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Bill O'Reilly Says Something Smart! Really!
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I was listening to the radio at 8AM this morning when I heard a small report about the interview with OJ Simpson about his new book on Fox. They said that O'Reilly was urging people not too watch it, boycotting companies who put up ads during it (I believe) and generally attacking it.
Just saying: After all the nonsense I've seen on Fox News, this is one of the most sensible things I've heard, and it was from Bill O'Reilly, of all people.
Anyone know what to make of this?
Just saying: After all the nonsense I've seen on Fox News, this is one of the most sensible things I've heard, and it was from Bill O'Reilly, of all people.
Anyone know what to make of this?
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Actually, that makes sense to me on a deep level.... wow.
In all seriousness, things just became stunningly clear in my head.
I'm just quoting this for hilarity and cleverness.
Well done.
I'm oneupping you and sigging it.
It can be weird when you suddenly stop smoking pot. Like, you probably know where your car keys are right now. No, you aren't psychic - you can remember things.
"Rome fell when it became all tolerating"
On the black screen
It's an ironic twist that conservatives gravitate toward the Roman Empire as a historic example when the Roman Empire crucified Jesus and it was Christianity that in large part served to make it "all tolerating".
Alexander Demandt alone pubished over 200 theories on why Rome fell, but we didn't know the truth until Bill. Thank you, Bill O'Reilly, for explaining a historical mystery with one fell swoop of brilliance. :^:
I was under the impression that one of the main reasons Rome fell was it relied on slaves to do all the work.
Really tolerating like
Also I hope they all lose money on this
I think it was mainly because Rome's army was spread too thin, but its reliance on lead and slaves contributed to it too.
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And actually regular Fox News anchors were condemning it the other day. I happened to catch it during the PS3 fiasco and they basically said it was in poor taste (I remember thinking it was somewhat ironic with the Fox News logo in the corner).
Well from what I learned from my history class, it was a number of things; expanding their empire to much, spreading out their army, promising land to their soilders contributed to expanding the empire bit, corruption in their government. By the time the barbarians came Rome was basically dead.
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The moral leaders at the esteemed Fox News should lead the charge.
However after being tainted by Fox News no credible news angency would want them
No?
Actually I don't recall why, but I do recall that there was a smartish reason to not give them heavy sentences. I'm too lazy to do the research right now though.
Child molestors if I recall.
Bill O'reilly doesn't appear to realize that punishment can involve more than prison-time.
His largest base of activisim is laws for the tracking and punishment of child molesters, especially the tracking part.
Yeah, but I think the case in question was the one where the judge was threatening to give a child molester a ridiculously light sentence if the prosecutor did not put treatment back on the table. The judge wanted jail and treatment, because the dude wasn't up on a life-sentence-no-parole charge; the prosecutor just wanted jail, presumably because he is tough on crime.
If the dude's got a chance of hitting the street again, I think any sane person would want them to have gone through some serious counselling before they're released. It might not work, but no counselling at all sure as hell isn't, and there actually being a counsellor involved at least means that someone can turn in a report saying "No way in hell" to the parole board if the guy shows no signs of responding to treament or is still in denial about his crimes.
So I looked it up. What set the issue off was a Vermont judge who gave something like a two month sentence to a sex offender.
The sex offender was what the state of Vermont classifies as a "type A" sex offender, meaning that with treatment the likelihood of his re-offending would be significantly diminished. However the state laws did not provide treatment as an option, they only provided for jail time.
In his ruling the judge first decided that the laws providing for jail time alone were unacceptable as a sentence because they neither kept the offender in prison for the rest of his life nor did they privide him with the treatment necessary to protect potential future victims. The public was not therefore safe.
So he gave the man a light sentence as a protest to get the attention of law makers. The laws were promptly changed to provide treatment for type A offenders. Because of what the judge did there will probably be hundreds of fewer children molested in Vermont in the coming decade.
All that is much to nuanced for a man like O'Reilly though.
:^: to Shinto. May your brilliance never cease to amaze me.
Prison needs to be a treatment and a punishment.
I tend to regard what the judge did as right because:
Before he did it offenders were not being treated which was resulting in more kids being molested.
After he did it offenders were being treated which is resulting in less kids being molested.
So my question to you really has to be: why are you in favor of kids being molested?
Yeah. It's easy when you routinely rip off stand up comics you see on Comedy Central.