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Mar 14, 2016

Charles Krauthammer Tells O'Reilly He Is a Weasel for Defending Trump

On the Factor this evening Charles Krauthammer tells Bill O'Reilly he is a weasel for defending donald trump at his Chicago rally Friday night called off due to protester interruption.

Charles Krauthammer had to explain to Bill O'Reilly there were two separate issues: first there was the protest by the left at odds with the views of trump and secondly, the larger issue of trump, an individual running for the highest office in our country, not condemning the fighting taking place in the crowd by his supporters. Krauthammer was specifically talking about the man that sucker punched a protester who had made an inappropriate gesture and then said the next time we may have to kill him.

Charles Krauthammer had to explain the whole thing to Bill--twice and slowly. Bill tried to say trump was in uncharted waters as he had never run for political office and that he should be excused for his lack of criticism for this kind of act.

Charles Krauthammer had to go into more detail of trump's repeated calls to punch someone in the face and recounting tales of protesters being taken out on a stretcher in days past.

Yes, on Fox News Charles Krauthammer spoke against the ideas and campaign of the donald. Charles said the way he was acting was not right, not Presidential and not the kind of activity that should take place by someone running for this kind of position. Charles said donald is making incorrect statements about violence and it has to stop.

As one watches the show one has to wonder if Bill O'Reilly condones this kind of behavior. One wonders if trump is a racist and a bigot and bill follows in that philosophy, as well.

copied from salon.com:

UESDAY, MAR 15, 2016 05:32 AM PDT

Charles Krauthammer ridicules Bill O’Reilly for using “weaselly words” to defend Trump’s violent rhetoric

"Readjust his violent rhetoric?" Krauthammer asked, there's "No excuse" for not condemning it

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Bill O'Reilly, Charles Krauthammer (Credit: Fox News)

Charles Krauthammer was unimpressed, to say the least, by Bill O’Reilly’s defense of Trump’s violent rhetoric.

On Monday night’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Krauthammer opened by commenting on Sarah Palin’s condemnation of the “punk-ass thuggery” of far-left plants at Trump rallies, saying that “it’s refreshing to hear Sarah Palin — it’s that kind of calm, reasoned political rhetoric that we need in this country, and it’s so welcomed when we can hear it from her.”

O’Reilly chuckled, but his mirth was short-lived, as Krauthammer immediately turned on the GOP front-runner himself. “There are two separate phenomenon here,” by which he meant the organized “tactic of shutting the opposition down,” much like what — according to Krauthammer — happened “in the 1920s and 1930s,” and which is “happening on campuses all the time now, speakers who aren’t allowed to speak,” basically how “the left acts in a totalitarian way to control who speaks.”

Such a phenomenon should be condemned, he added, but that’s not what is happening at Trump events. The candidate himself is “winking and nodding and saying, ‘In the old days, we carried them out on a stretcher,'” suggesting in no uncertain terms that “‘We used to beat people like that until they weren’t able to walk.'”

“We saw a guy on that tape sucker-punching a demonstrator in the face, and saying, ‘If we see him again, we may have to kill him.'” When Trump was asked about it, he said “‘I don’t condone violence in the abstract,’ [and] that’s great, but he refused to condemn it, and that’s unconscionable. Are you letting Trump off the hook for this?” Krauthammer asked.

“I’m not,” O’Reilly shot back. “I’ve said he has to readjust his rhetoric.”

“Come on Bill!” Krauthammer replied. “‘Readjust the rhetoric‘? What kind of weaselly words are those? ‘Readjust the rhetoric‘?”

“I’m trying to deal with this in a fair and balanced way,” O’Reilly said, despite having spent the majority of the program having done nothing of the sort. “So I think we’re going to remove the word ‘weaselly’ from it.”

“I’m not going to rebut the point, I’m going to illuminate the point,” he continued. “Trump speaks in an emotional manner — he talks like this, ‘bang, bang, bang’ — and he doesn’t have a filter. He doesn’t think sometimes before he speaks, he doesn’t understand that his words can carry threats. But I’m not going to sit here and say he’s responsible for what happened in Chicago.”

O’Reilly added that Trump only failed to condemn his supporter because “he never admits a mistake,” a rationale that didn’t sit well with Krauthammer. “That’s no excuse,” he said, “no excuse. How difficult is it to condemn it and not say, ‘it’s obvious that that [who sucker-punched a protester] is a patriot.'”

Watch the entire segment via Fox News.

Scott Eric Kaufman is an assistant editor at Salon. He taught at a university, but then thought better of it. Follow him at @scottekaufman or email him atskaufman@salon.com.

Jul 10, 2015

Geraldo Rivera Bashes Bombastic Barbie Ann Coulter on Immigration.........

from Salon.......

FRIDAY, JUL 10, 2015 05:02 AM PDT

Immigration cage match! Geraldo Rivera and Ann Coulter throw down on “Hannity”

Coulter wishes we could "criticize" Hispanics like the Irish were "criticized" in the 19th and early 20th Century VIDEO

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Geraldo Rivera, Ann Coulter (Fox News)

On “Hannity” Thursday night, Geraldo Rivera confronted both host Sean Hannity and fellow guest Ann Coulter on the subject of immigration, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the conversation was quickly whipped into a maelstrom of bellowing cross-talk by all parties involved.

Coulter began by thanking Rivera for granting that there could be 30 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, even though he only did that for the sake of argument. “The true about immigration is always the same,” she said, “the lies are always different.”

“We are talking about a group of people who have no right to be here,” she said, adding “whether legal or illegal.” She didn’t clarify as to why legal immigrants have no right to be in America legally, but that’s neither here nor there, because Coulter’s more concerned with the fate of “native” Hispanics and African-Americans on government assistance. “Why are we bringing in people that we have to help?” she asked. “That’s meant for our poor people, and that includes Hispanic poor people, and black poor people. We have to care about our own.”

“Is the filibuster over?” Rivera asked. “Let me respond!” And respond he did, noting that rates of violent crimes in the two cities with the highest population of undocumented immigrants — New York and Los Angeles — are at historic lows.

“That means nothing!” Coulter interjected. “That’s not because of immigration!”

“If undocumented immigrants were more prone to commit crimes,” Rivera continued, “why would these cities be experiencing such relative freedom from violent crime. Compare that to Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, and other post-industrial cities, where there is a spike in terrible crime, where you should be concerned with violence, instead of singling out this population and ginning up this false fear.”

“Look, you’re talking about a correlation, not a causation. You’re not that stupid, Geraldo!” Coulter replied. “Crime goes down for a lot of reasons. We want immigrants to have crime rates lower than [those] of our most criminal population. You have got to stop talking about this as if we’re talking about Americans attacking Hispanics. No, we are talking about immigrants.”

“When you write a book that says ‘Adios America,’ you are ipso facto attacking Hispanics,” Rivera shot back. “Do you really believe the left is conspiring to make this a third-world hellhole? That it’s a conspiracy?”

“They’re winning elections now!” Coulter replied. “Obama wouldn’t have won elections but for for the post-1970’s immigration, which of course is Hispanic!”

“I remember when they said the same thing — the same thing! — about the Irish in the 19th Century,” Rivera responded.

“They were right!” Coulter shouted back. “Not only were they right, we were allowed to criticize the Irish!”

Watch video of the exchange below via Fox News.