Is It Spin, Misinformation or Just Plain Lies?

Hi Everyone,

Last week was the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's, "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. His speech was an important turning point for African Americans fight for equality. I did not know until this past week that Dr. King's original, typed speech, was only to last about 5 minutes. He ad libbed the whole "dream" part of the speech which added 11 minutes to his speech. So would you think that the anniversary celebrations would be without political discord. If you thought that, you, as well as I were so very, very wrong.

How? Well, last Wednesday, on Bill O'Reilly's "No Spin", TV show, he had one of his usual rants. This time his rant was about how no Republicans or Conservatives had been invited to the anniversary celebration. O'Reilly even mentioned Bush 2.0, as an example of a Republican who was not invited to the event. The only Presidents who spoke, there were three, were Democrats. Really O'Reilly? Did you really say that? Indeed he did and he stands by his "No Spin" statement of "his" kind of facts.

Please, please always remember that every person is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. So as it turns out, these are the true facts. Bush 1.0 and Bush 2.0 were both invited to speak, but both bowed out citing health reasons. So O'Reilly got that wrong! Speaker of the House, John Boehner was also invited, but he too declined, stating that he had to speak at a Congressional event. O'Reilly wrong again! Jeb Bush and John McCain were also invited, but both declined. O'Reilly wrong again! FYI, every single member of both houses of Congress were invited to attend. So O'Reilly was really wrong about that also! Even Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader was invited, he also declined. O'Reilly wrong again! In Cantor's mindless brain, he thought that it was more important to meet with oil lobbyists on that day, instead of being part of history. Big money and big business is obviously more important to him, then some anniversary of some black guy's speech, so long ago.

So let me clear the air in which O'Reilly seamlessly muddies at every single chance he gets. Every member of the Republican Congress had been invited. But guess what? Not ONE Republican or Conservative attended Dr's King's speech anniversary. And O'Reilly was wrong each and every time! How is this possible? What's wrong with this picture at every level? Since every single Republican and Conservative were a no show, doesn't that speaks volumes of how they as a party, feels about civil rights, especially equality for African Americans? Republicans fought tooth and nail against the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960's. They were so dead set against it that one southern governor refused to desegragate the states schools and went up against the federal government. So their continued displeasure with both Dr. King and the civil rights movement are still, even to this day, is clearly evident in their not attending. They are so far on the wrong side of history that it is sad.

The bottom line is that O'Reilly is either the most stupid person on TV, which I think he is not, or he blatantly used his, "No Spin" show as a platform to spread not just misinformation and not just his type of spin, )which he constantly says he does not do), but also blatant and outright lies. How does he get away with these kinds of lies? Oh right, he works for FOX news, who wants, allows and airs any lies about anything Democratically related. Don't wait for any kind of retraction or apology from O'Reilly or FOX, because it will never materialize. The real story here is that the GOP in mass, predecided they would not attend the celebration. The real question here is why??? Isn't it time to stand by your window and scream, at the top of your lungs, that we're mad as hell and we aren't going to take this anymore.

It is high time that O'Reilly and friends get a much needed shot of common sense and stop spreading outrageous lies. There is just no way that O'Reilly didn't know the truth about the invitations. Obviously he had no story with the real facts. The real story would not have painted such a sob story regarding how the GOP was snubbed. I am scared to death wondering how many of O'Reilly's followers believed every word that he said. How unfortunate that there are so many spineless people who refuse to believe the truth and would rather believe lies from a now proven liar. He even lies every time he states that his show is a "no spin" zone. I wonder if that makes him laugh every time he says it. It does make me laugh and cry every time I hear it, though for a different reason.

Be careful who you vote for during this election season.

Til next week.

Peter