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Subject: Bill O'Reilly an idiot.
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Author:
Mike
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Date Posted: 18:47:57 12/02/06 Sat
Okay, not only is Bill O'Reilly an idiot, he's a cranky old fart who just doesn't "get it." In a recent screed on his radio show, after bemoaning the state of America once more because some morons got shot waiting in line for a PS3, he made the following stupid and vapid generalization:
**I don’t own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod… If this is your primary focus in life - the machines… it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America… did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them? …I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They’re not playing the video games. They’re killing real people over there.**
I can't say it enough, Bill O'Reilly's an idiot. For one thing, while he's badmouthing people who own iPods, his website promotes "premium" membership to his site, which includes podcasting of his radio screeds. Maybe the real idiots are the people paying $5 to download Bill O'Reilly's anti iPod crap into their iPods.
Does he attack Sony for not producing enough PS3s to keep up with demand? No. Does he even pretend to understand a culture other than his own (rich, protestant white guy)? No. He just opens his mouth and the poop tumbles out:
Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don’t deal with reality - ever. So they don’t know what day it is; they don’t know temperature it is; they don’t know what their neighbor looks like. They don’t know anything… because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they’ve created their own reality…
Does Bill O'Reilly really believe that the world he lives in has anything to do with reality? I'm 38, I play videogames, watch cartoons and spend many, many hours each week on the internet. I also happen to hold down a decent job, take care of my family, know my neighbors and have a grip on what day of the week it happens to be. O'Reilly is a tool. Those who listen to him have more of a chance of losing the concept of reality than I do.
I'm not defending the violence against people who lined up for the PS3. But if you want to line up to be one of the first to buy one, who am I to call you detached from reality? I get so ticked off when the punditry blames the music or the videogames for the bad acts of a few nutjobs. It's been going on forever.
Buddy Holly played "jungle music." The Big Band Era was going to lead to the damnation of thousands of young people. Now O'Reilly has become an luddite. Well, good. Time to get off that radio and TV, then Bill because you owe your fortune to the very machines you say are bringing about the downfall of American society. Go find yourself a unabomber-style shack in the woods and just be superior by yourself, m'kay?
But O'Reilly's stupidity isn't limited to things he doesn't understand or care about. He's equally stupid about the American culture he claims to be a warrior of. Take the recent elections, for example. O'Reilly believes that Vermont should be kicked out of the United States because they elected Bernie Sanders to the Senate. Sanders is an independent and a self-described socialist. So, in O'Reilly's eyes, Vermont is ovah. Done. Out of the pool. We're fortunate to live in a country where people get to make their choice in who represents them in the government, but I'd say we're doubly fortunate that we live in a country where Bill O'Reilly doesn't get to make those choices for us.
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