Is Bill O’Reilly Meddling in Georgia Politics?

[CottonBear]

In November 2004 Paul Howard, a Democrat, ran unopposed for District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia and thus became the first African-American D.A. in the history of that state. One would assume he was unchallenged because the Republicans had no viable candidate to put up against him. In the same election former prosecutor Shannon Goessling, a white conservative Republican, who is also the Executive Director of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, lost her bid to become State Attorney General. Last week in my 2/16/05 post, I reported that on February 15th Bill O’Reilly exhorted his Georgia viewers to start a “recall” campaign against D. A. Howard based on Howard’s alleged mishandling of a six-year-old case

On 2/16/05 he followed up by interviewing two “experts” - James Fox, Ph. D. of Northeastern University and Michael King of Project 21 - during which he tried to justify his claim that District Attorney Howard does not value black victims and that this is shown by his willingness to allow Carisa Ashe to plead down a manslaughter charge to 5 years probation and submitting to a tubal ligation.

Ashe, 34 years old, is an African-American, the mother of eight with no prior abuse charges, who may have killed her five-week-old child in 1998 in the throes of post-partum depression. She is clearly a woman with massive emotional issues that have never been addressed and there are differing medical opinions as to whether or not the child died from sudden infant death syndrome, shaken baby syndrome or was murdered.

After his initial segment on the topic, O’Reilly posted a column on his web site as well as a letter that can be e-mailed directly from the site to protest the plea bargain, demanding that Fulton County rescind the please bargain and prosecute Ms. Ashe for murder.

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I thougt Fulton County residents might be interested in O'Lieley's latest witch hunt.

[murray hill farm]

1. He is a horrid man!

Where does he even find these stands that he takes...what is he doing in georgia anyway.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Totally bizarre.

While the 5 week old gets her justice, what's his opinion on the other 8 children who will lose a mother? No family values in this position.

What a moral blowhard. I'm sure its more about the Democrat DA than about this case. If he was a Republican, would O'Reilly be even reporting it?

[CottonBear]

3. Our Attorney General, Thurbert Baker is a black Democrat.

Georgia Democrats still hold the Secretary of State (Cathy Cox), Lt Gov. (Mark Taylor), Atty. Gen. (Thurbert Baker) and Head of the State Dept. of Labor (Michael Thurmond) positions. The Dept of Labor head, Michael Thurmond is black.

Ralph "Christian Coalition" Reed is going to run for Lt. Governor. "The Big Guy" Mark Taylor is considering a run for governor. Cathy "100% Diebold" Cox is probably going to run for governor.

Perhaps O'Lieley's setting up a smear campaign against black DAs with an ultimate goal of unseating Baker? I'm sure that Sonny Perdue (the governor) and his wingnut Republicaban colleagues can not stand having a woman, a liberal white guy and two liberal blacks in such key positions. I see that he's calling for a "recall." That seems to be the Republicaban way of taking office when they can't get elected by fraud during the scheduled elections.