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!
Scarborough is a hit and much better than Gravel Greta.....FNC had best watch out.....MSNBC is gaining.
Scarborough had Peggy Noonan on for a brief segment last night.....she's one classy lady.
Except for Chrissy Sissy Mathews and Brian Williams, MSNBC has some great hosts.
He's been no fan of Greenspan's mishandling of the economy during the bust......raising interest rates as the cost of energy was rising, just about killing businesses using energy......airlines, manufacturing, etc. Kudlow has been right on the mark every time.
Bill O lost me a while ago. His schizophrenic approach to issues makes me nauseous. He always seems to be 'for' something, which is why Bill backing Kerry would be odd- Kerry is for nothing and against everything- which is why McAwful and Kerry had to use their 'Vietnam War Hero' drum beat so early.
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