Now there's big news: U of Oregon a hotbed of liberalism! Call out the O'Reilly ambush teams!
By David Neiwert Tuesday Aug 04, 2009 2:00pm
Out here in the Pacific Northwest, we're well acquainted by experience with Bill O'Reilly's utter cluelessness about the cultural and political geography and climate of our region. But last night on The O'Reilly Factor, he really reached comedic heights.
His big scoop, warranting a full Team O'Reilly Investigation, was the news that the University of Oregon in Eugene is a boiling, roiling hotbed of liberalism -- so much so that only eight people out of the 186 professors surveyed identified as Republicans.
Actually, the survey is a somewhat peculiar clumping that only includes the schools of political science, law, economics, sociology and journalism -- which have a tendency towards liberal-arts profs anyway. Excluded from the survey were profs in the business, engineering, chemistry or math fields. One assumes the numbers would look somewhat different with their inclusion. So this is what has outraged O'Reilly?
Calling it an "appalling situation," O'Reilly sicced his ambush camera teams on the hapless provost of the school while he was en route to his car in a parking garage. Then he spent the next several minutes bashing Eugene and the UofO, with the help of Portland radio host Lars Larson, who was happy to bash his fellow Oregonians.
That's because, of course, Eugene has for many years been one of those cultural meccas for the hippie/Deadhead/peace/love/understanding crowd. The UofO campus has long attracted liberals and liberal-minded people, and the cultural climate is the kind that tends not to be very attractive to conservatives.
But then, that's just the way the Northwest is; there's a diverse array of people and cultures out here, and they each have their niches. The gamut runs from Eugene to Hayden Lake.
One wonders what O'Reilly might find if he were to do a similarly selective survey of the business and engineering schools at Washington State University in Pullman, where the cultural climate runs decidedly in the other direction. Bet we won't see Jesse Watters out there anytime soon.
In other words, O'Reilly is not breaking any news here. Nor is it anything to get particularly worked up about. But it is amusing to watch O'Reilly make a complete fool of himself, anyway.
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Ummm, yeeeah, Billo...did you get the memo that educated people tend to be more liberal. Yeeeah, did you get the memo?
It seems the right wing likes to wear their stupidy as a badge of honor- why else would they so eagerly identify with ignorant oafs like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plummer?
"Western Culture" ......... oh dear ....... call it what it is "that kind of american lack of culture" ........
O'Reilly-ism is a mental illness.
FOX TV is not your friend.
Oh shit, send Bill's crew down here to south florida because we have a disproportionate number of retirees. Something must be done because the numbers of early bird specials are out of control. Plus senior discounts can be found all over the place. That's just not right.
..we have a too many Jellyfish and no one can swim.
Liberals in College, scary oooo! Sheesh, What a Dope!
a freak-a-zoid. Must suk to be a repub right now.
He now exists in a cage of his own making.
Just like 49 or 51 % of people in the US depending on what election is being faked ........
Bill O's for affirmative action!
Well played!
for the hippie/Deadhead/peace/love/understanding crowd"
and these are the reasons that Oregon is one of my fav places in the world! Banden Beach is incredibly beautiful... so is the Columbia River and its beautiful banks...
I like how the guy just ignored the kid with the microphone. Too bad he didn't tell him to fu*k off as he closed the car door.
that douchebag with the microphone would be limping after i slammed his leg in the door.
I'd like to see the guy slam the douchbag's nuts in the door.
I have a crowbar in the pouch on the back of the front passenger seat in my car.
In military terms the best response to an ambush is to just keep moving forward. It's when you get pinned down that you take the most casualties. The Provost did the right thing and kept moving.
Bill O went to the Kennedy School at Harvard? Not according to Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O'Reilly_(political_commentator)
What a delusional bold faced liar.
you misread the Wiki entry.
From your link:
;o}
He's still a bold faced liar who claimed his show won a Peabody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAYI6Qnl6E
Next Bill will investigate why there are no fishing holes and boat ramps in the desert. Stay tuned.
personality studies of children have shown that the most easily frightened children and the ones least able to deal with ambiguity tend to become conservative. they are the whiny kids who are afraid of everything they dont understand.
who wants to hire the whiny kid? nobody. who wants to hire the kid who is afraid of anything they dont understand? nobody. people dont change, they just get older.
and republicans are lazy and greedy. they dont want to work hard and the dont want to take risks. unless it is with other peoples money.
and you can figure out who they are within seconds of listening to them in a public setting. They never get more than 2 steps away from the same ideas, location, beliefs that they were born to. Just lazy and ignorant and afraid to learn.
