O'Reilly lamented "personal attack[s]" on Cindy Sheehan, ignoring his
own role in smearing her
http://mediamatters.org/items/200706070001
During the June 5 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill
O'Reilly said of anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan: "I don't like to
see any American suffer the way I think Ms. Sheehan has suffered from
losing her son to being personally attacked. And we wish her well."
However, in sympathizing with Sheehan's "suffer[ing]," O'Reilly
ignored his own history of smearing Sheehan, as Media Matters for
America has documented:
* On the January 6, 2006, broadcast of his nationally syndicated
radio show, O'Reilly asserted: "I'm not vilifying the woman
[Sheehan]. I play her comments, and I tell you the truth. She's run
by far-left elements who are using her, and she's dumb enough to
allow it to happen. It's not a vilification, it's a fact."
* On the October 25, 2005, broadcast of his radio show, O'Reilly
included Sheehan in a list of "coward[s]" who had been invited to
appear on his programs but would "not stand up and answer questions
about their bomb-throwing statements."
* On the August 9, 2005, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly
accused Sheehan of behavior that "other American families who have
lost sons and daughters in Iraq" think "borders on treasonous."
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get real. like jesus would ever own a gun or vote republican.
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