Re; Substance -- Start with the 62-page Blueprint for America on his website. Yes, it's words. Is there another way to communicate? Video? Again, words, but still, certainly substantive ones, and there's lots of video with substance on the site as well.
It seems like O'Reilly and his ilk can get away with just about anything these days. I've never been sure why until fairly recently. In the wake of our "Liberation" of Iraq in early 2003, O'Reilly started putting out these snippets saying that if, "...you don't support this war effort, then you just better shut up...", or else he would, "...add you to my list...".
Worse than his recent lynch words about Michelle Obama, Bill O'Reilly has actually been threatening opposing voices for years. What concerns me the most about his words in that clip about Obama wasn't the word lynch as much as the word unless. Here it is again: "...don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama UNLESS there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels."
In other words, he is not going to attack someone unless they disagree with him. Then it's game on. Very 'Fair and Balanced' of you, Bill. You give journalism a bad name.
I'd like it very much if people were reminded of this type of O'Reilly/Hannity/Coulter/Cavuto/Hume garbage the next time any of those clowns tries to whine about the "liberal bias" in the media. Otherwise, they can all go back to kissing each others' asses and using their journalist positions to sell more of their own books!
Fuck you, Fox News. Your day is coming.
TC
· 1 year ago
You are absolutely right. O'Reilly is a master at this kind of thing. He's like the guy at the office who always manages to say something just "this" short of being blatantly offensive, just so he can push people's buttons. Moreover, so what if someone thinks that the United States is a "flawed" nation. IT IS! No nation, state, or group of people is flawless. To operate under the assumption that the US is not flawed is beyond absurd. Pointing out flaws is not unpatriotic. In fact, pointing out the flaws and trying to correct them is inherently patriotic. Thinking that the US is without flaw is what is really treasonous.
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Re; Substance -- Start with the 62-page Blueprint for America on his website. Yes, it's words. Is there another way to communicate? Video? Again, words, but still, certainly substantive ones, and there's lots of video with substance on the site as well.
If you'd like to see actions, try this.
Worse than his recent lynch words about Michelle Obama, Bill O'Reilly has actually been threatening opposing voices for years. What concerns me the most about his words in that clip about Obama wasn't the word lynch as much as the word unless. Here it is again:
"...don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama UNLESS there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels."
In other words, he is not going to attack someone unless they disagree with him. Then it's game on. Very 'Fair and Balanced' of you, Bill. You give journalism a bad name.
I'd like it very much if people were reminded of this type of O'Reilly/Hannity/Coulter/Cavuto/Hume garbage the next time any of those clowns tries to whine about the "liberal bias" in the media. Otherwise, they can all go back to kissing each others' asses and using their journalist positions to sell more of their own books!
Fuck you, Fox News. Your day is coming.
Moreover, so what if someone thinks that the United States is a "flawed" nation. IT IS! No nation, state, or group of people is flawless. To operate under the assumption that the US is not flawed is beyond absurd. Pointing out flaws is not unpatriotic. In fact, pointing out the flaws and trying to correct them is inherently patriotic. Thinking that the US is without flaw is what is really treasonous.