Fox News blowhard Bill O'Reilly, host of "The Factor," has been screaming his head off that there are no homeless Iraq war veterans in the United States.
To prove O'Reilly was wrong, a group of Iraq veterans and supporters obtained 17,000 signatures on a petition they wanted to present to Bill O'Reilly and Fox News indicating there are indeed homeless Iraq war veterans.
Watch the video and you will see what happens to the people who bring the petition with 17,000 signatures to the Fox News studio.
What is ironic is on the very same day the representatives of 17,000 homeless Iraq war veterans were trying to get their message to Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News station was airing reports all day about how the Berkeley, California City Council this week voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests," according to The Associated Press.
The council also voted to explore whether a city anti-discrimination law applies to the Marines, with a focus on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prevents open homosexuality in the military.
The council also voted to give the antiwar group Code Pink a parking space in front of the recruiting office once a week for six months, as well as a protest permit.
The Marine recruiting office in Berkeley has been open for about one year, but has been the subject of recent protests by Code Pink members.
Let's see if we got this straight.
Fox News won't allow Iraq war veterans and their supporters to submit a petition with 17,000 signatures indicating there are homeless Iraq veterans to Fox News to give to Bill O'Reilly who says the homeless veterans story is a fake, but Fox News is all up in arms because the City of Berkley, California doesn't want a Marine Recruiting office on their grounds.
Which story do you think received the most coverage on Fox News? Do pigs fly?
Commentary by Bill Corcoran, editor of CORKSPERE, http://corksphere.blogspot.com/, a blog which presents the latest news on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and sidebar stories re elements of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Fox Denies Entrance to Veterans Demanding an Apology from O’Reilly [VIDEO]
Posted by Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films on February 1, 2008 at 12:12 PM.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/#75745 (watch the video)
Bill O'Reilly said there aren't any homeless veterans, and if there are, there aren't enough to matter and/or they're all mentally ill addicts. So we sent a group of homeless veterans to the FOX News building to show O'Reilly they do indeed exist. The vets brought a petition with 17,000 signatures demanding that O'Reilly apologize to all of America's homeless vets. Documentary filmmaker Dan Lohaus (www.whenicamehome.com) and field producer Robin W. captured the action.
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