Wait... What? Sarah Palin Tells Obama to Answer Reporter's Questions
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Friday, October 10, 2008
by Gary A. Ballard
Readers of my blog will no doubt be completely unsurprised that I would highlight Republican hypocrisy. As a matter of fact, highlighting right-wing pretzel logic is somewhat of a hobby of mine. Gov. Sarah Palin's explosion onto the national scene has been quick and bloody, and her own hypocrisy has been adequately highlighted even by the zombiefied remains of our mainstream media. It's certainly indicative of hypocrisy that the so-called "maverick reformer" from Alaska is currently embroiled in at least one ethics scandal of her own, complete with family members abusing her government position for personal vendettas. I don't think she could really be called a Republican without her own Keating 5 albatross. But the video, shown after the jump, is really just an incredibly devil-may-care-balls-in-your-face act of hypocrisy that puts her right up there in the annals of shitdickery alongside the likes of Bush and Cheney.
Pay little attention to the old coot in the crowd haranguing the old coot on the stage. That's just the typical "Coot-Off" that only Republican politics and a disastrous economic outlook will produce. No, watch the video for Sarah Palin's bit at the end, whereby she expresses her frustration with those doggone mainstream media people. After all, those darn media guys just won't ask Obama the tough questions and they won't demand the answers from him. I'm assuming she was whinging about the ridiculous Bill Ayers smears the McCain campaign has been trying to paint on Obama lately. You know, not outright calling Obama a terrorist, but trying to claim a closer relationship with a "known terrorist," a relationship everyone involved with denies including Republican politicians who served on the same board as both Obama and Ayers. Oh, and that terrorist? Turns out even Republican politicians in the Chicago area consider him respectable these days.
But that darn mainstream media just won't make Obama answer those tough questions. Never mind that McCain had every opportunity to ask Obama about Ayers to his face during the nationally-televised debate and chose not to do so. That was just McCain being a pussy. But what's really so incredibly funny about Sarah Fucking Palin criticizing Obama and the media for not providing answers is the fact that this is Sarah Fucking Palin. Sarah Fucking Palin - the vice-presidential candidate who has done a total of three interviews in the weeks since she was announced. The same Sarah Palin who has refused interview requests from NBC because their sister cable channel has been critical of her. This is the same Sarah Palin who could not intelligently discuss the Bush Doctrine of foreign policy despite being a supposed expert on foreign policy what with Russia being her next door neighbor, don't you know? The same Sarah Palin who will not (or is not being allowed to) hold a press conference on anything at all because the media has not shown her enough "deference." Really, Sarah? Seriously? You are going to criticize Obama for not answering questions when you can't even be arsed to let that same mainstream media ask you any questions?
I realize it's an easy target to attack the mainstream media. Hell, not even Republicans like those lazy bastards. I don't even like them, as I feel they've done a piss poor job during the entire Bush presidency as well as on the campaign trail. But are you seriously going to criticize both Obama and the media for answers when you won't even allow questions for your own set of issues? You couldn't even handle a softball Katie Couric interview. I think it best you just go back to the closet they've been keeping you in and let the fucking grown-ups talk.
Pay little attention to the old coot in the crowd haranguing the old coot on the stage. That's just the typical "Coot-Off" that only Republican politics and a disastrous economic outlook will produce. No, watch the video for Sarah Palin's bit at the end, whereby she expresses her frustration with those doggone mainstream media people. After all, those darn media guys just won't ask Obama the tough questions and they won't demand the answers from him. I'm assuming she was whinging about the ridiculous Bill Ayers smears the McCain campaign has been trying to paint on Obama lately. You know, not outright calling Obama a terrorist, but trying to claim a closer relationship with a "known terrorist," a relationship everyone involved with denies including Republican politicians who served on the same board as both Obama and Ayers. Oh, and that terrorist? Turns out even Republican politicians in the Chicago area consider him respectable these days.
