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This week on The Big Picture, Brian Powell looks at the rise of right-wing extremist activity in Montana, Bill O'Reilly's factually-challenged new book, and Fox News tipping the scales in favor of dirty energy.
Bill O'Reilly seems to be the most moderate voice on Fox News. Ingraham was a speaker at a T-Bagger rally and made an allusion to the Nazi-era poem 'First They Came' that was essentially right wing propaganda. See http://rightardia.blogspot.com/2009/12/first-they-came.html
In this
interview with Bill O'Reilly, he asks her if she is smart enough to be
president. Her answer has to be seen to be believed. Don't get me
wrong, just because you see it won't mean you'll understand it. So, I
put a transcript of her answer below so that you can try to decipher it
in your spare time.
Bill O'Reilly: Let me be very bold and fresh again, do
you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual
enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?
Sarah Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense and I
have I believe the values that I think are reflective of so many other
American values, and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not
the elitism, the uhm, the ah, a kind of spineless, spinelessness that
perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite, Ivy league
education and, and a fat resume that is based on anything but hard work
and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans are could be
seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership, I'm
not saying that that has to be me.
Can anyone really be biased enough to think that was a smart answer?
The great irony is that he asked her if she's smart enough to be
president and she gave what might be her dumbest answer yet. That
answer was so bad it almost made George W. Bush look smart. Can anyone
in good conscience defend that answer and say with a straight face that
she should be this country's leader?
If you say yes, then there is no sense in talking to one another
anymore because we are not operating in the same reality, or planet.
We'll never be able to agree on anything if we can't agree that was
just about as incomprehensible and stupid an answer as you can possibly
come up with.
And that settles the debate, because you either live in
the reality based world and realize she is obviously not qualified, or
in the immortal words of Stephen Colbert you believe that "reality has
a well-known liberal bias" and she would make a great president.
Rightardia comment: Sarah Palin has a mass communications background, but she talks in run-on sentences. Look at the first sentence in her answer. it has 83 words in it. Imagine trying to comprehend a sentence with 83 words.
You can always tell when she is under stress because she starts talking faster and the pitch of her voice goes up.
A college professor of Middle class Warrior once told him that the problem with America is that there is too much common sense. What America really needs are more people with some uncommon sense.
If you want an example of a president with loads of common sense and someone who preferred gut check intuition to analyses, try George W. Bush.
First Posted: 09-19-09 08:59 AM | Updated: 09-19-09 10:09 AM
On Friday night, "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace was a guest on Bill O'Reilly's hen making the rounds of the Sunday news programs to push health care reform.
Ironically, Wallace was the one to accuse the Obama administration of "childishness," saying: "They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."
Is this quid pro quo?
Unlike CBS, ABC, NBC and PBS, Fox did not be broadcast Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, September 9.
Wilshire & Washingtonreports that the network issued a statement: "The Fox Broadcasting Company will not air the Presidential Address to Congress on Wednesday, September 9 at 8:00 PM (ET).
