Bill O’Reilly Suggests Vox Writer May Be ‘Terrorist Sympathizer’
Bill O’Reilly was apparently so incensed by Vox senior correspondent Amanda Taub‘s thoughts on the movie American Sniper that he brought up another of her reports to suggest, very seriously, that she is a “terrorist sympathizer.”
O’Reilly was basing that conclusion off of this piece from Taub (from a month ago, for the record) on why the Pakistani Taliban murdered more than 100 schoolchildren. Taub providing her perspective into the mindset of why the Taliban would have carried out the horrible attack was, to O’Reilly, beyond disgusting and “providing a rationale” for that slaughter.
O’Reilly also went on a rant against other websites that “post her disgusting stuff without any context,” decrying a lack of “journalistic standards on the net” and making the confusing correlation that the “elevation of the net” and the ability to look up all information anytime, anywhere is like when dictators control the press so that people only get certain information.
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Both of O’Reilly’s guests, Nomiki Konst and Matthew Duss, tried to explain this and other points to O’Reilly. One issue O’Reilly had is Taub, in his view, saying that the people soldiers like Chris Kyle killed in Iraq were victims. Duss told O’Reilly that “some of them were.”
He asked O’Reilly if he would let him explain his opinion further. O’Reilly said, “No, I won’t.”
Watch the full segment below, via Fox News:
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