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Sit-ins. Walk-outs. Smashing up the headquarters of a major political party. Chaining yourself to the railings outside your local sweet shop because they changed Marathons to Snickers. How have you stuck it to The Man?

(, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 12:24)
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New England Flydrive, March 2003
It was the buildup to the Iraq War, see. I listened to quite a bit of talk radio as I drove around, which was pretty uniformly right wing (they had some lefties on, but tended to tuck them away late at night), and gung ho.

After a week or so I decided to ring in on me mobile (using my handsfree bluetooth thing, naturally, officer) to protest. Well, to attempt to correct some of the egregious factual inaccuracies being spouted by - IIRC - Bill O'Reilly, now a denizen of the Fox News Network.

To my surprise (presumably they didn't get many Brits phoning in), I got on air. After exchanging pleasantries, we talked some on the issues of the day, I used my vast intellect to corner Bill in a trap of his own logic! Haha! Clever Me!

Just as I was about to spring the trap, he said words to the effect of "what do Brits know, laydeez and gennelmun? If it wasn't for us they'd all be speaking German!", cut me off and went to the next caller.

My last words in the conversation:
"Actually Bill, I think you'll find that the threatened invasion took place in the summer of 1940, well before America abandoned neutrality and....

Hello?...

Hello???...

Fucknuts!"

What I failed to realise is that I'm a politics junkie. Bill O'Reilly, on the other hand, is a talk radio and TV host, paid to make sure his audience's short attention spans don't cause them to flick to another channel. The two were not designed to mix, and politics comes off worst every time they do.
(, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:24, 5 replies)

www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=bill_oreilly
(, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:01, closed)
I Like a
well balanced website ha ha ha
(, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 18:15, closed)
He's like an internet troll
who accidently found himself in a position of power. Now that I think of it, he might be the mastermind behind lots of forum-aliases.
(, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 18:14, closed)
He's more like the kind of person who runs off to the mods and accuses the other party of trolling whenever they're starting to lose an argument.

(, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 15:44, closed)
If it wasn't for us they'd all be speaking German...
...to which the best reply is:

If it wasn't for us you wouldn't be speaking English
(, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 19:11, closed)

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