This is precious. Bill O’Reilly, the #1 blowhard on the FOX News network, consistently calls liberals “cowards” for criticizing conservatives and then not having the courage to meet fact-to-face with those they criticize. However, it seems that O’Reilly, in an oh-so-typical case of “do as I say, not as I do,” has refused to allow David Brock of Media Matters to appear on his show to respond to the spineless and numerous attacks ol’ Bill has leveled not only on the Media Matters website, but on Brock’s personal character.
Lots of great O’Reilly quotes on cowardice at the link above too, including:
- “If you attack someone publicly, as these men did to me, you have an obligation to face the person you are smearing. If you don’t, you are a coward. Wise up, sir.” – 1/5/04
- “…cowards who make these erroneous statements and won’t back them up by coming in here…” – 12/19/03
- “I mean, this Dan Golden was a coward. We tried to get him on. He hid under his desk.” – 8/26/03
- “[Congressman Henry] Waxman wouldn’t come on this program, by the way. He’s gutless.” – 2/8/01
Don’t hold your breath, David. I’ve finally let it sink in that these guys don’t want a fair fight. They want to either gang up on you and then run, or they don’t want to face you with facts. They’d rather hurl insults at you from where they feel safe. Gutless, indeed.
“to respond to the spinless and numerous”… did you mean spineless? 🙂 Anyway, if you had a soapbox the size of O’Reilly’s, would you want anyone else climbing atop it attacking your viewpoints? O’Reilly can do what he wants on his show. His show is akin to an editorial in a newspaper, it’s not the news, it’s his viewpoint. While I personally find his style and show distasteful, it’s the kind of junk television some U.S. viewers gobble up for some odd reason.
Ah yes, spineless! Oops!!!