Just how intellectually bankrupt do you have to be in order for a member of your own party to publicly declare that you need to go to school before running for president? Apparently, desperate presidential wannabe Sarah Palin needs serious remedial political instruction before she even considers occupying the White House, uberconservative Bill O’Reilly says.
It can be said that O’Reilly, the famous Barack Obama archenemy and star of his own Fox news show, would sell his own mother into bondage in order to humiliate Obama with a one-term-and-done presidency. But even he knows that Palin is vastly unqualified to run for country’s the highest office — at least that’s what he declared on “Good Morning America.”
“Sarah Palin needs to go to college,” O’Reilly said. “Political college, world affairs college, and she is. She’s hired a bunch of advisers and they’re giving her a whole bunch of tracks to learn, because it is a sophisticated deal.”
O’Reilly, the influential right-wing host of “The O’Reilly Factor,” first entered urban America’s consciousness several years ago when (some say) he hypocritically blasted Pepsi for using rapper Ludacris as its spokesperson. O’Reilly had nothing to say when Pepsi dropped Ludacris and then hired the Osbournes. Ozzy Osbourne was known as a wife beating, devil-worshipping, drug-taking, vulgar stage performer.
Palin was routinely harpooned nationally as a dim-witted ditz who had very little acquaintence with national and international affairs when she was chosen as the Republican vice presidential running mate in 2008. Palin is a frequent guest on “O’Reilly,” but the main star says he would never consider running for office for several reasons.
“You get into this game now, they’re gonna tear you to pieces on both sides. Do you have the stomach for it? You wanna put your family through that? That’s what scares them away. The press is so vicious now with a capital ‘V,’ ” he told GMA host George Stephanopoulos. Beside, O’Reilly adds, “I have more power doing what I’m doing than getting involved with the political process. Plus you have to kiss butt to get money.” –terry shropshire
