Come Heller high water …
- When I read about guys like Bill O’Reilly, I wonder what they’d think if their daughters were treated that way by men they work for.
- And before you say “innocent until proven guilty,” if Fox fires the guy after investigating, ’nuff said.
- One of the best things about the Internet is its instantness. Anyone can broadcast whatever they want to the world in a snap. That’s also the worst thing about the Internet. No one should have wanted to see the video of the Facebook murderer killing 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr., God rest his soul. But a lot of people did. It was viewed more than 1.6 million times before it was removed.
I’m just glad I didn’t accidentally see it. I don’t want to see that. I don’t need to see that. And if you did – if you willingly sought out the video and consumed it – may it haunt you the rest of your days. I inadvertently saw a few seconds of reporter Daniel Pearl’s beheading at the hands of terrorists and to this day it comes back to me in dreams.- You can be certain we’ll see more of that kind of thing in the future. Bad people copycat this sort of thing. I’m firmly convinced a lot of the slaughters we see today are a direct result of Columbine. Hug your loved ones close.
- I wish Trump would spell-check his tweets. He needs a talking to from my high school English teacher: “Tax Returns should not be capitalized, young man. And the term is ‘hereby,’ not ‘hear by.’”
- C’mon, winter, let go, wouldja? No more days in the 40s, OK?
- I say that because I just attended a high school track meet. Four hours sitting on a metal bench. There’s no weather worse than track weather.
- At the request of Prime Minister Theresa May, Great Britain will hold a special early election for her job, even though one wasn’t scheduled for three more years. Hey, America, are you thinking what I’m thinking?
- A packet of McDonald’s Szechuan sauce from 1998 just sold on eBay for $14,000. The guy who sold it found it on the floor of a used car he bought. So tomorrow, I’m searching the minivan. I’m guessing there are at least a hundred McDonald’s French fries back there that are at least as old as that sauce packet. Who knew having kids would pay off someday?
- It’s prom-posal season. Every teenage boy is busy figuring out a big, showy way to ask a girl to the prom. I think that’s unfair. How’s a girl supposed to say no when the kid asking her rents a Lamborghini, hires Mr. T to drive it, and has the local marching band play “entrance” music? C’mon. Too much pressure. I prefer the old way. Boy asks girl way out of his league. She says no and he goes home and develops a lifelong complex about what a loser he is.
- “Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning , look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.” — Bernie Glassman.
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My co-worker & I accidentally came across that video from the Facebook murderer. It was horrible & I wish I never saw it. My thoughts & prayers to the Godwin Family. And I hope the murderer is rotting in Hell right now!
Why does it have to be a big production to ask somebody to prom? When did that start anyway? You just ask somebody. We didn’t have the fancy prom-posals back when I was in high school (early 90’s). Neither did my son, who graduated only 6 years ago.
Excellent article, as always!
“When I read about guys like Bill O’Reilly, I wonder what they’d think if their daughters were treated that way by men they work for.”
I ask this question to his supporters who are viciously defending him. They are completely unfazed.
Like you said. Anyone can broadcast anything they want on the internet anytime they want. You can also accuse anyone of anything with no real evidence and that person is usually guilty until proven innocent. Especially high profile people with lots of money who are generally adversarial to the media cartels ideology and conflict in such a powerful way to their usually bogus narratives. O’Reilley has been a constant thorn in the side of liberals for many years now and it’s not that much of a stretch to think this is an orchestrated hit job on his nearly flawless reputation. Either way eventually the real truth will come out but you should know better than to rush to judgement. If he was a liberal and spewed nonsensical leftwing nonsense everyday I’m sure you’d be slower to judge.
ANd I’m sure the same thing if one of these women were your daughter, wife or friend, right? C’mon, Fox doesn’t fire their biggest star based on hearsay. They investigated. And there’s no rush to judge here. These charges have been around for a long time. Fox, in fact, is ridiculously and insultingly slow to judge. I fail to see what difference his ideology makes. If Rachel Maddow were doing the same sort of thing, I’d be equally disgusted.
Brilliant. I only hesitate to say “as always” since we don’t want your hat size to change.
Never hesitate when calling me brilliant. Only when you’re calling me idiot.
I may disagree with you sometimes, but you are NOT and idiot.
