Donahue v. O’Reilly
Posted at 9:27 am on Friday, May 4, 2007, in Uncategorized, and tagged iraq.
There are two types of people in this world. Those who agree with Phil Donahue, and those who agree with Bill O’Reilly. (You cannot be for both, or against; you are either one or the other. And you know who you are.)
When people ask me “hey, why can’t we just get along?” or others insist that there aren’t really two sides to the debate and that there is no real difference between the “two parties” (which may be true legislatively and rhetorically, but not philosophically), this video exchange (from the Fox News program The O’Reilly Factor, broadcast on September 23, 2005) lends the question: Which side are you on?
“Loud doesn’t mean right.”
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May 4th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I’ve always considered the two types of people in the world to be those who divide people into two types and those who don’t. The essential fallacy with this arbitrary classification is that a person must, of necessity, fit into one category or another with no gradations in between–the classic “black or white with no shades of gray” conundrum.
To wit: I don’t necessarily agree with Phil Donohue, but I’d NEVER agree with Bill O’Reilly. Where does that leave me? In agreement with your closing sentence!
May 4th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
True, I was all Bush “black-and-white with no grey” in my argument.