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O'Reillysaurus: A Dinosaur In Need Of A Tar-Pit

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"The hits just keep on coming in the liberal media. General Wesley Clark, a commentator on NBC News, says that Osama Bin Laden is not an 'existential' threat to America. The General believing that the terrorist and his crew could not destroy the entire nation. Just some of us. Swell.

"Perhaps Clark's most important message - and one worth taking to heart - is that "we're going to solve the national security question." In other words, Al-Qaeda is not the existential threat to the U.S. that the Bush administration has portrayed."

Wow. It's hard to believe General Clark said that, well, because he didn't. It came from the May 29, 2007, Stanford Daily editorial entitled, "2008 Candidates Should Heed Clark"; an editorial by some college kid who was drawing his own conclusion of what Clark may have meant, which the O'Reillysaurus or its sucklings would have discovered with a simple Google. Like I said, small brain.

Here's the full context of what the O'Reillysaurus crack research team culled from:

"Perhaps Clark's most important message - and one worth taking to heart - is that 'we're going to solve the national security question.' In other words, Al-Qaeda is not the existential threat to the U.S. that the Bush administration has portrayed."

Even if Clark meant it that way, the fact that the O'Reillysaurus - so bent on feeding on its victims - obviously didn't even care to look at the original piece, should be justification enough to have its journalistic cred - if there be any left - pulled immediately.

Though not yet extinct, the O'Reillysaurus's laughable attempts to camouflage its inane concoctions and propaganda as fact, together with an ever-aging fan-base make its continued survival doubtful. Even the addition the Dhuepoint, a supposed ombudsman segment meant to hold the O'Reillysaurus's feet to the fire (last week the O'Reillysaurus was grilled as to when it would write a book on parenting), doesn't appear likely to keep the O'Reillysaurus from being crushed into a bad memory under the weight of its own narcissism.

The O'Reillysaurus ends this week's column with "....downgrading the lethal threat is irresponsible in the extreme." To those who say I may be obsessed with the O'Reillysaurus...I couldn't have said it any better.

Disclaimer: Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (www.greatfailure.com)and his "All The News That's Fit To Spoof" appears in L.A. Daily News opeds every Sunday (www.dailynews.com/Steveyoung), right next to Bill's...really

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