From Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly on Navy vet Country Joe as Veterans Day chairman: "
hy don't you ask Fidel Castro?"
In remarking on a controversy surrounding upcoming Veterans Day activities in Berkeley, California, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly blasted singer-songwriter and Berkeley Veterans Day Committee chairman Country Joe McDonald for his involvement. On the October 19 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, O'Reilly said that "pinheads" in Berkeley named McDonald as chairman; he then quipped, "hy don't you ask Fidel Castro?" But O'Reilly's comments misconstrue the controversy and misleadingly smear McDonald, the original event organizer.
The Berkeley controversy resulted from a proposal by McDonald to invite Bill Mitchell, a co-founder of anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan's Gold Star Families for Peace, to speak at a Veterans Day ceremony, according to Knight Ridder news service. Some city council members and veterans' groups raised objections, saying that Veterans Day is "neither the time nor place" for an "antiwar rally." Divisions over McDonald's proposal have prompted the apparent cancellation of the ceremony.
While the proposal of Mitchell did instigate the controversy, O'Reilly's understanding of McDonald's involvement in Veterans Day is inaccurate. O'Reilly misleadingly implied that McDonald had somehow hijacked Berkeley's Veterans Day, questioning the "pinheads" who would say, "eah, let's get Country Joe to be the Veterans Day guy." But as the San Francisco Chronicle pointed out, Berkeley avoided celebrating Veterans Day for years, and it was, in fact, McDonald who reinstated observance of Veterans Day in Berkeley and spearheaded several other efforts to honor veterans. McDonald, a noted peace activist and Vietnam War protester who wrote the antiwar song "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag," is a Navy veteran.
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200510210003
O'Leilly must have no one who does research for him otherwise he would've known Joe is a Veteran. (Who would want to work with such a pompous, nasty blowhard?)
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Among the comments which were posted I found this hilarious parody of Country Joe and the Fish's most famous song: :rofl:
re: O'Reilly on Navy vet Country Joe as Veterans Day chairman: "hy don't you ask Fidel Castro?"
It's one two three, what is he lying for?
Don't ask me, I don't watch his shows.
I think he sucks and blows.
And it's five six seven, open up the no spin zone.
Ain't no time to check the facts.
Whoopee, we'll gonna lie!
by phreak - Friday October 21, 2005 03:58:08 PM EST - reply to this comment - flag this comment
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