She said she learned of The Times’s report through a news alert on her phone. “I don’t want to say it’s the norm,” she said of her reaction, “and I don’t believe in that. Because I don’t believe all of this is acceptable behavior. But it’s just like, it doesn’t surprise me.”
Mr. O’Reilly has been her beacon for current events, guiding her through turbulent and sometimes lonesome political waters since she became a Republican around the year 2000. “Some probably think he’s a little arrogant,” she said, sitting on a couch where she has watched him so many nights that the cushion bears a comfy indent. “But I find that he stays focused on the issue at hand.”
As an example, she noted how in an early segment Wednesday evening, Mr. O’Reilly had directed a guest away from discussion of a possible connection between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, and toward his topic of choice: Whether the Obama adviser Susan Rice was, in the host’s words, “using her position with President Obama to surveil and hurt Mr. Trump.”
Ms. JaJack likes that Mr. O’Reilly has focused on the issues of illegal immigration and the attack on an American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, topics she believes other news organizations overlooked. She supplements her media diet with Politico, The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal.
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