{"id":4,"date":"2005-12-01T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2005-12-01T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T19:33:40","slug":"bill-olielly-takes-gold-silver-and-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2005\/12\/01\/bill-olielly-takes-gold-silver-and-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Lielly Takes Gold, Silver, and Bronze!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who doesn&#8217;t watch Keith Olbermann, each night on his show, Keith picks the three &#8220;worst people in the world.&#8221;  Last night, in what may be an unprecedented feat, the falafel fool himself hit the trifecta, being named the worse, worser, and worst person(s) in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Billy was cited for being &#8220;this generation&#8217;s Joe McCarthy,&#8221; for compiling his own enemies list of those who have defamed him (&#8220;You call it defamation, Bill. We call it precise quotes from your show. &#8220;)<\/p>\n<p>Big bad Billy took the runner-up prize with his quote on the Today show (as an aside, is anybody old enough to remember when the Today show was a news program?), &#8220;These pinheads running around going, &#8216;Get out of Iraq now,&#8217; don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about. These are the same people before Hitler invaded in World War II that were saying, &#8216;Ah, he&#8217;s not such a bad guy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the winner of the Worst Person in the World? Well, put down that pipe and get my pipe up, because it&#8217;s none other than Bill O&#8217;Lielly for his anti-anti-Christmas crusade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing designed to stir up religious hatred and paranoia in this country? Guess what they&#8217;re selling over at the Fox News online store? The Fox News &#8220;Holiday&#8221; ornament! And the O&#8217;Reilly Factor &#8220;Holiday&#8221; ornament. Who is trying to change &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; into &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221;? Bill O&#8217;Reilly, that&#8217;s who. Today&#8217;s worst person in the world!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/12\/01.html#a6129\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a> has the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Update:<\/u><\/strong> After <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200512010010\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters for America<\/a> busted them for it, the Fox News online swag has been renamed &#8220;Christmas&#8221; ornaments, and references to &#8220;your holiday tree&#8221; now refer to &#8220;your Christmas tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who doesn&#8217;t watch Keith Olbermann, each night on his show, Keith picks the three &#8220;worst people in the world.&#8221;  Last night, in what may be an unprecedented feat, the falafel fool himself hit the trifecta, being named the worse, worser, and worst person(s) in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}