June 12, 2007

Michael Savage and Bill O'Reilly Must Go

Michael Savage thinks gay parenting is child abuse and Bill O'Reilly boasts of being part of the "white, Christian, male power structure." It's time we build a new structure.

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I've always been interested in hearing why one set of folks want to censor another set of folks.

I used to listen to Michael Savage frequently (although, admittedly, for short spurts, usually on my commute or while going to the store), and while I always thought the guy was a bit of an idiot, I enjoyed the fact that I could tune in and hear the idiotic opinions and listen to the idiotic justifications. I thought that most of the guy's ideas were wacky, but I took comfort in knowing that the wackiness was exposed, not festering in some shadow where I would go gleefully unaware of it until some crazy outlashing occurred.

These calls to "get them off the air" frighten me. It's more of that "think how I think" mentality, but even worse, because they're not even trying to change opinions, they're trying to straight out silence. I myself like my hate speech out in the open, where I can see it creeping towards me.

As an aside, I find the outrage over the Bill O'Reilly "white, Christian, male power structure" statement incredibly interesting. I find the statement itself interesting, as I'm sure most people do, but I find the outrage equally interesting. I've noticed that most of the folks outraged are those who use that line as a standard description of the establishment... "white, Christian, male power structure". Yet, when a member of the establishment uses the same description with a positive spin, there is shock and outrage. It's like folks are saying, "how dare you freely admit what we've been accusing you of". Folks are ringing alarms saying, "this is what Bill O'Reilly thinks", and I can just shrug and go, "duh".

I dunno, just seems kinda funny to me.

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