O'Reilly attacks the Daily Kos... again

Here's another piece of entertaining footage - Bill O'Lielly again going after Markos Moulitsas, the founder of The Daily Kos, an excellent liberal blog that's doing a great deal of important work.

The bottom line here is that O'Reilly can't handle criticism, and when prominent liberal blogs go after him for his lies and distortions, he gets his dander up, labeling them "hate sites." Of course, BOR can never get through a criticism of anything or anyone liberal without a Nazi or KKK reference - in this case likening Moulitsas to David Duke - which is pretty hilarious.

I got a good laugh out of O'Reilly and Mary Katherine Ham coddling each other about how disgusting the pictures are of Iraqi War casualties. Yes, they are disgusting, but it's violence that this administration has caused, period. So, I get a kick out of conservatives expressing horror and disgust whenever a liberal Website has the temerity to publish unpleasant images of the War in Iraq. Too damn bad - this is violence that your president has caused.

And Ham and O'Reilly, as usual, can't get through a criticism about a liberal blog without mentioning the comments section in any Website, either, be it the Daily Kos or The Huffington Post. Too bad O'Reilly allows many hate filled comments on his site, too, as detailed by some great work on the part of Crooks & Liars.

Bill W over at C&L probably makes the best point of all:

Somehow Newsweek shouldn't have hired Kos because of what other people say in the comments or post in their user blogs, but of course [O'Reilly's] okay with [Fox News] hiring Rove who has been involved in scandal after scandal. Who's more like David Duke? Kos, or the guy behind the robocalls [who] said McCain had an illegitimate black child? I'm just sayin'.

Sweet. I couldn't have said it better myself. More on Rove's role at Fox, as well as his status as a McCain consultant, in a bit.

Shouldn't we call it "O'Reilly's Law"?

Every once in a while, I run across something on another liberal blog that I just simply want to share, and occasionally I can think of nothing to add. (Often, I find stuff on my two favorite blogs, Crooks & Liars and Think Progress.) This is one of those times.

Take a minute and watch the video above - it's a pretty good montage of O'Lielly's Nazi fetish, or put another way, Goodwin's Law. Seems like it's all he can think to call liberals and progressives who disagree with him.

How original.

C&L said it best, too, when the video was posted over there earlier this week:

"This video ought to be placed in a museum somewhere so we can marvel at it 20 years from now. And this is what should be inscribed on the plaque beside it: Bill O'Reilly, a.k.a The 21st Century [sic] Father Coughlin."

That's about as apt description of O'Lielly I've heard in quite some time.

Tom DeLay kills puppies*

Kind of ridiculous, right? Of course it is, but this is the sort of thing that people like Tom DeLay do to people each and every day who disagree with Republicans.

Hmm, it's been about, what, three or four weeks? Time for DeLay to show his true colors again. The song remains the same - say something stupid, ridiculous and wildly intolerant, get on the news, sell more books. Rinse, Repeat.

No need to even discuss his use of the Titanic cliché of politics, the Nazis; I couldn't be any more tired of pointing out Republicans' and conservative political pundits' use of fascist or Nazi when someone disagrees with them. But, I will continue to point it out, because it's unacceptable, and it denigrates people on the left who really do care about their country.

DeLay is a corrupt, sleazy and disgusting excuse for a human being (or politician, whichever you consider lower). Funny how the "politics of personal destruction" was great sport in the 1990s, when he was on the giving and not the receiving end. You're getting your just desserts, buddy. I can only hope you go to prison and that you are forced to share a cell with a 350-pound liberal who is a big fan of Bill Clinton. Now that is what I'd call justice.

Funny how it's always Repubes making the news saying this stuff. I defy you to find me a liberal commentator with an audience of more than 10 resorting to this type of behavior. Find me one, and I'll condemn him or her just as I do conservative pundits for calling people Nazis or fascists. Why is it always Republicans?

I'm not referring to liberals bloggers or voters, a number of whom have compared Bush to Hitler. I'm not one of them, although, I think Bush is now about as popular in America as Hitler now is in Germany - not very much.

* - Tom DeLay doesn't kill puppies, but I thought it would get your attention, and I thought for a nanosecond I would get down in the gutter and say hi to Tom.

Saw a thought-provoking poster yesterday. Apropos?

I saw a poster on facism yesterday, and it got me to thinking about the current situation in America, the War in Iraq, and our misguided foreign policy AND what happens to those who dare question the direction of anything just mentioned.

Before I go any further, I have to state that I cannot stand Nazis analogies in political discourse. It has to be THE most trite phrase/analogy in U.S. politics today, and I know that.

However, read on, and you decide. The poster read:

Facism

a Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
a Supremacy of the military
a Rampant sexism
a Controlled mass media
a Obsession with national security
a Religion and government intertwined
a Corporate power protected
a Labor power protected
a Disdain for intellectuals and the arts
a Obsession with crime and punishment
a Rampant cronyism and corruption
a Fraudulent elections
a Powerful and continuting nationalism
a Disdain for Human Rights

Disdain for intellectuals and the arts & Disdain for human rights are the only two that come to mind that definitely don't apply to contemporary American politics and society today. Other than that, one could make the argument that there are elements of the others in America today.

I was just telling my Dad yesterday that I'm so tired of comparisons to Nazi Germany and World War II to justify what is going on in Iraq. I also am tired of people being compared to Nazis whenever there is a disagreement over politics.

However, in Nazi Germany, what Hitler did to the Germans didn't occur overnight. I'm NOT drawing comparisons to America and Nazi Germany, nor am I insinuating that we are becoming Nazi Germany; what I AM suggesting is that when I read a poster like this, and it's even a little thought provoking about our current state of affairs in the U.S., that's a little frightening.