"...attempting a serious theological argument with a comedian -- and miserably failing..."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

December 24, 2010 12:00 PM
O'Reilly and Coulter try to explain why right-wing scroogery is really Christian charity

By David Neiwert

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/oreilly-and-coulter-try-explain-why-



Bill O'Reilly really took it personally when Stephen Colbert made fun of O'Reilly's bizarre column claiming that Jesus really wouldn't have helped the poor at Christmas time -- or at least worried about their unemployment checks.

So O'Reilly earlier this week featured an opening segment responding haplessly to Colbert, attempting a serious theological argument with a comedian -- and miserably failing:

But Judeo-Christian tradition does not require blind largesse. We are not mandated to buy people gin or cocaine, or pay someone's bills if they refuse to work. If you want to do that, you can in a free society. But to force the responsible to pay for the irresponsible is immoral in my opinion.

The U.S. government makes no distinction when it comes to entitlements. The feds do not drug test or regulate the behavior of those on the dole. And there is no question that the feds waste billions of dollars every year, money taken from hardworking people.

Americans are the most generous people on Earth, but our government does not have a right to seize anyone's assets in pursuit of an impossible social nirvana. And I do believe that Jesus would agree.

The best part came when he invited on Ann Coulter to back him up. Coulter tossed out her usual turdlike bon mots: “Liberals think sending a check to the IRS constitutes charity” was about as cogent as she got -- while claiming that good Christian Republicans are “actually giving to poor people.”

Hey, I dunno about you, but when I think of Christian charity and kindness, Ann Coulter is the first person to spring to mind. That is, as someone in deep need of it.

Grade: Massive FAIL.

[CJCRANE]

1. Didn't Jesus say "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's"?

Pay your taxes, in other words.

He also used to help prostitutes and lepers and... in fact ,anyone who needed help.

IIRC he didn't say "love thy neighbor...except for the lazy ones and the addicts".

On edit: that's according to the New Testament of the Bible of course, which I assume O'Reilly has read at some point.

[MilesColtrane]

2. True, Jesus wouldn't have given gin to anybody.

He was a wine man.