{"id":11831,"date":"2014-03-27T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2014-03-27T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T19:06:02","slug":"bill-oreilly-obama-supporters-are-blatantly-ignorant-and-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11831","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly: Obama Supporters Are ‘Blatantly Ignorant And Lazy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In last night’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly began the program with his routine and hackneyed Talking Points Memo<\/a> segment. As usual, O’Reilly’s perspective was arrogant, insulting, and entirely devoid of substance or factual basis.<\/p>\n

\"Bill<\/p>\n

For more lazy ignorance from Fox News…
\nGet Fox Nation vs. Reality. Available now at Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n

The issue that set O’Reilly off on this occasion was a CBS News poll that showed that 53% of the American people say that President Obama has strong qualities of leadership. Obviously there must be something wrong with those results because O’Reilly knows better than everyone else. He asks “How can that be possible?”<\/em> and asserts that the people are just “confused.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The first problem O’Reilly sees with the poll is that the respondents were “adults,”<\/em> rather than registered or likely voters. For some reason he thinks that’s significant. However, he is now demonstrating his own ignorance because those distinctions are only relevant in polls measuring the current status of an election. For polls gauging the opinions of the general public there is no reason to narrow the respondents to voting demographics. O’Reilly is just desperately grasping for some excuse to dismiss the results.<\/p>\n

But the worst part of O’Reilly’s spin comes when he expresses an open hostility to pretty much everyone who supports the President:<\/p>\n

“The harsh truth is that many of us are blatantly ignorant and lazy. We simply will not pay attention to the world around us. We get our information from other people, who may be as dumb as we are.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In O’Reilly’s mind it is impossible to have a positive view of Obama unless you are mentally deficient. It isn’t just a matter of a difference of opinion, it is an inherent inability to comprehend the world you live in. So if you disagree with O’Reilly you are just plain dumb. And since the poll shows that 53% of the nation disagree with him, O’Reilly thinks a majority of the American people are ignorant and lazy. Wouldn’t it be nice if the American people told O’Reilly what they think about that?<\/p>\n

The best part of O’Reilly’s remarks is that taken by themselves they are a perfect description of his own arrogance and the willful ignorance of his viewers. It is they who blindly follow the fact-free ramblings of a rabidly biased pundit whose mission in life is to deceive and distort and to disparage his ideological adversaries. And that’s the harsh truth that O’Reilly is too ignorant and lazy to grasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last night’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly began the program with his routine and hackneyed Talking Points Memo segment. As usual, O’Reilly’s perspective was arrogant, insulting, and entirely devoid of substance or factual basis. For more lazy ignorance from Fox News… Get Fox Nation vs. Reality. Available now at Amazon. 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