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as diagnosed with a terminal disease determined that his time was not up cousins rented a motel room replete with a vcr laurel and hardy kept him alive he spent a week inundating himself with the side splitting antics of laurel hardy the three stooges and the marx brothers personally groucho and his siblings never did anything for me the results were astonishing cousins survived his termina l disease only to die in 1990 at the age of 75 of a different malady one more presumably resistant to the therapeutic powers of slapstick comedy never liked them myself people have always though i was funny i am aware the word has two connotations i have tried to entertain small groups in conversation ever since my grandfather s wake thirty five years ago my relentless pursuit of the evocative cheek swelling reaction to my hilarious barbs has served me well at parties and social gatherings ever since i even tried a standup comedy routine on a cruise many years ago i dutifully prepared four minutes of humor like teaching and writing the rules are that you should only do what you know best or what your audience can relate to so i did lines on each member of my immediate family my delivery was near perfect yet the three hundred and fifty people in the audience found occasion to laugh only at references to matthew my eight year old son who i said had the instincts of a terrorist i don t think anyone would laugh at that today the prior evening my wife had been commandeered from the audience to assist a magician in his act he wanted to cut off her head i used that in my monologue talking about her shortcomings and the fact that before the act was over four ladies inquired as to my availability after the show not only did no one laugh at that remark one woman scolded me for having had the nerve to say such things about my wife or perhaps she didn t like my comment about my wife as attila the honeybun the success of my humor is that it often blows back in my face i tend to be a bit wordy that s like saying mother teresa was a bit holy my wife gave me a tee shirt that read i am talking and i can t shut up i love that shirt after spending two weeks on a bus tour a new friend asked me do you breathe through your ears because i have not seen you stop talking long enough to do so i also consider myself a student of humor especially political humor this country has had a rich and proud tradition of funny people from the political satire of will rogers through the physical antics of jackie gleason steve martin and richard pryor rogers once said that when congress makes a joke it s a law i wonder if that s what president obama had in mind with his health care bill no president had a better sense of humor than ronald reagan i can t help thinking back to his debate with democratic challenger fritz mondale when reagan said that people were worried that mondale might be too young for the job chevy chase was marvelous in his 1976 satire of president gerald ford i ll never forget chase s pratfall in a breakaway voting booth that cracked three of his ribs probably cost ford the election i ll bet he cost ford a million votes as a result the comedian became addicted to pain pills requiring a period of recovery at the betty ford clinic now that s real irony our political debates have taken us down a route that even jay leno nor david letterman can t restore what passes for humor today is generally mean spirited and because of the political correct nature of so much of our discourse it is increasing more difficult to tweak individuals with group consciousness without being charged with outlandish claims of insensitivity as a result comedians have retreated into the safe harbors of their own groups for humorous exchange all this being said we should all reflect on what philosopher russell kirk wrote a sense of humor can only exist in a world of faith the thinking man s conservative it is my deep fear that our country has broken faith with its past having forfeited that wonderful gift which kirk called the trace of god s smile but it is never too late maybe a good laugh is still the best medicine for what ails us try it and let me know if it works posted in uncategorized tags betty ford clinic chevy chase danny thomas don rickles gerald ford laurel hardy marlo thomas marx brothers russell kirk saturday evening post steve martin is bill o reilly a pinhead october 4 2010 1 comment i just finished reading tv and radio host bill o reilly s latest book pinheads and patriots where you stand in the age of obama for the uninformed a regular feature on o reilly s fox news tv show is where the host categorizes news figures as pinheads or patriots the latter are the worthies who have done something that benefits society pinheads slide on a slippery slope get in with the wrong crowd get taken in by their own success or get some bad advice and all of that can lead to a residence in pinheadville a place everyone should avoid if you can like his tv show the factor with its no spin zone o reilly has an uncanny knack for irritating me to the nth degree as par for his mini golf course he vainly attempts to be fair and balanced which by my standards only guarantees that he will be wrong 50 of the time the very nature of his motto implies a certain kind of moral equivalency that is destructive to moral issues such as abortion he takes so much time in bending over backwards so as appear to be fair that he nullifies or undercuts the truth that his positions supposedly are based on oh don t get me wrong there are times when he shows his true combative mettle especially in dealing with the likes of barney frank the homosexual congressman from massachusetts o reilly finally got combative after reading pinheads i have come to the conclusion that o reilly is at his combative best when discussing economic issues as demonstrated by his boisterous confrontation with frank and his splendid but incomplete interview with barack obama the latter which comprised the last and arguably the best chapter in his book but i wasn t crazy about how bill was so chummy with the president they bonded like two pals after a friendly game of basketball what s next shooting some hoops i have noticed that aspect of o reilly s demeanor when dealing with left wing icons with the sole exception mr frank his deference reminds me of the way opposing lawyers pal around after a nasty court case you could have had them switch sides during the court proceedings and they would have done so like chameleons on a bush my biggest complaint with bill is his bogus claim that he is a cultural warrior that would be risible if it were not so serious to bill the culture war involves saving a few christmas trees and creches from extinction he is more like a cultural spectator sitting on the sideline afraid to really take a side than a real cultural warrior the major issue of the current culture war is abortion it serves as the symbol for the attitudes and deep beliefs that separate us as a people just as slavery bifurcated the nation 150 years ago missed the whole point abortion has divided us into right and left red and blue states and conservative and liberal i interviewed bill on my old radio station wgnu just before his ascendancy into the big time though i take absolutely no credit for it the interview on wgnu lasted about 15 minutes i was a big deal around the station for landing o reilly on our small station i usually produced my own show well at least