Bill O'Reilly, again, proves he's a shit head
Posted by: Matt McCormick
If you ever watch or listen to conservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, you probably know that he has a long list of people he believes are "hurting America" and who he feels must be called out and shamed. To do so he sends TV crews to ambush/interview these people; catching them off guard and aggressively questioning them while video-taping the whole thing. They then edit out little snippets of the unprepared "America Hater's" reactions and air clips that they feel both shame the person and prove that they are, in fact, a scourge to this great country.
Well, a funny thing happened a couple days ago. O'Reilly sent his goons after favorite target Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform and cornered the unsuspecting journalist and berated him with questions. Now Moyers handled himself just fine, said he expected O'Reilly to heavily edit the "interview" and issued a challenge to O'Reilly to come on his show for an un-edited, full hour debate. Ironically, one thing O'Reilly's crew forgot to think about was that there might be other journalists at this conference, journalists with cameras who might turn around and ambush the ambushers.
here is the unedited 'ambush' video-taped by journalists who do not work for Fox (be sure to watch to the end, it's classic)
and here is what wound up on O'Reilly's show. Heavily edited as Moyer's predicted, and suspiciously missing the segment where Moyer's offers the challenge for debate:
O'Reilly, being the fine journalist (and protector of America) that he is, does us all a great service by dissecting Moyer's body language, and his conclusion that Moyers is "rude and crazy and a scary fanatic" is perhaps one of the most insightful bits of information I have heard in years.
this is our moment
Posted by: Matt McCormick
if you did not catch Barack Obama's speech last night in St. Paul, Minnesota, I'd like to strongly suggest that you click here and watch it. history is being made.
"America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love. The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment -- this was the time -- when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals. Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America."
