Posted on 05/25/2005 11:27:23 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The Los Angeles Times is slamming Bill O’Reilly – for slamming the Los Angeles Times.
The newspaper has warned the "telephilosopher” to stop his "decapitation fantasies” involving Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley – or face trouble from the Secret Service.
It all started with a Times editorial urging the shutdown of the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and access to attorneys for detainees. That set off O’Reilly. During the broadcast of "The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly” on May 17, he declared:
"How can they think this way? How can anyone think this way? You know, ‘Shutting down Guantanamo and giving suspected terrorists legal protections would help restore our reputation abroad.'”
Said O’Reilly: "That’s like saying, 'Well, if we’re nicer to the people who want to kill us, then the other people who want to kill us will like us more.'”
Then he fired off the big gun, saying the paper’s editorial board will "never get it until they (the terrorists) grab Michael Kinsley out of his little house and they cut his head off. And maybe when the blade sinks in, he’ll go, ‘Perhaps O’Reilly was right.’”
The Times counterattacked in a May 24 editorial. Questioning why people the U.S. has liberated from tyranny "don’t love us,” the paper stated: "It doesn’t seem worthy of decapitation to suggest that ghastly stories (not all fabricated by Newsweek) about abuse of prisoners don’t help.”
The Times has long had an axe to grind with Fox News. Much of the paper’s anger no doubt comes from Fox’s coverage of the Times’ last-minute smear job on Arnold Schwarzenegger in the days leading up to the 2003 gubernatorial recall race.
For the moment, O’Reilly is in the liberal paper’s crosshairs, warning: "O’Reilly should be careful. Any further decapitation fantasies could get him in serious trouble with the Secret Service.”
It seems the paper has difficulty distinguishing between a threat and a "fantasy.” And when it comes to actual threats against its employees, the paper may want to check with its lawyers on whom to contact.
The Secret Service deals with threats against the President and Vice President, not editorial writers.
This is a great example of the dangers involved with wearing tin foil berets.
I didn't know the LA Slimes enjoyed Secret Service protection.
Not only is the LA Times staff made up of ignorant S.O.B.s, now they seem to be losing it right along with their subscription base. Evidently the Times is the only entity that can't figure out why.
Secret Service? This was downright childish. It sortof backs up my contention that young know-nothings must be running the place now, as well as developing the trash they print daily.
Keep it up LAT, I've wanted your organization to fall flat on it's face for some time, and this is the best way to make that happen.
O'Reilly and I couldn't be happier.
Ya think the LA Times is following the Dean Talking Points Memo?
LOL
Not all who have have Micheal Kinsley decapitation fantasies are Jihadists
Since when did that faggoty little wimp Kinsley become an elected representative?
Elected reps don't get SS protection. Even the Speaker of the House and SCOTUS members don't get it. I believe only POTUS, VPOTUS and several cabinet members get it. And I'm not sure about the cabinet members.
If O'Reilly keeps it up, he will have to answer to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
If O'Reilly keeps it up, he will have to answer to the East German Secret Police.
If anyone needed proof that editorial writers are often complete morons.
Wait.
Maybe they think that is right, since they are more important than the president and vice-president.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
If O'Reilly keeps it up, he will have to answer to the Allen County Weights and Measurements Board.
If O'Reilly keeps it up, he will have to answer to the Sonoma County Parents / Teachers Association.
If O'Reilly keeps it up, he will have to answer to the Milk Council of the United States.
Nah Bolton already does that. Got milk? ;-)
Kinsley let his secret fantasy slip out - that he runs the Secret Service protected US Mint, and he gets to print all the money he thinks government should spend on anything.
Since when does a lefty windbag merit SecServ protection?
He reminds of Nick Berg in Iraq--couldn't believe that his friends would cut his head off; after all, he was a nice Muslim loving American.
and presidential candidates
The two combatants deserve each other.
Time to sit by and laugh.
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