Letter to O'Reilly re: Ward Churchill

[ComerPerro]

Mr. O'Reilly,

I have been watching your show these past weeks with great interest, mostly because of the controversy surrounding Mr. Ward Churchill. I have listened as you weighed in on the matter.

But I couldn't help but take issue with your comments that such "anti-American" speech should not be tolerated, and certainly should not be rewarded. For example, you have attacked and condemned any University or organization that gives Mr. Chruchill a public forum.

My question, therefore, has to do with your network. How is it that I can watch you rail against anti-American, radical speech (in this case, speech that pins the blame for 9/11 on the victims and other Americans)a and then immediately afterward be subjected to vile and insane rants coming from Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell?

How is it that you can defend your very network for practicing that which you claim to be against?

Consider the following conversation, which took place on Pat Robertson's program The 700 Club, on September 13 of 2001:

FALWELL - What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

ROBERTSON - Well, Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven't begun to see what they can do to the major population

FALWELL - The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen.

ROBERTSON - I totally concur, and the problem is we've adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government, and so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do, and the top people, of course, is the court system."


Why are these two America-hating, radical clerics still given any credibility by your network?

[Shredr]

1. Yeah, how would he justify his agrument?

Not that he'd ever answer.

[Nimrod]

2. If you get an answer

I'll bet money it's a form letter reading VERY close to this:

"Thank you for your valued input. As always we shall continue our fair and balanced coverage of vital issues to the American people."

Proof that you simply do not exist in the minds of the elite.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. Excellent points

These people are saying the same thing that Churchill is saying except that Churchill can back his claims up with fact, and these people are assigning the result of our actions to a mythological character.

Are liberals ever going to wake up and realize that you don't fight oppressors with being a "nice guy?"