{"id":6036,"date":"2008-06-02T21:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2008-06-02T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:41:53","slug":"video-oreilly-attack-interviews-mcclellan-former-press-sec-doesnt-budge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: O’Reilly Attack-Interviews McClellan, Former Press Sec Doesn’t Budge…"},"content":{"rendered":"

O’Reilly uses every bully-boy, tough-guy, strong-arm tactic in his thuggish satchel. McClellan didn’t blink. To his credit, he’s standing by his book. All. of. it. In fact, the deer-in-the-headlights glaze he had for years at the WH press podium seems now to be entirely gone. We’re impressed.<\/p>\n

Here’s O’Reilly’s complete, three-segment, testosterone-amped, failed attempt to take down McClellan on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor<\/i>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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BTW, some on the supposedly-Progressive side — such as the folks at MoveOn and other friends of ours — have condemned McClellan for not speaking up sooner and for “profiting from lying to the public” during his time at the White House. While we understand that general impulse, we think the knee-jerk reaction may be a mistake. McClellan himself said last Sunday on Meet The Press<\/i> that he hopes others will step forward to do as he did. So do we.<\/p>\n

He’s taken a huge hit from “his own” side by coming out as he has in a rather extraordinary and unprecedented way. His realizations, late in coming or otherwise, seem to be quite legit, heartfelt and rather courageous. It seems to us we should be more interested in making those who might do the same feel safe to do so, rather than kick them from all<\/i> sides. Just our .02.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

O’Reilly uses every bully-boy, tough-guy, strong-arm tactic in his thuggish satchel. McClellan didn’t blink. To his credit, he’s standing by his book. All. of. it. In fact, the deer-in-the-headlights glaze he had for years at the WH press podium seems now to be entirely gone. We’re impressed. Here’s O’Reilly’s complete, three-segment, testosterone-amped, failed attempt to […]<\/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":[77,88,24,56,140,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-oreilly","category-cia-leak","category-iraq-war","category-karl-rove","category-katrina","category-mainstream-media-failure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","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=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}