[lit-ideas] Re: I don't know.
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:22:44 -0400
The surrealist auteur news-demagagogue Bill O'Reilly was somehow
given access to a microphone so he could make these remarks:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509150001
O'Reilly: "Many, many, many" hurricane victims who failed to
evacuate New Orleans are "drug-addicted ... thugs"
On the September 13 broadcast of The Radio Factor, Fox News host
Bill O'Reilly claimed that "many of the poor in New Orleans" did not
evacuate the city before Hurricane Katrina because "[t]hey were
drug-addicted" and "weren't going to get turned off from their
source." O'Reilly added, "They were thugs."
<snip>
Now the tragedy is that a lot of times these people have children,
and society has to take care of their children. Now, to me, I'm much
more punitive than -- I would take the children away from these
people. If you tested positive for heroin or crack, I'd take your
child away, out of the house. All right, I'd rather have the kid in
the system than under your control. It's a tough call, but that's
what I would do. But it isn't society's neglect, it's the absence of
personal responsibility, which the government can not force you to
be responsible, not in a free society.
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