Selfish Colbert Helped to Raise Money for Charity: The Monster

[evildevil]

There is an article at NoFactZone by DB that needs to be read. The short of it is that Bill O'Reilly was piss off with Colbert because of
this. O'Reilly didnt waste time on attacking the poor while attempting to defend his willfully ignorant, borderline heretical, self justification of being a Christian Grinch during the Christmas Season.

So Bill

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[telemann]

Colbert's knowledge on religion is pretty impressive.

[penguin42]

Ann Coulter should fire whoever is feeding her this information.

My guess is no one fed her that information. She made it up to fit a narrative. Most viewers will believe it to be true, so who cares?

She made it up to fit a narrative.

[evildevil]

impossible, that would require imagination, and she lacks that!

[devil_ad_vocate]

I don't think anyone has fed anything to Coulter in years.

[sandwichwarrior]

Zing!

[policraticus]

I don't know much about either of these men nor do I know anything about their personal charitable donations. Colbert seems like an honest, upright kind of guy and I don't really have anything negative to say about him. The numbers cited are very creditable and should be honored. O'Reilly is who he is, but before we get all judgmental, remember he also supports a lot of charities: http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/billsfavorites/billscharities.jsp How much each gives is unknown, but I'd be curious to see.

And, not for nothing, while Colbert has funneled a lot of money to charity, on average, over the whole population, it is well documented that conservatives donate much more both as a percentage of income and in absolute terms.

http://reason.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-giving-gap

Brooks finds that households with a conservative at the helm

[devil_ad_vocate]

How about anonymous contributions?

[policraticus]

I don't know the specifics about the methodology. The reported difference is 30%, that seems like a big gap to close with anonymous contributions. The split between anonymous liberals and anonymous conservatives would have to gigantic.

[telemann]

WesWilson pointed out the other day, a lot of those figures for conservative donations are for churches. You remove that, and liberals and conservatives are pretty even. Wes was pretty articulate in explaining why church donations and charity maybe seen differently by some.

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[gunslnger]

So, even though Bill several times disagreed with Ann in that interview, including her statement about Colbert, you insist on lumping them together. Interesting. I know I thought that Ann was speaking crap, but I agree with Bill more or less.

While DonorsChoose at least uses some money for the poor (although not for their actual living needs), I don't see how the US Olympic Speedskating Team or the Yellow Ribbon Fund are charities for the poor.

As for theology, I think Bill's credentials are just as good as Colbert's.

[evildevil]

The Yellow Ribbon Fund is a charity that primarily helps returning American service men & women injured during active service. Not all charitable organizations are about poor people. Unless you have a problem with helping our troops that need our help, I dont see what is wrong with the YRF

[telemann]

For what it's worth, I thought Bill was being more fair than Coulter. Actually Bill is one of the more sane people at Fox these days. Scary that.

[devil_ad_vocate]

O'Really has gone sane??

MY GOD. IT'S FULL OF STARS.