Sign Me Up, Bill

[filkertom]

See, I have no idea why there is any debate whatsoever regarding Intelligent Design. I got yer proof against right here: Bill O'Reilly.

Recently, this smug, smarmy bully decided that he would create a list of far-left smear sites, all not coincidentally news outlets with which he'd had a dispute of some type. (A lot of this is also tied in with his bogus conspiracy theory that the Left is trying to get rid of Christmas.)

Thing is, he's only got three sites on the list so far.

Athenae, one of the web mavens of First Draft, thought this was unfair. She, and many of her friends, could have a way nastier dispute with O'Lielly than the New York Daily News or MSNBC. So, she started a new site: Put Us On Your List, Bill!

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[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

(A lot of this is also tied in with his bogus conspiracy theory that the Left is trying to get rid of Christmas.)

*blink*

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:: head explodes ::

[solarbird]

All the major fundamentalist groups are running with this, too. I post Cultural Warfare Updates every few days on my LJ, and link to a bunch of that in recent articles there. Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America are both on the "anything other than Merry Christmas is anti-Christian" bandwagon, there's a boycott list that the American Family Association started, and CWA has specifically said that stores having Merry Christmas and other messages as well is "trying to have it both ways" and not good enough to avoid action.

Several store chains have changed advertising policies over this, and political figures are doing their usual sucking-up-to-the-fundamentaist-movement thing.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I just looked at the CWA website to find out which stores I' should support (i.e. ones they boycott) and found this gem from their press release about Walmart:

Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute. “Now they need to take the next step and free their employees from the tyranny of having to say the vapid ‘happy holidays,’ and to let them wish people a ‘Merry Christmas,’ or, when appropriate, ‘Happy Hanukkah.’”

How is a Walmart employee supposed to know when saying Happy Hanukkah is appropriate? It isn't like Jews have horns, tails or distinguishing characteristics.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

Unfortunately, the only ones I know of that instituted this policy are Target and Wal-Mart, which I'm already boycotting.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

What boggles /me/ is that, of all of the...five or so articles from CWA that I just read, picked largely at random, all of them were written by men.

Are there actual women in the Concerned Women of America?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Sure. In the kitchen, barefoot 'n' pregnant.

[solarbird]

The single thing that used to bug me the most when I'd listen to "Beverly LaHaye Live," the radio show they used to have in the late 1990s, is how women would call her "Dr. LaHaye" (correctly; she has a doctorate in theology), but almost all men would call her "Mrs. LaHaye," often in the same discussion or story segment.

You see, she's a woman, and her husband doesn't have a doctorate - he's Tim LaHaye, of the Left Behind book series - and women can't be elevated over men, so it's Mrs. LaHaye, not Doctor. At least, to men. And besides, being married to a man is a more important achievement for a woman than getting a PhD anyway.

They never said that second paragraph of stuff out loud, but it almost dripped out of the speakers.

Man, I hated that show.

[naja-pallida.livejournal.com]

Right where Judge Alito wants them to be.

[solarbird]

Yes. But about half of the CWA spokesdroids are men. Seriously. That's one of the things I "love" about 'em. In particular, you get a lot of Warren Throckmorton milage - he's fundamentalist, he has a PhD (in something, I dunno what), they use him as an "authority" source a lot.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

It isn't like Jews have horns

Sure they do. Benny Goodman, for one.




Sorry, I had to. ;)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Now I gotta wipe off the monitor.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

So did Jack Benny, but he only blew his at midnight.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

CWA has specifically said that stores having Merry Christmas and other messages as well is "trying to have it both ways" and not good enough to avoid action.

Um. The fuck?

[solarbird]

I ♥ Zebra Girl. ^_^

Also, they seem to hop back and forth as to whether other messages are allowed. But Happy Holidays is always right out. When talking amoungst themselves, it seems to be "only Merry Christmas," when they know they're talking to the larger press and public, they don't talk about that part as much. But I monitor their noise, and listen to their actual audio files (when I can take it :-p) and catch a lot of stuff like that.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

But I monitor their noise, and listen to their actual audio files (when I can take it :-p) and catch a lot of stuff like that.

Well, thanks for taking one for the team.

Ow.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Yeesh. I'd vomit, but my head already exploded.

(Sorry for the mess, Tom...)

[ericcoleman]

Your request was quite well stated.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant. LMFAO

[poltr1]

The last time I saw O'Reilly was when I was having my car repaired. Ironically enough, he was talking about.....pit bulls. And the related ban in Denver.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

And he has the nerve to call the Valerie Plame leak a "non-issue".

[solarbird]

Also: stupid Put Us On Your List requires Blogger accounts. I am t3h sad.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

You've got to know that the Fox News "Fair and Balanced" thing really chaps my hide, myself being a news writer who really does try to be fair and balanced and you know my surname, don't you? ::headdesk::