Bill O'Reilly Stands by His Smear of Arianna Huffington: There's No Difference Between Her and Goebbels

BillO obviously is feeling some heat over his vile words the other day when he compared Hitler and the KKK to some anonymous commenters on the Huffington Post and attacking Arianna. In his perverted defense, he says that the use of propaganda by the Nazis to murder millions of Jews is an honest comparison to some idiots leaving comments on a blog.

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O'Reilly: ...from the late nineteen twenties to nineteen thirty three when Hitler became chancellor, the Nazis used vile propaganda to demonize Jews and others in the eyes of the German people. The used newspapers, radio, leaflets and rallies to build up enormous hatred towards your family.

Today we're seeing the same thing on the net here in America, there is no difference. When Arianna Huffington allows people to say that Nancy Reagan should suffer terribly and then die, that is no different that what doctor Joseph Goebbels and others were putting out way back then.

What an ignorant fool. Yea, a few commenters on blogs are in some way equal to Hitler and his mass rallies that led millions of people to their deaths in O'Reilly's world. Right wing demagogues will say absolutely anything to justify their insane actions. Rarely if ever, BillO will take a look at right wing sites to see what they are up to as Steve Young points out.

I know you won't because you never have. You've always said that the Right's smears are minuscule as compared to the Left's. What, you've never listened to talk radio? You've never gone through the tons of right wing sites? You've never watched your show?

When you first ripped into DailyKos you admitted you had never even heard of FreeRepublic.com, one of the largest right wing blog sites on the Net. Some crack research staff...read on

I didn't see BillO repudiate Michelle Malkin when I broke the story about her printing the phone numbers of Santa Cruz students because they were against military recruiting on their campus...who were then inundated with hate calls and death threats.

After our successful counter recruitment action on Tuesday, the right wing decided to resort to personal threats and intimidation. SAW Press team members received hundreds of threatening emails and phone calls, after inflammatory blogger Michelle Malkin put the students' personal information on her blog. More than a dozen other websites followed suit. She refused to remove the information, even after she was politely asked and the safety concerns were brought to her attention.

The SC students contacted me to help them out when the hate got too intense. Se was quickly repudiated by some of her own, but where was Bill? Where was Bill when she attacked the Frost family? Where was Bill when the warmongering Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs attacked Jill Carroll after she was released from being kidnapped in Iraq because she was forced to make anti-American statements with guns pointed at her head? Where was...ahhh...you get the point.

John Amato created CrooksandLiars.com

Comments

[mrcontinental]

Some people will say anything for money and ratings. Disgraceful.

[luziannagirl]

If, according to a right wing radio talk show host (was it Rush Limbaugh??) "the facts have a well-known liberal slant", what does anyone expect? O'Reilly's ridiculously abhorrent characterizations of Arianna & HuffPo are well within his own industry's minimum standards.

My big gripe is that right-wing, hate-mongering, pure-o-dee-propaganda radio pretends to be news, pretends to be objective, and pretends to be fact-based, and uses OUR airwaves to do it.

[mrcontinental]

But the dangerous part is that there are a lot of rubes who believe it. If I lived a thousand thousand years I never would have imagined that this country could have become dumbed down to such a degree. It's embarrassing.

[CitizenE]

Bill O' Reilly, like a great deal of the media, even those who do not suffer from such journalistic tourettes as considering aloud whether or not he might join in a "lynching party" for the woman who is quite likely to be our nation's next first lady, lives to provoke; that's how he makes his living. The ultimate endgame of this provoateur media is a civil war mentality that exists in almost every major civil conflict on the globe. The right wing media in our country counts on appealing to its auciences' worst demons, and it does so by using convenient terms such as Islamofacism or Nazism (Limbaugh of course began this by conflating feminism--you know equal rights for women--with Nazism). The big problem for these provocateurs is that historically fascism is the subordination of the state to corporate interests (Mussolini said that) and Nazism is populist conservatism based on racial hatred taken to the nth degree. The Freudian term "projection" is incessantly the mo of these kneejerk reactionary clowns, and the more down to earth noun, "hypocrisy" is the salt these scoundrels love to rub into the wounds they create. Oh if we only had a Dante alive today to accurately describe which precise level of hell that they inhabit. Fortunately, their Bagdhad Bob lack of accuracy in their reportage, both current and historical, is beginning to catch up with them, and for them there is a slow train coming up around the bend.

[Dap]

It's referred to as "Projection" in psychology, O'Reich-ly is mirroring His ways onto others.

[nyboomer]

O'Reilly's job is to sling mud. He has no other use as far as Murdoch and Ailes are concerned. They need him to keep doing it in the hopes that his low IQ listeners and viewers accept it as the truth. That is, he is using the Nazi big lie method as his modus operandi. He is a creature utterly without morals and ethics.

