Bill O'Reilly Mystified By Tides And Sunrise / Sunset

[Formaldehyde]

Bill O'Reilly Proves the Existence of God?

O'Reilly:

I'll tell you why it is not a scam, in my opinion. Tide goes in. Tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.

I say listen. Sun goes up. Sun goes down. Tide comes in. Tide goes out. There is no miscommunication.

The Sun goes up. The Sun goes down. The tide comes in. The tide goes out. It always happens.

Colbert:

Like all great theologies, Bill's can be boiled down into one sentence. "There must be a god because I don't know how things work."

I really don't understand how Fox News pundits like O'Reilly and Beck stay on the air. There are plenty of religious conservatives who are far more intelligent. One would think at least a few of them should be personable enough to appear on TV.

Or is this further proof that Rupert Murdoch is doing this intentionally? That he really doesn't care if his own political philosophies are being presented by people who expose themselves to ridicule so frequently, just as long as his viewership numbers are higher than other cable media outlets. Is it no coincidence that Fox News so closely resembles Paddy Chayefsky's Network?

What do you think?

 

[sophie]

being presented by people who expose themselves to ridicule so frequently, just as long as his viewership numbers are higher than other cable media outlets.

Uhhh...this? Isn't this basically what every media executive wants?

 

[Formaldehyde]

Well, no. Most legitimate news organizations actually fire people who frequently make fools of themselves. Some of them even do so after only one inadvertant occurance.

 

[Cheetah]

The economy goes up; the economy goes down.

The U.S. goes down; China goes up.

Ergo: There is a God!

I can do it too!

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

Man it must be easy having Stephen Colbert's job. The material writes itself every week.

 

[warpus]

I really don't understand how Fox News pundits like O'Reilly and Beck stay on the air. There are plenty of religious conservatives who are far more intelligent.

O'Reilly has a Harvard degree.. I don't think he's *that* dumb.

I think he's just a really really good troll and tells his audience exactly what they want to hear.

It's the audience that's dumb, not him.

 

[galdre]

yeah, O'Reilly is really a first-class idiot - it's too easy to make fun of people like him

 

[emzie]

As much as I dislike O'Reilly, he's not too stupid to understand gravity, tides and the rotation of the earth. He's either failing to make a gnomic point, (things are so well orchestrated to allow us to exist, a degree off here or there would have made life impossible) or being an amazing troll.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I'm going to go with:

(you as in Bill O'Reilly)

 

[bigdog5994]

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[Lillefix]

He talked about the tides going up and down during that Richard Dawkins interview too. I think I know that interview by heart know.

 

[Arwon]

bigdog beat me to it.

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[BuckyRea]

As much as I dislike O'Reilly, he's not too stupid to understand gravity, tides and the rotation of the earth. He's either failing to make a gnomic point, (things are so well orchestrated to allow us to exist, a degree off here or there would have made life impossible) or being an amazing troll.

No, he's not too stupid. He's too lazy to engage in critical thought when he's on a roll. Or maybe I should say "on a role." He's too used to living in an uncritical environment, where all his words & ideas are fawned over by lackeys. That can be toxic to anyone's intellectual rigor. Heck, it happens to me all the time. I'm really grateful for the occasional smart kid in my class who can go "What? That didn't make sense, Mr Rea" and I can self correct.

O'Reilly doesn't have people around him like that. So he doesn't have to think through what he's saying. So if he convinces himself that God's existence is obvious, he's not going to be too careful giving facts to back up his point. Think about all that stuff you learned in college 10, 15, or 20 years ago. I used to give chapter and verse on how the geographic inputs into the monsoon seasons of the Ganges region. Today I have to think it through carefully just to remember "north cold air smashes into south wet warm air and it makes everything rainy."

If I had a parrot on my shoulder challenging me all the time, I'd probably get my facts right more often.

 

[GenMarshall]

Some things are just better said with a facepalm.

 

[Aegis]

He would have had a much better point talking about the pin-point accurate, clockwork precision that the solar system revolves around. It is amazing that we can determine where celestial bodies will be, depending upon the time of year, even going backwards or forwards thousands of years in time.

 

[.Shane.]

I like the idea of ICP and Bill O being on the same intellectual understanding of science.

 

[Theige]

They stay on the air because large numbers of poorly educated people eat their bulls**t by the spoonful.

 

[RedRalph]

I'm going to go with:

(you as in Bill O'Reilly)

Who is that?

 

[Lord of Elves]

Who is that?

That would be Boxxy.

 

[NetGear]

I think beck is a troll but oreilly is sincere.