I rewatched the segment, and you did a credible job. I was harsh in my previous post about your appearance. I still think it was a pointless exercise and legitimizes the man you rightly characterize as a malignant force, but in comparison to the men I have seen bullied by O'Reilly, you held your own.

I would just suggest that you put your energy toward people you have a small chance of swaying.

Also, I do wish you had challenged him when he introduced you as representing the extreme far left. Reproductive rights is not a far left issue, it is quite mainstream. The people who refer to abortion as "baby killing" and gloss over the murder of a licensed doctor ministering to his patients are the extreme. Next time someone calls you the extreme far left, call them on it. I'm moderate, and you are often to the right of me.

It's absurd to have the same people who scream about government interference and regulation from guns to taxes, killing doctors in an effort to have the government control what goes on in my uterus.

"I like doing TV and I'm not bad at it."

You're not that good at it either, frankly. And I don't say that viciously, just objectively. Then you decided you were good enough to take on the kingpin of low blows and bullying. You did us all a disservice by providing him with the opportunity to pummel you.

During the 2004 election I appeared on the Larry Elder show as the Kerry supporting mother of a marine in Iraq, with the Bush supporting mother of a soldier for Bush. I was attacked from the start by Elder, and the producer held up a sign for other mom to "attack" me. After doing TV and radio with right wingers like Lars Larsen and others, I had confidence and techniques. It was the day of the election and I mopped the floor with Elder, his guest and his set-up audience. Our group of "military mom" surrogates had begged our handlers to get us on O'Reilly. We thought we could take him. We were cocky. We were undoubtedly wrong.

Because you can't. All the facts, all the information, all the prepping and all the techniques and cool in the world can't compete with him on his show. He tried to set up his rules by telling you to just answer his questions with a yes or no...the gotcha Perry Mason in court. Oh the shame of it..is your limp response in O'Reilly vision.

But..even if you try to get around him, to beat him at his own game...you can't. Ever. You should have known that he will yell shut up and even have security escort you out if you don't toe his line.

The last point is this. His audience isn't interested in what you have to say. Only in what he has to say. They tune in to hear his insanity, and to see him beat up people like you. It reinforces their own warped reality. All you did was show them that once again, some liberal bitch who thinks she knows it all got taken to the woodshed by their Big Daddy of moral fascism.

You shouldn't have done it. You admitted your motives were self-serving, and you were never going to convince his audience anyway. There was nothing to gain. Though not much to lose except your dignity...and one more reason for his followers to believe that Tiller got what he deserved.

1. They will not ratchet down the rhetoric...they are unapologetic. If anything, they will try to spin this to their base and leverage it....ie: we don't condone murder, but it's apparent that real Americans (our right wing lunatics) are very concerned and afraid. Liberals,they will say, created the climate for violence by allowing our morals to slide and our government to get out of control. The more evangelical will say that in every holy war blood was shed.

2. Napolitano should NOT have backed down. She should have clarified. Right now, everybody should be booked on a show detailing exactly WHAT the report REALLY said, and the home-grown terrorist danger (real and now proven) that it talked about. Where is the left, the sane faction talking about the fact that we cannot give right-wing extremists a free pass because conservatives and evangelicals twist the facts and make it a politically incorrect attack on them?

Just shut up and fade away. And stop trying to squeeze a few more years of relevance out of your inane observations. It is SO over that people have even stopped bothering to post thousands of outraged comments on your very unnecessary and mostly unwelcome presence.

who think it's their duty to rewrite the law.