O'Reilly's War

FOX Mushroom Farm is probably not doing star manure-shoveler Bill O'Reilly any favors by not putting him on a bullshit short-term temporary suspension--just throwing that out there. At present count, he has about seven or eight former colleagues calling b.s. on his accounting of his experiences covering the Falklands War. He's gone so far as to threaten a NYT reporter with "everything I have" over the issue.  A time-out might defuse attention on this issue for the network and their star, but right now, he is totally being a story. Journalists (real or FOX News) tell stories--but it isn't helpful for them to become them.

Steve M. describes the wagon-circling that conservative media are engaging in--I think this is very awkward of them (and really--Alger Hiss?*) O'Reilly's fault in recounting his Argentinian experiences doesn't really have an ideological basis, and his reporting in the "No-Spin Zone" should certainly account for something if the byword of "Fair and Balanced" is to have any meaning at all, no? He's simply being called an inaccurate reporter who is exaggerating and got on everyone's nerves. That's not about politics. That's about their experience of working with him.

A Portrait of the Candidate as a Bit of a Jerk

Well, we kind of knew Romney was a bit of a jerk, but this is really not very nice, is it?

Punctuality mattered to Romney. Christie’s lateness bugged him. Mitt also cared about fitness and was prone to poke fun at those who didn’t. (“Oh, there’s your date for tonight,” he would say to male members of his traveling crew when they spied a chunky lady on the street.) Romney marveled at Christie’s girth, his difficulties in making his way down the narrow aisle of the campaign bus. Watching a video of Christie without his suit jacket on, Romney cackled to his aides, “Guys! Look at that!”

Really? Binders full of chunky ladies might like a word with the former presidential candidate. I will settle for "jerk".

Texas Councilman, Joel Burns of Ft., Worth, lays it out:

It Gets Better--Dan Savage and Terry

I can vouch for it getting better, too. I was bullied, and it got better for me. Being young, and around immature people sucks. But once you sort out who you are and find people who care about you--and you will, at college or when you go to work: The people who treated you like shit matter less and less. They become irrelevant as you become so much more of who you are. And once you know yourself and come into who you are--you don't even think about those people anymore. You think about the future. And you know it can be awesome.