http://www.theamericanscholar.org/archives/wi07/revolt-hofstadter.html

I believe that the typical prejudiced person and the typical pseudo-conservative dissenter are usually the same person, that the mechanisms at work in both complexes are quite the same,13 and that it is merely the expediencies and the strategy of the situation today that cause groups that once stressed racial discrimination to find other scapegoats. Both the displaced old-American type and the new ethnic elements that are so desperately eager for reassurance of their fundamental Americanism can conveniently converge upon liberals, critics, and nonconformists of various sorts, as well as Communists and suspected Communists. To proclaim themselves vigilant in the pursuit of those who are even so much as accused of "disloyalty" to the United States is a way not only of reasserting but of advertising their own loyalty — and one of the chief characteristics of American super-patriotism is its constant inner urge toward self-advertisement. One notable quality in this new wave of conformism is that its advocates are much happier to have as their objects of hatred the Anglo-Saxon, Eastern, Ivy League intellectual gentlemen than they are with such bedraggled souls as, say, the Rosenbergs. The reason, I believe, is that in the minds of the status-driven it is no special virtue to be more American than the Rosenbergs, but it is really something to be more American than Dean Acheson or John Foster Dulles — or Franklin Delano Roosevelt.14 The status aspirations of some of the ethnic groups are actually higher than they were twenty years ago — which suggests one reason (there are others) why, in the ideology of the authoritarian right-wing, anti-Semitism and such blatant forms of prejudice have recently been soft-pedaled. Anti-Semitism, it has been said, is the poor man’s snobbery. We Americans are always trying to raise the standard of living, and the same principle now seems to apply to standards of hating. So during the past fifteen years or so, the authoritarians have moved on from anti-Negroism and anti-Semitism to anti-Achesonianism, anti-intellectualism, anti-nonconformism, and other variants of the same idea, much in the same way as the average American, if he can manage it, will move on from a Ford to a Buick.

And more presciently

These considerations suggest that the pseudo-conservative political style, while it may already have passed the peak of its influence, is one of the long waves of twentieth-century American history and not a momentary mood. I do not share the widespread foreboding among liberals that this form of dissent will grow until it overwhelms our liberties altogether and plunges us into a totalitarian nightmare. Indeed, the idea that it is purely and simply fascist or totalitarian, as we have known these things in recent European history, is to my mind a false conception, based upon the failure to read American developments in terms of our peculiar American constellation of political realities. (It reminds me of the people who, because they found several close parallels between the NRA and Mussolini's corporate state, were once deeply troubled at the thought that the NRA was the beginning of American fascism.) However, in a populistic culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with political and moral autonomy, and in which it is possible to exploit the wildest currents of public sentiment for private purposes, it is at least conceivable that a highly organized, vocal, active and well-financed minority could create a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible.

Sorry, I didn't read the other comments, but in case someone missed it, add this to the O'Reilly file of hypocrisy, it's some commenters at O'Reilly's site joking about feeding Mexicans to crododiles.

http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/archive/072307.html

And in case anyone is interested, here's pt. 1 of a two post series I wrote about this

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/07/bill-oreilly-how-do-i-detest-thee-let.html

I also wrote this

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/07/speaking-of-oreilly.html

And of course, everyone should read this

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/07/normalizing-white-supremacy.html

That's Dave Neiwert pointing out the utter insanity of O'Reilly - a guy who has said that "s-p"s want to "break down the white, Christian, male power structure" that he and and and John McCain are a part of - lecturing anyone about spreading "hate" "no different" from KKKs or Nazis.

O'Reilly has made another comment (that I describe as "paranoid, xenophobic/nativist pseudo-fascist")

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/06/paranoid-xenophobicnativist-pseudo.html

On the other side, you have people who hate America, and they hate it because it's run primarily by white, Christian men. Let me repeat that. America is run primarily by white, Christian men, and there is a segment of our population who hates that, despises that power structure. So they, under the guise of being compassionate, want to flood the country with foreign nationals, unlimited, unlimited, to change the complexion -- pardon the pun -- of America. Now, that's hatred, too.

Now notice that O'Reilly usually frames the so-called culture war in terms of "secular-progressives" (e.g. New York Times) trying to tear down "traditional" America. I tend to think that s-p/traditional was something O'Reilly came up with for marketing purposes, but I begin to wonder if it has something more to it than that ... perhaps O'Reilly is creating a cognitive model that allows him to blind himself to the inherent prejudice of his beliefs.

Remember that Ben Shapiro article that is probably one of the most un-American things you've ever read that is supposed to be part of the non-"unhinged" political mainstream in which he suggests prosecuting war critics for treason and also suggests that the reason we won WWII is because we put Japanese Americans in concentration camps?

It was Michelle Malkin that brought that article to my attention in the first place.

http://michellemalkin.com/2006/02/15/the-seditious-al-gore/