Never Again? O'Reilly Part Zwei: Bill Explains To Holocaust Survivor's Family Why Huffington Will Kill Millions More

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I don't see a difference between (Arianna) Huffington and the Nazis." Bill O'Reilly

Hyperbole? No! A million million times, no.

Okay, in the real world, perhaps. But we're in the Bizzaro universe of Bill O'Reilly, where God need not apply for Bill already knows all.

His is a galaxy where he knows more about the military than General Wesley Clark. A cosmos where he grasps the value of torture more than former POW John McCain. A dark hole where he is far more insightful of the pleasures one takes from being taken hostage and sexually abused than fifteen-year-old Shawn Hornbeck. A macrocosm (my thesaurus is running thin) where writing books telling kids what's right for them after Bill sexually harassed a younger subordinate.

On the TV Factor last night in an attempt to rationalize his condemnation of Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post, he responded to a letter from a Holocaust survivor's family member who was "surprised about (Bill's) lapse of judgment comparing the tactics of the Nazis to the Huffington Post."

Bill went on to explain to this person whose family had suffered terribly from the scourge of fascism, the history of Hitler's party and just how Huffington is walking in their jackboots.

"If you look back at what happened in Germany you cannot escape the similarities, what Hitler and his cutthroats did back then and the hate-filled blogs, what they're doing now...today we're seeing the same thing on the Net."

Like he did to cover for his farce of dismissing of homeless veterans as nothing more than a problem of addiction, jumping on John Kerry and Peter Kings Veteran's bill ("WE are proposing a new G.I. Bill with the help of Rep. Peter King and Sen. John Kerry"), expect Bill to show up at the Holocaust Museum in Washington to illustrate his compassionate awareness of what six million plus went through and tell Survivors what they're going through.

Well, that's that. Lord Bill told it like it is. Arianna and Hitler. Two peas in a pod.

Now that that's settled, let's get to work and let the authorities know of Bill's warning. No use doing a Neville Chamberlain and letting Arianna get away with another Holocaust.

But leaving the lampooning for another day, the real question is: Should we let Bill O'Reilly continue this belittling of the memory of six million?

The answer is simple: Never again should six million be denigrated by O'Reilly or anyone else!

That is why we must tell all who knew what Bill is telling the Folks™ about what it was like to go through Nazi Germany and let them know that we will not let it happen again.

Tell Elie Wiesel how Bill has cheapened his experience, and pledge to him...

Never again!

Tell Rabbi Marvin Hierof L.A.'s Simon Weisenthal Center and those at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum how Bill has demeaned the memory of those they has memorialized and pledge to them...

Never again!

Tell the family of the late Senator Tom Lantos...

Never again!

And I will tell the Holocaust Survivors who are members of my Jewish War Veterans post...

Never again!

But the fact is, they already know.

So, everyone, please, tell Fox News ([e-mail]) and Bill O'Reilly ([e-mail]) what should have already been known by a grown up network and any adult they put on camera...

Never again!

Steve Young is the author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful"

Comments

[Dendroica]

Bill O'Reily is a hideous person, filled with bile and incapable of expressing any emotion but rage. A man filled with fears, and little or no joy. That's a preamble.

But let us not kid ourselves; there's a thread on the relationship between Jews and Obama that I wanted to read this morning, but I found that the comments were closed. You can't have a story on this site that has anything to do with the Jews or Israel, before it gets firebombed out of commission. And before we get into the concept of Antisemitism a similar thing happened to the obit on Buckley. So it isn't simply about race or religion, but about rage.

There is an element of sheer hatred that exists in all political discourse, that is enabled by the anonymity of web communications. In a real community, such speech is not tolerated because when someone goes beyond the bounds of good taste or of religious or ethnic intolerance there is generally a great outcry among community members. There is a self-regulating mechanism that doesn't exist on the web. Of course the media has the opposite effect- since those who watch a particular commentator generally share their views, and it leads to a sort of cult-of-personality worship.

The media enables his sort of anger to thrive, and I can't help but imagine that much of his persona is actually a construct. The problem is after you live that life for long enough, you become what you emulate.

[bigironal25]

When I was a kid, we had a bully in the neighborhood who was just like Bill O'really.He bullied us for years until a friend (who had finally had enough)punched this kid right in the middle of his face,and this bully startedt o cry,so help me ,and that was the end of that.O'really just hasn't had his chimes rung,literally or figuratively,but,like every other bully soon discovers,YER DAY IS COMIN' BILLY BOY!!!

