I'm going to try and watch the O'Reilly Factor tonight. I need to know what's happening to 1/2 the country. What drug are they taking? I might get some information from this show.
I missed the first 7 or 8 minutes. I came in at the end of a discussion with two women and O'Reilly talking about the economy today.
I'm tired of people who say the Democrats have been in control of Congress for two years.
1. Its only been since January 2007, which is 20 months as of now. And they've been saying it for the last couple months.
2. The Democrats haven't really controlled Congress in the same way Republicans have controlled it - by their very numbers, the Republicans could do whatever they wanted from January 2001 through January 2007. The current congress has more Democrats than Republicans, but by such a slim margin that they can't override vetos or anything like that.
Talking Point - O'Reilly mocks the NYTimes article about Palin. He thinks the NYTimes is hysterical about Palin. He concedes she lacks policy expertise in many area, but so did Clinton and Bush and lots of other Presidents who may have made mistakes but they had people around them that had the expertise. He said the real problem is that the NYTimes fears the return of traditional principles.
He also allows that he's troubled the campaign won't let her be interviewed by him. He says we have a right to question her, but "Let's do it in a fair way, okay?"
Newt Gingrich - he says that Charlie Gibson was SHOCKED that Palin mentioned God [in his interview with her]
Newt says the NYTimes is hopeless.
O'Reilly says the Washington Post is beyond bias or opinion at this point, its plan is to destroy the woman [Palin]. He continues to say that the overreaction won't stop and its been helping the McCain/Palin camp so far, but in order for the hysteria to stop, Palin has to get on all the shows and get interviewed.
The Obama Chronicles (a 25 part series)
"I haven't called him Barry or Hussein - I haven't knocked him in any way at all." O'Reilly thinks that's proof he's presenting an unbiased report on Obama. I think its proof that he doesn't normally treat people with respect and expects to get brownie points for having common decency.
David Mendell - author of book about Obama: From Promise to Power
"You're being very kind to Obama's mother, but she was a hippie!"
Mother was a free spirit, Grandmother was a pragmatist.
Body Language Segment - Tonya Reiman.
Tonya thinks that in Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin he was looking down on her, being condescending. Bill O'Reilly says Charlie Gibson didn't mean to. She said "How do you know?" and he said "Because I know him, he wouldn't do that." So, she relented and said Charlie Gibson was using the reading glasses so it wasn't intentional.
She also thinks that when Obama made his comment about lipstick on a pig, he clearly didn't have any negative body language associated with it. She doesn't think he has negative intention here. She said the 'gets it' but Obama doesn't - the lipstick on a pig comment.
Political Ad segment - two ads: McCain hasn't changed in the last 26 years since he came to congress and doesn't know how to use technology, and Obama's one accomplishment is to teach comprehensive sex education to kindergartners.
Juan Williams and Mary Katherine Ham
Per Reilly - Its a flat out lie that McCain said he doesn't know anything about the economy. And iyts not true that Obama wants sex ed for kindergarten
Per MKH the reason McCain doesn't go on the internet and needs help from his wife is because of his war injuries.
Juan Williams' advice is that Barack Obama should be responding to the ads by talking about the issues
Reality check segment.
Saturday Night Live: Entertaining, not mean-spirited. Good for the country to laugh.
Since June 11 - Price of crude has declined 35%, but price of gas at the pump has declined only 7%. I didn't catch this - but did he say the government should do something about that?
Chuck Norris vs Arianna Huffington on CNN - O'Reilly: I'm just glad I wasn't there
Steve Busey vs Brad Garrett - no comment about it. Huh? I don't get it and didn't see the point.
Pinheads and Patriots segment
Patriot - Grateful to 1st responders in TX/LA over weekend.
Pinhead - Chevy Chase - he wanted Palin to be decimated. Per O'Reilly, "Chase is a hater"
e-mails were overwhelmingly against the Charlie Gibson ABC interview with Palin. I think one was positive.
Three e-mails were about Bill O'Reilly or his new book.
What do I think?
The Obama Chronicles segment seemed kinda straightforward.
I think the Body Language segment is kinda stupid. Based on what I saw the woman just gives O'Reilly what he wants to hear. In this evening's segment she changed her story after O'Reilly stuck up for Gibson. Maybe O'Reilly likes 'yes' people?
As far as MKH's assertion that McCain doesn't use the Internet because of his war injuries - well, that seems bogus. I watched the first 1 or 2 minutes of Hannity and Colmes after The O'Reilly Factor and they said the same thing. So, that tells me that the McCain campaign has spread the word, after Obama's ad came out, that its about the war. Is there anything about McCain that isn't about the war? McCain is willing to devalue everything about his POW experience just to win this election. He'll slap that on anything and we're all expected to shut up about it.
Now on to O'Reilly saying it was a flat out lie that McCain didn't say he doesn't know anything about the economy. It isn't a flat out lie. I remember him saying it. I'm going to find it on YouTube...
...okay - I didn't see it on YouTube. In a Republican primary debate, moderator Tim Russert referenced the quote and McCain said "I don't know where you got that quote from". Russert said it came from the Boston Globe on December 18, 2007.
YouTube of the Tim Russert reference: couldn't find it
Link to the Boston Globe article: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/12/mccain_its_abou.html
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should," McCain said. "I've got Greenspan's book."
So, its not a flat out lie that McCain has said that. He said it, but he backed off later and pretended he'd never heard of such a thing!
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