{"id":6620,"date":"2012-03-08T22:33:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T06:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T06:33:04","slug":"bill-oreillys-crackpot-conspiracy-zone-sandra-fluke-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6620","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Crackpot Conspiracy Zone: Sandra Fluke Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Flix\/bill-obeale.jpg\" alt=\"Bill O'Reilly\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Sensing that his O&#8217;Reilly Factor was losing the competition for most ludicrous punditry to his old nemesis Rush Limbaugh, Bill O&#8217;Reilly has just uncovered the conspiracy of the century. It&#8217;s a convoluted scheme that has confounded all other pundit participants. O&#8217;Reilly laid out the basics in his Talking Points Memo segment tonight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>O&#8217;Reilly:<\/strong> &#8220;As we reported last night, the Factor believes the Sandra Fluke contraception controversy was manufactured to divert attention away from the Obama administration&#8217;s disastrous decision to force Catholic non-profit organizations to provide insurance coverage for birth control and the morning after pill.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you catch it? The Factor (Bill&#8217;s pet name for himself) believes that Fluke was sent (by Obama? Soros? Fidel?) to divert attention away from the perilous issue of health insurance coverage for contraceptives by &#8211; get this &#8211; talking about health insurance coverage for contraceptives. What could be more devious? It was a brilliant subterfuge, but not brilliant enough to fool O&#8217;Reilly. The Obama team should never have tried to outsmart the Factor. Especially with lame antics like this one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>O&#8217;Reilly:<\/strong> &#8220;Nancy Pelosi staged a mock hearing starring Sandra. After which Rush Limbaugh made derogatory comments elevating her to left-wing martyrdom. So it seems there is a powerful presence behind Sandra Fluke.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only O&#8217;Reilly could have figured out that Rush Limbaugh was one of the conspirators. The plan would never have come so close to success were it not for Limbaugh&#8217;s ham-handed incivility toward Fluke, or so it appeared. And it was O&#8217;Reilly who recognized that Limbaugh was the powerful presence behind her.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight it seems obvious that this whole affair was designed to benefit the President, as O&#8217;Reilly observed. Somehow the President&#8217;s strategists concocted a plot wherein an unknown law student would manage to manipulate the Republican chairman of a congressional committee to refuse to let her participate, and then she would trick the country&#8217;s top radio talk show host into verbally assaulting her. What could be simpler?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly even nailed down a suspicious connection. Apparently Fluke is now represented by the PR firm of former White House director of communications, Anita Dunn. And even though that relationship began after Fluke had become embroiled in this national controversy, O&#8217;Reilly still thinks there is something significant about her hooking up with a Democratic affiliated firm that employs someone who left her job at the White House over two years ago. A lesser mind might have mistakenly thought that Fluke would sign with a GOP PR firm. And it was a stroke of genius for Dunn to wait almost two and a half years before executing this plot so that people might forget about her presidential resume.<\/p>\n<p>You have to hand to O&#8217;Reilly for persevering in his quest to pierce the cloak of secrecy surrounding this chicanery. After all these years the old boy still has it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensing that his O&#8217;Reilly Factor was losing the competition for most ludicrous punditry to his old nemesis Rush Limbaugh, Bill O&#8217;Reilly has just uncovered the conspiracy of the century. It&#8217;s a convoluted scheme that has confounded all other pundit participants. O&#8217;Reilly laid out the basics in his Talking Points Memo segment tonight. O&#8217;Reilly: &#8220;As we [&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":[653,183,26,71,973],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-anita-dunn","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-sandra-fluke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1IM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16985,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=16985","url_meta":{"origin":6620,"position":0},"title":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly Launches His Fourth Feeble Boycott Of Mexico","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/19\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The people of Mexico must have woken up this morning shuddering in abject fear. 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