Out of all the things that happened this year, watching Bill O'Reilly get intellectually bitch-slapped by an eight year old, scripted or not, was one of the funniest moments of the year.
If you've never seen the infamous video, in which a young girl accuses the Republican party of killing more people than rap music and video games (a true fact), calls God fictitious (if that's not true, prove it), and claims children should learn empathy in place of divisive religious beliefs; watch every second of it:
Bill O'Reilly decried the video as an act of child abuse. I guess because she used the word "ass" and told the truth about religion's bloody history? In the spirit of fair and objective journalism, I will put O'Reilly's stupid-ass side of the argument up as well:
Did you catch that? This is what the "child advocate" said:
So teaching a child empathy, logic, and the use of scientific and statistical knowledge to critique the theories of half-cocked pundits like Bill O'Reilly; tops child rape, child beating, and child pornography on the list of ways to inhumanely treat a child. That's rich. Not to mention the child was "acting."
And since the lady in the magenta jacket brought up using children for political propaganda, something came to my mind:
In the film Jesus Camp (trailer above), the filmmakers documented incidents in which children were brought to the steps of Congress to demonstrate their parents' pro-life political beliefs. How dare they use children to get a political point across – these kids clearly don't have the mental capacity to determine where they stand on the most highly debated political issues of the day. They also pull kids from public schools so they can spend their time teaching children bum science to refute the theory of evolution and global warming – breeding a generation of idiots to serve political goals sounds like child abuse to me. Get after 'em O'Reilly.
Oh you can't. They're your future audience.
More and more I am convinced that our country is truly being run by crazy people with the kind of smarts that make you pray for the next round of natural selection. When promoting atheism and intelligent thought is child abuse, and using kids to start armies of supernatural Gods is heralded, we've got problems. When an 8 year old makes more sense, and displays more logic, than one of TV's leading pundits, the country's just plain in the tank.
Watch these videos and watch them close. These are the videos that are going to be laughed at by historians for years to come.
If you've never seen the infamous video, in which a young girl accuses the Republican party of killing more people than rap music and video games (a true fact), calls God fictitious (if that's not true, prove it), and claims children should learn empathy in place of divisive religious beliefs; watch every second of it:
Bill O'Reilly decried the video as an act of child abuse. I guess because she used the word "ass" and told the truth about religion's bloody history? In the spirit of fair and objective journalism, I will put O'Reilly's stupid-ass side of the argument up as well:
Did you catch that? This is what the "child advocate" said:
"Using a child as a tool to promote propaganda, political propaganda, about which the child understands nothing... is the ultimate inhumane treatment of a child."
So teaching a child empathy, logic, and the use of scientific and statistical knowledge to critique the theories of half-cocked pundits like Bill O'Reilly; tops child rape, child beating, and child pornography on the list of ways to inhumanely treat a child. That's rich. Not to mention the child was "acting."
And since the lady in the magenta jacket brought up using children for political propaganda, something came to my mind:
In the film Jesus Camp (trailer above), the filmmakers documented incidents in which children were brought to the steps of Congress to demonstrate their parents' pro-life political beliefs. How dare they use children to get a political point across – these kids clearly don't have the mental capacity to determine where they stand on the most highly debated political issues of the day. They also pull kids from public schools so they can spend their time teaching children bum science to refute the theory of evolution and global warming – breeding a generation of idiots to serve political goals sounds like child abuse to me. Get after 'em O'Reilly.
Oh you can't. They're your future audience.
More and more I am convinced that our country is truly being run by crazy people with the kind of smarts that make you pray for the next round of natural selection. When promoting atheism and intelligent thought is child abuse, and using kids to start armies of supernatural Gods is heralded, we've got problems. When an 8 year old makes more sense, and displays more logic, than one of TV's leading pundits, the country's just plain in the tank.
Watch these videos and watch them close. These are the videos that are going to be laughed at by historians for years to come.