{"id":14735,"date":"2008-02-29T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14735.html"},"modified":"2008-02-29T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:00:52","slug":"oreilly-equates-arianna-huffington-with-nazis-kkk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/oreilly-equates-arianna-huffington-with-nazis-kkk\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Reilly equates Arianna Huffington with Nazis, KKK"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s as if Bill O’Reilly<\/a> has never even heard of Godwin’s Law.<\/p>\n

During the February 27 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly attacked Arianna Huffington — founder of The Huffington Post — over comments (since removed) that readers posted to an item on the website reporting the hospitalization of former first lady Nancy Reagan after a fall. O’Reilly asserted: “[Y]ou know, I’m not going to call her a name. Arianna Huffington, I have no respect for the woman. I think that she is hurting the country. I wish everybody felt the way I did.” <\/p>\n

Townhall.com managing editor Mary Katherine Ham, a guest on the show, then stated: “[T]his happens frequently, unfortunately, on the left-wing blogs,” adding, “[E]very time a conservative gets injured, dies, has something threatening them — whether it’s [former White House press secretary] Tony Snow with cancer or Mrs. Reagan falling down — there is often on [the website] Democratic Underground or Huffington Post, a celebration thread. ” O’Reilly then called The Huffington Post a “sewer” and later asked: “[W]hat’s the difference between the Ku Klux Klan and Arianna Huffington? What’s the difference?” <\/p>\n

When Ham replied: “I think there’s difference,” O’Reilly said: “I don’t see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis. … I don’t see any difference.” Ham responded: “[O]h, my gosh. I’m going to have to disagree with you on that one.” O’Reilly replied: “They both want people to die, Mary Katherine. Don’t they?” Ham noted that Huffington “was not the one making those comments” and later stated: “I still don’t think she’s a Nazi.” O’Reilly then said: “I didn’t say she was a Nazi. … I said there’s no difference between what the two do. I want everybody to know that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, let’s review. Someone — not Arianna Huffington — made intemperate remarks about Nancy Reagan in a comments section. Someone on the Huffington staff removed the comments. In response, O’Reilly — who’s had some intemperate comments in his own online forum, not to mention what he says on the air — feels justified in comparing Huffington to the KKK, and insisting that there’s “no difference” between her and the Nazis.<\/p>\n

There has<\/i> to be some kind of medication available for this guy.
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\nIt’s worth noting, as Media Matters does<\/a>, that the Nazi\/KKK comparison seems to have become something of a default criticism for O’Reilly. Someone bothers him? Bingo, the object of his ire immediately reminds him of the Nazis and the KKK.<\/p>\n

That obviously includes DailyKos<\/a>…<\/p>\n

During the July 18 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, while discussing JetBlue’s decision to sponsor the YearlyKos convention, host Bill O’Reilly asserted that the blog Daily Kos is a “hate website[]” and opined: “There’s no difference between the KKK and the Nazis, who have websites, than the Daily Kos. Because the Daily Kos is basically saying, ‘We’re allowing this kind of thing to come on.’ ” … O’Reilly previously compared Daily Kos to the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan on the July 16 edition of his program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…not to mention Michael Moore, Al Franken, and Hollywood libs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One week after right-wing radio host Michael Savage compared progressive financier, philanthropist, and political activist George Soros to Hitler’s minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, TV and radio host Bill O’Reilly compared both author\/documentarian Michael Moore and radio host Al Franken to Goebbels. O’Reilly also likened a group of Hollywood celebrities who attended a recent premier of Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 9\/11, to the Nazi faithful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If ever there was a clown in need of some new material, it’s O’Reilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s as if Bill O’Reilly has never even heard of Godwin’s Law. During the February 27 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly attacked Arianna Huffington — founder of The Huffington Post — over comments (since removed) that readers posted to an item on the website reporting the hospitalization of former first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}