Monday, June 1, 2009

This will be uncomfortable TV

If there's any humor to be derived from the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, and really what isn't funny about right wing murder/terrorism being perpetrated against doctors and women (over 6,100 times since 1971!) just weeks after many segments of the right wing got all agitated when they found out DHS was looking at homegrown right wing terrorists, it will be found on the O'Reilly Factor tonight.

Why? Because after he spends ten seconds talking about "how it isn't right to murder someone" he'll spend twenty seconds talking about "how it was inevitable" before generally excusing the crime. But then we'll hit the money part of the program where he'll go into full on attack mode. Why? Because people are starting to remember he did about 29 segments attacking Tiller, sent producers to harass the man, generally demonized him and anyone who knew him, and used phrases like "Tiller the Baby Killer" , called him a Nazi, Mengele, the moral equivalent of NAMBLA and al-Qaeda, and as an on the loose murder who authorities would never punish. Like in the video compilation below.



Oof. He's Bill O'Reilly, he's not going to walk any of that back. But he should end up giving Keith Olbermann a weeks worth of material. Stay classy Bill.

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