I know I don't need to tell anyone on here that O'Reilly is as conservative as partisan hacks come, but he continually gets away with misleading his viewers by bullying his guests into saying he's an Independent. I know that many a guest representing the left reads this site, so here's some unequivocal evidence to throw in his face of his own bias. Now he has joined the ranks of contributors to the magazine that has, in its own proclamation, been "leading the conservative movement since 1944".
Human Events - for those not familiar - is a conservative syndicated news outlet that puts out a periodical magazine, emails, and online articles promoting the likes of nuts such as Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly. Along with the fact that every email they send out shameless hawks books and get rich quick schemes, readers can count on contributors to be staunch conservatives. Now in an unsurprising turn, O'Reilly has joined the ranks of contributors.
He recently published an article called War and Obama, which Billo would no doubt claim to be objective but basically spews the predictable conservative talking points about the war. Among his conservo-messages are that
[Obama's] winning primary strategy on Iraq could come back to haunt him in the general election, when the far left becomes rather insignificant.
Umm, as if opposition to the war is not mainstream (wake up Bill, three fourths of the country is opposed) and as if Obama was only voted for by the "far left" which apparently now includes Montana. Yet another disingenuous attempt to shift the center to Bill's far right resting place.
He goes on to cheerlead for the occupation saying
If the U.S. pulls out of Iraq too quickly, the pressure on Iran immediately lightens and the potential for aggression by the bitterly anti-Jewish and anti-American Mullahs rises dramatically. Does Obama understand that? Does it matter to him?
The strengthened position of Iran is because of the occupation there. Us staying there is making Iran stronger and more credible. Does Bill understand that? Does it matter to him? Because it is obvious from the propaganda out there by the McCain campaign (echoed by Billy) that they neither understand nor care.
So next time you get an O'Reilly viewer telling you he's an independent refer them.
No comments on why I read conservative magazines please. I read everything from everyone. Someone has to monitor those whack jobs.