Occasionally I'll wander over to Redstate to see what sorts of asshattery they're up to over on the right side of the blogosphere. Usually it's just a bunch of BS, hatemongering, fearmongering, and various other types of mongering. But today, there's actually a diary up on their front page bashing that great Fair and Balanced hero, Bill O'Reilly. Snippets below the fold.
Link for those that must see for themselves,under a subheading of "Bill O’Reilly doesn’t let facts get in the way of a good story line"
The diarist starts by comparing the Falafel master to, of all people, Michael Moore.
Years ago, a large young man from Flint, Michigan with nothing better to do started stalking Roger Smith, who was then the CEO of General Motors Corporation. The young man, with a small film crew in tow, would stick a microphone under Smith’s nose and ask him all kinds of strange questions. Later, he assembled the pieces into what looked like a documentary but in fact was tendentious propaganda.
General Motors learned then that truth is no barrier to being smeared effectively. And young Michael Moore learned that craftily-packaged lies can change the world.
I was reminded of that when I heard that Bill O’Reilly, of Fox News, showed up last week at the National Governor’s Association meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And he appears to have gotten in front of attendee Jeffrey Immelt, who is the CEO of the General Electric Company of Fairfield, Connecticut.
The real fun begins in the comments:
Olbermann and O'Reilly are different sides of the same dark crystal. Both deranged, neither worthy of more than 10 seconds of viewing.
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O'Reilly is repulsive, but fits in well with the other Fox personalities.
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O'Reilly is a windbag, a populist demagogue, and a bully. He's a shameless self-promoter. I question my judgment when I find myself on the same side of an issue as Bill.
His opinions on energy are nothing short of ignorant.
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I've been upset with O'Reily ever since he trashed the Swift Boat Vets for Truth, suggesting that they were being mean and lying, all for the sake of trying to score an interview with Kerry in 04.
Any thoughts on why Orly's no longer King of the Wingers?