Why Bill O'Reilly is patriotic like an Al Qaeda terrorist killer

Gianluca D'Agostino
The main arguments raised by GOPs (and mostly by Fox news) against the Health Care public option, are all based on the legitimacy of income redistribution. More than a matter of economic justice it seems almost these taxhaters oppose it as a matter of moral justice. The main premise of redistribution is that money should be distributed to benefit the poorer, where the rich have an obligation to assist the poor. This happens in normal democracies, where the concept of Egalitarianism is king, like in all European democracies. According to Republicans and Fox news, taxation in general is opposed as the basic human natural right. Even if Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Indipendence, back in 1776 wrote as follows:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed";

Western democracies are all pursuing the egalitarian system throughout their constitutions that more less are all based upon the French model, even if the Declaration of Indipendence is even antecedent. So why these hard-core republicans have such a selfish, anti-patriotic vision of opposing income redistribution while in times of war or when is to defend other parts of the constitution like the 2nd emendament or when they see an american flag it seems they're ready to die for it? Certainly it´s easy to be American Patriots just by talking, or when no effort is needed, it´s different when it´s about taking action by making a real contribution.

These people are just talkers.

In the O'Reilly tv show, Mr. O'Reilly sells mugs and t-shirts merchandising with the sign "american patriot". Patriotism literally means "love and devotion for one´s country welfare" And here´s the biggest contradiction: how can O´Reilly call himself "American patriot" if he claims every day that income redistribution for the poorer American citizens is not economic justice? Where is his patriotism here?

Where´s O´Reilly´s patriotism if he´s worried for his big mac 20 cent taxes? Where is his patriotism if his main value is being selfish and being selfish and being selfish? He sees his poor American fellow citizens just as the devil. But they´re still Americans. Certainly among them there are war veterans and real patriots.If he claims to be a patriot, he is supposed to love them and if he is a real patriot he should be ready to sacrifice his own life for any of them.On the contrary he is not ready to sacrifice neither the 20 cents taxes from his big mac. What a great man. What a great Patriot.

Republicans don´t want to pay more taxes to give health care to the underdogs. What kind of nation is the one that don't give a hand to the needy fellow American citizens? Every year 45000 American citizens die because they don't have health insurance coverage. Many more than all the victims made by Al Qaeda in all its awful history. Shame on you Mr. Oreilly. Shame on you. You re patriotic like the Al Qaeda terrorists of 9/11, because there are 45000 American fellow citizens dying of terrible deseases like cancer and they cannot get preventive care or substantial cares because people like you or other gentlemen like Mr. Glenn Beck are thwarting these people to get healthcare by firing up the public opinion against the healthcare public option.


Mr. O'Reilly maybe does not realize that while telling his daily fairy tales on his tv show he literally plays with the lives of millions of fellow American citizens who struggles working three jobs to get insurance coverage. O'Reilly he's threating their lives, putting their lives at a serious risk of sure death.O'Reilly is worst than Al Qaeda terrorist killers, as they re outlaws, while he is not only acting under a legal way but he's also paid millions of dollars to threat their lives and he coherently wants to keep his cabbage just for himself. He wouldn't give neither his hamburger 20 cent taxes to those poor bastards.What a man.

O'Reilly is just a very disgusting human being. Although he is not even a coherent crook, because he might say ok, here's my beef: I am hard core racist I am for the KKK and usually poor people are bad people, like pushers and criminals. Get load of this Mr. O'Reilly: I had a friend, she was of swedish and german ancestors, she was the most beautyful aryan creature on earth and she died two years ago, because she had not health insurance to take care of her cancer while working two jobs.

Despite 40.000 Americans are dying every year because they cannot have healthcare Mr. O'Reilly keeps playing everyday with the lives of 110 fellow American citizens who die every day while he's firing up the debate against the health care reform and the public option, because maybe in his selfish mind, if they take him those twenty cents from his big mac, he's going to be bankrupt. Foolish.

This person acts against the lives and the survival of thousands of American citizens,and he calls himself American patriot. Disgusting.

Al Qaeda terrorists are more patriots than him. Just to make a little comparison: Al Qaeda has not even the one percent of his audience power. Al Qaeda cannot do much as they don't speak english as well as Mr. O´Reilly. Everyday O'Reilly goes on air and fires up people's resentment against the healthcare reform. Shame on you Mr. O'Reilly and on all the people who think and act in the same awful and cowardly way you do. I hope you happy dreams Mr.O'Reilly you are a real American Patriot. More less like the Al Qaeda terrorist killers.
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Gianluca D'Agostino

Gianluca D'Agostino is a journalist who worked for major news organizations like CNN and Associated Press. He holds a Ph.D in theory of Information and Communication.
His research focus on the relationship between narratives and marketing in film and television. He was a researcher at Stanford and Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley.