O'Reilly profiteering from heroes

Bill O’Reilly, Monday and Tuesday nights, used the death of an American hero to boost his ratings. He also used the death to mock his competition, on the air. Tuesday, he was referring to his report the night before about the posthumous honor given to Navy Seal Lieutenant Michael Murphy. He said that CNN and MSNBC did not report on the award in prime time. He said that is because they do not want to report anything positive about the Bush administration and the war on terror. How on earth does reporting on the death of a hero who is put into a situation where his elite unit is pinned down by tribal fighters in a remote province of Afghanistan, three years after the fall of Kabul, support the Bush administration and the troops? Yes he was a hero. But that mission and the entire campaign in Afghanistan are miserable failures. O’Reilly is blind to the fact that his reports, including Tuesday’s talking points, firstly are profiteering from the death of this great hero and secondly they are putting the military and the Bush administration’s execution of the war on terror in a very negative light.
O’Reilly said, on the air, that CNN and MSNBC’s ratings have fallen because they do not report such things. He is clearly using such stories to boost ratings. He said it himself. Again, Shame on Bill O’Reilly, his producers, John Moody and Roger Ailes. Whether the story should be reported is not the issue. The reason they report it, as pointed out by O’Reilly, for profit, is reprehensible.