This serves as a timely reminder to send some money to my alma mater.
but it's symptomatic of the growing, growling loud mouth of the minority of idiots we call that call themselves republicans, even though they're not even close to being what the true republican movement started out to be. That hypocritical, self-righteous, prejudiced, right-wing, oh so religious (they're not real christians either)nut jobs are dominating the airwaves and causing all the wishy-washy types that follow anyone who seems conservative to unite and do the stupid things they do, like tea parties and birthers and the clowns ruining the drive to decent health care. If we're not careful they'll end up running the country for another thirty years instead of having some kind of common sense for a while...
Universities should be hotbeds of LIBERALISM. That's what they are all about; asking questions.
LIke churches should be hot beds of conservatism which they are. Churches are full of mindless flocks of sheep who don't ask questions and who believed in a bearded sky God watching over them. Maybe Bill O the clown should do a segment on why there are so relatively few educated people in church on Sundays?
There's a whole buncha furriners here that call themselves weird names like Ho'Hokams, Maricopas and Navajos.
He should come to our rescue and ask these people why they don't go back to where ever they came from.
Tuba City would be a good place to start.
...is a professor of Political Science at a California university. She told me of a colleague a couple years ago who ran into big, big trouble with the uni after she had been told to remove an anti-Bush bumpersticker from her car. Apparently, lecturers of polysci are under a mandate to remain 'neutral' at peril of losing their jobs. Every time she accepts a new course, she must swear out a oath of allegiance to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies foreign and domestic - if she doesn't sign the oath, she doesn't teach. I think I'd be offended having to declare my loyalty to the state, but she's rather philosophical about it; it's a government run business, if she wants to keep her job, she follows the government run rules.
So I rather doubt that even if all those profs are Democrats that there exists a 'hotbed' of liberalism ANYWHERE in US state universities.
With my profs at SFSU, though you could tell where they sat. With the other departments like my English prof, different story, she'd openly slam Bush and the Republicans in class and even dressed like she was on her way to a funeral when Bush was "re-elected".
Bill-O is suggesting that universities start up an AFFIRMATIVE ACTION program to hire QUOTAS of REPUBLICANS.
And yes, you're left with only one of two conclusions to draw. Either universities ARE hiring the most qualified candidates, and Republicans tend to be too stupid to hire, OR the universities are just being prejudiced against Republicans. I guess we're supposed to believe they ASK faculty candidates for their political affiliations on their CV and job applications so they can go out of their way to avoid hiring the Republicans. Leave it to Bill to champion the wrong conclusion.
that universities should have the same amount of liberals/democrats as republicans? That shounds weirdly socialist, doesn't it?
Also, it is a shame that Bill didn't go out there himself to see the scary, hairy-legged women for himself.
oh yeah, Go Ducks!
I wonder what the breakdown between Democrats and Republicans is over at Faux. Since they are "fair and balanced", you'd think that it would something close to 50/50...right?
I am not sure I can name one Democrat over at Fox.
who took Randi Rhodes spot on Air America when Randi had contract issues. She appears as a "guest" talking head on Fox, according to her. I don't know why---maybe because she's pretty milquetoast and doesn't threaten them.
He'd be whining and complaining when the Republicans start failing out of class.
Don't forget that the Pac NW's acquaintance with O'Reilly goes back to the 80s, when he was an anchor at Portland's KATU.
Oh, and Go Ducks.
How did he survive living in Portland?
Oh, and Go Beavers.
I'm wondering how I survived the 80s with him as a trusted news anchor...
Also, 65 - 38 ;-)
He was notoriously unable to get along with his peers at the station.
They fired his ass.
That's why he moved on to Inside Edition...it wasn't a career move. He was lucky to get a job at all.
the University of Oregon in Eugene is a boiling, roiling hotbed of liberalism -- so much so that only eight people out of the 186 professors surveyed identified as Republicans.
