Bill O’Reilly And Matt Lauer Battle Over Whitney Houston’s Drug Addiction

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Billo the Clown and his hypocrisy...

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly was a guest on Thursday morning’s TODAY show, and got into a relatively heated discussion with host Matt Lauer when the topic of Whitney Houston‘s death came up.

Lauer brought up O’Reilly’s earlier comments, when he said that Houston had wanted to kill herself, because of her constant abuse of drugs.

“I don’t believe that anyone is a slave to addiction,” O’Reilly said, explaining that while addiction is a disease, people also have free will. “You don’t have free will when you have lung cancer. You do have free will when you’re a crack addict.”

Video: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-and-matt-lauer-battle-over-media-coverage-of-whitney-houstons-drug-addiction/

But six years ago, when it was Papa Bear, Billo the Clown sang a different tune:

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is coming to the defense of his radio competitor Rush Limbaugh, claiming authorities in Palm Beach County, Fla., are “out to get” the conservative talk-show host, and are maliciously targeting him for prosecution.

“He is an American,” O’Reilly said of Limbaugh last night on “The O’Reilly Factor,” “and I believe powerful people in his home county are trying unjustly to harm him.”

http://www.wnd.com/2006/06/36796/

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1. Billo and Matt LiarBoy both make me want to kick-in my TV.

Overpaid, overexposed, underwhelming castoffs from the B- List. Two failed attempts at corporate broadcast anchors.

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2. o'really is a vile, disgusting pos

using whitney's death to get attention

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3. The GOP reaction to Ms. Obama's nutrition campaign shows how much the RW

will jump behind you when you see warning signs that something needs to be done. If the media had said we need to do something about Whitney's addiction, there would be a RWer to say it's none of their business.

[pokerfan]

4. That's a good point

Such hypocrisy.