Posted on 01/27/2006 6:18:50 PM PST by mwilli20
Statement from the Bennington Banner
The Factor just received this statement from Noah Hoffenberg, the editorial page editor of the Bennington (VT) Banner:
The right-wing blowhard Bill O'Reilly has called us again for the second time in so many weeks, asking the Banner to be on one of his shows. He wants us on the Factster show to talk about our editorial from Friday, which clearly states how Judge Edward Cashman's decision to incarcerate a sex offender for a mere 60 days was nothing more than a springboard for the far right to rant about the liberal crazies in Vermont.
O'Reilly and his ilk are constantly claiming that its the rights of the little girl in the sex assault case that are the issue, and that the rights of the perpetrator are of no consequence.
The rights of the little girl are of the utmost consequence, but cutting the sex organs off of the sex offender won't help her. Neither will boycotting Vermont, as O'Reilly has suggested.
Speaking of helping the little girl, what, we wonder, is O'Reilly doing on that front. If he were more like his counterparts in the phony baloney realm of TV, he would get off his keister and use some of his millions to help the girl and her family out. Maybe offer to pay for her college tuition and a lifetime of psychotherapy. Will we be seeing that? Doubt it. O'Reilly's concern for that little girl will fade with next week's programming and will eventually disappear, just like him and his 15 minutes of fame.
So you want us on the radio for a so-called debate? Well, O'Reilly Factster, we've seen your show, and we're not playing. You're a seasoned veteran at talking loudly and saying little. We'd hate to rough-up our vocal chords trying to get a word in edge-wise with a windbag such as yourself.
Your recent "chat" with Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, a fine law enforcement officer, went exceedingly bad, because everything to you is a black and white matter, an opportunity to try to show how the rest of the world is wrong while you are right.
The bottom line, from us to you, is this: We as a society can treat sexual predation like a symptom of a disease, and mitigate it with jail, voluntary castration, or what have you. This does nothing to alleviate the social problem. Or, we can see sexual predation as the disease itself, and make every attempt, as Judge Cashman did, to get to the source of the illness, thereby preventing the devastation of sexual assault in the future.
This problem is much bigger than even your ego, Factster, and will be around a lot longer than you, whose name will fade into the white noise of TV programming history. Us, though? We'll be here for a while, another 150 years at least. Our being, just like Cashman's decision, is designed for the long haul. You? Factster, you're just a blip that someone ignores while channel surfing late at night.
And by the way, in case you didn't notice, Cashman got what he wanted: Jailtime for the sicko and treatment in prison. What did you accomplish, besides an incremental hike in ratings?
Posted by BillOReilly.com Staff at 4:53 PM
Absolutely stunning... It's like we're dealing with a bunch of pre-pubescent boys...
Who owns this newspaper?
I've only met one person from Vermont, and this is exactly that attitude
he had. A little school boy yelling through the fence, or in this case, through
his editorial. What a little "girlie boy" he sounds like.
Is this a High School paper? Somewhat juvenile, isn't it?
What's in the water up there...crack?
Yep. Throw mud. Insult. But never address the real problem with real solutions. Heck they don't even SEE the problem.
"Johnny! Did you wash your hands?"
"Ma! They ain't dirty!"
Typical liberal response, similar to their take on the death penalty ("Executing Tookie Williams won't bring his victims back!") It's a strawman argument. The little girl's rights are upheld when justice is done. No, cutting off his sex organs won't make her hymen intact, nor allow her to forget the horrible torment she had to endure. But, putting this animal away for a very long time is what the scales of justice require, both for the little girl, and for society as a whole.
Oyvey.
The root cause of child molestation is the child molester. The recidivism rate among child molestors is exceptionally high. Moreover criminals are seldom caught the first time they commit such crimes.
If they dislike O'Reilly this intensely, they're gonna have exploding heads when they hear my opinion.
Hanging for prepubescent chld molestors on the first offense. That way there are no second offenses.
Damn! A third grader rant! Bill O'Reilly, for all of his bloviating, is spot on with this one. The intellectual midgets at this newspaper, would be eaten up and spit out by B.O. They, like most of the MSM, will never back up their rants with fact, only socialistic views.
Wow, this little gem completely reinforces my stereotype of liberal New Englanders, a sort of willful, superior, belligerent ignorance.
This was written by an editor who does not know that "its" should be "it's".
Left wing news always writes like this. You see if you don't agree with them they will try their usual distorted facts to prove you are the one who is wrong. The left will not protect
human rights, unless it comes from the ACLU and, we all know what they stand for.
Apparently, Noah also thinks he's a poet.
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Noah_Hoffenberg_Poet_Poetry_Picture_Bio.htm
Sorry for not linking it, I'm too lazy tonight to go find the code.
I second that ... as much as I think O'Reilly is a windbag as well, he is right on with this one. This judge is out to lunch and this newspaper editor is simply an ignorant liberal with a captured left wing column to rant in.
Good catch, I was going to berate them on that but I wasn't sure if this was the illiterate moron's fault or some O'Reilly transcriber's.
I guess O'Reilly should correct it if it's their fault or else they should put [sic] after the error on their website.
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