WTF?!? 11.17.06
I realize this video is a few days old, but this is ridiculous. This man has the ignorance of a fifteen-year-old and the common sense of someone half that age. These comments are incredibly inappropriate, “politically incorrect” or not. While he spends half of the time backtracking to cover his ass, he uses the other half perpetuating the myth that Islam is an evil religion and the followers are all working against the Christian/American yah… cause they’re basically the same, if not legally (yet) good.
Glenn spouts off about having the common sense of the nation, but he speaks from a place only Bill O’Reilly can claim as common. Though he has made a couple interesting points in the past, he continues to ignore public opinion and go the route of the far-right. You would think an election that clearly though not as strongly as I would have hoped showed the nation’s views as more moderate, or even liberal, would hamper this backward, socially-handicapped, post-9/11, fearmongering. You would think someone with a national voice would try to help in the progress of that nation. You would think he would want America to look like a forward-thinking nation, ready for the global issues to come.
Instead he displays our country’s lack of respect for other cultures. He shows that sixty years after we thought all Japanese were working together against us and stuffed them into concentration camps, we still think a religion or ethnic background should be held accountable for a small percentage of their peoples’ actions. I guess that means I’m somehow responsible for Americans being greedy, fat, and ignorant. Because we are the global equivalent to the first shithead on the playground to hit a growth spurt and use his size to pick on the weaker kids, I must be liable. Or maybe because I’m Catholic I should admit my role in the pedophilic practices of their priests.
Fuck off. If our nation is ever going to show respect for others and regain our role as a nation of example we might as well start with our public figures. Someone whose opinions are heard by millions should have the forethought not to come off as a racist fuckstick. Thanks Glenn, for being the public voice Borat tries so hard to coax out of people without any coaxing.