Dick Cheney is what is wrong with the Republican Party. Not only Cheney, but a host of other ideologues believe that they are entitled to decide what government is. What law is. What the future direction of the nation is.

This is a sort of Ayn Rand novel gone off the tracks where the hero gets the girl, the money and the power, but makes everyone else conform while claiming to believe in nonconformity.

It is obvious that Cheney is a sociopath who is so blatantly criminal that he almost seems rational, even modest. Along with people like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove and almost all of the American Enterprise gang a generation of so-called conservatives have learned that lying, murder, theft and torture are okay because the means justify their ends.

The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower is gone forever, and we were warned a half-century ago.

I find it amazing that some writers posting on this thread are saying that this other country is worse then the US, or what about this and that? America will never be whole until there is a special prosecutor or a truth commission appointed to look into our torture policy and hundreds of other questions about the eight year reign of terror that is Bush/Cheney.

If people in the Bush administration are guilty of crimes they must be held accountable. The only way to find out is to investigate. Saying that so and so has a horrible human rights record is not going to change what we did here. We need the truth so that healing may begin and let the chips fall where they may.

Bill O'Reilly never really means anything. He is an entertainer. He has to keep his ratings up to justify his outrageous income. I am quite certain that he has never held an ideal about religion, country, or world. He’s all about himself. And now an accessory to murder. O’Reilly has blood on his hands.

Rightwing hate-radio and television is doubly disgusting because people like Rush and the rest, Fox and Murdoch don’t really believe what they’re saying. They do it for the money of the really insane who support them. They are responsible for what they say. This is the perfect reason to bring back a new and updated Fairness Doctrine.

This is a perfect example of the reason that the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated with a lot of sharp teeth in it. For an entertainer like O’Reilly to shout down an opponent that he has *invited* to be on his *show* is worse than ill-bread. Joan Walsh was set up.

It’s weird that O’Reilly would take the high ground on any moral issue at all considering that the whole country knows he’s a perverted and disgusting mess who is also a sexual predator.

I watched the clip and I must say I’ve never seen anything so disreputable. This is a perfect example of how low the country has sunk that we tolerate this kind of behavior on our airwaves. What message do young people take away after viewing this despicable sideshow?

Ms. Walsh should have seen the handwriting on the wall, taken off the mic and walked out on this poor excuse for a human being.

Frank Rich wrote a piece in the NY Times on Sunday titled *The Obama Haters’ Silent Enablers* in which he takes the Fox network to task. (June 13, 2009) As outraged as I was after viewing the video of how O’Reilly attacked Joan Walsh, I pulled myself together, spit out the really horrible things I was thinking and wrote a comment. It received over 1500 reader recommendations. This is a part of it:

I already feel as if this *rage* has spiraled out of control, and I can’t blame Bill O’Reilly, he’s a fool. I have to blame Rupert Murdoch who pays him millions to deliver the message of hate that makes Murdoch so much money. Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. is a major American problem. This problem could modified by reinstituting a new Fairness Doctrine. Media must be held responsible for news content.

I watched a video of Bill O’Reilly savaging Joan Walsh of Salon.com this afternoon…[t]he subject (I guess, hard to tell) was late-term abortion. O’Reilly screamed and yelled like a mad person. Joan Walsh was set-up, in my opinion. The whole episode was appalling. I wondered what a teen would think after seeing this on television. Is it okay to scream and yell at someone you disagree with, even threaten them, and even make it excusable to have them murdered?

Hiking on the Appalachian Trail takes on new meaning! What about family values, huh, Gov? God’s law? Does he mean the ten commandants or the part about go forth and multiply? This is really funny. After all the time he spent trying to obstruct the president and laying the groundwork for a national campaign he blows it on a bit of nooky. What a wuss. Do they put something in the GOP’s drinking water? Like Spanish fly?

Save your constituents a lot of grief, Gov, and resign without a fuss. You can always get work at a conservative think tank. LMAO!