Bill O'Reilly: 'History Will Judge The Obama Presidency As A Failure'
By Dom Giordano
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Dom Giordano talked with Bill O'Reilly about his new book Killing Patton on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.
O'Reilly, whose book suggests General George Patton was murdered in December of 1945, said, unlike typical historians, he goes straight to the source of the information.
"We try to get people who were there, who were actually sitting with The Fuhrer or were actually in the Politburo with Stalin who have either written letters or some oral history with other people. That's where we go. Instead of the standard historical research, you go to the library and look up other books, we don't do that, we do our own original research and get primary source material. That's what makes it come alive because these people were there and we see it through their eyes."
He stated Patton was essential to winning World War II and earned his status as a revered historical figure.
"I, obviously, write books about people I'm interested in. Lincoln, Kennedy, Jesus and now Patton, but Patton, what a lot of people in America don't understand now, because they don't teach history in school very much anymore, is that he single-handedly went up against the Washington establishment, FDR, Eisenhower, and Truman after FDR, and he did it his way, as Frank Sinatra sang, and by doing so, saved tens of thousands of lives, not only Americans but people in the concentration camps and other people who were under the occupation of the Nazis because he was so compelled to win."
O'Reilly also addressed President Obama's presidency and why he thinks it is a failure.
"There are two things that are driving the President and these things have caused him to fail. History will judge the Obama Presidency as a failure. It doesn't matter what he does the last two years. Number one, he is a quasi-socialist, he believes the economy should be managed by Washington. That has been a disaster. Number two, he is a committed, ardent, liberal man who believes the country is unfair to blacks and other minorities and that it is his job to help blacks and other minorities in any way he can. He puts ideology above problem solving and that is why his administration has not worked."
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