Posted on 05/31/2009 7:20:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Fox News star had compared Tiller to a Nazi, called him a "baby killer," and warned of "Judgment Day" |
When his show airs tomorrow, Bill O'Reilly will most certainly decry the death of Kansas doctor George Tiller, who was killed Sunday while attending church services with his wife. Tiller, O'Reilly will say, was a man who was guilty of barbaric acts, but a civilized society does not resort to lawless murder, even against its worst members. And O'Reilly, we can assume, will genuinely mean this.
But there's no other person who bears as much responsibility for the characterization of Tiller as a savage on the loose, killing babies willy-nilly thanks to the collusion of would-be sophisticated cultural elites, a bought-and-paid-for governor and scofflaw secular journalists. Tiller's name first appeared on "The Factor" on Feb. 25, 2005. Since then, O'Reilly and his guest hosts have brought up the doctor on 28 more episodes, including as recently as April 27 of this year. Almost invariably, Tiller is described as "Tiller the Baby Killer."
Tiller, O'Reilly likes to say, "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000." He's guilty of "Nazi stuff," said O'Reilly on June 8, 2005; a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida, he suggested on March 15, 2006. "This is the kind of stuff happened in Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union," said O'Reilly on Nov. 9, 2006.
O'Reilly has also frequently linked Tiller to his longtime obsession, child molestation and rape. Because a young teenager who received an abortion from Tiller could, by definition, have been a victim of statutory rape, O'Reilly frequently suggested that the clinic was covering up for child rapists (rather than teenage boyfriends) by refusing to release records on the abortions performed.
When Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, an O'Reilly favorite who faced harsh criticism for seeking Tiller's records, was facing electoral defeat by challenger Paul Morrison, O'Reilly said, "Now we don't endorse candidates here, but obviously, that would be a colossal mistake. Society must afford some protection for viable babies and children who are raped." (Morrison ultimately unseated Kline.)
This is where O'Reilly's campaign against George Tiller becomes dangerous. While he never advocated anything violent or illegal, the Fox bully repeatedly portrayed the doctor as a murderer on the loose, allowed to do whatever he wanted by corrupt and decadent authorities. "Also, it looks like Dr. Tiller, who some call Tiller the Baby Killer, is spending a large amount of money in order to get Mr. Morrison elected. That opens up all kinds of questions," said O'Reilly on Nov. 6, 2006, in one of many suggestions that Tiller was improperly influencing the election.
Tiller's excuses for performing late-term abortions, O'Reilly suggested, were frou-frou, New Age, false ailments: The woman might have a headache or anxiety, or have been dumped by her boyfriend. She might be "depressed," scoffed O'Reilly, which he dismissed as "feeling a bit blue and carr[ying] a certified check." There was, he proposed on Jan. 5, 2007, a kind of elite conspiracy of silence on Tiller. "Yes, OK, but we know about the press. But it becomes a much more intense problem when you have a judge, confronted with evidence of criminal wrongdoing, who throws it out on some technicality because he wants to be liked at the country club. Then it's intense."
Tiller, said O'Reilly on Jan. 6 of this year, was a major supporter of then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. "I think it's unfairly characterized as just a grip and grin relationship. He was a pretty big supporter of hers." She had cashed her campaign check from Tiller, "doesn't seem to be real upset about this guy operating a death mill, which is exactly what it is in her state, does she?" he asked on July 14 of last year. "Maybe she'll -- maybe she'll pardon him," he scoffed two months ago.
Feel-good, Surfer Jesus cults who preach a Jesus who walked around saying nothing but “judge not, lest he be judged”. That’s all they are anymore.
bttt
Violence and arrests have been done against pro-lifers since Roe v Wade...without the murder of Tiller..
I don’t even like O-Reilly, but he told the truth about Tiller. i think I will Email his program tomorrow and tell him that.
How about the killer himself ? Does “He came unto his own and his own knew him not” seem appropriate ??
Is there any evidence the alleged shooter ever even watched O’Reilly?
True. But I fear there could be an uptick now.
Well, that’s a foregone conclusion.
It’s blanketing the web right now ... Christian Taliban, right-wing extremists ... you name it.
Get a backbone you wimp.
Yes, that shocked me the most......a MURDERER going to church? And that church allowing him to be a member? Although I oppose his murder (God is the only one that should make him answer for his sins) what can one expect when you perform such dasterdly deeds?
The problem is we have a neo facist in the White House. If you don’t think Zero and his lapdogs in the MSM are going to use this to quiet the Pro Life side of things you are sadly mistaken. In fact I bet they are going to use this incident to make any further tea parties illegal. This will end up being a sad day for our side.
Well, BO was wrongly smearing Freerepublic and Michelle Malkin last week; now he gets wrongly smeared.
He treats conservatives as if he is better than us - above us. Like he’s a....liberal. Now he finds out - not so much in the eyes of his “peers.”
That BO gave his audience a heads up about Tiller the killer will aid in derailing the Left’s push to have us all named terrorists and locked up. He won’t sit still for the Left smearing him as being respopnsible for the cimre of a man.
This whole thing is Bush’s fault.
Since Bush is to blame for everything on planet Earth, this CANNOT be O’Reilly’s fault.
There is only one person who can be wrong in life, and that person is George Bush.
“Remember the DHS memo about pro lifers being dangerous extremist? This jack*** just poured gasoline on that fire”
I bet the shooter is a leftist “wetboy” (hit man).
The Nazi comparison was apt, actually. His murder is still reprehensible and unacceptable.
Tiller was as reprehensible as one could be, but killing him is still every bit as wrong as killing the babies that he killed. Murder is murder and it’s always the wrong thing to do.
I hope the government will move strongly and swiftly against his killer. Murder is murder, whoever the victim is, and it must be condemned and dealt with appropriately.
Have you ever noticed that these incidents always seem to happen right when the pro-aborts have just suffered some kind of political setback (like the recent Gallup Poll showing America supporting the pro-life position 51-42)? It’s the oddest pattern.
“Have you ever noticed that these incidents always seem to happen right when the pro-aborts have just suffered some kind of political setback (like the recent Gallup Poll showing America supporting the pro-life position 51-42)? It’s the oddest pattern.”
See my post at #75
What makes this horrific crime even worse is that it’s exactly what the pro-aborts needed right about now.
Yep.
That’s why I think the perp is actually a leftist who carried this out to further the left’s agenda because something like this is not beneath the left.
To them, what’s the life of one guy, when his death could be used to silence their enemy?
I bet the killer is a pro-abort.
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