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From The Today Show: Media Matters’ Waldman: “[I]f Bill O’Reilly got caught robbing a bank he would say he was taken out of context”
I’ve been at Media Matters since the launch in 2003, and I can’t tell you how many times when these conservatives, faced for the first time with having to take account for their words, whine and complain and cry that they were “taken out of context”.
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I hope someone has something like the following discussion with O’Reilly:
Imaginary Guest: So, Mr. O’Reilly, you claim your words were “taken out of context”?
Bill O’Reilly: Exactly! Media Matters is a smear site!
IG: And, to understand fully your intentions it would be necessary to listen to complete transcripts of the Factor, hours or possibly days worth of material?
BOR: Right!
IG: One can only understand the intent and meaning of commentary by lengthy detailed analysis of a large sample of primary source material?
BOR: It’s called reporting!
IG: I see. So let me posit a question Mr. O’Reilly. How many complete and entire front-page articles written by the primary contributors have you PERSONALLY read from the Daily Kos?
BOR: Don’t change the subject!
IG: You have criticized Daily Kos repeatedly by the use of only about half-dozen comments written by anonymous commenters, and these were usually on user diaries and not on the primary front page articles written by the main site contributors authorized to produce front page content. You have *never* quoted entire front page article in its entirety either on your radio or TV show. By your own standard, is this ethical?
BOR: Cut his mic! cut his mic!
I wrote a lengthy post on this thread and it disappeared. Is this comment signin thing really working right?
I’m not sure what’s going on, but the comments section during this recent revamp has been terrible–slow to process, slow to refresh, and often forgetting login info or otherwise.
I suspect it’s at least part of the reason the threads have been so lackluster since the redesign.
Did you or did you not say:
“I tend to just want to cash the big checks but Snyder’s much more honest.”
SaveFarris: “Did you or did you not say:”
Not in that link he didn’t. Or were you trying to make a point?
Wha?
He’s combining parts of the post to make a completely different quote. What Jay DOESN’T realize is that when quote someone in that manner, one uses ellipses(es?). So it should look like:
“I tend to…just want to cash the big checks…but…Snyder’s…much more honest.”
Also, that’s not what “taken out of context” means.
In other words, Ferris is an idiot. Who’d have thunk it?
Ok, let’s try this again.
What he’s doing is he’s combining sections of Oliver’s post to make it say something completely different. What Ferris doesn’t realize is that:
1. That’s not what “taking out of context” means.
2. When quoting someone in that manner, one uses ellipses. So it SHOULD read:
“I tend to…just want to cash the big checks…but…Snyder’s…much more honest.”
In other words, Ferris is an idiot. Who’d've thunk it?
“Ferris is an idiot. Who’d have thunk it?”
Luckily he pops in now and again to remind us of that fact.
Of course, this is the same party that brought us “Al Gore claims he invented the internet” and “Hillary fakes a southern accent to appeal to black voters.” Like Bill Clinton said, the outrage is always fake, always disingenuous, always hypocritical with these clowns.
Now there’s a few minutes I’ll never get back.
I’ll give O’Reilly this: the ice tea comment was taken out of context.
Check the transcript on Media Matters. O’Reilly was telling Juan Williams that there is a segment of white society that thinks hip-hop is representative of the way black people think and behave. It was in that context that he pointed out that no one in Sylvia’s was using the type of profanity white people imagine is commonplace.
I think this comment would have been entirely unnoteworthy if O’Reilly hadn’t made the incredibly stupid remark about Sylvia’s being “just like any other restaurant.”