I did hear right

It seems that Mr O'Reilly actually would like a 'public option'. Who knew?

Did I hear right?

I thought I just heard Bill O'Reilly endorse the public option. I'll see if I can find video of it.

Duo of Doom, concerned for your safety

Bill O'Reilly and Karl Rove have a lengthy discussion about how bad it will be if Obama stops using torture, wiretapping, and rendition.

Typical of FOX News's treatment of this subject, it is assumed that our 'coercive interrogation techniques' are what has saved us from another terrorist attack. Also typically, the claim is made that Obama desires to end the practice of rendition, and no distinction is made between regular rendition - taking someone in one country and moving them to another, not much objectionable about that - and the aspects of rendition Obama and many others disagree with, namely when the country they are taken to is one that is known to torture prisoners. And of course, for the trifecta, opposition to secret, illegal, warrantless wiretapping and data mining is dumbed down to mean you don't want to spy on terrorists at all.

As the icing on the idiot cake, it is hilarious when Rove criticizes Obama's pick of Panetta due to his lack of experience, considering the track record of the Bush White House he was a part of on picking qualified candidates for important jobs. Heckuva job Rove. Most of the people I have seen object to Panetta are people who likely have dirt under their nails with respect to the enhanced interrogation techniques. Seems like they are afraid of being called out for that and possibly going to jail and being subject to some enhanced sodomy techniques.

Assclown

Saturday in New Hampshire

ABC had back-to back presidential debates yesterday, where they had close to all the Republican candidates, but then only 4 Democratic ones. It's understandable that they didn't have Chris Dodd or Joe Biden since they dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but Dennis Kucinich hasn't dropped out and they didn't invite him anyway. Whether he is a viable candidate or not, since he is an official candidate he should have been in that debate, especially since Bill Richardson was invited to it and Kucinich is at least as viable a candidate as him if not more.
Maybe it's a bit conspiracy theory-ish but the fact that Kucinich is an independent voice that doesn't play along with the corporate politics as usual seems to be a factor in it. He is outspoken about a single-payer not for profit health care system, which is different from universal health care that still includes for-profit insurance companies, even mandating coverage through them possibly enforced by fines.
It's certain that ABC and it's parent company Disney doesn't like his ideas for media reform with more public control of the broadcast spectrum. His bringing attention to the corporate owned nature of public resources and his related specific ideas and proposals, as opposed to non-specific lip service, doesn't sit well with the multinational corporations that have control of what we see and hear on the broadcast airwaves and publications.

On a positive note, John Edwards again talked about the world-wide elimination of nuclear weapons, including ours, something no other 'major' candidate has mentioned. Non-proliferation is well and good, but just not quite the same.

Elsewhere in New Hampshire yesterday, Bill O'Reilly is making news for getting in a scuffle with one of Obama's staff. Along with Guliani and McCain, he is making the hilarious trifecta of Republican self-caricatures.


Watch Kucinich on Bill Moyers

O'Reilly and San Francisco

Factor seems to have a memory problem as bad as the AG's, and a wish to blow up cities like Tancredo. At least Tancredo admits what he says.

watch him tell Chris Dodd he never said San Francisco should be blown up

now watch him say San Francisco should be blown up.

O'Reilly joins us....sort of

On Thursday, Bill O'Reilly voiced some concerns, belatedly, about the Iraq occupation. While I would usually be happy to welcome newcomers to the fold, something about this doesn't sit well. How very courageous of Bill to voice what almost everyone in America has already figured out, a long time ago, even many FOX news viewers. Gee, it's not going well over there? Maybe I should say something about it then so I don't look like a buffoon.
It still is Bill O'Reilly though, so there still are many things he said here I'd like to argue with, but I'll save that for another time. Right now I'd just like to be appreciative of how the tide is turning.

As a parting gift, a few O'Reillyisms:

"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?" -March 18, 2003

"You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary...But it is. It's true. I mean, you've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night, OK, and they can vote." -Sep. 17, 2004


"You can't produce one person who's been tortured by the United States. You cannot produce one. And neither can NBC News and neither can..." -March 20, 2007


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