The Senate voted 69-29 to pass the FISA Bill today. What’s the FISA Bill, you ask? Well, it allows for the government to spy on all citizens (that’s us) and provides immunity from prosecution for the telecom companies that make it possible.
John McCain was one of the 69 senators who voted to pass the bill. After the vote, they took a steaming dump on the Constitution. Barack Obama, and 28 other Democrats, remained loyal patriots and voted against the bill. Hillary Clinton didn’t even bother to show up for the vote. The official tally can be seen here.
Senator Chris Dodd, a true patriot who fought hard to save our right to privacy, sums the FISA Bill up best:
We’ve just sanctioned the single largest invasion of privacy in American history.
The other night Presidential candidate Chris Dodd was a guest on The O’Reilly Factor. O’Reilly was up in arms over an Adobe Photoshop® altered image that suggests Senator Joseph Lieberman was about to fellate the President. Oddly enough, it was only Lieberman’s head that was added to the picture. The original image did have someone kneeling before Bush, appearing to fool around with his junk. It also had someone one bump away from grinding his Presidential seal.
During the heated discussion, Senator Dodd called O’Reilly out on a November 2005 statement O’Reilly made that suggested terrorists blow up San Francisco. Now, technically, Senator Dodd was wrong. O’Reilly DID make the suggestion that terrorists blow up San Francisco but he didn’t say it on his TV show, as Dodd thought. He said it on his radio show. So O’Reilly didn’t lie when he said, “No. You’re wrong. I didn’t say it here,” because he didn’t say it “here.” He said it HERE.
Hey, you know, if 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.
Charming. Is there anything more American than encouraging terrorists to blow up San Francisco? It’s definitely not as vile as some person on teh Internets posting an altered image of The Decider and Senator Palpatine Lieberman. We all know the conservatives in this country have a no-tolerance stance when it comes to oral sex (they’re more accepting of diaper fetishes.) I’m sure if Lieberman had blown The Decider they both would have been impeached by now and Lieberman’s blue suit would be at the cleaners.
Fortunately Mr. O’Reilly’s suggestion of San Francisco seceding from the Union was chock-full of delicious lodrick. If San Francisco were to become its own country, I doubt terrorists would be all that interested in blowing it up. After all, it’s “Death to America,” not “Death to San Fran.” I imagine the first action the President of San Francisco, or as O’Reilly might call it: the USGay, would take would be to establish an inviting foreign policy. I’m also sure that other nations would be willing to work on having healthy diplomatic relations with this new tiny, tone, and tan country. Well, except maybe for the United States. The USA would probably invade San Francisco to disarm them and to liberate its citizens. (Can you liberate liberals?) It would get messy, as there would be rampant seculartarian uprisings, unless of course it’s the weekend of Burning Man.
There is another glowing example of O’Reilly’s hypocrisy that compliments his hatred for those who don’t accept his ideology. O’Reilly has stated that any content on a website is a direct representation of that site. O’Reilly has even gone as far as to say that he stands by the content on his site.
Recently Hillary Clinton’s Communications Director, Howard Wolfson, was on The O’Reilly Factor. O’Reilly criticized Clinton for attending Yearly Kos because of the hate on the Daily Kos website. Wolfson responded to that with, “Bill, even your website has things on it that you would find objectionable.” O’Reilly fired back with his trademark, “That’s Bull!”
The following night, Jane Hall was a guest. She also told O’Reilly that his own site had hateful comments on it. In retaliation, O’Reilly had her mic cutoff so that she couldn’t have her final say. O’Reilly justified this action by saying, “Here’s the truth, I can’t let Jane lie.”
Well it’s a good thing Bill didn’t let Jane “lie” on his show. The only one allowed doing that is Bill O’Reilly himself. There ARE messages of hate on billoreilly.com. One comment even garnered the attention of the Secret Service by making a death threat against Hillary Clinton. So if Bill O’Reilly endorses the comments on his website, does that mean Bill O’Reilly endorses violence against Hillary Clinton? After all, we already know he feels about violence against whole cites.
There it is, plain and simple, clear as crystal. The source of so much information for so many people is built on a foundation of nothing but lies. Yet so many people watch and believe and will continue to do so because they lack the ability to form their own opinion and need to be told what to think. Remember: Just because someone says something is the truth doesn’t make it the truth. And that’s The Truth.
