Good job Kristinn. I watched the 11:00 rebroadcast. Knowing this site he was shockingly unfair. Someone said that there was a thread with Mugabe in Africa saying “homosexuals are dogs” and O’Reilly twisted the discussion in that thread to try to make the Free Republic look like they let a post stand that said that. Really terrible research if it wasn’t intentional, and I think it was probably intentional.
To: sarcasm, Jack BlackActivist ‘lucky not to be shot like dog'
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZIMBABWE’S official daily newspaper says British gay activist Peter Tatchell, who was beaten by security guards while trying to "arrest" President Robert Mugabe in Belgium, was lucky not to have been "shot like a dog". The Herald said Tatchell of the British gay rights group Outrage, who was knocked to the ground by the president's bodyguards in Belgium on Monday as he tried to make a citizen's arrest over Mugabe's human rights record, was a "gay gangster" whose behaviour represented the Western world's extreme contempt for African leaders.
Tatchell, who previously tried to "arrest" Mugabe in October 1999 during a private visit to London, yelled "Arrest Mugabe, arrest the torturer" as the veteran African leader left the Hilton Hotel in Brussels.
The 77-year-old Mugabe, in power since the former Rhodesia gained independence from Britain in 1980, has denounced homosexuals as "worse than dogs and pigs".
Posted on 03/07/2001 22:34:08 PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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And it was back in 2001 and no FR person said it. It was as you said quoted in an article and used by Mugabe.
Could be other threads that quoted Mugabe with this quote also.
O'Reilly is obviously bothered by FR because people here don't coddle him and call him out on his mistakes haughtiness