6.15.2005

O'Reilly Vs. Kinsley

One of the wierder celebrity "feuds" I've witnessed has been between Fox News idiot Bill O'Reilly and LA Times editor Michael Kinsley. If you're not aware who Michael Kinsley is, he used to be the really stiff and boring liberal guy who debated Pat Buchanan on Crossfire back in the day. Anyways, it's not really a feud per se, for years now O'Reilly's been pissed at Kinsley for destroying the myth that O'Reilly had any sort of blue collar upbringing. Kinsley, as boring as he may seem, is probably one of the smartest guys in the country, and even went on O'Reilly's show and called him out. O'Reilly has had it out for Kinsley ever since.
Kinsley recently had the indecency to suggest that detainees held in Guantanamo should have legal representation. That whole American tradition where you're allowed to know why you're being held and allowed to actually defend yourself? Yeah, that kind of thing. O'Reilly basically equates this with eating babies. Which explains why he said the following on his radio show:
"[People who support giving detainees lawyers will] never get it until [terrorists] grab Michael Kinsley out of his little house and they cut his head off… And maybe when the blade sinks in, he’ll go, ‘Perhaps O’Reilly was right.’”

Unbelievable. This kind of rhetoric gets by unchallenged, yet Howard Dean calls Republicans "White Christians" and all hell breaks loose. That liberal media, I tell ya.

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