On his Fox News program, Bill O'Reilly called Mel Gibson's recent anti-Semitic comments "inexcusable," but said it is "more important" to discuss the "point where the media and individual Americans start to enjoy the suffering of rich and powerful people."
“Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Look it up, Bill: It's the role of the reporter. And of the satirist. Speaking of which:
Guest Geraldo Rivera later...asserted that Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert "make a living putting on video of old ladies slipping on ice and people laughing"
I've been watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for around six years and The Colbert Report since it premiered. That is not their shows. Perhaps Mr. Rivera is thinking of America's Funniest Home Videos.
and that they "exist in a small little place where they count for nothing."
I'm assuming most of you reading this are familiar with Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert's accomlishments, if not, I direct you to the links in their names. I should count for such nothing. You don't suppose Mr. Rivera is still smarting from such remarks of Stewart's as:
(After Rivera hinted during a remote broadcast that he was in fact packing):
The four most dreaded words in journalism: "Geraldo's got a gun."
Or-
"The United States Central Command of the Armed Forces has asked Geraldo Rivera to leave Iraq. It should also be noted that the only three other people that the U.S. military has asked to leave Iraq are Saddam Hussein and his two sons."
-do you?
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