Posted on 10/19/2004 5:17:28 PM PDT by TaxRelief
You know that and I know that, but does a person raised by liberal parents, who attended public schools, who reads the MSM, who received a degree from an American college and who has little religious education have any hope of knowing that?
Bill O'Reilly provides the perfect portal for getting "the brainwashed" into the real world. He helps them to begin the process of questioning the premises that buttress their liberal bastions.
You may be right ... but it's like the people who "believe" in the minimum wage, when every bit of empirical evidence shows that it hurts the poor and minorities most ... or people who "believe" in higher tax rates, when every bit of empirical evidence shows that lower tax rates produce more revenue.
How ignorant are adults allowed to be, before we can conclude that they're deliberately rejecting reality?
You may have asked that , but you haven't answered my question; What rights are homosexuals denied?
If O'Reilly goes down in flames, I'll be the first to arrive with a bag of marshmallows. The way he's treated John O'Neill and the SwiftVets/POWs is only the latest in a long string of outrages.
Agreed. The IRS is an overt institution that enforces the subjugation of citizens, but there are many less obvious government departments that are possible even more controlling. Child Protective Services, for instance--in libertarian lingo--has the power not just to confiscate your property, but to steal your kids as well.
I don't know enough about Bill O'Reilly to judge this point, but I agree with the premise. There is a place for "transitional conservatives." I was always a Republican, but not always conservative. I went through a number of stages (all of which are not clear, in retrospect :-), before arriving at my current positions.
O'Reilly just seems too OLD to be lingering in "Maybe-land."
He has been extremely dismissive of John O'Neill, to the point of inconsistency with many of his own positions.
But that is a recent situation, since this whole thing began to brew. How much of it was a human reaction to FEAR of the liberal attack machine? How much of it was just a stupid attempt to stave of the inevitable?
If we make the mistake of turning our backs on Bill O'Reilly, this will be a huge victory for John Kerry, Al Franken and the rest of their ilk.
You answer my question and I will answer yours.
I liked the guy for about 5 months in the beginning, then got sick of him and turned him off.
I have no clue how he gets the ratings he has at all. It seems to be a greater mystery than the pyramids.
I don't think moral progress is related to age. In my experience, it is more closely related to the ages of one's children and/or serious life tragedies.
And pro Gun Registration. BIG TIME.
Actually O'Reilly made O'Neill look good simply by looking so bad in comparison (by falling into the moral relativism trap.) O'Neill came across as grounded, patient, polite and confident in his facts.
However, this does not change the fact that O'Reilly is being targeted by the left to divide and conquer the conservatives and emerging conservatives who are "experimenting" with Fox News!
...and you want to roast marshmallows?!?!!
It is all in how you set your priorities. Which do you consider a great threat. The government agencies that are a direct and greater threat to us and our freedoms. Or the homosexual movement that is a indirect and lesser threat to us.
So people just don't have their priorities straightened out.
Could be. I had children young and got kicked in the teeth by Reality. Fortunately, I'd had plenty of fluoride in my formative years.
I turned my back on O'Reilly long ago -- when he turned his back on me and my kind. I don't care about that cafeteria Catholic's motivations and I don't care if Franken and the rest knock him off his perch. Maybe then Fox will exercise a little more discrimination in who they place before the viewing public.
I have never understood why some people are so passionate about making marriage illegal for homosexuals to the point of passing a constitutional amendment on the matter.
How hard have you tried? Here is a reality for you, society rests on the foundation we call the family. Man, woman and children. Sexually deviant groupings that don't fit that foundational definition harm society, giving them the protection of law is fatal to society. Every time. Study history. Why? Because defying God is fatal. Ask Europe.
Liberals and clueless RINOs. That's his audience.
Well, well, well........ Why should we not be surprised?!!!!
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