Don't be angry about Bill O'Reilly comparing our friend and masthead mistress Arianna to the "Nazis" -- really don't.
(hat tip to Robert Greenwald and everyone at BraveNewFilms)
Because in doing so, Captain Sex Scandal has shown, once again, just how far the right has fallen. Captain Courage is proving what real Republicans and real Conservatives are thinking, it's going to be years, decades before the Republican Party is a real part of ideas, and leaders (a concept by the way, I have no issue with, we need real Republicans back in Washington, D.C. -- seriously)
Now, don't misunderstand me, do I think that FOX News is effective? Absolutely. Do I think we can lose The White House again? Sadly, yes. But for right now, rejoice in Bill's comments last night, because like George Bush playing soldier, or Freedom's Watch playing politics, Bill O'Reilly exposed himself (I wonder if that violates his lawsuit settlement) as the moron he truly is.
Because of all the people to compare to a Nazi, he picked someone who actually has experience with real Nazis. Arianna is a remarkable woman, one of my favorite people in the world, and she has faced life's successes and disappointments with courage and fearlessness, and a remarkable accent we all love.
Her courage comes from her mother, who I am sad I never met, and who in Greece during World War II stood outside her house and faced down Nazi soldiers to protect the occupants of the house. Can you imagine the strength, the courage that took?
Arianna's courage comes from a mother who stood up when others would have run, a single Greek woman who faced down real Nazis, real soldiers with real guns, real Nazis who killed millions of innocent people and came close to destroying our world, not blowhards with a falafel.
Fire away Billy, I promise you that Arianna can take all you can dish out, and a hell of a lot more.
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the right-wingers and the born-agains are not coming out of the woodwork
over Loofah's boy latest gaff.
Liberal press conspiracy??
I am puzzled. The guest, Mary Katharine Ham, a self-described conservative blogger, was not allowed to complete her response. In fact, she warned him that his remarks were going to cause her to defend someone with whom she is ideologically opposed. Still, O'Reilly wouldn't give her the chance to finish.
If he treats a sympathetic (read: conservative) guest in such a manner, should anyone take the man seriously?
And where is the ADL in this? The left uses Nazi analogies, they jump on with both feet. The right does it, and they clam up. Again. As usual.
comparing her to the nazis si so moronic, childish and awful that I couldn;t believe what I was hearing and then tonight when someone who had experianced the nazis first hand sent in a letter telling him it was wrong rather than just be a man and say "you know what..I was out of line and I got a little to fired up with my fake rage" he just repeats it but with a gentler tone out of consideration for the person he was just insulting again. with any luck that person will get the message and stop watching this pathetic excuse for a show.
it is fun to see these fox guiys in panic over the fact that if obama gets the nom...lets face it when he does I seriosuly don't think they will be able to beat and when its gets more desperatre a lot of these guys are goingto make bigger mistakes and expose themselves for what they really are along the way.
It is going to be a hoot to watch.
I suspect O'Reilly asked and then demanded Arianna squash the "Lynching Party" articles/posts and she told him to go falafel himself. Now he's on a "mission" to discredit her, but guess what ? No one is listening to him.
LOL
Look this is the rage these days. Anyone who disagrees with someone else is dubbed a Nazi or Hitler. Recently while reading the comments on this site, I learned that my fellow Jews in Israel are also apparently Nazis.
You know who were like the Nazis? The Nazis.
Guess who was exactly like Hitler? Yep, Hitler.
I am becoming comvinced that very few actually know more than some cursory information about Hitler and the Nazis. Basically these were bad guys.
These were not just bad guys, they were evil incarnate...humanity at its worst.
Everyone needs to be more responsible when they speak, on both sides of the aisle.
I am beginning to worry about how far we are swinging to the left in reaction to these last eight years.
We cannot become the very thing we denounce and claim to abhor.
We must not lower ourselves to the ways of the right, or in the end we will be just as dirty and just as deplorable.
I bet Bill pointed when he was adamantly raving. The man is funnier than Eddie Murphy in his prime!
