So Bill O’Reilly had Jon Stewart on his program last night, and as expected, tempers flared. Roll Tape.
Yep, it was an entertaining spectacle, with Stewart and O’Reilly both scoring legitimate points. However, I take issue with one thing Stewart said.
Sorry, I mean everything.
First, he made a big deal about Fox News laying off President Bush, while now it lays into Obama.This, friends, is nuttier than squirrel poop.
While Bush was president, he was trashed by a left wing posse who delighted in military defeat, for it meant their side was winning. To them, “dissent was patriotic,” even if it meant dead troops. Fox wasn’t ignoring Bush’s actions, it was reacting to that – what I would later call the “patriotic terrorist.” I witnessed a fully realized anti-American lynch mob, who would rather win an election than a war – and that made me more of a conservative than 9/11, my life at Berkeley, or all those head injuries combined.
Wanna see proof of my point? Ask yourself, where the feverish anti-war movement is, now that Obama is in power?
Lastly, Stewart’s got to stop whining about Fox News tilting to the right. The New York Times just ran a piece pointing out the dearth of conservatives in journalism, theater, therapy and academia. You’ve got a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, a Democrat for a President, a liberal media, a leftwing Hollywood, a liberal art and music culture – you’ve got it all. And you’re mad Fox News isn’t playing ball? What happened to that whole “dissent is patriotic” crap? It seems Fox News only looks right, because everything else is left.
Anyway, I wish I could have said this to Stewart in person. But I’m not allowed near him. You send a tube sock full of bird seed and nude photos, and suddenly they think you’re a threat!
-the delightful Marc Lamont Hill
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