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I think you're on to something, Alma. It would do the world for your reputation here if you limited yourself to linking Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to make your arguments for you.

People really take Bill "tide goes in, tide goes out" O'Reilly seriously?

Least crazy?

Least crazy?

I'm sure there have to be less crazy pundits, but O'Reilly is pretty phenomenally huge and takes more of a stance that liberalism is stupid, rather than evil. For that reason, he's actually (sadly) a pretty important source of moderation for the network, or at least that was the case when Beck was a dominating presence. I imagine Beck will remain in the spotlight, and absence from the network (e.g., Limbaugh) doesn't undermine the value of having someone who appeals to the crazies but occasionally acts as a voice of reason.

That is to say, I actually have the teeniest smidgen of respect for O'Reilly due to the likes of Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I was curious, so I did. Have you?



It's a song which perpetuates a lie in which a woman who committed numerous violent crimes is relabeled as innocent, mostly because of no reason other than a bunch of people insist that she was. She was *not* innocent and it's kinda sad to make a hero out of someone who was so casually violent. But sometimes you have to make such a big lie in order to cover the truth and so that no one looks too closely.



Yeah. Read that. Also read a lot more about her than just that one case. What's wrong about the song is that it hypes and exaggerates claims about her mistreatment (many of which are just plain false like the claim that she was denied a lawyer), while utterly downplaying everything and anything which might cast her in a negative light:



Really? He could "never explain" how she broke out? Is that because he doesn't know? Or because he doesn't want to explain that 4 armed members of the black panthers used false IDs to sneak into the visitors section where she was held (and likely with some inside help since they were not searched when entering as they should have been), held multiple people at gunpoint, and broke her out. There's a whole lot of skipping over the details of just how many times she was involved in direct violent activities.

But if you mention that, then you have to explain how this "innocent" woman was so heavily connected with armed criminals that they'd pull off such a risky and dangerous plan to get her out. Why those guys must have all been good friends with spotless records themselves who decided to "do the right thing", right? Um... Wrong. The reality is that she was head deep in an ultra violent splinter group of the Black Panthers.




Yeah. What that account fails to clarify is that the parts he lied about had nothing to do with her guilt for the crimes she was convicted of. He made those admissions during cross-examination at her trial. She was convicted because there was overwhelming evidence of her guilt, not because one officer lied about some relatively minor aspects of the case. In the specific case, they only needed to prove she was an accomplice to the murder, not that she actually pulled the trigger. So the facts that are used to claim she was innocent were actually irrelevant to the case.




Or a good song apparently.