Just caught up with Christopher Hitchens' diatribe against Falwell:
http://www.slate.com/id/2166337/
The great thing about this is that Hitchens can be quite conservative (he's been a huge supporter of Bush on Iraq), but he's also an atheist. So he's confusing the shit out of O'Reilly, Hannity, et al.
There's a link on the side of that article to the current
Onion & in this context it is SOOO perfect that I have appended it here:
Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion CHICAGO—In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.
"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz, who based the findings on hundreds of telephone, office, and dinner-party conversations compiled over a three-year period. "While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our research shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them."
In 2002, Fultz's team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.
