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Movement Conservatism As Mental Disease: Bill O'Reilly & The Murder of Dr. George Tiller

by: Paul Rosenberg

Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 18:00

On Sunday morning I put up a diay, "Conservative First Amendment Victimology On Parade--Bill O'Reilly Edition", featuring this the following video clip, which Media Matters had highlighted without comment, under the headline, "Lawyers try to explain to O'Reilly that his 'rights' aren't violated by private criticism":

O'Reilly kicked off the segment with this statement:

I'm a big boy with a big megaphone, and I can defend myself. But many of you can't. If you're labeled a bigot, or punished in the marketplace for holding holding a non-liberal opinion, you can't right that wrong.
And this far-left fascism is very wrong. It must be called out. Fair-minded Americans can disagree on issues, but our freedoms must be protected.

To which I retorted:

So, it's wrong to be labeled "a bigot", even if you are one, but it's fine to accuse people of "far-left fascism". Good to know!

But then Dr. Goerge Tiller was murdered, and yesterday Jed Lewison put up the following video at DKos:

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