Conservative extremist commentator Bill O'Reilly is again on the prowl sending another one of his people to try and ambush Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer prize-winner. He did it because Tucker had the audacity to point out the hypocrisy of people taking it easy and feeling so good about the pregnancy situation of Sarah Palin's daughter while blasting nonconservatives (particularly inner city individuals) for having children out of wedlock. Why does Sarah Palin and her husband get a free pass for her daughter's pregnancy while other parents of pregnant teens are blasted for not being there to supervise and properly raise their children? Showing his immaturity and lack of professionalism, he proceeds to call her names and make fun of her because she had the nerve to disagree with him and call him out - publicly - for his blatant hypocrisy. Here is an excerpt that I pulled out of some analysis on the Huffington Post:
"For some reason, the pious social conservatives of the Republican Party did not denounce the 17-year-old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Instead, they greeted the news of her pregnancy as evidence of the strong moral fiber of Palin and her husband, citing the fact that they have offered Bristol their comfort and support. For a minute there, I feared that right wingers would attack the young lady as evidence of the moral failings of a liberal, anything-goes culture, or as proof that her parents had failed to provide a Christian upbringing that eschews sex outside marriage. After all, that's what conservatives usually say when unmarried adolescent girls get pregnant. When Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy was revealed, for example, Bill O'Reilly went after her parents: "On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet. Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves," O'Reilly declared."
Tucker called him out and asks if Britney Spears' parents were to blame (for the pregnancy of Britney's sister), in that case, then why were not the Palin parents to blame for their daughter's pregnancy? According to him the Spears parents were letting their daughter run around unsupervised. But, according to O'Reilly, the pregnancy in the Palin case was not caused because she was running around unsupervised. This is a case of more Bill O'Reilly excuses for his own hypocrisy. What is with Bill and his blindly-loyal support of Palin ... no matter what?
Huffington Post on Tucker vs. O'Reilly:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/cynthia-tucker-vs-bill-or_b_124032.html
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