…the guy got his master’s degree at Harvard. I find it hard to believe he doesn’t know why the tide comes in and out. — here
You can learn 95% of what you need to know about American politics by reading HL Mencken, PJ O’Rourke, and Will Rogers. — there
As always, there is contention, which means plenty of folks wind up being surprised and annoyed when the simple act of explaining their point of view does not make the other person immediately agree. — here
The theatre may be the one place where we hope our trust in authority figures will prove to be misplaced. — there
They taught you this in third grade so that you wouldn’t have to take anyone’s word for it: you can do it yourself. — here (True, but some of us are very glad someone invented pocket calculators.)
February 25th, 2011 - 5:51 pm
1. O’Reilly’s a blowhard. I have listened to/watched his program just once. Once was one too many times.
2. Mencken, PJ O’Rourke, and Will Rogers? Oh, yeh.
3. People don’t have to agree with me. Everyone has the right to be wrong… except me, of course.
4. So, a play lampooning The Church of Global Climate Scare-ism is “a joke”?
5. “It seems that at every full moon, I hear someone marveling over the coincidence that this moon happened to be rising right around sunset! or setting right around sunrise!” *heh* Our increasingly subliterate and clueless population. *sigh*
February 27th, 2011 - 10:31 am
I still don’t know why people go on O’Reilly’s show. Don’t they know what will happen? It’s not that his intellectual acumen will make them look like idiots — it’s that his idiocy will make them look like idiots. It’s the kind of idiocy that’s catching. No publicity can be worth that.
Full disclosure: sometime back in the 90s there was one of those teens-kill-parents things and as the teens wore black and call themselves “goths” there was a controversy. One of my goth friends went on O’Reilly’s show to counteract the “oh noes! Goths are all crazy psychos!” stuff, and she came off looking totally weird. Part of it was she really was eccentric; part of it was she was woefully unprepared for O’Reilly’s bullet-to-the-face dumb patter and “don’t let them finish a sentence” interview technique.
February 27th, 2011 - 11:30 am
I’ve never watched O’Reilly’s show except for clips like that once in a while but I have to say I despise hosts and interviewers who interrupt the person they’re interviewing every few seconds. I can understand if the person is going on and on and on and it looks like they’ll never shut up. If that’s the case I expect the host to interrupt but at least let the person finish two or three complete sentences!