You know how the saying goes—people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Bill O’Reilly got a friendly reminder about the current cracks in his own house when he tried to keep the faux outrage against former National Security Adviser Susan Rice alive yesterday. In a tweet clearly designed to drive traffic to this website (which I also lovingly call a House of Lies), O’Reilly accused CNN anchor Don Lemon of deliberately refusing to cover the non-story.
This is also a generally low blow. O’Reilly knows how media works more than anyone; one man/show can’t cover everything — and it’s unrealistic to think so. I think O’Reilly just wanted to give his racist followers a new Black person to whom they can hurl racist epithets and “alternative facts” if they wanted a little ~variety~.
Fortunately, Don Lemon had the best clap-back: