And I thought she was sane...
I was talking to a friend the other day, we were sharing stories about kids, school life, fund raising ideas for our skating club, when I asked her if she heard a certain story on NPR.
She said, "Oh, we don't listen to that. We like to listen to Bill O'Reilly, he's great! I fold laundry while we watch FOX news."
Oh.
I couldn't find anything else to say.
I realized then how much I really miss my True Girlfriends!
Of course I'm still friendly with her, but I know that we'll never go out and have cocktails and share stories about our husbands and children, or the drugs we did in our twenties, the music we jam to; OR how we feel about a woman's right to choose or about a same-sex couple's right to enjoy special relationship priveleges. Or the right of free people to gather in protest without being labeled as terrorists. Or the obvious fact that men, women and children are being killed every day for our president's vision of a "free Iraq". Where will it end?
Bill The Liar O'Reilly ~ great!?
How I misjudged her...
posted by Betsy at 1:04 AM
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Your friend is right. Open your eyes and see the truth. You remind me of a post I made a few minutes ago.
http://bc219.blogspot.com/2005/01/eat-shit-and-die-saddam.html
I find it truly alarming that Fox continues to present opinion as fact and most people consider it unbiased journalism. Furthermore, many seem to use this bias in order to shore up, indeed, provide plausibility for a lifestyle full of judgement and condemnation. We're a nation of glasss houses, but you'd never know it based on the blythe way we abuse the principles our nation was founded upon. Look at the shards we're standing on. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? We're on a fast track to regulate, observe and quash. Who will benefit? Check the bushes for culprits.
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Simply because Liar O'Reilly says it is true does not make it true. For example, he claims he has 6 million viewers, when in fact the Nielsen ratings show that on average he has less than 3 million viewers.
He's a blowhard with a right-wing political agenda to push, and so he does. There is nothing that would convince me otherwise. There are those that agree with his vile rhetoric, and many who do not. O'Reilly has the right to spew his garbage, I have the right to ignore him and seek alternative news sources.
I discount FOX News as biased and right-wing, but I still love the Simpsons!
JET~
We should check the Bushes for culprits, eh.
In the 80s, GW received money from O$ama Bin Laden'$ father to support his now-failed oil company. No wonder O$ama "got away"...
But let's make sure those protestors aren't allowed to stand too close to (or even on the same street as) the motorcaid on Jan. 20th, lest one of their signs be used as a terroist weapon. Money well spent?
Money well spent would be that given to the Red Cross. The "we got a mandate cuz I said we do and besides it gives me a rod" shindig does not fall in the well spent category.
Good God. And apparently those who listen to the gospel according to O'Reilly believe that NPR is a completely biased and non credible news source. Just don't ask them to back that up with any kind of supporting information to confirm that claim, however. I feel for ya, but ohmygosh did I howl with laughter at the comment you left me about "The strangest it gets up here is people wearing camoflage to a wedding (or a funeral), and folks knowing how to make good stew out of anything you can hunt or accidentally hit with your car" How on earth did you arrive to be living where you are presently?!?
In reply to Millicent:
I married an attorney who wanted to work for the Indians (many of them do not refer to themselves as Native Americans, but as Indians) so we moved from Madison, WI, to Indian Country, the upper peninsula of MI. There are more trees and deer than people in the whole peninsula.
Thirty miles north, the biggest city in my area is Houghton, with a population of 6,000-ish when the university is in session. Houghton has one dry cleaner, three theatres with a total of seven screens, three grocery stores, and the biggest store at the mall used to be K-mart, until it closed. Now the mall is as quiet as a graveyard.
But, there are four taxidermy places in my local community, at least a dozen outdoor sporting goods stores, and the local grocery butchers will make venison sausage on the side for hunters during deer season.
I have tasted squirrel stew, rabbit stew and many forms of venison. People bring this stuff to potlucks, which are a staple of a small community gathering.
It took me two years of tearful consideration to get used to living in this area, but it's been almost 15 years now and I wouldn't trade our log home on 20 wooded acres for anything. Except maybe a beachfront home on a Hawaiian island...
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