But that darn mainstream media just won't make Obama answer those tough questions. Never mind that McCain had every opportunity to ask Obama about Ayers to his face during the nationally-televised debate and chose not to do so. That was just McCain being a pussy. But what's really so incredibly funny about Sarah Fucking Palin criticizing Obama and the media for not providing answers is the fact that this is Sarah Fucking Palin. Sarah Fucking Palin - the vice-presidential candidate who has done a total of three interviews in the weeks since she was announced. The same Sarah Palin who has refused interview requests from NBC because their sister cable channel has been critical of her. This is the same Sarah Palin who could not intelligently discuss the Bush Doctrine of foreign policy despite being a supposed expert on foreign policy what with Russia being her next door neighbor, don't you know? The same Sarah Palin who will not (or is not being allowed to) hold a press conference on anything at all because the media has not shown her enough "deference." Really, Sarah? Seriously? You are going to criticize Obama for not answering questions when you can't even be arsed to let that same mainstream media ask you any questions?
I realize it's an easy target to attack the mainstream media. Hell, not even Republicans like those lazy bastards. I don't even like them, as I feel they've done a piss poor job during the entire Bush presidency as well as on the campaign trail. But are you seriously going to criticize both Obama and the media for answers when you won't even allow questions for your own set of issues? You couldn't even handle a softball Katie Couric interview. I think it best you just go back to the closet they've been keeping you in and let the fucking grown-ups talk.
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Sponsorship Bothers
Posted on
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
by Gary A. Ballard
Is anyone else as queasy, bothered and uneasy about the fact that CNN's woeful Democratic National Convention coverage is sponsored by the coal industry and AT&T? Now, I don't expect CNN to be able to parse the delicious irony of this sort of thing, at least not unless there is a strategist from either side of the election available to digest and regurgitate some talking points for them. But shouldn't the DNC have at least, I don't know, pointed this out?
AT&T has been of the forerunners of the megacorporate drive to remove Net Neutrality rules from Internet access laws. They have lobbied Congress and lobbied them hard to remove the free speech and commerce protections that the Internet currently enjoys. So to let such sponsorship of the coverage be from an agency so opposed to the egalitarian nature of the Internet, something the Democrats should be damn thankful for, is a bit disappointing. It isn't as if the Internet hasn't been used to great effect by both the Obama and Clinton campaigns during the primaries and afterwards. Imagine the YouTube presence of both candidates being stifled by slow bandwidth during the primaries. The voters might have had to resort to watching the television for their news...
Oh.
But the choice of the coal industry for sponsorship is worse. The coal industry is a vast polluter, a killer of working class men and towns, and a generally dirty, horrible way to both power things and make a living. I'm not sure there exists a more environment-befouling energy source on the planet. The only upside to the coal industry is that America has an abundance of the material in our own backyard. But for a party who has made much political headway using a message of environmental responsibility to combat global warming/climate change, it is a slap in the face to have coverage of their national convention bookended by ads touting the wonders of coal-derived energy.
Now, I'm not naive enough to think the DNC could necessarily stop these sponsorships. CNN is free to take ad money from anyone it wants to. As the corporate media whores they are, I expect them to take it from every source imaginable. The least the DNC could do is exert a little pressure on CNN. After all, they are providing the network with the access and permission to broadcast the whole thing. Be principled, tell CNN that such sponsorships are irresponsible and damaging to the reputation of the party. I no longer expect any news organization to act responsibly, which means the only way to enforce such responsibility is to threaten the network where they live: in their overstuffed wallets.
AT&T has been of the forerunners of the megacorporate drive to remove Net Neutrality rules from Internet access laws. They have lobbied Congress and lobbied them hard to remove the free speech and commerce protections that the Internet currently enjoys. So to let such sponsorship of the coverage be from an agency so opposed to the egalitarian nature of the Internet, something the Democrats should be damn thankful for, is a bit disappointing. It isn't as if the Internet hasn't been used to great effect by both the Obama and Clinton campaigns during the primaries and afterwards. Imagine the YouTube presence of both candidates being stifled by slow bandwidth during the primaries. The voters might have had to resort to watching the television for their news...
Oh.
But the choice of the coal industry for sponsorship is worse. The coal industry is a vast polluter, a killer of working class men and towns, and a generally dirty, horrible way to both power things and make a living. I'm not sure there exists a more environment-befouling energy source on the planet. The only upside to the coal industry is that America has an abundance of the material in our own backyard. But for a party who has made much political headway using a message of environmental responsibility to combat global warming/climate change, it is a slap in the face to have coverage of their national convention bookended by ads touting the wonders of coal-derived energy.
