In a recent “The Talking Points Memo” O’Reilly got just about everyting wrong. He said the internet had put nearly every famous person in the country under siege. He is irate.
Celebrities get criticized by posters! :mad:
And, the posters don’t work for big corporations! :mad:
They post what they like! :mad:
They can’t be sued. :mad:
And, some of the criticism is inaccurate! :mad:
O’Reilly calls posters, “criminals at the computer.”
In his view, freedom of speech extends only to a point. And, the point where freedom of speech ends is where the mighty Bill O’Reilly is getting criticized. Awwww. Poor baby! :wally
Actually, people who post libelous things can be sued, just as they can if they had libeled someone in another medium. It’s a bit more challenging to identify the perpetrators when the Internet is the chosen medium, I suppose, but it isn’t like libel law ends at the DSL line.
Agree that the TPM is mind-bogglingly stupid, even by O’Reilly standards. He’s basically just saying “Internet BAD!,” because his examples are so damned inconsistent. He complains about libel and slander and then brings up NAMBLA’s website encouraging child molestation as an example. Huh? What does one have to do with the other?
But here’s my favorite stupidity:
Hey Bill: you’re criticizing webloggers for picking up an allegedly flawed news story from a traditional media outlet. Y’know, an outlet of the type that supposedly operates with those “restraints” which you love so dearly and which ostensibly prevents inaccurate reporting.
I may have allegedly read a post on the internet that allegedly insinuated that Bill O’Reilly may have been implicated by another internet poster in what may have been an alleged preschool prostitute ring. This same fantastic and incredibly credible source may have allegedly posted that when asked for comment O’reilly may have allegedly implied that there’s no better sex than sodomizing a tot.
Or may be not
Having the greater burden of judging accuracy is the price we pay for free speech.
He seems to think that it’s good that everybody have corporate sponsors stifling them; I think that’s one of the biggest reasons we have such a dearth of viewpoints being represented in the media.
Bill O’Reilly strikes me as the kind of guy who reads 1984 and comes out of it with the the impression that the thought police were merely misunderstood.
Polycarp and Palpatine both begin with P and have two p’s, like tow ‘peas in a pod’. The plot unfolds, Polycarp is the evil Emperor and the Dark Sith. That is why he is running for the presidency, that would of course mean that Esprix running for Vice Presidency is Darth Vader.
Urrghhh, why can’t I breath, blacking out, must hit submit …
