Childish Bill O’Reilly Resorts To Making Fun Of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Accent

Conservative right-wing talk show host Bill O’Reilly, arguably the face of Fox News, went on the attack against Sen. Bernie Sanders, a democrat. Anders took a little shot at Fox News after he called out the network for what it is: a propaganda machine for right wingers.

Sanders made an appearance on MSNBCwith host Rachel Maddow and made the following comments (as documented by David Neiwert on the Web site Crooks and Liars):

SANDERS: We need to do grass roots organizing. I’ll tell you what else we need to do. We need to understand that it is very, very hard for the president or anybody else to take on, not just the Republican Party – that’s the easy part – to take on all of right-wing talk radio which covers 90 percent of talk show hosts, a whole FOX Network which is nothing more than an arm of the Republican Party.

The thin-skinned and childish O’Reilly rushed to the defense of Fox News by declaring Sanders was wrong, he called Sanders a “pinhead” and made fun of the senator’s New England accent.

Most of us probably stopped doing that after the sixth grade.

Crooks and Liars:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pinhead-indeed-oreilly-doesnt-being

How Will Bill O’Reilly Address The Savage Murder Of Dr. George Tiller?

In checking out some of the stories being published regarding the murder of Dr. George Tiller, I found this blog entry from David Neiwert on the Web site Crooks and Liars:

Three years ago, O’Reilly and his ambush-crew specialist, Jesse Watters, went hard after Tiller, accusing him of wantonly murdering babies because he performs late-term abortions:

Bill summarized in a heartfelt Talking Points Memo on Friday, November 10th: “If we as a society allow an undefined mental health exception in late-term abortions, then babies can be killed for almost any reason… This is the kind of stuff that happened in Mao’s China and Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union… If we allow this, America will no longer be a noble nation… If we allow Dr. George Tiller and his acolytes to continue, we can no longer pass judgment on any behavior by anybody.”

This is the kind of hate speech, as I said in an earlier blog, that leads inspires unstable people to commit murder and other acts of violence. Even if a hate speaker does not pull the trigger … there is a level of responsibility (even if not necessarily a legal responsibility) for those people who incite others to commit acts of violence.

It will be interesting to see how Bill O’Reilly responds to this massacre of Dr. George Tiller. There is no excuse for murder.

Crooks and Liars:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/bill-oreilly-has-dr-george-tillers-b