November 24, 2006

O'Riley vs Letterman

via Samantha Burns



PART 2

8 comments:

Indigobusiness said...

O'Reilly is such a bloody phony.

Letterman has never had any patience with phonies.

O'Reilly got off easy. He shouldn't press his luck with Dave. Dave will cut him up.

DAVE BONES said...

I really like both of them. They are honest and tell it how they see it. I think for US TV this piece is really beautiful. I like the way they interact. I would love to meet both of them.

Indigobusiness said...

You really believe O'Reilly is honest?

You aren't paying close enough attention, Bones.

He speaks with a deeply forked tongue. It's a matter of record.
Search Crooks and Liars.

David Letterman is a national treasure. When he smokes out phonies like O'Reilly, the label usually sticks.

Letterman despises O'Reilly.

Indigobusiness said...

BTW- O'Reilly's also a bully, not much to like in that, either.

He's a certified creep.

Clips of him flying his true colors are nothing short of sickening. And it sickens me that a man like him has any audience at all in my homeland. It deeply worries me about my culture.

DAVE BONES said...

All over this world this duality of "left" and "right" exists and I enjoy the psychology of it although I can of course be more subjective about the American right than I can about the British right, though even they distress me a lot less than in the dark days of Thatcherism.

People from the right seem more clear cut than those of more "liberal" values. Hence O'Riley's preoccupation with "winning".

Yes, I think according to his own understanding he thinks he is honest. I didn't like him at first but he's grown on me.

I don't think any real solution will involve the "defeat" of one side by the other, a real solution has to appeal to all "sides" to work.

But then again, both sides would very possibly crucify one who brought it.

Indigobusiness said...

Sides aren't at issue with me. Like I've said before, it takes the friction of opposing ideas to generate the heat of meaningful change. But honesty and integrity are key.

I don't think O'Reilly believes himself to be honest. Not for a minute. How could he? If he does, he is pathologically delusional. He is the worst sort of con man, and he is caught-out regularly. He knows it. The record shows it. He's an Irish Limbaugh.

The only reason he maintains a following is his fawning audience has no concept or value of critical thinking. Listen to them. They shamelessly embrace the ethics of Machiavelli.

We are all losing by falling for this bogus notion of winning.

No offense to the Irish.

DAVE BONES said...

We are all losing by falling for this bogus notion of winning.

I think Letterman gets this across.

Indigobusiness said...

Definitely.

He also gets across the false dichotomy of "left" and "right".