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| Bill OÂ’Reilly and Tammy Bruce Analyze Bush Derangement Syndrome |
| 2007-02-24 |
| BRUCE: Well, it certainly isn't politics. It's -- I'm a liberal. It's not about even disagreeing with the president. I disagree with him on many issues, including the immigration issue and the abortion issue. But I still respect the man. You can disagree with people. Your audience does not always agree with you 100 percent of the time. This is personal. And what my reflection is, having been on the left, is these are people who look at the president in a way as like a father figure. That they are projecting their issues that are unresolved in their past onto the stranger. O'REILLY: Here's -- look, you can make an argument that the Bill Mahers of the world think that this guy has screwed up the country in a policy way and then take that personally and transfer it. I think he's wrong, Maher, in doing what he does, but I understand that there's passion against President Bush. I understand that. However, I think it has to do with his religious beliefs. Bill Maher is a very anti-religious person. And I think Hollywood, a secular community. Would you agree? BRUCE: In general, those who are people of faith or conservative remain hidden. But generally, yes. O'REILLY: OK. So Hollywood very secular. Bush comes in with a, quote/unquote, "faith based" approach, and right off the bat they hate him. Look, I've got -- look, let me just read you. Jennifer Aniston, "Bush is an F-ing idiot." Martin sheen, "Bush is a moron." Cher, "Bush is stupid." BRUCE: A little projection with Cher, right? Contrary to their stage personas, Sonny was the brains of the operation. O'REILLY: I don't know if Cher has a Ph.D. or not. George Clooney, "Bush is dim." Julia Roberts, "Bush is embarrassing." Jessica Lange, "I hate Bush." BRUCE: It speaks for itself. And yet Bill Maher a couple years ago in explaining why he thinks Christianity has ruined the world, essentially, is he said he reflected on his own childhood about what his father what he essentially inferred jammed down his throat. I think these issues about faith -- these are people who perhaps, growing up in a generation where faith was important in their family, and that that, too, is an issue. O'REILLY: So you agree with me that there's a linkage to the faith thing? BRUCE: Absolutely. And faith is a dynamic, also, that asks things of you. It is the thing that the president asks as faith does, that you sacrifice something, that you exercise discipline in your life, that we want you to be a better person as conservatives. That is the thing that gets rejected. And those values that have made this nation great, that allows Bill Maher to say what he said, is based in a Christian ethic. And the issue has to be for everyone who hates President Bush. But you got to ask yourself a question. How can I hate so much a stranger, a veritable stranger? We can disagree, but hate is an entirely different framework. And my work has revolved around something called malignant narcissism. The idea that the damage in your childhood that may be inflicted by your own father, perhaps, is -- affects the way you view the world now. It is based in paranoia. You heard it with Bill Maher. It is litanies, an orgy of personal attacks, name calling that have nothing to do with logic or reason. And I think people like Danny DeVito and Bill Maher are envious of the president. And they remind him of their father perhaps. And they resent that. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 It's called "boomers." Some psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist wrote about the boomers a few years ago as to why they did what they did. They couldn't live up to their greatest generation fathers, hate their fathers, possibly their mothers, so they had to destroy what their parents had built. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-02-24 14:00 |
| #2 for a libertarian lesbian, Tammy's kinda hot |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-24 10:55 |
| #1 Could someone post the pic of the Surprise Meter set to zero, please? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2007-02-24 10:53 |