Talk:Rook (SG)

Two words:

Rook's Screwed. ---Blackout- 12:15, 20 September 2009 (EDT)

Please do make make offensive political comments on this page. Surely you can think of a better joke. 68.61.240.172 15:53, 22 November 2009 (EST)

Surely you can be a little less sensitive? No one is actually trying to insult the man. Khajidha 15:59, 22 November 2009 (EST)

If we let every so-and-so anon decide to remove captions they deem offensive, this site'd be a humourous as a grandmother's funeral. Besides, it's satire. 82.5.78.143 16:21, 22 November 2009 (EST) (MGN, apparently not signed in)

I'm with Geewunling here, when the caption first got tacked up I thought it was pretty darn fitting. --Jeysie 17:28, 22 November 2009 (EST)

Heck, I don't even see what's so offensive about it.--Rosicrucian^Talk 17:42, 22 November 2009 (EST)

It's describing Bill O'Reilly, a real world commentator, as a a liar and a government shill. I wish to see it removed. 68.61.240.172 19:24, 22 November 2009 (EST)

It's describing Bill O'Reilly as a sensationalist journalist. Heck, if that's offensive then so's Stephen Colbert's entire career. I don't have a club membership, but have you considered that potentially Sepelak and Troop have intentionally made Shattered Glass Rook in homage to O'Reilly?--Rosicrucian^Talk 20:00, 22 November 2009 (EST)

Actually it was Jesse Wittenrich who's responsible for SG Rook. But otherwise, yeah, I'm with Rosicrucian here. There's quite a few RL journalists in the same conservative sensationalist bracket as our ABN reporter TF here, of which O'Reilly is one. --Jeysie 20:11, 22 November 2009 (EST)

The write-up for the character, as-is, doesn't really remind me of Bill O'Reilly per-se. In fact, it's way too, uh, flattering. Exposing corruption and scandal is GOOD! That's not a negative thing! Conversely, I don't really see anything in the opening profile about shouting down his guests, trying to win arguments with simple volume, or cutting mics, so it doesn't really remind me of O'Reilly. --ItsWalky 21:01, 22 November 2009 (EST)

...I can safely say you completely and utterly missed the intended ironic tone of the paragraph. Hint: "yellow journalism" and "scandal-mongering" are good clues. (Granted, I do tend to have a very dry sense of humor.) --Jeysie 21:16, 22 November 2009 (EST)

That sounds more like Geraldo Rivera than O'Reilly. O'Reilly would just be shouting endlessly about how THE DECEPTICONS ARE BRAINSWASHING OUR CHILDREN AND HATE OUR FREEDOMS AND WANT TO KILL US ALL AND THE GUBBMINT IS GOING TO TAKE YUOR BRAIN IN THE NIIIIIGIHT. -hx 21:25, 22 November 2009 (EST)

I agree with Hooper. If the opening paragraphs are intended to be distinctly O'Reillyish, they do a very poor job. Though Hoop's SUPER-overthetop paranoia version sounds more like Glenn Beck to me. --ItsWalky 21:31, 22 November 2009 (EST)

Whenever I saw Rook or SG Rook I always thought of news anchors like Tom Brokaw mixed with a modern Geraldo, who would Hector Ramariz in the Transformers universe. 68.61.240.172 21:35, 22 November 2009 (EST)