-By Warner Todd Huston
The cultural elites were shocked during this month’s Kennedy Center Honor awards when out onto the stage walked none other than Fox News star Bill O’Reilly who was asked to honor Jazz great Herbie Hancock. Even more amusing, right there on stage O’Reilly later shook hands with rapper Snoop Dogg.
O’Reilly takes to podium to everyone’s surprise.
When O’Reilly strode out onto the stage to take the podium to honor Hancock, his first words directly and humorously addressed the shock that many in the audience was experiencing.
“I know, I’m surprised too,” he quipped sending the crowd into gales of laughter. Well, everyone but Barack Obama who gave a slight smile but didn’t seem all that amused. I guess Obama’s hate can’t be tamed by mere humor.
Herbie Hancock (3rd from left) loves it… the President not so much.
The Fox News star gave a fine, heart-felt tribute to jazzman Hancock to everyone’s enjoyment.
At the end of the Hancock segment, O’Reilly even reached out and shook rap star Snoop Dogg’s hand. The Fox Newser has often used Snoop Dogg as a butt of cultural jokes on his show.
O’Reilly reaches over and… gasp!
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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