The impenetrable fog of Bill O'Reilly

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Keith O just gave his audience a bit of this piece http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0606220008jun22,0,7808911.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed by Don Wycliff, who is associate vice president for news and information at the University of Notre Dame and teaches media criticism there. I'd love to just C&P the whole thing here, but there's those fair use considerations, and all, so I'll just give you a bit of it.

O'Reilly was burned up about the mutilation and murders of those two American soldiers--Pfc. Thomas Tucker and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca--who were captured in Iraq by insurgents last week and whose bodies were retrieved Tuesday.

What civilized person would not have been? The military didn't give a detailed public description of the conditions of the soldier's bodies, but decapitation seems to have been the least of the savageries inflicted on them--and may have been a grisly coup de grace.

Bill went on to decry the liberties that these brave men and women in the military, and ostensibly our President, have all taken a vow to defend.

Less than two years ago, George W. Bush won a second term in office with the biggest popular vote in American history. His party controls both houses of Congress. The ACLU is preoccupied with controlling the speech of its board of directors. The New York Times, which also came in for some of Bill's dishonorable mention, has not endorsed the winner in the last two presidential elections.

And yet you, Bill, are peddling the notion that Bush is hamstrung in fighting the Iraq war because of domestic doubt and opposition from the left.

Seriously, use the link provided above. Read it. There's not much more to say. Taken as a whole, the article eviscerates the "stay the course" crowd, and the "let's ramp it up and kill 'em all" crowd.

We're in Iraq <s>to find WMD</s> <s>because of Hussein's link to 911</s> <s>to prevent "mushroom clouds over American cities</s> <s>to free the Iraqi people</s> ... ummm, to "stay the course" because to do otherwise would be to admit we were wrong to invade in the first place.

It's about time we stopped playing Rove's game and framed it ourselves.

"Do you want "more of the same" http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/specialguests/2006/jun/22/gop_on_iraq_more_of_the_same , or is it time to take things in a new direction?"

[Uben]

1. I don't listen or watch him

I don't listen to sexual perverts who think they have a brain, but don't. God, the man is so stupid!

[Timbuk3]

2. JFTR

I was watching Olbermann, not O'Lielly.

I can't even look at O'Lielly without laughing.

Every time I think of the look on his face at that book review, when Franken ripped him a new one, and associate it with falafels and his admitted fascination with inserting things in his anus that don't belong there...

LOL

Sorry, it just cracks me up.

I heard a (decidedly unproven) rumor that Sean "I scream when I'm lying" Hannity is boffing Annthrax "Adams's Apple" Coultergeist. Man, the thought of those two having kids made me taste a little bit of vomit, if you catch my drift.

The right's heroes are a sorry lot, aren't they?