Showing posts with label Slate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slate. Show all posts

Apr 18, 2014

Bill O'Reilly gets that funny Loser Look after James Carville Schools him on Winning Elections

 Bill O'Reilly says horrible things every night--how can he still be on television.  Trying to understand not only why he says those things but even more perplexing....why is he so popular.   fortunately President Obama and his ideas are more popular as is evidenced by his last two elections.  One of the commenters suggested Bill may quit for money but it seems like his ultimate goal is to talk and his ego and promoting his life style for everyone and his idea of religion--often his theme is his love of his own cherished Catholic guilt.  

Zeke Emanuel stated it correctly actually to him, that when he could use his podium to distribute information he uses it to stir up fear for his own gain...........but really,.....think about it......why..........that's what I don't get.........is he a pure racist at heart?

I really think that he believes that if everyone, of all colors and lifestyles, would simply just listen to him and follow his religious ideas and beliefs everything would be just fine.

Nothing is complex to him....the man is a simpleton.

Last evening he again harped on the idea that President Obama should shut down the Russian financial system....close it down completely......have MasterCard and all banks refuse interaction with Russian money.  First, does President Obama run Mastercharge and the banks........what would an act like that do to the stock market?  He has embarrassed himself many times like when he suggested someone was setting the price of gas and he was going to find out who it was.  Right, he told this to the vice-president of the commodities exchange who had recently written an book and tried to explain to him that the price was set by the commodity traders.

He also refuses to listen when the facts are right in front of him.........he goes on about Beyonce endlessly........seriously, as if he is not enjoying her vids, but refuses to acknowledge the good work of Snoop with his football team in Long Beach.  he shook hands with Snoop at the Kennedy Center honors.........

Wouldn't Snoop know more about the issues of the inner-city than Bill?

What do you think?   Why is he so popular?

Fortunately, we have people like James Carville, on the factor last evening to hand him a can of whoop-ass once in a while--Bill insisted we only need a person like Ronald Reagan with the right amount of charisma, for the repubs to win again.  James suggested it's no longer just the rich old white guys voting now--Bill did have that real funny loser look on his face at the end of the conversation.


from Slate calling Bill out on using code words for racial insults:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/04/15/bill_o_reilly_john_calipari_fox_news_host_asks_kentucky_coach_about_hip.html

here is my letter to Bill about Snoop and his good work in Long Beach:

http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2014/03/my-letter-to-bill-oreilly-about-snoop.html

Aug 8, 2013

James Carville Explains the Facts of Life to Bill O'Reilly

O'Reilly "goes o'reilly"

I predicted this....It was just a matter f time before James took O'Reilly out.  Notice how James waits for  O'Reilly to trip himself up with his own stupid version of the facts.  O'Reilly should have known better than to go up against a fast talker like James Carville.

Good Job, James.

Thanks for explaining the facts of life to Bill O'Reilly.






now here is the real story from Slate.........