Yes, Bill, it's bad enough we have to put up with Lars Larsen's screaming and ranting here in the beautiful Pacific NorthWest....we limit conservatives' entry, stopping them at the border and making them sign a pledge not to make any waves while they're here....and there's a surcharge if they're college professors.
Conservatives *hate* my home state of Massachusetts so much, they think calling a person a 'Massachusetts Liberal' is an insult- i actually wear that lable with pride!
We have Harvard, MIT, BU, NU, Emerson, UMASS, Simmons, Berkley Music, etc, etc- most being very liberal-
Plus gay marriage is legal here, an no, the sky has not yet fallen...
Hell, Billo attended BU and Harvard!!!!- is he ashamed of the fact he went to a liberal universities? I pray these right wingers come up to MA and stir trouble, they will laughed out of town.
Sure, they dominate AM hate radio, buit that's about it..
New Englanders as if they were un-Americans, when this country was literally started by them New Englanders... and if the same Southerners (who are the ones usually deriding the North East) had had their way this country would have been finished.
It is always about their projection with these types, I guess....
When confederate wannabes in the south act like they're the "real" Americans. They tried to tear the country apart only to surrender when the Union found some competent generals to run the army up the Confederacy's ass, and suddenly now they're "real" Americans? Hah!
And in surveys taken on the subject of marriage, Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the U.S. Lowest is in the Northeast, highest is in the South. Conservatives will never bother looking that up though.
That gay marriage thing must really be ruining the sanctity of marriage in your state.
Surely progressives can agree to respond as one if ever ambushed by oreilly's lackeys: look into the camera and respond "Andrea Mackris!" to every question.
"Falafel Falafel Falafel!".
;-)
Good idea. You beat me to it.
"I'd like to give a shout out to Andrea Mackris! And the loofa factory, and that dude who makes falafels!"
Universities offer a liberal arts education. Good high schools and colleges teach critical thinking skills. There is an open exchange of ideas. Scientific inquiry is used at these schools. I know that is a little too "sciency" for Bill-O and it scares the crap out of him and his ilk. Critical thinking involves looking at the facts. Liberals think for themselves. Conservatives let Bill-O and college dropout Rush Limbaugh think for them.
BTW, anyone confronted by these goons should simply repeat the name "Andrea Mackris,Andrea Mackris,Andrea Mackris!" That tape will never see the light of day?
that Lardhead Larsen crawls out from under for his nightly drivelfest. 30 seconds of that idiot's enough to make a sane person smash his radio.
Yeah, he is a lardhead, isn't he? Last year, I sent him an email about his assertion that Obama is a "marxist." Over the course of about 5 days, he continued sending me emails with "Obama is a Marxist" banners.
He was on some other show the other night as well....guess he's making his periodic rounds of promoting his BS.
And probably Billo's only friend west of the Cascades.
Yeah, I saw BillO last night and fell on the floor laughing as I sent my email to him. What a fool.
Doesn't he know that it's likely that most teachers, actors, artists, comedians, rock bands, and others in the "liberal" arts business are Democrats, and liberals at that?
Does BillO expect that institutions of higher education need to screen their potential teachers for political affiliation? Does he want affirmative action for Republicans?
Does BillO have any PROOF or COMPLAINTS that Republicans have been discriminated against in the hiring process? Surely, there must be a lawsuit out there already if there was a problem at the University of Oregon!
This is one of the most ridiculous segments I've seen coming from him in awhile.
conservative professors playing fast and loose with historical fact, complaining textbooks have a liberal bias (all the while repeating talking points and platitudes, like calling people against the Iraq war "peacemongers."), or letting their Islamiphobia and racism spill over into harrassment of specific students... Good times... *sigh*
where they have shrines and the conference room named after and dedicated to Ed Meese (I'm not kidding).
You can't get anymore conservative than that unless there's a statue of John Birch on your campus.
Most of our faculty commutes from Bakersfield (a very conservative city), to our campus, which is 90% people of color, and 10% lower-income whites...the town is also a blue dot in a red county, so there's a lot of personality clashes between students and faculty...
Where? I want to go to that school!
Imagine the fun a guy like me would have in classes like that.