Now, I'm not naive enough to think the DNC could necessarily stop these sponsorships. CNN is free to take ad money from anyone it wants to. As the corporate media whores they are, I expect them to take it from every source imaginable. The least the DNC could do is exert a little pressure on CNN. After all, they are providing the network with the access and permission to broadcast the whole thing. Be principled, tell CNN that such sponsorships are irresponsible and damaging to the reputation of the party. I no longer expect any news organization to act responsibly, which means the only way to enforce such responsibility is to threaten the network where they live: in their overstuffed wallets.
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The Game Radio
Posted on
Sunday, August 24, 2008
by Gary A. Ballard
Watching the coverage of Obama's vice-presidential selection this weekend has left me with an even lower opinion of the mainstream media establishment. As the peanut gallery of Washington pundits, strategists and talking heads like Wolf "the Beard" Blitzer pored over and over the choice of Joe Biden, I was constantly reminded of sports talk radio. While I enjoy sports talk radio almost as much as I enjoy sports, a corollary between election coverage and discussion of hot stove trade talk is hardly a flattering comparison. In fact, the comparison leaves the mainstream media only one step above propaganda broadcasts on the depravity scale.
All of the discussion of the vice-presidential pick was focused on the strategy of the pick. Would the pick win Obama a certain state? Such a pick would play well with the elderly demographics. Poor white voters in Pennsylvania would respond well to Biden. Biden could be used as an attack dog, keeping Obama above the fray. Biden would mouth off, saying something stupid that would damage Obama's campaign. Biden's previous comments about Obama's lack of experience disqualifying him for the Presidency would hurt Obama. It was all everything about the tactics of the GAME of politics, and nothing about the actual policy inherent in the politics.
Is this what we've become? Is this the coverage we deserve? It isn't just the Biden coverage that has fallen into this trap, it's been the whole goddamn primary coverage and everything in between. The Pennsylvania primary was a wretched example, a continual spin cycle of Rev. Wright soundbites and Hillary Clinton doing shots at a bar she'd never darken if she hadn't been courting blue-collar votes. There was and has been and is no discussion of the candidate's actual platforms, of their proposed policies, of the proposed solutions to this country's problems, just dogwhistle politics casting aspersions on each candidate's bona fides. Experience, religion, whether the candidate eats arugula or who would drill for oil in their backyard, all of these consume hours and days of coverage, while the actual policies proposed are left to the candidate's respective web sites with absolutely no actual television analysis and discussion.
Perhaps the media establishments have been beaten so soundly about the head and neck by Rovian shit-peddling that it has reached the status of cynical battered housewife. The editors must believe that their viewers accept all campaign promises as bald-faced lies, and with cynical laziness discard all discussion of policy proposals as useless. After all, if the proposals are nothing more than lies the politician has no intention of following through on, why cover them at all? Instead, they focus on the sensationalistic, the he-said-she-said reality-tv backbiting. Obama suggests proper inflation of our tires to save gas mileage and instead of covering his entire energy policy, the media chooses to cover the McCain campaign's mocking of said proposal, even though all experts and the McCain camp itself agrees that proper tire inflation would alleviate the need for the amount of extra oil we could drill for domestically. But rather than examine and contrast the details of both side's energy plans, the focus is on who can get the best dig in.
Even the coverage of the McCain "how many houses" gaffe has gotten entirely too much coverage. Yes, it shows McCain to be more out of touch with normal Americans financial difficulties than Obama, but it's a trivial bit of playground snaps. How about examining what McCain's policies about mortgage company bailouts as opposed to individual homeowner assistance? The media spends thousands of words repeating outright lies like "Obama is the most liberal Senator in Congress" without ever critically examining where that "statistic comes from - even though the exact same thing was said by the exact same people about John Kerry in '04. How can Obama be the "most liberal Senator" when John Kerry is still serving in the Senate, and both were serving in the Senate in '04?
