Category Archives: The Zeitgeist

In Defense of Bill O'Reilly

Media, The Zeitgeist

“‘Bill O’Reilly is not looking out for the kids,’ wailed a blogger. He ought to lose his job for his ‘base-line idiocy’ and perverse inhumanity, sermonized Keith Olbermann, suddenly sounding a lot like the man he calls ‘Billo.’ ‘I’ve really had it, you know, with people judging,’ came Sean Hannity’s signature inanities. ‘This was an 11 year-old boy, ripped away from his family, and people are suggesting maybe he just enjoyed being away from school.'”

“The contretemps were over O’Reilly’s response to the case of Missouri kidnapping victim Shawn Hornbeck. The boy disappeared in 2002, and — turned up four years later — alive, the alleged captive of a pizza-parlor manager,’ to quote Newsweek. O’Reilly has been clobbered ever since he dared to suggest that, horrors, the kid probably enjoyed his new-found freedom: ‘He didn’t have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted.'”

“The excerpt is from my new WND column, “In Defense Of Bill O’Reilly.” Fox News is full of statists on steroids. So it doesn’t often happen that the person who penned “He Contorts, I Decide” defends Bill O’Reilly. But on the rare occasion that O’Reilly opposes the therapeutic establishment and upholds individual responsibility —also the cornerstone of liberty —he deserves support. So he got it.

In Defense of Bill O’Reilly

Media, The Zeitgeist

“‘Bill O’Reilly is not looking out for the kids,’ wailed a blogger. He ought to lose his job for his ‘base-line idiocy’ and perverse inhumanity, sermonized Keith Olbermann, suddenly sounding a lot like the man he calls ‘Billo.’ ‘I’ve really had it, you know, with people judging,’ came Sean Hannity’s signature inanities. ‘This was an 11 year-old boy, ripped away from his family, and people are suggesting maybe he just enjoyed being away from school.'”

“The contretemps were over O’Reilly’s response to the case of Missouri kidnapping victim Shawn Hornbeck. The boy disappeared in 2002, and — turned up four years later — alive, the alleged captive of a pizza-parlor manager,’ to quote Newsweek. O’Reilly has been clobbered ever since he dared to suggest that, horrors, the kid probably enjoyed his new-found freedom: ‘He didn’t have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted.'”

“The excerpt is from my new WND column, “In Defense Of Bill O’Reilly.” Fox News is full of statists on steroids. So it doesn’t often happen that the person who penned “He Contorts, I Decide” defends Bill O’Reilly. But on the rare occasion that O’Reilly opposes the therapeutic establishment and upholds individual responsibility —also the cornerstone of liberty —he deserves support. So he got it.

Borat's Golden Globes Vision

The Zeitgeist

Once again, Sacha Baron Cohen lampoons all the serious stuff that has been penned about “Borat: Cultural Learning Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Sure, his crudity is a little hard to take, but he’s so brilliantly, disarmingly funny (and gorgeous, if you ask me. How such a dish transforms himself into Borat and Ali G. is, in itself, the stuff of great comedy). Over to Cohen’s Golden Globes acceptance speech, transcribed on “Blogging about the Reel World“:

“I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. And I just want to say that this movie was a life-changing experience. I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America. But I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America. A side of America that rarely sees the light of day.

I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

[Davitian shrugs and raises a wine glass]

Ken, when I was in that scene and I stared down and saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, ‘I better win a bloody award for this.’
And then when my 300-pound co-star decided to sit on my face and squeeze the oxygen from my lungs, I was faced with a choice: Death or to breathe in the air that had been trapped in a small pocket between his buttocks for 30 years.

Kenneth, if it was not for that rancid bubble, I would not be here today.
[Music starts-up]

Thank you to Larry Charles, thank you to Jay Roach, thank you to Isla Fisher, my fiancée. Thank you to Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer; thank you to Ari Emanuel; Matt Labov; Erran Baron Cohen, my brother who did the music; and to Jason Alper. And thank you to every American who has not sued me so far. Thank you.”

Sacha Baron Cohen 2007 Golden Globes

Borat’s Golden Globes Vision

The Zeitgeist

Once again, Sacha Baron Cohen lampoons all the serious stuff that has been penned about “Borat: Cultural Learning Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Sure, his crudity is a little hard to take, but he’s so brilliantly, disarmingly funny (and gorgeous, if you ask me. How such a dish transforms himself into Borat and Ali G. is, in itself, the stuff of great comedy). Over to Cohen’s Golden Globes acceptance speech, transcribed on “Blogging about the Reel World“:

“I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. And I just want to say that this movie was a life-changing experience. I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America. But I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America. A side of America that rarely sees the light of day.

I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

[Davitian shrugs and raises a wine glass]

Ken, when I was in that scene and I stared down and saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, ‘I better win a bloody award for this.’
And then when my 300-pound co-star decided to sit on my face and squeeze the oxygen from my lungs, I was faced with a choice: Death or to breathe in the air that had been trapped in a small pocket between his buttocks for 30 years.

Kenneth, if it was not for that rancid bubble, I would not be here today.
[Music starts-up]

Thank you to Larry Charles, thank you to Jay Roach, thank you to Isla Fisher, my fiancée. Thank you to Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer; thank you to Ari Emanuel; Matt Labov; Erran Baron Cohen, my brother who did the music; and to Jason Alper. And thank you to every American who has not sued me so far. Thank you.”

Sacha Baron Cohen 2007 Golden Globes