{"id":20440,"date":"2015-04-18T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T02:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20440"},"modified":"2015-04-18T22:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T02:46:53","slug":"sen-sanders-on-the-oreilly-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/18\/sen-sanders-on-the-oreilly-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Sanders on The O&#8217;Reilly Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politicus USA<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2015\/04\/17\/bernie-sanders-rolls-demonstrating-knock-fox-news.html\" title=\"Politicus USA article\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders Rolls While Demonstrating How To Knock Down Faux Noise<\/a>. [I have corrected some spelling errors in their headline. I noticed the same spelling error in the video]\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat really stuck out was Sanders\u2019s ability to shift O\u2019Reilly and the interview anywhere he wanted it to go. It is rare that a guest on O\u2019Reilly show is more aggressive than the host, but the senator from Vermont was aggressive without being combative. The segment never turned into a scream fest. In fact, Sanders handled Bill O\u2019Reilly fairly easily by keeping the tone civil and not falling for the loaded questions that the Fox News host was [&#8230;] trying to lead him with.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/trbcE60JELk?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the closest I have seen anyone come to taming Bill O&#8217;Reilly.  There may be others, but I only watch the show through occasional clips like this one.  <\/p>\n<p>I have been waiting for decades to find a progressive person who can handle the media this well. Frequently, Mario Cuomo could do it. Of course Bill Clinton could do it, but he was hardly progressive. <\/p>\n<p>If Sanders can do this well against that O\u2019Reilly blowhard, it gives me hope that Sanders could actually run, win, and lead this nation into a new era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicus USA has the article Bernie Sanders Rolls While Demonstrating How To Knock Down Faux Noise. [I have corrected some spelling errors in their headline. I noticed the same spelling error in the video] What really stuck out was Sanders\u2019s ability to shift O\u2019Reilly and the interview anywhere he wanted it to go. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20446,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions\/20446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}