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Bill O'Reilly's New Book - Killing Patton

posted 10 years ago by strumdatjag
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Announced a few nights ago on his show. More like the movie "Brass Target" (5/10) than this movie (10/10).

[–] ethermusic1981 10 years ago

Bill O'Reilly sucks a big one.

[–] herbsuperb 10 years ago

Bill O'Reilly sucks a big one.

If a person that hates him is that immature, a decent person would be more inclined to like him. I can safely say, he's a better man than you are.

[–] ethermusic1981 10 years ago

Such flawed logic! That is quite a stretch, even for imdb!
Now move along, Conservative, move along...

[–] herbsuperb 10 years ago

Such flawed logic!

If a childish wank like you says it is flawed, then it must be sound.

[–] ethermusic1981 10 years ago

I'd trust a childish wank before I ever trusted a Republican. :)

[–] nickm2 10 years ago

Since O'Reilly is neither, I fail to see you point.

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] ethermusic1981 10 years ago

O'Reilly is on Fox News. He's a Republican.

[–] nickm2 10 years ago

That's a bit of a leap of logic; not that I watch the channel, mind you but still-he aint' even that conservative. Anyways, what does that make Bob Beckle & James Carville?

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] Reallusion1 10 years ago

You seem like an indoctrinated child who's been politically programmed with an us vs them brain wash. Hopefully you'll grow out of it.

[–] Balberith 10 years ago

He's just jealous because O'Reilly's books sell so well.

"A real man would rather bow down to a strong woman than dominate a weak one"

[–] Rockhound6165 10 years ago

"O'Reilly is on Fox News. He's a Republican."

Someone forgot to tell Bob Beckel, James Carville, Geraldo Rivera, Shep Smith, Dennis Kusinich, Juan Williams, Tamera Holder, Kirsten Powers...

Shall I go on or did I make you look enough like a dribbling fool.

[–] mike-848 10 years ago

I haven't heard of this new O'Reilly book but I hope it's not a 'they murdered Patton' conspiracy book.

I don't think you plan to assassinate a person by staging a fender bender and hoping the target was sitting in such a way he'd break his neck.

[–] MadTom 10 years ago

As I said on another thread:

Some witnesses to the accident reported that Patton stepped out of the car apparently unhurt after the collision, but then a man who'd been in the truck they'd collided with produced a large wrench from the truck's toolbox and knocked the general out with a whack to the top of the head. He then dragged Patton into the kitchen of a nearby mess hall and proceeded to break his neck with the wrench. The witnesses reported that the man with the wrench had blonde hair with a handlebar moustache, silver eagles on his jacket epaulets, and a nametag that read "MUSTARD".

[–] Hotrodder 10 years ago

But seriously folks, Patton's driver did walk away from the crash with only minor injuries which is surprising as cars of the time had no seatbelts and such head on crashes were often fatal.
Crash pictures:
http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A9mSs2fnDOVT7V0Ap 6dLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTBsYWhiN2NvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2lyMgR2dGlkAw--?_adv_pro p=image&fr=greentree_ff1&sz=all&va=general+patton%27s+car+ after+crash

Trust me. I know what I'm doing.

[–] dean-gearhart2 10 years ago

I listened to the audiobook. As luck would have it the author did the reading. I learned a few new military terms from the.......author.

B.A.R. (abbrev for Browning Automatic Rifle) is pronounced bar....as in candy bar.

He reads 75mm as "75 em em". I would think you day "75 millimeter" there...?

Apparently the word Luftwaffe is pronounced "Luftwaff" with no ending vowel sound.

Waffen SS general Jochen Peiper's name is pronounced "Joaquin Peeper". He kept f'ing saying "Peeper". It's pronounced "Piper".

How is it that an "author" is unable to read the words he "wrote". These are pretty basic WWII terms/names.

No joke. Give it a listen.

The book itself is nothing to write home about. He provides a few good war stories, a few random wartime events, but he only hints at what the title of the book suggests. At the end, he goes so far as to suggest someone needs to look into the possibility that Patton was, in fact, murdered.

