Sunday, June 10, 2007

Exit Stage Three

I'm telling you, though, as much as I hate to assume even the risk of over-embellishment here (a tactic of O'Reilly himself), it really isn't much of a stretch to call HIS tactics McCarthyesque. For, I'm saying, just like McCarthy (and the accusing teenage girls of Salem before him), O'Reilly's penchant is to see his enemies (the villains, as he calls them) everywhere. So, instead of just accusing known Communists (as McCarthy failed to do) or the easier marks of Salem Village (as those accusers failed), so, too, does O'Reilly paint with his brush, rather recklessly...........Just watch a little TV, I'm saying. I, for one, have seen countless members of this supposed left-wing cabal on television of late and, yeah, for the most part they seem to be a relatively reasonable lot (political reporters from the Washington Post, slate.com, etc.). Nothing, in other words, like the flame-breathing dragons that O'Reilly is constantly describing..........Oh well. Hopefully, and as was eventually the case with Joe McCarthy (accusing Eisenhower's Secretary of the Army), Elizabeth Hubbard (citing, I do believe high ranking government officials of witchcraft - spectral evidence, ha!), etc., O'Reilly's reaches, too, will eventually reach a critical mass. A critical mass, I'm saying, to the point where he, too, will someday go away. Forever.

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