Utopia 2025

Last night, watching “The O’Reilly Factor,” I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that Bill did re-broadcast his comments about San Francisco (see post below), but conveniently left out the part about calling for Al-Qaeda to bomb the Coit Tower. He played the entire quote, just without those last few crucial words. Hmmmm.

When the liberal guest from SF tried to call him on that editing job, O’Reilly shrugged his loofah-polished shoulders and said, “Hey, we can’t play the whole thing. It’s five minutes long.”

This morning, I was thinking, I wonder what Malkin, Esmay et al. would say if their President dared the enemy to attack Americans. Could they justify that?

Then I remembered – that’s just what Bush did.

“There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on.“

– President George W. Bush, 7/1/2003

Hey, you know, if [in San Francisco] you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I’m not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I’m the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, “Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you’re not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead.”

And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. We’re going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.

-Bill O’Reilly, on “The Radio Factor,” Nov. 8

Bill O’Reilly is a traitor to this country. Bill O’Reilly is a terrorist sympathizer. He should be imprisoned in Guantanamo without access to an attorney, tortured, and then, best case scenario, executed on national TV.

I’m serious.

Maybe we could get one of those cages to attach to his head so rats could eat his face. I’d pony up serious Pay-Per-View cash to see that.

Then, to defend himself, he said this:

This is a man who sexually harrassed his employees multiple times over the phone, describing the sex acts he would perform on them while using a vibrator on himself.

Fucker.

“I wish we could make the right wing small enough to drown in a bathtub.”

-commenter on John Cole’s Balloon Juice site

The White House is trying to get news services to change their transcripts of the press conference where Scott McClellan is finally called on his lies about how Libby and Rove “were not involved” in the Plame fiasco.

Winston Smith, call your office.

Why can’t any of them be as forthright as fake Democrat Matt Santos? Why can’t they stand up for themselves and what they believe in? (Memo to Dems: you believe in good stuff. Trust me on this.)

Santos: I know you like to use that word, “liberal,” as if it were a crime.

Vinick: I know Democrats think “liberal” is a bad word. So bad you had to change it. What do you call yourselves now? Progressives? Is that it?

Santos: It’s true. Republicans have tried to turn “liberal” into a bad word. Well, liberals ended slavery in this country.

Vinick: A Republican president ended slavery.

Santos: Yes, a liberal Republican, Senator. What happened to them? They got run out of your party. What did liberals do that was so offensive to the liberal party? Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did conservatives do? They opposed every single one of those things. Every one. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, “liberal” — as if it was something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from — it won’t work, Senator. Because I will pick up that label, and I will wear it as a badge of honor.

-from “The West Wing” live debate episode Sunday

Seeing all those Republicans praising Rosa Parks made me sick to my stomach. Conservatives are on the wrong side of history, again and again. I think it’s about time we had the courage to point that out.

If anyone’s out there reading this, I’d love it if you’d leave a comment. Let me know if you’ve read the site before, why you read it, that sort of thing. Thanks.

Russ Feingold (D-WI) is making a lot of sense about Iraq. I wonder why more people aren’t.

A left-winger looks at half a glass of water and says it’s half full. A right-winger looks at the same glass and wants to know who drank half their water.

-from a commenter at Queen of All Evil

My question, as always, is who are these millions of people that make up Bush’s 35 percent? After all, these are the people who would staunchly defend the President if he reached into Dakota Fanning’s chest on live national TV and pulled out and ate her heart greedily, the bits of blood and muscle spattering the camera lens.

Dick Cheney? 19 percent.

“This is unacceptable. This is America. And if you don’t like America, find another place to live…..That said, we are respectful and tolerant of all religions and all people.”

-Hillsborough County (FL) Commissioner Brian Blair on The O’Reilly Factor Thursday night. Blair was upset over the local school board’s decision to cancel all school holidays based on religion after the board heard a request to honor a Muslim religious holiday on the school calendar.

O’Reilly went on to opine that it was “absurd” in a “Judeo-Christian country” like the U.S. that schools honor Muslim religious holidays.