What is interesting to me, too, is that it took an in-your-face comic to risk the social injunction of politeness … to push back. As he said, even his mother was uncomfortable with HIS rudeness. I wondered about those protesters turning their backs on Schaefly, now an old lady. Did she deserve it? What she has promoted all these years? Yes, she did. But, girls, please don’t be RUDE. Oy vey.

Why in this society are we coaxed to eat sh*t and smile? With people not of my “politics” … we don’t discomfort each other and discuss politics mostly. Respecting the conditioning of being “nice”? Yes, sometimes I pop off. But mostly to the choir, or potential choir. Keep the veneer of civilization while REAL civilization goes to hell in the handbasket.

I think Bush came to power, and Reagan before him, because the liberals became the silent majority. A false sense of security. Underestimating the fragility of our democracy and the irrational and destructive fear, anger, egoism etc. in our brethren. Our own brand of egoism, too, was there.

I mentioned that old movie in another comment, Gentleman’s Agreement. About anti-Semitism and one character confronts another and says when people are making crude jokes, do you look away uncomfortably or do you PROTEST? Do you not approve but share the same country club life with bigots, bigots who cause others at the very least not to enjoy quality life because of their arrogance and cruelty. And the Edmund Burke quote how evil prevails when GOOD people do nothing.

I am going to leave my comfort zone more often and speak truth to power … power above me, but power beside me in terms of passive, willfully ignorant people. Gotta overcome my low-down, people-pleasing ways.

Later …. :)

Ailes has a good excuse, his skin is stretched taut through years of dedicated eating.

Zinger! Sorta like “Michael Moore is fat.”

Same outreach program to the handicapable, not as marquee.

I don’t know, you would think at certain levels of the trade of reporting and parsing information, wrongness would weigh into whether someone gets a fucking job or not. I mean, does anybody know any farmers who fail to actually raise crops year in and year out?

O’Reilly has escalated his criticism of GE in recent weeks, declaring, “If my child were killed in Iraq, I would blame the likes of Jeffrey Immelt.”

there’s an elephant in the room;

HEY, BILLO, YOUR KID IS NOT IN IRAQ AND NEITHER ARE THE KIDS OF THE PRESIDENT, RUMSFELD OR CHENEY

man, he opens the door, we need to walk in and climb down his throat

You got it!