Conservatives Love France and All They Stand For

A paradox?

• Self-identifying Republican "conservatives" (of which I am not) seem to hate the French and all they stand for.
• The same "conservatives" want nuclear power, often citing France's embrace of the power method, talking at length about how the French get 80 percent of their power from nuclear reactors and we get only 20 percent.

Yet, through all this, these same "conservatives" coined the term "freedom fries" because they disdain the French so much.


Here's my take on all this:

1. Stop bashing the French. They gave us the Statue of Liberty, croissants, and that little dude from Hogan's Heroes.
2. Ramp up production of nuclear facilities. They're super-efficient and very safe. The only two things I'd be concerned about are meltdowns and where to put the waste. 
1. Meltdowns: We had a brief scare at Three Mile Island. Nothing ever happened with it. Chernobyl? That was the Soviets. They were kind of reckless with stuff, weren't they?
2. Waste: There are vast areas of land here in the States that are barren. The Dakotas, Nevada, Utah, and Jersey are places where I'd consider putting this stuff. Another good place: Mars.
3. The "conservatives" I'm talking about here are people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly. You know, real dickheads. Guys who got the shit knocked out of them in school. They're real assholes and don't deserve a speck of our attention, yet millions of people watch and listen to them. I watch, but only like I watch a train wreck: It's just so enthralling.

So the title is a little provocative. "Conservatives" like Hannity, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly love to hate the French but they love their power (in more ways than one) and will argue their case using spurious statistics, even going against their own over-arching principles, most of which are anti-French and anti- anti-USA (which is everybody else because America is so great and NEVER makes faux pas!!!).

How Bill O'Reilly creates more terrorists, Part 2

This is the story of how an left-wing academician turned left-wing journalist, working for that left-wing newspaper, the LA Times.

This time, I practiced beforehand with my overtired toddler. She'd shriek out meaningless invective, and I'd just keep talking calmly. It must have helped, because by my third O'Reilly appearance, I made it through with hardly a scratch. Bill, though, was spluttering madly.

Very funny story about how "Bill-O" has fostered the creation of many thousands of terrorists, just by spouting off against fake enemies.

See Part 1 here.

Sweet Jesus I love Bill O'Reilly! - Los Angeles Times

How Bill O'Reilly creates more terrorists, Part 1

subtitle: Bill O'Reilly is a name caller and bad person

This study from Indiana University "scientifically" proves that Bill O'Reilly calls people names and generally mis-characterizes lots of things.

As if you needed a university study to convince you of this.

The summary: Think Progress » STUDY: Bill O’Reilly Uses Derogatory Names ‘More Than Once Every Seven Seconds’

The study: Villains, Victims and the Virtuous in Bill O'Reilly's "NO-SPIN ZONE": Tables