Thursday, October 14, 2010
The View (of the Circus)
Here is the videotape from this morning's circus on the The View, Barbara Walter's female version of the Jerry Springer Show, where Bill O'Reilly arouses the outrage of Whoopy Goldberg and Joy Behar as they discuss the issue of the Ground Zero mosque.
This is what happens when politically-incorrect viewpoints come into contact with politically-correct liberals. What Goldberg and Behar could not do was ask O'Reilly to explain in a follow-up if he was referring to all Muslims as being those who killed us on 9-11 (which he later clarified). They could not stay and debate the issue with him because they don't have the intellect to keep up with him-especially a dolt like Behar, who can only argue her points with histrionics.
But let's get back to the statement that created the ruckus; "....because Muslims killed us on 9-11."
But let's get back to the statement O'Reilly made that set the gals off:
"....because Muslims killed us on 9-11."
Oh no, O'Reilly. It was Southern Baptists who flew the planes into those buildings on 9-11.
(Actually, it was the US government, Bush and Cheney et al, right?)
And it was the French who bombed us at Pearl Harbor.
It seems to me that Elizabeth Hasselbeck and perhaps Sherry whatever-her-name is should just leave the show and leave it to the clowns altogether. Watching this reminds me of university scenes.
Goldberg and Behar's reaction may have been a bit immature, but O'Reilly's statements were still idiotic and loaded. By simply stating "Muslims" and not qualifying it by saying "Muslim extremists" or "Islamists" or what have you, he is laying the blame at the feet of all Muslims, and that is deeply wrong and offensive.
ReplyDeleteA simple follow up question would have brought that out, which O'Reilly clarified to Walters and on his show tonight.
ReplyDeleteInstead, the speech police went off on a tangent. In Europe, one cannot even mention the name Muslim or Islam for fear of being prosecuted for hate speech. Is that where we are headed here?
Yet another example of the excruciating sensitivity of the Muslims and their fellow travellers. This terrible reference to the ah, youths, who flew airplanes into skyscrapers yelling, "Allah Akbar" willbe cited as more Islamiphobia and hate speech.
ReplyDeleteIslam's inability to deal with it's own problem isn't going to be helped by not calling them what they are and forgetting why they did it.
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No, Gary, it is not where we are headed here, for a very simple reason. We have the First Amendment. Europe never had anything like it, no matter how democratic or republican they made themselves out to be of late.
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