http://www.xyre.org Ancient writings, current events, and my other whims Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:31:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.xyre.org/2008/01/05/the-old-bill-oreilly-reappears/ http://www.xyre.org/2008/01/05/the-old-bill-oreilly-reappears/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:58:30 +0000 Sam http://www.xyre.org/2008/01/05/the-old-bill-oreilly-reappears/ Bill O’Reilly is up to his old tricks again, pushing an Obama staffer at a rally at a New Hampshire school, causing Obama’s Secret Service agents to get involved in the fray. I’d been wondering what happened to the O’Reilly of the late 1990s-early 2000s. Well, good news: he’s back, apparently! Now imagine Fox’s—and O’Reilly’s—reaction if it had been a more mainstream or left-leaning television personality, like Anderson Cooper or Keith Olbermann. Just ponder that for a second. Imagine the letters of apology, the resignations, the anger management courses, the right-wing hysteria over the uncontrollable left-wing media. Now compare that to the reaction we’re going to get to this incident. That’s what I thought.

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