O’Reilly On McChrystal: “Live By The Liberal Sword, Die By The Liberal Sword"

[pinboy3niner]

O’Reilly On Gen. McChrystal: “Live By The Liberal Sword, Die By The Liberal Sword”
by Jon Bershad | 8:15 am, June 29th, 2010


Last night on his show, Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg discussed the case of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Neither O’Reilly nor Goldberg could figure out why Gen. McChrystal would be foolish enough to fall into the trap of big bad Rolling Stones reporter Michael Hastings who O’Reilly charmingly described as a “weasel with a capital ‘W.’” Finally though, the Factor host came up with a bulletproof theory: the reason McChrystal said all of those mean things about the Obama administration was because he’s secretly a liberal! Of course!
O’Reilly’s theory came from an article in The Atlantic that posits that Gen. McChrystal wasn’t just a social liberal, but a social liberal who…cue the dramatic music…doesn’t like Fox News. Of course that would lead to his downfall.

Here’s what O’Reilly had to say after showing the comments from CBS’ Lara Logan:

“I think Lara Logan is discounting the ideology of General McChrystal because that’s the only explanation. I don’t know anything about McChrystal. I’ve never met him. I’ve met the other generals, Odierno and Casey, all of those guys. When I was in Afghanistan, McChrystal obviously wasn’t there. I don’t know his ideology but, when I heard he was an avowed liberal who turned off Fox News in his office- which, as you know, is the most widely watched network on all Army and Marine and Naval bases all over the world by far. It’s Fox News, Fox News, Fox News. When he did that and I heard that, I went, ‘Ok. Maybe his own ideology brought him down.’ I wonder if Gen. McChrystal is as liberal now, today, as he was before the Rolling Stone article. So I think, you live by the liberal sword, you die by the liberal sword.”
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I like Bill O’Reilly. Sometimes I like him a lot. However, there’s a problem when Bernie Goldberg seems like the most rational person around…by far.


Read more (w/video:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-on-gen-mcchrystal-you-live-by-the-liberal-sword-you-die-by-the-liberal-sword/

[GreenTea]

1. Anything is better than living by the hypocritical, lying hateful republican/conservative "sword"!

[murray hill farm]

2. By that logic...

If you throw down the sword and live in peace, you will die in peace.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Is falafel saying that Fox has a conservative bias?

I think the harrasturbator did.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Yes. And to Bill-O, McChrystal's offense was that he "turned off Fox News "

For that alone, he deserved to go down--as O'Reilly sees it. As you point out, his reaction is very revealing.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Oscar the Grouch: Live by Liberal Diarrhea of the Mouth, Die by Liberal Diarrhea of the Mouth

[demosincebirth]

5. Oh my God, such profound words