Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Affleck, Moore, & O’Reilly

So I managed to catch both the Affleck and Moore interviews on O’Reilly tonight. Katie watched it too, and posted about it before I could muster up the energy.

On Affleck:

He comes off as moderate and intellegent though. Not as much of a lefty-ditz as you’d think. He’s a gun supporter, amazingly. And doesn’t hate Bush. And managed to have a good, friendly conversation with O’Reilly. He says he respects the president, even if he doesn’t agree. Alright, I can respect that. His facts are a little funny, but he’ll do.

Yeah, I came away respecting his rational if misinformed opinions. He’s actually a pretty articulate guy and while I disagree with him on most things political (and his bad women-dating decisions), he makes his case. What I most appreciated that he said was that he wished both sides would talk about their ideas. Gee, I wonder if he saw my letter to the GOP leaders?

On Moore:

O’Reilly is trying to get him to grasp the concept of being wrong versus lying. Now he says that Bush is pathological, because Bush thought it was true. ... O’Reilly asked him what he would do if he was President and recieved overwhelming information that Saddam had WMDs. Michael Moore said that he would have known that the information was false. Michael Moore seems to only have hindsight capacities.

[...]

O’Reilly: “You wouldn’t have invaded Afghanistan?”
Moore: “I would have gone after the man who killed 3000 of our citizens”
...who was in Afghanistan, you baboon.

Michael Moore says he wouldn’t have let Hitler come to power. Impressive. Hindsight is a handy thing.

I wish I had written down what I was yelling at the TV during that interview. I think O’Reilly summed it up nicely after the interview was over - Moore is a rabid Bush-hater who is so blinded by his hatred that he’s moved beyond reason. It doesn’t matter how much direct and irrefutable evidence is provided to the contrary, in Moore’s mind Bush is a liar.

The segment about Hitler was illuminating - O’Reilly had Moore on the ropes regarding his arguments against any pre-emptive action. First, he claimed that he would have stopped Hitler from coming to power in the first place - oh yeah? How? When Hitler came to power in the 30s I don’t think anyone was expecting his reign to end up being what it was. Oh, and he also stated that Hitler and Japan were in cahoots to attack the US.

Moore’s an ignorant buffoon. Unfortunately, he has a lot of ignorant lemmings who are buying into his lies and propaganda.

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