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Bill O’Reilly Defends Obama Administration From Conservative Attacks – Gets Called Kool-Aid Drinker

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It had to happen sometime: Bill O’Reilly is drinking the Kool-Aid. This the latest accusation from O’Reilly Factor regular Laura Ingraham, who was shocked that O’Reilly was willing to cut some slack to the Obama administration on their handling of the BP oil disaster, and even give Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano a second chance.

To Ingraham, the problem with how President Barack Obama is handling the oil crisis is, as she explains, the same problem she has with all of his strategies: “Obama is treating this like a political problem… you can’t treat this as another PR issue, where you can campaign out of this.” But O’Reilly countered that the accusation that Obama isn’t doing anything doesn’t seem to hold water, particularly because opinion is so divided along ideological lines. “I will cheer him if he leads,” Ingraham promised, to which O’Reilly responded, “Ok, what do you want him to do?”

Ingraham asked for a review of Obama administration officials– especially Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Napolitano, and Attorney General Eric Holder. She was not pleased that O’Reilly was willing to “cut [Napolitano] some slack” because she had too much on her plate, including the highly-controversial immigration issue, accusing him of drinking Kool-Aid and having no reason to be soft on the administration. He wasn’t all affectionate towards the Obama administration, however, agreeing that Salazar was not worth keeping and that he had some questions about Eric Holder. But Napolitano, he insisted, deserved a softer hand from the people for being overwhelmed with many problems, the oil spill not the largest among them.

As for Ingraham’s austere take on the matter, he called her “crazy” and asserted that “you just want to denigrate everyone in the administration. You want to denigrate every single person Obama knows. The driver of his car you want to go after!…You just want blood in the water everywhere.”

The discussion from last night’s Factor below:

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  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    O’Reilly is a dunce. He hates when the left attacks him. So he always has to pretend they are not intentionally doing all this left-wing nonsense. He is stunned that the Obama administration can’t do anything right so he pretends they do some things right. He can’t believe they are all kooks. Sorry Bill, they are ALL kooks.

  • AmericanCowboy

    O’Reilly always defends the Commie. I can’t wait for the day he admits he was wrong and that Obama is a total incompetent tool.

    Obama has tripled the defecit and doubled the debt. Thanks Obama you big dope!!!!

  • Ination

    @gordonbloyershow

    And you’re better off thinking everyone in a group of people are exactly the same? You don’t actually believe that, do you?

  • EricBoisen

    I find it funny that the right has gone so far that they are attacking O’Reilly. Kinda surreal

  • paulmdoro

    It is surreal Eric. I guess Beck has taken his place. Now O’Reilly is a RINO or something. It’s like an alternative universe.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kam-Fet/572005492 Kam Fet

    I don’t think he minds, as she has called him that before. So I don’t see the fuss here.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    O’Reilly got owned last night!!!!!

  • stoogedudes

    This is why I rarely go after O’Reilly. He is the voice of reason on Fox News, even if sometimes he says bat-crap crazy things (like comparing gays to Al-Qaeda).

    He is absolutely right. Cons get upset when liberals call them racists because they disagree with Obama (which is a legitimate reason to be upset, it’s ridiculous to call them racist for simply disagreeing with Obama), yet when you even THINK about not attacking Obama for his EVERY move or agreeing with him on one small, teenie weenie thing… well you’re a COMMIE, LYING, RINO, KOOL-AID DRINKING MARXIST SOCIALIST FASCIST RACIST DUNCE!

    To some cons, you’re only a true conservative if you rely on incredibly insane rhetoric and hypebole to back up your beliefs. Sure, some liberals are that way, but not to the extent that many conservatives are, such as gordonbloyershow and AmericanCowboy (if he’s not really a satire of a conservative).

  • JohnSimpson

    Sure, some liberals are that way, but not to the extent that many conservatives are, ”

    Poppycock- how are you going to prove that one?

    Use KO, HP, MM, RM, Larry O’Donnell?

  • paulmdoro

    Inflammatory rhetoric does not have a political affiliation.

  • Ination

    paulmdoro says:
    June 4, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    “Inflammatory rhetoric does not have a political affiliation.”

    Couldn’t have said it any better!

  • stoogedudes

    JohnSimpson, gordonbloyershow, AmericanCowboy, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter…just to name a few.

