Bill O’Reilly has been friends with Donald Trump for decades.
It sure doesn’t look that way at the moment.
And Bill O’Reilly just accused Donald Trump of the worst thing ever.
Bill O’Reilly says Trump acting un-Christian for celebrating Jim Acosta leaving CNN
Jim Acosta antagonized Donald Trump and his supporters for eight years.
Acosta claimed to be a journalist, but he was just an anti-Trump shill who self-righteously moralized about how Donald Trump was the personification of evil and how the news media were like the vastly outnumbered but heroic Spartans fending off the Persian army at the battle of Thermopylae.
But Trump-hating is no longer good for business and CNN essentially showed Acosta the door by moving him to such an unattractive timeslot that he quit CNN instead.
Trump celebrated Acosta leaving CNN as a decisive victory over a hateful rival.
“Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, “Death Valley,” because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!). Word is that he wants to QUIT, and that would be even better. Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter where he ends up. Good luck Jim!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
But Bill O’Reilly took offense.
O’Reilly had no great love for Acosta as O’Reilly thinks Acosta calling himself a journalist is an insult to journalism.
“He’s not a reporter, he’s a commentator, Acosta. And if you hate somebody, then you shouldn’t even mention them, right? Because you can’t comment in a fair way on someone you hate. Does that make sense to everybody? That’s the big problem here. If you hate them — and there are a few people that I despise, but I tell you upfront that I do,” O’Reilly said on his No Spin News show.
O’Reilly then said Trump and his supporters were happy every time Acosta and his fellow Trump-hater – Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto – lost their jobs.
“A lot of conservatives are happy. They’re dancing on his grave and President Trump did that today . . . okay, the President did that with Neil Cavuto too because Cavuto had no use for Donald Trump,” O’Reilly added.
But O’Reilly said that celebrating people losing their jobs wasn’t a very “Christian thing to do” even if it felt good to see over-the-top critics of Trump get their professional comeuppance.
“And then Cavuto is booted out of Fox, and Acosta is booted out of CNN. What does that say to you? Says that Donald Trump has some juice now in the corporations that run the media. But anyway, I don’t like dancing on the graves. I know it’s human nature, but I don’t think it’s a Christian thing to do. And maybe I amend that. I don’t think it’s in accord with Judeo-Christian philosophy,” O’Reilly concluded.
Calling Donald Trump and his supporters un-Christian seems like the very type of extremist rhetoric O’Reilly usually takes great pains to avoid.
