(02-18-2019, 11:36 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(02-17-2019, 06:39 PM)mikesez Wrote: Coulter was known for a bit more scholarship and sense of history than a lot of her peers.  I'm glad she's jumping off the wagon.  Could have done so a lot sooner.  I hope she considers her own role in what has gone wrong and writes a book about that, or at least offers some interviews.

If you've never heard Bill O'Reilly discuss American history, particularly back when he used to be a frequent guest on NPR, you're missing out.

Yes, O'Rielly is also a scholar and a student of history.
He would write books that avoided hot political topics of the day. And they are good books.
Then he would go on his show and discuss the hot topics of the day but with events that was more angry than informed or scholarly.
Unfortunately he's lost his reputation in this sexual harassment scandal. He deserves to have lost his show, but I think the books can stand on their own.
Coulter's books were always jumping right on top of the hot political issue of the day, but trying to add some historical context to it.
In any case, both of them confuse me because they seem too smart to have fallen for Trumpism. 
Did O'Reilly endorse Trump during the primaries? Coulter did. She was too smart for that.

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