    You want me to name liberals? OK. Keith Olbermann? Sure. Lawrence O’Donnell? Sure. Ed Schultz? He has, yes. I’m not sure who HP and MM are off the top of my head. You could include Sean Penn in that. Can’t think of others, but oh, I’m sure you’d be happy to do that for me, wouldn’t you?

    By the way, Rachel Maddow doesn’t demonize people who disagree with her the way Glenn Beck does with those who disagree with him or Limbaugh, for that matter.

    The only time I can remember Rachel Maddow really going after someone was when she interviewed the head of Americans for Prosperity or another right-wing organization and told him to his face that him and people like him are hurting this country and that they are a disgrace.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Haha…compared to a rabid hateful teabagger like Ingaham O’Reilly does appear fair minded.

    In real life…..not so much.

    Anyway, O’Reilly will throw Obama a bone occasionally because he still hopes to get another interview. Not gonna happen.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    I can’t believe Laura Ingraham, once dated Keith Olbermann. Lol.

  • JohnSimpson

    The King, the reasonable Lib, tjl, Roxy, Arianna Huffington, Stephenie Miller, Andrew Sullivan, Maureen Dowd, Dylan Rantagain, Chris Matthews, Markos Zuruga, David Shuster, Bill Press, Randi Rhodes, BFD, Ted, Karl, Janeane Garofalo,Mike Malloy, etc. Just to name a few.

  • paulmdoro

    Hey if it works for James Carville and Mary Matalin….

  • stoogedudes

    I really don’t have to prove anything, really. Just look at the Tea Party movement and their cause of purging all the “RINO’s” out of the party and having ideological purity within the GOP. If you are a Republican and you are voting with Democrats every so often, or even once, with say the Stimulus bill or the bailouts…you’re days are numbered, thanks to the Tea Party movement.

    When is the last time you heard of the Democrats whine of DINO’s and have a mass movement to get rid of all those who happened to agree once in a while with Republicans?

  • JohnSimpson

    stoogedudes says:
    June 4, 2010 at 4:53 pm

    I really don’t have to prove anything, really. Just look at the Tea Party movement ”

    You have no credibility.

    Just look at yourself.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Stooge- Its happening now, Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas.

  • JohnSimpson

    stoogedudes says:
    June 4, 2010 at 4:53 pm

    Just look at the Tea Party movement ”

    Typical libby smear.

  • JohnSimpson

    Oh, do tell me stooge, just which position of the Tea Party do you disagree on?

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Progressive groups, Unions , Daily Kos, Ed Schultz , Maddow, are trying to purge out moderate democrats.

  • stoogedudes

    JohnSimpson…really? Are you so ignorant that you don’t see this in the news? That isn’t a smear, that’s a fact. Just look at all the tea party races in the country and all the Republican candidates being ejected from the party or on the verge because they are not conservative enough.

    “Typical libby smear.”…typical conny retort.

    I have no credibility? and look at myself?

    I have no problem with Democrats who happened to agree with Bush once in a while, hell, I even agreed with him once in a while.

    TROLLING4LIBS, you are correct, I forgot about that, and also Arlen Specter, but he was a Republican to begin with. But there isn’t a liberal tea party that is targeting DINO candidates. Sure, you have progressive organizations that are, but as I said, there are liberals that are this way, but from my point of view, and I admit, yes I may be biased, but just judging from what’s going on out there, even a neutral political observer would take note of this as well.

  • AmericanCowboy

    EricBoisen says: June 4, 2010 at 4:05 pm:” I find it funny that the right has gone so far that they are attacking O’Reilly. Kinda surreal”

    It is you idiots that have painted O’Reilly a right winger. He has never been a right winger. He is a Conservative Independent. His show is Fair and Balanced, meaning he always shows both sides of the debate and that is what you liberals hate. If you show the other side of the issue, you liberals always lose, because you liberals are always wrong.

    I watch OReilly because he is Fair and Balanced, but I only agree with him half of the time. He is way too easy on Obama and the Democrats. The reason he is #1 is because he is Fair and Balanced. Only the crazy ideologs think he is a right winger. If you are in the group that thinks OReilly is a right winger you are either ill-informed, crazy or just plain stupid.

