O'Reilly: "I chose not to go to Vietnam b/c I felt I could....

[HerbieHeadhunter]

better serve the country teaching school..."

No shit. I just heard him say that in trying to explain Cheney's five deferments in a segment about Harkin calling Cheney a fucking coward (expletive mine).

[Catfight]

1. O'Lielly is a pathological liar.

[otohara]

2. O'Really Was A Teacher - God Forbid

What a horrifing experience that must have been for students and teachers.

[stopbush]

5. "Now, the first thing you kids are gonna learn in MY classroom is that

if you don't volunteer for Swift Boat duty in 'Nam you're a fucking coward and I've got no use for you!" - Bill O'Leilly, teacher extraordinaire

[Sparky McGruff]

33. SHUT UP! SHUT UP!

Maybe that's where he learned that one...

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!

[otohara]

3. O'Really Was A Teacher - God Forbid

What a horrifing experience that must have been for students and teachers.

[Scurrilous]

20. O'Reilly taught at Monsignor Pace High School...

...in Northwest Miami-Dade County. My cousin went to school at Pace the same time O'Reilly was teaching there and he says he can't remember a fucking thing about him. This was at a small school where most of the staff and students were pretty close. The guy was utterly unremarkable as a teacher.

[My Pet Goat]

4. That's rich...

do the freeps even believe that?

[stopbush]

6. Other priorities. Anyone else down with that?

[Cocoa]

7. why did he get to "choose?"

I thought the concept of the draft was that they choose.

[Racenut20]

8. I was wondering what perverted our youth in the 60's

And Asswipe was a college history teacher, fresh out of his Libertarian Law School in Chicago.

[CanIgonow]

9. O'Reilly also said that he decided that he would wait for 40 years

and volunteer for duty in Iraq when our country's need for his services would be more critical.

[Mz Pip]

10. DId Cheney teach school?

I kinda don't think so.

What did Cheney do for the betterment of humanity that justified his 5 deferrments?

MzPip
:dem:

[DemBones DemBones]

12. Went to school, flunked out, got married,

fathered little draft deferments, went to school again.

[krkaufman]

11. Isn't O'Lielly supposed to be over in Iraq, now?

Hey, didn't O'Lielly tell Michael Moore that he would be willing to go fight in Iraq?!? What the hell is he still doing editorializing? Time for action, Bill.

[0rion]

13. How old was Rush Limburger during the Vietnam War and did he serve?

Did Rush ever serve? How old was he during Vietnam? What's his lame ass excuse?

[Lindacooks]

14. Some lame story about an anal cyst

I kid you not....

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. Yep, he haq a large pimple on his butt.

Classified 4-F - Unfit for military service.

[kohodog]

22. He is an anal cyst! n/t

[Skittles]

15. HA HA, HA HA HA HA

TYPICAL REPUBLICAN CHICKENHAWK

[Old and In the Way]

16. "He chose"? Another lying hypocrite.

Like he chooses to enable this AWOL pResident in his immoral, unjustified war against a 3rd world army and covers the occupation and war profiteers with his outageous attacks against those who know and understand the real motives of this criminal junta.

Maybe if O'Reilly had chosen to serve, he'd been less gung-ho cheerleading for these cowards.

[WMliberal]

17. a teacher?! "mr. o'reilly, can I go to the bathroom?"

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!

[CaTeacher]

19. I don't like O'Lielly,

but why are we jumping on everyone who did not go to Vietnam?

I was always against that war--I encouraged people to resist going--to do whatever they could to not go. I applaud people like president Clinton who did not serve.

Why are we suddenly jumping all over anyone who did not go? IT WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMORAL WAR. I wish that no one had of gone.

[WMliberal]

21. i agree with you

i'm not jumping on anyone who didn't go to nam. if i had been around, I'd have burned my draft card. I was just imagining O'Reilly as a teacher! YEESH!

[CaTeacher]

sorry--I didn't mean you

in particular--I meant the thread in general.

I support the decision of anyone who didn't go--whether they headed to Canada or whatever.

I do applaud and respect those who did go--however I will never criticize anyone who refused to do so (no matter who they are--I will criticize them for other things--but not for refusing to fight that war).

[Elwood P Dowd]

23. The difference is

people like Cheney, Limbaugh, and O'Lielly support wars but want someone else to fight them.

When I was drafted during Vietnam, I had friends that used every trick in the book to get a 4-F, yet they were big time war supporters. They are now big time Bush and Iraqi War supporters. Don't confuse O'Lielly with war protesters opposing the war on moral grounds.

BTW, I attended anti-war demonstrations while serving active duty in the Army. Looked out of place with short hair but did it anyway. I was there in DC during the big one in April 1971.

[Crunchy Frog]

26. Yes, it was an immoral war,

I'm sure that was O'Rielly and Cheney's main motivation for not going.:eyes:

I think what most people are reacting to is the hypocrisy of people who favored the war but made damn sure they didn't have to fight in it, and now they happily send other people's sons and daughters off to fight and die in yet another immoral war.

I'm fine with the fact that Bill Clinton didn't go. He was opposed to the war, so his actions were consistent with his beliefs. Someone who favored the war but avoided serving is nothing but a chicken hawk in my book.

[CaTeacher]

27. And as president Clinton

had to send troops into battle.

I am against all war--but I never criticized Clinton as Commander in Chief.

I support anyone who does not want to go. But, I also understand that if you are the President (like Clinton) sometimes you have to ask the troops to go. You can't be president if you AREN'T willing to send the troops--that is one reason why I could never be the president. Sending them--even though he did not go himself did not make Clinton a chicken hawk.

And I am not defending O'Lielly--I hate him. But I support his not going--and teaching in an inner city school is a great thing to do for your community as an alternative (although I shiver for the students stuck with him as a teacher).

[BillZBubb]

28. You miss the central issue.

Anyone who was against the war and didn't go was being ethically and logically consistent.

But, people like Limpballs, Bush*, Cheney, O'Really, DeLay, Gingrich, etc claim that the war was NECESSARY and JUST. Yet they found a way to avoid going. That is not ethically and logically consistent. Either they are not as "patriotic" as they claim, or they are cowards. And now this same group finds new, necessary wars that others have to fight. They are Chickenhawks and need to be pilloried.

[kodi]

24. he has a point. anyone here want to see that clown with an M-16?

.

[K8-EEE]

25. Bet A Lot Of Iraq Reservists Would Rather Be Teaching

What an asshole. Did you hear him with Michael Moore? "I wouldn't send my child, I'd send myself."

Yeah right.

[UTUSN]

29. Yep, O'REILLY Browbeating Low Income Kids so THEY Would Go n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

30. kick

[LibraLabSoldier]

31. typical self serving justification

why us po folks should go to war. As long as they keep pricing college higher and higher, us po folks are gonna join the military to try to better ourselves. I guess they figure since their mommy and daddy could aford to send them off to school, those that couldnt should just send theirs off to war.....

[onecitizen]

32. Rolling Stone has a big

article about him in this issue. I haven't read it yet as it came yesterday. I thumbed thru it quickly and it looked like a lot on politics or more than usual anyway.

They gave Steve Earl's new CD 4 stars too!! YeeHa!