Things That Just Piss Me Off

I watched the Bill O’Reilly interview with Barack Obama. Part 1 of the interview wasn’t too bad, but one thing continues to amaze me about Fox News and it’s unqualified, celebrity anchor people, like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.

These people have no more qualifications that give them insight into politics or how this country should be run than you or I. They simply have a job at a so-called news station called Fox News where if they do not continue to represent a republican neo-con point of view, they will no longer have that job.

O’Reilly has long said that he does not belong to or identify with any political party. In 2000, however, The New York Daily News determined that he was registered with the Republican Party in the state of New York. He said that there had been “no box to fill in” to register as an Independent; in fact, the form did have a box labeled “I do not wish to enroll in a party.” Since this disclosure, he has registered as an independent.

At any news organization, the editors and owners determine the philosophy that will be followed by all who work for them if they want a job. Some owners make sure that their advertisers are never seen in a bad light on the news. Some owners determine that their stories should have a liberal point of view. Others, like Fox News, have determined that everything should have a neo-con point of view.

It is their right to do that, just like it is the right of other news organizations to do whatever they do. However, I do take exception with Fox News because they claim to be fair and balanced. During the democratic convention, the fair and balanced logo was beside Brit Hume’s big head while he said, “I hope there is some kind of rift between the Clinton and Obama supporters so we can bring you that right away.” That is not a fair and balanced statement and clearly shows that he was there to try and find something bad to report.

You can see it in the questions they ask. You can see it in the comments they make. You can see it in how they choose their guests. Fox News is not fair and balanced. As I said, they can be whatever they want, but it is total dishonesty to claim they are fair and balanced.

It was also apparent when Bill O’Reilly interviewed Barack Obama. If anyone on any Fox News program brings up anything that criticizes the Bush administration, they seem to have been instructed to change the subject and not allow it to be said.

Bill ‘O’Reilly and Hannity do this better than most. They simply raise their voice and do not allow the other person to be heard or they interurpt the person they are interviewing before they can finish their answer.

In this video watch what happens when Obama tries to bring up anything about the way Bush has handled the Iraq war;

On Fox News, you cannot criticize George Bush in any way without being interupted, being condescended to, or being yelled at. Fair and Balanced? Are you joking?

O’Reilly, you are a pinhead. You will do and say anything to keep that cushy job at Fox News. Your interviews are a complete joke. You do not interview people and not let them answer the questions and still call yourself a journalist.

You are a loudmouth bully who believes that anyone who disagrees with him is wrong because you are always right in your own mind. You don’t invite people to be interviewed. You invite people to hear what Bill O’Reilly has to say to them.

As a former weatherman you probably found out that hurricanes would go wherever they wanted, even if you yelled at them, so that wasn’t the job for you. If you really think you are a journalist, you really need your head examined. You are a political pundit with a loud mouth and nothing real to say.

Fox News did it again during the republican convention. They brought up John Edwards cheating on his wife as some sort of proof that the democrats are immoral. Well, the dems also had Bill Clinton.

But there have been so many republicans caught in sex scandals and indicted for crimes, that you would think the republicans would want to avoid talking about it at all.

No mention of John Mccain’s infedelity?

A former Arizona rodeo beauty queen and daughter of a millionaire Phoenix businessman, Cindy McCain was 25 when she met her future husband at a cocktail party in Hawaii. John McCain was a 43-year-old naval liaison officer travelling with a congressional delegation, his sights already set on a political career.

He was also still married to his first wife Carol. Carol later attributed the breakdown of the marriage to “John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again”.

McCain fell like a brick for Cindy, who was the heir to a brewery distribution business worth millions. For several years afterwards the McCains endured Washington gossip that he had dumped his first wife - who had been crippled in a car accident - in favour of a trophy bride to enhance his political ambitions.

It was in the late 1980s, after a series of miscarriages and giving birth to three children, that Cindy developed spinal problems and was prescribed painkillers after surgery.

Her husband and family had no idea she was secretly taking pills stolen from a charity she had created called the American Voluntary Medical Team, which sent mobile surgical units to war zones.

When federal agents began to investigate gaps in the charity’s records, Cindy telephoned her husband, a senator in Washington, and confessed.

She admitted at the time that the 1994 episode had “nearly destroyed both of us”. But she underwent treatment and attended meetings of Narcotics Anonymous as part of a deal with prosecutors who dropped charges.

I’m not attacking John or Cindy Mccain. People make mistakes. It doesn’t matter what political party they are in. But the republicans do not seem to realize they live in a glass house. They talk about Edwards and Clinton and act as if the republican party is full of politicians that have the high moral ground.

I call on John McCain and the republican party to start talking about issues and start saying exactly what they promise to do if elected AGAIN. Rather than making general “I’m a true patriot and you are not” statements and ads that only talk about Obama, run some ads that tell us what you will really do on specific issues.