Fox host Bill O’Reilly was out of patience with President Obama on Tuesday night, declaring that the United States must face up to its “holy war” with the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria.
“The holy war is here, and unfortunately it seems the President of the United States will be the last one to acknowledge it,” the host of “The O’Reilly Factor” said.
On a chyron displaying the words “The Holy War Begins,” the Fox host declared that “no one is safe” so long as ISIL operates the Middle East, adding that is Obama living in a “fictional” world.
O’Reilly said that Obama’s handling of ISIL “may define his entire presidency” if the para-state continued its expansion, and he knocked the President for negotiating with the Iranians and advocating for human rights and economic development in the Muslim world.
“We simply cannot do those things, and to waste time throwing them out as possible solutions to dismantling the jihad is insulting and dangerous to the American people,” the host concluded.
Watch the clip, courtesy of Fox News:
Of course, had President Obama declared this to be a “Holy War”, the likes of Bill O’Reilly would be loudly criticizing him for it.
Of course he did. Every other way they’ve promised that Obama was going to destroy the world has been proven to be a non-issue, so they have to keep coming up with new ways he’s going to screw up the world. Hey, I know everything else we warned you about was bullshit, but this time we’re serious. Trust us!
There’s no winning the battle of semantics with The Right. If Obama uses the phrase “Holy War” the goalposts will get moved and he’ll be pilloried for failing to employ “Crusades”. I suppose so long as TRW. Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics and the rest of the defense contractors get more pie it doesn’t matter.
And here I was using their desire for a “Holy War” all this time as a somewhat hyperbolic accusation and insult towards them…but NOOOOOOOO…they have to go and get literal on it. I’m guessing the only thing they want more is their prophesied “Race War.”
Need some clarity Bill. You are proclaiming “The holy war is here” - so specifically - but without parsing words / dancing with nuances, tell us the sides - since “Holly” would mean “religious” - what is it ? All Christians against all Muslims? All religions against all Muslims? or are you going to get into identifying ‘good’ Muslims and ‘bad’ Muslims - kind of gets messy … Gosh Bill, kind of makes you look like an idiot when you try to simplify it down to basically ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’