Bitcoin Forum

Yesterday John Stossel came on "The Factor" and argued about how safe weed is, so I think if he gets enough emails about Bitcoin O'Reilly might talk about it on his show.

Add your name and location if you want him to reply to your email on the air.

If someone watches Fox news on a daily basis I'm not interested in getting them into Bitcoin.

The plus is that he has a lot of viewers.
The negative?
http://media.salon.com/2013/05/bill_oreilly4.jpg

Such a nice guy  :)

Most coiners are libertarian, soo... Kinda fighting a losing battle there.

No, the most vocal coiners are libertarian.

The "new paradigm" weirdos and the ones who think it will completely replace the dollar are but a drop in the bucket. The real potential for growth lies in the millions and millions of young people in America and other developed/developing nations worldwide.

Aside from the point: Real Libertarians don't watch Fox News. To their credit, they take a pretty neutral stance on a lot of issues. They don't impose their personal beliefs on others or sign them into law. On a political level, they don't really give a fuck about pot legalization or gay marriage or most social issues - they just defer those votes to individual states and rely on the constitution for everything else.

I'd have been okay with Ron Paul in office.

I'm not a hardcore libertarian but I do believe a lot in libertarian ideals. That said, fox news sucks, cnn sucks, msnbc sucks...If you watch mainstream news, you're just as f*cked as the guy who watches the other channel...

The LAST thing I want is to see what Bill O'Reilly has to say about Bitcoin.  He will make NO effort whatsoever to actually learn anything about it and will make a knew-jerk reaction based upon what he has heard so far, and most of that is probably FUD and just wrong. 

Then, he'll report that as "news" and since he said it there will be that many more people that have to unlearn what they have been "taught", and only because "well, I heard Bill O'Rilly say"...

I love OReilly. He's the funniest dufus ever. It's hilarious to watch him struggle with understanding even the most basic facts in any subject. Him trying to get his head around bitcoin would be like watching a dog attend a math class.  :D

+1

He can also make the uneducated believe almost anything, even if it is totally wrong.  He is a master of sound bites and talking points but not of reality. 

How about instead, you write a blog post instead of emailing him. Expalin to the world why YOU use bitcoin, why YOU want it to catch on, what YOU see as a wonderful benefit of it and post it online. Then share it to anyone who will listen.

Think of the demographic.

Paranoid, anti government people.

Getting O'Reilly to present Bitcoin as an alternative to the "hitler muslim" president's controlled currency would get them on board, and increase bitcoin adoption.

In the end that's all that matters. 

-B-

But they aren't ant-government. They're a mix.

They're pro-government for things they want to control (i.e. no abortions, no gay marriage, programs to help businesses, army/navy/air force/marines) but anti-government for things they don't want government controlling (guns, religion, programs to help the poor, programs to help workers).

Republicans control most of the money - why would they want to lose control? It would be a hard sell to get the rich to move to bitcoins. They know lots of other ways to make money that they understand.

Thank God. I have been waiting for people that want to start school based coins and country based coins and city based coins and organization based coins. THAT is the future of coining.

It's not about hearing his opinion, it's about getting old fear mongers to want it.

I already make forum posts all over. And I have even made a few Facebook groups.

Exactly.

One of us isn't understanding the other. I don't know which.

Did you not say that the potential is in young people in America and Developing countries?

I think my grandparents watch this guy. Pretty sure no one in his viewership would care about bitcoins.

Ok, do you think they care about weed and Tesla? Not until it's on his show they don't.

Stewart already touched bitcoin once (http://media.mtvnservices.com/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.2.7.9.swf?uri=mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:433336&type=normal&ref=www.businessinsider.com&geo=GR&group=entertainment&network=dsl&device=Other&CONFIG_URL=http%3a%2f%2fmedia.mtvnservices.com%2fpmt%2fe1%2fplayers%2fmgid%3acms%3avideo%3athedailyshow.com%3a%2fcontext16%2fconfig.xml%3furi%3dmgid%3acms%3avideo%3athedailyshow.com%3a433336%26type%3dnormal%26ref%3dwww.businessinsider.com%26geo%3dGR%26group%3dentertainment%26network%3ddsl%26device%3dOther#!flashvars#autoPlay=false).

How about reaching him?

Colbert and Stewart report on what the news reports, and O'Reilly is considered the news, and is one of their main focal points.

The negative is that all of his viewers are braindead inbred psychopathic fucktards without a clue and no desire to get one.

Fox is a parody news outlet whose viewers are illiterate imbeciles waiting for jesus and who loathe education, science and technology.

Bitcoin would make their heads explode.






....on second thought....

Lol

Did anyone see that a woman hosted his show today?

Harsh and funny.  Well done.

I really think that if he gets enough emails he will say something, and if he says something everyone will have a little segment to talk about O'Reilly talking about it.

So if a bunch of faux news viewers see a report on bitcoin (even on the unlikely chance its in a positive light) what's the upside? The amount that it would actually draw into bitcoin would be so tiny since many 65+ year olds have trouble with the computers and those internets, let alone the billclams or pitgoins or whatever they're called...you know those computer dollars

I don't watch Fox News but isn't your statement as overly generalized and prejudiced as you believe all of their viewers to be?

   

Nope. 8)

Spending time on Fox News or their viewers has a worse return of investment than setting up a GPU mining rig.

o'reilly has the number one news show, with average 409k viewers in 25-54 demographic. so the attack on his viewers is an attack on the majority...do you really think that you are better than most people? hint: you aren't.

he is always balanced, great show

"Tide goes in, tide goes out"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3AFMe2OQY&t=1m53s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3AFMe2OQY&t=1m53s)

I'd love to hear to hear the nonsense he'd say about Bitcoin  :D

Echo

He is probably "struggling" with how to spin reality.
OReilly is not dumb, he knows plenty of "basic facts on any subject."

I don't like him, but he is really good at what he is trying to do.

Jon Stewart will eat this guy for brunch.

I'm a quasi-techie and only first learned about Bitcoin in early 2012 when the price was sub $20. O'Reilly is not new to talking about Bitcoin on his show. I'm eternally grateful for the seed that was planted that day. Had I not then watched his show; one of the only times I've watched his show ever; I would not likely be here (bitcointalk.org and financially free) today.

Somewhat unrelated; O'Reilly is a pretty entertaining watch, and Stossel has some good stuff on occasion. I don't watch any TV and rely on other to point to interesting tidbits.

Disclaimer: I was at an older family member's home and was casually watching. I am not a regular Fox News watcher.

ah, just like the rest, Dumacrats don't present facts, just half-truths and character assassination, FOX news is NUMBER ONE in the rating for a reason, they provide BOTH sides, I've watched those "other" "news" stations and all they do is complain about how they want to push their ideas on others and if those others don't change- they boycott, they bash, they lie ...etc.... smart people hold back emotions when debating, but for Dumacrats it is just 'hurry up and call them racist' and we can stop their FREE SPEECH .... obama called Bush unpatriotic for raising the debt by 5 trillion... only obama has raised it over 9 trillion dollars ,....thanks for transforming America into a third world nation, debt doubled, gas prices doubled, did you paycheck double? if you can say yes then you can comment on my right to FREE speech... good luck America...

Thank you, so few don't get this. Most people bucket everything into there own (usually wrong) version of a left-right divide, and then when you try to discuss anything with them will just assume every negative of their version of the "other side" and throw that at you. This is true of both sides. In general the libertarians I've spoken with are neutral on these left-right issues and focus primarily on not letting anyone (themselves, large governments, etc) impose their will on others. At the same time in general the lefties are much more likely to assume/throw at me a pile of false positions that I nor most people hold.


I only watched O'Reilly once, couldn't care what his political views are but if he has a viewership why would anyone be against him discussing Bitcoin???

It's sad but it seems to be more common for people on the left these days to want to shutdown everyone not on "their side". This is true from not wanting faux news to discuss bitcoin, to calling those don't fully buy into global warming science "deniers" to shutdown all discussion (even if you assume the science is right there are still many flaws, but if you don't listen you'll never know them), to many other examples.

Anyone who reflexively says "we don't need those ignorant right-wing faux news watching a**holes" needs to look in the mirror to see what is wrong with much of the world today. From this thread there are many here.

I am sure a whole bunch of people here will say I have this backwards, but I've never seen any thread calling to block bitcoin from being discussed on MSNBC because they hate those ignorant backwards liberals, but you see this all the time the other way....

The only thing that will happen if this idiot mentions bitcoin would be to trash talk it for spamming his email. Just like he did to Stephen Colbert.

Fox is a joke and so are its numbers.

They LIE about everything that comes out of their mouths. If you believe ANY of it, including the idiotic idea they're the highest rated/viewed show, you're part of the problem in society.

Fox is for idiots. Period.

sounds like a little crybaby , waawaaa, now go and get ur food stamps and obama phone and be 'happy' that u r a child that needs gov't to help you breast feed ......
news stations don't report the facts anymore , they just do messed up sound bites and go for the instant emotional response from child like minded pple like the baby that posted above me
...
the worst thing for this country is intelligent people who don't follow ALL of the sides of story and yet and be so dumb in their actions based on half-truths .....
just make this country like Greece, oh wait we are in so much DEBT that it will NEVER be paid off!! we are better off if we just get rid of the Dumacrats , return sanity to the FREE MARKET SYSTEM

the only idiots are stupid people who want to push 'gay marriage' up my butt, more idiots who don't realize that ILLEGAL immigrants r breaking the law, more than stupid is people who actually believe that 'not believing in God' is a group effort-hey let's get together for something we don't believe, and more than retarded is obama and those that cling to every word it says as "truth"- obama divides the country -AH the 'Art of War'... divide and conqueror -that is the only thing this president is worthy of =destroy America because osama bin ladin couldn't do it with destruction so do it with financial collapse = raise the national to be almost $18,000,000,000,000 and Americans will pay more in taxes than they do on food/housing combined = so each American is on the hook for over $58,000 !! good luck paying that off/don't forget the interest on that if not paid today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calm down, or you'll get reported. There are plenty of good places for idiotic rants, but not here.

How about the fact that Bill O'Reilly is a fucking moron, a rich selfish conservative asshole. He would probably never support cryptocurrency, until the dollar collapse anyway.

This guy is a nationalist dinosaur nutjob. He probably thinks bitcoin = terrorism or some other ass-backward shit.

Bill and his viewers don't deserve Bitcoin. They have a vested interest in ignorance, so let them be ignorant and poor.

He got Tesla stock. So as long as something is making money, he will buy stock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbCwq4ewBU&t=2m1s

Lol

He's going to be on tonight, flood the shit out of his twitter. Even if just to annoy him.

an attack on 409k viewers is the majority... you'd have to be braindead to make that argument. in other words, you'd have to be a bill o'reilly viewer.

besides, it's a false argument.. just because something is the most popular does not make it the best. quantity vs. quality.

Everyone should tweet

@TYTNetwork BITCOIN

This is the funniest thing I've read all day. Thank you... ( I sincerely hope you're joking).

Not really too into this guys demeanor and the way he goes about reporting the issues.   Something about him just doesn't sit well with me.   Given how conservative they are...I don't think BTC will be very popular amongst their news

Everyone Tweet @FoxNews & @OreillyFactor "I would watch the Factor if Bill wore a dress"

Also send it in Email.

if bill oreilly starts talking about bitcoin he will turn it into some kind of religious argument and we will feel like we are at church.

i'm not sure how many of of those wackos are around relative to everyone else, but i do know there are a shitload of them. i had an encounter with one guy who told me that bitcoin was going to overtake currency, and he linked me to a roger ver video that had little to do with his point.

I am not sure how many people sent in things about O'Reilly wearing a dress, but he isn't on tonight and he is being replaced by the Five, which is half men and half women. So I think FOX has been getting a lot of messages about dresses.

call me crazy, but i have a little more respect for bill o'reilly than i do for guys like glen beck, rush limbaugh, or any other republican/fox noise person. bill bullshits almost all the damn time, but he's good at audaciously spinning anything.. so, even if most of what he says is bullshit, at least he's smart.

FUCK IT.. LETS DO IT LIVE!

Keep sending things in to him. And say things like "Did you Bitcoiners used to vote Libertarian" so he wants to talk about it.

I swear I don't know what happened. I used to think it actually was fair, about 10 years ago but then it's been downhill. I don't know whether it all went to his head, he started buying the foxnews agenda, or I just got Smarter and can see the bias now.

Everyone should keep sending stuff.

oreilly is a sociopath and a bully. His only true agenda is to rant and rave and do it in the spotlight. I honestly think the guy would embrace anything that will keep his fanbase happy i.e. xenophobic sexist right wing alarmism.

Bitcoin would just irritate a guy like oreilly because he cant understand it and it threatens his current lifestyle.

Oreilly is just a talking head, he doesnt even rate a response from me most of the time. His fans on the other hand...they scare me

the less attention from oreilly we get, the better.

But if Bill O'Reilly said the word "Bitcoin" it would be on both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report later that week, and then probably on TYT and a few other places after that.

Yeah, I agree. Do we really want fox watchers to get into Bitcoin??

Someone had to do it :)

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Any publicity is good publicity

Liberals only want equality of outcome (results).
Conservatives only want equality of process (rules).

As a result, liberals believe it is ok if freedoms are constrained, just as long as there are no winners and losers.
Conservatives believe it is ok if there are winners and losers, just as long as there is equal opportunity.

All the hyperbole you see on msnbc and cnn aligns with fair outcomes. All the hyperbole you see on fox aligns with fair process.

I don't mean to completely disagree, but what part of Having Bill Nye talk about "If pollution changes things" (then the host arguing against him with the other person) and having Bill Aires on to debate the Liberal view is "Fair process"?

I am not a liberal (I do have some liberal leanings though), but most of what FOX does is nothing but partisan sniping.

Comedians are watching FOX for material.

For sure.

The only reason I'm okay with fox remaining on the air is it keeps The Daily Show in never ending material...  ;D

Isn't that a sad commentary on the world today - you actually get the real news from Jon Stewart and Comedy Central, while getting utter bullshit and lies from the sociopaths in mainstream media :-\

colbert takes more jabs at bill o'reilly.. seems like jon stewart is more friendly with bill.

the recent debacle when stephen mocked bill for suggesting we form a world coalition/mercenary group to fight ISIS was pretty funny. bill but hurt that stephen mocked him  :D