Sometimes I just don't know what to say. Lyin' Bill O'Reilly manages to lie even while telling the truth when he attempts to counter Michelle Obama's poignant statement that the White House was built with slave labor. Isn't it a sign of hope that the black family of a black president now lives there?
Perhaps Lyin' Bill acts the way he does as a reflex rather than as any attempt at reasoned commentary, but can anyone think the fact that slave labor was used on a Federal project is mitigated by the allegedly adequate food and lodgings provided? Hey Lyin' Bill, what if Fox withheld your pay and says it's OK because they give you a comfortable chair to sit in ( and obviously lots to eat) while you tell lies about just about everything. What about we throw you into prison for sedition, Lyin' Bill -- I hear the food's not too bad.
Why is it I actually have more disdain for Sean "the little man" Hannity than I do for Lyin Bill? Not that I have had much good to say about Lyin Bill these past few years.
ReplyDeleteI just had a thought. Right after the election Lyin Bill will start his annual series about the war on Christmas. Gawd how some things never change.
Insanity Hannity may have the edge here. I wouldn't dispute it. I'm hanging on to a false hope for the moment. Now that Ailes is out Fox may tone it down a bit, but it can't be much because if they loose the psycho audience they'll have nothing.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly reminded me of a ninety-five year old woman who was probably born in about 1910 in Kansas or Missouri. Her husband was a jolly old fellow who used to be an Army Supply Sergeant in WWII. But her slavery stories had to do with her own grandparents. She was very fond of saying how well cared for her grandparents slaves had been. They had taken good care of their slaves and treated them just like members of the family. Sort of like the more sympathetic slave owners in Alex Haley's Roots. But she would really light up when she would explain the plight of the slaves when that horrible Abraham Lincoln freed them. She could put you right in their shoes one hundred and fifty years ago. "Where would they go?" "What would they do?" She was extremely proud to end her tale of woe by saying that her gracious grandparents told their ex-slaves that they wouldn't have to go anywhere. Why, they could just stay on with the Master just as they had before the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteShe was an interesting and intelligent woman. Apparently she had been a talented church musician and perhaps a choirmaster. She had many classical conservative points-of-view which actually were still playing themselves out before her death ten years ago. The funniest one was that God had hidden oil deposits in the earth where he knew that industrious men would be able to find them in modern times. Thus, the burning of petroleum products which began during the industrial revolution was instituted by God for the benefit and furtherance of the human race.
Why is an idiot like Bill O'Reilly still alive today? Even if he is rather too young to die, why on earth does he still have a TV show?
You know, I've heard that hidden oil deposit thing and not too long ago either. These stories never die because they justify our avarice and ambition and ego. There's a school of thought that says things don't change until generations change, but even then, things stay the same.
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