Your heroes had their chance at total power....6 long long years of House and Senate majorities and the Presidency...and what did you do? You screwed up the country with unimaginable incompetence and abused the power....
This Republican-apologist claptrap? What on earth? I'm just stymied.
Blaming a person for the comment section in blogs is like blaming the director of a movie for how people act in a theatre, such as if they put their feet on the seat and throw popcorn on the floor. We are almost like anonymous grafitti artists, who do no property damage. No one is responsible for my squibbles, but me. Often our comments may be made harsher by the distrust and hostility the Bush administration has generated.
When O'Reilly points to what he calls hate speech, he sure spews a lot of hate!
Oh and by the way, as far as Bush moving the country towards a totalitarian state, we've been hearing that crap for the last four years. He's got ten months left, don't you think he would have done it by now, assuming that was ever even his intent? Even though Bush has lost much of my support, I thank him for keeping the U.S. safe after 9/11. I think we all owe him that much, though I'm sure you would disagree.
P.S. If you don't like a buisness owner allowing smoking in THEIR own building, stay away.
I do not think conservatives would find my values repulsive. I believe in familiy. I believe in government staying out of people's bedrooms and not listening to our phone calls. I believe in government not interfering with our religious practices or lack thereof. I believe in a sensible, non-militaristic foreign policy that does not attack every perceived foe and alienate our friends. I believe a good deal in the constitution and want to preserve it at all costs. I believe, unlike conservatives, in dissent and a vigorous free press that checks the power of government and not a press that is a propagandistic tool of government (your Fox news.) I believe in an independent judiciary who makes case-by-case decisions and not ideological decisions. I believe in strong oversight of the executve branch by the legislative branch, which Bush has done his best to make a mockery of. Most of all, I believe in a President who respects and protects the constitution, unlike King George W. Bush.
As I said, comparing the rants of Bill O'reilly to an anonymous posting, which Ms. Huffington has liitle responsibility over, is odd. Similar posts appear on O'Reilly's own website, including one calling for Hillary to be asssassinated. But I am not looney enough to judge all conservatives by some anonymous person who posts a remark. I would judge them partially by a Rush Limbaugh, an Ann Coulter, a lying Sean Hannity, a Bill O'reilly, a Michelle Malkin, etc. These people tell nothing but lies, play to people's fears, and have antipathy toward others.
O'Reilly also called for a terrorist attack on Coit Tower in San Francisco as punishment for cancelling the ROTC program in schools. I do not think that cancelling an ROTC program or banning the military from recruiting in high schools is the actions of a psychopath, like you argue, left-wing or not. I would use a milder word like civic involvement or some such. Other communities have complained across America that the military too aggressively targets high school kids for recruitment, especially given the declining numbers of volunteers with all Bush's warfare.
After, 9-11, Bush blocked the formation of the 9-11 commission and initially would not cooperate with it. He did not implement its recommendations, until the Democratic Congress finally did. He launched a war in Iraq on lies that had nothing to do with 9-11, a war that is creating more terrorists than it is killing. Our NATO allies will not even send additional troops to Afghanistan, given our involvement in Iraq. Quantanamo Bay prison has hurt our reputation. We use torture now. We have a network of secret prisons for detainees that Bush has admitted to. All these things make us an international pyriah. It is not terrorism so much that can hurt us. It would be difficult even for them to mount another 9-11. What will cripple us are Draconian policies which are an over-reaction to terrorism, thus asking us to forfeit our civil liberties and spend our treasure in unnecessary wars. This response is exactly what bin Laden would want us to do. Bush has played right into his hands.
I think those on the left do not play the culture war game as a life or death struggle as do those on the right. i do not personally dislike those on the right. i dislike many authoritarians who decry dissent and want us to forfeit our civil liberties, as if that is not why our country was founded. Anyway, those on the left are dispirited by Bush policies and not the culture wars. These culture wars are something O'Reilly and people on the right live and breath for.
But the inital issue that touched off the discussion...a comment regarding Nancy Reagan, was just as bad as anything Bill O'Reilly could have said. Mrs. Reagan is a person, a human being and to wish a death upon her or any other person is just as dispicable as an Ann Coulter comment about anything.