It is the responsibility of a moderator like Wolf Blitzer to challenge such ridiculous assertions by his guests when they are demonstrably false, but most of these programs allow their guests to spew such horseshit ad nauseum. It seems they feel that as long as they have someone from the opposite side to spew equally ridiculous fabrications, it's ok because both sides are represented. I'd like to say we can blame the Fair and Balanced propaganda-rich FoxNews for that, but really at least they are consistently blatant about where their allegiances lie. I have news for you media organizations about there. Objectivity does not mean allowing both sides to lie through their teeth, and it doesn't impose on you the restriction of being blank-faced ciphers to the most ludicrous shitheel liars on the planet.
The election isn't a game, though the media seems to want to treat it as such. Sports and games are great fun, but when we are on the cusp of the most important election since Nixon was impeached, America needs a media establishment that is willing to fight for truth. We don't need bobbleheaded sports broadcasters discussing the strategy of getting elected, we need honesty and integrity and the ability to critically challenge policies. Give it a try, guys. Spend 1 fucking hour a day just picking apart each candidate's platforms. Start with each candidate's energy policy and move on from there. Don't just toss out "he's pro-life" platitudes without really looking to see the leash you're being dragged along with.
Turn off the Game Radio and turn on the Truth Machine.
All of the discussion of the vice-presidential pick was focused on the strategy of the pick. Would the pick win Obama a certain state? Such a pick would play well with the elderly demographics. Poor white voters in Pennsylvania would respond well to Biden. Biden could be used as an attack dog, keeping Obama above the fray. Biden would mouth off, saying something stupid that would damage Obama's campaign. Biden's previous comments about Obama's lack of experience disqualifying him for the Presidency would hurt Obama. It was all everything about the tactics of the GAME of politics, and nothing about the actual policy inherent in the politics.
Is this what we've become? Is this the coverage we deserve? It isn't just the Biden coverage that has fallen into this trap, it's been the whole goddamn primary coverage and everything in between. The Pennsylvania primary was a wretched example, a continual spin cycle of Rev. Wright soundbites and Hillary Clinton doing shots at a bar she'd never darken if she hadn't been courting blue-collar votes. There was and has been and is no discussion of the candidate's actual platforms, of their proposed policies, of the proposed solutions to this country's problems, just dogwhistle politics casting aspersions on each candidate's bona fides. Experience, religion, whether the candidate eats arugula or who would drill for oil in their backyard, all of these consume hours and days of coverage, while the actual policies proposed are left to the candidate's respective web sites with absolutely no actual television analysis and discussion.
Perhaps the media establishments have been beaten so soundly about the head and neck by Rovian shit-peddling that it has reached the status of cynical battered housewife. The editors must believe that their viewers accept all campaign promises as bald-faced lies, and with cynical laziness discard all discussion of policy proposals as useless. After all, if the proposals are nothing more than lies the politician has no intention of following through on, why cover them at all? Instead, they focus on the sensationalistic, the he-said-she-said reality-tv backbiting. Obama suggests proper inflation of our tires to save gas mileage and instead of covering his entire energy policy, the media chooses to cover the McCain campaign's mocking of said proposal, even though all experts and the McCain camp itself agrees that proper tire inflation would alleviate the need for the amount of extra oil we could drill for domestically. But rather than examine and contrast the details of both side's energy plans, the focus is on who can get the best dig in.
Even the coverage of the McCain "how many houses" gaffe has gotten entirely too much coverage. Yes, it shows McCain to be more out of touch with normal Americans financial difficulties than Obama, but it's a trivial bit of playground snaps. How about examining what McCain's policies about mortgage company bailouts as opposed to individual homeowner assistance? The media spends thousands of words repeating outright lies like "Obama is the most liberal Senator in Congress" without ever critically examining where that "statistic comes from - even though the exact same thing was said by the exact same people about John Kerry in '04. How can Obama be the "most liberal Senator" when John Kerry is still serving in the Senate, and both were serving in the Senate in '04?
It is the responsibility of a moderator like Wolf Blitzer to challenge such ridiculous assertions by his guests when they are demonstrably false, but most of these programs allow their guests to spew such horseshit ad nauseum. It seems they feel that as long as they have someone from the opposite side to spew equally ridiculous fabrications, it's ok because both sides are represented. I'd like to say we can blame the Fair and Balanced propaganda-rich FoxNews for that, but really at least they are consistently blatant about where their allegiances lie. I have news for you media organizations about there. Objectivity does not mean allowing both sides to lie through their teeth, and it doesn't impose on you the restriction of being blank-faced ciphers to the most ludicrous shitheel liars on the planet.
