{"id":8356,"date":"2015-02-26T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8356"},"modified":"2015-02-26T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T13:30:35","slug":"oreilly-sees-the-light-on-name-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8356","title":{"rendered":"O'Reilly sees the light on name-calling?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fox News talk show host Bill O’Reilly had an eye-opening commentary Wednesday night in which he said Republicans should avoid name-calling and “smearing” of Democrats, namely President Obama and the woman who wants to succeed him, Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/02\/bill-oreilly-obama-insults-2016-elections-115526.html?hp=l3_4<\/p>\n

I don’t know what to make of this.<\/p>\n

O’Reilly said this, according to Politico: \u201cBut any Republican candidate who says personal things about either the president or Mrs. Clinton will be making a tremendous mistake,\u201d he added. Most Americans don\u2019t like that line of attack, he said. \u201cOnce in a while, a takedown is necessary, but to make a living out of guttersniping\u201d would be a \u201cticket to defeat,\u201d he commented. \u201cSmearing anyone should be unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, let’s backtrack a few days. Mother Jones published a scathing report questioning O’Reilly’s coverage of the Falklands War in 1982. O’Reilly went immediately on the attack. What did he call David Corn, a co-writer of the lengthy essay? Why, an “irresponsible guttersnipe,” of course.<\/p>\n

O’Reilly is correct to caution Republicans about the personal attacks. The Politico link attached to this post details some of the points he made on his “O’Reilly Factor” talk show.<\/p>\n

However, whenever anyone gets under his skin and riles the fellow, O’Reilly is pretty quick to pull the hair-trigger on those who disagree with him.<\/p>\n

Still, let’s hope he follows his own advice. Then again, his visible and vocal righteous anger is a big part of what draws his audience to his show.<\/p>\n\n

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Fox News talk show host Bill O’Reilly had an eye-opening commentary Wednesday night in which he said Republicans should avoid name-calling and “smearing” of Democrats, namely President Obama and the woman who wants to succeed him, Hillary Rodham Clinton. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/02\/bill-oreilly-obama-insults-2016-elections-115526.html?hp=l3_4 I don’t know what to make of this. O’Reilly said this, according to Politico: \u201cBut … Continue reading O'Reilly sees the light on name-calling?<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[540,640,1274,1682,1788,2041,2140,3137,3365,3557],"class_list":["post-8356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-david-corn","tag-falklands-war","tag-fox-news","tag-guttersnipe","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-mother-jones","tag-oreilly-factor","tag-personal-attacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356","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=8356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}