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Posted on 08/12/2008 7:56:39 AM PDT by WaterBoard
On 11 August 2008, Bill O'Reilly stated on his radio show: (See 3:16 on the tape)
"John Edwards.
Look this mistress story to me...
Who cares?
Alright, I mean I feel terrible...um...for Elizabeth Edwards and the three children.
I had this story and I could have reported it to you last spring.
We knew it was true.
We knew what was going on.
But I said look...I have already hammered Edwards. I have already you know ground him into dust.
He is out of the race. He has no credibility.
So am I going to lay this on him? And the answer was no.
And there is only one reason why I didn't. And that is because of Elizabeth Edwards. Kay.
I mean the woman is a brave woman. She is suffering through cancer and I am not going to do it.
You know I got to make these decisions and I made them. And I am just not not going to do it."
O’Reilly is not a news show. It’s an entertainment show with current event commentary. It has a place for roughly 6 or 7 discussions an evening.
O’Reilly has given his reasons for not wanting to do a piece on the Edwards scandal. I’m OK with that. O’Reilly did NOT run with the McCain infidelity lie that the NYT put out.
The best reason he should have done the Edwards show had to do with abuse of campaign funds in the payment of Hunter. The sex would have been in the background. The illegal payments would have been the foreground.
LOL, testy little fella there...
Falafel be upon him, highest prophet of Ted Baxter. We should start scouring Long Island for gnomish, irritating children born to women with undeclared baby-daddies...
BOR is a ratings ideologue. There is only one reason why he wouldn’t go after this story -— he knows that somebody has the goods on him.
His flirtations are well known and it likely goes beyond this...and the spin stops there.
“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
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Yep, and they have revolted by throwing any pretense of fair reporting to the wind. Their one and only game plan for the past eight years has been to get their Democrats elected, thereby trying to prove to themselves that they still have muscles to flex; that they still matter. Thank God the newspapers and network newsrooms are dying. It's possible that the nation can still be saved.
The Balkanization of news sources will continue to grow, but in the end the truthful ones will prevail.
O’Reilly is as big a phony as Edwards.
No.
Oreily is a typical NYC liberal who is pretending to be “populist” as an in with conseveatives who have yet to see the fake that he is.
OReily is about a real a journalist as Dan Rather’s National Guard Story.
The NY Times had no problem publishing an affair rumor about McCain a few months ago.
That’s what is happening all over the internet now.
BOR is not a reporter.
What gets me is he calls it the No spin Zone. LOL right
Bill, it’s not just Edwards and his pathetic “affair”, it’s the Dims and the whole pattern of self entitlement and non accountability and non consequences for everything they do.
It’s a pattern and they are all birds of a feather of a piece. The Dims are responsible for a great deal of harm to liberty, truth and the survival of America.
Since he’s just an entertainer and not a reporter, shouldn’t he be able to pick what he considers entertaining?
BOR is so feminine that I can hardly stand to watch him.
Which is what the other members of the MSM should be doing. STOP THE BIAS!
I'm sure he has an ideological compass...but if he exercised it, his show wouldn't be #1 in his time slot.
You wrote:
“O’Reilly did NOT run with the McCain infidelity lie that the NYT put out.”
Bravo Sierra. Bill O’Reilly did report the McCain affair lie on the 21 Febuary 2008 BOR show. Google it for the video.
Bill O’Reilly did not give a second thought to Mrs. McCain’s feelings like he did for Elizabeth Edwards on reporting the fable tale affair story.
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