Bill O'Reilly Succumbs To Another Episodic Media Induced Frenzy
Reported by Deborah - August 16, 2007 -
Once again, Bill O'Reilly was determined to expose the truth about the left wing media no matter how much he had to distort the truth in the process. As always, he started with NBC then shifted to the anti- American and anti-Christian horrors he found in the San Francisco Chronicle written by Mark Morford and Robert Sheer. Armed with the selected quotes from two opinion pieces, BOR was sure his viewers would light their torches and start marching to San Francisco.
Bill was all excited because Joe Scarborough made a comment today on his new morning show on MSNBC that BOR could use to attack the network. Scarborough commented that on the first day he started at MSNBC in 2003 people in the newsroom were booing Bush doing his State of the Union speech. Of course, viewers had no idea what Scarborough said before or after the comment but BOR saw it has definitive proof of NBC bias.
O'Reilly claimed Mark Morford "despises all people of faith". He didn't mention that Morford's piece was about God Tube created by Christians offended by YouTube. Morford's opinion piece from his bi-weekly column is titled Jesus Loves Your Crappy Videos- the place where sex, humor and warm spiritual inclusiveness go to die.
The quote that O'Reilly chose to enrage people makes a lot more sense after reading Morfords entire article. However just reading the title should be enough. Here's O'Reilly's edited quote that viewers saw.
" The thing that modern Christianity seems to do best, and I don't mean help justify brutal unwinnable wars or slam gay people or bash women's rights... is to divide and segregate. You know, to exclude."
Here's the full quote from Morford's column.
"Witness, in other words, the thing that modern Christianity seems to do best, and I don't mean help justify brutal unwinnable wars or slam gay people or bash women's rights or promote ignorance of stem cell research or science or music. Because oh hell yes, that's there for you, in heaps and droves and mounds. I mean the other thing: to fracture. To splinter and divide and segregate. You know, to exclude."
Robert Sheer got BOR's anti-American stamp of disapproval for this article.Sheer joins the other recipients of the week, Sean Penn and Matt Damon. O'Reilly claimed Sheer's " hatred of his own country and ignorance about Word War II" makes him unfit to be a journalist. Later he said Sheer was worse than Ward Churchill. The reference to Churchill makes more sense when the the unedited quote is read. Here's BOR's version.
"Just what exactly distinguishes the United States' use of the ever-so-cutely-named "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" atomic bombs on cities in Japan from the car bombs of Baghdad or the planes that smashed into the World Trade Center? Of course, we had our justifications, as terrorists always do."
Here is what Sheer actually wrote.
"Just what exactly distinguishes the United States' use of the ever-so-cutely-named "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" atomic bombs on cities in Japan from the car bombs of Baghdad or the planes that smashed into the World Trade Center? To even raise the question, as was found in one recent university case, can be a career-ending move."
O'Reilly left out the last line which makes a reference to Ward Churchill and indirectly to him. He also added on the line from the start of the next paragraph mentioning terrorists to make his point about Sheer more convincing..
comment: So once again Bill O'Reilly proves that journalistic ethics are less important than proving he's right. It's okay for O'Reilly to write his weekly opinion column on his website saying some pretty outrageous things about people. The last one called Matt Damon anti-American because he was against waterboarding. It's okay for him to rave about "left wing loons" night after night during his TPM segment. It's even okay for him to post people's phone numbers and tell his culture cadets to call them. Bill O'Reilly needs to realize that people are paying attention now and the glory days of his early FOX years are over.
