The following excerpts are from Bill O'Reilly and were posted by David Brock's group. He was the big conservative dirt-digger in the 1990s who is now a liberal dirt digger. Anyway, note also that O'Reilly says when discussing Daschle he has "no respect for [him] at all." I think I remember some blow-up where O'Reilly challenged Daschle to be on his show or something and Daschle refused--does anyone remember that? Anyway, here are the excerpts:
On the September 23 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly expressed certainty that Daschle would lose, then taunted him with "Daschle music":CALLER: Yesterday, you made a comment about Daschle of South Dakota?O'REILLY: Yeah.
CALLER: And judging by the past history, we [in South Dakota] have voted Republican, but it's, unfortunately, seems like Daschle always gets voted in there.
O'REILLY: He's going to lose.
CALLER: They think that he -- you know, it means he has the seniority, that's --
O'REILLY: Yeah. It doesn't matter what he does. He's going to lose. The South Dakota -- the polls are so heavily weighted in the favor of President Bush. And Thune destroyed him on [MSNBC's] Meet the Press. And Daschle? Do we have Daschle music so we can go out to the bump? Do we have it? Roll it!
[MUSIC CLIP FROM THE SONG "NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE" BY STEAM]: Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey-ey. Goodbye.
O'REILLY: [chuckles]
[MUSIC CLIP]: Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey-ey. Goodbye.
On the September 22 broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly explained that he has "no respect" for Daschle and insisted that the senator is "toast": "So we go out on a break with Tom Daschle, who I -- I tell you, I have no respect for at all. Say goodbye to Tom Daschle, South Dakota. 58-39, Bush. Daschle is toast," O'Reilly said.
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