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O'Reilly's campaign against murdered doctor

The Fox News star had compared Tiller to a Nazi, called him a "baby killer," and warned of "Judgment Day"

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009 04:38 PM

terry annd orally are culpable,...

You expect and get a slimy evasion and "it's not my fault" from both randall terry and bill orally. They have incited through their speech an atmosphere of focused frenzy. The death of Dr, Tiller is therefore not an unforseen outcome. It is precisely what both sought and got, protestations not withstanding. If state law in Kansas permitted DR. Tiller to do those late-term abortions, then the focus of those two public cretins was misplaced: aim at the Kansas legislature, not at a doctor doing what is permitted under law. Call the Kansas republican-majority legislators to examination-picket their homes, demonstrate in front of the state capitol-all the fervor was misdirected at the doctor, not the folks who surf all sides of a political minefield with a developed oblivious attitude. The religious right is like my pet dogs: they bark on command, sit, roll-over, and obey their trainers. Operation Rescue is a proven disgrace, and now Terry seeks to deflect his rightly earned stench and culpability. Not so easly done.oncerning Bill Orally, they just can't make big enough shoes to fit in his mouth.

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