{"id":4373,"date":"2007-04-05T19:51:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T02:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2007-04-06T03:24:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T10:24:47","slug":"oreilly-flips-his-lid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4373","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly Flips His Lid&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;Just wow. Bill O&#8217;Reilly goes Morton Downey Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The latest phony issue created by O&#8217;Reilly is crucifying the mayor and police chief of Virginia Beach for not having previously deported an undocumented immigrant who ended up killing two teens in Virgina Beach in a drunk driving accident. He&#8217;s mad not because the guy was a drunk driver, apparently, but because he was &#8220;an illegal alien.&#8221;  O&#8217;Reilly was whacked all morning about it on his radio show, and then flipped his shit on Fox &#8220;News&#8221; tonight with Geraldo, charging him with &#8220;wanting anarchy.&#8221; Give it a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"240\" height=\"190\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u0Gwz-2qB7o\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u0Gwz-2qB7o\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"190\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavy.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6330492&#038;nav=menu45_17_4_28\">news conference<\/a> was held in response to O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s batshit episode, in which he told the father and sister of one of the dead girls: &#8220;The authorities in your town would not obey the law, defied the law of the land and somebody needs to be held accountable sir.  I want you to keep in touch with us.  We&#8217;re gonna get the mayor, Oberndorf and the judge, Whitehurst, because they&#8217;re the villains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the news conference, with Mayor Meyera Oberndorf, the father of the other killed girl said: &#8220;We need to heal, and to bring immigration, that&#8217;s disrespectful to a family who&#8217;s just mourning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly has gone frickin&#8217; psycho. And again we ask, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4359\">as we did after he cut off the mic<\/a> of a 29-year army veteran two days ago: Why is this guy still on TV? The same reason Morton Downey Jr. was, we guess. Trainwrecks get great ratings.<\/p>\n<p>(<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2007\/04\/bill_oreilly_lo.html\">Hat-tip Oliver Willis.<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;Just wow. Bill O&#8217;Reilly goes Morton Downey Jr. The latest phony issue created by O&#8217;Reilly is crucifying the mayor and police chief of Virginia Beach for not having previously deported an undocumented immigrant who ended up killing two teens in Virgina Beach in a drunk driving accident. He&#8217;s mad not because the guy was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-oreilly","category-fox-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}