COMMENTS:
* So Trump is using this tragedy for more self bravado which in the end doesn't provide any concrete solutions beyond scaring people into buying more guns to feel safer.
* Self bravado is all he has to offer as a candidate. He is a con man.
* If you were to take away trump's ego, there wouldn't be anything left.
* Nothing but a pool of orange goo and what looks like a dead, blond, weasel.
* He was actually wrong in his self-congratulations. Turns out the shooter was merely a homegrown hater with internalized homophobia and easy access to semi-automatic weapons. Pure and simple, it was a hate crime, with very little to do with radical Islamic terrorism other than a last second grasp at infamy by making a 911 call.
* This time Trump can bathe himself in the blood of 50 broken bodies while he congratulates himself on his awesome and God like insight. A f'n VAMPIRE.....
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Stephen Colbert Goads Bill O’Reilly Into Big Admission About Trump
He conceded that the presumptive GOP nominee’s Orlando response was “self-congratulatory.”
By Ron Dicker, June 14, 2016“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert and guest Bill O’Reilly covered a lot of ground Monday night in the wake of the Orlando massacre — from guns to the war on terror.
But it was an exchange on Donald Trump that provided O’Reilly’s most surprising comment. The Fox News commentator conceded that the presumptive Republican nominee patted himself on the back in his response to Omar Mateen’s assault at Pulse nightclub that left 49 dead and 53 wounded.
Hours after the shooting, Trump wrote on social media that he appreciated the congratulations for “being right on radical Islamic terrorism.”
At Colbert’s suggestion that Trump’s response was “self-congratulatory,” O’Reilly responded, “Yes, it is. He’s a politician. It shouldn’t shock you.”
Applause erupted when Colbert pointed out that it’s grandstanding.
“He wants to be president,” O’Reilly said. “He’s using this terrorism issue to bolster his popularity.”
“So he’s making a political tool out of a terror attack,” Colbert said.
Said O’Reilly: “That’s what he’s doing.”
Check out the conversation above.
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Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert's Debate About Assault Weapons Was Brilliant
The two rivals discussed Orlando, ISIS, Trump, and more.
By Matt Miller, June 14, 2016
Stephen Colbert went right in for it during the opening minutes of The Late Show on Monday night. "It's as if there's a national script that we have learned, and I think by accepting the script, we tacitly accept that the script will end the same way every time, with nothing changing, except for the loved ones and the families of the victims, for whom nothing will ever be the same."
Like many of his colleagues, Colbert took a moment to address the horrors of this past weekend. But after a few words of reflection, encouragement, and hope, most other late night hosts continued with their entertaining programming. Colbert, by coincidence, had booked right wing blowhard Bill O'Reilly on his show Monday night, and instead of discussing the current presidential election—as was likely planned—the two engaged in a tense, powerful conversation about the Orlando shooting.
Sitting down across from Colbert, O'Reilly immediately framed the mass shooting as not a tragedy, but a battle in a war against "Islamic jihadists." But Colbert countered immediately, turning the conversation away from Trump's rhetoric, and told O'Reilly that the problem "is easy access to high capacity, rapid-firing weaponry."
In response, O'Reilly cited Chicago's tough gun laws and high murder rate, adding "you cannot patrol 24/7 criminals and terrorists who have access to guns." Interestingly enough, the two found common ground during the conversation, with O'Reilly admitting that the government needs to dictate which guns should be banned in the United States, namely high-capacity rifles.
While the interview stayed tame, especially compared to O'Reilly's Late Show appearance in May, things got tense as the conversation moved toward discussing war against Islamic extremism. O'Reilly believes that declaring war would give the U.S. government the authority to have detained someone like Mateen before he committed a crime. His goal is to "annihilate the enemy." But when is this war over, Colbert asked?
"The war is over when the level of terrorism goes down, the refugees can return home, and you have a basic handle on the situation," O'Reilly said.
As we've learned, it's not that easy.
What is easy, is understanding what Trump is doing with his presidential campaign. After the shooting in Orlando, The Orange One took a self-congratulatory tone in his response, as Colbert pointed out to O'Reilly. "That's not political behavior, that's grandstanding," he said.
Surprisingly, O'Reilly agreed. And while O'Reilly didn't decry Trump's pathetic behavior, he did make the his alleged intentions clear.
"He wants to be president, and he's using this terrorism issue to bolster his popularity," O'Reilly said.
If Trump knows how to do anything, it's exploit and manipulate to his advantage, no matter the moral and ethical consequences.
And while most of O'Reilly's responses focus on reactionary warmongering, this was the most important conversation to take place on late night TV on Monday. While most political programs turn into circular shouting matches, there's a mutual respect between Colbert and O'Reilly. This conversation, while tense and frustrating, is important discourse that many people watching a late-night variety show might not be used to. It's easy to watch someone crack jokes to take your mind off the horrors in our country. It's not easy to engage in mature political conversation. We're lucky Stephen Colbert is willing to take a risk on that.
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