Bill O’Reilly called out The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and CNN over some of their coverage of the Ft. Hood massacre — which, in O’Reilly’s view, blamed the wars instead of the killer, Nidal Malik Hasan, for the rampage. “The guy is either a Muslim terrorist or a crazy person. That’s it. Those are the choices,” said O’Reilly of Hasan.
“We did 5 million viewers at 8 O’Clock, wiped out CNN and MSNBC, wiped them off the face of the earth. The guard has changed in this country. The media guard has changed. And you know why people came in here, because they knew they were going to get an honest story. They weren’t going to get spin that Hasan is some kind of post-traumatic syndrome victim. Some kind of victim of a terrible public policy gone awry. They’re not going to get that….. I almost said a bad word. They’re not going to get that garbage here.”
O’Reilly’s guest Bernie Goldberg also gave a new name to the mainstream media: