Posted on 02/20/2010 5:19:50 AM PST by IbJensen
Bill O'Reilly Advocates Gun Confiscation in Interview with Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes
Last night Feb 18th, Stewart Rhodes appeared on Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly show The Factor in response to the previous nights appearence of the SPLC's Mark Potok who once again attempting to smear Oath Keepers. both videos are below
Mark Potok on Bill O'Reilly - Wed. February 17th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNf3ZtiKAD8
Stewart Rhodes on Bill O'Reilly - February 18th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Po8LLjIlDw
After the show with Stewart, The internet lit up with articles and comments all over the place discussing Bill O'Reilly's comments supporting gun confiscation during Hurricane Katrina as well as the Oath Keepers organization in general. One of the most active discussions was over at Sean Hannity's message board.
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1839931
We also came across the Gateway Pundits which in a short article titled, Bill O'Reilly Supports Gun Confiscation During Weather Emergencies, the author made a great statement saying, "Last I checked, the Second Amendment doesn't mention anything about severe storms." included in the article was a statement made from the Instapundit adding:
That's funny. O'Reilly calls the opposing position "extreme," but such gun confiscation is illegal under federal statute, and as a matter of constitutional law; in fact, the city of New Orleans lost a lawsuit over gun confiscation during Katrina. But then, O'Reilly's no libertarian, to put things mildly. And he's consistently weak on the law, also to put things mildly. Still, he should have been better briefed for this show, as he came across looking like a fool, and making his "extreme" guest look sober and well-informed by comparison.
In addition David Codrea over at the Gun Rights Examiner wrote a great article on the show and commented on Bill O'Reilly's statements. Check it out here.
Absolutely correct. In fact, in the clip I saw, no one (not even the Oath-Keeper) even bothered to mention that these armed “looters” during Katrina were shooting at people. The citizens who had their guns confiscated were put at extreme risk, while the looters continued to operate as they had been.
I'm not so sure it's not the other way around. Certainly, viewers of both are "marks."
The two hosts, with Beck playing Costello to O'Reilly's Abbot, embarked on a "tour" to stoke their egos and to shill their books, I know what will evolve from this too-close relationship if it continues much longer.....i.e., some of their worst political traits, genes, cells, grey matter, whatever, will be transferred/exchanged/absorbed between them in a process right out of a sci-fi horror movie. Unfortunately, Beck will not be a winner in this unholy alliance, to be sure.
Beck has to knock off the road shows and the regular appearances on the Factor.....and be his own man.....and hopefully blossom in the "way he should go" as the Bible says. He has the talent if he doesn't become O'Reilly Lite......or burns himself out like a super-nova.
O'Reilly is a very toxic and pernicious man with an overlay of seductive leprechaun-ish charm. We should NOT turn him off when he appears on the screen. Every bit of lying, dismissively-arrogant, weasely, Obama-protecting, FR-hating pearls of poison which comes from his lips should be posted here whenever necessary.
He has too wide an audience and too many millions of viewers who fall for his words to tune him out and let him operate unhindered.
I consider it a duty and a "freep" to watch him regularly and to take notes.
(....see my tag line).
Leni
Because he frequently brings to light issues and facts that would otherwise remain unknown to the folks who don't surf the 'net constantly. He's a PITA, bending over backwards to be "fair and balanced" to the point of appearing to be neutral on evil in some cases, but the net effect is that more awareness of some issues is raised than would be otherwise.
I agree. BOR is one of the few - sometimes the only one - who questioned Rev. Jesse Jackson’s finances and who has exposed Judges who have given a pass to violent pedophiles. And he has supported Meghan’s Law.
I never read it, but I understand in his very first book he made it clear he wasn’t a 2A supporter. I have never understood why folks think he is “conservative”. I don’t know how in the world one can claim to be “conservative” but not see the need for the 2nd A. Anyone who supports any kind of gun control is a statist, pure and simple. The rights of the state above the rights of the people. IMHO, the state doesn’t have ANY rights. We let it do a few things for us but those aren’t rights.
He even admitted it on-air so it is a fact. He said “President Obama should hire...ME! Your humble correspondent to clean up his PR image or he will be a one term deal”
Couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
That is a good quote. The lefties knew they were in deep trouble when their favorite lefty lawyer, Tribe, gave us that quote. That pretty much took the wind out of their sails.
I suspect that had he taken another tack we might be in a very different place now and at times I wonder if we might not be better off if we were but this is the path he chose. I know he hopes we can wrest control of the gummint from the lying bastards but I am not as optimistic. The question becomes how much deeper do we let the gummint dig the hole before we finally say "enough" and when we say it, just how do we do so? He says with votes. I don't know. Stalin said he didn't care about votes as long as he got to count them. We trust our gummint to do the counting. Is there anything else our gummint has proven to be trustworthy about?
The issue is very simple,
You either TRUST the Government or you TRUST the PEOPLE
I saw the segment. That was simply a replay of his attack on FreeRepublic.
Day ONE, have a Lefty on, once to talk about ‘over the top’ postings on the Lefty web site, and this time to talk about ‘extreme retoric’ in political discourse. Close both discussions with praise for coming on and a reference to the Right Wing version of events and a promise to have them on the next day.
Day TWO, have the Ring Wing response, Kristinn gave a good interview, inspite of not being able to talk very much, and this time the Oath Keepers gave a good redition of their postion. Close by denigrating the Ring Wing viewpoint.
Thank God for Rush, his mocking of BOR yesterday was theraputic.
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