{"id":4445,"date":"2015-12-21T20:19:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2015-12-21T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:21:08","slug":"rewind-saddam-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Saddam O&#8217;Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would the holiday season be without a nod to America&#8217;s own, self-appointed &#8216;culture warrior&#8217; and General in the &#8216;War on Christmas&#8217;, Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Yes, let&#8217;s look back of one of Bloviator Bill&#8217;s finest moments, from our July 7, 2006 issue.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June 2006, the Loofah Master commented <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2006\/06\/21\/oreilly-again-suggested-employing-saddams-metho\/136012\" target=\"_blank\">that Iraq should be run like it was under Saddam Hussein<\/a>, because at that time, for those with no memory cells, the Iraq War was a clusterf*ck and going badly, because&#8230;well&#8230;George W. Bush and Dick Cheney lied to America and we invaded a country we never should have invaded in the first place.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4446\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oreillysaddam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oreillysaddam.jpg\" alt=\"Saddam O'Reilly proclaims that we should kill 'em all just the way Saddam Hussein did.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oreillysaddam.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oreillysaddam-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox News talk show host, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, whose only goal in life is to look out for you, recently commented on his show that America should deal with the insurgents the way Saddam used to by brutally killing all opponents. This of course brings up the question, &#8216;If we&#8217;re going to do exactly what Saddam did, why did we invade Iraq?&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would the holiday season be without a nod to America&#8217;s own, self-appointed &#8216;culture warrior&#8217; and General in the &#8216;War on Christmas&#8217;, Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Yes, let&#8217;s look back of one of Bloviator Bill&#8217;s finest moments, from our July 7, 2006 issue. Back in June 2006, the Loofah Master commented that Iraq should be run like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Saddam O&#8217;Reilly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,3,35],"tags":[377,50,112,1232,4,9,115,458,21,255,98,596,19,261,697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}