yesican32's Blog

*this is not my attempt at defending rosie, because i'm a huge fan. this is just me defending another person's right to give an opinion without making it a personal attack to him/her as a human being. that's ignorant. *

Bill O'Reilly has made it a point to devote much of his program for the last few days to whatever Rosie O'Donnell says on The View that his different from his own thinking.

He had Geraldo Rivera on the other night and preceded to drown him out with "You're losing this one buddy!"  The problem with that observation is Bill didn't seem to understand exactly what Geraldo was saying.

Sure, I'll admit, sometimes Rosie says some off-the-wall things, but so do most conservatives in my opinion.  The difference between me and people like Bill O'Reilly, is I don't accuse others of being unamerican or siding with the terrorists.  The thing that pisses me off about this whole deal is Bill O'Reilly and everone on that network (with the exception of one man on Hannity and Colmes, who defended what Rosie actually said, to what people interpeted her saying, which is my point all along), has made it a point to twist, cut and paste without letting viewers who do not watch The View, know what was said before and after the thought.

The thing is, Rosie's opinion on anything she says is proteced under free speech.  Many people, including Bill O'Reilly during his interview with Geraldo, kept spinning the situation to ask if "Ann Coulter had said what Rosie had said, every media network would be all over it."  But since it wasn't her, O'Reilly claims, and just Rosie, the media stood clear of it, which further proves the "liberal media bias."

That's not exactly true.  The reason Ann Coulter got so much publicity (which she loves, and that's why she said it) is because she used a derogatory slur to John Edwards.  Whether she meant it or it was "taking out of context," she still said it, and that is not protected by free speech.  There are just some things you do not do, and apparently Ann Coulter just wanted some attention for the day, because it was getting quiet on her side of the world.

If Rosie had used a derogatory name to Bush or anyone in the adminstration, of COURSE it would have been noted.  But since she gave an opinion about a situation that has been done many times over, hardly anyone took notice.  It was an opinion, on a show about giving opinions.  So what?

I love to debate with others.  It gives us a different outlook afterwards, and it's great to remain friendly afterwards.  But basic rules in debate will tell you that you do not manipulate what others say, and you do not use derogatory slurs or any such thing that would personally affect the other debator.  It's very simple to do!  Many people (and yes, I'm including liberals in this) do not understand that concept, and can not fathom the idea of not resulting to that.  It only makes me think that the person has limited knowledge on the idea at hand, and can only go so far.  It's sad to me...

Let's clarify right quick: 

Rosie never said terrorists are good people or that we should befriend them instead of fearing them.  She said we shouldn't fear terrorists (meaning, we shouldn't live in fear that "everyone over there" is a terrorist, or the enemy..which is smart, because many people ONLY see terrorists over there, and nothing else).

She did say it was planned for those British soldiers to be captured so that we could go into Iran.  I don't necessarly agree with this, but I'm apparently in the minority, since many others have this same, or similar thought.

She never said that the government planned to destroy the twin towers.  She did say steel can't melt by fire, to which she clarified later by saying she was refering to a steel building never being destoryed by fire.  Which is true.  She was NOT refering to the twin towers, as so many people like to say, and forget about the other places that were hit.  She was refering to Tower 7, and that theory has been around for a while, only to be brought back to surface by a particular video.  No one has been able to prove one way or another how Building 7 was destroyed, and the ones who "cleaned up the mess quicker than they did for anything else" do not have much to say on the matter.  Which is suspicious.  Do I believe we were responsible for that one?  Not sure, but I know the building wasn't destroyed the way the rest of them were, and I know jet fuel was not the answer (since there was no record of that at all)

I guess I wrote this because, if people want to disagree with Rosie, that's fine, and I encourage that.  I want to debate her on many things, since we don't always see eye to eye.  However, once you twist her words around, and call her names, you've gone to far.  If you cannot have a serious debate without going back to that, you shouldn't even try to debate.  That sorta thing is best left for people who know how to behave like adults

Another thing?  Do not have the balls to say to another American citizen that because they do not agree with the same things you do, or they haven't served in the military, or they have a liberal point of view, or they're more into arts than politics, that you are more American than they are.  We are all citizens of this great country, and for someone to be arrogant enough to think that just because they hold a more conservative outlook on life that they suddenly have a higher ground with which to stand pisses me off more than anything else.  Grow the BLEEP up.