I THOUGHT THAT IS WHAT YOU WERE GOING DO IN THIS BOOK!!!

Sorry about the shouting.

So, if Peiper is pronounced "Peeper", wouldn't O'Reilly be pronounced "O'Really"?!?

Out.

[–] dean-gearhart2 10 years ago

I listened to the audiobook. As luck would have it the author did the reading. I learned a few new military terms from the.......author.

B.A.R. (abbrev for Browning Automatic Rifle) is pronounced bar....as in candy bar.

He reads 75mm as "75 em em". I would think you say "75 millimeter" there...?

Apparently the word Luftwaffe is pronounced "Luftwaff" with no ending vowel sound.

Waffen SS general Jochen Peiper's name is pronounced "Joaquin Peeper". He kept f'ing saying "Peeper". It's pronounced "Piper".

How is it that an "author" is unable to read the words he "wrote". These are pretty basic WWII terms/names.

No joke. Give it a listen.

The book itself is nothing to write home about. He provides a few good war stories, a few random wartime events, but he only hints at what the title of the book suggests. At the end, he goes so far as to suggest someone needs to look into the possibility that Patton was, in fact, murdered.

I THOUGHT THAT IS WHAT YOU WERE GOING DO IN THIS BOOK!!!

Sorry about the shouting.

So, if Peiper is pronounced "Peeper", wouldn't O'Reilly be pronounced "O'Really"?!?

Out.

[–] nickm2 10 years ago

Waffen SS general Jochen Peiper's name is pronounced "Joaquin Peeper". He kept f'ing saying "Peeper". It's pronounced "Piper".

I have heard it pronounced 'Peeper' in some doccos.

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] Hotrodder 10 years ago

It should be pronounced "Piper". "ei" is usually pronounced that way in German. "ie" though is usually pronounced "ee" in German as far as I can tell, so, say, the Fieseler Storch is pronounced "Feeseler".

Trust me. I know what I'm doing.

[–] dean-gearhart2 10 years ago

In German, the second vowel in that combination is what is pronounced. Stein=Stine Stien=Steen.

I should think that if you're knowledgeable enough to write a book about WWII, you know that it's pronounced "Piper". He's pretty infamous.

[–] nickm2 10 years ago

In German, the second vowel in that combination is what is pronounced. Stein=Stine Stien=Steen.

Thanks; I always thought that in German all the vowels are pronounced. Which led to some fun with the name of a character out of the old series 'Forever Knight'; Nick Knight was Toronto Detective on the 'night shift' (and a vampire to boot); his partner was Det. Schanke...and much to our amusement that was pronounced 'Skanky': implying he was a dirty, unpleasant & immoral person.

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] Buddy-Love63 10 years ago

Yep. In German ie is pronounced "e" and ei is pronounced "i".

Jochem Peiper is pronounced "Yerkum Pie-per"

[–] rb_mcgee 9 years ago

Of course, because he is a right-winger, O'Reilly "loves" the military-- but knows nothing about it.
Thus, he has no idea that "#mm" is a reference to a weapon caliber, nor what "B.A.R." stands for. It's odd though, that he would individually pronounce lower-case letters (mm - which is the international abbreviation of "millimeter"), but pronounce upper-case letters as a "word," even though upper-case letters sans periods --such as might have been in his source material-- is a common alternate method of writing an acronym.

Well, we can't expect a "professional writer" and a "shaper of national opinion" to know extraneous trivia like that.

Regarding Peiper: O'Reilly not only mispronounced the name but also misapprehended the historical figure. Back around 2006, O'Reilly caught some criticism for publicly describing the Malmedy Massacre as something that American troops had perpetrated on German troops, instead of the other way round. Worse: when he was corrected on it, he convolutedly defended his error and claimed that he was essentially right, and turned it around into a precedent that justified American troops murdering prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan-- like (according to O'Reilly) they had done to the Germans at Malmedy, which apparently would have been fine with O'Reilly had it actually happened that way.

I loathe O'Reilly for his politics, but totally aside from that, he's a complete buffoon when he tries any "serious exposition."