Sample copy: "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between electing a black president and electing any other white man in America. It was exactly the same, even though he's black [and has a] primarily black patronship. There wasn't one person in America who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea!'
"It was like electing an Italian President in an all-white country in the sense of people [who] were sitting there, and they were living their lives and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."
As unpopular as O'Reilly is on this site he really should not be lumped in with the Hannity Beck club.
He does often give credit where credit is due and he is much less dogmatic than the other right wingers on Fox. Also,it's been seen that going on his show (whether you hate him or not) has positive effects.
@malibusleastwanted: It's just a sad day when the words, "Bill O'Reilly is one of the more sane, reasonable people on Fox News," are uttered in all seriousness. :(
@Nice Beaver: Has O'Reilly ever admitted to being Irish-American? He does work the 'blue-collar' thing, but has he ever been like, "Yeah, my grandfather couldn't work anywhere because no one thought he was white."
I would find that...strangely honest.
@Midge: "Race" is a sociological concept, and therefore, relative as far as definition goes.
I read (and responded) to NiceBeaver with a fair amount of sarcasm, although I was alluding to the concept of "becoming" white in the bubble of American society.
Mostly, though, I was just hating on O'Reilly for talking about America and Americanism as if his parents and/or grandparents didn't pass through Ellis Island like everyone else.
So...this wasn't followed up by a rant about how this now means all of you lazy people on welfare need to stop taking handouts and pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps cause if Obama did it, you can do it, too?
@BxgrlJeri: news and information reported credibly enhance reality, you know?
i was near the flatiron on 9.11 and i saw the smoke and fire, but reporting and broadcasting, via tv, the all news radio blaring from the parked taxis and town cars on 5th and people on the street passing it all along was how i knew that bush and cheney had gone into hiding when the country was attacked on their watch
capt sully's name came to us from the media, not from watching the plane float in the river
@BxgrlJeri: I saw the plane starting its descent up in Washington Heights, but didn't fully realize what was going on until I saw video of the plane floating downstream on the Hudson on CNN. Damndest thing ever - the near-confluence of reality and, well, reality television.
Good for her, putting some shoe leather into her stories, as they used to say. Meaning, getting out there.
Meanwhile, I'd love to know what dirt Verlyn K. is holding over the Sulzberger's that his rustic noodlings get such prominence. Don't dislike them, it's just odd. Health care reform juxtaposed with "Consider the Cow Patty" on some valuable editorial real estate.
I think that's the best appreciation of Michael Jackson I've read. Decent amount of context and contrast, not maudlin or hyperbolic. Well done, Ms. Dominus.
Space, being the final frontier, but only before you reach the edge, after which you will be driven to a madness greater than that of King George's, or indeed in reverse, traveling towards the Galactic Core, at which time you will see the face of God, who is not in fact God but an angry alien desperate to escape from a barren planet, so angry he will knock your ass to the ground with prodigious energy bolts when you ask him, in a tone of voice tainted with just a tinge of sarcasm, "What does GOD need with a STARSHIP?", or venture to a space station filled with minuscule grains eaten by balls of fur to frighten Klingons, and you soon see the Tribble as microcosm for diplomacy.
These are strange new worlds; speak of them in a voice, halting. Seek out new life and new civilizations, and go, nay boldly go where no man has gone before.
I adore him. He is funny and clever and imaginative and self-deprecating and, as I learned from the Real Househos of New York, he's like blind or something.
08/06/09
"It was like electing an Italian President in an all-white country in the sense of people [who] were sitting there, and they were living their lives and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."
08/06/09
He does often give credit where credit is due and he is much less dogmatic than the other right wingers on Fox. Also,it's been seen that going on his show (whether you hate him or not) has positive effects.
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Also, thumbs up to him for writing this.
08/06/09
I would find that...strangely honest.
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I read (and responded) to NiceBeaver with a fair amount of sarcasm, although I was alluding to the concept of "becoming" white in the bubble of American society.
Mostly, though, I was just hating on O'Reilly for talking about America and Americanism as if his parents and/or grandparents didn't pass through Ellis Island like everyone else.
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But technology trumps even reality, not just newspapers.
When the "Miracle on the Hudson" happened, those of us in Manhattan and New Jersey could go out and SEE IT first hand.
You could see it happening from about a thousand different locations and, believe me, it was a sight to behold.
Yet, there were people looking on their iPhones and Blackberries to see if there was any news of it.
PEOPLE, THE PLANE IN THE HUDSON IS RIGHT THERE. LOOK AT *IT* AND NOT YOUR BLACKBERRY!
I suppose reality is on its way out too.
07/21/09
i was near the flatiron on 9.11 and i saw the smoke and fire, but reporting and broadcasting, via tv, the all news radio blaring from the parked taxis and town cars on 5th and people on the street passing it all along was how i knew that bush and cheney had gone into hiding when the country was attacked on their watch
capt sully's name came to us from the media, not from watching the plane float in the river
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07/21/09
Meanwhile, I'd love to know what dirt Verlyn K. is holding over the Sulzberger's that his rustic noodlings get such prominence. Don't dislike them, it's just odd. Health care reform juxtaposed with "Consider the Cow Patty" on some valuable editorial real estate.
07/21/09
- My grandpa, 1934
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03/23/09
Space, being the final frontier, but only before you reach the edge, after which you will be driven to a madness greater than that of King George's, or indeed in reverse, traveling towards the Galactic Core, at which time you will see the face of God, who is not in fact God but an angry alien desperate to escape from a barren planet, so angry he will knock your ass to the ground with prodigious energy bolts when you ask him, in a tone of voice tainted with just a tinge of sarcasm, "What does GOD need with a STARSHIP?", or venture to a space station filled with minuscule grains eaten by balls of fur to frighten Klingons, and you soon see the Tribble as microcosm for diplomacy.
These are strange new worlds; speak of them in a voice, halting. Seek out new life and new civilizations, and go, nay boldly go where no man has gone before.
[Signed]
Christopher Pike
03/23/09