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Bill O’Reilly Isn’t Big On The 2nd Amendment

Posted by: macaoidh on Thursday, February 18, 2010, 20:43
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Tonight on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly had as a guest Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oathkeepers movement, and attempted to portray Rhodes – a disabled veteran and constitutional scholar, as a lunatic. Rhodes, whose organization stresses to law enforcement and military personnel that they’re bound by the Constitution, mentioned as an example of the kinds of things his group wants to stop the confiscation of firearms from New Orleans residents following Katrina.

Apparently, as Rhodes mentioned, O’Reilly thinks the 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply if the weather gets rough…

(Hat tip: Gateway Pundit)

I watch O’Reilly often, and though he often puts on an interesting or entertaining show (which would be greatly improved if Dennis Miller was on every night), he’s not much of a conservative as he’s portrayed by the left media. Rather, O’Reilly is an authoritarian. He believes in government “taking care of the folks,” which usually reflects what looks like law-and-order conservatism. But he’s a huge fan of government regulation and O’Reilly exudes a mentality suspicious of individual freedom far too often to suit the tastes of today’s constitutional conservative movement.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Mike_Youngblood Mike_Youngblood

    Nah, he's fair and balanced. Just asked him. He has the highest ratings on cable, just ask him.

    O'Reilly sometimes makes a lucid conservative comment, and he does present a broad spectrum of opinions via his guests. But he is also rude to those guests if they make a lucid comment that disagrees with his view, in which case he turns into an arrogant windbag who talks over those guests and their opinion.

    And you're right, in that the one night a week that Miller visits is the high point of the show.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Mike_Youngblood Mike_Youngblood

    Nah, he's fair and balanced. Just asked him. He has the highest ratings on cable, just ask him.

    O'Reilly sometimes makes a lucid conservative comment, and he does present a broad spectrum of opinions via his guests. But he is also rude to those guests if they make a lucid comment that disagrees with his view, in which case he turns into an arrogant windbag who talks over those guests and their opinion.

    And you're right, in that the one night a week that Miller visits is the high point of the show.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/jsanderssr jsanderssr

    You need to remember that this blowhard a-hole spent his early career as a gossip dork on TV. His opinions are at least as credible as those of parez hilton…

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/jsanderssr jsanderssr

    You need to remember that this blowhard a-hole spent his early career as a gossip dork on TV. His opinions are at least as credible as those of parez hilton…