O'reilly mentioned at least two times last night that the full interview was online to be viewed. He did nothing underhanded or as petty as having a contest.

Plus, he did ask joanie three times about the rights of late term fetuses and she passed on the opportunity to speak clearly. Cowardice.

I notice that last night she was back on chris the protector matthews show and he even told her that she had a forum there to speak her bile. Which she did.

She looked a lot more comfortable there knowing she wouldn't be challenged.

Dear Broadsheet,

Please, please, PLEASE-- for the love of whatever god(desses)you worship-- never let up on this neo-fascist clown.

I'm not asking this out of any sense of moral outrage, or liberal sensibilities, or even a need for civilty in public discourse. Rather, there is a compelling need for the sort of squirmy entertainment that's only possible when O'Reilly is called out, or confronted by the truth.

What we have here is a thin-skinned, paranoid narcissist with a side of megalomania. The sort of reasonable, calm yet determined effort demonstrated by Ms. Walsh is the best possible way to deal with him.

Dreams are what drives us in our quest for justice; mine is having Al Franken sitting in O'Reilly's guest chair.

I haven't seen O'Reilly's spinning makeover, but I'll bet it omits his "Stop talking!" order. More than any other footage, that shows how shaken he was.

As for Joan, I am reminded of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Just as the energetic valley girl was born to battle and terminate vampires, Joan is cut out for tussling with the likes of Bill O'Reilly.

Her secret is equilibrium, plus extensive knowledge of the subject at hand.

I wouldn't urge many others to face O'Reilly on his home turf, but Joan should be licensed for the job. Rep. Charles Rangel also has been known to survive there.

Look, I know you're Salon's only paid employee, but your guilt at being the only person making money at this enterprise should not be dealt with by going under O'Reilly's lash.

I always thought it was rich men who went to dominatrices to have the crap beat out of them, due to them tying their guilt for their useless, loveless lives to sex. I didn't think any women did that. Looks like I was wrong.

For the record, you will never argue O'Reilly out of his right-wing ideas, any more than you could have gotten Hitler to release all those Jews unharmed from the concentration camps through soothing words. Because Democrats are much like the German Jews who went uncomplainingly into the gas chambers, and O'Reilly is the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head unit) officer with his hand on the gas valve, grinning.

If you want to do something to affect O'Reilly, have him followed and see what he's doing wrong. All those right-wingers have something hypocritical in their lives; homosexuality while they decry gays and lesbians, pedophilia while they proclaim protection for the family, things like that. Catch him. Get the evidence. Destroy him with something more than a hunk of falafal.

Joan's losing strategy - engage yourself in a debate about something you don't know anything about and don't bother the study the facts about the case beforehand. Ms Walsh exposed her incompetence by admitting she neglected to read the Kansas documents regarding Tiller. O'Rielly did not speak against late term abortions, he accepted the need in certain instances. He objected to how Dr Tiller sidestepped the intent of the Kansas law and performed thousands of abortions on viable fetuses for trivial reasons. Ms Walsh was there to defend her attacks of Mr O'Rielly linking him to responsibilty for Dr Tiller's murder. When she admitted she didn't know the facts of these cases that Mr O'Rielly had spoke against for many years she made a total fool of herself. I'm sure she's still locked up somewhere in shame.

He asked Joan several times if a viable fetus deserved any rights or protection of law. She bumbled and stumbled. The Kansas law was written to protect a viable late term life ,it was challenged and upheld in a Supreme Court decision. The law acknowleges the rights of late term viable fetuses and only in extreme cases allows a viable fetus to be aborted most of which involved a threat to the life of the mother. Missing a prom or having to give up sports was not the intent of this law but Dr Tiller perverted this law and performed thousands of abortions for trivial reasons like this. Bill O'Rielly had every right to speak out against such acts. The fact that Dr Tiller was one of but a few Drs that would perform late term abortions is no credible reason to give Dr Tiller a pass on his many horrible acts done for profit. A wrong is a wrong and if the left and people like Joan had bothered to become informed before spewing vile accusations and helped to stop Dr Tiller's horrible acts he might still be around to perform the few late term abortions that are truly nessescary to protect the mother's life. Ms Walsh has alot more blood on her hands than O'Rielly and I hope she takes time to reconsider her actions and baseless hurtful statements she made.

I admire Joan Walsh for going on the show. And in fact she mentioned in her own article that the show was aired pretty much as it was filmed. Other letter-writers pointed out that she she made effective points and, no matter his agressive tone, won the debate intellectually. Sure O'Reilly is a jerk, and he bombards guests with questions phrased in such a way as to skewer them, not to understand or engage in a dialogue. I don't respect the man, but I think Walsh's own column dealt with the exchange appropriately. This re-mix contest is too kindergarten for words.

What are you basing your comments on? Specifically about the reasons these women obtained late term abortions? Because the only way you could defend your statements would be to present medical records of the women who obtained these abortions at Tiller’s clinic. Since those records are protected by the laws of this country and there is no way for you to know the medical reasoning behind these cases I will assume you are basing your comments on bullsh*t you heard on the tv, radio or read on-line.

A Topeka, Kansas court of law unanimously acquitted Tiller (Mar ’09) of 19 misdemeanor charges which were brought against him after 6 years of legal wrangling over medical records. Tiller followed the letter of the law.

I remember seeing a Bill O’Reilly clip with him ranting there is a ‘special place in Hell’ for Tiller...I cannot say it any better than he did, ‘there is a special place in Hell for Bill O’Reilly’.