Mikey Weinstein vs Bill O’Reilly on Combat
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein made a fairly effective effort to focus the debacle of his “interview” with Bill O’Reilly last week on an O’Reilly quote near the end of the piece. After O’Reilly called the removal of the Nativity at Guantanamo a “cowardly” decision and questioned why Weinstein’s anonymous “clients” didn’t have the “cajones” to come on The O’Reilly Factor, Weinstein pushed back with “at least [my clients] joined the military…” In response, O’Reilly said
“I covered four wars with a pen…so don’t impugn my courage ever again.”
That retort can justifiably be criticized — but can Weinstein criticize it? O’Reilly was apparently referring to being a correspondent and experiencing a couple of “firefights.” According to his own admissions, the closest Weinstein came to combat was giving a briefing on the breakup of AT&T. While Weinstein did serve in the Air Force, he spent nearly half his uniformed career as a student.
O’Reilly looked foolish trying to buttress his combat cred with his “pen.” But Weinstein is throwing stones pretty confidently for someone who lives in a glass house.
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It must be remembered that despite the fact that Mikey Weinstein did not serve in combat that as member of the armed forces he was subject to being placed in combat at any time. If Mikey wanted to avoid combat he would have remained a civilian like O’Reilly.
@Richard
Perhaps “it must be remembered,” but it changes nothing above.