    I am a Right Winger, I am farther right than the Republican Party and more in line with the Founding Fathers. I am a Constitutionalist. I want the Government out of our lives almost completely. I believe the Federal Government should only enforce our laws and protect our borders. They should not deliver the mail or run railroads and never never never bail-out failing businesses. If a company fails it fails.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Stooge, we tend to forget Obama ran as a centrist. George W Bush had a approval ratings in the 20%’s so a democrat was bound to win. America is Center- Right. Progressives are a small minority. Now that Americans have seen this adminstrations massive spending, and bailouts , their making there voices louder than ever, thus the tea party. Democrat ,independent, and republicans. Progressives no.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    One more thing.. On almost every major policy issue this President has passed, or took a position on, the polls showed majority of Americans against it. The media down plays it , and says, but they still like Obama ‘ personally’.

  • Grammie

    AmericanCowboy says:
    June 4, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    If you had just left the totally unnecessary insult “idiots” out I would have given you an A+ for that comment, AC.

    I just don’t understand why you don’t stick with this style on a regular basis.

    Grammie

  • AmericanCowboy

    The insults are necessary Grammie. They make me feel better.

  • felixw

    Sorry Bill, after 500 days of the Obama administration, one struggles to find one single good thing he has done. The stimulus was such a disaster, that even the Democrats are embarrassed to talk about it. The health care bill was the ugliest power play in modern American political history, forced through despite overwhelming opposition of the voters. The budget is out of control, with the federal bureaucracy expanding while productive jobs disappear. The President’s intrusive controls in a dozen different industries have only contributed to the destruction of the U.S. economy, with the tax increases coming next year threatening to do even more harm. And the oil continues to spill into the Gulf. In short, this is a level of incompetence that is unprecedented even by the high standards set by previous Democrat administrations. And we have another two-and-a-half years of this pompous, empty suit sitting in the Oval Office before he gets thrown out of office.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Nelson/100000843821605 Kevin Nelson

    O’Reilly has never been considered a hard core conservative by hard core conservatives…ask Mark Levine and Rush Limbaugh.

  • http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

    O”Reilly is just a high school teacher that wants to play with the grownups. Thats about it….

  • Jelperman

    What’s wrong with Kool-Aid? I like the Cherry and Fruit Punch flavors.

  • JohnSimpson

    stoogedudes says:
    June 4, 2010 at 4:53 pm

    I really don’t have to prove anything, really.”

    Yes you do. You made a stupid claim and can’t back it up!

    “When is the last time you heard of the Democrats whine of DINO’s”

    They don’t have to! The BHO admin.tries to bribe them with other job offers!

  • The Real Royal King

    This is the fault of the MSM/LSM, and O’Reilly is a RINO.

  • yamama

    Bill O’Reilly is getting to be obvious, he went over to the other side. I first notice it, after he was invites to the White House for I think was a Christmas Party or something like that. He positively glowed, when he was back the next night, he couldnt stop talking about it. How gracious the obama’s and blah, blah, blah. To tell yoi the truth I didnt think he would be that easily led astray, but it makes you wonder whats behind it. Maybe a job offer or two, maybe money, or they have something on him.
    I am glad I didnt buy his book “Bold Fresh”.
    He is not what he always seemed to be, he is just a fool without the power of his conviction. Once you get wishy washy like that, its over..

  • yamama

    sorry about the typos in previous post, corrected version:

    yamama says:
    June 5, 2010 at 3:58 pm
    Bill O’Reilly is getting to be obvious, he went over to the other side. I first noticed it, after he was invited to the White House for I think was a Christmas Party or something like that. He positively glowed, when he was back the next night, he couldnt stop talking about it. How gracious the obama’s, gorgeous Michelle O. and blah, blah, blah. To tell you the truth I didnt think he would be that easily led astray, but it makes you wonder whats behind it. Maybe a job offer or two, maybe money, or they have something on him, or he really is a RINO.
    To think I was so close to buy his book “Bold Fresh”.
    He is not what he always seemed to be, he is just a fool without the power of his convictions. Once you get wishy washy like that, its over.

  • http://none pyrope

    IF the -0bama administration HAD done something positive for the US, I would be the first to acknowlege it. Thus far, they have failed in meeting every challenge they’ve faced–or have failed to face.

  • drex94

    oh yea,,,, and Bush was such a success………..Obama is trying and doing the best he can to dodge the right wingers ‘s witch hunt- led by WINBAUGH- VANNITY- AND THE EGOTISTIC BITCH INGRAHM.
    Typical right wingers…… whine whine and say No…but offer no solutions.

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