First O'Reilly claims there are no homeless veterans and they are not sleeping under any bridges. That wasn't bad enough for his bosses to slap him upside the head with the report from the government.
Then he says, "they are all drug addicts and alcoholics" never wondering why homeless veterans would drink or do drugs after the nation abandoned them, leaving them without medical care, incomes from wounds connected to their service, or even managing to come up with some kind of plan to get them back on their feet. This does not even approach the fact that veterans with PTSD turn to self medication to kill off flashbacks, nightmares and twitches because their nerves are jumping out of their skin.
This was not enough for his bosses to make him admit he was wrong. Lord knows he doesn't have a conscience telling him to do it. It wasn't enough for his bosses to get him to either drop the subject altogether or report the truth. It wasn't even enough to get him fired.
Well then comes the homeless veterans to his studio. He couldn't be bothered to go out and meet these veterans. He sent someone to try to trap them up by asking them if they had heard what O'Reilly said or saw him on cable. Considering the dope couldn't figure out homeless people don't have radios or TV sets to get to watch, they proved once again, the homeless veterans are fair game and they would stoop to new levels that would make Scrooge proud. This wasn't enough either. The tape they shot that day was used on his program to attack them once again.
Who would have thought this maniac would sink even lower? Who would have thought his sponsors, viewers and bosses would have tolerated any of this? He did because he just went even lower by linking the homeless veterans to sex offenders in Florida.
BillOReilly.com link to story of "sex offenders living under a bridge": "Those weren't veterans John Edwards, they were sex offenders"
Summary: A link on BillOReilly.com, the website of Fox News and conservative radio talk-show host Bill O'Reilly, was titled "Those weren't veterans John Edwards, they were sex offenders," and linked to an Associated Press article about Florida's efforts "to dissolve a community of sex offenders living under a bridge." Media Matters for America has documented the back-and-forth between O'Reilly and former Sen. John Edwards over homelessness and homeless veterans.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, "Current population estimates suggest that about 195,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year." The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported on October 15, 2007, that according to information reported by applicants to the department's Continuums of Care (CoCs) Homeless Assistance Programs, the local CoCs reported a "point-in-time count" of 29,785 "unsheltered" homeless veterans. The "point-in-time count" occurred in January 2006. HUD currently defines "an unsheltered homeless person" as a person who "resides in: A place not meant for human habitation, such as cars, parks, sidewalks, abandoned buildings, or on the street."
The Miami/Dade County CoC reported 117 unsheltered homeless veterans in its January 24, 2006, point-in-time count.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200802070009?lid=44841&rid=3168460It's not bad enough he is waging war against war veterans. The creep is actually trying to make them look like drug addicts and criminals hell bent on committing rape. Naturally O'Reilly cannot understand common human decency. He has proven this time and time again when he has had more than ample time to reconsider his stance and tell the truth. He had all this time to admit he was wrong. He had more than enough time to actually prove his rants about caring about anyone but himself. He allowed his huge ego to kill off every sense of human kindness he had left in his soul. How twisted his mind must work for him to turn around and try to link homeless veterans to everything he can come up with instead of being a human. Shame on him. Shame on his viewers. Shame on his sponsors and a bigger shame on his bosses. All of them will forever be linked to the suffering of homeless veterans when they all had the opportunity to help them.
I think the sponsors of his radio show and cable show should value their advertising dollars more wisely considering whenever their products are purchased they will not leave a very bad taste and people will regret supporting them when they support someone who slanders veterans who were abandoned by the government. Nice work for a piece of shit that cannot understand we have two occupations already producing homeless veterans to add to the veterans who came before them.
20,000 War Vets Living On Florida Streets; 1,400 In Central Florida
POSTED: 5:42 pm EST January 23, 2008
UPDATED: 10:58 pm EST January 23, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. -- More than 20,000 military veterans in Florida are homeless, living in a kind of war zone they had never imaged -- on the streets and in the woods.
A former U.S. Marine named Pete who once lived in Cocoa Beach with a great view of the ocean is now one of Central Florida's 1,400 homeless.
Pete lives in the woods.
"I got a tent in the woods. I'm not going to a shelter," Pete said. "I'm a carpenter by trade and I just need to get back to work."
Pete said the housing market crisis put him out of work.
Another homeless veteran, Curtis, worked heavy machinery repairing dams and sinkholes after leaving the U.S. Air Force.
His company stopped operations in the United States, leaving him homeless.
"Right now, I would like to find out some information about getting a home," Curtis said. "I need a permanent shelter."
Curtis has been staying at the Rescue Mission in downtown Orlando.
"I have no support system as far as family is concerned," Curtis said. "I am the only one here."
Statewide there are fewer than 470 beds in the Veterans Administration for shelter and treatment, Cooper reported.
According to Brent Trotter, Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for the Homeless, beds are in short supply.
"We try to take everyone in who comes into our doors, we're at capacity," Trotter said.
"These people got there because of a series of life circumstances and the fact they did not have kind of safety net that you and I might have," Executive Director of Homeless Services Network Cathy Jackson said. "They didn't have caring family or sufficient income or perhaps education."
Local 6 is planning a phone bank on Friday, Jan 23, at WKMG studios.
No I know how they become homeless. I've met a few and researched this for 25 years. Most of these veterans are the most wonderful people on the planet. This quote will give you a hint of how vial and contemptible O'Reilly has become.
"These people got there because of a series of life circumstances and the fact they did not have kind of safety net that you and I might have," Executive Director of Homeless Services Network Cathy Jackson said. "They didn't have caring family or sufficient income or perhaps education."
Right here in Florida we have 20,000 homeless veterans. O'Reilly is saying they are sex offenders. 20,000 veterans who served the nation. Did he call them that when they were risking their lives for the sake of people like him to be able to shoot off their mouths? 20,000 this nation had no problem paying for them to risk their lives with all that entailed from providing them with bullets, weapons, shelter, clothing and food while they were risking their lives, but found it too difficult to do the same because they were wounded, couldn't support themselves, became so wounded emotionally they found no comfort or human kindness and were then too expensive to support in the same way they were when they were risking those lives. O'Reilly is the worst kind of citizen. One who cares nothing about the men and women so noble and brave they are willing to lay down their lives even for the likes of him. Pathetic!
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" replied Scrooge.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ... It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
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AKA Bill O'Reilly He is anti-warrior, anti-veteran and anti-Christian!
