December 16, 2004

O’Reilly takes it in the nuts!

Filed under: Politics — MalSnay @ 11:12 pm

David Brock calls O’Reilly to task:

As you can see, Mr. O’Reilly, you have repeatedly and personally attacked me, Media Matters for America, and my fine staff, calling us “vile,” “despicable,” and “weasels,” and comparing us to the Ku Klux Klan, Castro, Mao, and the Nazis. And you have refused my repeated requests to appear on your broadcast.

You once offered your viewers your definition of the word “coward.” On the January 5, 2004, O’Reilly Factor, you declared: “If you attack someone publicly, as these men did to me, you have an obligation to face the person you are smearing. If you don’t, you are a coward.”

Well, Mr. O’Reilly, you have attacked me publicly on numerous occasions, and you refuse to face me. You, sir, are a coward — by your own definition of the term. You are “hiding under your desk” (to paraphrase your August 26, 2003, claim about a “coward” who declined to appear on your show) rather than allowing me on your program to discuss your insults. You are “gutless,” to borrow the phrase you used on January 10, 2003, and February 8, 2001, to describe people who would not appear on your program. I attach additional examples of your pejorative descriptions of those who decline invitations to appear on your broadcast.

Your frequent complaint that your words are taken out of context appears to have spurred your recent assault on my organization. While reasonable people can disagree about conclusions we, or you, have drawn about your comments, you are simply wrong to say that we took you out of context. I remain willing and eager to appear on either your television or radio program to discuss your contention that my organization has taken your comments out of context.

Should you continue to refuse this offer, it is only reasonable that the American people will conclude that you are not only — as you would put it — a “coward,” but a hypocrite as well.

Well, what do any of us expect from the “no-spin zone” dude, anyway?

Hat Tip: Ollie.

NEVADA?!?!

Filed under: Life — MalSnay @ 10:28 am

I ordered books off Amazon.com for Christmas presents. Remember when I had problems with Amazon before? They shipped from the same depot. If they don’t get here before the holidays, heads’ll be a rollin’.

Fat Bastard

Filed under: Politics — MalSnay @ 10:19 am

Rush Limbaugh is, let’s put it bluntly, an idiot, a moron, and a hipocrite. He’s a cheerleader for the right — his job is not to persuade anyone that the Right has the right answers, it is simply to keep the dittoheads of the right wing pumped up and ready to go.

I’m extraordinarily surprised that after his drug scandal he still has a radio show. And I do wish him the best with his recovery from that addiction. Lord knows our prison system is already way overcrowded with folks who shouldn’t be there, and I’m sure Rush’s size would require a dedicated cell.

So when I read on Oliver Willis this “FCC ACTION ALERT” — and an accompanying campaign through Atrios — my first reaction was “Fuck yes, let’s stick it to that fucker the way the right keeps stickin’ it to everybody else!”

But then I paused. I remember Jeff Jarvis writing that only three folks had initiated an FCC crackdown over a horrible TV show, “Married by America.”

And I’m still up in the air. Part of me says that we should adapt the same tactics as the right and go after Limbaugh with a vengeance. The other part of me says that we should keep the moral high ground on the free speech issue, by aggressively targeting the FCC. And I think I’m leaning with the latter. Why? Because it is only a matter of time before the FCC comes after the internet, and with that, the blogosphere.

We don’t have time to be going after opposing pundits — if we do, the FCC will catch us blindsided and by the time we recover (if we ever do), it will be all over.

Let us indeed say, in one voice, “FUCK YOU GUYS, we’re better than you, always HAVE BEEN, always WILL BE.”