Bill O’Reilly decided to go to Cuba and share with his viewers the horrors that he saw there.
“Most Cubans,” he shared in a shocked and outraged voice, “do not have air conditioning. And it’s hot!”
Yes, that’s the greatest tragedy of Cuba: no air conditioning. Maybe he should join Bernie’s campaign, help persuade people that Cuba is doing quite well.
O’Reilly’s views on Cuba are nonsensical. I recommend watching his “talking points” at the beginning of his show, and the e-mails from his readers at the end, and fast-forwarding through the rest of his program in between.
That way, you’ll get the legitimate right-wing viewpoint unfiltered (as opposed to Trump’s “unfiltered viewpoint,” which is stream-of-consciousness know-nothing garbage), and you can compare the two entirely different dimensions / planets where the hard left (as personified by the look-alike clowns on MSNBC) and the hard right FOXers live in this country, and try to discern some reasonable middle ground.
If you can’t figure it out, shake your head and smile confidently at Klara. I’ve lived long enough to know that her world — that every world beyond the words, “This Presidential election is the most important in our lifetime!” —
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Cuba’s so far away. Let’s first examine what he had to say after visiting a restaurant in Harlem, a few blocks from his news studio in Manhattan.
http://gothamist.com/2012/07/23/5_years_ago_bill_oreilly_was_amazed.php
“I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.
…There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’ …You know, I mean, everybody was — it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”
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Is this just a pose to please his viewers or is he being genuine with this? Because it sounds too brain-damaged even for him.
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“Because it sounds too brain-damaged even for him.”
It isn’t. This is the same scholar who said ‘You can’t explain that’, the ‘that’ being tides in a debate vs an atheist about the existence of God.
http://www.newser.com/story/109164/bill-oreilly-to-atheists-you-cant-explain-the-tides.html
“I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”
Silverman looked stunned. “Tide goes in, tide goes out?” he stuttered. O’Reilly pressed on. “The water, the tide—it comes in and it goes out. It always goes in, then it goes out. … You can’t explain that. You can’t explain it.”
The words that launched a thousand memes.
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He’s a very angry man who projects it onto everyone else. Most of his fans are more into his anger than any intellectual output. His Killing series (Killing Jesus, Killing Reagan, Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Patton… is not worthwhile. And he’s genuinely frightening
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“And he’s genuinely frightening”
Oh yeah.
“The preference of McPhilmy and O’Reilly’s 17-year-old daughter is not particularly difficult to guess: As we noted last year, she told a court-appointed forensic examiner that she witnessed O’Reilly drag her mother down a staircase by the neck.”
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“He’s a very angry man who projects it onto everyone else. ”
I keep thinking that he’s acting. I’m an angry person myself and I don’t feel a kindred soul in him. 🙂
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On this blog you don’t come across as a ball of free floating rage looking for something to latch onto. You make an effort to not have it leak into every corner of your existence. I don’t get that sense from O’Reilly’s public persona.
Why You Are Angry: A Text Game See, I’m not sure you’d recognize yourself in any of that link at all. 🙂
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