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People and Politics by Patrick Roberts

Bill O'Reilly apologizes for Sherrod remarks - others still silent

Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM

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seanomelbourne | Aug 01, 2010, 07:56 PM EDT

Good one Monsoonman how could i contain myself in such illustrious company. Ann would probably convince me that Elmer is a liberal plant because of his stutter and Rush would be proud because he pack's a double barreled shotgun. Just as well Sarah is not present she would probably steal Elmer's moose. My God! I may end the day with a stutter. But that's ok my stepdaughter is a speech therapist

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Monsoonman | Aug 01, 2010, 12:39 PM EDT

Sean lad, regarding our future golf game out here on the left coast. I have invited a couple of other golf enthusiasts to make it a foursome, my friends Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter want to join us for 18 here at Pebble Beach, it should be a rollicking good time. Everyone has promised to avoid discussion of politics, religion and lastly but not leastly, Elmer Fudd.

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seanomelbourne | Aug 01, 2010, 02:27 AM EDT

Thank you my friend I can now watch my next E.F. cartoon without fear or trepidation.

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Monsoonman | Jul 31, 2010, 09:12 PM EDT

LOL Sean Lad, aye....don't want to bump our shaky house of cards we have developed between us...Sorry about the dispersions against elmer fudd esq...We will just keep him out of future conversations...OK?

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seanomelbourne | Jul 28, 2010, 11:32 PM EDT

IrisAndProud the argument is not about if liberals are in sheep-dip,we are talking about "the mean line"between left and right. The fact that some European countries have extreme right wing parties or extreme left wing parties is irrelevant it doesn't change the definition of "mean line". The U.S.A. is prisoner to it's two party system thus stifling peoples rights no matter what the extremes are. Europe or Australia would not allow (for instance) private armies based on racism and religion as can be found in the Midwest or the south. I still believe that your "centre" is comparatively more right than left when compared to Europe or Australia.

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seanomelbourne | Jul 28, 2010, 11:13 PM EDT

You are stretching the friendship Moonsoonman I like Elmer Fudd.

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Monsoonman | Jul 27, 2010, 08:41 PM EDT

Lad! liberal arrows are the rubber tipped kind used for target practice, you see them in cartoons that have the suction cup on the end. Elmer Fudd regularly gets quite a few stuck in the middle of his forehead...

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IrishAndProud | Jul 27, 2010, 07:39 PM EDT

sean, my boy...Americans comprehend perfectly well the difference between right and left -- and that is precisely why the left wing is currently in such deep sheep-dip, in the USA, which is inarguably a center-right nation. Now, if you want to argue about specific national PERSPECTIVE, that's another matter entirely -- as one country's liberal is another's conservative, etc. One could just as easily make the same sort of statement you just made about Australia, or Europe...where the right wing parties tend to make the AMERICAN right look like prissy little schoolgirls, by comparison.

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seanomelbourne | Jul 27, 2010, 07:24 PM EDT

Ah! Monsoonman our quiver contains arrows that are straight and true. The problem is some Americans cannot comprehend where the mean line is between left and right. You know the old saying "America has one party with two right wings"(Vidal).

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Monsoonman | Jul 27, 2010, 09:57 AM EDT

The problem for the lefty Irish, is that they are off balance. Taken by surprise that there would be conservative Irish ready to brawl bare knuckled with the traditional liberal/socialist idealists who have taken over the democrat party, whose new adopted motto is "workers of the world unite"....so all that's left in their pitiful quiver is to name call and besmirch...since they can't argue with the facts. Oh yeah, it's Bushes fault.

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hancock | Jul 27, 2010, 05:47 AM EDT

O'Reilly is an American icon, I dont think he's losing any sleep over what far left Irish or Australians think of him.

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seanomelbourne | Jul 26, 2010, 07:01 PM EDT

urworstnightmar! Please don't saddle us Irish with Bill O'Reilly, he is a product of the U.S.A. more plastic than Irish. He's an embarrassment "mucho loco" compadre.

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IrishAndProud | Jul 26, 2010, 03:17 PM EDT

And here's a portion of what New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd (fellow Irish and a LIBERAL, btw) had to say on this matter [BEGIN QUOTE]: "And why does the N.A.A.C.P. exist if not to help clear a smeared champion of civil rights who gave a stirring speech about racial reconciliation at an N.A.A.C.P. banquet? Its president, Ben Jealous, shamefully following the administration’s rush to judgment, tweeted Monday night that Shirley Sherrod was a racist without even calling his Georgia chapter president or reviewing the N.A.A.C.P.’s own video of the speech." [END QUOTE] Again, who exactly are the real villains, here? Seems the NAACP had fired Sherrod before Fox had reported even a single word on it. And what UR is ranting about below makes no sense, whatsoever...(s)he's apparently confusing illegal aliens with legitimate immigrants (like the Irish of old) and true to the hard-left playbook, is accusing anyone who opposes illegal aliens' presence of 'racism.' Typical, utterly ineffective cheap shot. You'd think after a point even some of these hare-brains would realize that tactic doesn't work, anymore...but no, they keep right on trying it (futily) because it's literally all they have to come back at the issue with. Pathetic (but good for a laugh -- and for knowing they're utterly helpless politically, on this issue).

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irishwxman | Jul 26, 2010, 01:25 PM EDT

Looks like you didn't do your homework either Robert. If you had you would know that Andrew Breitbart did in fact have the portion of the video where she admits that she was wrong and did in fact help the white farmer. People in glass houses eh Robert?

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URWORSTNIGHTMAR | Jul 26, 2010, 09:24 AM EDT

Bill O'Reilly has ALWAYS been viewed by our Spanish speaking communities as one rightwing racist anti-immigrant ranting and raving demagogue. It's good that he "apologized" to Ms. Sherrod, because it was the right thing to do, but nevertheless, O'Reilly is still a racist "Irishman" who has forgotten about the same oppression of his Irish people in Northern Ireland. He has forgotten that the late and former Ireland's Prime Minister, Eamon De Valera was half Irish and half Spanish. ...He has also forgotten about the American Irish immigrant soldiers of the San Patricio Brigade defectors who are much revered in Mexico as their allies in the 1800s. Helloooo....?!

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