Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Everyman Bill O’Reilly of Fox News fame has reached a new low. He’s leveled one of his patented blasts of vitriol at web writers for telling lies about him. Here’s something that I can say about O’Reilly that I’m sure is true: he’s a hypocritical moron. The article in question can be found here.
O’Reilly’s screed goes like this: the Internet is bad because anybody can say anything about anybody. Here’s an actual quote:
The reason these net people get away with all kinds of stuff is that they work for no one. They put stuff up with no restraints. This, of course, is dangerous, but it symbolizes what the Internet is becoming.
And here I thought that freedom of expression was a good, democratic, and universally appreciated value in our society. Maybe for O’Reilly that freedom belongs only to him and those who agree with him. Check out this nauseatingly pro-O’Reilly site if you dare. In case you’ve forgotten, this isn’t the first time that O’Reilly has lashed out at Internet writers. Last summer he was after the website oreilly-sucks.com for violating his “civil rights”. You can read about it here.
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