Vox Day is frothing at the mouth about Bill O’Reilly and the silence of conservatives about him. Frankly, I don’t have a lot of patience with arguments like his which boil down to the suggestion that if I don’t write what he wants and when he wants it, then it must be because I sold out. It’s a shabby form of argumentation bordering on bullying someone into trying to prove a negative.
As for the substance, the comparison to Bill Clinton is faulty at countless turns, for reasons that should be fairly obvious. As for my motives for not writing about O’Reilly, they’re pretty straightforward. I don’t care very much about the guy. I’m not a fan of O’Reilly and I’ve said so countless times in print. I have a contract with CNN so I couldn’t appear on O’Reilly’s show even if wanted to. Actually, I wouldn’t mind appearing on the show for the fun of butting heads with him. But I don’t care enough about the guy or the story to spend much time following his shennanigans, sexploits or whatever. However, should he run for president of the United States, I will pay much closer attention.