The big news of the night is without a doubt the deadly terror attack in Nice, France, which has left 77 dead at last tally. President Obama quickly issued a statement on the attack even as TV viewers were watching him repeat his ridiculous lie about guns and books in a prerecorded gun violence town hall on ABC.
Rather than call out Obama for repeating that obvious myth he floated during a memorial service for five slain Dallas police officers, MSNBC’s Christopher Hayes noted that Donald Trump was calling in to Fox News and discussing the Nice terror attack with Bill O’Reilly — even while bodies still lay in the street in France.
Trump doing a phoner on cable news with the bodies still in the street.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 14, 2016
This is a very bad tweet https://t.co/Yk2nccGcD6
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) July 15, 2016
Who wants to tell him? https://t.co/ZfPlhLs7up
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) July 15, 2016
Wouldn’t you just know it: O’Reilly invited Hillary Clinton to call in as well, and she did. Same network, same show, same host. So, who wants to tell him?
.@chrislhayes Umm.. Hillary just called into Bill O'Reilly. Just FYI
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) July 15, 2016
Hillary, too. https://t.co/8Nzp2JOwsk
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 15, 2016
@chrislhayes Don't interrupt him, Charles. He's on a roll
— Hank the Tank (@thereallilhank) July 15, 2016
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Hillary now doing a phoner on same cable net. https://t.co/OO4vG55M8u
— Kenneth Ryan James (@kryanjames) July 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/753756899267358720
Maybe she got some more bad intel and thought the bodies and been cleared from the street, so it was OK to call.
https://twitter.com/Rschrim/status/753756795471093760
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/753756910680170496
@benshapiro @chrislhayes and the President still held his 1hr special. But Trump. Focus. Evil things happening. No pettiness.
— Christopher Laythe (@bnlfan_thunder) July 15, 2016
And Clinton just spoke with O'Reilly. Your point? https://t.co/sDCd27RABI
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 15, 2016
No point; just leaning forward a little bit too far.
So did @HillaryClinton – where's your condemnation? https://t.co/sEmLZ0d4X3
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 15, 2016
@chrislhayes What is his deal? Americans need our leaders to step up and to know we will be protected.
— Meredith (@merrsaunders) July 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/BigBob681/status/753757505675636738
Maybe next time? O’Reilly did invite her back any time.
“We need strong leadership right now. Whether you support Donald Trump or you support Hillary Clinton…” — Bill O’Reilly.
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) July 15, 2016
The dissonance took him a while to process, but Hayes eventually did criticize both candidates, blaming “the way things work now” — like tweeting something dumb and being called out on it.
I think they both should've waited, but clearly this is the way this works now. https://t.co/Y2t3ZYT93Z
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 15, 2016
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