{"id":248,"date":"2009-07-29T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2009-07-29T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T17:36:16","slug":"dear-god-bill-oreilly-does-not-understand-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Dear god&#8230; Bill O&#8217;Reilly does not understand maths&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the most influential men in the media in America. Worried yet?<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg?flv=http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/07\/27\/fnc-20090727-canada.flv\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mediaplayer316.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>10 times as many people, 10 times as many accidents, 10 times as large a tax base.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907270052\">Media Matters<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/07\/28\/bill-oreilly-higher-canad_n_246261.html\">The Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the most influential men in the media in America. Worried yet? 10 times as many people, 10 times as many accidents, 10 times as large a tax base. Media Matters, via The Huffington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bill-oreilly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAkBY-40","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=188","url_meta":{"origin":248,"position":0},"title":"So how far will a company piss off its own users to lock out another company?","author":"MattWPBS","date":"July 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"VS Interesting things going on in the world of phones, MP3 players and MP3 sales. 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