From Slate’s Press Box:
Two-for-One Bank Shot
“Already the two parties are blaming each other [about the power blackout]. And I have two words for them — shut up.”
— Aug. 15, 2003On Location at the Los Angeles Book Fair
[To Al Franken]: “Hey, shut up! You had your 35 minutes! Shut up!”
— June 1, 2003No-First-Amendment Zone
“All of these spin-meisters on both sides should just shut up until all the [Florida] votes are counted.”
— Nov. 9, 2000That Means You, Sid Blumenthal
“There is no victory for any American in the impeachment trial. The president should be ashamed of himself, and his partisans should shut up.”
— Feb. 4, 1999Hollywood Sissy
“He has dodged this program, Alec Baldwin has, for years. Bottom line: If you’re going to sling it, Alec, then stand up to some fire. If not, shut up and don’t be ridiculous.”
— Jan. 2, 1999Shut Up for Freedom
“And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless — unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.”
— Feb. 27, 2003To Our Brothers and Sisters in the Great White North
“Canada shouldn’t have any say [about the Guantanamo prisoners] at all. I mean, just shut up about it.”
— April 16, 2003To an Anti-War Protester Whose Father Died on 9/11
“Shut up. Shut up.”
— Feb. 4, 2003Presidential Gag Order
“What Jimmy Carter should do is privately give Mr. Bush his opinion and shut up publicly.”
— Feb. 18, 2003Diplomatic Gag Order
“But if the Bush administration wants to attack al-Qaida in Yemen, the Swedes should shut up, because basically it’s our people who are dead, they killed our people, and we have to run them down.”
— Nov. 20, 2002And He Wonders Why Daschle Won’t Appear
“Believe me when I tell you The Factor goes out of its way to get Democrats on this broadcast. But Daschle has been and remains too frightened to appear. So with all due respect, senator, shut up.”
— May 17, 2002O’Reilly Delegates Authority to Sen. Evan Bayh
“If you see [Sen. Tom Daschle] for me, senator, tell him to shut up. For me. You can be nice.”
— March 17, 2003“Why didn’t you just — why — why didn’t you just not say anything? This — I never can get this for you guys, and I — and I don’t mean to be arrogant or anything like — I just don’t get it. Just shut up about it. Who cares what you do? That’s what the Air Force is asking you to do. Shut up.”
— June 8, 2000“If I were Rosie O’Donnell and I didn’t want to get married, I’d shut up. The same thing with Madonna. Have the kids if you — you know, obviously, they have money. They can support the kids. But I’d shut up.”
— Dec. 14, 1999“I’m asking you to shut up about sex.”
— Sept. 23, 2002Shut Up, Pinhead!
To Mike McGough of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial page, who accuses O’Reilly of exploiting a murder victim’s sister who appeared on O’Reilly’s show:“Hey, Mike, shut up. I resent the fact that you said that we exploited this woman. We gave this woman a voice. That’s something that you and your stupid newspaper would never do, you pinhead. You would never do that. ”
— Nov. 13, 2002A Viewer Protests the Treatment of McGough
“Paula Evans, Winston-Salem, N.C. [writes]: ‘Bill, if you are so concerned about public figures being bad role models for children, please stop interrupting your guests and telling them to shut up!’ ”“Well, the ‘shut up’ line has happened only once in six years, Ms. Evans, and that’s because the editor from Pittsburgh was filibustering, after accusing me of exploiting the families of the murder victims. The no-spin zone is a tough place, and lies and unreasonable discourse will be stopped in their tracks.”
— Nov. 15, 2002
There’s more. Go read.
Have a great weekend. And shut up.
(Oh, and if you need something to read over the holiday, may I suggest a certain
book of a humorous nature…?)