While many Americans may never have heard of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, who was killed Sunday, his name -- and nickname, "Tiller the Baby-Killer" -- should be familiar to viewers of Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor." Salon's Gabriel Winant reports that Bill O'Reilly has mentioned Tiller on 29 episodes since 2005, most recently in April of this year.
"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" than O'Reilly, Winant writes.
Some of the things O'Reilly has said of Tiller, according to Salon:
He "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000."
He's guilty of "Nazi stuff,"
a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida
"This is the kind of stuff that happened in Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union"
"operating a death mill"
"has blood on his hands"
"executing babies about to be born"
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Nice try, but the only one to blame is the one who shot him. Yes, Tiller was a murder!
The Supreme Court has said that Freedom of Speech Does Not Protect a Person who Yells "Fire" in a crowded theater.
What about a radio broadcaster who repeatedly gives out a person's name and address, and constantly, with numerous words of incitement and encouragement, in effect tells his listening audience: "Ready, Aim, Fire!"
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