Speaking of Bill O'Reilly. Here he is at his finest.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/ar...

Doh! Fixed.

faux news picked up his cavalcade of nonsense and lunacy a little while ago

really, though, there isn't too much difference btwn cnn and faux.

Not that there's really much difference between the two these days...

This was discussed on another thread a day or so ago...
All negative fluctuations in the market are the DIRECT fault of one Jimmy Carter...this goes back even before the dreaded Clintonian era...
Just ask any rightwinger.
;)

And needs to be exposed whenever he says something mind-numbingly stupid...which evidently, is every time he speaks.

I think he made a poopie.

the name of the blog IS Crooks and LIARS!

Beck is a lying LIAR, a sociopath and the CROOKS in the cable cabals give this lying LIAR a national soap box upon which he can hurl his horseshit at the nation.

Dude: In my reply yesterday I pointed out that I post on many, many other subjects and gave you links to them. Not to mention that I write as a journalist on many others, which makes me wonder if you have any idea exactly what my "chops" are.

Secondarily: If you don't believe that exposing right-wing mendacity and dumbassery doesn't help the cause, then you oughta go elsewhere. It's what we do here.

I guess your feelings got hurt or something. Grow up.

While you might think that this doesn't subtract from the popularity of a Beck, O'Reilly or Dobbs, that's not really the point. Unchecked, demagogues like this might actually push through their agendas. Blog posts like David's and John's offer a counter-balance, a check on those agendas.

poopface

It's only by knowing what they're saying that we can come up with our refutations when some conservatives parrots them.

I think even Paul Krugman was thrown a little when some conservatard tried to make the argument that the Depression worsened under FDR's recovery attempts.

When you're a little late with a come-back you might as well not bother.

Ayn Rand speaking against the John Birch Society for their lack of defined political philosophy... is akin to the kettle calling the pot black.

If anyone is chasing their tail right now, it is you.

The general purpose of this blog has been explained to you. Several people have taken the time to explain to you why they come to this blog, and why such posts as this one are useful to them. Some of us, myself included, encounter people everyday who parrot bobblehead talking points, and it helps to recognize where they are getting their misinformation from so that we can challenge it where we are able to percieve it. These fans of bobblehead talking points often do vote, and the more we can point out the flaws, the more aware they will be when they go to the booth to cast a vote.

If you sincerely feel that C & L is not covering something you think is vitally important, why don't you sign up for Blogspot or WordPress and start writing about these things yourself? You seem intelligent, and I'm sure your perspective on the issues is valuable.

In the meantime, you're getting nowhere by trying to pick at Neiwert and the other writers of the blog to change their established and valuable format.

Sigh.

Let me explain why I do what I do.

Remember Bill Clinton's speech after Oklahoma City?

In this country we cherish and guard the right of free speech. We know we love it when we put up with people saying things we absolutely deplore. And we must always be willing to defend their right to say things we deplore to the ultimate degree. But we hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread hate. They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable. You ought to see -- I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today.

Well, people like that who want to share our freedoms must know that their bitter words can have consequences and that freedom has endured in this country for more than two centuries because it was coupled with an enormous sense of responsibility on the part of the American people.

If we are to have freedom to speak, freedom to assemble, and, yes, the freedom to bear arms, we must have responsibility as well. And to those of us who do not agree with the purveyors of hatred and division, with the promoters of paranoia, I remind you that we have freedom of speech, too, and we have responsibilities, too. And some of us have not discharged our responsibilities. It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of reckless speech and behavior.

If they insist on being irresponsible with our common liberties, then we must be all the more responsible with our liberties. When they talk of hatred, we must stand against them. When they talk of violence, we must stand against them. When they say things that are irresponsible, that may have egregious consequences, we must call them on it. The exercise of their freedom of speech makes our silence all the more unforgivable. So exercise yours, my fellow Americans. Our country, our future, our way of life is at stake.

I have been trying to live up to that speech since he made it.

You may think doing so is a waste of time and our priorities. Or maybe you question my choices as far as who it is I choose to stand up to.

But until I see you doing the same for whoever it is you think we ought to be devoting our attentions to -- and you never tell me who that is, just that we not ought to be paying attention to the fastest-rising right-wing talk-biz star -- I'll reserve judgment on those choices to myself. I listen to other people, of course -- but it's usually people who've actually earned my respect through similar action.

Box of hair, what no hair pie?