I cannot believe I missed Letterman last night, but I heard what happened, and found it online. His guest was the right-wing Fox anchor Bill O'Reilly ("he's a right anchor," they say), and he gave him hell. It's not like Letterman to lay into his guests too much, but he was obvioulsy pissed with what O'Reilly was spouting. Letterman berated him for his stance against Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war protester whose son was killed in Iraq (he said she was simply being controlled by the far left, as if she can have no feelings of her own), and even said, to rapturous applause I may add: "i have the feeling about sixty percent of what you're saying is crap." Woo-hoo! Nice one Dave! Here's an example of what O'Reilly said: O'Reilly: "Okay, so let's stop with the lying and the this and the that and the undermining and let's get him. That is putting us all in danger. So our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good. But we believe that the United States, particularly the military, are doing a noble thing, a noble thing. The soldiers and marines are noble. They're not terrorists. And when people call them that, like Cindy Sheehan called the insurgents 'freedom fighters,' we don't like that. It is a vitally important time in American history. And we should all take it very seriously. Be very careful with what we say." O'Reilly said, what about the women and children being blown up by these people? And the families of those soldiers killed by insurgents? Well, that's all very well using that rhetoric, Bill, but aren't our forces, our noble forces, aren't they blowing up women and children too? Should the 'insurgents' not have feelings when they see their own people die every day in their own country because of a foreign invasion force? They are wrong to fight fire with fire, but we must not forget that we are fighting with fire (and white phosphorus). As for the flawed intelligence, he agrees that the CIA got it wrong (as Bush has admitted), but excused by saying that other countries' agencies got it wrong too, including Britain's "M-one 5", as he put it. The guy obviously has not heard about David Kelly, and the sexed-up dossier. Honestly the whole interview was great, and Letterman put the guy in his place; you can see it here (windows media player), and the transcript of it here (farleft.blogspot).
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Letterman: "Well, and you should be very careful with what you say also."
5.1.06 04:28
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