Bill O’Reilly Needs An Editor November 3, 2024November 2, 2024 My one-time PARADE fellow contributing editor endorsed Trump Friday: Vice President Harris looks like a nice person. Don’t know her or anyone who does. So, I can’t bring any personal perspective to her candidacy. I have known Donald Trump for more than 30 years. That’s both good and bad. I tend to overlook many of his controversial statements because I understand much of that is attention-getting theatre. I am solely focused on how he governed and what I believe he’ll do going forward. The rhetoric, to me, is a silly sideshow. Maybe I’m wrong about that. Back to Kamala. Her strident belief in late-term abortion is disturbing. It’s not about a woman’s body solely – there’s another body that should be considered: the unborn but viable child. To totally dismiss that fact, as Ms. Harris does, is cruel. I’m not wrong about this. Yes, Bill; you are — as Pete Buttigieg explains so beautifully in just over a minute, here. In addition, I see a sense of entitlement from the Vice President. She obviously believes she has no obligation to answer direct questions. Based upon her time in the Senate, I see no problem-solving ability whatsoever. Trump is a deal-maker. Harris is an artful dodger. There are worse things. But I am wary. History can repeat itself. In 1920, Republican Warren Harding refused to answer questions but got elected anyway. He was a disaster in the White House. I know Kamala is not Harding, but I don’t know much else about her. If elected, the odds are she will continue the Biden debacle. That’s enough for me to pull the lever for Trump. By “the Biden debacle,” Bill presumably does not mean our economy, the “envy of the world.” Or our “astonishingly strong” Indo-Pacific and NATO alliances. Or the record number of Americans with health insurance. Or the steady decline in violent crime. Or the taming of inflation with a “soft landing” few thought possible (“US inflation may soon undershoot Fed’s 2% target“). Or our finally having begun to revitalize our crumbling infrastructure. So to what debacle, exactly, does Bill refer? The border? Biden was days away from signing a bi-partisan border bill that would have fixed that problem, but Trump killed it. That’s how brazenly he puts his own self-interest over the good of the nation. PARADE had fact checkers and editors to keep writers like Bill and me on the straight and narrow. “The Biden debacle” would never have made it into print. Meanwhile . . . Kamala makes him think of . . . Warren Harding? That’s odd, but okay. Trump makes the world think of Mussolini and Putin and the guy whose book of speeches he kept by his bedside! Hmmm. Warren Harding . . . Mussolini . . . Tough choice. Though Harding died in office widely popular while Trump left with only 34% approval. (Mussolini was executed by anti-fascists.) Bill says, “I know Kamala is not Harding, but I don’t know much else about her.” Really? Well, then, perhaps before issuing his endorsement — in an election the whole world watches with bated breath — Bill could have taken 15 minutes to read her story. And 15 more to see how her policies contrast with those of Project 2025. It’s not too late to make calls for Kamala!