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on the most recent O'Reilly Factor it was notable that an excerpt was shown of a famous television actor from a very successful situation comedy called 'Friends' -- the actor appeared on some or other cable tv channel (probably) to finger O'Reilly as a 'megalomaniac'....
the event in this instance stimulates some thought maybe......... first of all, 'Friends' the situation comedy, was such a success in the 1990s -- and thereafter, that it really is in the ranks of Oprah, Coca-Cola, Nike and such for brand-name recognizability, revenue produced, and so forth........ i can easily recall in the 1990s, that last decade of normal weather i think it is fair to call it, at least a small amount of friends in my home city of Sydney, Australia, cherish watching the tv show 'Friends' on a regular basis........
even more surprised was i, after spending half a year in nyc, including at some point, still being a person wholly disinterested in Fox News Channel, literally bumping up against a background window which in those days, early 2005, constituted the backdrop of Fox News Channel's morning tv show -- which had its studio facing out on some Manhattan area like Rockefeller Plaza.... comers and goers could simply stop at the Fox News Channel's and appear in the background of their shots by standing at the window outside......
anyway, not to digress....it was after that half year sojourn in nyc that i returned to whence i had come or came...... communist china..... feeling disillusioned with the West and America and so forth...... upon returning to china, after spending a few days in Hong Kong, i took a long flight to the very north-western most part of China which shares a border with the former USSR's Tajikistan as well as the unconquered Afghanistan............ but despite Tajikistan's tough Russian overlord regime, and Xinjiang's tough Communist Chinese overlord regime.... and Afghanistan's occupation of American forces, still the three countries could triangulate across these borders and bear up fruits of differing kinds of relationships, which is to say that the borders here were by no means closed.... and this little world is just one of infinite nexi (or nexuses?) in our diverse planet.......
not to digress at all now, this friend, in Xinjiang, a Muslim area that, like Afghanistan, was once its own Nation, but which, unlike Afghanistan, was occupied during Mao-ist China in the 1950s.... this friend surprised me, upon reacquainting myself with him, and visiting him after my, if nothing else, pleasant half year sojourn in NYC by demonstrating his ernest admiration and pleasure in, like the afore-mentioned Sydney-siders, watching that ever so successful TV show, 'Friends' -- which i never hated with the intensity i hated 'sex in the city' (or 'city sex').... and which actually i cannot now recall ever having hated (the TV show 'Friends', that is) - although it is certainly possible....... this friend in Xinjiang, Rahman, someone from a purely Moslem culture, who had rejected Islam and religion in general, was a great lover, like many others, of the TV show 'Friends'..... this is worthy of note, if only because there may be a great many societies and cultures that we have been poisoned mentally about, e.g., the ephemeral 'Muslim' world..... which in turn, actually love a great many 'western' or 'American' things.........
continuing in my geriatric and senile way of communicating...... it was only a little before afore-mentioned half year soujourn in NYC -- the only one of my life, in fact -- that i found myself living in the very lap of luxury -- perhaps in what Rosencrantz and Guldenstern once described to Hamlet as 'fortune's privates' (that strumpet, she) -- [to be perfectly verbose] --- at this juncture, hence, in which fortune seemed not only to smile at me, but indeed to engirdle me in her questionable loins, being that i found myself living in great comfort and ease in a luxury resort in an artificial and wonderfully oasis like pueblito in good old communist china -- during this sojourn -- i recall my first recollection of afore-mentioned Fox News... it was watching a Michael Moore documentary, in which, amongst a pastiche of documentary including snippets of mainstream media, there appeared a Fox News segment breaker -- that is, a 2 second long booming crashing thunderous cacophoney, typical of Fox News' bombastic style -- featuring a computer-graphic produced fighter jet streaming across the screen -- Fox News never meant this as a joke, any more than a bombing victim plans to be burnt and disfigured for life, however, when i first saw this part of Moore's documentary, Fahrenheit 911, i definitely recall crunching my abdominal muscles, while lying in the lazy, prone, on one's back position, and cackling fiendishly and involuntarily - or better said, unexpectedly......
why would one laugh at such bombastic music and computer generated jets and the title 'War on Terror'? when it was not meant in jest? --- because it was naive...... this was at a time, too, when Americans were not made aware, by the mainstream media, that their government was spying on them and seriously encroaching on unfair search and seizure guarantees of their Constitution, and furthermore, it probably took some kind of Pulitzer winning journalists at the NY Times to put this simple one and one together........ it was laughable, after all
finally, to come full circle, back to the O'Reilly Factor, Muslims and dog food... canned dog food, to be precise... if you have ever seen a canned dog-food commercial - you wouldn't be surprised at promises made to provide proteins and iron -- but what if you got a spoon and tried some? i have certainly done it with canned cat food and it is not delicious, do not try it! -- but anyway, should u only try one spoonful of canned dog food, you might not get the parts with the iron and proteins in it- - so to be sure you get what u r promised, you should eat the entire can --- it is the same way with O'Reilly Factor, despite (but really, because of) being a representation of his neck of the woods -- on the macro and micro level -- O'Reilly does not hesitate to prescribe thoroughly carpet bombing 'the Enemy' -- hardly the Shinto monk in deep contemplation at the deep and wondrous beauty of the floating lotus flower.... you might get some irons and proteins if you eat the canned dog food that is the O'Reilly Factor, however O'Reilly altogether has a propensity to generalize about the Moslem world and would do better to appreciate what are referred to as the nuances and subtleties, in this case, of the Moslem world..... some of which have already been alluded to above......
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