For warrior O'Reilly, facts get in the way

[maddezmom]

Friday, October 06, 2006
Elbert Ventura
Special to The Plain Dealer
Bill O'Reilly's "Culture Warrior," the Fox newsman's latest book, is a call to arms. In plain language, the cable-news host lays out for his readers a dire vision of America at war.

The enemy, however, is not al-Qaida. Rather, O'Reilly lashes out at what he calls the "secular-progressive movement," a cabal of the news media, liberal groups and Hollywood stars. Forget Osama bin Laden. It's George Clooney and CNN we ought to be keeping an eye on.

From its very first pages -- a preface called "Central Command (CENTCOM) Initial Briefing" -- the book strives to convey a sense of urgency. "My goal is to expose and defeat people who have the power to do you great harm," O'Reilly writes.

Who are these people?

"Culture Warrior" lists a gamut of personalities that runs from Barbra Streisand to Walter Cronkite. O'Reilly calls progressive financier George Soros "public enemy number one," followed closely by the ACLU, which he blames for the deterioration of American culture. They all have one thing in common: the promotion of the secular-progressive (or "S-P") agenda, whose hallmarks are a lack of patriotism and "standard-issue communist thought."

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Sounds like a cult leader to me. :puke:

[Journeyman]

1. Or, as another nut job, Don Quixote de la Mancha, put it:

"Facts, sir, are the enemy of truth!

[luckyleftyme2]

2. IGNORE HIM

HERE'S ANOTHER ASSHOLE WITH A PROGRAM-IGNORE HIM-HE'S ALREADY PROVED HE'S A MEMBER OF THE MORALLY WRONG!

[Journeyman]

3. Did you mean to respond to my post? . . .

Either you have something against Don Quixote, are a secret Sancho Panza partisan, find unrepentant kitchen whores intellectually stimulating, or you really meant to respond to the OP, in which case you should be more careful to whom you post replies.

Or it could be your keyboard OUTBURST was intended for me, in which case, sir, we must duel -- cold pasta al dente at 15 paces. I may be morally wrong in your view, sir, but I intend to make my vengeance stick!

[mcscajun]

5. My guess is he's responding (in absentia) to Bill O'Reilly

Not to you or the OP.

[Journeyman]

7. Mine too. . .

I just thought his emphatic alarm hilarious, especially if applied to the Knight Errant or myself.

[Mythsaje]

4. Brave words from Olbermann's punching bag...

Color me unimpressed...

[Demeter]

6. How very Odd

All these people O'Reilly fears don't advocate violence, torture, or destroying the Constitution. Quite the opposite, in fact. They don't advocate raping the earth, or women, or men, or minorities or other countries. They don't advocate any cult or group think.


Is that why they are so frightening?



Define patriotism for me, and then explain which part of providing for the common welfare you don't understand, Bill.