I suspect he will have bitten off more than he can chew if he starts to go after the College kids -- OR their schools.
This is America Mr. O'Reilly - people get to pick whatever political affiliation they chose to follow. Yes - you find liberal and progressive thinking is rampant at Universities and Colleges. At these institutions - critical thinking is ENCOURAGED.
What was NCLB all about again? OH YEAH -- they tried to kill all critical thinking. (Not that you would know what critical thinking is)
And ... SURPRISE!! - most college kids DO NOT NEED OR WANT ... A.N.Y.O.N.E ... telling them what to think, what to do and how to act.
Grow up you big frickin' baby.
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O'Reilly is mean. that's not cool. FOX TV is not your friend.
4500 or so staff and faculty at U of O. Come on Bill...people see through your drivel, especially when you kiss butt with Lars (Cheesemaker) Larson.
What a joke.
Actually, given how conservative Tillamook is, I suppose he's a hero.
Here in the State of Jefferson...not so much.
People who try to become educated ........ tend being more liberal (US liberal which is still far right of most of the world) ....... now there is a surprise.
Those of us in the real world see O'Liellys ambush as intimidation and terrorism, not journalism.
Yes, living just about any where else on the face of the planet seems so much better.
What would happen to his little team if they pulled this crap in a place like Russia.
I know that Billo likes to stack the deck against dissenting voices-here having Larson-one of the most obnoxious of the far right pundits, along with himself, of course, argue against the obvious: liberals just tend to be more educated and well read. Especially those prof's in the Social Sciences/Liberal Arts from which the survey was taken. But geez, could he have found a more wishy washy 'liberal."?! (Maybe that was his intent!) On this segment, Tom should have loudly proclaimed what he mentioned, and when interrupted he should have asked not to be, and continued to speak. I admire his know-how with economics, but as a pundit or speaker for the progressive side, this was dismal.
Tom Hartman is one of those "domesticated" liberals that faux uses from time to time. Heaven forbid they should bring a free range liberal in. One might just take over the conversation and actually start making sense to Billo's fans.
Thom Hartmann is a brilliant and reasonable man---anathama to a clod like O'Reilly. Hartmann treats the guests on his radio show (even the raving loony conservatives) with respect and lets them get their point across....even engaging in mini-debates with them, if they are not ignorant thugs, like O'Reilly is. I'm sure he went home and had several drinks after that session with O'Lielly.
Knock me over with a feather! I took some classes in he J school there in the mid nineties and found it awfully convenient to have the dirtheads with their mutt-on-a-rope approach me and ask if I wanted any nugs, cuz sometimes the answer was "sure!"
Go Bears!
Poor O'Liely -- he's so misunderstood... lol
Ambush journalism at it's worst. Who gives a F*** O'Reilly. Liberals in Utah is not an important issue in fact it's a non-issue. They can believe want ever they want to believe. The twerp with the mic has no balls.
Remember who O'Reilly is "talking to"....mainly elderly white viewers. And not a real big percentage of college grads among them either, I reckon.
It's all part of O'Reilly's cultural war.
He's just pissed that the students watch Jon Stewart (or Olberman) and not him.
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill
Yea, I caught that earlier. I found it particularly interesting that the founder allegedly believes he's fighting a crusade, on a mission from God. It's amazing the sort of inhumanity people are capable once they convince themselves that they've got a charter from God Himself.
The Thuglicanz almost took it all away! People have no idea how serious this bush-cheney-haliburton-blackwater-torture-murder thing is!
Read that. Oh boy....
no doubt about it.
but worth a glance.
A murdering, lying Christian!?!
Next, you'll tell me that he cheated on his wife!
Then had the sinning bitch he cheated with killed.
And the surprise is ? It's the US's fav hit squad ........ try being on the receiving end of them in Iraq when daddy Cheney and Rumsfield want to watch some more snuff movie reports ........
Isn't Eugene the most liberal and least religious city in he most liberal and least religious state in the nation? I seem, to recall that was a point of honor among my friends and associates during the all-too-brief time I was there.
Why do you hate America? lol
O'Liely won't be happy until Creationism is offered as a substitute of equal merit to biology students. Anything less, for O'Liely, would simply be unfair to his outdated, overly-paternalistic value system.
