Posted on 05/05/2003 5:49:31 PM PDT by faithincowboys
It is becoming clear to me that Bill O'Reilly is not on our side. Despite protestations to the contrary (he claims he is an independent), O'Reilly is a man of the left.
Why?
O'Reilly's political hero is RFK.
In an interview with Kerry, he seemed like a John French Kerry fan.
He was an attack dog when Lynne Cheney was a guest on his program.
He was an attack dog when Marc Raccicot was on his show.
He hyped the Rilya Wilson case and bashed brother Jeb on the eve of the Florida Gubernatorial election-- an election that the Democrats wanted to use to deal a body blow to Dubya.
Because he is saying that the reports of WMD in Iraq were phony (though they could still turn up) and requires heads to roll and suggests Bush has a credibilty gap.
Because in a segment tonight regarding an all-white private prom in Georgia, he blamed Republican Governor Sonny Perdue-- who had not a thing to do with it.
Bill, whose daughter will no doubt go to an upper class all-white school, asserted that the white kids had no right to set up their own prom.
I believe the all white prom was a mean-spirited act and undoubtedly hurt the feelings of their African American peers, but they had the right to do it. It was a private (wrongheaded) affair, and Sonny Perdue didn't have anything to do with it.
I think the story highlighted the tendency of liberal whites -who live in lily white neighborhoods and inculcate their kids in blue blood private school- to demand that poor Southern whites forcibly integrate. I think this is unfair- if you have implicitly (and often explicitly) chosen segregation in your life, you can't force others to do what you go out of your way to avoid.
I think what the kids in Georgia have done is wrong and hurtful, but I think in the interest of a full debate, the liberal accusers should prove their integration bona fides.
It's like Teddy Kennedy calling Charles Pickering a racist (Pickering sent his son Chip to Afr. Amer. majority schools in Mississippi, and Pickering also fought the Klan long before it was popular (and safe) to do so), while he , no doubt, sent his coke-head children to all-white boarding schools. Hypocrisy.
The kids were wrong and many probably harbor racist feelings, but their accusers in the mainstream media practice segregation every day. These kids do attend a majority Afr. Amer. High School.
All in all, I predict, if the economy stagnates, O'Reilly (who has never come off as a big Bush fan) will endorse Kerry!
I agree, we won't watch him anymore in our house. Wait for Sean and Greta, though sometimes must turn her off.
Can't argue with those descriptions.
I've been thinking of him as a frugal liberal(in the modern leftist sense), he wants the BIGFEDGOV to solve all problems, but on the cheap. ;-)
I beg to differ on this point...O'Reilly is putty in the hands of wimmins; even Susan Estrogen, with that fetching smile of hers, got him tonight.
Pretty much shoots his credibility, and takes him back to his Inside Edition tabloid roots.
I switch over to MSNBC when Greta comes on in order to watch Joe Scarborough.
It's a "bottom line" thing.
I definitely agree. He just angers the far left 80% and the far right 20% of the time!
But those in the rigid right have no room to bend.
I resemble that remark!
The leftists, perverts and clymers have already pushed me more that I wanted to be pushed....and from this point I will move no more..
Semper Fi
Last week, didn't Bill make a comment about some black kids stealing hub caps out in the parking lot? He seems a bit two-faced to me. I used to be a big fan but as of late, I've had second thoughts.
I also heard the comments he made accusing Matt Drudge of being on crack cocaine and wanting him killed (I know he was joking but I think it was out of line).
As far as Achcroft goes, well I just wish we had him back here in Mo. as Governor or A.G.
However, he ticks me off about 50% of the time, including tonights rant.
I believe he is what he says, a independent. He has liberal east coast leanings on social issues though. He may well have been a dem before Clinton. Many dems became independent during that era.
During a Russert interview on CNBC a couple of weekends ago, Bill said he has never endorsed a candidate. But he said if there is a Hillary vs. Condi presidential race in 2008, he just may endorse one of them. He didn't exactly say who he would endorse, but it was obvious from the context of the discussion that he would endorse Condi.
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