Bill O’Reilly is younger than John McCain.
My criteria for choosing the people, products, landmarks, organizations, etc. that I feature on the site has to do mainly with whether or not I think it’s surprising that Old Man McCain is actually older than the example (which is why, by the way, I haven’t posted about “the iphone” or “The Simpsons” despite the fact that one reader has emailed me these ideas about 56 times).
Obviously there’s nothing terribly surprising about the fact that Bill O’Reilly - famed liar, accused sexual harasser, failed novelist, famed “Inside Edition” flipper-outer, and liar - is younger than McCain. But I’m posting it tonight because it meets another one of my criteria… it allows me to segue into a topic that I think is worthy of discussion.
Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and the rest of the wingnuts of the Conservative media are using heinous smears and scare tactics to inject racism, prejudice, and fear into our political dialogue. And we need to tell them stop.
Forward a link to the video. Sign this petition. And use the little icons or the “Share This” link at the bottom of this post to help create an uproar.
Please, please, PLEASE post the footage of McCain getting questioned about the fact that insurance covers Viagra but not birth control. His reaction is priceless, especially when he claims not to remember ever having thought about the issue of insurance coverage for contraceptives before (even though he voted against a bill that would have required insurance companies to cover them).
Comment by Sara — July 10, 2008 @ 10:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCV3j6piBg&NR=1
i agree with sara, everyone needs to see this
Comment by Ali — July 10, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
Oh jesus. This video is totally out of context!
Comment by Emily — July 11, 2008 @ 12:39 am
foo. the teevee gnews are gonna try and take obama out exactly like they tried to get clinton. we need to start HUNTING these gnews and we neeeeeed to take out Fux. the worst.
Comment by pansypoo — July 11, 2008 @ 12:55 am
sara -
thanks for writing. do you have a link to the video that includes the part about not remembering….?
Comment by admin — July 11, 2008 @ 7:32 am
When are you democrats going to start using complete names, and call obama obama hussein? it is about time
Comment by Hope — July 11, 2008 @ 9:21 am
6,
Bobby Jindal’s real first name is “Piyush”. If, as many people are speculating, he is chosen as McCain’s running mate, will you still be so hung on formalities?
I tend to doubt it.
Comment by admin — July 11, 2008 @ 10:15 am
The man’s name is not “Obama Hussein”… the man’s name is Barack Hussein Obama. Really, “Hope”, if that’s all you’ve got, keep on hoping. There’s not much else to do for you in the coming 4 to 8 years.
FYI, “Hussein” means “good”. John Sydney McCain, on the other hand, means “has-been Bush clone” in every language.
Comment by Rob — July 11, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Thank you, Rob, for the most delicious laugh I’ve had today. We can only “hope” that the Faux-tards continue burying themselves with their own loony rhetoric and taking “hope”less voters like #6 with them.
Comment by Chilly — July 11, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
I agree - good one Rob!
And 6, first of all, his name isn’t important. If you’re afraid of someone because their name sounds unusual to you then you have way bigger problems. And besides, you don’t call him John Sydney McCain, do you?
Try not to get so hung up on your own fear of being a citizen of a country that everyone DOESN’T hate.
Comment by Julian U — July 11, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
Hey Hope- we don’t use it because it’s fear mongering and thinly veiled racism. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Rob- hilarious! Thanks for the giggles.
Comment by Nicole — July 11, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
Sorry, should have included a link the first time around! Here’s the full exchange (and yes, it makes him look quite old, indeed):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8obHEULLg&feature=related
Comment by Sara — July 11, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
don’t be sanguine. the media seems to perpetuate the rite BS by having the stupidest of humans on their airwaves to spead the BS for them. like fetilizer.
Comment by pansypoo — July 12, 2008 @ 12:18 am
http://www.onehorseshy.com/political/john_mccain_is_old?p=onehorseshy.244602943
This shirt makes me happy.
Comment by Dixie — July 12, 2008 @ 12:26 am
Whoever started THIS website with these ridiculous assumptions is a total f*cknut. Excuse me, you’re right it would be better to have a muslim in the White House, but I can forget that muslims killed nearly 3000 innocent Americans on September 11, 2001. No matter what anyone says, Borama has muslim blood running thru his veins, end of story.
Comment by jw — July 14, 2008 @ 6:07 am
Congrats on the mention by the AP. I wasn’t aware of this site but am going to take a good look inside. Thanks!
Comment by Phillybits — July 14, 2008 @ 7:49 am
I like your site and I think petitions are fine, but they cant match a cable network when it has semi-literate people like jw swallowing the Bush Party line.
We either win or lose this election but one thing is for sure, there wont be another stolen election like the one in 2000. The people will do something about it this time. There are too many of us who believe in America and the 2nd amendment to stand by and let that happen again.
Comment by The truth Hurts — July 14, 2008 @ 8:54 am