The election isn't a game, though the media seems to want to treat it as such. Sports and games are great fun, but when we are on the cusp of the most important election since Nixon was impeached, America needs a media establishment that is willing to fight for truth. We don't need bobbleheaded sports broadcasters discussing the strategy of getting elected, we need honesty and integrity and the ability to critically challenge policies. Give it a try, guys. Spend 1 fucking hour a day just picking apart each candidate's platforms. Start with each candidate's energy policy and move on from there. Don't just toss out "he's pro-life" platitudes without really looking to see the leash you're being dragged along with.
Turn off the Game Radio and turn on the Truth Machine.
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Forgetting the Lessons... Again
Posted on
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
by Gary A. Ballard
The mainstream media is quite literally retarded. I don't mean retarded in the Internet sense whereby anything even remotely stupid is labelled as the produce of mental defectives. I mean that as a collective whole, the mainstream media is suffering from some mass form of congenital brain defect, a defect which causes it to completely forget the lessons of its own past. Not only does it forget its distant past, it forgets its recent past in the rush to utterly desiccate the latest story before a new story comes along to dazzle its minuscule attention span. This week has seen story after story focusing on O.J. Simpson for returning to his criminal ways. And just like that, anything important is swept aside in the feeding frenzy.
The story is a simple one. O.J. thinks some guys stole his sports memorabilia and are trying to sell it. O.J., like the great detective he is, vows to get his merchandise back with greater alacrity than he has exhibited in hunting down his wife's killers. He sets up a sting with some buddies, planning to steal the merchandise back from the "thieves." Only these thieves actually call the cops and O.J. is busted for a bunch of charges that could net him 30 years or so in prison. I can only assume that O.J. neglected to toss the gloves this time.
An interesting story, if only in that "Hmmm, O.J.'s in jail again, I hope they nail that fucker," sort of way. It's worth maybe a 30-second spot on the network news cycle, some late-night jokes and a few shrugs before tackling the important stories. Unfortunately, the mainstream media has completely forgotten those important stories and are instead focused on dissecting in detail the particulars of the case, as if re-enacting the bathroom scene in Larry Craig's fantasies.
Here's a hint, mainstream media. Congress still hasn't had a response to those subpoenas on Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. The Vice-President is still claiming to not exist as an entity in the U.S. government. New Orleans is still a fucking wrecked mudhole, and the evacuees are still living in potentially-hazardous, formaldehyde-laced trailers. Gen. Petraeus' report is still using inaccurate casualty figures to make the security situation seem more positive than it really is. There are still more private mercenaries in Iraq on the U.S. payroll than actual military troops. The Pentagon and the White House are still trying to drum up support for military action on Iran without a shred of credible evidence to justify said action. There is rampant corruption and fraud in the Iraq contract process, and tons of corporations to be nailed for stealing openly from the taxpayers. In short, there are about a billion other stories still ongoing that are absolutely critical to the American people that you could be covering besides a murderer getting busted for strong-arming collectors.
The mainstream media has a fantastic ability to pick one story and fuck it to death. That ability is a very good thing when it is used responsibly, when it picks the stories that are in the public's best interests. Unfortunately, like a retard easily distracted by shiny objects, the mainstream media too often applies this ability to whatever its corporate overlords think will garner the most viewership. It's high time the mainstream media remembers why freedom of the press is both an important protection and a grave responsibility.
The story is a simple one. O.J. thinks some guys stole his sports memorabilia and are trying to sell it. O.J., like the great detective he is, vows to get his merchandise back with greater alacrity than he has exhibited in hunting down his wife's killers. He sets up a sting with some buddies, planning to steal the merchandise back from the "thieves." Only these thieves actually call the cops and O.J. is busted for a bunch of charges that could net him 30 years or so in prison. I can only assume that O.J. neglected to toss the gloves this time.
An interesting story, if only in that "Hmmm, O.J.'s in jail again, I hope they nail that fucker," sort of way. It's worth maybe a 30-second spot on the network news cycle, some late-night jokes and a few shrugs before tackling the important stories. Unfortunately, the mainstream media has completely forgotten those important stories and are instead focused on dissecting in detail the particulars of the case, as if re-enacting the bathroom scene in Larry Craig's fantasies.
