Bill O’Reilly Asks ‘Who Is Running Sandra Fluke?’… It ‘All Goes Back To White House’
by Alex Alvarez | 9:07 pm, March 8th, 2012
“Who,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly asked on his program Thursday night, “is running Sandra Fluke?” He explained to viewers that The Factor believes that the controversy surrounding the activist and Georgetown law student has been manufactured in a calculated move to help the Obama administration.
The Factor is having some trouble, O’Reilly explained, tracking down who it is, exactly, that has been setting up Fluke’s media appearances. Just last week, he shared, his show called Fluke on her cell phone, inviting her onto the show. She has yet to call them back. “Very unusual,” said O’Reilly. “There was no other public contact for the woman, just her cellphone.” All the show has been able to gather so far, he continued, is that a man named “Mike” has booked her onto a few programs, but it has not been able to find out his last name or obtain his contact information.
“Why the subterfuge?” O’Reilly asked.
It turns out that Fluke is now being represented by a “progressive PR agency” named SKDKnickerbocker, where none other than Anita Dunn happens to be managing editor.
“Ah-HA!” O’Reilly announced. “So this whole deal comes back to the White House, at least indirectly.”
The host gave a brief synopsis of how Fluke ended up on our national radar, calling the controversy she has been linked to “completely bogus” because of the existence of Title X, which allows those who want to purchase birth control to do so for a mere 9 bucks per months at your local drugstore. (Nine dollars?! That’s cheaper than a sandwich in Manhattan.)
O’Reilly brought on radio host Laura Ingraham to weigh in further. Ingraham was surprised that Fluke, as a law student, is able to find the time to “jet around the United States” and talk about contraception.
“She doesn’t have enough money to buy the pill at nine dollars a month,” said O’Reilly (Again: Nine dollars? Is it really nine dollars?) “But she has enough money to fly coast to coast and all that.”
He summed up his theory on what is actually going on with Fluke:
There is no doubt in my mind, in my investigator’s mind that this woman, from the very beginning, was what they call “run” by very powerful people. It’s not an accident that Elijah Cummings, Nancy Pelosi, all these people, got her and put her in a position to get national exposure.Check it out, from Fox News:
But now we see, alright, that Anita Dunn and her firm have embraced her. Now, she appeared on NBC 1, 2, 3, 4 times, CBS once, CNN once — no, five for NBC — and The View also. And each of these times, alright, there was a shadowy booking process. Because I spoke to some of these people. [...] She appears, she shows up. Somebody pays for all of that.
So I’m going to say — and I can’t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, I think I will be able to — that this was run out of the White House. The White House ran this.
Bill O’Reilly Talks Viagra, Gas Prices And Mitt Romney’s Hair On The View
by Sarah Devlin | 1:52 pm, March 8th, 2012
Bill O’Reilly was one of the featured guests on The View this morning , and they rolled out the red carpet for him (i.e. he got to sit on the couch rather than join them at the table. The hosts wasted no time asking him his opinion on the Rush Limbaugh debacle, which he characterized as “inappropriate.” He went on to say that Rush’s remarks obscured the bigger issue, which is the “entitlement state versus Ms. Fluck’s [sic] opinion” on birth control.
When Joy Behar challenged him on insurance coverage of Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs, he shot back that the Center for Disease Control categorizes various conditions as “medical,” and ED is one of them, while contraception is not. When Behar followed up with a question about whether or not he considered vasectomies contraception, he deflected with “I don’t consider anything anything!” and deferred to the CDC once again.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck switched gears for a moment to ask him about the current Republican primary race. He blamed Barack Obama for high gas prices and speculated that they would play a role in the general election, and when Joy said, “Americans know that gas prices have nothing to do with Obama,” to applause from the audience, O’Reilly countered with “I don’t know that!” and argued that it was Obama’s job to solve speculation that is driving up oil prices, which was also punctuated by loud applause.
Man, that is one confused studio audience!
You can see the clip here, via ABC:
O’Reilly Investigates Sandra Fluke’s Ties to WH, Charges That Obama Admin Made Up Controversy to Divert Attention From Birth Control Uproar
Thursday night on The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly delved deeper into his investigation of the Sandra Fluke controversy. In the Talking Points Memo, he stated that The Factor “believes that the Sandra Fluke contraception controversy was manufactured to divert attention away from the Obama administration’s disastrous decision to force Catholic non-profit organizations to provide insurance coverage for birth control and the morning after pill.”
He described The Factor’s attempts to reach out to Fluke and the difficulty the show has had in tracking down Fluke’s representatives. Well, O’Reilly reports that late Thursday, The Factor “found out that Ms. Fluke is now being repped by the progressive PR agency SKD
Knickerbocker where Anita Dunn, the former Obama communications director, is the managing editor,” tying the Georgetown Law student back to the White House, at least indirectly.
O’Reilly stated, “So, it seems there is a powerful presence behind Sandra Fluke. And as the polls show, the controversy has benefited the President of the United States, who is on the ropes with the church deal.”
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