Bill O’Reilly’s “supporters who are viciously defending him” are doing so because he had a great show for many years that they agreed with and enjoyed watching. It does not mean that they defend what he is accused of. Why do liberals absolutely worship Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and John F Kennedy? Talk about perverts! They were powerful men who used their power on women who were seeking to get ahead by being in their world.
I don’t absolutely worship anyone, but you right wingers viciously hate those people for those very reasons.
No, he didn’t have a great show. What he had was a show that reinforced your biased beliefs, much like trump does. That is why you love them and will defend them to the moon.
So tell me about those family values.
If you think he should be allowed to go on working there when all of the women that filed these charges also work there, I fault your logic. You are absolutely defending what he is accused of. You are saying it’s all right for him to sexually harass women at work. Liking and agreeing with his show is one thing–but you cannot separate the man from his actions.
Kathy, she’s guilty of viewing everything as politics when politics has nothing to do with this. I’m sure some liberals are happy about it, but that’s their problem. I’m happy about it because the guy is a creep.
What do politics have to do with it? He wasn’t fired because of his politics. He was fired for being a first-rate creep.
Wonder if the younger Murdocks are starting to change direction of Fox News?
Or just following the lost ad monies. …personally I’d like to see all cable news step back, take a break from the drama ….I can watch Shep Smith, Chris Wallace but some of the others are not credible.
Why is Heller a hypocrite? Do you have information that he approved of Clinton’s cheating on his wife/affairs? Is Bill O’Reilly’s behavior equivalent? Why is this a “Dems/Libs” or “right-winger” thing? Because it isn’t. It’s not political. Good heavens. Stop being so angry and divisive. Let people be just PEOPLE. Americans can and should hold accountable people who abuse their power, and abuse others. The case(s) against Bill O’Reilly reflect that he has been, for the better part of his career, a seriously shitty human being who used his power to shame, humiliate, bully and even sexually abuse other people. These cases were not controversial. These women taped him saying terrible, disgusting things. Threatening them. It’s not political. He sucks.
I can’t believe you wrote that in a open forum. You have no morals at all.
I removed that one. Sorry, Working Dad. This isn’t a “family values” newspaper but a little decorum is nice.
Funny, but I don’t recall Andy EVER putting Bill Clinton on a pedestal. Just sayin’.
I’m as liberal as it gets–and I can’t stand either of the Clintons. But here’s the thing–the fact that Bill Clinton also sexually harassed women does not make it okay for Bill O’Reilly to do so. And Bill O’Reilly is the subject of this post. Two wrongs do not make a right. Taking potshots at Clinton adds nothing to this conversation, other than maybe pointing out that they’re both wrong to have done what they did.
What would Trump’s English teacher say about his use of “America ” to talk about the United States? Is he really going to make America great again? Even Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, etc.? He needs to learn the difference between “America ” and the “United States”.
I barely know who Bill O’Reilly is or was. I encountered him on TV many years ago, and realized he and his show were a big, boring, phoney-baloney waste of time. All of these TV pundits fall into that category.
Please, go bowling or teach somebody to swim or some such, even just take a nap, rather than sitting and looking at this silly stuff. Even writing about him here is a waste of time.
I myself am going to bed now.
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Andrew Heller, Are we only going to hear from you yourself once per week, on an irregular schedule? That seems light. Will you please post twice at least? We love Mr. Auchter and Surveyin’, but you yourself used to be the main attraction.
Are you actually somehow making a living by writing once a week? Oy. If so, I want to get your gig. Hollywood in The Thumb for you? Please write more.
Bye-Bye for now, Tom
Ha, Tom, no I don’t make my living writing these days. I write for 10 or so papers, but work in PR full-time. Posts have been more sparse lately because we’ve been in the process of moving. As we edge into summer, I plan to write more.
I have been reading your column since I was teenager. I am 40 now. When I moved to Virginia for six years, I would find your column on the Flint Journal’s website when I was feeling home sick.
I could probably recite some of your older articles from when I was a kid; about your family, your job, your car (a Prius right?), and remember Don and the Donnettes? Shoot, you could put that back into use now! There were also some sad stories, that stayed with me all these years.
You had a part in shaping my views about the world. I really appreciate your writing and I am glad I found this blog a couple months ago.
Thanks for writing, A-Hell. We like reading you.
I agree , track weather is the worst. Six years of high school track meets we saw it all. Sometimes in just one meet.