My conservative friends rave about Bill O’Reilly, but I have yet to see any evidence the man is actually conscious. For example, what sort of person whats to know what Gene Simmons would do about terrorism? Yeah, that’s so much deeper than the tripe on Larry King Live.
And the most amusing thing is, it’s not a one-off comment where O’Reilly simply asks him about “the recent events” and lets Simmons babble out some stupid answer. O’Reilly gets involved in a serious conversation with Gene Simmons about the ins and out of counter-terrorism, Israel, and the conflict with the Palestinians.
O’REILLY: Now, the Mossad is feared. It is a secret police and agency that is given assassination. We don’t have that in the United
States, although President Bush, (UNINTELLIGIBLE), he did an interesting thing, I don’t know whether you’re aware of this. He took a U.N. resolution that allows assassination in defense of a country, and that’s what…SIMMONS: It’s time.
O’REILLY: Yes.
SIMMONS: Yes, it’s time, because the United Nations is the wonderful place of civilized people and civilized countries to have civilized
discussions. We and Russia — look, America and Russia, I’d be hap — proud to be considered part of the we. Russia and America had the back and forth of, You shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that. Background, there
was some dirty stuff going on. But ultimately it was a conversation.These guys are not interested in the conversation. So the result is very simple. It’s not even eye for an eye. The old book says eye for an eye times seven. You take out my eye, punitive damages are also allowed.
O’REILLY: Right.
Gee, what’s next Bill? When do we get to hear Britney Spears’ opinion about political unrest in Sri Lanka? How about N’Sync conduct a roundtable on Japan’s economic problems?