...They even set up a suburb (Springfield...where Matt Groening is from) to corral all the local conservatives in. Purdy sweet. Eugene is even wierder than Portland!
They didn't even do that in San Francisco.
But I'd put University of California, Santa Cruz in the mix. Proudly!
Eugene is a great place!
I lived in Santa Cruz for 25 years. Fucking great place. My daughter graduated with 2 degrees from Humboldt State. I love Arcata.
Living in Texas now....what a culture shock.
... I dunno if I should be impressed or worried ;-)
Although, to be honest... certain parts of Austin can be thought of being a bit like a landlocked Santa Cruz ;-)
There is no mandate telling people where to attend college. Students attend Oregon on their own free will. When I attended college, there are very few instances where anything political came into classroom discussion outside of classes such as history, economic, and political science.
This has much more to do with O'reilly putting a plug in for Lars Larson because Larson's ratings are tanking.
Not sure I agree with you on this one. I would not support a university, which receives federal money, showing political favor in the classrooms. All teachers/students, liberals, conservatives, and all degrees in between, need to be able to support their arguments using logic. If they want to support their arguments using theology, then let them go to a non-government-funded religious institution.
Having said that, I suspect part of the issue here is that O'Liely thinks the middle of the playing field is really far right of center. Or, put another way, O'Liely is so far to the right, he is unable to judge political center.
is that he is quite silent regarding the openly conservative (and in some cases fully blown reactionary) state schools elsewhere in the nation. Of which there are plenty of examples, specially around the bible belt and certain parts of the midwest.
Thus his "concern" for fairness reeks of hypocrisy, to be honest.
Lars always looks like he has a set of stainless steel Ben-Wa balls stuffed up his arse!
and is just an arrogant prick who thinks his s**t don't stink.
S'not?
I soooo hate this douche bag ambush crap. When all the right has to offer is birthers and tea baggers is it any wonder that actual educational instructions are comprised of ….wait for it…… educated people (ie. liberals)
that educated people tend to be more liberal. There are lots of studies that show that the more college a person has, the more likely they are to vote Democratic. The GOP is becoming a Party of under-educated, white people that fear or resent the changing demographics of this country and cannot cope with change. They are anti-science and anti-intellectual. Good for the professors in Oregon.
registered republicans?
And my comment would be: "when we are hiring, democrats, republicans and independents are encouraged to apply, the problem is that there's not many educated republicans to fill all spots. "
And even worse, how about Liberty University that gets tax exemption and yet excludes democrats? O'Reilly is such a douchebag.
I will never, ever watch another clip of this idiot here at C&L..
Bill is lower than fecal coliform, period.
A huge dump once and when I looked in the toilet for a second I though Bill O'Reilly had broken into my house.
Perhaps they could get some pointers from Monica Goodling on GOP affirmative action.
and I couldn't be prouder of the place for its liberalness. Great news.
The funny thing about the so called "Culture Warriors" is they forget according to them America is a marketplace, not a culture.
appealing as Crystal Pepsi...
that a few years ago, they were crying bloody murder regarding the cultural war carried out by the left. Their hypocrisy is so massive, that in some instances they can use the same term as an insult to others and as a sort of label of pride for themselves.
They are nothing but run of the mill liars, unable to keep their story straight due to the amount of tell tales and bullshit... at some point they are bound to be caught in some massive contradictions. And then... the fun begins.
So yeah, before Bill O wrote all those books about him being a proud "Culture Warrior" he was accusing other people of being the worst thing one could be: a Culture Warrior.
It is as if we were witnessing the ministry of truth in full action.
He did not give Thom Hartmann much time. Just a symbolic move to have a liberal on. Bill did say there are twice as many conservatives in the country. Where did he pull that out of?
have given you a hint where Bill O pulled that out of ;-)
Oh the arugula.
Schools are supposed to be safe havens.
How did these jackoffs get near these students.
If it was MY kid...my lawyer would be on the phone.
Excluded from the survey were profs in the business, engineering, chemistry or math fields.
Are we suprised?
