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Bill O'Reilley - The No Spin Zone

#11: Nov. - Dec. 2003 (Non-Fiction)
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Quote:I assure you that every chomskyite socialist and whining America-basher is going to learn to swim quicker while I'm in the pool.I'm curious how peeing in the pool with comments like this will empower anyone to swim quicker, or better, or smarter...unless your intention is to force fellow swimmers to seek cleaner waters. This would indeed encourage quicker swimming, but pissing in the pool is a poor methodology indeed.As for Bill O'Reilly, sure, let's give him one more arena and forum from which he can be discussed and explored. Perhaps a nightly television show on FOX that reaches millions is not enough time to provide balance?I mean its just plain rare that a defender of corporate capitalism and all its military machinations, tied to deep nationalistic obsessive zenophobia, gets its chance in the sun.The key failing with Franken's book is that his critique of the 'Lying Liars' doesn't go deep enough. O'Reilly is just one Commissar among many, easily replaced, who is paid terribly well to rationalize, apologize for, and maintain a system of massive inequality and militaristic deviousness. Franken seems to think that a stronger Democratic Party is key to countering this problem...when, actually, it is part and parcel of the disease."Quit your whining" : first comment unleashed by tyrants, bullies, abusers, and outright arseholes upon being confronted with their utter disregard for the well-being of those they abuse. The second comment is "Or, I'll give you something to cry about".
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