8-year-old Girl Knows More Than O'Reilly

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:30 pm

A YouTube video of a little girl roasting O'Reilly. Well done.

See here.

Betsy · Post by **Betsy** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:39 pm

It is really good; I just wish she hadn't used curse words to get her point across. It undermines the message.

Barbara Fitzpatrick · Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:35 am

Not so much a roast of O'R as atheist propaganda. I call it propaganda, even though much of it was true, because the kid was taught/coached/rehearsed in that bit. The language wasn't "childlike" (and I don't mean the curse words - those, unfortunately, are quite prevalent in modern 8-year-old conversation) and it went on too long for what a child would have said. True it's no different from the christian propaganda kids are tutored in, but I had hoped better from the atheists.

Betsy · Post by **Betsy** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:19 am

I agree, Barbara. I felt uncomfortable about the video and you were able to articulate exactly why.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:13 pm

Barbara Fitzpatrick wrote: Not so much a roast of O'R as atheist propaganda. I call it propaganda, even though much of it was true, because the kid was taught/coached/rehearsed in that bit. The language wasn't "childlike" (and I don't mean the curse words - those, unfortunately, are quite prevalent in modern 8-year-old conversation) and it went on too long for what a child would have said.

DOUG
The whole thing was words put in the little girl's mouth. The point was not to suggest that this is some child prodigy. That is why it is under "Humor" and not "Science."

Barbara Fitzpatrick wrote:True it's no different from the christian propaganda kids are tutored in, but I had hoped better from the atheists.

DOUG
I don't know who "the atheists" are. This was not some concerted effort from some national atheist organization.

I thought it was a great roast.

Barbara Fitzpatrick · Post by **Barbara Fitzpatrick** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:19 am

Doug - that's my point. I hate seeing children used that way, no matter which point of view is doing the using. The points were "a great roast" - the use of a child as the vehicle of delivery put me off. I know this wasn't a "concerted effort from some national atheist organization" (IS there a national atheist organization?), but whoever did it either was a misguided atheist or else a "true believer" using the "robocall" method to put people off atheists.

Post by **Dardedar** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:14 am

I thought it was cute but went on a little long.