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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.
Those who are virutally assured of the nomination, and only for several months ever 4 years.
Michael Kinsley couldn't even make it as the TV president in West Wing.
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We weren't loved by Japan when we went in, but today we have a good relationship.
The Times reflects again the desires of children in wanting to see INSTANT gratification and results that have historically taken decades every other time on earth.
No wonder their paper is mostly wanted by people with birds for the cage floors.
Please do say things like that, you know hopw easily he crys...
Wow I didn't know LA Times have that much power LOL!!
Silly me I live in SO CAL
Can I tell LA Times marking that they sucks or would I face call from FBI LOL!
ROFLOL!
Hello, LA TIMES! How dumb do you have to be to think like this?!
Alles klar, Herr Komisar?
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Only the twisted little minds of the Times could construe Bill's remarks as a threat instead of an observation.
HELLO! Anybody in there?!
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But no! Fox News is RUN by the White House, didn't you know that?! They wouldn't investigate their own talking head, would they!?
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The Secret Service deals with threats against the President and Vice President, not editorial writers.
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Yes, but the writer neglects the fact that. since these so-called journalists are above the Bush and Cheney, they must be deserving of USSS protection. Probably a special detail.
Go ahead, President Kinsley, give 'em a call...
Kinsley was a little sh*t years ago on TV, and he hasn't improved with age.
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