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Words Matter. Really.

Started by Karoli · 1 year ago

Bill O’Reilly is a big-mouthed bellicose twit. He isn’t afraid to toss epithets and names around, but he always manages to walk on the very edge of the firing line when he does it. Ordinarily I don’t even read the text of what he says because he’s so annoying that he distracts. But […]
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  • rawdawgbuffalo

    1 year ago

    Well said because to me it is just like Like screaming fire in a theater
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  • Karoli

    1 year ago

    Worse, even. More like setting fire to the theater first.
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  • Eddy

    1 year ago

    Words are very powerful. The only thing Obama is even using to get elected is words. What other substance does he have?
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  • Karoli

    1 year ago

    Eddy,

    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.
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  • Sean

    1 year ago

    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.
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  • 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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  • Mike Belgrove

    1 year ago

    Bill is a clown and some others on the far right are just as bad. It just bothers me so much that race is such an issue in the current presidential race. Another writer over on Highbrid Nation wrote a piece about how very recently Repulicans have been surveying college students to see how far they could push the racial stereotype language before people would say its too much. How crazy is that?! It'd be nice if we could judge these candidates on their leadership skills and nothing else. I know, thats not gonna happen.
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