Friday, December 11, 2009
Religion / Homo Rachel Maddow Disembowels Rick Warren
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM
He gave her a lot to work with...
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Maddow spouts off as bad, or even worse then all the people Dan Savage complains about. Savage wants freedom of speech for himself, but not for people who rightly think gays are evil!
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Not really seeing any Maddow/O'Reilly parallels here... From what I have seen, Maddow's reporting is almost entirely quotes, citations, and provable facts, whereas O'Reilly (from what little I can stomach) uses mostly personal commentary.
Commentary is all well and good (and Maddow provides her fair share as well) but what O'Reilly constantly comes under fire for is that a) he presents his opinions as facts and b) he loosely bases these opinions on "facts" that too often turn out to be patently false, or taken wildly out of context.
The only part of Maddow's reporting that I can see any O'Reillian (did I just coin this term?) overtones to is her repeated references to the Ugandan bill as the "kill the gays bill," which I suppose is rather sensationalist, though I doubt she was the first to start using the term.
Commentary is all well and good (and Maddow provides her fair share as well) but what O'Reilly constantly comes under fire for is that a) he presents his opinions as facts and b) he loosely bases these opinions on "facts" that too often turn out to be patently false, or taken wildly out of context.
The only part of Maddow's reporting that I can see any O'Reillian (did I just coin this term?) overtones to is her repeated references to the Ugandan bill as the "kill the gays bill," which I suppose is rather sensationalist, though I doubt she was the first to start using the term.
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