Quite.

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

Parade of failures

George Tenet: got the intelligence about the WMDs so disasterously wrong.

Tommy Franks: Mindlessly parroted BushCo rhetoric in the war that Tenet screwed up the intelligence on.

Paul Bremer: Disbanded the Iraqi army and hauled his lapdog ass out of there in the dead of night while the getting was good.

George Bush: Crawford, Texas' own little oil pimp who hasn't gotten a single damn thing right since the day his simian ass got slotted into the White House by his daddy's hand picked judges and his brother the governor.

Bill O'Reilly vs. MediaMatters and ADL

(Snagged from Media Matters via the wise and holy Eschaton)

I really, really hate this man.

O'REILLY: I mean -- what I was distressed about here, and I think when you think about it, you'll see that I have a point. I mean, I'm not expecting you to agree with me, but I don't want your organization, or B'nai Brith, or even Foxman's organization, the ADL -- which I think is a militant organization -- I don't want you guys to be used.

Because I think that, if that happens, there'll be a backlash against Jewish Americans that is unfair and that I'm just gonna have to redouble my efforts to make sure it doesn't happen.

Then there's this gem:

O'REILLY: You picked it up from a website that exists only to smear this program. All right? It's sneaky -- it takes things out of context -- and you were used -- you and your fine organization. And I've raised millions of dollars for Israel, by the way. You oughtta check that. But you and your fine organization was [sic] used by this far left, deceitful, disgusting website, which has tried to engender an anti-Jewish bias when none exists. And Foxman was used -- B'nai Brith were used -- they were all used. None of them heard it [O'Reilly's December 3 remark], and all of them jumped to the wrong conclusion.

Well, falafel-boy, looks like somebody did:

Moreover, the Jewish American newspaper The Forward reported on April 2 that Reilly has exaggerated his role in a fundraiser "for Israel." While "O'Reilly and his publicist told Business Week media editor Tom Lowry that the benefit he 'chaired' in Los Angeles had raised 40 million for Israel," "a few inquiries into the event in question raise questions about the account given by O'Reilly, who routinely refers to his television show as the 'no spin zone.'" The Forward article continued:

It turns out that O'Reilly was the paid keynote speaker, not the volunteer chair, of a February dinner that raised 3 million for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. According to the federation's spokeswoman, Deborah Dragon, the event was part of the organization's annual campaign, which raises over 40 million, with some of the money going to help Israel. But the larger share is spent on local causes.

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In short, Bill O'Reilly is a complete fucking liar and a whiny damned idiot. Typical. I really, really, really hate this man.