Thread: O’Reilly Baits Palin to Be-fringe Birthers – She Won’t

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O’Reilly Baits Palin to Be-fringe Birthers – She Won’t Bite

By Rev. Michael Bresciani
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

In an interview with Sarah Palin on Tuesday February 16, Bill O’Reilly repeatedly asked former Governor Sarah Palin to state whether she thought ‘birthers’ are on the fringe. She went ahead to describe the kinds of people she encountered at the Tea Party meetings but tactfully avoided directly answering the question.

Palin who has undergone relentless media bashing since her run for the White House seemed unwilling to join the fray of name calling and pigeon holing that is so much a part of politics and punditry in this day. It was a show of grace and dignity that is one of her best qualities that the media seems to be missing most of the time.

O’Reilly asserts that the question is forever answered because of the research efforts of his Fox team who seem to be centering the bulk of their conclusions on the two birth announcements placed in Hawaiian newspapers.

Far from being conclusive, the newspapers themselves admit that they did not see Barack Obama’s birth certificate either and were not required to see any official BCs at that time to place anyone’s announcements.

The obvious leading was rejected by Palin but what stands out is left open to greater scrutiny. At the very least angrily labeling birthers the fringe is overly dramatic. At the worst it is debasing when the birthers are mentioned in the same sentence with those who want to “gather guns and overthrow the government.â€

Good article. I thought O'Reilly crossed the line with Palin but she handled it well. Get a clue O'Reilly or...have you been told to downplay the BC issue?