http://www.newshounds.us/2006/11/20/oreilly_on_oj_cancellation_the_folks_did_it_and_i_am_the_messenger.phpLet's make no mistake - the decision to air the interview of OJ and the decision to publish the book were made in corporate offices to make money. Period. The decision today to cancel "the ill-advised project" was similarly a business decision, not a moral one. Advertisers were pulling out, affiliates were refusing to air it, and bookstores were refusing to carry it. If they could have gotten away with it and made money at it, News Corp. would greenlight it.
This is cracking me up. FOX got Dixie Chicked and pulled the offensive show and book that THEY planned to publish and she is righteously spinning it into a big bad (unspoken = liberal) media polluting the culture. The "cultural pollution" that people need to be fighting is being brought to you by FOX.
She wound up the Memo by giving kudoes to FOX for ultimately doing the right thing as if it was a moral decision on the part of Murdoch and not a business decision. Puh-leeze.
O'Reilly phoned in from his undisclosed location to claim "It's a culture war victory. The folks did it, and I am the messenger." He insisted that this proves that FOX News is independent - what other network would allow their commentators to go on air and slam a decision of their programming arm. He then reiterates the falsehood that FOX News Channel "has nothing to do with FOX broadcasting." (Except that they are wholly owned and operated by the same people, share a name, and do incestuous cross promotions all the time. And, as he noted, they are "arms" of the same media octopus.)
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Ha! What utter bullshit bill, you are the messenger of the culture war, you who work on FOX or did you forget that? Culture war bill? Look what FOX news has done for American culture, it sucks bill, like you, you pompous, pious, powermad piss ant.
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