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On 6/25/09, Bill O Reilly had a Talking Points commentary which dealt with the celebrating the destruction of others. Of course, O Reilly is talking about the news covering South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford s debacle.  Celebration?  I don t think so.  I haven t seen any evidence of celebration.  Not in the mainstream media.  I haven t seen it on any of the major liberal blogs either.  It isn t that Mark Sanford hasn t given many critics adequate ammunition.  That s not the problem.  The problem is Governor Sanford s complete inability to come up with a coherent story and stick with it.  His story has been evolving ever since we first thought he was missing two weeks ago.  We don t need to celebrate.  When a political rivel is stabbing himself multiple times, all you need to do is get out of the way. Bill O Reilly states, as fact, the left has been especially vicious of late.   He gives us no information or data to support this wild allegation.  This is a Bill O Reilly trademark. He then compares the wild left celebration to the restrained coverage of the John Edwards affair.  Of course, he doesn t mention that John Edwards had already dropped out of the presidential race.  His presidential bid was in the toilet when the story broke.  John Edwards was holding no public office.  Finally, the fact that John Edwards had a extramarital affair with a woman, did not fit with the frame that the conservatives were painting John Edwards as a closet homosexual. Remember Ann Coulter s disgusting refrain? Again, Bill O Reilly then gives this sweeping statement Fox news did not celebrate or dwell on the Edwards affair.  Really?  Where is the data to support this?  How do you define dwell?  A simple search of the Fox news website, using Google,  reveals 1940 references to John Edwards and Affair.  So what do you think maybe a thousand of them are real and pertinent? Bill O Reilly, who regularly likes to attack even the New York Times or the Washington Post, on this particular occasion chooses the Post.  (The Washington Post has plenty of problems of its own. It was revealed that the Post was selling access to its Op-Ed columnists and reporters. That can t be good for unbiased journalism.) Bill O Reilly chose to single out Eugene Robinson who is a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist.  Instead of playing Eugene s video clip in which he and Keith Olbermann were talking about Eugene s unique qualifications to talk about this particular situation (the fact that Mr. Robinson had lived in Argentina while he covered South America and grew up in South Carolina).  Eugene Robinson was clearly joking when he said that he was grateful to the governor for doing this.   This was a quote that was clearly taken out of context and Bill O Reilly doesn t seem care.  (See the video below and decide for yourself) Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Bill O Reilly then singles out several other people to prove his case that the far left was celebrating.  By the way, where is the far left?  Is the far left people who believe that the government should not decide who can and cannot marry whom (outside of medical restrictions)?  Is the far left people who believe the government shouldn t torture and should not have invaded Iraq?  If this is the far left then more than 50% of this country is far left. Anyway, he eventually winds his way around to attacking Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, she is a filmmaker and outspoken critic of many conservative policies that we ve seen over the last 8-20 years.  Somehow, Pelosi mentioning the hypocrisy that many of these family values Republicans have shown to the American people is un-American in Bill O Reilly s book.  Somehow, criticism, without name calling (pinhead, moron, baby killer, etc.) has become un-American and vicious. Bill O Reilly concludes his incoherent rambling by comparing those who reported Mark Sanford s adultery and subsequent lies to Muslims who believe in stoning criminals.  He says, apparently some in the USA believe in stoning as well, only with words.   Maybe I need to go back to college but that doesn t seem to make any sense.  When you stone somebody you kill them.  Valid criticism is somehow equated to stoning or a death sentence?  I don t understand.  Then again, after listening to several of Bill O Reilly s Talking Points Commentary I m usually more confused at the end than I was at the beginning.

Some of my readers have already e-mailed to ask my feelings about the Dallas Cowboys loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. First of all, the Cowboys defense came to play football. It is the first time this year that we have seen anything like a ferocious Dallas Cowboys defense, which is good. On the other hand, we saw what may be the final step in the transformation of Tony Romo into former Dallas Cowboy quarterback Danny White. For those of you who don t know, Danny White was the quarterback who followed the great Roger Staubach. Danny White was a good quarterback. He stood tall in the pocket and delivered a very pretty football. He retired with a quarterback rating of 81.7, completing almost 60% of his passes. In 1983, his best year, one of his throws went almost 4000 yards . He had 29 touchdowns. Remember, this was an era when we ran the ball far more than we ever threw the ball. The problem, of course, was that Danny White could not win the big game. In 1980 and 1981, he took the Cowboys to the NFC championship game but lost twice. So the question becomes can Tony Romo win the big game? So far, the answer is no. I still have a problem with some of the Dallas Cowboys basic maneuvers. More than once during the Pittsburgh Steelers game, it seemed as if players did not know where they were supposed to be lining up. This is the 14th week of the season. There were several mini-camps before preseason and a bunch of preseason games. Shouldn t we know where to line up by now? Why is it that in the heat of the moment several key players did not know the Cowboys were out of timeouts that late in the second quarter? I also believe that everyone on the special teams should be fired. They have let this team down in several games this year. Where s Billy Bates or that guy who did the Shark dance Kenny Gant? The big run back in the fourth quarter was unforgivable. Where was Patrick Clayton? He was supposed to be a big part of the offense yet, in big games, he always disappears. Terrell Owens had a lot to say after the game but the bottom line is he was not running wide open. Our big acquisition during the season was Roy E. Williams, the receiver. Where was he? Two catches for 16 yards..?  That s not going to get the job done. Jason Witten, who has kept fighting despite a broken rib, should be applauded just for being out there. He had an awful game. On a fourth and one, early in the game, Witten missed his block and Harrison tackled Anderson for a loss. He and Romo had a miscommunication, which gave the game the winning touchdown for the Steelers. All in all, the defense played well enough to win. The offense and the special teams for the Dallas Cowboys did not play well enough. Jimmy Johnson, former Cowboy quarterback, said that in these big games you need to win two out of the three phases of the game. Instead, the Cowboys lost two out of three. It is possible for the Cowboys to catch fire and win the rest of their games. The Giants caught fire last year. Tony Romo must stop turning over the ball. The Cowboys cannot go deep into the playoffs with Tony Romo s needless sacks and mindless interceptions.