Bill O'Reilly's Brilliant Pregnancy Prevention Program, Featuring Jay Z

The glaring contradiction in conservative rhetoric between the hostility toward contraception and the endless hand-wringing about single motherhood so often goes unchallenged in cable news discourse that James Carville was able to get Bill O'Reilly to go into a rhetorical death spiral just by bringing it up on Thursday. O'Reilly was running his mouth with the usual race-baiting talking points that incorrectly assume that rising numbers of births to legally unmarried women means that huge numbers of women are raising children alone when he proposed that the federal government fund (with money!) a campaign to tell young women to stop having all of the sex. Carville took this as a fun opportunity to provoke O'Reilly's notorious dislike for contraception by pointing out that any kind of campaign to prevent unplanned pregnancy should include contraception and sex education. 
Watching O'Reilly try to reconcile his "contraception is bad" position with his "stop having babies" position is delightful. First he attempted to deny that contraception, which he associates with sex, has anything to do with baby-making:
Carville: I think the idea that the federal government is going to tell a 17-year-old that you just wait and you don’t have sex—I don’t think that’s going to be effective.
O'Reilly: It has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with getting pregnant.
After Carville pointed out the fundamental problem with this argument, O'Reilly changed tactics, claiming that you can just go to Planned Parenthood and get contraception. When Carville noted that this is a funding issue—alluding to the fact that the anti-choice movement O'Reilly supports attacks any effort to make contraception more accessible—O'Reilly flipped out: "So, you don’t want peer pressure brought, you want to fund, fund, fund! More money, more money!"
He added, "Why don’t we just have the Good Humor man have contraception on the ice cream truck?" before giving more details about what his proposed "federal program" to discourage unmarried motherhood would entail: Having Jay Z tell young women not to have sex. 
O'Reilly: It’s going to discourage! Actively discourage! Peer pressure! Jay Z, the multimillion-dollar man—have him get out and do a couple public service announcements. 
Sadly, Carville did not have a chance to ask any of the pertinent follow-up questions, but I have a few: 1) Why does O'Reilly think that the 43-year-old Jay Z is a "peer" to the young women the Fox News star would dearly love to stop having sex? 2) If a federally funded Jay Z had dropped a line to O'Reilly in 2004 to discourage the then-married man from calling up a female colleague to invite her over for potentially pregnancy-causing activities, would that have stopped him? I'm not being flip. I just want to understand how this rappers-against-sex program is expected to work.

Aug 6, 2013

Carville lays o'reilly out: it was just a matter of time

james carville explains the facts of life to bill o'reilly......

Bill O'Reilly's Brilliant Pregnancy Prevention Program, Featuring Jay Z

The glaring contradiction in conservative rhetoric between the hostility toward contraception and the endless hand-wringing about single motherhood so often goes unchallenged in cable news discourse that James Carville was able to get Bill O'Reilly to go into a rhetorical death spiral just by bringing it up on Thursday. O'Reilly was running his mouth with the usual race-baiting talking points that incorrectly assume that rising numbers of births to legally unmarried women means that huge numbers of women are raising children alone when he proposed that the federal government fund (with money!) a campaign to tell young women to stop having all of the sex. Carville took this as a fun opportunity to provoke O'Reilly's notorious dislike for contraception by pointing out that any kind of campaign to prevent unplanned pregnancy should include contraception and sex education. 
Watching O'Reilly try to reconcile his "contraception is bad" position with his "stop having babies" position is delightful. First he attempted to deny that contraception, which he associates with sex, has anything to do with baby-making:
Carville: I think the idea that the federal government is going to tell a 17-year-old that you just wait and you don’t have sex—I don’t think that’s going to be effective.
O'Reilly: It has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with getting pregnant.
After Carville pointed out the fundamental problem with this argument, O'Reilly changed tactics, claiming that you can just go to Planned Parenthood and get contraception. When Carville noted that this is a funding issue—alluding to the fact that the anti-choice movement O'Reilly supports attacks any effort to make contraception more accessible—O'Reilly flipped out: "So, you don’t want peer pressure brought, you want to fund, fund, fund! More money, more money!"
He added, "Why don’t we just have the Good Humor man have contraception on the ice cream truck?" before giving more details about what his proposed "federal program" to discourage unmarried motherhood would entail: Having Jay Z tell young women not to have sex. 
O'Reilly: It’s going to discourage! Actively discourage! Peer pressure! Jay Z, the multimillion-dollar man—have him get out and do a couple public service announcements. 
Sadly, Carville did not have a chance to ask any of the pertinent follow-up questions, but I have a few: 1) Why does O'Reilly think that the 43-year-old Jay Z is a "peer" to the young women the Fox News star would dearly love to stop having sex? 2) If a federally funded Jay Z had dropped a line to O'Reilly in 2004 to discourage the then-married man from calling up a female colleague to invite her over for potentially pregnancy-causing activities, would that have stopped him? I'm not being flip. I just want to understand how this rappers-against-sex program is expected to work.

copied from slate.......