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Eric Bolling |
| On The O'Reilly Factor...
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| All content taken from The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. Each weeknight by 6 PM EST a preview of that evening's show will be posted and then updated with additional information the following weekday by noon EST.
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| Eric began Friday's show with the fiery hearings on Capitol Hill, where members of Congress grilled IRS Commissioner John Koskinen over the mysteriously missing emails sent by former IRS official Lois Lerner. Democratic strategist Steve Leser accused Republicans of engaging in a witch hunt. "This is a trumped-up scandal," he declared. "The question is whether conservative groups were unfairly targeted, and they weren't. We have analyses showing that liberal and conservative groups were denied tax exempt status at the same rate. In all of these scandals the Republicans are trying to monger on the American people, they stop short of actually trying to find out what the truth is. They know that at the bottom of it there is no scandal." Leser also dismissed the notion that the missing emails are evidence of a cover-up. "I spent nearly 20 years in IT and you'd be surprised how many instances like this you see in the public and private sector. Prior to 2013 the IRS had an antiquated tape backup system and every six months old data was deleted." But Eric wasn't buying what Leser was selling, saying, "They think the American people are fools and that we're going to believe everything that they're shoveling our way." |
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| Eric asked former Navy aviator and military analyst Captain Chuck Nash whether U.S. troops should be dispatched to quell the bloody fighting in Iraq. "Absolutely not," Nash asserted. "For that to happen the president would have to have the confidence of the American people and his polls are the lowest ever. Also, the enemies would have to fear that we would actually go in to win, and right now U.S. credibility abroad is at a low ebb as well. There are also military reasons not to do that right now. This is a Sunni tribal rebellion against the central government in Baghdad. Iraq is the land of broken promises and broken dreams, and this is not the time to reinsert ourselves, at least until we figure out what's going on." |
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| Tens of thousands of children have illegally crossed into the United States from Central America, creating a humanitarian crisis at the border. Eric discussed the crisis with immigration attorney Francisco Hernandez and Steven Camarota, a proponent of stricter border enforcement. "Parents are sending their kids up here for a better life," Hernandez said, "and it looks like the smugglers know our laws better than we do. The law provides that they can stay here legally, so we have created an incentive for parents to send their children here. We have to change the law and fix the hole." Camarota directly blamed President Obama for the situation. "This is being caused by Obama administration policy. Central America was a poor, chaotic place before and it is now, but word has gotten out that if you show up at the border we're not going to send you back. They are breaking the law!" Eric worried that unfettered immigration will create "a culture of crime, a culture of disease." |
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| Eric asked Geraldo Rivera for his take on the border turmoil. "There is a huge misinformation campaign being waged by coyotes and immigrant smugglers in Central America," Rivera posited, "but where is the information that they are twisting coming from? This is definitely the unintended consequence of President Obama's declaration in the run-up to the 2012 election that the children brought here by their parents at a young age would be allowed to stay. The president made very specific limitations, but what he said is being twisted by the smugglers." As for what to do with the thousands of children now in the country illegally, Rivera posed this hypothetical: "There's a 7-year-old girl who is tired and hungry and filthy. Are you going to send this child back to an uncertain life?" Eric answered without hesitation: "She's breaking the law just like her parents are breaking the law by coming here, and people who break the law should go back." |
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| Talk show host and Marine veteran Montel Williams has been denouncing the Department of Veterans Affairs and its treatment of wounded vets. He entered the No Spin Zone to opine on new reports indicating that the problems are even more widespread than had been realized. "We need a V.A. surge," he declared. "If we had a surge to send people off to die, why don't we surge to take care of them right now? There's plenty of money, this is a leadership problem." Even though V.A. boss Eric Shinseki was recently axed, Williams called for a purge of the entire department. "We chopped off the head and think thought we took care of the problem, but the chicken is still running around aimlessly. It's time to take the chicken down. There are some people who made the V.A. a career for themselves, and even made sure they could get exit pay. The V.A. people who gave themselves bonuses for a rigged system should go to jail!" Finally, Williams made a concrete recommendation for new V.A. leadership. "Ken Fisher, founder of the Fisher House Foundation, knows more about the pain that families go through than any person the president could appoint. Put him in charge right now!" |
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| A judge has ruled that 16-year-old Justina Pelletier should be returned to her parents, who engaged in a long and contentious legal battle with the state of Massachusetts. Fox News host Mike Huckabee elaborated on the story and his personal involvement. "This girl was taken to Boston Children's Hospital," he reported, "where she was admitted through the emergency room. The emergency room doctor consulted with a psychiatrist and in 30 minutes they decided that all her previous medical work was wrong, that she didn't have mitochondrial disease. They said it was all in her head and that it was in her parents' fault. They captured her from her parents, I call it a state-sponsored kidnapping, and for the next 16 months this girl was held by the state of Massachusetts. It is the most outrageous abuse of a state against parents that I have ever witnessed, which is why I got involved. We finally got a settlement that allowed her to go home, but I think this case is far from over." Eric noted that Huckabee will host an exclusive interview with Justina Pelletier and her family next Saturday, June 28th on Fox News. |
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