Bill O'Reilly Outraged After School District Pulls His Books
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Via: kavika • 11 months ago • 22 commentsBy: Michael Luciano Load Comments (Mediaite)
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Michael LucianoJan 12th, 2024, 9:10 pm Twitter share button
Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly fumed against a Florida school district's decision to pull two of his books while officials determine whether they run afoul of a state law he supported.
Escambia County School District has at least temporarily removed more than 1,000 titles from its shelves because those books have been "alleged to contain pornography or obscene depictions of sexual conduct." Those include O'Reilly'sKilling Jesus: A History and Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the law in March 2022.
"Unfortunately, we've seen some books in some of these libraries, I mean you're talking about kids in middle school, some of the stuff that has ended up there is incredibly, incredibly disturbing stuff," DeSantis said at the time.
Reached for comment by Newsweek on Friday, O'Reilly expressed his displeasure.
"It's absurd," he told the publication. "Preposterous."
He added:
When DeSantis signed the book law, I supported the theme because there was abuse going on in Florida. There were far-left progressive people trying to impose an agenda on children, there's no doubt about it. And the state has an obligation to protect children. But the wording of the law was far too nebulous in Tallahassee…
So, that law needs to be tightened up, DeSantis needs to come out publicly and say 'this is insane, we're not going to cooperate with this and we're going to investigate the people who did it.
O'Reilly said he still supports the law, but added that the removal of his books is an abuse of the law.
"I want to emphasize the fact that there are abuses in certain school districts that harm children," he said. "There are materials that are inappropriate and those materials have to be specifically included in the law with language that is very specific."
The pundit also took to X/Twitter where he wrote, "This will not stand."
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Bombastic Bill got bit on the ass.
... maybe if he admitted that all the bullshit he writes is rwnj fiction...
I listened to a couple of O'Reilly's "history" books on audio a few years ago. I dont know how true they are, but they are kind of entertaining.
I dont remember any pornography so this is most likely another example of banning a book for no reason.
Those book banners are nuts.
Hoist by his own petard.
oh look, another right wing loser with a comical comb over...
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Let the morality police check this out, oh wait they are accused of rape and threesomes in Moralityville.
O'Reilly has been out of the spotlight for a few years, maybe the book banners dont remember him and where he sits on the Mt Rushmore of right wing media stars.
''out of the spotlight'' that is another way of saying he was run out Fox after numerous ''suits'' had to be paid.
If you want to see him it seems he is often on the disgraced Cuomo show.
Two ego maniacs trying to out-talk each other.
What???
DeSantis is the one who signed the damned bill into law. He's "the people who did it."
Hilarious when someone supports a law and then it is used on him...LOL KARMA
lol - I bet he didn't have a problem with other books that were banned.
PS I just love that!
I never thought leopards would eat MY face
lol again
There's a subreddit, and Bill O'Reilly made it onto that subreddit.
I don't know what a subreddit is
I don't know what a reddit is let alone a subreddit is.
Looked it up:
A subreddit is a specific online community, and the posts associated with it, on the social media website Reddit. Subreddits are dedicated to a particular topic that people write about, and they're denoted by /r/, followed by the subreddit's name, e.g.,
I still don't know what it is.
Yeah, I've heard of Reddit, and tried to use it years ago, but it's not real user friendly or easy to navigate from what I remember. NT and FB are the only sites I frequent
It's still not. I still visit from time to time, though.