{"id":1200,"date":"2004-07-28T05:02:53","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-07-28T05:02:53","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T12:02:53","slug":"demagogues-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/28\/demagogues-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Demagogues Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone hates at least one of them, and this is why: <a href=http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,127236,00.html>Michael Moore vs. Bill O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>. (Be sure to read the conditions Moore stipulated for the interview at the beginning of the article \u2013 i.e., that it oughta be an honest record of what took place.) My favorite excerpt:<\/p>\n<ul>MOORE: So you would sacrifice your child to secure Fallujah? I want to hear you say that.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: I would sacrifice myself\u2014<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: Your child\u2014It&#8217;s Bush sending the children there.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: I would sacrifice myself.<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: You and I don\u2019t go to war, because we\u2019re too old\u2014<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: Because if we back down, there will be more deaths and you know it.<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: Say \u2018I Bill O\u2019Reilly would sacrifice my child to secure Fallujah\u2019<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: I\u2019m not going to say what you say, you\u2019re a, that\u2019s ridiculous<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: You don\u2019t believe that. Why should Bush sacrifice the children of people across America for this? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: Right, I would not sacrifice my child to secure Fallujah and you would?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: I would sacrifice myself.<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: You wouldn\u2019t send another child, another parents child to Fallujah, would you? You would sacrifice your life to secure Fallujah?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: I would.<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: Can we sign him up? Can we sign him up right now?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>MOORE: Where\u2019s the recruiter?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: You\u2019d love to get rid of me.<\/ul>\n<p>The tough guy goes out with a whimper. The look on O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s face during the parts above is priceless. Watch the video (link at top of article).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone hates at least one of them, and this is why: Michael Moore vs. Bill O&#8217;Reilly. (Be sure to read the conditions Moore stipulated for the interview at the beginning of the article \u2013 i.e., that it oughta be an honest record of what took place.) My favorite excerpt: MOORE: So you would sacrifice your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}