{"id":20658,"date":"2017-03-28T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20658"},"modified":"2017-03-28T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:16:57","slug":"at-least-oreilly-apologized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20658","title":{"rendered":"At least O&#8217;Reilly apologized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Fox News commentator Bill O&#8217;Reilly made a crass joke about U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters&#8217; appearance, referring to her hair style and comparing it to a &#8220;James Brown wig.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He thought he was being funny. He wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The blowback was immediate and harsh, as it should have been.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly then apologized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/28\/media\/bill-oreilly-maxine-waters\/index.html\">His apology sounds sincere. <\/a>Indeed, I&#8217;ll give him credit for refraining from one of those lame &#8220;If I offended anyone &#8230; &#8221; non-apologies one hears from people in public life.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reminds me a bit of the way a former colleague of mine used to refer to Rep. Waters. He was prone at times to ridicule her appearance as well.<\/p>\n<p>To my knowledge, he&#8217;s never said he was sorry for being so crude and crass.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. I&#8217;m tempted to write him and demand an apology. Then again, maybe he&#8217;ll see this blog and take the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>As for O&#8217;Reilly, how about showing some manners?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News commentator Bill O&#8217;Reilly made a crass joke about U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters&#8217; appearance, referring to her hair style and comparing it to a &#8220;James Brown wig.&#8221; He thought he was being funny. He wasn&#8217;t. The blowback was immediate and harsh, as it should have been. O&#8217;Reilly then apologized. His apology sounds sincere. Indeed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At least O&#8217;Reilly apologized<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[640,1790,7037],"class_list":["post-20658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-maxine-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20660,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}