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March 4, 2005
Send Me A Letter

The blog Newshounds received a letter from the syndication company of Faux’ Bill O’Reilly demanding to:

immediately cease and desist from your unauthorized use of the link to Bill O’Reilly’s column on his website.

This column is as ridicules as one could expect.

Many Americans believe that little kids should have a childhood and not be subjected to any kind of sexuality. I don’t want to be offensive here, but who in their right mind wants to explain Norma and Barbara’s lifestyle to their 4-year-old?

People who know about children and sex education do answer questions that children have. It helps to keep them healthy and to not grow up to some harassing bigot like Bill O´Reilly is.

Now please, here is the link to that column again. Please send me a letter. Please.

Comments

The Pirate bay (bittorrent tracker) receives a lot a of legal threats and answers in kind.
One of my favourites are (answer to Electronic Arts):

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question.
Oh wait, just kidding. We haven’t, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you’re in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
streets and attacking people :-(.

We demand that you cease and desist sending letters like this, since they’re frivolous and
meaningless.

Back to topic:
Cease and desist linking? It is so ridicolous that I almost assume they are trying to get more links…

Posted by: A swedish kind of death | Mar 4 2005 18:41 utc | 1

Yeah, well, considering these moronic bastards intend to ban some level of linking to official campaign sites because it goes against the FEC rules, I’m ready to believe they’re serious.
Oh, and thanks for the link, Swedish. I’m still on eDonkey, but I may soon try bittorrent – that is, if I manage to find the time, between compulsive blog-reading and addictive warcrafting.

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Mar 4 2005 19:21 utc | 2

I don’t want to be offensive here, but who in their right mind wants to explain Norma and Barbara’s lifestyle to their 4-year-old?
I’d find it easier to explain than Abu Ghraib.

Posted by: DeAnander | Mar 4 2005 20:07 utc | 3

o’reilly, like his kind is a piece of shit – not worthy of of even the vaguest thought

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 4 2005 21:46 utc | 4

I have to make an effort to get at info about (and original quotes from) the likes of O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Coulter et al. This effort at getting the stuff and the fact that what they say is so out of my world creates an impression of complete artificiality for me. It is as if someone has written a couple of completely and consciously overdone caricatures into what tries to pass as a realistic text. I never manage to actually take this stuff seriously. Could this be one of the intended effects?

Posted by: teuton | Mar 4 2005 21:53 utc | 5

Buster (new to me!), and his visits to homosexual parents, or whatever it was, is a pink herring.
Americans gleefully, avidly watch fictional murder, torture, adultery, prostitution, incest, and much more.
Here, about 6 months ago, a Jerry Springer show featured a 13-year old whore (and her tiny friend, a hanger-on, younger ? and thinking of getting into the business) who quarreled with her pimp (45).
Said pimp was there to justify his pov; he was helping her understand the market, control herself, act proper, and was protecting her big time. Camera showed them walking around in grotesque places, cellars and rat infested cul-de-sacs in the street where the tinies were supposed to put out and earn..
Without him! she (they) would not earn any money at all – his bottom line.
The Springer show presents itself as real (in contrast to the French remake, which tells viewers: these are actors playing a part. Bad actors they are too. F concentrates on triangles, marital difficulties…)
This one TV show created a storm here in my milieu. Many students had just followed a series of lectures on pedophilia, laws, childhood protection, ethics: they go home and see that. At least they noted the hypocrisy and complained.
Sucessful attacks like that on Buster (the show was withdrawn..) are power plays. They signal: We are strong enough to censor, to squash, to finally obliterate the ‘liberal media’, the liberal life-style, tolerance for alternatives, a live-and-let-be philosophy:
We can do what we want. Put up or shut up and wait for the rest. Even cartoon / film characters will have to behave, as ordered by us. Watch and see, be careful. You have lost.
Besides that, WE will arrogate to ourselves whatever leisure, license and pleasures we deem fitting: We can watch Springer (whom we would never ban, teenage whores who simper and wear sweet panties….), have abortions, hire gay prostitutes, whatever we like, anything at all, as we rule.
And you, poor liberal nuts, will howl in the darkness. We will condemn those of you who wear skirts that are too short (for example; veils anyone?) and…..
You know, Saudis import or acquire model girls, children even, no prob, and use them till they die. Their women -necessary for childcare and homecare – weir the veil, either can’t leave the house alone (poor) or are driven by chauffeurs in Mercedes (rich.) The rich ones manage lesbian affairs – all girls together, right! Jus’ talkin’ abou’ cookin’ and make-up! Giggle, hands wave. They get away with it, no threat.

Posted by: Blackie | Mar 4 2005 22:15 utc | 6

Right, Blackie. As a footnote: The Amerikan mindset.

Posted by: beq | Mar 4 2005 22:26 utc | 7

Ah yes, Jerry Springer. I remember watching a show when I was in the US the last time (I watched in the morning, which I never do at home), and an incredibly fat black woman legitimated her physique: “Maa husband sez he loves every inch of fat on maa baady.” It was so bizarre, spoiled all attempts at satire, for instance the scene in Austin Powers in which Dr. Evil’s son is confronted with his father…
The familiar is always the truly other.

Posted by: teuton | Mar 4 2005 22:44 utc | 8