Whenever people like Bill O'Reilly or David Horowitz bitch about "left-wing bias" in universities, notice two things:
1. They only survey faculty from liberal, elite universities in the Northeast;
and/or
2. They survey faculty from liberal arts programs, NOT business, economics, engineering, math, etc.
I currently live in western Washington because it IS liberal, and I love it that way. I grew up in right-wing SE Ohio, and I went to grad school at Louisiana State University. I can say without hesitation that LSU is NOT a "liberal" university. Not by a long shot.
Notice, however, that FOX "News" and people like David Horowitz never publish surveys on faculty/student "liberalism" from universities like LSU or Texas A&M.
... some official looking badge or patch proclaiming 'MEDICARE' should walk among those idiots and [pretend to] take names while telling them that they would be removed from 'GOVERNMENT PAID HEALTHCARE' AND GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENROLL IN SOME PRIVATE PLAN.
... this went to the wrong thread.
These morons suck O'Lielly Dick on command too.
Conservatives are always demanding that colleges and universities hire more right-wingers to offer students broader perspectives.
Yet they blanche at any discussion of restoring the Fairness Doctrine on radio and TV (which NOBODY on the left is even close to remotely discussing) in order to offer listeners/viewers broader perspectives...
Just how much fail it would be to see an American conservative teaching a mid-east politics class.
o really's next major break-through:
Brigham Young University is
Full of MORMONS!!!
Do ya think "University of Notre Dame" is more his style?
I can't imagine o'really like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7oGGP0BWYE&fe...
... Compare the schools + teachers to their respective political leanings and you see the true intent of his dissatisfaction.
Around the (1:10) mark he slips and almost says what he feels... See: "So it's no doubt it's comin......Ah it's happening!
What's coming bill?
PS. This is happening at a tax payer funded school... by god what a travesty of injustice.
Here are some conservative schools, though I'm not sure of there teachers political leanings.
Many people our evolving beyond belief bill, as much as you'd care to know. Build up that wall Mr. Jefferson. The delusive nativist knuckle draggers... If they can't cut taxes, it's only reasonable to see them complain what their money is spent on. It's one of the major ideologies that is obstructing our health-reform bill currently before Congress / Senate.
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The proofs in the pudding billo... dontcha just love our secular nation? :P
Start ambushing Christian Bible colleges.
Ask them how many liberal professors they have on staff.
Ask how many Jews and Muslims and atheists they employ.
Ask them why they are so conservative.
Bill 'Little Hitler' O'Reilly (that's right, I dropped the H word) won't be happy till all the Liberals are gassed or locked up in concentration camps. Then maybe this scared, whinny coward will finally feel safe.
But why would he allow himself to be subjected to that idiocy?
It's simple Bill - if you educate yourself, you usually become less ignorant, and thus, less conservative.
This is an ongoing story...some twit who is a grad student in Journalism wrote a snarky editorial about how tragic it is that the faculty is mostly liberal. He sat in the library and checked voter regs with faculty names. Note--he didn't write a news story about it, he wrote an editorial. I wonder why. Not only does O'Reilly do crappy journalism, he does unoriginal crappy journalism. Somebody had already beat him to the punch complaining about how there are too many liberals in a liberal profession in a liberal college in a liberal town in a liberal state. No mention of the fact that the twit could have chosen to attend a different school in, oh, pretty much anyplace. Can't wait for when O'Reilly scoops the world by finding out that there are nothing but far-right humpsacks teaching at Regent Law School.
ice
GO DUCKS!!!!
not sure why Thom Hartman is honoring this propaganda network with his presence, but oh well.
Poor bor. He's so f*cking stupid...and larson larson is just an ass that fits the right wing need in the PNW. There are a couple pathetic souls....bor and larson larsonson. Idiots!
Liberals = Equality, Justice, freedom of thought & Peace
Conservatism = Class structure, inequality & Fascism
it's clear that Universities don't want a bunch of stupid idiots teaching their kids. Why is that so hard to understand Billo? Could you imagine a university with professors with the same mental capacity of a guy like you? Morons that shout down people and make idiotic assumptions about what Liberal means? I guess the faculties can look out at the real world and see republicans with big mouths stammering on and on about all kinds of crap and they can say "aren't they cute and useless" but when it comes to something serious like peoples education, they have to draw the line and keep those fools where they belong...oh wait...I forgot, they don't belong anywhere. Let's just leave them on Television. That way we can point at them and laugh at their childish antics...Oh Bill...you're so funny. Ha Ha Ha.
