Bill O’Reilly WAS a Thug?

Now I understand why Bill O’Reilly acts like he does. It started during his childhood.  On a recent appearance on the Daily Show, where he talks briefly about his new book, he admits to having been “scolded by nuns.”   He also reveals that “I was a little thug.”  WAS?  He talks about while in the third grade “doing some thuggish thing in the back of the room.”  Well.  Now he gets to be a thug and do thuggish things in full public view.  And he gets paid to do it.  Geez.  Some people get all the breaks. 

Here’s Part I of the Interview and Part II.

Racists versus Felons?

The Evil Ann Coulter recently wrote the following (Nov. 5):

This was such an enormous Democratic year that even John Murtha won his congressional seat in Pennsylvania after calling his constituents racists. It turns out they’re not racists — they’re retards.

Umm.  Take a look at Alaska’s election.  They elected a convicted felon.  Oops.  Don’t forget to be fair and balanced.

Woo Hoo! Race No Longer Matters!

Maybe Cornel West, who wrote Race Matters, would have something to say about that.  Seriously, in Kathleen Parker’s latest column she tells her story of living in a divided south.  Dorothy, the woman who took care of her, was biracial.  Parker’s story is very touching, but she ends it this way:

The day after the election, an African American woman and I were marveling about events and trying to put our finger on what had changed.

That thing. The little speck of difference that kept us imperceptibly apart had been dissolved in a lovely instant of national consensus that race no longer matters.

Really?  Race no longer matters?  CNN sure is devoting a lot of time to something that doesn’t matter.  Oh, and don’t forget what happened at Baylor.  Someone thought it would be fun to hang a rope from a tree and burn Obama/Biden signs. 

Right.  Race no longer matters.