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O'Reilly's Campaign Against Murdered Doctor
Salon ^ | May. 31, 2009 | Gabriel Winant

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionist; billo; billoreilly; foxnews; georgetiller; kansas; loofahbill; oreillystillsucks; prolife; salon; salondotcom; tiller; tillerthekiller
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To: Lorianne
I think there is a good chance this murder will spark more violence ... perhaps against a pro-Life protester.

Or a LOT of pro-life activists, if the "pro-choicers" have their way.

81 posted on 05/31/2009 9:27:05 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

I don’t think so. He is against abortion, but has gotten into
illegal resistance and wants his fifteen minutes of fame.


82 posted on 05/31/2009 9:30:11 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

In no way is this killer pro-life. It’s a contradiction in terms. But PP and others will make sure he claims pro-life credentials to damage us.


83 posted on 05/31/2009 9:31:21 PM PDT by TBP
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I’d bet money on it. These killings always happen just when the pro-aborts need them most.


84 posted on 05/31/2009 9:32:09 PM PDT by TBP
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To: jazminerose
"This is a disaster for our side. The left will make Tiller a martyr & have more ammo in their push to take our liberties away. Remember the DHS memo about pro lifers being dangerous extremist? This jack*** just poured gasoline on that fire."

I agree. The a$$hole who did the shooting just set his "cause" back years.

85 posted on 05/31/2009 9:59:27 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: nickcarraway

Could it be said that the guy who shot Tiller had “empathy” for the victims of abortion?


86 posted on 05/31/2009 10:42:07 PM PDT by feedback doctor (The first female president will be a Conservative Republican)
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To: nickcarraway
Salon is pitching for a thought crime ministry using Bill as the poster boy, but it looks like most Americans can't work up too many goobery tears over Tiller. I checked CNN, and it wasn't even pre-empting Lionel Ritchie on Larry King. (I thought they would have an entire evening of hair-lipped NARAL types.)

The story can't even be told without creating a mental image of a child convulsing against killing blow of the "doctor's" knife. Even an abortion assassin is not a winning issue for them. The public sees it as street justice.
87 posted on 05/31/2009 11:08:09 PM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: sharkhawk
...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...

I never said I didn't think the Left wouldn't use this. I'm saying we shouldn't cower and hide nor wring our hands over that fact.

Some people here have no balls.

88 posted on 06/01/2009 4:26:35 AM PDT by FReepaholic (Endeavor to persevere.)
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To: nickcarraway
I predicted this...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2261712/posts?page=126#126
89 posted on 06/01/2009 7:52:33 AM PDT by Borges
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To: livius; All
Tiller was a murderer and an evil man, and it’s not surprising that his deeds came back on him in the end.

Absolutely no arguments there.

Maybe Tiller repented at the last minute; that’s for God to know. But he lived an evil, bloody life and there’s no making it pretty or denying it.

By Tiller's own admission, he had the blood of over 60,000 unborn children on his hands, and he seemed pretty damn nonchalant about it.

Sixty Thousand Unborn Children.

Now I pose the purely rhetorical question, the current pretender to the Presidency, B'rack Insane 0bama, has been a positively rabid supporter for abortion in all of it's evil and insidious forms, from the point of conception all the way up to partial birth abortion, 0bama was even opposed to legislation which would have mandated life saving measures for any victim of abortion that might have somehow made it out of the surgically-invaded womb alive.

0bama didn't even want an abortion survivor laying on a cold metal table, gasping for air, grasping at life, to be allowed to live.

THINK ABOUT THAT.

Now the question: how many hundreds of thousands of murdered unborn children have died due to the policies supported by 0bama as a State Senator, a United States Senator (for 1-1/2 years) and now as the faux-President/Usurper?

How much blood is on HIS hands?

As for the not-so-dearly departed George Tiller, we are reminded that it is GOD, Who "giveth, and taketh away", and yesterday was George Tiller's turn to be 'taken away'.

If I were B'rack Insane 0bama (thank you Lord for sparing me from THAT!), I might not be sleeping quite so soundly right about now. Why?

GOD is gonna get him. Sooner or later, it will be B'rack Insane 0bama's turn to be 'taken away', just like it will be for every human who ever walks the face of the Earth.
90 posted on 06/01/2009 9:31:20 AM PDT by mkjessup (Nothing in this post is intended to advocate violence against any other human being, living or dead.)
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To: mkjessup
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91 posted on 06/01/2009 9:37:49 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: freeplancer

I just realized he has the same initials as the other BO.


92 posted on 06/01/2009 4:21:25 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: boop

“This is a disaster for our side. The left will make Tiller a martyr & have more ammo in their push to take our liberties away. Remember the DHS memo about pro lifers being dangerous extremist? This jack*** just poured gasoline on that fire.”

Which is why I think there is no way he’s pro-life in any way. I would not put it past Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and BO himself to set this up. There is NOTHING in their moral code that would prevent them from doing so. NOTHING!


93 posted on 06/03/2009 8:54:17 AM PDT by TBP
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To: nickcarraway

O’Reilly bloviates for a living, but in this instance,
his characterization of the Tillerman was correct.


94 posted on 06/03/2009 8:57:56 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Liberals are only generous with other people's money...)
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