Matt Ortega

Bill O’Reilly made an appearance on Your World with Cavuto on November 30 and he credit his “reporting and that of others” to the lowering gas prices, and claimed that people are “offended” that Christmas is a federal holiday. That is classic O’Reilly, and FOX News for that matter, to create phony straw men to fit their arguments.

NEIL CAVUTO: You don’t buy the take that they’re trying to be inclusive or the companies that have that position are?

BILL O’REILLY: This is insulting to Christian America. It’s insulting. This is driven by secular progressives –

NEIL CAVUTO: The Jews and Muslims say it’s insulting to keep the “Christmas.”

BILL O’REILLY: I say that Muslims are less than 1 percent of the population, and Jews are less than 3 percent of the population. They’re entitled to their opinion, they’re entitled to their opinion and they are entitled not to shop in places that say “Merry Christmas,” just as I’m entitled not to shop in places that don’t. That’s what I say. But the bottom line on this is this: Secular progressives which are driving this movement, OK, don’t want Christmas. They don’t want it as a federal holiday, they don’t want any message of spirituality or Judeo-Christian tradition because that stands in the way of gay marriage, legalized drugs, euthanasia, all of the greatest hits on the secular progressive play card…”

Media Matters has extensively documented O’Reilly theory of the “secular progressive movement” and broke it down into three elements.

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Jeremy Glick is the son of a former Port Authority worker who was killed on September 11, 2001 in the terrorist attacks on the United States. This “interview” was conducted February 4, 2003 — at the height of the “anti-American” charges in the lead up to the War in Iraq.

O’Reilly’s conduct during the interview was purely unprofessional and disgusting. He constantly bullies his “guest” and takes a position where he pretends to know Jeremy’s slain father and tries to use it against Glick.

Glick confronted O’Reilly with the known fact that, with George H.W. Bush as Vice President, the U.S. trained Islamic fighters in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets that gave rise to the the al-Qaeda terror network led by Osama bin Laden. O’Reilly backed down claiming he “didn’t want to debate world politics.” But what’s there to debate about that? That’s common knowledge.

Read the full transcript below.

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Bill O’Reilly attacked The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s “influence” on the 2004 Presidential election, real or imagined, and took shots at Stewart’s audience, claiming “87 percent” were “intoxicated” while viewing his show. (The source of these statistics was never cited.)

Stewart made him pay by citing that the show is design for comedy and spoofing politics — not news. Stewart noted the lead into his show is “sock puppets making crank calls.”

Read the full transcript below.

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