Here's a hint, mainstream media. Congress still hasn't had a response to those subpoenas on Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. The Vice-President is still claiming to not exist as an entity in the U.S. government. New Orleans is still a fucking wrecked mudhole, and the evacuees are still living in potentially-hazardous, formaldehyde-laced trailers. Gen. Petraeus' report is still using inaccurate casualty figures to make the security situation seem more positive than it really is. There are still more private mercenaries in Iraq on the U.S. payroll than actual military troops. The Pentagon and the White House are still trying to drum up support for military action on Iran without a shred of credible evidence to justify said action. There is rampant corruption and fraud in the Iraq contract process, and tons of corporations to be nailed for stealing openly from the taxpayers. In short, there are about a billion other stories still ongoing that are absolutely critical to the American people that you could be covering besides a murderer getting busted for strong-arming collectors.
The mainstream media has a fantastic ability to pick one story and fuck it to death. That ability is a very good thing when it is used responsibly, when it picks the stories that are in the public's best interests. Unfortunately, like a retard easily distracted by shiny objects, the mainstream media too often applies this ability to whatever its corporate overlords think will garner the most viewership. It's high time the mainstream media remembers why freedom of the press is both an important protection and a grave responsibility.
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Raging Douchebag Week: Day 1
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Friday, April 13, 2007
by Gary A. Ballard
It's that time of year again, the time of year when the worst of the worst, the most useless wastes of genetic material on the planet are dishonored for their vomitous contributions to the decay of humanity. It's time for Raging Douchebag Week, the week that I strike back with extra special venom at the public figures, minor celebrities, game devs, sports icons, political hacks and other idiots who spoil the well of my life. Every day is full of douchebags of all kinds, but these five are kings of the crotchrots, lords of all that is evil and unholy. In short, these are the Raging Douchebags of 2007. Without further ado, I bring you Raging Douchebag #1: Bill O'Reilly!
Fans of O'Reilly's work, otherwise known as knuckle-dragging racist shitheels, likely agree with this tantrums. The rest of society with brain power enough to see through his hate-filled screeds of hypocritical bravado will no doubt be completely unsurprised by his inclusion in this infamous bunch of cunt crabs. O'Reilly is without a doubt one of the most irritating, bull-headed, insulting pundit puppets on the airwaves today. His consistently high ratings tell me that Americans really have succumbed to the most base form of retardation, championing the evil streak that is at the dark heart of the American Dream. That part of the Dream which says, "I got mine and no one else deserves theirs." The part that looks down on those not born of the same opportunities, that wants to turn America's melting pot into a boiling cauldron of anti-brown hatred.
His latest hullaballo, and the video which won him this honor, has been removed by YouTube, likely because it shows what a racist pigfucker he truly is. It involved an incoherent shouting match between Geraldo Rivera and himself. The shouting was ostensibly because O'Reilly was wrong. O'Reilly wanted to blame the death of a girl to a drunk driver not on the drunken driver's alcoholism, but on the Mayor and police of the city where he lived. You see, the driver was also an illegal immigrant. So to O'Reilly, new leader of the Anti-Brown Brigade originally founded by assholes like Pat Buchanan, the death of the girl was an immigration problem. See, in his distorted world view, had the illegal immigrant not been in this country, i.e. had the police and mayor arrested him, he'd not have been here to crash the car in the first place. While there is some bizarro truth to that statement, it is much less true than the fact that had the immigrant just not gotten shitfaced, he'd not have crashed the car. And yet O'Reilly gets red in the face about this guy's immigrant status because it's all illegal immigration's fault. I'm the last guy to stick up for illegal immigrants, as I do believe we have an immigration problem. The problem is due to the capitalistic need for illegally cheap labor to exploit, rampant ineptitude at INS and the refusal of the current administration to put money into anything that doesn't involve either the military or corporate welfare. But immigration didn't kill that girl, drunk driving did.
