{"id":95,"date":"2006-12-01T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2006-12-01T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T18:45:00","slug":"fox-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/fox-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Entertaining post at Media Matters<\/a>, picking up on Fox News<\/span> host, Bill O’Reilly<\/span>.<\/p>\n

During a discussion with a Fox News military analyst on his radio show, O’Reilly got a little carried away: <\/p>\n

I hate to blow my own horn, Colonel, but … on the night that Saddam’s statue fell … I said on the air, ‘Hey, look at these guys looting the armories. What’s that all about? You can’t let those people do that.’<\/span> … As soon as I saw that, I went, ‘Holy you-know-what, there’s no plan to institute martial law and to take step-by-step reconstruction of this
country.’<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The MediaMatters<\/span> team have tracked down the transcripts from that night, and erm…it’s hard to find that exact quote. Instead, sit back and enjoy a little selection from the O’Reilly Factor<\/span><\/span> back in April 9th, 2003, as Bill and Newt Gingrich<\/span> exult over the fall of Baghdad, taking an opportunity to stick it to everyone from President Jacques Chirac<\/span> to – well, these guys:<\/p>\n

O’REILLY: Did you know – did you know, Mr. Speaker, that the BBC<\/span> didn’t run the statue, cut away to an earthquake in India instead of running the most visual moment in the last 10 years – the BBC<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n

GINGRICH: Sure.<\/span> <\/p>\n

O’REILLY: The BBC<\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n

GINGRICH: Now, look, the BBC<\/span> has been for years totally owned by left-wingers who are viscerally anti-American. The BBC<\/span> American channel may be the most anti-American channel, at least as anti-American as Al Jazeera<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It’s an ideological bias of the British left. They hated Margaret Thatcher. They hated Ronald Reagan. They cheerfully hate George W. Bush. I’m talking now about the BBC<\/span>‘s left-wing board of directors and the BBC’s left-wing reporters. That’s just reality.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The former Speaker of the House of Representatives<\/span> obviously making a very early pitch there as a possible future chair of the BBC…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entertaining post at Media Matters, picking up on Fox News host, Bill O’Reilly. During a discussion with a Fox News military analyst on his radio show, O’Reilly got a little carried away: I hate to blow my own horn, Colonel, but … on the night that Saddam’s statue fell … I said on the air, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[65,120],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-fox-news","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}