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Exotics on Bill OReilly tonight
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by tigers9 on March 13, 2008
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From: REXANO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:REXANO@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:33 AM
To: REXANO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [REXANO] O'Reilly Factor - tonight
At the end of last night’s show, Bill O’Reilly had a blurb about tonight’s show, which will have a segment dealing with dangerous/exotic animal ownership. (He indicated it was VERY BAD.) The blurb showed some kind of snake, a tiger, and a tarantula.
I’ll try to catch the show tonight and post more tomorrow.
Beth T.
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by tigers9 on March 13, 2008
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http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/ Weeknights
Weeknights 8 and 11 p.m. ET
Thursday, March 13:
• They're dangerous and deadly — so why are some Americans buying wild animals for house pets? It's a special report you don't want to miss!
• Plus, Dick Morris on the race factor dominating the election
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by Cro on March 13, 2008
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I do not have a telivision hooked up, so I can not watch it, however, I am willing to bet that OReilly will trash venomous snake and python ownership as being very dangerous. He loves to sensationalize things, and is almost as bad as Geraldo, so the reporting surely will not be the fair or balanced that Fox news likes to claim.
Best Regards JohnZ
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by tigers9 on March 13, 2008
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I plan to watch it, I am sure AR will write and thank him for sensationalized piece (I assume it will be), so we have to write now, even now before the show to educate and see if we can affect it somehow.
oreilly@foxnews.com
Zuzana
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by tigers9 on March 14, 2008
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Supposedly more important news came up, I think the NY mayor’s sex scandal, so prostitutes in politics won over the dangerous pets for the ratings and shock value purposes. I think it should run on Tuesday 18th, unless another more important sex act comes up
Z
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by MoccasinMan on March 16, 2008
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Brady Barr mentioned this to me yesterday. Here is a copy of the letter i sent oreilly:
Bill,
I have been a fan of your show for some years. I support your positions on less government intrusion in to the lives of Americans, as well as the freedom to pursue interests and business opportunities as long as they don’t hurt those around us. I am the President of the NC Association of Reptile Keepers, a non-profit organization dedicated to the captive husbandry of reptiles. We advocate education, caging standards, safety protocols and conservation. Yesterday my friend Dr. Brady Barr from NatGeo Channel, and I made presentations at Reptile & Amphibian Day at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. It is the largest educational event of its kind in the country drawing families from around the state to learn about reptiles and amphibians in a fun and safe environment. I have done snake wrangling work for Brady in the past and we have become friends. I told Brady that we were creating a national reptile advocacy organization modeled on the organization I lead in NC. I told him how we are working with scientists and govt agency folks to come up with cooperative ways to address the feral Burmese python issues in the Everglades. He told me that you were going to do some kind of piece that may be related and he would call his people at NatGeo and see if he could get me on with you. They said y’all had already picked someone for the show. I just wanted to make sure you get a balanced view on this topic. It is easily hi-jacked by bomb throwing Animal Rights types who try to scare the public into thinking reptiles present some kind of serious public safety risk. It is easy for them to play off the biases and fears many harbor towards reptiles. The reality is they cannot back their claims with a shred of scientific evidence. They rely on sensational news reports of very rare incidents. These people are opposed to ALL animal ownership and use; even food production and bio-medical research. I live on the Outer Banks of NC. More people will die of drowning while here on vacation this summer than have been killed by captive reptiles over the last 5 years in the entire country. I’ve got studies done by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Safety Counsel, and NC Dept of Health and Human services that support my statements. Snakes are scary to many people, but they pose no real danger when handled responsibly. I also want to add that the USGS Map recently splashed across national and international press without the benefit of the paper that was supposed to explain it is very misleading. It makes assumptions of facts not in evidence and relies on climate models that are suspect. The data sets used are being questioned as we speak and a couple of papers by other scientists challenging USGS findings are being written now. If it turns out that these maps are as ridiculous as they seem at first blush, the question has to be asked: Why were they written and how much in taxpayer dollars were spent to achieve what goals? So called science, without any sense of pragmatism could be characterized as a gross waste of tax dollars in pursuit of questionable agendas.
If I can provide you with any information please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Andrew Wyatt
252-207-1041
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by tigers9 on March 16, 2008
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Please note this python / O'REILLY FACTOR interview is from 2005, but it gives us some insight on where FOX/O’Reilly stand.
So will see what happens on Tuesday 18th when they are supposed to run the rescheduled ‘exotic pet propaganda’.
Z
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172124,00.html
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > THE O'REILLY FACTOR
Pythons on the Loose!
Thursday , October 13, 2005
This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," October 12, 2005, that has been edited for clarity.
BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Back of the Book" segment tonight, according to The Miami Herald, the National Park Service has captured 156 pythons (search) in the Everglades over the past two years. Pythons are not indigenous to the USA, but apparently are all over the place near the glades.
Now, last weekend, a python ate a cat in the town of Miami Gardens, and another snake tried to eat an alligator. That snake actually exploded trying to do that.
This comes on the heels of the monitor lizard situation on the west coast of Florida. These things are from Africa. But a bunch of them have now made the Sunshine State their habitat. Imagine running into that swimming.
Joining us now from Miami is wildlife biologist Joe Wasilewski.
Joe, poor Frances the cat, 15-pound Siamese, running around in Miami Gardens...
JOE WASILEWSKI, WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST: Not anymore.
O'REILLY: Yes. A python eats poor Frances? I mean, what's going on?
WASILEWSKI: Well, I'm sorry about that for Frances, but, you know, the cat probably should have been inside anyway.
O'REILLY: Well, what if it was a kid, though? What if it was a little kid?
WASILEWSKI: Well, the python is more in tune to animals with fur and raccoons, possums, and a cat and/or a dog.
O'REILLY: Yes, but Miami Gardens, I mean, you know, come on. That's not Everglade City. That's where people...
WASILEWSKI: No. It's...
O'REILLY: Those are the 'burbs.
WASILEWSKI: Well, that was probably an animal that either escaped or was released. And judging from the timing of all of this between the python in the Everglades eating the alligator, there could have been someone that saw this story and said, "I need to get rid of this thing," and just dumped it.
O'REILLY: On the day before — the day after Frances lost his life, another python slithered into a farm in Dade County. That's Miami. And ate a turkey, apparently feeling that Thanksgiving was this month instead of next.
WASILEWSKI: True. Well, that was an African python, which we really haven't recorded down here. And, again, that was in, like, a rural area. So there's really two problems, and it's the urban exotic wildlife, and it's the exotic pythons that are in the Everglades proper.
O'REILLY: Now, the problem here for Floridians is that you have an exotic pet industry, and you have that in a lot of places in the USA, where you can buy these things, it's legal to actually buy pythons and anacondas and everything else, and then when you get sick of them or you can't handle them anymore, you dump them in the glades. Is that what's happening?
WASILEWSKI: Well, it's bigger than that. It's actually a worldwide problem, but it's accentuated here in Florida because of the climate. Now, I can tell you that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, who regulates this, has a statute. It's 325.162, that prohibits releasing exotic wildlife.
O'REILLY: Yes, but so, who's going to know? I mean, you drive out to the glades at night. You dump the thing out the window.
We've got a picture of you holding this Nile Monitor Lizard. Now this thing is actually swimming off the coast of Captiva, which is a very swanky resort.
WASILEWSKI: Right.
O'REILLY: I mean, can you imagine if you're, you know, snorkeling a little bit, and there it is saying, "Hey, this is my turf"? But that could happen.
WASILEWSKI: It's happening, and it's happening more and more with more and more frequency. Right.
O'REILLY: This is not good for the Florida tourist business, I don't think. Is it?
WASILEWSKI: Well, I don't know if it's going to hurt the tourist industry. But it's certainly going to hurt other aspects of the state. You know, ecologically speaking. And we need to get a handle on it. That's for sure.
O'REILLY: How do you do that, though? How do you go into the glades, thousands of miles of wilderness, and track down pythons? How do you do it?
WASILEWSKI: Well, people have been working at it at the Everglades National Park for a couple of years now, and there are methods to actually trap these animals. And we really don't know to what degree they're there. We don't know what the population is.
O'REILLY: No. You caught 156 of them, but there could be 15,000 of them out there.
WASILEWSKI: Could be. We have no idea yet. But — but we're willing to go in and try and get a handle on it and get rid of them.
O'REILLY: Well, I don't think you're going to get rid of them. And I think everybody, and this is to be serious, with pets and little kids in Florida, with the gators, the lizards and the pythons and everything else floating around out there, you've got to be careful. You've got to fence your yard and you've got to watch.
Joe, thanks very much. We appreciate it.
Watch "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the "Radio Factor!"
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by Cro on March 17, 2008
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Andrew, I sure hope your letter makes it to O'Reilly before the show. It would be excellent if FOX actually produced a show that was "fair and balanced."
Best Regards JohnZ
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by tigers9 on March 18, 2008
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I just checked Bill O'Reilly factor, don’t see exotics in the schedule for today as announced last week…
Z
http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/
Tuesday, March 18:
• Obama gives a speech on race and addresses the Rev. Wright controversy. We'll have analysis
• Plus, the Spitzer prostitute threatens to sue the media! 'Is It Legal?' weighs in
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