This is a rush transcript of "The O'Reilly Factor," December 9, 2010. The following are comments on the Haiti Reconstruction Conference, which opened yesterday in Miami, FL.
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Turning now to Talking Points.
"Talking Points" is pleased that the international community is finally addressing the real concern in Haiti: implementing all the plans that the eggheads have been working on for the past 10 months. Supporting Haiti is important; hundreds of thousands of people have died, over a million people have lost their homes, and the magnitude of suffering of the survivors is unimaginable. The U.S., and the Obama administration -- I'm not afraid to say it -- is commendable for the aid it pledged to Haiti. I myself have dedicated a few times to the Haitian Health Foundation and find their work invaluable.
But now that there's all this money available, we need to focus on ensuring that Haiti's corrupt government doesn't prevent the aid from reaching the good people of Haiti. Not focusing on corruption and effective disbursement will undermine the entire point of the conference. Sure, delegates like meeting in sunny Miami in the dead of winter, and mixing with pinheads like Brazil's President Lula and Chavez of Venezuela, but if we can't focus on making sure that the money actually reaches the Haitian people, then we've just wasted everyone's time...
It's time for a "Reality Check."
As you know, Fox News has been covering the conference all week. Our excellent reporter was there days before the other members of the mainstream media got there, and only our good friends the Huffington Post and the stuffy Economist actually find it in their interest to cover this event in the first place. No word from MSNBC or CNN. Let's hear Media Matters talk about that. Anyway, he spearheaded a press conference the day before conference began, to allow the delegates to get a jump start on getting their message out. Of course, in the spirit of collegiality he got together will his fellow reporters and they all agreed to host the conference together, without a partisan filter. Of course, in the end only he showed up to host the conference and he did a darn good job doing it.
Anyway, I'm reading HuffPo, and I see intrepid reporter Elaina Sarkosorova, or however you pronounce it, claims that Fox News hosted a "unilateral 'press conference'" and that's "press conference" in quotation marks, and that the other members of the media were, quote, "either unaware of this alleged 'press conference'"-- again, quotation marks,-- "or notified last minute." She describes it as a "ploy" with "back-handed tactics." In a separate post, she -- without any evidence -- claims that Fox News called for WikiLeaks' founder and sex pervert Julian Assange to be assassinated after he sent an e-mail to the delegates. Turns out, it wasn't even him. But Huffington just simply made quotes up, claiming that our reporter said, quote, "A dead man can't leak stuff...This guy's a traitor...Illegally shoot the son of a bitch." Excuse my language.
Now Fox News Corp. is too good to respond to these outright lies and crazy distortions. And I know him, and he's a good guy, and he wouldn't say anything. But I'm not so nice. Turns out, he sent an e-mail to the delegates on Sunday, a full three days before the press conference, in the name of all three reporters inviting everyone to the press conference. He spoke with the reporters in the lead-up to the media event, and made sure they were on board. Turns out, in the end, they couldn't make it. And that's fine -- we wouldn't expect these guys to keep their commitments -- but to lie and say that this was backhanded is simply not reality.
Moving on to the other gross libel, there is simply no evidence to her claims. Sarkonova has no basis for these allegations. He in fact did write up a fine piece on the Assange e-mail, and he rightly called him out for his treacherous behavior, both to the United States, and women in general. And though Sarkinawa is right, this guy is a traitor, and if not a traitor -- after all, he's not an American citizen -- he's certainly an enemy combatant. I think a nice little trip to Guantanamo might be in the cards. But to make stuff up, that's simply unprofessional. But unfortunately, not unexpected...
And now for our favorite segment, Pinheads and Patriots.
The Factor has been really pleased by some of the comments made before and during the conference. The Dominican Republic delegation praised Fox News for its coverage so far, and spoke about shared Christian values and pro-market principles, which we know are championed by the Factor. But more encouraging was a group of liberty-loving protesters scaring the bejeezus out of surprise -- and uninvited -- guest Hugo Chavez as he arrived at the conference. The demonstrators waved signs, chanted slogans, and even managed to spiritedly burst into the hall and confront the dictator. Keep it up, Patriots.
On that note, turning to Pinheads, president-for-life Chavez decried "Yanqui imperialism" at the conference, and demanded that the U.S. military leave the island nation entirely. He also praised his country as being the first one with aid following the January earthquake. Well turns out, Hugo, that the military is needed to keep law and order in Haiti, which is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis. Without a police presence looting, rape, and other criminal activity runs rampant in a lawless society. Just look at Iraq, April 2003. Secondly, the U.S. may not have been the first country -- look, we've got a big bureaucracy -- but we'll certainly be the last one there once you've forgotten about the plight of the Haitian people and move your soapbox onto another topic. We've also committed nearly 2.6 billion dollars to Haiti relief and reconstruction, two-point-six, the most any country has pledged so far. You've sent what? A plane. Compare that to $2.6 billion. I love these pinheads.
And that's the Factor.
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