O'Reilly, pointing to ACORN, Van Jones stories, declares "Fox News and talk radio are now setting the [national] conversation"

Conversation...? Oh, is that what it's called? It sounds more like a cacophony of shrill paranoia. Maybe I'm alone in my opinion...but I don't think so.

This story seems to be picking up steam....

"Let me address the Fox News Network now perhaps the most current way that I can, by quoting somebody who recently used a very pithy phrase, two words," Sanchez told viewers. "It's all I need: You lie."

HillBilly, you wouldn't know how to have a decent conversation. And for the record, shouting down people who disagree with you or harassing women isn't conversation.

O'Reilly, pointing to ACORN, Van Jones stories, declares "Fox News and talk radio are now setting the [national] conversation"

Not true.

I'm part of "the [national] conversation", mostly a listener really, I'm in on what's being said about important National Policy, like whether or not we'll have a Public Health Insurance plan (at affordable premiums) for uninsured Americans not already covered by Medicare, and whether or not more U.S. Troops are sent to Afghanistan (and mostly whether or not they get killed while they're there, seeing as how there's no U.S. National Security objective being served that I know of, by having so many U.S. Troops lives' risked in that place), and I'm as concerned as ever about Congressional ethics and the way our Congresspersons (and even administration officials) are being bought and sold to the highest commercial bidders...

I'm not the most informed person in "the [national] conversation", I'm no voice at all really, just a listener...

Up until about two weeks ago, when he resigned from his obscure job as advisor to the mostly unimportant Council on Environtmental Quality, I'd never even heard of Van Jones... and as I took the several Internet Wire minutes to find out who he was, I discovered he was nothing at all to me, and I couldn't have cared less who he was, or that he had resigned his job, or for whatever reason who cares I certainly don't.

This thing that goes by the acronym ACORN, I likewise knew nothing about them and would never have even seen that acronym except here in these MMFA pages... and when I took the few minutes to find out who they were and what that acronym stood for, I again (just like in the case of Van Jones) discovered they were nothing to me or to anyone I know, they served no government function that I knew of, and I'm sure I found out what the acronym ACORN stood for, but I can't for the life of me recall it now because it means nothing to me I just don't care about these things because they have nothing to do with National Policy that I can discern...

Unlike Public Health Insurance, and Afghanistan, and Congressional ethics and the unbridled bribery taking place in our Congress.

So it's not true what bill o'reilly said, the nonsense that he and Fox News Channel are prattling on about, is not "the [national] conversation", not that I know of.

They (Fox et al) are just talking amongst themselves, in a contrived converstation of their own design and mostly of their own participation, and they're hoping that there are enough Americans eavesdropping on their prattle and noise, to distract from actual National Policy, and perhaps create a negative enough public perception of Democrats in general and President Obama in particular, to capture as many seats in 2010 for Republicans in Congress as possible, and to perhaps also limit President Obama to one term.

Well, that's my little turn in "the [national] conversation", at least here and now... and I still know little or nothing about Van Jones or ACORN because I couldn't care less and I don't feel the least bit ignorant for it so bother telling me about those things because I don't need to know, thank you very much just the same.

If FAUX News is setting the tone of the national conversation then, we are left with no choice but to invade ourselves and spread some democracy here. God only knows we can use it!

Me, me, me, our ratings are high, me, me, me, Fox News rules, me, me, me, I'm awesome, me, me, me...