Opinion: Rosa Brooks, George Soros and the L.A. Times: 3 degrees of O’Reilly pin-headedness
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So The Times’ own Rosa Brooks appears on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC talk show last Friday to defend Barack Obama in light of the senator’s affiliation with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Bill O’Reilly slams ... George Soros? I’m not digging in for Obama here, and Lord knows I don’t agree with everything Brooks pens in our own pages, but hitting Soros for a few off-the-cuff remarks by Brooks seems like a desperate attempt by O’Reilly to pick a fight for the sake of, well, picking a fight. From O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo segment that aired March 17 on Fox News:
On the pinhead front, radical-left billionaire George Soros has a bunch of mouthpieces placed in the media, and one of them, Rosa Brooks, writes for the Los Angeles Times. Here’s what our Ms. Brooks said about the Obama controversy. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ROSA BROOKS, LOS ANGELES TIMES: He was probably sitting at church and not listening. I hate to tell you people this, but I have heard of people who go to church and don’t listen. (END VIDEO CLIP) They weren’t listening. Pinhead. Unbelievable. Soros, of course, wants Obama elected.
To read about O’Reilly’s tangled history with these Opinion L.A. interwebs — and how he helped launch Brooks’ gig as a columnist — click here, here and here. Read about Times Senior Editorial Writer Michael McGough’s adventure in O’Reilly pinhead-dom here.