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O’Reilly: What Obama Can Teach America’s Kids
Steve Krakauer who I slammed earlier this week for a ridiculous piece on Mediaite about Glenn Beck, has an excellent piece up today about Bill O’Reilly.
Krakauer writes about the upcoming column in Parade magazine by O’Reilly entitled, “What President Obama Can Teach America’s Kids.”
Krakauer notes what many O’Reilly critics refuse to admit, that even though he’s a conservative he’s not a republican party shill.
For those who are absolutely floored, you probably don’t watch enough of The O’Reilly Factor. The top-rated cable news host undeniably leans right, but by no means can be grouped with conservative Sean Hannity or pseudo-conservative Glenn Beck.
O’Reilly’s upcoming piece is about president Obama’s background and what that should mean to America’s kids:
What he has achieved in his 48 years is simply astounding. Consider the odds. The United States is a nation of more than 300 million citizens. Only one person is currently the Commander in Chief. That man had no fatherly guidance, is of mixed race, and had no family connections to guide him into the world of national politics. That adds up to one simple truth that every American child should be told: “If Barack Obama can become the President of the United States, then whatever dream you may have can happen in your life.”
The O’Reilly piece has many on the left stunned. Their knee-jerk response is to attribute cynical motivations on O’Reilly’s part for writing it. However, the stunned reaction by many on the left only proves what most of us have always known — many critics have never even watched his show.
The only exposure many lefty critics have to O’Reilly is from 2-minute clips taken out of context from repugnant hate sites like Media Matters or Daily Kos.
Anyone who actually watches O’Reilly night after night knows that he takes heat from both sides and often takes positions at odds with the right.
His program is not and has never been about ideology, but simply about cutting through the bull and getting down to the facts.
As for the O’Reilly article itself, I can’t imagine anyone on the left or the right disagreeing with it.
No honest person can say he or she is not inspired by the rise of Barack Obama. He had every disadvantage a person can have as a child including being of mixed race, but overcame all of it to become our nation’s 44th President. How can you not admire that?
Having said all that, his policies are still a disaster that will destroy our country and rob us of our liberty — but, more on that later.
-Chris Jones
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oreilly is too liberal for me.