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November 15, 2008
Sarah the Panda
Digby dday on O'Reilly's panda bear:
It's really not that he got the name of the animal wrong. It's that he was so sure of it, and immediately when told he was wrong, he clung to it. That's not only his knee-jerk reaction, but the entire conservative movement. Their version of what's right is whatever their opponents say is wrong. Facts are tangential.
Applied to our favorite Alaskan governor... The Republicans who still believe Sarah Palin is qualified to be president (64 percent of them) probably thought it was a panda, too. In other words, insisting that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president, even though she's clearly not, doesn't make it so. Facts are tangential.
Filed under: Bill O'Reilly || Fox News Channel || Huffington Post || Polls || Republicans || Sarah Palin
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Posted By Bob Cesca | November 15, 2008 9:48 AM
Comments
Sarah Palin will still think global warming is not caused by man even when panda bears replace polar bears in Alaska.
Posted by: Strawdog ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.bobcesca.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at November 15, 2008 10:10 AM
Perfect parallel between that creepy O'Reilly 'gaffe' and the neocon mindset.
Could ol' Bill'o have punctuated Bob's latest Huffpo article any better, or in a more timely fashion?
Thx Bill!
Posted by: JackDanieL at November 15, 2008 10:38 AM
Hats off to Digby! He freaking nailed it.
And Bob nailed it on Palin. That is the right-wing mindset (especially out of the theocrats). "I'm right because you're a liberal." End of story.
Posted by: Redmond at November 15, 2008 11:38 AM
Colbert's new tag:
"Factose Intolerant"
Oh, and Digby is a chick.
Posted by: bibimimi at November 15, 2008 12:01 PM
Panda Pundit: A MSM "personality" loyal to a narrative in spite of or in direct conflict with incontrovertible facts.
Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie08 at November 15, 2008 12:25 PM
@ LFOD - "Panda Pundit" - That's BRILLIANT!
Posted by: Broadway Carl at November 15, 2008 1:51 PM
LFOD: I think you've just coined a new term.
It will be part of my vocabulary from here on.
Posted by: PackyJ at November 15, 2008 2:27 PM
A Panda Fact:
Black, and white...no shades of gray. [we are STILL AT WAR, PEOPLE!]
Posted by: bibimimi at November 15, 2008 2:28 PM
Hell, my old man thought it was a squirrel. But he'd already chugged down a half gallon of merlot, and he thought O'Reilly was Wilfred Brimley.
Posted by: cactusgal at November 15, 2008 6:02 PM
"Panda Pundit"
That is as perfect and apt a description as "BBQ Media". I love it!
This illustrates the axiom that repeating a lie often enough will result in it being accepted as truth, which results in our asking ourselves, "why do we have to debunk this"? Facts be damned.
Posted by: jmrunning3 at November 15, 2008 10:19 PM
We no longer need to respond to panda punditry, for it by definition invalidates itself. It just needs to be appropriately identified, for instance:
"Oh, those are just panda points. Go away."
"If you can't see that's a panda talking, I feel sorry for you, but there's just nothing I can say about that."
Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie08 at November 16, 2008 12:05 AM
PANDA Pundit
Purposely
Annoying
Newscast
Dickhead
Asshat
Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie08 at November 16, 2008 12:07 AM
I love Keith Olbermann's characteization of Bill O'Reilly as " Bill-O the Clown."
Posted by: prcleburne at November 16, 2008 5:37 AM
I may be anal-retentive, but that should be " characterization.:
Posted by: prcleburne at November 16, 2008 5:38 AM
Damn!
That should be " characterization."
Posted by: prcleburne at November 16, 2008 5:39 AM
