{"id":31518,"date":"2012-11-27T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/bill-oreilly-and-the-case-of-the-destructive-demographics.html"},"modified":"2012-11-27T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:54:41","slug":"bill-oreilly-and-the-case-of-the-destructive-demographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/bill-oreilly-and-the-case-of-the-destructive-demographics.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#39;Reilly and the Case of the Destructive\u00a0Demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was from last week, but we finally watched it last night on DVR, and it&#39;s a classic, as <i>&quot;Bill O&#39;Reilly celebrates America&#39;s greatest tradition &#8212; a fevered ruling class lamenting the rise of a diverse new class that will destroy the American experiment.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Lots of (amusing) lessons in perspective here that I, a child of both Irish and Italian (with a smattering of others) immigrants try to keep in mind when evaluating the population\u00a0changes in our society.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/thedailyshow.mtvnimages.com\/images\/shows\/tds\/videos\/season_18\/18026\/ds_18026_02_v6.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-november-15-2012\/it-was-the-best-of-times--it-was-the-best-of-times'>Daily Show: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Best of Times<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBill O&#8217;Reilly reflects on the moment when 1950s sitcom America ceased to be real.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/5Wx43X3t17Q' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was from last week, but we finally watched it last night on DVR, and it&#39;s a classic, as &quot;Bill O&#39;Reilly celebrates America&#39;s greatest tradition &#8212; a fevered ruling class lamenting the rise of a diverse new class that will destroy the American experiment.&quot; Lots of (amusing) lessons in perspective here that I, a child &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/bill-oreilly-and-the-case-of-the-destructive-demographics.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill O&#39;Reilly and the Case of the Destructive\u00a0Demographics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26810,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/bill-oreilly-circles-his-wagon-around-rush.html","url_meta":{"origin":31518,"position":0},"title":"Bill O&#39;Reilly circles his wagon around Rush","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Mar-12 1:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"O'Reilly maintains that supporting contraceptive coverage for women -- married or unmarried -- is just covering their \"social life\" (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) at the expense of insurance companies (who, somehow, are equated to \"government\"). 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