For those of you who don't know of Bill O'Reilly, listen up. He heads his own show on the Fox News Channel - or, as I like to call it, Deathstar News - called the 'O'Reilly Factor'. He's a smug bastard and he's so right-wing he makes most right-wingers look left-wing. He's also a perpetual liar. For those of you who may think me a liar, please, please, please read Al Franken's 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them'. I hope this is enlightening. One thing's for sure, though: Bill O'Reilly will scare the crap out of you (he looks like some forgotten-about Wes Craven creation) so please make sure your kids aren't present in the room. If you're interested, look up Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, too.
Please note:
Look at how Bill pulls that statistic from right out of his arse. Cannabis is illegal in 48 of 50 American states - the exceptions being California and New York State. (However, the criminality status of cannabis has been successively reduced in 15 states after a ruling in an Oregon case in 1973 - including New York and California, of course.)
Surely, the only way to monitor people's dope-smoking habits would be to illegally spy on them, thus breaching their human rights. No, wait... isn't that what Bush did with the US Patriot Act? (I don't care what any of you think about marijuana - it doesn't harm anyone. People tend not to get into traffic accidents or fights when smoking dope; they mostly tend to get very mellow and hungry. On that note, I'm feeling a bit tired. Now, where did I put those doughnuts?)
Anyway, Bill made up that statistic purely to try to pin something pejorative on Jon's show. Well, I'd rather have my show be watched by 'stoned slackers' than middle-aged, angry American men who all own guns; are fathers to daughters called Jolene and Lou-Ann, and who drink Budweiser. Anyway, let's try to keep the discourse civilised.... Fuck you, Bill O'Reilly! Fuck you in your old, wrinkled stinker!
Here's a related video from Charlie Brooker's News Wipe. (Try to get your hands on the whole series. I wrote an article on News Wipe, too - it's in my April section.)
I submit that most Christians are 'good' people, but Fox News is motivated by a corporate, neo-conservative agenda and causes non-American people to view American Christians with an unfair degree of polarisation. Fox is accomplishing the opposite of what it intends - it actually intends to incite racial hatred, fear and bigotry within America, and it's becoming more preachy, hostile, crazy and un-Christian by the minute. It's only a matter of time before Bill O'Reilly walks into work with a 12-gauge and shoots everybody. Watch this space!
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