This type of skewed logic isn't unique to this issue, of course. Months ago, O'Reilly tried to blame the 15-year old victim of a kidnapping for the victim's 4-year captivity. Apparently, the kid didn't try to escape from the adult who held him prisoner because the kid didn't want to go to school, at least that was O'Reilly's opinion. He's consistently called for the silencing of Iraq war critics who want to pull out of Iraq, repeating the "cut and run" propaganda meme most thoroughly beaten to death by the Bush White House. He came up with the ridiculous term "San Francisco Values" to describe Nancy Pelosi, a thinly-veiled bashing of homosexuals at least as offensive as Imus' recent "nappy-headed ho's" comment. His own O'Reilly values are quite suspect, however; thanks to a former employee, we know of his misogynistic tendencies toward phone sex harrassment. And if all that weren't enough, really he's just an asshole of the highest order. He shouts down guests who disagree with him, cuts the mikes of vocal critics who might be winning arguments against him, and generally bullies his way through any interview in which the subject doesn't give lip service to his small-minded, authoritarian ideals.
So with that, we award Day #1's title of the Burning Vinegar Sore to Raging Douchebag Bill O'Reilly. May you rot in hell, you miserable fuck.
Fans of O'Reilly's work, otherwise known as knuckle-dragging racist shitheels, likely agree with this tantrums. The rest of society with brain power enough to see through his hate-filled screeds of hypocritical bravado will no doubt be completely unsurprised by his inclusion in this infamous bunch of cunt crabs. O'Reilly is without a doubt one of the most irritating, bull-headed, insulting pundit puppets on the airwaves today. His consistently high ratings tell me that Americans really have succumbed to the most base form of retardation, championing the evil streak that is at the dark heart of the American Dream. That part of the Dream which says, "I got mine and no one else deserves theirs." The part that looks down on those not born of the same opportunities, that wants to turn America's melting pot into a boiling cauldron of anti-brown hatred.His latest hullaballo, and the video which won him this honor, has been removed by YouTube, likely because it shows what a racist pigfucker he truly is. It involved an incoherent shouting match between Geraldo Rivera and himself. The shouting was ostensibly because O'Reilly was wrong. O'Reilly wanted to blame the death of a girl to a drunk driver not on the drunken driver's alcoholism, but on the Mayor and police of the city where he lived. You see, the driver was also an illegal immigrant. So to O'Reilly, new leader of the Anti-Brown Brigade originally founded by assholes like Pat Buchanan, the death of the girl was an immigration problem. See, in his distorted world view, had the illegal immigrant not been in this country, i.e. had the police and mayor arrested him, he'd not have been here to crash the car in the first place. While there is some bizarro truth to that statement, it is much less true than the fact that had the immigrant just not gotten shitfaced, he'd not have crashed the car. And yet O'Reilly gets red in the face about this guy's immigrant status because it's all illegal immigration's fault. I'm the last guy to stick up for illegal immigrants, as I do believe we have an immigration problem. The problem is due to the capitalistic need for illegally cheap labor to exploit, rampant ineptitude at INS and the refusal of the current administration to put money into anything that doesn't involve either the military or corporate welfare. But immigration didn't kill that girl, drunk driving did.
This type of skewed logic isn't unique to this issue, of course. Months ago, O'Reilly tried to blame the 15-year old victim of a kidnapping for the victim's 4-year captivity. Apparently, the kid didn't try to escape from the adult who held him prisoner because the kid didn't want to go to school, at least that was O'Reilly's opinion. He's consistently called for the silencing of Iraq war critics who want to pull out of Iraq, repeating the "cut and run" propaganda meme most thoroughly beaten to death by the Bush White House. He came up with the ridiculous term "San Francisco Values" to describe Nancy Pelosi, a thinly-veiled bashing of homosexuals at least as offensive as Imus' recent "nappy-headed ho's" comment. His own O'Reilly values are quite suspect, however; thanks to a former employee, we know of his misogynistic tendencies toward phone sex harrassment. And if all that weren't enough, really he's just an asshole of the highest order. He shouts down guests who disagree with him, cuts the mikes of vocal critics who might be winning arguments against him, and generally bullies his way through any interview in which the subject doesn't give lip service to his small-minded, authoritarian ideals.
So with that, we award Day #1's title of the Burning Vinegar Sore to Raging Douchebag Bill O'Reilly. May you rot in hell, you miserable fuck.
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