Thanks as always to gerard, and might I point out to Ms Walters (whose face is frozen due to so much surgery, etc, and whose heart appears to be in much the same condition) that when you have an unwelcome guest in your “home,” you don’t leave, you ask the guest to do so. She’s been toting water for the ruling class so long she’s probably chat in a mannerly fashion with Goebbels.

Suggestion:  It is not “mannerliness” and “respect” that are at stake here.  It’s the right of people to contest stupidity and cant, either verbally or by leaving its presence entirely—walking out. 
  Whether arguing back or walking out—in either case, a wise degree of “manneriness” and “respect” will help to defuse an ugly confrontation.  So “mannerliness” and “respect” have an important functional place in resistance.  But “mannerliness” and “respect” employed simply for the sake of “being polite” “nonconfrontational” or evasive—such behavior is of very questionable virtue. —

Obviously Ms. Walters must like Mr. O’Reilly and his ilk, why else promote his latest published garbage, doesn’t he already get enough on his own?
Perhaps because she is old, she adheres to the idea of being mannerly and respectful, even if it is just a money sucking dingbat like this chap, making out like a bandit by exploiting fear and phobia. But despite all the controversy, its really just about increasing the ratings. The lady doth protest too much. Colossally wasting time is a cash cow for the television industry.

A free people are under no obligation to sit quietly and listen to the destructive lies and half-truths of demagogues like O’Reilly and Beck whose intention is to create rage and confusion.

A free people are free to either argue back and risk causing more confusion and rage, or to leave the presence of people paid to disturb the public peace—peace, that is, such as ti is. 

A freepeople are obligated to do what their conscience tells them to do.  Period.

And Barbara, the studio is a public stage, not a private livingroom, even though lots of people forget the difference because they live most of their lives inside a TV.  Which is the main reason we are where we are at

Turn off the “remote”, get closer to reality, and see what you can do without being told what to think.

I agree with Barbara Walters:

“This is a country that’s full of rage. You just used the word ‘volatile’ yourself. We
must be able to have conversations; that means all of us. Without fury, without
rage, without screaming, without obscenities, without walking off.”

The level of anger and hatred many Americans have for each other right now is, in
my opinion, more dangerous than the level of anger and hatred people from other
countries have for the USA.

Emily Post is irrelevant, unless, of course as a reminder of how boorish political TV
is, and how normal we find it.