Cynthia Tucker and Bill O’Reilly are a-feudin’
September 4, 2008 at 12:45 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in NewsIn a great column yesterday, Pulitzer-having AJC columnist Cynthia Tucker noticed that phony Republican moralists only attack parents of unwed pregnant teens when the parents of said teen are not Republican vice-presidential candidates.
Among those she singled out was Fox News Senior Falafel Correspondent Bill O’Reilly.
Quoth Tucker:
When Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy was revealed, for example, Bill O’Reilly went after her parents.
“On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.
“Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves,” O’Reilly declared.
Bill O’Reilly’s response to having been called out?
He called Tucker a “nut” and insisted the two situations have “nothing to do” with one another.
You know you’re having a good week when this guy calls you a nut:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
yea ok bill, I’m not going to blame Sarah Palin for her daughter getting pregnant.
Though even you have to admit it points out the problems of abstinence programs being funded.
And I Will blame Sarah Palin for parading Levi around on stage. I have problems with that. Is that the new role model? Shouldn’t Bristol be grounded? Instead she gets to bring her boyfriend to meet the John McCain? Granted McCain’s no Obama but still imagine how many girls Levi can get now?
September 4th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
That’s the greatest O’Reilly clip ever. Did he win one of his many Peabody Awards for that work?