Monday, April 19, 2004

Bill O'Reilly: Racist? No. Moronic? CAN I GET AN AMEN (a minor concurrance, even)?
You know the world isn't as bad as it seems when it reaches 70-something in Central New York. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the heater still manages to stay on in Spanish class (Hey, you can't have it all, especially in the Circle Dante Purposefully Forgot, as I like to call CNY).

Okay, enough of the lovey-dovey happiness. It's time for me to get back to my usual business of political satire.

Bill O'Reilly needs to be beaten with something sharp and painful. He constantly says his show is a "No Spin Zone". But how does he explain this transcript!?

O'REILLY: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Our boycott was directed toward your government, [French President Jacques] Chirac, because we believe his actions led to the deaths of Americans.

What!? The blame for the deaths of American soldiers falls upon the French, and not on the Iraqi soldiers who were shooting at our forces!? I think somebody needs a reality check...

BERROU: French soldiers died, also, Bill.

O'REILLY: Yes, a few of them, but nothing on the scale that we did.


Whoa, back up a sec. Mr. Berrou mentions that French soldiers also died, and Bill brushes it off like it doesn't matter? He's basically saying that French lives matter less than those of Americans! At least, that's one way of interpreting it. I'm not saying that's what he meant, it just sounds that way.

O'Reilly:So I said now look, that was disrespectful to our country, to our dead, and you deserved it. But I understand you don't agree with me. I understand the ambassador thinks I'm crazy. But he doesn't have the right and he's totally off it if he thinks this is racially driven.

Wait a sec. The French ambassador has no right to say Bill is crazy, and that his comments on France are "racially driven", but it's perfectly fine for Bill to call him "totally off it"? Hypocritical, ya? >_< ...

And then there's the end of this:

O'REILLY: But I did call him. But he's not -- come on. But this racist business, that's cowardly. He shouldn't do that.

Mr. Berrou, thanks very much, we appreciate it.


Cowardly? Being offended by comments against one's people isn't cowardly. Insulting a man and then cutting him off so he can't reply... That's cowardly.

I've also managed to e-mail Bill, on the subject of his mistake regarding Fallujah not being an uprising. I'm hoping for a reply. Heck, maybe he'll put it on the show! (Doubtful. Usually, the e-mails either agree with him, or are from opponents of his views whose grammar skills aren't, shall we say... refined.)
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