O'Reilly Faces Off Against Moore
An Interesting Dialog
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Bill O’Reilly has been asking Michael Moore to appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” for some time now. Moore as declined to appear until O’Reilly viewed “Fahrenheit 9/11” in its entirety. Apparently everyone’s requirements have been met, because Moore sat down with O’Reilly at the Democratic National Convention to exchange questions.
O’Reilly opened with the following query.
Moore sticks to his guns about Bush being a liar. Moore seems to think that a false statement is a lie despite the statement being made in good confidence but based on bad data. I happen to disagree on that issue.
Moore response with, “…many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.”
The difference is that criminals that believe their own delusions were not given millions of dollars worth of intelligence from the top sources in the world.
Moore comes back with the question, “…would you sacrifice your child to remove one of the other 30 brutal dictators on this planet?” And later with, “So, you would sacrifice your child to secure Fallujah?”
These are, of course, silly questions. No one would want to sacrifice their children. If you knew 100% that your child would die by volunteering for the military then you would not want them to do so. Of course, that also brings up the point that military service is voluntary, and that no parent has the right to “sacrifice” their child for any cause.
John Derbyshire offers a fine response to Moore’s question.
O’Reilly opened with the following query.
- Now, one of the issues is you because you’ve been calling Bush a liar on weapons of mass destruction, the Senate Intelligence Committee, Lord Butler’s investigation in Britain and now the 9/11 Commission have all come out and said there was no lying on the part of President Bush. Plus, Vladimir Putin has said his intelligence told Bush there were weapons of mass destruction. Wanna apologize to the president now or later?
Moore sticks to his guns about Bush being a liar. Moore seems to think that a false statement is a lie despite the statement being made in good confidence but based on bad data. I happen to disagree on that issue.
Moore response with, “…many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.”
The difference is that criminals that believe their own delusions were not given millions of dollars worth of intelligence from the top sources in the world.
Moore comes back with the question, “…would you sacrifice your child to remove one of the other 30 brutal dictators on this planet?” And later with, “So, you would sacrifice your child to secure Fallujah?”
These are, of course, silly questions. No one would want to sacrifice their children. If you knew 100% that your child would die by volunteering for the military then you would not want them to do so. Of course, that also brings up the point that military service is voluntary, and that no parent has the right to “sacrifice” their child for any cause.
John Derbyshire offers a fine response to Moore’s question.
- "Would you sacrifice your child for Fallujah?" All right, it's a stupid question as phrased. O'Reilly should have said that. Then he should have said this: "If a child of mine wished to pursue a career in the U.S. military, I should be proud. If he was then sent off to fight in a hot war, in which the USA had engaged under the proper conventional and constitutional procedures of this republic -- under the command of the President, with the approval of the Congress -- I would make no attempt to stop him. If he died in combat, I should grieve as a loving parent; but I would blame nobody. And if anyone tried to make political capital out of my child's death, I would loathe that person."
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