For your holiday amusement, this item from Cult of Mac’s Pete Mortensen about the unhinged pundit Bill O’Reilly’s recent rant against…the iPod. It seems that in the midst of a discussion (ahem) of violence, O’Reilly went off on the iconic device. Mortensen offers this transcript excerpt from O’Reilly’s show:
I don’t own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod… If this is your primary focus in life - the machines… it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America… did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them?…I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They’re not playing the video games. They’re killing real people over there.
Of course, O’Reilly’s concern about iPods fostering jihadism (is that his concern?) doesn’t stop the host from selling $50 premium memberships to his show, which offer members podcasts of the programs. Irony of ironies, O’Reilly’s show uses an iPod photo mash-up to hawk the memberships.
Business Week’s Arik Hesseldahl tried to make sense of O’Reilly’s tech tirade and just hopelessly short-circuited certain parts of his brain in the process.
I’m a little unclear as to what my neighbor - O’Reilly’s employer, Fox News Channel is across the street from my office - is trying to say. Because there are “jihadists killing real people,” which I don’t dispute, he seems to think that “computer geeks” shouldn’t be making products to sell to the American public like video games and iPods. Is that it?
Ari should have stopped there, because he then goes on to seriously deconstruct O’Reilly’s statement…
Cynthia Brumfield at 4:38 PM|Comments(0)
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