Bill O'Reilly: Did He Really Have To Take A Shot At Dead Strom Thurmond??

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[Recovering_Democrat]

For God's sakes. O'Reilly apparently got Strom's grandson on--a black American who is Strom's grandchild through Essie Mae Washington-Williams. The man had nothing bad to say about Strom...he said it was kept quiet because there was no reason to say anything, and that the family viewed Strom in a favorable light.

He even said he was a Republican who supported the President and will vote for him again.

Bill's response? I'll paraphrase:

"I'm glad all this is coming out. It shows your grandfather to be a massive hypocrite. Don't wanna hurt your feelings, but your grandad was a hypocrite."

The guy (sorry I didn't catch his name) didn't seem angry or anything, he just smiled at Bill.

Now I generally think O'Reilly is okay...but taking a shot at the recently deceased is, um, well, a bit in bad taste, isn't it? Especially since even the "victim" isn't mad...and in fact looked up to old Strom.

Just my opinion.

[onyx]

Send "pithy" comments to: Oreilly@foxnews.com

[cyborg]

According to the lastest ratings, so did the rest of America.

[onyx]

You don't have to be so pithy, about us being so pithy.

ROFLMAO! LOL! Too funny. LOL!

[LisaMalia]

Strom Thurman was no more a hypocrite for embracing white segregation than many black revolutionaries were for making babies with white women

It's wrong in both scenerios.

[dep]

bill o'reilly is ten pounds of former food in a five-pound sack. he has proved the observation by mencken that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american people. and what makes it worse is his positioning of himself: angry, militant moderate.

[longtermmemmory]

O'Reily alway struck me as actually being what the critics acuse rush of being. (Critics who have yet to get rush)

[Keith in Iowa]

I've already 'pithed' on Mr. Bill about this...

[#3Fan]

I almost fell out of my chair the other night when he was defending Katie Couric, against charges of being biased.

Me too. I guess his old job at CBS is still affecting him. If he's going to go with his opinion so much, he should at least base it on observation! And Couric is as biased as they come!

[TomGuy]

You don't have to be so pithy, about us being so pithy.

Well! Somebody really pithed you off, didn't they.

[cyborg]

Absolutely. If people are going to start screaming hypocrisy, then they ought to be consistent. I happen to think Thurman was a turd for not putting it all on the line for his daughter and marrying her mother (going to a place where it was legal) but that's just me.

[cyborg]

Careful... almost sound like one of the Queer Eyes for the Straight Guys.

[kenholm3]

At one time I really enjoyed watching the big O. From the point where he created a story about Dr Laura and the single mom I stopped watching.

According to Laura, the O show indicated they were going to do a story on a story Laura had done. The Laura show never named the lady about whom Laura's monologue was. The Laura show prepped some info for the O show.

The O show disregarded the prepped info from the Laura show, NAMED the previously anonymous woman, had a representative for the previously anonymous woman on the O show, but no info from the Laura show.

So... The O show, like the rest of the media, creates the stories they'd like to put out. As for the argument that the O show is an editorial show not a news report... the big a-hOle claims to be fair and balanced...

He needs to flip to CNN with Paula.

[Paul Atreides]

You don't have to get tho thnippy about it.

[Petronski]

Would you prefer Rather, Coombs, Jennings, Brokejaw ?

O'Reilly and those four are all unwatchable, vacuous, self-absorbed asses.

[Petronski]

Too bad for you. I guess you missed the 1000 plugs for his book.

One per copy sold, no?

[Faraday]

D'ya suppose O'Reilly ever heard about Teddy Kennedy's driving record?

[Bullish]

O'Reilly's a pompous boob who's wearing out his welcome in many conservative homes.

Having said that, I'll add....

Shame on Thurmond. What an A-hole!

[tapatio]

Hey Mr.O'Reilly Here is a pithy comment for you
Shut your trap and listen once in a while.
You may actually learn something.

[Cboldt]

Sending pithy comments = feeding the troll.

[onyx]

I've already 'pithed' on Mr. Bill about this...

LOL! I can read "lisp" --- LMAO! Good one! :)