[ESerafina42]

O'Reilly is a vile (to use one of his favorite words) piece of crap, but isn't this site supposed to be moderated, in the wake of some ill-advised comments after a supposed bombing attempt on Cheney in Afghanistan? Of course, I've seen a bunch of posts lately inviting people to "come to my website and see my bikini shots," which I thought were against the rules, to say nothing about some of the nasty stuff that was posted about Michelle Obama after her "proud of my country" remarks.

[GeoNorth]

BillO does what all right wing assholes do: Ignore the arguments against you. Just talk louder. Demonize anyone who disagrees with you in the most disturbing terms. His moral certainty would be funny if it weren't so sad and dangerous. How do dropshots like him get a show?

[CommanderWhitehead]

...And there is also no apparent difference between Mr. Bill O'Reilly and your average bar-room, dwelling, ill-informed, aging, angry, white, drunken-loudmouth.

I seriously doubt that he has any authentic, deeply held opinions or beliefs, for that matter. He's an overpaid, aging hooker for the most dangerous scoundrels this nation has ever had to endure.

(Interestingly, as far as delivering any form of journalistic integrity, there really is little different between FOX NEWS and Goebbles' Ministry of Propaganda.)

Those zany folks of the far right-luny-fringe often accuse their adversaries of that which they themselves are most guilty of. It's sort of the retarded half-brother of the "big Lie" notion and their most often employed tactic..

In a perfect world, Mr. O'Reilly would probably have trouble holding down a job
selling used Fords.

[loril]

I am sure O'Racist has never heard of a little website called "stormfront". It is nauseating to look at, but they make plenty of not-so-veiled threats there against the lives of non-white people. If you don't want to view this crap directly, just look at Hatewatch instead. I hope BillO's crack team is all over that page, exposing the death threats and evil remarks against Obama and others.

The fact that his one sided medicine show has continued to bamboozle a certain segment of the viewing public for so long just proves that this segment of the population cannot be reached. Keep exposing BillO for what he is and continue to call him on his bullshit...But don't expect much from his viewing base.

[BluGrrl]

Apples and oranges. Apples and oranges.

Comparing negative comments about Nancy Reagen to the Holocaust!?! How desperate is this washed up and desperate this barely living piece of white trash to even try to compare negative comments about Nancy Reagan to one of the most terrible instances in human history?

Gee, I didn't know Nancy Reagan was an entire people who were persecuted by the Nazi Germans. See how much you learn watching BOR?

So I fail to see the connection, but I never thought thinking was a quality that BOR viewers had.

It's like trying to compare a cut your thumb to losing an entire arm. You might convince some idiots it is true, but anyone with the gamma wave can see right threw it.

[SonnyBono]

Being attacked by O'Reilly is like being lectured on morality by the town whore.

[SonnyBono]

With sincere apologies to "working girls" everywhere - didn't mean to compare you to Bill O"Reilly.

[joja]

If anyone is an expert on propaganda, it's Bill O'Reilly.

[Macready]

he is disgusting . . . I think he would like to ban free speech and difference of opinion . . . what a scumbag

[lyingtruth]

If you saw O'Reilly in a German uniform; would have any doubt that he was a Nazi?

[BluGrrl]

I don't need to see the uniform.

[Archie1955]

Was O'Reilly complaining because a blogger on this site said that Nancy Reagan should suffer and die? does he really think that this site agrees with everything it's commenters have to say? How ludicrous is that. It is contemptible to say mean things about Mrs. Reagan although I must admit that she is not now nor has ever been a nice person. If you want to name a mean person it's definitely her. Remember when she was complaining because she thought Jimmy and Roslyn Carter were taking too long to vacate the White House or when she pubicly ridiculed the late wife of Mr. Gorbechov when they were on a state visit to Washington. She was not the sort of person who belonged in the position of first lady. That's putting it mildly but still you shouldn't wish her ill. Regardless that does not put this website or Ms. Huffington in anywhere near the proximity of Goebbels and the rest of those monsters. To say such a thing is I believe actionable in law.

[blico]

Pretty clear to me that O'Reilly is pretty accurate just re-read the hate spewed by this blog.

Jack

[BluGrrl]

Yeah... OK!

[desmirl]

The Nazis had a slogan, "Gott mitt us." (Hope I got it right). In English, it's "God with us" and so, everything they did was justified (as far as they were concerned) because they were on God's side. The Neocons have created an unholy and unsavory relationship with America's right wing religionuts, and as far as they are concerned, god is with them. Everything the left does is an atrocity, because wey're all secular humanists (atheists) anyway--at least, that's how O'Reilly, Malkin, et. al. see it, and whey they are doing--no matter how rough their tactics get--is okay, because they're doing what they have to do for god and country. People who believe crazy things say crazy things, and what they say are dangerous because they'll smear you with tags that, in their heart of hearts, they know to be true of themselves.