We do not have the moral high ground here, Bill!

Ann Wright said, "Bill, I served 29 years.  How many did you serve?"

"Cut her mike off!" Bill O demanded.

NOTE TO BILL:  Don't attempt a battle of wits with Ann Wright.  You are unarmed.

Watch Bill O'Reilly try to put words in the mouth of Ann Wright, who taught the Geneva Conventions to troops at Fort Bragg, on his "Fair and Balanced News Entertainment Show."  It embarrasses and sickens me that this stupid bastard who sexually harassed one of his employees is allowed to air his farce of a show on American television and call it "News."

From News Hounds

According to News Hounds:

The banner beneath the Colonel at the beginning read "U.S. Army (Ret.) Col. Ann Wright" changed to "Col.Ann Wright retired from State Dept. in opposition to Iraq war" and ended with "Anti-war activist Col. Ann Wright."

AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND

Because:

• Our president lies to the American people who are too lazy to seek the truth so they believe the lies and we enter a war that will kill and maim hundreds of thousands and will make us less safe.  

• We torture prisoners and call it a Sex Ring and hold suspects in prisons without a trial.
• We allow the worst president ever to continue this disaster in the Middle East.
• The Iraq Story the GOP doesn't want you to see
• 100 Americans Soldiers Dead this Month, 14,000 Weapons Missing - & Bush wants to talk about Queers
• Iraq war fuels terror - US report
• CIA Officers Warn of Iraq Civil War, Contradicting Bush's Optimism
• Iraq's civil war nightmare

• We don't even take care of our own people:
• Bush Photo Essay of 9/11 & Katrina
• Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility

• Did I mention scandals?  An endless, never-ending stream of scandals too numerous for me to even begin to list

This is what happens, Bill O, when fake news is allowed to call itself "Fair and Balanced."  Part of this mess that America has become is your falut, Bill, you stupid bastard.

"The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion of power into tyranny are] to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes." --Thomas Jefferson: Diffusion of Knowledge Bill, 1779. FE 2:221, Papers 2:526

•  Tips

  I keep losing my damn TU status on this damn site.

  Fox News should be required to relabel what they call news.

  by TXsharon on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:12:26 AM PDT

•  Don't you know

  that the British soldiers that the Iranians are now holding wish they weren't allied with a nation whose Attorney General called the Geneva Conventions "quaint"?

  by MadRuth on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:13:44 AM PDT

  •  We should listen to smarter people

    "The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume." –Thomas Jefferson to A. H. Rowan, 1798. ME 10:61

    by TXsharon on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:30:10 AM PDT

•  swee jeebus i hate bill o LIElly n/t

  by anna on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:28:01 AM PDT

•  Even Snoop Dog knows

  what a jerk O'Rielly is.
  Too Funny.

  by citizenx on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:32:07 AM PDT

•  It's not all our fault. It's Bush's fault.

  OMG, not the truth!!!  "Cut off her mike."

  by Friend of the court on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:49:00 AM PDT

•  KO should be the gentleman that he is and

  have Ann Wright on his show to finish what she was saying, among other things.

  by Friend of the court on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:51:05 AM PDT

  •  I"m sure we will hear

    about this from KO

    by TXsharon on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:58:19 AM PDT

•  Any tool like O'Reilly who carries water

  for despicable despots like Bush et al, should be called what they are: traitors, and treated as such.

  by trashablanca on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:53:01 AM PDT

•  Murdoch and Subversion

  sub·ver·sion [ səb vúr'n, səb vúrsh'n ] (plural sub·ver·sions)

  noun  

  Definition:
   

  1. activity undermining government: an action, plan, or activity intended to undermine or overthrow a government or other institution

  2. overthrow of something: the destruction or ruining of something

  [14th century. Directly or via French < late Latin subversion- <Latin subvers-, past participle of subvertere (see subvert) </p>

  I would have thought it was considered treason, but thats what Fox news does because Murdoch undermines truth.

  by ohcanada on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 10:08:10 AM PDT

•  TXSharon... ^5s

  For spotting the morphing caption... it is the perfect piece of evidence about the lack of objectivity in O'Reilly's show...

  Here's the O'Reilly mentality in a nutshell.

  If you are for us:

  • The banner will read: "U.S. Army (Ret.) Col. Ann Wright"
  • If we think you are straying from the Neocon party line, we will change the banner to: "Col.Ann Wright retired from State Dept. in opposition to Iraq war"

  • and if you really make us mad, we will show you who's boss: "Anti-war activist Col. Ann Wright"

  by Cho on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 10:11:33 AM PDT

  •  I corssposted

    over at {ePluribus http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/...

    I despise Billo.  I say things that young children should not hear when I am forced to listen to him.  I is disgusting and shame on anybody who is a Billo listener.

    by TXsharon on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 10:27:26 AM PDT

•  Met Ann Friday

  At the Surge Protection Brigade (the Seriously Pissed Off Grannies) action shutting down the recruiting office. Gave her my Pocket Edition of the Constitution and a VFP 72 button. A great citizen.

  by BOHICA on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM PDT

  •  I met Ann at Crawford, TX

    I can't remember if it was

    this time

    or

    this one

    it was likely both times.

    by TXsharon on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 10:20:35 AM PDT

•  Great catch TXsharon!

  The changing caption is amazing...more like something I'd expect to see on Colbert.  OK, so is Billo channeling Colbert these days?  Has reality lapped satire?

  I'm happy to send you some mojo - I love your writing - I read your work at Texas Kaos (have you all in my blogroll)

  Thanks for sending a diary our way at DKos today though - I think lots of readers here would like to read your stuff more often (you can cross-post, right?)

  by blue armadillo on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 10:20:09 AM PDT

  •  Thank you for the compliments

    I am spending most of my time these days on local political issues and on fight oil and gas but I do crosspost over here if I think there might be interest.  There is so much going on right now though that this is one hella competitive place.

    by TXsharon on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 10:30:40 AM PDT

•  I love their tag line

  We watch Fox so you don't have to.  
  Good grief, that was hard to sit through.  
  The guy with his finger on her mike button ought to be ashamed of himself.  

  Truth hurts, don't it, Bill?  Ugh.

  by sccs on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 09:21:36 PM PDT