Bill O'Reilly: Still an asshole

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O'Reilly says "Muslims killed us on 9-11," prompting View walk-off, later apologizes



Source - Media Matters

Comments

[jennifer0246]

jfc. still not a mosque, still not "at ground zero", or at "9/11", wherever the fuck that is. at a date, really?

istian

[chantalzola]

My dad, who is 88 years old, is anti the whole thing BUT because he is a die hard atheist and doesn't want anything religious by there. Christian, muslim, whatever, he doesn't want it. He's a WW2 vet too. I kind of agree with him. I mean his reasoning is the only one I find sensible for not having it. His whole thing is that the US has a lot of memorials that aren't religious. He'd protest the same if it was a church being built. Why can't we have a non-religious memorial going up? That's his thinking. i know it's not supposed to be a memorial.

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[jasoncourtney]

this whole thing makes no kinda sense.

Re: istian

[chantalzola]

Sorry =(. Not sure what part makes no sense, my wright up or the fact that my dad is an insane elderly atheist.

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[theartistprince]

it's not at ground zero, though. Just lower Manhattan. Two or three blocks away.

Re: istian

[chantalzola]

Oh I know. My dad's a little nutty. And old. BUT I prefer his reasoning to others. He's not anti-muslim, he's anti religion in general. He doesn't want a church there either. He thinks well there's the Washington monument, why can't we have a non-religous monument by ground zero? He also fought in WW2 and had a heart attack right after 9/11. I think he has PTSD, but he won't admit to it.

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[theartistprince]

The monument is non-religious, or suppose to be, anyway. This isn't a monument nor a memorial or anything to do with 9/11 at all.

I'm so confused rn

There is a church being built, but it was destroyed on 9/11 and they're just putting it back up. Is that what you mean?

Re: istian

[chantalzola]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be confusing =/ My dad is straight up strange. No, I didn't know about that church. That would drive my dad nuts. I hope he doesn't find out about it, because I don't want to hear about it, lol. My dad thinks ALL religion is evil, anything put up in the name of any religion is bad to him. He sees the new center as being a religious thing, even if it"s not, it doesn't matter, he sees it as being religious. I hope that makes more sense =/

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[theartistprince]

I get that, I guess what I don't get is why he'd be against the community centre when it's so far away from Ground Zero. I mean, two blocks is pretty far in NYC.

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[chantalzola]

My dad is anti all religion. Like seriously anti. I'm an atheist, but he puts me to shame. He's a bit insane about it. Two blocks is two blocks too close for him. He also fought in ww2 in China and is really mentally fucked up because of it. I mean, he's insane anyway, but that didn't help. I love my dad, but he's a bit kooky.

Re: istian

[chantalzola]

My dad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Rosset. Yes, I was named after a prostitute in a jean Genet play who gets killed by a firing squad.

My dad means well. He's not a bad person, but he is fucked up.

Re: istian

[theartistprince]

I get it now :)

I was just confused. He's lived an interesting life so far!

Re: istian

[chantalzola]

Yes! And I hope he continues to live for a long time. He's one of the few people I have in my life who genuinely loves me and *likes* me. I know he's going to die soon, he's 88, but I try not to think about that.

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[xforge]

It's not even a "monument" of any sort whatsoever; it's a community center, with basketball courts and rooms where people can sit and play checkers. It's a fricking YMCA for Muslim kids.

Re: istian

[chantalzola]

Convert you. I don't know. I talk too much.