tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post113094804839979772..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: That Big Spicy Italian MeatballHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131042339089933272005-11-03T13:25:00.000-05:002005-11-03T13:25:00.000-05:00I'm with Kathy ... I do not agree that O'Reilly is...I'm with Kathy ... I do not agree that O'Reilly is on <A HREF="http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/alanreynolds/2005/11/03/174128.html" REL="nofollow">"our"</A> side.<BR/><BR/>He is probably more on our side that the other, however. He is in it for ratings, and does a fine job on that count.Barry Vanhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006891046091646808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131036916579934852005-11-03T11:55:00.000-05:002005-11-03T11:55:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Barry Vanhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006891046091646808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130967970233661652005-11-02T16:46:00.000-05:002005-11-02T16:46:00.000-05:00I'm not so sure he even qualifies as "on my side."...<I>I'm not so sure he even qualifies as "on my side."</I><BR/><BR/>I have no intention of allowing Bill O'Reilly to be assigned to "my side" either. It would be kind of fun to lock Matthews and O'Reilly in a closet and take side bets on how long they could shout at each other before their vocal shock waves reduced the door and walls to their constituent molecules.Kathy Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851875819094837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130965808648457312005-11-02T16:10:00.000-05:002005-11-02T16:10:00.000-05:00I'm not so sure he even qualifies as "on my side."...I'm not so sure he even qualifies as "on my side." He doesn't even pretend to have an ideological basis anymore. He's just a hack.<BR/><BR/>My personal Bill O'Reilly is Stephen Colbert...James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130963772954795902005-11-02T15:36:00.000-05:002005-11-02T15:36:00.000-05:00James...we've all known he is an idiot...occaision...James...we've all known he is an idiot...occaisionally useful, but an idiot nonetheless(he's your side's Bill O'Reilly).Matt Huismanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09972662349345412127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130959318140762052005-11-02T14:21:00.000-05:002005-11-02T14:21:00.000-05:00Welcome to what liberals have known for a while: C...Welcome to what liberals have known for a while: Chris Matthews is an idiot.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130958970570968062005-11-02T14:16:00.000-05:002005-11-02T14:16:00.000-05:00Looks like the GOP side hit the spin bottle quickl...<I>Looks like the GOP side hit the spin bottle quickly, powerfully, and apparently, unfairly on this one.</I><BR/><BR/>The strange thing is, the guy who spun the bottle first was Chris Matthews. Or maybe not so strange -- Chris is a very excitable guy but he's also been around the block more than a few times, and I'm sure his days with Tip O'Neill taught him a thing or two about how marginally unflattering stories play in blue collar Boston, etc.Kathy Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851875819094837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130958482606177842005-11-02T14:08:00.000-05:002005-11-02T14:08:00.000-05:00I jumped too quickly in my comment on the post. L...I jumped too quickly in my comment on the post. Looks like the GOP side hit the spin bottle quickly, powerfully, and apparently, unfairly on this one. The fair reading is that he was ineffective, not that he was mafia-friendly.Hunter Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130956451833837262005-11-02T13:34:00.000-05:002005-11-02T13:34:00.000-05:00Thanks, T. The memo is here (it's even a right-win...Thanks, T. The memo is <A HREF="http://www.townhall.com/blogs/capitolreport/TimChapman/story/2005/10/31/173672.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> (it's even a right-wing website) and it's just a meta-data document intepreted through liberal talking points. There's nothing in it that's even marginally offensive or objectionable if you actually <I>read</I> it. The whole hoopla is much ado about nothing.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130950690745176732005-11-02T11:58:00.000-05:002005-11-02T11:58:00.000-05:00The best part of this story? At the very moment DN...The best part of this story? At the very moment DNC is denying they had anything to do with this memo, the same blogosphere that exposed the Rathergate memos as fakes is <A HREF="http://redstate.org/story/2005/10/31/194827/79" REL="nofollow">hacking the Word document metatags</A> and discovering not only who wrote it, but everyone who edited it. And their institutional affiliations. The supposedly stodgy, antiquated conservatives are kicking the left's behind with superior geekitude.<BR/><BR/>Compare the response of Democrats like Geraldene Ferraro when it's not only implied, but demonstrated, that you've got Mob connections: you accuse the other side of bias against Italians (even when your accuser is named d'Amato!) and then prominently ignore the whole thing.Kathy Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851875819094837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130949581433680302005-11-02T11:39:00.000-05:002005-11-02T11:39:00.000-05:00Could someone link to this? I really hope that it'...Could someone link to this? I really hope that it's just a draft or some idiotic fringe group, if it's true and not some Republican plant. That sounds just plain dumb, as well as playing right into Orrin Hatch's hands, and as fractured as the Democrats are, I can't believe they'd be <I>that</I> stupid.<BR/><BR/>Alito has been getting some very polite and comprehensive coverage at The New Republic. I've come to trust their opinions on judicial matters, and the more information I get, the less objectionable Alito appears on the social front. The business front? Now that's something else entirely.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1130949316239871742005-11-02T11:35:00.000-05:002005-11-02T11:35:00.000-05:00If the Dems really want to play that card, they ne...If the Dems really want to play that card, they need to go see the unions and mafia and decide which high profile Dem gets hit to make the sell feel real.Hunter Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.com