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Fox Tries To Blame Chris Rock For Donald Trump’s Outrageous Remarks About McCain

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on July 21, 2015 · Flag

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Bill O’Reilly suggested that Donald Trump got his John McCain smear from a Chris Rock comedy routine. Only O’Reilly was not kidding. And neither was Trump.

It’s true Rock mocked McCain’s image of a war hero for having been captured.  In his 2008 stand-up routine in which Rock was openly supporting President Obama, he said, “There’s a lot of guys in jail that got captured. I don’t want to vote for nobody that got captured. I want to vote for the mother***** that got away!”

O’Reilly played the clip from Rock which you can watch below. “Rock didn’t take any heat for that,” O’Reilly said. “But I think subliminally, I think that’s what that was all about.”

Guest Brit Hume added, “Something similar was said by Al Franken back in the day.” Belittling McCain because he was captured “has been around for a while,” Hume continued, “and has not always emanated from the mouths of people you would like to be president of the United States.”

“Or you have any respect for at all,” O’Reilly chimed in.

But that’s the whole point, isn’t it? Rock is a comedian, not somebody running for president and not even a serious pundit. Trump, on the other hand, is supposed to be on the same side as McCain and, as a presidential candidate for the GOP, acting like a colleague, not a Democratic comedian excited by the prospect of the first African American president.

Watch the ridiculous comparison below, from the July 20 The O'Reilly Factor.

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d d commented 2015-07-22 10:47:38 -0400 · Flag
Oh, just stop it, BOR. Bringing up Rock (or Franken’s jokes at a White House Photographers dinner) is the epitome of lame (especially for someone who calls his show the no-spin zone). Rock and Franken are/were comedians. Unlike Trump, they are not supposedly running for President. Your pal, Trump, effed up. Period. So quit trying to offer up excuses for his ridiculous, boorish antics.
allen wells commented 2015-07-21 16:36:46 -0400 · Flag
Really!!!
Warp Resident commented 2015-07-21 15:13:53 -0400 · Flag
Elvin: Surely you’ve heard of the “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” meme? FoxNews does something similar, except it’s “6 degrees of blaming black people.”
Joseph West commented 2015-07-21 13:38:54 -0400 · Flag
Yeah, Billdo. Because nothing suggests “serious Presidential candidate” than ripping on a man who just happens to NOT be in the running.

And then, validating tRump by using a Chris Rock take-down when McCain was the actual nominee for President? No wonder you ‘Cons are so fond of continually blaming Bill Clinton for things he did 15 to 20 years ago while forgetting all the problems that can be directly laid at Dubya’s feet (not just the 9/11 oversight but also the failure of the wars against the Taliban and Iraq—the latter leading directly to ISIS—and the economic crisis of 2008). Your viewers have goldfish memories and you and your fellow pundits have convenience memories. (I see you’ve forgotten St Ronnie’s “11th Commandment” here—“Thou shalt speak no ill of fellow Republicans.”)
Thx4 Fish commented 2015-07-21 10:31:16 -0400 · Flag
Comedians have run for President before. I know Repubs don’t do subtlety, but perhaps via a Freudian slip, they are comparing Trump to a comedian because they know that’s really what he is — an entertainer posing as a presidential candidate. The only reason they are treating him as serious is simply to cover up the fact that up to 24% of Republicans would vote for this joke of a candidate.
El 84 commented 2015-07-21 10:03:25 -0400 · Flag
Out of all the people who have ripped on McCain, why did Billo pick on a BLACK comedian? Methinks O’Reilly might have a racist streak. I bet he thinks African Americans might outnumber whites soon, and he’ll be a minority.
El 84 commented 2015-07-21 09:34:31 -0400 · Flag
So many dwell on McCain’s POW history. I despise his crappy politics. And Sarah Palin a V.P. candidate?
NewsHounds posted about Fox Tries To Blame Chris Rock For Donald Trump’s Outrageous Remarks About McCain on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-07-21 09:00:10 -0400
O'Reilly was completely serious about this.








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