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
I disagree with you....I wouldn't go on his show...it's all a set-up for O'Reilly to blow his stack. O'Reilly gotta learn how to take it in...he sure knows how to dish it out and sometimes, it's just really obnoxious. I can't watch him anymore.
I have avoided all products from Vermont until it becomes a red state. No Ben & Jerry's, no syrup. Mayfield ice cream is just fine and Canada makes maple syrup, too.
I thought about that but it seemed more likely that they would copy and paste or scan it in rather than transcrible the entire thing, so my best guess is that it is in the original.
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Evidently the benefit of the "layers and layers of editors" the MSM is always boasting about hasn't made it to Wooly Wellies, VT. Noah Hoffenberg not only displays inability to employ adverbs (hint: above sentence should have gone "badly" not "bad," Noah) but he is puzzled by the lowly hyphen, erroneously hyphenating what should be two words "rough up" and then erroneously hypenating a single word, perhaps for balance: "edgewise."
And then, why is Noah Hoffenberg so keen to defend the judge that defends kiddy-diddlers? Is he a kiddy-diddler himself? Or is he just, like the judge, such a hopeless case of moral equivalency that he just can't see anything really wrong with kiddy-diddling?
I do agree with him about one thing. Castration is the wrong penalty. However, that's because I understand what the right penalty is for all molesters: death.
There is no crime so sordid, no character flaw so degraded, no perversion so depraved that a liberal will not emerge from the bathhouses of Vermont or Massachusetts and praise it, elevating it as a golden calf and saying of it: this is my god, this is the light I worship.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
That is truly atrocious "writing".
Awk! I missed that one. Page One of Strunk and White!
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Liberal newspapers are doomed to enjoy the same fate, if not even the same name, as the dodo bird.
Leni
Based on a quick scan of "Don't Let Them Strap You To The Apparatus" and "The Perfect Hands of Max Beckmann", I suspect our Mr. Hoffenburg is a very sick puppy himself...
I'm getting a very ugly picture of this corner of Vermont...
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Why is someone a "rightwinger" when they post the truth about someone?
I did read some of the poetry and I totally concur, his mind is a 'bit' warped. Personally I prefer the neighboring 'live free or die' state of New Hampshire over the wacko leftist socialist mentality of Vermont.
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The really stunning thing is that they think their subscribers should pay for their temper tantrums. They attain control of the local newspapers, and then abuse the public trust by pushing their own agendas.
-PJ
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