is familiarity enough?

Firing off more angry e-mails. Finally took the time to listen to the Fresh Air interview with Bill O'Reilly, and Other did some LexisNexising, and below is the message I sent to ol' Fresh Air.

Just wanted to point out how Bill O'Reilly "spun" his interview with Jeremy Glick, the son of a man who died in the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. He said in the interview that Glick said that "the attack at 9/11 was an alleged attack - and he proceeded to blame President Bush and his father, Bush the elder, for orchestrating the attack on their own country." Comparison with the transcript of the interview shows that Glick never implied that the World Trade Center attack never happened - considering that it killed his father, that would indeed be odd. Here is what he did say:


"Our current president now inherited a legacy from his father and inherited a political legacy that's responsible for training militarily, economically, and situating geopolitically the parties involved in the alleged assassination and the murder of my father and countless of thousands of others."


Harper's did indeed take out the phrase "alleged assassination," but it's hard to tell exactly what he's referring to. In any case, the attacks were definitely, according to Glick, "murder."


O'Reilly went on, saying
"and he proceeded to blame President Bush and his father, Bush the elder, for orchestrating the attack on their own country."


Nowhere in the transcript does the word "orchestrate" appear. "Orchestrate" has quite a different meaning than contributing to a political legacy that's responsible for training parties who were involved in the attacks - which is what Glick was accusing the Bushes of - but apparently this distinction is lost on O'Reilly.


So I truly hope that none of your Fresh Air listeners now believe that Jeremy Glick argued that George and George W. sat around rubbing their hands and talking about how to get box cutters onto planes. It's so frustrating that the corrections of O'Reilly's statements get out only after damage has been done.


Thank you,

me

Also today I found out where the spider who lives on my car hides. Inside the side mirror. He's quick as a flash, and dilligent with those webs. And huge.