Ravings of John C. A. Bambenek has How Bill O'Reilly gets it wrong...:
He defends Rather based on the fact that people treated him as guilty until proven innocent. Well, we know the docs were forged and he was the public face behind them. What do you expect? Whe it turned out some alleged claims about Iraqi WMD weren't apparently true Bush got blamed, despite the fact he obviously didn't sit in the CIA vetting the intel himself. It's a fact of life, if you are in charge, you are responsible. But let's skip past all that because that's not what I want to focus on.Posted by Simon at November 30, 2004 08:45 AMO'Reilly claims "Because of a ruthless and callow media, no citizen, much less one who achieves fame, is given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to allegations or personal attacks." but then goes on to say "Right-wing talk radio in particular pounded Kerry and also bludgeoned Dan Rather for his role in another smear incident - the charges against President Bush about his National Guard service. Again, Rather was found guilty without a fair hearing."
Isn't it odd that a person very much a part of the ruthless and callow media is now being victimized by the ruthless and callow media?
Nothing like eating the dogfood you've been manufacturing all those years.
Some other phrases come to mind:
- You made the bed, you sleep in it.
- What goes around comes around.
- You get out of life what you put into it.
Another note: O'Reilly is an extreme traditionalist. He can eschew the extreme right or extreme left all he wants but himself is an extremist opposing his named "progressives."
Posted by: Robert Worstell at December 9, 2004 06:05 PM