Fri 20 Jul 2007
…is what the headline should’ve been for this:
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has all but declared war against the DailyKos website, writing about a “vicious far-left web site called the DailyKos, one of the worst examples of hatred America has to offer.”
O’Reilly also said of some of the postings on DailyKos: “this is hate of the worst order. It’s like the Ku Klux Klan. It’s like the Nazi party. There’s no difference here. People should die.” (emphasis mine)
Now, I have my disagreements with the Kos crew. Personally I think an alarming amount of them are closed-minded, and they tend to treat partisan politics — which is pretty much a sham anyway — waaaaay too seriously. On top of that, most buy into the pop-politics concept that corporate dominance is the inevitable result of a free market & government dominance is the solution (my shot at thoroughly debunking that would be here), and shout down anyone who dares challenge that view. A few brave souls (Adam & Logan from FreedomDemocrats, & Jay Silas) post there & actively question that pseudo-wisdom; I myself have enough scars from fruitless internet shouting matches elsewhere to where I’ve retired from going into the fray like that. So, it’s clear that me & Kos ain’t exactly friends. But equating their comments with Nazis & the Klan?
Y’know, last time I checked, Kos wasn’t going around bombing black churches, murdering civil rights activists, & rounding up Jews to be executed…