Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Ignoring Fairness

Definitions:
     'Fair'...In accordance with rules or standards...just or appropriate.
     'Balanced'...An even distribution.

Yesterday, I observed comments from Fox News personality, Bill O'Reilly as he appeared of the NBC Today Show with Willie Giest and Savanah Guthrie. O'Reilly was there to promote his new book.
Interestingly, O'Reilly is on record stating that NBC is part of the 'drive-by' media with "liberal-leanings, sad and pathetic." The 'interesting' part is O'Reilly's principles apparently fly out the window if he finds it financially beneficial.

O'Reilly was asked if Trump should release his tax returns. Bill's response, I paraphrase, 'Well Trump's many business dealings and huge number of enterprises makes it problematic. I think he will not and should not release his tax returns. Okay, this is the same guy that screams nightly about 'The Clinton's' lack of transparency. He wants more information about the Benghazi attack and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's role. He wants details about the Clinton Global Charity Foundation because he suspects fraud on the part of the Clinton's. Ah, but according to Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump should get a pass on demands that he release tax returns. Never mind that traditionally, Presidential candidates do release tax info. Evidently, Trump is exempt from that kind of scrutinizing.

Note: You can see Bill O'Reilly's Show week nights at 7PM central time on Fox News...
That's the 'fair and balanced' news station where the 'spin stops.'

PS. Hillary Clinton was wrong stating that "half of Trump's supporters are deplorable" If she was suggesting that most of Trumps supporters are racists, homophobic, xenophobic and embracing religious intolerance then that number is NOT 50%; it is factually calculated to be around 42%.

Don't you just hate it when people exaggerate?

Many people 'walk by truth' to get to food for hate. It satisfies an attitudinal appetite.


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