I hate hearing about how all the news programs except Fox have liberal bias, and suppossedly always has been, although I don’t remember ever hearing that when the only news for an entire year was about Bill Clinton’s penis. The reason tv news sucks is because its really only entertainment now. Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are non-stop news stories that I just sick of. The fact that internet news is vastly superior in that you can choose what to read, and this is becoming more obvious now that the news channels are constantly talking about them. I really don’t care about “General Betrayus” or the fact that the one time someone other than a Ditto-heard started listening to Rush Limbaugh’s show, they were able to catch him repeating the words “fake soldiers” after a caller said them. I also didn’t care that Obama doesn’t want to wear a pin of an American flag that was probably made in China. But this is too far: After a family with handicapped children went public about how a government-funded health care program helped them after their children were injured in a car accident, a new right-wing smear campaign seems to have materialized, and is now lambasting them for being “rich.” Bill O’Reilly is constantly griping about the “hate speech” on the Daily Kos, but nothing he’s shown compares to what’s being posted on Redstate.org:

“If federal funds were required [they] could die for all I care. Let the parents get second jobs, let their state foot the bill or let them seek help from private charities. … I would hire a team of PIs and find out exactly how much their parents made and where they spent every nickel. Then I’d do everything possible to destroy their lives with that info.”

“Hang ’em. Publically… Let ’em twist in the wind and be eaten by ravens. Then maybe the bunch of socialist patsies will think twice.”

Umm, yeah.  I’ve never read anything quite that extreme on the Daily Kos. (Although then again, I never saw the doctored picture of Bush that O’Reilly constantly hyped on.)

Personally, i’m all for taxing people to help sick children, and i’m also for taxing the hell out of cigarettes, but combining the two doesn’t seem particularly logical to me. But regardless of whether the bill right or wrong: I can understand emotions getting high over sick and dying children; I really don’t understand why people can get so angry over cigarette taxes.

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