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If it was a Repub these people [O'Donnell-Maddow-Matthews]would go on and on like the energizer bunny... they defend the Dimocrats and praise their agenda every night. MSNBC is nothing more than trash T.V. they are never critical of Obama as they were of Bush because they all are socialists commies.O'Reilly is fair and balanced and would pick O'Donnell apart if he chose to go on the Factor....
What you don't seem to understand that when Republicans call themselves the Family Values Party and they claim to be the moral authority of the nation then they are also setting themselves up to be judged on a different standard than others who aren't making such claims. It's called hypocrisy. In the case of Mark Foley, for example, who was inappropriately emailing and coming on to teenage boy pages while at the same time serving as chairperson for a committee about Missing and Exploited Children. Or Bob Allen, who paid an undercover cop in a restroom to give him a blow job while working on a bill to ban gays from adopting children in Florida. These are no-brainer stories of hypocrisy as many of the sex scandals coming from the Right are. It makes it more than just a scandal about sex, when a Moral Values Republican is committing the crime. Like the OP topic of Bill O'Reilly who recently settled a sexual harassment case out of court and now has the gall to moralize about Anthony Weiner. O'Donnell was right to smack him down for his hypocrisy.
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From Politico -
Of course, the simplest explanation of the scenario is that he had, in fact, tried to send a picture of his genitals to a 21-year-old Washington state college student. Weiner has denied that in public and in private. Two people who spoke to him privately said he had suggested that, as one said, “he took or sent a photo or photos like this at some point — but in this case actually was hacked/set up, perhaps with a posting of one of his own photos or something very similar.” Anthony Weiner's talkathon isn't saying much - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
So hearsay has hung Weiner? Again this thread isn't about Weiner, it is about O'Donnell
calling O'reilly out on his hypocrisy.
Does O'Reilly's past issue have anything to do with Weiner's situation? No.
Perhaps O'Donnell would do better if he understood that your personal views and situations are not supposed to have an impact on your choice to cover the news.
If it's ridiculous to cover the story, it's infinitely more ridiculous to cover someone else covering the story.
What you don't seem to understand that when Republicans call themselves the Family Values Party and they claim to be the moral authority of the nation then they are also setting themselves up to be judged on a different standard than others who aren't making such claims. It's called hypocrisy. In the case of Mark Foley, for example, who was inappropriately emailing and coming on to teenage boy pages while at the same time serving as chairperson for a committee about Missing and Exploited Children. Or Bob Allen, who paid an undercover cop in a restroom to give him a blow job while working on a bill to ban gays from adopting children in Florida. These are no-brainer stories of hypocrisy as many of the sex scandals coming from the Right are. It makes it more than just a scandal about sex, when a Moral Values Republican is committing the crime. Like the OP topic of Bill O'Reilly who recently settled a sexual harassment case out of court and now has the gall to moralize about Anthony Weiner. O'Donnell was right to smack him down for his hypocrisy.
Kinda like Bill Clinton with his cigars in the Ovul-ation office...Edwards campaign for change...as in his sex life while his wife was dying of cancer...the Kennedy Boys with their girl toys.Great American values....lollollol.
Kinda like Bill Clinton with his cigars in the Ovul-ation office...Edwards campaign for change...as in his sex life while his wife was dying of cancer...the Kennedy Boys with their girl toys.Great American values....lollollol.
Clinton and Edwards didn't get a free pass from the press or the public either, did they. The Kennedy scandals were in a different era when all of them---Republicans and Democrats alike---got a pass from the press on the personal side of their lives.
i dont have a problem with oreilly going after weiner.
i just wish he would be fair and balanced regarding attacking both the left and right, which he is not.
you heard nothing from oreilly when that republican up in ny-26 resigned over the craigslist sex scandal.
with weiner though, a more notable congressman who is liberal, oreilly goes after him multiple days.
thats why nobody buys that dumb fair and balanced tag.
i dont have a problem with oreilly going after weiner.
i just wish he would be fair and balanced regarding attacking both the left and right, which he is not.
you heard nothing from oreilly when that republican up in ny-26 resigned over the craigslist sex scandal.
with weiner though, a more notable congressman who is liberal, oreilly goes after him multiple days.
thats why nobody buys that dumb fair and balanced tag.
Regardless of your platform, what Weiner did was stupid and wrong. No one is dumb enough to think he didn't send these photos.. there is no other explanation. He should resign.. I understand he is desperately trying to deflect the issue and keep his job but seriously.. he should resign.
Regardless of your platform, what Weiner did was stupid and wrong. No one is dumb enough to think he didn't send these photos.. there is no other explanation. He should resign.. I understand he is desperately trying to deflect the issue and keep his job but seriously.. he should resign.
Your partisan views are noted. This thread is about O'Donnell pointing out O'Reilly's
hypocrisy, not Weiner.
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