I saw this on
The Huffington Post yesterday and in my
Media Matters email this morning but not here on KOS so here goes:
Bill O'Reilly, the indisputable master of right wing spin on radio and cable news has added The New Yorker to his list of enemies.
Apparently
this commentary in the magazine prompted Billy boy to act out in his typical boyish fashion and 'blacklist' the publication.
This part deals with O'Reilly's antics:
Gibson is a mere grunt in Fox's army.
Bill O'Reilly, the network's most prominent religio-political commentator, is its Patton. The shortage of anti-Christmas atrocities (plus the fact that the U.N. fanatics long ago switched to subverting Halloween) may explain why he has concentrated on department stores, many of which, in their ads or via their salespeople, wish people "Happy Holidays" instead of--or in addition to, or more frequently than--"Merry Christmas." (In 1921, Henry Ford attacked from the opposite flank, sneering that "the strange inconsistency of it all is to see the great department stores of the Levys and the Isaacs and the Goldsteins and the Silvermans filled with brilliant Christmas cheer.")
O'Reilly sat out Vietnam. In the war on the War on Christmas, however, he not only has been in the trenches but has gone over the top. "I am not going to let oppressive, totalitarian, anti-Christian forces in this country diminish and denigrate the holiday!" he said the other day. And, "I'm going to use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people who are trying to do that!" And, "There is no reason on this earth that all of us cannot celebrate a public holiday devoted to generosity, peace, and love together!" And, "And anyone who tries to stop us from doing it is gonna face me!"
O'Reilly sees the War on Christmas as part of the "secular progressive agenda," because "if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage." Just as Christmas itself evolved as a way to synthesize a variety of winter festivals, so the War on Christmas fantasy is a way of grouping together a variety of enemies, where they can all be rhetorically machine-gunned at once. But the suspicion remains that a truer explanation for Fox's militancy may be, like so much else at Yuletide, business. Christmas is the big retail season. What Fox retails is resentment.
In this war, no weapons of Christmas destruction have been found--just a few caches of linguistic oversensitivity and commercial caution. Christmas remains robust: even Gibson says in his book that in America Christmas celebrators (ninety-six per cent) outnumber Christians (eighty-four per cent). But the "Happy Holidays" contagion has probably spread too far to be wiped out. "President Bush and I wish everyone a very happy holiday," Laura Bush says sweetly on a video posted on the White House Web site. And even the Fox News online store advertised, until a couple of weeks ago, "The O'Reilly Factor Holiday Ornament." ("Put your holiday tree in `The No Spin Zone.' ")
Bold emphasis is mine.
O'Reilly provided the New Yorker entrance to the list via his "Most Ridiculous Item of the Day"
O'REILLY: Time now for "The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day." New Yorker magazine joins our hall of shame. We are recommending readers and sponsors avoid the publication. The reason: that magazine allows writer Hendrik Hertzberg to print dishonest propaganda fed to him by left-wing smear sites. As I previously stated, any publication or news operation that does that will be listed on BillOReilly.com as not worthy of your attention or advertising dollars. The spin and the propaganda stop here. The New Yorker magazine should be ashamed and is absolutely ridiculous. And one note to Mr. Hertzberg: You might want to rethink your practice of character assassination, sir. Just looking out for you.
Practice of character assassination????? Bill you really are the biggest hypocrite I have ever seen. Honestly this shit makes me want to gag.
Additional note:
The New Yorker is now among the illustrious New York Daily News, St. Petersburg Times and MSNBC.