[Aramingo]

While we're talking about Nazis, didn't Goebbels once say that one way of accomplishing your goals is to accuse your opposition of being what you are? Or words to that effect.

In any event, if that ignorant jackass (O'Reilly) could spend 10 seconds in a death camp, it would shut him up forever.

[pfc1369]

A generation or so ago there was a man named Walter Winchell whose radio show was listened to by damn near the entire country. He was on for years, had enormous influernce, and was feared by many.

This was in the 40s and 50s. He was an ignorant man for the most part, who had started in vaudville with the likes of the Marx brothers, Al Jolson, and such.

He flopped, and somehow became the major pontificator of his day. The Burt Lancaster character in "Sweet Smell of Success" was inspired by this Winchell.
He began to fade when TV came in, but he continued to hop around Broadway each night looking for the latest dirt on anyone.

His last hurrah was around 1960 when he tried to cross a police line, was unknown to the cops of the day, and was smashed with a nightstick.
No one knew him anymore, and everyone stopped listening to him.
My hunch is O'Reilly will face a modern version of this fate, somewhere down the line...

[simplysimon2]

The Metaphysical Truth is that when Bill sees Hitler in anyone, he is looking into a mirror. It's all projection, Baby Bill. Suck on that. Though on 2nd thought, he won't get that either.

[DLSteinhardt]

As juilanortega suggested in a post elsewhere, Arianna should sue O'Reilly (and, I believe, FoxNews) for slander, and while we're at it, why not defamation of character?

The National Enquirer changed its ways after Carol Burnett's successful libel suit.

FoxNews isn't composed of true believers. It's staffed with shills fulfilling a disgusting business model of hate and bile. If Arianna can undo the profitability of that model, we could make the fascistic FoxNews as ancient history as the bad old days of the libelous Enquirer.

[Indedave]

O'Reilly can't see the difference between Arianna and the Nazis because he is morally blind.

[dadw5boys]

LET THE FOOL BE BURIED UNDER THE WIOGHT OF HIS OWN WORDS.

DO NOT RECONIZE HIM OR HIS RANTS. MISERY LOVES AND NEEDS COMPANY TO REMAIN IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

[dadw5boys]

ARIANNA PLEASE IGNOR o'really !

MISERY LOVES COMPANY. DO NOT LET HIM DRAG YOU DOWN TO HIS LEVEL..

HE NEEDS SOMEONE PEOPLE RESPECT IN THE HOLE WITH HIM TO KEEP FROM BEING BURIED UNDER HIS OWN WORDS.

[protagonia]

Bill is opening his own memorial -

THE MUSEUM OF INTOLERANCE.

[TommyMcCarthy]

He's already had a one-man show at The American Museum of Things That Stink

[Grulg]

Bill-ORALLY-once and forever-the WORST PERSON-IN THE WORLD!!! *cue bad organ music/flying graphics*

Seriously, Bill-o is a Big Hypocritical Piece of Shit. You can QUOTHE me there Mr. Orally.

[RevoVansen]

I would love to see O'Really? in a fight. He would most likely get owned by whomever.

[PerryWhite]

Maybe he should have just called her the worst person in the world - about a hundred times.

[Indedave]

Except that he doesn't have the intellectual horsepower to recognize the humor in that.

[DLSteinhardt]

I've prepped clients to go on O'Reilly, and his handlers tell guests before they go on, "Bill doesn't like to be contradicted."

Not just a bigoted moron, but one who can't stand having a mirror held up to his putrid reality.

[Indedave]

Great tag line for an intro to his show: "Not JUST a bigoted moron!"

[hmmmmmer]

What happened in Germany in the 30's is more in line with happening because of Orally's comments than some of the wackoes that post here. They might have an audience of 1, themselves, he, on the other hand reaches millions. Who has the bigger influence on the public? God, I just scared myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Billo is a pig. Sorry to all pigs that was too great of an insult.

[surfcitysteven]

Oreilly makes it wound like the only hateful posts come from the leftie blogs. And I have been guilty of some very harsh words toward some righties. If this were true (and it isn't, just visit a rightie blog sometime to hear what they have to say about any number of liberal politicians), we could say that it is merely how we vent, as opposed to the well established and documented rightie ways of venting such as blowing up federal buildings, blowing up abortion clinics, shooting doctors, mailing anthrax real and fake (Olbermann is what reminded me of this) to leftie politicians and pundits, mailing death threats, threatening lynching parties etc. We could say our way of venting is much less destructive than theirs.

