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...he'd be a f*cking tornado.
I just pulled this nonsense from his page at the Faux News site, and if there was ever a man with a greater need for a book of ethics and a dictionary than O'Reilly, I have yet to hear of him:
There Is No Uprising in Iraq
Once again, the elite media have misled you. On the front pages of The New York Times, The L.A. Times and The Washington Post, the words "uprising in Iraq" are featured.
One problem, it's not an uprising. The Berlin Wall deal was an uprising. The regular folks rebelling against an entrenched authority is an uprising. Militant attacks in Iraq are an insurgency, not an uprising. This kind of stuff makes me angry. The elite media often spins information to make editorial points. And that's really wrong.
I took the liberty of breaking out my handy-dandy Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary to see what Webster had to say about the difference between uprising and insurgency. It turns out that there isn't a whole hell of a lot of difference. Uprising was defined as "an insurrection," and do you know what is synonymous with "insurrection"? That's right: insurgency. I hardly think 1 degree of separation makes all the difference in the world.
The scariest thing about his total lack of ethics and/or knowledge of basic English is the fact that this SOB is the single biggest reason Faux News continues to exist; this tells me that all those viewers who drive up his ratings are, by and large, failing to see O'Reilly's bullsh*t themselves, and that tells me we have far too many ingnorant f*cks running around this country who probably believe anything the right-wingnuts tell them.
O'Reilly then closed his Talking Points Memo with this announcement:
Today in Iraq, there was less fighting and no uprising. "Talking Points" is confident the American military will crush the al-Sadr militia and subdue the town of Fallujah. Again, somebody alert the elite media. There is no uprising in Iraq.
Well then, I guess someone had better tell the families of those American servicemen and Iraqi civilians killed that it was all nonsense, simply something the "elite media" made up to scare hard working, patriotic Americans.
Christ, he makes me want to vomit...
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