Bill O'Reilly - He's a card
10/04/07 04:15 Filed in: Personal
Bill O'Reilly has something of a reputation in the states. He's the sort of man who likes to say that the Klu Klux Klan have a point just to get people so enraged they watch his show, to shout at it. Only problem is, there's a huge amount of his viewers who share such opinions.
I caught his show this evening on Sky channel something or other; where he described 'illegal aliens' (you can read that as economic refugees, people who run the gauntlet from Mexico to find a better life for themselves)
"those people",
"that type of character",
"criminals of the highest order" and my personal favourite
"vermin".
Now correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't America a country build on immigration? Just because they no longer come from Germany, Italy or in Bill's case Ireland doesn't mean they have any less of a right to a better life than he does.
Two questions.
1. Does Bill O'Reilly benefit from the cheap labour provided by such immigration? Either directly or indirectly.
2. Is he aware of his own family history?
I also caught reference to this little encounter with Geraldo Rivera. Where he actually asks Geraldo if he would 'want' a person to sneak across the border, get drunk and run over his daughters. I was waiting for "And I suppose you'd bring back Hitler" or "I guess Communism is YOUR better alternative.". That's the sort of argument you can expect from a man whose personal life is less that squeaky clean and his opinions are based more upon getting the headlines than making meaningful contributions to the world.
This is a man who openly says his thinks torture is a good thing and that a kidnap victim was 'better off with is captor than his ageing parents'.
Extraordinarily he suggested that US soldiers carried out the Malmedy massacre during World War Two when in fact THEY WERE THE VICTIMS! Quite how O'Reilly kept his job after this outrageously offensive mistake is beyond me. But then I'm biased, because I believe that Bill O'Reilly is nothing more than a racist bigot... and I'm not alone.
But should Bill O'Reilly be not allowed to broadcast his Nuremberg style rants? Absolutely; while dressed in an orange uniform, in a small cage and in some place near Cuba.
I caught his show this evening on Sky channel something or other; where he described 'illegal aliens' (you can read that as economic refugees, people who run the gauntlet from Mexico to find a better life for themselves)
"those people",
"that type of character",
"criminals of the highest order" and my personal favourite
"vermin".
Now correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't America a country build on immigration? Just because they no longer come from Germany, Italy or in Bill's case Ireland doesn't mean they have any less of a right to a better life than he does.
Two questions.
1. Does Bill O'Reilly benefit from the cheap labour provided by such immigration? Either directly or indirectly.
2. Is he aware of his own family history?
I also caught reference to this little encounter with Geraldo Rivera. Where he actually asks Geraldo if he would 'want' a person to sneak across the border, get drunk and run over his daughters. I was waiting for "And I suppose you'd bring back Hitler" or "I guess Communism is YOUR better alternative.". That's the sort of argument you can expect from a man whose personal life is less that squeaky clean and his opinions are based more upon getting the headlines than making meaningful contributions to the world.
This is a man who openly says his thinks torture is a good thing and that a kidnap victim was 'better off with is captor than his ageing parents'.
Extraordinarily he suggested that US soldiers carried out the Malmedy massacre during World War Two when in fact THEY WERE THE VICTIMS! Quite how O'Reilly kept his job after this outrageously offensive mistake is beyond me. But then I'm biased, because I believe that Bill O'Reilly is nothing more than a racist bigot... and I'm not alone.
But should Bill O'Reilly be not allowed to broadcast his Nuremberg style rants? Absolutely; while dressed in an orange uniform, in a small cage and in some place near Cuba.