. I verbally took the reporter to task and told him off, because I expect a certain level of professionalism and respect, especially when I go out of my way to do that reporter a favor. I doubt that I am the first Member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won’t be the last.”

What was Grimm so ticked-off about? Well . . . he's in hot water:

Rep. Michael Grimm may have used 'donor swapping' to avoid #campaignfinance laws http://t.co/RUm5PxiVIK // Read more: http://t.co/taSpun81Vf

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 21, 2014

FBI arrests GOP congressman's ex-girlfriend http://t.co/QoDO7mGvC3

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) January 15, 2014

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Someone should have had the courtesy of telling Michael Grimm that that thing on that tripod was a video camera!

— Sam Seder (@SamSeder) January 29, 2014

Michael #Grimm is like most #Republicans, a bully who resorts to name calling, insults and threats when asked tough questions.

— Ziggy Daddy™ (@Ziggy_Daddy) January 30, 2014

In 16 states, NY/1 reporter Michael Scotto would have had permission to shoot GOP Rep. Michael Grimm dead last night http://t.co/DI6tMnDf4S

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 29, 2014

The GOP Congressman who threatened to hurl a reporter from a balcony was last in the news defending Chris Christie. http://t.co/tWQRsbFEF3

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 29, 2014

"It was just an honest assessment of my theoretical ability to break a person in half" -Michael Grimm tomorrow probably

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 29, 2014

Michael Grimm just set the people of Staten Island back hundreds of years

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) January 29, 2014

sounds like Michael Grimm had tonight's most compelling SOTU response

— alex pareene (@pareene) January 29, 2014

"I'll break you in half. Like a boy." The implication being that he regularly breaks boys in half. http://t.co/zBOKzY00w6

— Ian Candy Saga (@iboudreau) January 29, 2014

Nugent Threatens Mayhem Again

Ted Nugent was interviewed by Jeff Glor of CBS, during which he had a sudden attack of the rants:

“I feel sorry for liberals who can be that brain dead as to take a clear statement of fear on my part and turn it into a threat against somebody else,” Nugent explained.

“If Mitt Romney wins, he needs at least some of the moderate vote,” Glor noted. “You are many things, you are not moderate.”

“Call me when you sit down across from someone who has more families with dying little boys and girls who get a call to take them on their last fishing trip in life!” an enraged Nugent screamed. “Call me when you meet someone who does that more than I do because that’s really moderate! In fact, you know what that is? That’s extreme! I’m an extremely loving, passionate man! And people who investigate me honestly — without the baggage of political correctness — ascertain the conclusion that I’m a damn nice guy! And if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I’ll s*** your fucking d***!”

“Or f*** you!” he said, turning to Glor’s female producer. “How’s that sound?”

~ Rocker Ted Nugent to a CBS News reporter Jeff Glor and his producer, quoted on Raw Story. Nugent was recently interviewed by the Secret Service for violent remarks directed at President Obama, which caused a Twitter brouhaha ~ see this previous post on Snark Amendment.

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“Yesterday, he called me on the phone after we got back from New York, and said after our interview, he was rushed to the emergency room and had a kidney stone removed. So, that’s what he said may have contributed to his high level of...uh...energy.
~ Reporter Jeff Glor quoted Here

Good god almighty. Now it's the "my kidney stone made me do it" defense.
~ comment by dratthecat

I'm under the impression that he has no idea what "moderate" means in relation to politics.
~ comment by TLydon007 on FreakOutNation

Is Ted Ann Coulter's identical twin brother???
~ comment by wifather2000

He's had one too many uncooked deer hearts.
~ comment by ZappoDave on Daily Kos

Kind of wish that bear he shot in Alaska had been given a fair chance to eat him first.
~ Comment by Clete on Entertainment Weekly

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The left media and Wasserman Schultz will try to tell you that I threaten the president’s life and that I’m a mean, nasty man who wants to r**e your puppy. I wouldn't r**e your puppy, but I'm sure if the president needs a little chow, I could do a little bushmeat for him.

~ Ted Nugent explaining (?) his nasty CBS rant on Mike Broomhead's radio show, quoted on Huffington Post. Somehow he managed to connect Debbie Wasserman Schultz, President Obama, and a very unfortunate puppy to his previous threats to either pleasure or molest two CBS employees.

 So much Frank L Baum Here - BroomHead interviews Flying Monkey about Toto Abuse.
~ comment by Youagginme quoted here