Well said! Perfect!
Radio host Lars Larson is not an Oregonian. He just works here. He lives on Mt. Rainier Drive in Vancouver, WA.
Conservatives are people who have unconsciously suppressed feelings of shame, humiliation, and anger, for not being loved and supported as children. They automatically mask their true painful identities with pretense and projection.
This is why appearances over honesty and fact is more important to conservatives as opposed to the messy sometimes less structured liberal thinking .... some learning at the higher levels depend on allowing for more open thinking in order to grasp larger more complex concepts. When normal brain function is allowed to develop from childhood open and more progressive enlightened thinking is natural ...
The opposite is true when a child's development is short circuited and crushed trying to please the parent as they are neglected and shamed for having normal childhood impulses. Conservative are basically people who have stifled brain patterns and impulses from childhood and who suffer from unresolved loss and disconnect from their true selves. The results are examples like George Bush.
O'Reilly creates a false premise and finds a guest that will attempt to state the opposite side of this false premise so he can shame them and appear to be in control and without shame. His anger reaches the boiling point the second he feels judged or viewed as not being perfect ... the way O'Reilly treats liberals is the way he was treated as a child. His parents were shut down to who he was and in effect he had to burry his feeling of that shame just to survive that neglect.
Many conservatives coming from these very successful appearing families suffer the same condition ... shame for having been shamed by the shameless ... their parents. It's a cycle that can only be broken when the individual become aware and works through it becoming aware of the very thing they try to hide ...
In a sick and very sad way Bill O'Reilly's subconscious is trying desperately to get out and tell his story ... each day he reenacts his drama of shaming and becoming the victor over the shame. Each day he reenforces his own prison and helps others to do the same.
The affliction that is the conservative shut down shaming and blaming mindset comes from a neglected childhood mostly where the parents appear to be incredibly successful. This is way so many conservatives get caught in sexual situations ... sex is the one place they can act out their issues without reveling it's real nature to themselves. It's why they always look like deer caught in the headlights every time.
You're saying it's really just an extreme form of over compensation?
Big surprise there.
I'd suspect that guys like Billy used to get bullied and beat up by girls as kids.
The reason is that there is only 8 republicans in the state that are intelligent enough to even apply for the position. LOL
these people are insane just like oliar.
republicanism is a mental illness!
This is one of the funniest clips I have ever seen. Oliar was right republicans are stupid and can't cut the mustard.
Republican Party is the party of ignornant southern rednecks. I don't for the life of me know why UofO doesn't hire more.
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2009/6/3/s...
Univ of Oregon salaries rank 39 out of 40 in the above referenced article.
Billo is one nervous breakdown away from smearing poop on the walls.
There exist conservative intellectuals, but having spent quite a lot of time in academia myself I haven't met very many.
I suspect it's because they won't work for academic pay when so much wingnut welfare is available. Being a professor means sacrificing a great deal of income, especially in math, sciences, and engineering.
He advertised the best University in the Northwest.
I wonder how many unfair colleges across America have reverse opinions dominating their faculties? As long as it's Nazism being taught, it's okay. Liberalism? Oh hell no!
This little (in stature as well as heart for he is a coward) packs a pistol under his clothes. Why? In case some MAN scares him.
He is a bloviating piece of chump change. Everyone in Oregon hates him but Murdcock keeps him around to pester us.
Maybe the students at U of O don't want to PAY a tight minded freak from the right wind nuttia?
Maybe (oh hell, there IS no "maybe").
People don't want to go to college and spend a hundred grand to be turned into right wing Nazis anymore.
Like Larson and O'Reilly.
Hate to say it, but it looks like Tom Hartmann got sandbagged on this interview, it was a set-up all the way.
First of all, why is it anybody's business what party college professors belong to? If anything, Pro-Democratic educators can recognize the need for diverse opinions more than lock-step Republicans. Perhaps as educated men and women they recocognize that the Democratic Party is more for the people, the workers, the middle class, whereas the Republicans stand for war and making illegal profits from war and whatever else they can fuck up.
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