Kamiya vs. O'Reilly (Free Republic Mentioned)

Salon ^ | 4/23/03 | The editors of Salon

[dirtboy]

O'Reilly's show invited Kamiya on to defend his (wildly misrepresented) prose; but anyone who's watched the show knows that it's a hopelessly rigged game, in which the bullying host gives himself carte blanche to outshout his guests.

Translation - he won't throw us softballs like Larry King, so we ain't going there.

[KeyWest]

Salon is dying (in more ways than one) for people to pay attention to it. This is just a ploy to make itself relevant and equivalent to O'Reilly. Never happen, because they are not.

[anniegetyourgun]

A lousy attempt to recover from their headache of an editor. But then, I don't expect Salon could box their way out of a wet paper bag.

[Tacis]

No, O'Riely is almost unwatchable because of his rudeness. Watch carefully. No matter who is on, he will ask a question and ALWAYS interrupt before the guest has a chance to answer. Doesn't matter whether the guest is right left, or center, O'Reily will ask questions and NEVER wait for an answer.

Soft balls or not, when I do watch the show (much less frequently, now) I find myself shouting, "Bill, let the guy answer the question!"

[Celtjew Libertarian]

And the wing nut fedayeen of the right crawled out of their base camps at sites like Free Republic

Heh. A year ago we were the right-wing Taliban. Now we're fedayeen.

[Egregious Philbin]

I agree. O'Rielly is an intolerable blowhard. Funny that Salon is STILL trying to hitch a ride on his popularity.

[NormsRevenge]

"And the wing nut fedayeen of the right crawled out of their base camps at sites like Free Republic to throw spitballs at Salon e-mail accounts and advertisers."

wing nuts.. LOL

It sounds like Salon.com needs readers... at any cost to their sullied pride.

I never had reason to read such a fair and open-minded org's output in the first place. They are just another glittering example of Clinton's legacy, fading in the rear view mirror. Buh-Bye!

[Oldsailor]

I doubt if you have watched that show, with anything like an open mind, for long enough to appreciate the fact that the host does stop "spin" and prevents the guest from using his show to advance bogus BS.

[Egregious Philbin]

...the host does stop [other people's] "spin" and prevents the guest from [speaking and/or] using his show to advance bogus BS [other than O'Reilly's own].

[hispanarepublicana]

wing nut fedayeen of the right

As one of the members of the "wing nut fedayeen of the right," I chuckle to think of the perception that nonFreepers and sheeple must have of us based on references like this and from the Dixie Chicks manager, etc.....I've always thought myself pretty normal, but these FR bashers make us sound like Dixie Flag Emblazoned, Ford Excursion-driving, (not that there's anything wrong with that) 1930's Germany-inspired, winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz or something. In actuality, I'm just a normal, red-blooded American who

--has skin that turns dry in winter and oily in summer
--failed to do laundry last weekend and will probably have to pull a shirt out of the dirty clothes to wear before the week's end
--drank a little too much wine at least one night this week
--is 750 or so miles over the scheduled mileage for my oil change
--has toenail polish that is chipping and so must wear close-toed shoes until weeks' end when I will probably re-polish before I get around to doing above-mentioned laundry
--failed to eat breakfast even one day this week, despite preaching to the kiddo that it's the "most important meal of the day" (well, there's those 2 or 3 chocolate Easter eggs I had on Monday morning)
--is spending time FReeping online instead of working, like I should be (while non-FReep America is shopping gap.com or ebaying while they should be working)
Does any of this sound THAT abnormal? Does any of this sound like the life of the fedayeen winged-monkeys that we are purported to be?

[merry10]

YOU are hilarious!

I also liked reading your biography.

[Zeppo]

Salon is not a doctrinaire or party-line publication.

That one gave me a laugh... They evidently subscribe wholeheartedly to the "repeat the big lie often enough and most people will believe it" philosophy of the left...

[CholeraJoe]

And the wing nut fedayeen of the right crawled out of their base camps at sites like Free Republic

Er...I resemble that remark.

[finnman69]

[Steel Wolf]

FReedayeen? FReehadists (FR Jihadists?) Agents of F.R.E.E.P.? I'm sure we could come up with a better term than wing nut fedayeen.

[finnman69]

write a review on Salon.com here:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/write_review?q=&url=salon.com

[CholeraJoe]

I still like the wing nut reference.

[BenLurkin]

Exactly.

Salon's "complex argument" excuse is pointless. The fact is, this author admitted to having anti-American sentiments.

Salon may find significance that the author's hostility to America was part of some (typical) liberal mental confusion. So what?

Salon's unpatriotic hostility was uncovered. Now it can never be denied.

[TC Rider]

But why weigh a complex argument when you can seize a brief passage from the article, wrench it out of context and draw blood by entirely misrepresenting it?

Pretty much what the left is now doing to Rick Santorum and has already done to Lott, Gingrich, Jimmy the Greek, John Rocker, etc.