Bill O’Reilly is the Ted Baxter of television news. He is a moron, a hate-filled arrogant prick who seems to think that he knows all and sees all and can therefore render judgement on everyone. He obviously hated Dr. Tiller, calling him horrible things like Tiller the Baby Killer, and mentioning how there should be a special place in Hell for people like him after he was acquitted by the Kansas courts.
After the horrific and terrible assasination of Dr. Tiller by a domestic terrorist while the doctor was attending church services, everyone seems to think that its the people who didn’t like him publicly that are at fault. I don’t get that at all. If you become responsibly for someone’s death simply because you railed against them in public, then all the media outlets and commentators that say that Bill O’Reilly is just as much a murderer as the man who assasinated Dr. Tiller, should have been paranoid during the eight years that George Bush was in office as President.
They linked him to Hitler, fascists, called him a war criminal, a destroyer of the constitution. I agree with most of those caricatures. He did a pretty good job of destroying American Democracy, and I told peope I thought he was evil incarnate and should be removed from office. But does that mean if some psycho went and killed the President, would I be just as culpable for the murder by inciting and driving someone to kill him? No!
If that was true no one could say anything nasty about anyone. Michael Moore and Keith Olberman would not be able to do what they do because if someone assasinated Karl Rove or Dick Cheney or Bill O’Reilly according to their logic they would be responsible. O’Loofah may be a jackass and a retard, but he never once said that Tiller should be murdered. He wanted him prosecuted and his license to practice medicine revoked for being a late term abortion provider, but he never on his show hoped or asked for someone to shoot him.
I’ll be the first to say that I would dance for joy when Fox News and its reporters are off the air, but you can’t use faulty logic to fight them and their hate. We are supposed to be better than them and by labeling their speech as criminal when it is really not just lends them credence and gives them support to continue being inciting and to continue lying.
