{"id":1465,"date":"2009-11-18T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2009-11-18T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T00:04:30","slug":"bill-oreilly-doesnt-care-about-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly Doesn&#8217;t Care About The Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big &#8220;O&#8221; of Fox News let it slip on his program yesterday. While it has been apparent for years, Bill O&#8217;Reilly finally admitted on air his utter disdain for America and its values. We have always known that he has little knowledge of the Constitution, and now we know why &#8211; he just doesn&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5eBrfql3pnU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;start=90\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This accident of candor is revealing on a number of levels. Obviously, the literal meaning of his remarks are repugnant. But his justification transcends common idiocy. O&#8217;Reilly tells Judge Andrew Napolitano that he doesn&#8217;t care about the Constitution because the Constitution isn&#8217;t there and the Judge is. So as far as O&#8217;Reilly is concerned, if the Constitution isn&#8217;t physically present, it is irrelevant. Don&#8217;t bother to cite the Constitution or advocate its provisions around O&#8217;Reilly unless the two of you are standing in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. O&#8217;Reilly went on to call the Judge a pinhead for having the audacity to bring Constitutional law into a discussion about Constitutional law.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly has demonstrated his aversion to Constitutional principles on many occasions. He opposes dissent unless it&#8217;s by Tea Baggers. He imposes religion via his defense of marriage and his annual War on Christmas nonsense. He disposes of fourth and fifth amendment rights for those he preemptively declares are guilty until proven innocent.<\/p>\n<p>At least now it&#8217;s out in the open. From her on out, anytime he makes one of his tortured arguments about his twisted perspective on freedom or liberty, we can remind him and his flock what he confessed here. He really doesn&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?tag=billopedia\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Humor\/billopedia-constitution.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big &#8220;O&#8221; of Fox News let it slip on his program yesterday. While it has been apparent for years, Bill O&#8217;Reilly finally admitted on air his utter disdain for America and its values. We have always known that he has little knowledge of the Constitution, and now we know why &#8211; he just doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[26,672,33],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-billopedia","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-nD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29729,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29729","url_meta":{"origin":1465,"position":0},"title":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly Opposes Theocracy &#8211; Except For America And Christians","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The dean of Fox News hypocrites has once again demonstrated why he is so revered for his ability to be oblivious to his own self-contradictions. 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I don't understand how The Fester can show this video and think that it makes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29964,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29964","url_meta":{"origin":1465,"position":2},"title":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly: If I Were Attorney General I Would Arrest People I Don&#8217;t Like","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/22\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As the Grand Poobah of Insufferable Sanctimony on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly takes his role very seriously. That's why he exhibited a particularly grating level of angst after the Senate declined to pass legislation that he personally proposed and promoted. 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