A steady diet of cough syrup and falafels apparently can can do that to you.
During his Letters segment the other night, Billo read a nice email from another well-informed Fox viewer, this time from Ireland, who was just all broken up about being "forced" to watch Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism in a class. If you haven't seen it, in a straightforward manner free of the kind of histrionics on display on the "No Spin Zone" every night, Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films (disclosure: they employ me) shows the pattern of bias in which Fox engages, skewing one of the key precepts of a fully-functioning democracy.
A free and fair press.
But Billo doesn't quite see things that way through is rose-colored glasses--still all soapy from a good loofah-ing I'm sure. To him, "any teacher who would order that is grossly irresponsible. It's dishonest garbage." Mind you, as usual, he can't supply a single specific about why it's "dishonest garbage." While, if this space were big enough, I could give you enough examples of distortions, political contortions, faux-bravado and the liberal use of showerware to fill an object the size of O'Reilly's head.
Watch his silly attack for yourself, and be the judge:
In any case, we'd like to thank you, Bill. Because being on your enemies list means we must be doing something right. It is quite an extensive and distinguished group.
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I don't get my public policy ideas or beliefs from entertainers.
The use of empirical reason is lost on these folks...they may not even believe what they say they simply say things for ratings.
Whether you agree with him or not, Ron Paul is a serious man with serious ideas, and to denigrate him or his supporters in the way that many do on this blog and other progressive blogs... well it's pretty disgusting, frankly.
I don't agree with RP on everything, but he is the ONLY candidate talking about monetary policy, and to me, stopping the Federal Reserve from destroying our currency should be priority #1 for all Americans -- unless you think it will be fun living at a significantly lower standard of living.
Tonight the dollar is plunging again, gold is near all-time highs - as is oil. It's exactly what Ron Paul has been warning about for years. When the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency, we will suffer massive inflation and a severe economic crisis, and the only man trying to stop this calamity... is crazy. Right.
"Every teacher to undergo a polygraph each year...and maybe other mandatory tests".
So teachers are a good place to start polygraphing, if that meets no opposition, testing of all citizens should follow easily by our new Gestapo.
Another neocon dream being trotted out on Fox noose. They gotta hurry up, '08 is closing in.
If we don't want
water-boarding, at least we would take painless lie-detector tests, right?
That's right - the O'Reilly Christmas extravaganza is right around the corner.
And I feel your pain for Ireland. And I believe I read that just last month the largest cable provider in Israel switched from offering CNN to Fox News. (Not much of a change given CNN these days.)