[jmh55]

Like Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and the rest...Mr. O must be Friendless.
Whenever I hear the rattlings of Mr. O, and the rest of his narrow
minded ilk, I shake my head thinking the old adage:
"Friends don't let friends drive drunk"
Mr. O seems inebriated by his own ego....His Own Show.
Perhaps he needs some staff on his broadcast production, or, perhaps a friend

[alkamm]

They have friends but they are inbred friendships. Fundamentally, they are democratically inclined because they refuse to argue their cases in open forums and prefer to call their opponents names and use illogic of all kinds.

They are true believers bought and paid for by powerful puppetmasters with big checkbooks. They trade their souls for talking points.

[FreedomLoverX]

I am a son of a Holocaust survivor. My Dad spent 3 1/2 years in Buchenwald. I am Jewish.

Let us not forget the millions more of non-Jews that Hitler had exterminated.

Why does O'Reilly still have a platform to throw out his disgusting hatred? I am approaching 50 years of age. How sad I am that there is no more news on TV - that a man who would have been fired a thousand times a couple decades ago, is given free reign to convince the world that his lies are true.

I think we should all do what I have already done... disconnect from the TV. At least, can't we all stop watching his program? If his foul mouth won't cost him his job, maybe his plummeting ratings will.

[BeeOplentee]

Yep, O'Reilly really went over the top this time.

[Durango]

This is not meant as a criticism in any way but while Jews were the main victims of Nazi terror they were far from the only ones.

We should always remember that left wing politicians, particularly Social Democrats were targeted. And of course Communists, who in Russia were killed on sight. Many other minority groups like Gypsies , considered less than human by the Master race, were targeted.

But what brings it into modern America and is generally ignored is the fact that the Nazis targeted and attempted to eradicate Gays and Lesbians. Does this demonization sound familiar to anyone?

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

well of course, but you know it's really ok to continue to demonize gays because, you know, they're icky....

If Obama is perfectly willing to bring anti-gay bigot Rev Donnie McClurkin onto his Gospel tour, then it must be alright to hate gays. Because we all know that Obama is always right.

[Boris]

what the hell does this have to do with the topic at hand?

[klmebane]

what the hell are you talking about?? i don't know if it was a good move or not to bring mclurkin on his tour, but excluding people from his campaign isn't the best way to encourage unity, regardless of what the reverend thinks about anyone. just because a person works with someone does not mean they agree with everything that person believes. and we can't just excluded portions of society from the process, because that makes us no better than the bigots. we can't allow bigots to make policy, but we should still allow them a seat at the table. it isn't right for us to be intolerant in our own right.

[RabidRightRebel]

O'Reilly is the archetypical rabid right fanatic. He knows nothing but how to spew hatred. In some of his tantrums you can literally see him foam at the mouth. And just like a rabid dog there is no point in trying to reason with him because he will never listen. The best thing to do is just ignore him. .

[klmebane]

"And just like a rabid dog there is no point in trying to reason with him because he will never listen. The best thing to do is just ignore him."

or take him out back and shoot him.

[JustAnotherJoe]

My 5 year old has a book "Go Away Big Green Monster" by Ed Emberley designed to help youngsters overcome their fears. As each page is turned, a monster forms one scary feature at a time, first its yellow eyes, then its nose, until the monster appears in all of its frightening glory. In the middle of the book, the caption reads "You don't scare me!" Then as the story continues, the monster disappears one feature at a time, until it concludes with the caption "Go away, big green monster, and don't come back until I say so!"

So........

"Go away big, green Bill O'Reilly, and don't come back until I say so!"

[blackmouth]

It's funny how Bill describes the Huff Post comments remind him of Nazis beating up the truth for their own truth...mmm. Sounds like his show and the Fox news network, or the Bush administration to me. Maybe, he should go to the holocaust memorial to remind himself of the sickness that was the Nazi government and fascism. How angry he was at Arianna for letting people speak their minds. I bet he would never tell his audience how many critical emails he gets every day or read them on the air, the ones that could be. O'Reilly is a pathetic little man with a little mind in love with himself and everyone at Fox is afraid of telling him otherwise because they all are in on the joke of fooling their audience and yes, Bill.