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O’Reilly: Drug-Addicted Homeless Vets “Don’t Want to Be Rehabbed”

This clip is from Jan. 23, but I haven’t been able to get to it until now. But it has some very interesting moments that expose Bill O’Reilly’s tactics, as well as his true feelings about homeless vets.BOR continues his lie that John Edwards blamed homelessness among veterans on corporations and the economy — but watch the “proof” he uses. Around :30 seconds in, BOR shows a clip of Edwards talking about Exxon Mobil’s record profits and how America’s top 1% is getting wealthier and wealthier as the rest of America struggles. Both are true — Exxon Mobil posted its biggest profit ever and the gap has increased viagra www de greatly between the rich and the middle class/poor under the Bush administration. But after Edwards’ statement about Exxon/Mobil, you’ll see something interesting: an editing transition known as a “wipe”, then Edwards talking about homeless veterans. This is the “proof” BOR is providing to his viewers that Edwards is linking the two.To run from his earlier claims that there are no/not many homeless vets, BOR has been saying that he’s REALLY attacking Edwards’ dishonest “demagogueing” of the link between the economy/corporate profits and homeless vets. However, I have never seen nor heard of a clip or quote where Edwards does this. To my knowledge, BOR has never shown a clip or quoted any publication where Edwards has linked homeless vets and the economy/corporations. If Edwards was constantly “demagogueing” this point as much as BOR claims he was, I’m sure such a clip or quote would exist. If BOR had either of these, I’m sure he would show them endlessly. But he hasn’t. Instead, he has to rely on an edited clip to “prove” that Edwards linked them. I know a thing or two about editing video, and BOR’s clip doesn’t fool me for a second.

With an edit, you can make it seem like anyone said anything. I also know that you can use edits while completely preserving the essence of what someone says. This looks like a case of the former, since Edwards’ first comment about Exxon/Mobil does not appear at all to be leading into his next statement about homeless vets. So it seems that BOR’s whole claim about Edwards linking the two is just a huge lie. And what’s amazing is how so many people believe it despite a complete lack of proof. If anyone has seen a clip or read an article where Edwards makes this link, let me know, because BOR has certainly never shown one that I know of. Until then, I’m very comfortable saying that BOR is just lying to his viewers again, misdirecting them with one lie to avoid apologizing for another one. This is a technique he’s used before, and it seems he has plenty of viewers who are dumb enough to keep believing it. BOR goes on to prove how utterly clueless about the issue of homeless vets. He claims that the Veterans Administration has plenty of beds for every homeless veteran and that $37 billion is allocated to helping homeless vets. But in a discussion with conservative idiot Carrie Lukas and FOX contributor Col. (ret.) David Hunt, BOR’s stupidity is exposed by Hunt, who BOR expected to be a willing ally. Hunt explains that the VA doesn’t actually run homeless shelters, and the $37 billion is the medical budget for the VA, not the budget to help homeless vets. BOR lies again about Edwards, claiming Edwards said there are “Hoovervilles” full of homeless vets who are incapable of finding jobs. Anyone see the clip of Edwards saying that? Neither have I bestellungen von levitra. BOR then returns to his claim that homeless vets are all mentally ill drug addicts, and makes the stunning statement that homeless vets suffering from addiction “don’t want to be rehabbed”, essentially saying that homeless vets are homeless and addicted by choice. He goes on to say that providing help to addicted homeless vets “isn’t about owing anybody anything.”I think this illustrates BOR’s (and republicans’) true feelings about the homeless, whether they’re veterans or not. BOR is simply incapable or unwilling to put himself in anyone else’s shoes and they might face obstacles that BOR has not. BOR has a job, a home, and isn’t a drug addict, so anyone who is homeless, jobless, or addicted CHOSE to be that way and, therefore, doesn’t deserve any help or sympathy. After all, they WANT to be that way. BOR has never served in the military, yet he is convinced that their lives and struggles are no different than his. It’s a good thing Hunt was there to try to explain that being in a conflict …

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