sarah's Arty Dreams

HI Sarah,

I never heard of him

very funny. i agree that a little normalcy can be refreshing.

Hi Sarah,
Cool post I think that was a real low for Rush Limbaugh to say that about Michael J. Fox. Rush has had his trouble with prescription medication before and even got arrested and investigated about it too. Bill O'Reilly is an a$$ so, I'm not surprised he showed it on Oprah. He does on his show all the time

The jokes and cartoon are pretty funny (and probably a bit true too), lol.

to tell you the truth I would never read anything related to politics right now...(After all I am 17...) But gotta love the jokes!

Howdy!
I have never heard of or seen Bill O'Reilly until that Oprah show.
I have to say...(ducking behind big stone wall)...I appreciated what he had to say. I understand that he is very,- well...hard to describe.."pig-headed"?, a tad obnoxious?... But, I learned something from him being on that show. >>> I am a traditionalist...all the way. A "right"-winger. Also, he brought up a hugely valid point...(I actually paid attention)..the point being, you shouldn't always believe what you read in the papers...or see on the news. I have always believed that. That is how to be mis-informed. It's good to have connections to get the correct info. Where? I haven't a clue...but it's good to heed that bit of advice.
I think there should be more people out there standing up for correct morals...maybe in a "not-so-obnoxious" way. You have to admit though...Bill gets his point across!
& I heard that about Limbaugh...I bet he is pretty darn sorry he ever said anything... we all say things we regret...fortunately we are not in the media..
There...I'll step off of my soap box now...

Speaking about the media, with regards to Fox and Rush, they got it all wrong, including Fox news. I listen to Rush while I work on my home addition, and I heard the several hours which Rush did on this topic. He spent about 80% of his time dealing with the ammendment which is being offered, and explained the problems with it (it made constitutional certain types of cloning; there is no evidence that embryonic stem cell research will yield any results for Michael Fox or anyone else; the call for federal funding is because there are no private funds for embryonic research, because it does not look to be very promising; one of Fox's own organizations is having more success with a different approach to deal with his disease; there is a couple who have contributed $28 million dollars toward passing this bill whose company would reap billions if it passes). Now, did you hear ANY of this at all on the news? No, not a bit of it. All you heard was, Rush made fun of Michael J. Fox's disease (ok, I overstated that). The political thrust of the bill is, democrats care about people like Michael Fox; Republicans do not; Republicans simply want people who suffer such diseases to continue suffering because Republicans are mean and bad people. And what is pathetic, since none of this is actually reported, you automatically are sympathetic toward Fox, and assume that Rush is simply being mean-spirited.

Furthermore, Rush suggested that Fox possibly was acting because, despite all of his movements, he ALWAYS stayed in frame; and these political ads are very carefully done; that is, Michael Fox didn't step in from the street and do one take, and that was it. Everything about a political ad, especially one with Michael J. Fox, is going to be done right. My guess is, at least half a day was spent on taping that 1 or 2 minute spot alone.

In the alternative, Rush suggested that Fox went off his meds for this presentation because Fox admits in his own writing that he would go off meds when he spoke to Congress about his condition. But, even though there was news for 2-3 days about mean, mean Rush beating up on Michael J. Fox, not even Rush's rationalizations were given. You were given sound bytes, which did not represent in any way the gist of what Rush had to say, or even the rationalizations which Rush offered for his thinking, and you made your judgements on these soundbytes.

By the way, the apology that the media hated that Rush did--the conditional one? Rush did a conditional apology until Fox admitted that he was over-medicated, and then Rush did a full-out, unconditional apology on-air. Every report I saw had only the conditional apology, which had been delivered 1-2 days previous to the reporting.

If you don't think that the media is biased or that you are being told how to think and how to vote, you are kidding yourself. The media will rarely give you the whole story; in this case, not even 10% of the truth.

On the other hand, I felt that Ophrah was pretty good to Bill O'Reilly, despite the fact that they differ so much politically. I felt she gave him a fair shake on her show, and enjoyed it very much. I am not a big Ophrah fan, but I have a lot more respect for her after seeing this show.