Off the Editor’s Desk – 4-26-2017

 They silenced Bill O’Reilly, is our Free Speech right in jeopardy? 

The star host of “The O’Reilly Factor”, Bill O’Reilly was ousted from the Fox News Channel as the result of a left-wing effort of character assassination in an attempt to silence conservatives right to free speech. 

There are persons among us that cannot stand anyone, who has an opinion, especially a political opinion, which is different than theirs. 

I watched the O’Reilly show on Fox and when he had visitors discussing a matter on his show, he always had someone from both sides of the issue to give their view on the matter. He was accused of making inappropriate sexual comments and companies that supported the show were pressured into removing their advertising from the O’Reilly show. 

“Bill O’Reilly was just murdered in cold blood by the liberal media,” bestselling author David Horowitz said. 

There is also a push, especially coming from our institutions of higher learning, to stop conservatives from being heard and to put forth only the liberal point of view onto the American public. You will be told that the constitution is an outdated document. They will go to every path that they can to stop anyone who may have an opinion that does not support their liberal way of thinking. 

Horowitz says it’s simple: O’Reilly was the most powerful voice in cable television and he treated Trump fairly and criticized the dishonesty of the anti-Trump media. 

“Even before he took office, the press, working with Barack Obama’s most loyal aides, decided they were going to do whatever it would take to stop President Trump, and sabotage his administration,” Horowitz concluded. 

A key part of the plan, he says, has been to “take out” Trump allies in the media and conservative circles. 

O’Reilly got canned, but William Jefferson Clinton lied to the American people. “I did not have sex with that woman.” That was completely overlooked. We have a double standard in this country. 

So now we lost a great commentator and a voice that we could trust and it bothers me that it could happen to all of the citizens of this country, that the government will control what we are allowed to say and think. 

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.” 

I will miss O’Reilly on TV, I have learned that he will receive some $25 million in severance. 

Thanks for reading! ~Carlton