Posted on 07/29/2004 7:03:36 PM PDT by skyman
Bush never claimed that. What he said was, "There are those who believe we should wait until the threat is imminent....."; And I'm about to write O'Reilly again and point this fallacy out to him again. (He made the same claim some time back and I wrote him, but he obviously either never saw it, or ignored it).
Newton's laws work well as classical mechanics, they just are incomplete and break at near light speeds.
You make really good pts. I just dashed those off quickly. Yeah moore is bogus and it disappointing that oreilly gave him a pass. what a 'conservative'
LOL!! Usually I let my typos stant but that one was horrendous!
Mock the Mahra Rushie? The man that not only taught me the values of conservatism but saved me from the "open-minded middle of the road" (translation: Liberal) path I was drifting towards. Never. I adore him. :-)
Rush was great! He has really been on the beam and I pray for his continued ability to get the message out to so many people across the USA.
On another note, the men and women who signed up for the National Guard and the Reserves also knew what the program was. Perhaps at the time they looked at it as a free paycheck and a weekend away from the wife, kids and the job. But they were not forced to join. It was by their own free will that they enlisted into these programs.
The point I would have made is who is the man behind the curtain sending Police Officers off to die? They get killed also defending our citizenry. Their famileis grieve when they fall. ITs the same thing. The argument can center around, well they are defending our soil, and Iraq is different. Fine, let that be the debate. Not "sending someone off to die" .
And the part everyone ignores is that Iraq was sending money to suicide bombers families in Arafatville. That to me is funding terrorism plain and simple. If Bush made a mistake it was hanging his hat on the WMD thing too hard instead of "diversifying" the many justifications in a War on Terror context.
Slam dunk Rush....
OReilly should no better than to fall into one of Moore's pit of vipers.
The #1 rule of debating is to not debate a false premise.
A good debater changes the question to a correct question then moves ahead.
Otherwise you lose the debate.
Sounds like O'Reilly fell into the Moore quagmire !
On Laura Ingraham today a politician she interviewed at the convention( I forget his name ) tried to equate Rush Limbaugh with Michael Moore , but she called him on it.
I about went ballistic when the night shift person came in last night talking about the O'Riley interview.
My first response was "CHILDREN, These soldiers are not children." They are good men and women. It is an all volunteer military. To call them children is a tremendous insult....They are grown ups making a very adult decision.
This was the first thing I thought about when I saw the O'Rielly interview and Fat boy asked Orielly, "Would you sacrifice your children over there?" I became quite upset because of all the reasons Rush Listed. They are adults and volunteers, just like I was. Fat boy knows the power of words and too many people fall for his crap.
(Mrs. Luke ;) )
I felt the same. O'Reilly didn't do so well in that interview. The next day he was saying how he "let" Moore talk to expose him. ...no, he just didn't do well on the interview. Our military is a brave all-volunteer group of men and women, it has NO "children." Rush is right. :)
Thank you Rush for defending our young, brave soldiers.
I guess O'Reilly is no longer the No Spin Zone but now the big time Bloviating Zone. Willing to compromise to get the major players of the DNC. It was sickening watching him with Terry McCauliffe.
Ditto`s.
O'Reilly's entire effort against MM was weak!
Note. Mr.Limbaugh had dinner with Mr.Buckley on Tuesday night and I'm sure Rush went home invigorated with some kicked up intellectual gravitas from the Godfather of conservatism.
Great post!
BTTT!! Just getting ready to post this myself but good thing I checked first. :)
I was in my car driving home from working in North Florida at appromately 8:45 PM when O'Reilly began airing his interview with Michael Moore. My sister called me on my cell to let me listen to the TV interview over the phone.
The longer I listened, the more disgusted I became. I couldn't believe how O'Reilly was allowing that slob to get over on him. What a missed opportunity to blow that liar out of the water. He fell for it when Moore set up a strawman argument and from then on, the debate was based on that FALSE PREMISE.
O'Reilly has since been strutting around like a rooster actually under the delusion that he came out the winner. He should be embarrassed that he got taken for a sucker. I don't think it has even hit him yet. Both my sister and I were embarrassed FOR him as we were listening to that interview.
Then yesterday, I was on my way to Dade City listening to Rush on the radio at about 2:45 PM, and was sooooo excited to hear him say that when he came back from a break, he was going to address the false statements Moore had made that O'Reilly let him get away with. He had seen a transcript of the interview. I immediately called my sister to make sure she was recording his comments, because I KNEW it was gonna be good! I wasn't disappointed. He NAILED it.
BRAVO BUMP......O'R thought he did a good job against 'Moore Lies' but he didn't......Rush was great!!!
BTTT! backatcha! FReep on!
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
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