Fighting Back

Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone posted a decent little blurb about Bill O'Reilly's fact-free crap attack on Bill Moyers:

When I went into Bill's studio yesterday, I heard about a crazy dustup he had recently with Bill O'Reilly, the details of which are extremely aggravating in a way that, as anyone who has followed this political season knows – this is a story about someone getting facts wrong – is becoming increasingly and unpleasantly familiar. What happened was that in his much-publicized debate with Jon Stewart, O'Reilly bashed PBS for funding lefty agitators like Bill Moyers. "Here's what we get – a $16 trillion debt, and we've gotta pay for Bill Moyers," O'Reilly boomed. He also at one point held up a flash card with a picture of Moyers, along with the headline, "Why is NPR getting our money?"

Taibbi also links to the Rebuttal from Bill Moyers, which is fine-point accurate, but kinda points up what seems like a pettiness of the whole thing.  But when you add up all of the (petty) little things that pass for debate and discourse coming from the "right", it isn't petty at all.  Each little thing by itself is just a drop in the bucket, but (and I've said this before) given time, drops have filled the oceans.

Anyway, the story's pretty good, but I was mostly encouraged by what popped up in the comments under Taibbi's blog post.

First, of course, the designated Troll weighed in:

Dear "Progressive" Trash,

You are never going to turn this country into the socialist dictatorship you'd like it to be. NEVER. What exactly do you intend to do with the 80% of the country who doesn't want what you want? Yeah, you manage to fool and bribe another 30% to vote for the Democrats from time to time, but when they find out or are reminded about who you really are and you lack of respect of the RIGHTS in the CONSTITUTION, we all band together to kick you autocratic butts OUT of power once again.

If you ever manage to seize control of the government, doubtful as the military despises you as well, we have a lot of guns and believe me, we'd relish fighting you. It's all irrelevant though because come November, you are DONE. You will be relegated to your Universities of brainwash, your media whine fests and your stupid NGOs and non-profits.

Obama is toast and so is your anti-liberty, government corruption agenda for at least 30 years. 

Nah, nah, nah, nah. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Hey hey hey. GOODBYE!
Eat crow your weasels.

Not much new there, but then we got this in response to the Troll (bobby tomas):

Dear Mr. Tomas,

I am left of center in my politics, to be sure. What I frequently notice when someone on the right writes as you have, is that there is NO information to be found in your post. Calling me a socialist doesn't mean anything. HOW am I a socialist? How do you define socialism, what don't you like about socialism, and what aspect of it are you assuming I embrace?

What does 80% of the country want that I don't??

What it is about the the progressive platform that you so strongly disagree with? If Fox News has told you what the progressive agenda is, you might want to ask a progressive if Fox got it right.

I like the constitution. There isn't any aspect of the constitution that I want scrapped.

Where's the increased autocracy?? Please give an example of our country hastening in that direction in the last four years.

We on the left are anti-liberty? Pretty please - how so?

There is a lot of talk on the right about restoring Freedom. Here's a question for you: What freedoms have you lost in the last four years. Please be specific.  (President Obama hasn't done anything pro or con about guns during his presidency, so please don't say he's after your guns.)

And so on.

There is, in my opinion, no information in your post.

And that's how ya do it.