Sign the letter to Bill O'Reilly demanding he apologize to the "non-existent" homeless vets here.
To Bill O'Reilly: Homeless veterans exist. I met some.
In a previous post, I wrote about Bill O’Reilly’s bizarre assertion that there are no homeless veterans in America. He made this claim on January 4, 2008 while talking about a speech by John Edwards where Edwards said that 200,000 vets are homeless on any given night in America. BOR continued to deny the existence of homeless veterans on January 16, 2008 during an interview with radio host Ed Schultz. This time, he added a caveat that if there are homeless veterans, “there aren’t many of them out there”. You can see both clips for yourself and read transcripts here, since I’m sure you’ll soon be hearing BOR complain, as he always does when he’s criticized for something he said, that he has been “taken out of context.” The context of these unedited clips is quite clear.
On both occasions, BOR was either ignorant to or consciously ignoring a recent study from the National Alliance to End Homelessness (using data from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau) that found:
In 2006, approximately 195,827 veterans were homeless on a given night — an increase of 0.8 percent from 194,254 in 2005. More veterans experience homelessness over the course of the year. We estimate that 336,627 were homeless in 2006.
Either that or BOR believes that 195,827 homeless veterans (and that number is surely low) is a small enough number of homeless veterans as to be insignificant. I have no idea what number of homeless veterans BOR considers to be “many” — 195,827 homeless veterans certainly seems like a lot to me.
BOR said that he couldn’t find any homeless veterans. Maybe he wasn’t looking in the right places. It took me less than a day to find several hundred.
I went to U.S. Vets in Inglewood, California. US Vets is the largest non-profit organization in the US dedicated to helping homeless and at-risk veterans with temporary housing, counseling, and employment assistance. The facility currently houses up to 500 homeless veterans.
I talked to over a dozen homeless vets, some who had served as far back as the Korean War, and showed them the clips of BOR denying or dismissing their existence. The reactions to the clips were quite similar — a shaking of the head in disbelief, a derisive chuckle or snort, and a deep sigh when the videos were over. Some of the veterans couldn’t believe that anyone could be so clueless and naïve, while others wondered why BOR hadn’t bothered to do any research before making such a dubious claim. Twice.
I can’t imagine what it’s like to have sacrificed so much in service to your country, then to come home to find that the country you served has no interest in re-integrating you back into society. Then you can’t get a place to live because you don’t have a job, and you can’t get a job because you don’t have a place to live. Then some idiot with a TV show gets up in front of an audience of millions and says that you do not exist. Twice.
Let me be very clear: the veterans in this video are homeless. Soldiers are trained to adapt and survive, and many have adapted so they can survive being homeless. The men in the video may not be pushing shopping carts or sleeping out on the streets dressed in rags, but they are homeless. Through the work of U.S. Vets and the US Department of Veterans Affairs, these men have roofs over their heads, food, counseling, and a support system, but they are homeless. They have a temporary place to stay, but they do not have homes.
These veterans are homeless, they exist, and no matter what BOR says, there are way too many of them. These are proud men and women who need help and are often reluctant to ask for it. They do not need BOR saying that they do not exist or that there are so few of them that they don’t matter.
FOX ATTACKS! “Non-Existent” Veterans only scratches the surface of the afternoon I spent at U.S. Vets. I plan to complete a longer video very soon that will include more of the interviews with these amazing people. It was an honor and a privilege to be in their presence and to hear what they had to say.
If you would like to learn more about U.S. Vets and make a donation, go to USVetsinc.org.
O’Reilly is a prostitute. He has sold his morals, soul and body to the highest bidder. He can’t afford to be boring. He will say anything to keep the paycheck coming, if he didn’t he would be out of a job.
He may be an expensive Ho, but a Ho none the less. Coulter is in the same business and MSM is the pimp.
Reply to Donnee,
O’Reilly has never had any morals to sell-out. I find it a bit hard to believe that people cannot realize that the same people who buy and sell guys like O’Reilly, also buy people on the demopubelichen side with the same money.
Are you waiting for the media to admit this??
Grayson: Are you saying that you are not a government employee on the Federal side of the state lines?
As for this diddy: Democrats, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
That is your entire government. Which should be obvious by now, since they make themselves and their foriegn friends immune to any regulation.
An old salesmen pep rally bit, done at least once everyday in this country: Get yourself in as much debt as you can, and this will make you a better salesman.
this is the repubelichens entire economic plan by the way. That would explain why they deficit spend much more than the Demopublichens do.
The difference with the skum doing it to us is that we have to do the extra work to both pay for our own debt incentives and the government weasals spending.
Remember government people provide you with nothing, and don’t do productive work that contributes to GDP.
The repubes are even more likely to have you do as they say, and not as they do.
Freaken Shrub was golfing most of the time before Set. 11th. Put the piece of shit to work to help pay for the bill he helped create for us productive citizens that do work and produce.
I’ve been homeless since 1996, and you can read of my adventures at: rebelforgod.com/diary.html
Discovering Truth makes one incompatible with a dillusional society, so one must keep moving, for no matter how good, productive and beneficial you are, people close doors on you to retain their ignorance of the Truth.
