O'Reilly, Beck joke about Uighurs' Guantanamo detention, Beck suggests they call their restaurant "The Waterboarder"
June 16, 2009 10:14 pm ET
From the June 16th edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
Previously:
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Media Matters: The right-wing media's election analysis just ain't that good
The Friday Rush: For conservatives, $400 million buys defeat at the ballot box
The myth of Fox News' ratings spike
Way to be professional boys! Especially after Man Cow Mueller finally put this issue to rest (not that it was necessarily necessary) a couple weeks back.
I wonder if these ass-clowns (including Sean Hannity) would ever be willing to.... oh... nevermind
So we see pictures of the Uighurs apparently "living it up" in Bermuda and cracks about how "ridiculous" it is. What we don't see pictures of is what they've endured at the hands of the Bush Administration for 8 years. I'm sure if Beck saw that, he wouldn't be so quick to want to endure the same thing in return for a job in Bermuda.
Not all of the Uighurs have gone to Bermuda. Some of them were relocated to Albania or other European countries willing to resettle them. For their own safety, they cannot be returned to their home in Xinjiang, China, out of fear that they will face persecution from the Chinese government. They will likely never see their wives and families ever again.
I have heard them mentioned in the media as terrorists being coddled with a Bermuda vacation, and have even seen at least one consucker at this site buying the media spin and terrified of them.
I realize that was the plan of the Bush administration, to portray anybody detained at Gitmo as a convicted terrorist, and I'm not very happy about the Obama admin. not being forceful enough in resolving that embarrassing moment in American history, bit I get the feeling that the mistakes of the Iraq war and Gitmo are going to take many years to correct.
I watched the video... I thought I had a pretty good idea as to what America had become under Bush/Cheney and Republican rule...
Knowing that that is still happening in our names... scratch that... that it happened at all in our names... is singularly the most embarrassed I have ever been about my country!
I won't even get into how seriously pi$$ed off I am about our corporate owned media... let alone Glen and BillO as it pertains to this thread.
This country's citizens and the Democrats that are in charge of it right now... had better find a way to make amends so that this kind of crap never occurs again in our names.
I sometimes weep for this country, not specifically for what it has done in the past (and present), but for what this country could have always been and isn't...
Funnier, though, would be to actually imagine a restaurant co-owned by Beck and O'Reilly. Actually it's not so far fetched, since O'Reilly has been fantasizing about the hospitality business in the Caribbean for a while now. And who can forget what an expert O'Reilly is when it comes to observing and evaluating restaurants? Oh what a wonderful menu it would be, featuring delicious homemade motherf***ing iced tea, inappropriate falafel, and intravenous cabernet sauvignon.
Chef Beck would be on site to cook up his daily Crocodile Tear Soup. And of course Beck will help develop new and embarrassingly clumsy gimmicks for the restaurant, like his 9/12 Chicken Dinner Project: if you and your friends share Glenn's 9/12 Chicken (9 fried chicken breasts and 12 thighs made with 9 core value herbs and 12 principled spices) just 11 times at 9 o'clock each day, on the 12th day at 9pm you'll get one free. And then you can be that person you were on 9/12: the person who felt such tragic loss and mourning that nothing would fill up the emptiness inside except for delicious fried chicken, followed by your choice of You Are Not Alone In A Cone Ice Cream or the Brie Surround Them fruit and cheese plate.
Rack of Lamb...