The day of the terrible tragedy in Connecticut, Mike Huckabee said, on Neil Cavuto's afternoon show, that there is violence in school because "we've systemically removed God from our schools." On his own Saturday night show, he doubled down on his religious reasons for the shooting with commentary about how God has been removed from public life - a screed that included the Fox abetted lie about taxpayer funded abortion pills. His points were validated by Geraldo Rivera. But during Monday's conversation with Bernie Goldberg, about politicization of the event by both left and right wing media, Bill O'Reilly feigned ignorance about Huckabee's original statement having been made on Fox News. And while Bill bloviated about liberal media transgressions, he didn't seem to want to do the same about Huckabee.

After criticizing Andrea Mitchell, a highly credentialed news person who is a favorite scapegoat for the right, O'Reilly said, in reference to media that discussed guns and gun violence, "it doesn't matter what it is, their political agenda overrides every humanistic concern." Goldberg talked about "a reasonable period of time in which we simply mourn" and described television as our "national cathedral" where we "grieve together." After stating that it only "took minutes for the left in the media to start in with their gun agenda," Goldberg noted that "conservative media also used the tragedy and the media to further their agenda.

Bill, seemingly a tad irritated, asked "how did they do that." Goldberg cited talk about how the carnage was the result of God being taken out of schools. Underscoring the idiocy of his audience, Bill said that he got letters "saying that." Goldberg continued with a reference to talk about how "we have a million abortions a year which cheapens life and that somehow this is related to what happened. … As if an insane gunman, an insane, mentally unstable gunman, cares about God in the classroom or abortion. We know he doesn’t."

Bill curtly said "OK" and opined that he didn't think the shooter was insane because "he knew right from wrong." He pontificated: "Now, I didn't see that level of, I got letters saying that 'what do you expect, you take God out of the classroom, there's not value of right and wrong anymore. But I didn't see that, certainly didn't happen on the Fox News channel. I didn't see it." After Goldberg retorted "yes it did," O'Reilly: "I didn't see it." Goldberg: "It happened on a Fox News channel." Bill started to say he'd "take it;" but then asked if it "were front and center or was it just, cuz it didn't happen on this program and I was watching prime time coverage and I didn't see a lot of that. " Goldberg, (realizing that he wasn't on script or maybe getting a message through his ear piece, from the producer, to switch topics?) said that "there's more of it from the left" and asserted that he was "disgusted with both sides."

Bill might be master of his own supposedly non-ideological Fox domain; but he's not the master of other's. Mike Huckabee's inane comments certainly did happen on Fox which is the same network that carries commentary, by Bill O'Reilly, that isn't all that different. Ya think!

Note - The abortion comments were made, I think, by Dr. Dobson on his radio show, not on Fox. It was interesting, though, that Goldberg didn't mention Huckabee by name.