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Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:00 AM

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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Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:34 PM

Pro-(some)-life or just Anti-Choice?

GOP nutter terrorist murderers like the guy who was motivated by the likes of Rush and O'Really to kill the doctor are fanatics for fetus rights. They seek to deny a woman and her medical professional the right to make a decision in the best interest of the unborn child and the mother.

They don't think the innocent civilians in Iraq, Gaza, and Afghanistan (women, infants, and children included of course) have the right to say "no" to a cluster bombs, white phosphorous, or bunker busters being dropped on their heads from far above or by remote control.

I guess it's just unborn American infants that drive people like odog11 to commit or justify murder and domestic terrorism.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:34 PM

@Dr Death (Tiller)

My only question is where was that procedure when O'Reilly's mother needed it?

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:36 PM

odog11

Just curious about your intimate knowledge about the procedures used by Dr. Tiller.

Are you an MD?

Were you present when Dr. Tiller operated?

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:41 PM

Where is the moral outrage from the right?

When hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and babies are murdered in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza?

The Christian right is all about one thing: Power. The power to force mothers to keep unwanted babies in the US and the power to force non-Christian mothers and fathers that ARE wanted in their native countries overseas and far away to watch as their babies and children are murdered in front of their eyes.

It's really quite simple.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:42 PM

Mr Consistency

According to Dr. O'Reilly, Marilyn Manson was the cause of the Columbine shootings, and the crash in the prices of Loofas led to the banking collapse, so it is only logical that Mr O'Reilly's constant targeting of this doctor led to his murder.

This is the same walking punch line that threatens to make every Country, group or individual that does not conform to HIS thinking(?) a potential target of his attacks.

Usually, one person rises to the level of supreme Ass Hole in a generation. This time we have this unbelievable derby race with Rush and an entire network competing for the title.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:46 PM

more on this

O'Reilly bears a lot of blame for Tiller's death. Even if the shooter was not a viewer, O'Reilly's vendetta raised the profile of the doctor in right-wing Christian terrorist circles when he had already been shot by a terrorist in these circles.

There should definitely be a criminal investigation into O'Reilly over his broadcasts. While it may not be possible to convict him, on 1st Amendment grounds, it is a close case of incitement.

I am also not happy with President Obama's initial response: "I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."

Although Mr. Obama is known for cool and low-key responses, this is not the statement of someone shocked and outraged. This was no place for a hat-tip to "profound differences over difficult issues."

Any time an Arab Muslim commits some act of low-level, politically motivated thuggery, it's branded terrorism. Every time a fringe environmentalist or animal rights activist destroys property or harasses an executive, it's branded terrorism.

Yet now, even with a "pro-choice Democrat" in office, when a doctor is murdered in his church by a terrorist after surviving an attempted murder by a like-minded terrorist, we get a tepid statement acknowledging "difficult issues" and condemning "violence." Mr. Obama is not unfamiliar with the word terrorism, having used it plenty of times himself. Call it what it is.

That said, the shooter and his enablers deserve a fair trial in court, not in the press, during which their guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and after which they spend the rest of their days in confinement and obscurity in a maximum security facility.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:48 PM

Fuck odog!

He's just chasin' his own tail up another gigantic cluster fuck of his making.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:57 PM

@ odog11

Premeditated murder is premeditated murder. There may be a debate on abortion, but there is none on shooting a man in cold blood.

You feel comfortable defending a cold-blooded killer? Good. Keep doing it and the rest of the right should too. Then there will be no ambiguity anymore about the threat you represent to the rest of us.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 06:59 PM

O'Reilly

I am sure O'Reilly will publicly say that he "condemns" this sort of violence while all the time knowing full well that his campaign against Dr. Tiller, specifically calling him a "Nazi" and claiming he protected child abusers is just the sort of thing that makes these nutters feel justified in commiting acts of violence.

I often wonder if O'Reilly truly is nuts enough to believe the stuff he rants about or is it the case that he just knows how to draw in ratings.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 07:00 PM

Being a right wing blowhard is a teflon shield

O'Reilly is clearly responsible for this mans death and will clearly never be held accountable for it. This is how things work in America. As long as your on the right, you can do and say the most monsterous things and never have to worry about any reprocutions. Look at Cheney and Rumsfeld. Broke a clearly written law made by their own St. Reagan and will never serve a day in jail for it. Rush mocks Micheal J Fox's parkinsons disease and gets to keep his job. Though given the way he poked fun at then president Clintons underage daughter some 15 years ago, it shouldn't come as a surprise the public would look the other way at anything he does now.

Nope, as long as your on the right, you can do and say whatever you want and you'll never suffer any punishment for it. No matter how much damage it does. Just go back and look at the statements Ann Coulter made after 9/11 about what she thinks should have happened to the NYTimes building. Or calling for a return to the crusades. How many books has she sold since? How many TV shows has she been on since? No consquences for these people.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 07:00 PM

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback: Wilberforce Republican

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/sam-brownback-wilberforce-republican/

Scott Roeder also identifies with Wilberforce (an English abolitionist and author of the song, "Amazing Grace" that the anti-women movement tries to claim) with this comment on a site called "Charge Tiller."

http://www.chargetiller.com/petition.html?jne19e75ff=576#jotnave19e75ff978adf5f2f83737fafec6bd3

"Scott Roeder

Tue March 13, 2007, 20:26:48

PUT THIS MONSTER TILLER BEHIND BARS WHERE HE CAN'T MURDER ANY MORE OF OUR MOST INNOCENT UNBORN BABIES, WHO HAVE NO VOICE!!! WHERE ARE THE WILBERFORCES WHO WILL SCREAM OUT UNTIL THIS INJUSTICE RESTS ?!!!"

That's what's the matter with Kansas - religious extremists.

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