An Election, Bill O'Reilly, and Law Enforcement: Today's News for April 19th

As predicted yesterday:

Fox News:

Georgia congressional race: Democrat Ossoff, Republican Handel will go to run-off

A special election in Georgia’s Sixth congressional district failed to produce an outright winner Tuesday, forcing a June 20 runoff between upstart Democrat Jon Ossoff and former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel.

With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, Ossoff had garnered 48 percent of the vote, falling just short of the majority threshold required in the so-called “jungle primary.” Handel was the top GOP vote-getter at 20 percent, finishing comfortably ahead of technology executive Bob Gray, who received 11 percent of the vote, and former State Senators Judson Hill and Dan Moody, who received 9 percent of the vote respectively.

Don't be surprised if Handel wins the run-off election.

In other news about Fox News...

CNN:

Source: Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are talking exit

Fox News will no longer even respond to questions about whether Bill O'Reilly will return to his show.

A well-placed source said Tuesday afternoon that representatives for Fox and O'Reilly have begun talking about an exit. But this prompted a denial from sources in O'Reilly's camp.

Even one person close to O'Reilly, however, said he will probably not be back on "The O'Reilly Factor."

The original well-placed source said an announcement about O'Reilly's fate was likely by the end of the week.

...All of this is a reaction to a New York Times story about the settlement payments that O'Reilly, Fox and 21st Century Fox paid to women who accused O'Reilly of sexual harassment and verbal abuse.

Last week 21st Century Fox confirmed that an outside law firm was investigating allegations against O'Reilly.

For what it is worth, and this is just my opinion, for decades, I have viewed O'Reilly as more of a showman and not any kind of real conservative commentator. O'Reilly would support shooting his mother if it would get him viewers. Even when I watched tv (I dumped my satellite service 4 years ago this month), I would rather watch the History Channel than Bill O'Reilly.

Basically, I consider the loss of Bill O'Reilly from the airwaves as a plus for the public political discourse, and that is long before any kind of consideration for whether he is a sexual harasser.

In other news...

Politico:

Kelly to Homeland Security critics: Change the law or 'shut up'

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly offered a sharp rebuttal to critics of his department on Tuesday, challenging lawmakers who dislike its approach to immigration enforcement to change the law or “shut up.”

Employees at the Department of Homeland Security, he told an audience at George Washington University, “are often ridiculed and insulted by public officials and frequently convicted in the court of public opinion on unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and street spokespersons.”
  
“If lawmakers do not like the laws that we enforce, that we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and the skill to change those laws,” Kelly said. “Otherwise, they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines.”

Amen brother.

Seriously, demanding law enforcement to NOT enforce the laws is a recipe for anarchy. Certainly, unjust laws should be challenged by peaceful resistance, but that is not the role of the policing authorities. If a policeman thinks a law is morally unjust, then they have no business being a policeman.