To me, a Home would become an isolated place surrounded by those who refuse to see or hear, so until society is ready for Truth, I must keep moving on, in search of Truthseekers.
O’Reilly’s comments are simply fluff to justify the act of closing doors on Truths they’re afraid to see, or to protect the Lies they must uphold.
Reply to Farrell: Yup, yes, and wee. Actually, most Americans are such cowards that they need O’Reillys to speak for them. They are afraid their boss will find out that they have an opinion, and then the human resources girls will fire them.
What happened to all of the men in the world? They got chickenshit, and afraid to say anything for themselves. Spineless dolts.
At least you don’t have a boss. That is by far the best part of being homeless. that, and you can afford to have an opinion.
R. ‘Green-wail’ is the most patehic individual in this great country. Wise up people………
This absolutely fabulous!, all the far lefties, anxiously setting in front of their TV for ‘the factor’, you idiots tell on yourself every time you lay fingers on the keyboard. Get a brain scan.
A church in Baltimore has a park that they are fighting to keep so that the homeless vets can stay there. hmm. guess that is a complete ficton too.
What the hell, America needs to improve its GI’s Bill of Rights, fox is non existant
Way to swing this your way defeat-o-crats..
Bill OReily .. Show me the actual video of Bill O saying their are no homeless vets in America and I will kiss your spineless backside…
All he said is Edwards is using homeless vets as
polictical prop.
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it looks like these “Vets” who we have no Proof of being VETS other then you say they are and using clips of a news cast to make it appear as if you have a base to stand on. That's like saying every baby is born male 100% of the time 50% of the time. you make everything appear that your right even if you are not.
Smearing Fox because you dont like them is rather childish. Cant you agree to disagree. There is only one station (that is fox news) that is fair and does not seem to be pushing the Liberal media views.
Find something better to do with your time like spending all this time and effort to help research a cure for cancer or something like that that will better the world instead of being a complete waist of time
it appears these vets are better off then what is being put forth. One guy is wearing a nice blue tooth unit. Along with the other guy is wearing a very nice sweater and the other is wearing a nice suit. Hm.. Not many signs of being homeless to me
i remember one-time BOR had a talk with someone (cannot remember the interviewee) on his show, avoiding the fact that he would not put his kids into the military for active duty yet has the cajones ($9 million from FOX new network) to slander veterans of the wars they fought in. his own physical demeaner (sagging chin, soft, femenine hands) duly proves that he hasnt lifted a gaddamn finger for his own country, nevermind the BS that comes out of his skull.
Even I can see the how ridiculous FOX and FOX's tushi; BOR, is, no matter what political stand one takes because there is just too much bias, lies and deceit.
It just shows that money does talk, but it's BS most of the time.
Matt. UK.
My father works at the VA, and hell yes there are homeless vets with no family or job.
Isnt it interesting how Bill loves to yell “support our troops”……i guess he supports them until they get home…
ok I think it looks really bad when you have someone on the video who you have labeled as homeless but also has a bluetooth clip in his ear. People do catch on to these things. I am all against FoxNews but if any of these are “staged” or “beefed” up to make the problems seem worst than just stop and show the real thing. It should be enough
Fuck that bill O'reily eat a dick old man u mothafucka.
It is sad that we honor people like O'reilly because they spread fear and hate. He deseves nothing. He is just a mouth piece for the hidden power.
Forget the petition to have O'Reilly apologize. Instead, have a petition to have him fired; to never again be associated with the media. In fact, that's enough for a civil law suit for harassment and misrepresentation of veterans, I mean, is there not a law against the spread of false propaganda? Honestly, there should be. The only force that gave these homeless vets a home, food and clothes were non-media individuals(everyday people); people like us. I am glad to say “TO HELL WITH POLITICS, BOTH DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN ALIKE”. Just be a good human being.
All you have to do is question oreilly's service (or lack of) and hammer on it. Same with hannity, “ben gleck”, and even lush rimbaugh; expose their non-service over and over again and their voice becomes inconsequential.
I know this is a four month old comment but i felt i should reply, basically the way i saw it was that it stated “we showed” someone probably gave him the bluetooth thing to use while he was there.
I know this is a four month old comment but i felt i should reply, basically the way i saw it was that it stated “we showed” someone probably gave him the bluetooth thing to use while he was there.
Dunderhead Bill! Why would you have made such a silly statement knowing that there would statistics to dissprove that? According to the Dept. of Veteran Affairs, as many as 131,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. However this figure includes those living in shelters or some other form of housing and does not necessarily mean they are sleeping under bridges. So in a way BOR is making a pretty safe assumption when he says there are not many “sleeping under bridges”.
Bill O'reilly has never served anyone but himself and his lawyers who have had to keep his sexual assaults on women under wraps. He has never been to a war zone, and his cowardice shows every time he opens his mouth about the military. What a coward. He refuses to acknowledge veterans that are homeless. Let's all refuse to acknowledge him. Every Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airmen, let's boycott his sponsors. Let's make him homeless and broke, and stop giving this coward legs to run on. Semper Fi.
It doesn't really surprise me. Fox only hires idiots like him anyway because he satisfies the agenda Fox has. He can't even respect the veterans and he is so out of touch with reality just like the rest of Murdoch's morons.
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