Posted on 05/10/2015 1:40:40 PM PDT by South40
I know this will come as a shock to a lot of you. But the blowhard Bill OReilly can actually be an idiot when he longs for strange new respect. Such is the case with how he dealt with Pam Geller and the Garland, TX terrorist attack. Via the Daily Caller:
The dead men deserved what they got, OReilly said. But the incident was ignited by a contest featuring cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Any depiction of that Islamic icon is a sin in the Muslim world.
Many Americans believe the provocation was legitimate under freedom of speech, but that is not the issue, the host contended. No one I know favors curtailing speech in this case. The real issue is whether the exposition was the right thing to do.
See the problem here? The incident was not ignited by a contest any more than the Benghazi attack was caused by a video. The contest was privately sponsored and by invitation only. The two yahoos who ended up on the morgue slab ignited the incident by driving over a thousand miles to attack people who made them mad. The only issue here is curtailing free speech because if, Heaven forfend, Bill OReilly gets in the business of deciding if something is the right thing to do then we are really screwed. In all seriousness, if the right thing to do standard was in force, does OReilly think he wouldnt be forced off the air by the very people hes fellating right now?
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Hey, you!
Only about nineteen weeks until TWD starts, LOL!
Yea!
Some time in Oct., I think.
Have a great summer!
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TURN is on tonight. I’m really into that program. Have you seen it?
O’Reilly is not very good. I have not watched him for several years. He talks over people and argues with most of them. Miller is not funny and he gets way too much time. O’Reilly tells us what we should think. After he tells us what we should think then he proceeds to tell us how many people watch his show and how his show is number one in that time slot.
My gosh, he is an idiot!
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