i procured all my own guests of that 15 minutes i spoke no more than 90 seconds and let him do most of the talking which was not a difficult chore i think that s what has made me a really good interviewer i let the guest speak i believe people would rather hear the ideas of the guests than my interpretation of their ideas as a footnote that s why o reilly is a poor interviewer he is too interested in giving his spin and in his own the no spin zone rather than letting them talk the only issue i challenged him on was abortion i feel that he does not like to discuss the subject i think he may be afraid of the acrimony and unpopularity that is attendant to being authentically pro life his answer if my recall is accurate was pure whishy washiness a vapid non committal bit of unadulterated intellectual fluff that was designed to get out of the hole with the fewest scrapes his autobiography a bold piece of meat or whatever the nun called him many years ago went a long way in understanding just who bill o reilly really is i was generally impressed with his candor about his wise guy past no i am not saying he was a hitman for the mafia i was amazed as to how poor a student he was in grade school he prided himself on being the bane of most of the nuns existence fortunately for him his buddy clem was did some things bill would never in all of his boldness have attempted at 6 4 tall sports were his forte he played virtually everything that had a ball or a puck o reilly appears much taller when you stand next to him which i did at a benefit for the st agnes home here in st louis one thing i will say is that he is very generous with his time for charitable causes i believe he waived his usual 75 000 fee the format for his talk was written questions in advance so he could filter the ones he did not want to answer i had written one about abortion but i was told it never made it to the floor even though he did spend three hours answering questions i had a personal conflict that night i really wanted to hear him speak but dinner took so long that i did not want to miss any more of the holy cross siu basketball game that was being televised at the same time bill s father had gone to holy cross and became an accountant taller in person i tried to use this as an ice breaker during my interview but his father s education did not seem to hold a high place in his priority system i tried that with a cardinal of the church one time with a similar result that s how i got to briefly talk to him we were waiting in the wings getting ready to bolt when he was making his entrance from the same spot i briefly mentioned his being on my program years ago he politely nodded with that disdainful look he sometimes has on the air when he wanted to dismiss a subject for the record my early departure was all for naught as holy cross was down by 10 points at the half and never got back into the game and as we were summarily eliminated from the ncaa s big dance as we had been for the last 50 years another link with o reilly i was not surprised that o reilly had failed again to adequately broach the a subject in his book on the culture war bill does not even list abortion in the index how can he call himself a cultural warrior in his bold piece book there are just two comments in the book on abortion i think he said that we really didn t know when life began and the second was similarly dismissive i do remember that his thoughts on this issue could have been written by harry blackmun who had written the majority opinion on the infamous roe v wade decision in 1973 i am not saying that bill is pro choice but i think this giant cultural warrior is a midget when it comes to defending innocent life this is what real cultural warriors do he is a wimp or whatever word fits someone who does not have the courage of his convictions perhaps he is afraid of offending women after watching his colleague the foxy meghan kelly eat his lunch time and time again maybe i am on to something i think all women should be offended by this attack on the greatest power that any human could ever have the ability to give life to a child of god they should all know that abortion was invented by men for the benefit of men i don t know who said that but it sounds like something hugh hefner could sink his false teeth into they tell me that the jesuits at holy cross virtually let the feminists run the place because they are afraid of them millions of real women are out there protesting what abortion is doing to women i have seen them i have stood with them where is o reilly has he ever picketed an abortion clinic has he ever attended a march in washington d c that s what cultural warriors do not sit around and pontificate about the assault on christmas as testament their membership in the culture war crusade does all this make bill a pinhead i ll let you make up your mind a resident of pinheadville send me your comments i would love to hear what you think bill is posted in uncategorized tags abortion barney frank big dance bill o reilly culture war fox news harry blackmun holy cross hugh hefner no spin zone pinhead siu wise guy about author after graduating from holy cross bill borst earned an ma in asian history from st john s university and a ph d in american history from st louis university 1972 a former new yorker he taught for many years in the st louis area while also hosting a weekly radio show on wgnu from 1984 2006 he currently is a regular substitute for conservative phyllis schlafly on ksiv radio 1320 he is the author of two books on social history liberalism fatal consequences and the scorpion and the frog a natural conspiracy he just retired as the features editor of the mindszenty foundation monthly report in his 11 years from 2003 2013 he wrote nearly 130 essays on catholic culture and world affairs many in st louis also know him as the baseball professor because of a course that he offered at maryville college from 1973 74 it was arguably the first fully accredited baseball history course in the midwest the author of several short books on the old st louis browns he started the st louis browns historical society in 1984 in 2009 his first two plays were produced on the local stage the last memory of an ol brownie fan ran six performances at the sound stage in crestwood and a perfect choice ran for two performances at the rigali center theater in shrewsberry his third play a moment of grace ran six performances at desmet high school in january of 2011with first run theater in january of 2011 he is currently working on a 4th play a family way which is a comedy about a happy dysfunctional family he can reached at bbprof sbcglobal net search navigation home about categories a catholic blog the right stuff about culture and politics uncategorized links clerical shirts uk wordpress com wordpress org archives december 2015 october 2015 september 2015 august 2015 july 2015 june 2015 may 2015 april 2015 march 2015 february 2015 january 2015 december 2014 november 2014 october 2014 september 2014 august 2014 july 2014 june 2014 may 2014 april 2014 march 2014 february 2014 january 2014 november 2013 october 2013 september 2013 august 2013 july 2013 june 2013 may 2013 april 2013 march 2013 february 2013 january 2013 december 2012 november 2012 october 2012 september 2012 august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 april 2012 march 2012 february 2012 january 2012 december 2011 november 2011 october 2011 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