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O’Reilly: If Cheney had ‘an assassination squad,’ he would have killed Seymour Hersh ‘a long time ago.’

During a speech at the University of Minnesota last week, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claimed that the Bush administration had employed “an executive assassination ring” that “reported directly to the Cheney office.” In an Boston Herald op-ed today, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly mocked Hersh’s claim, saying “If Cheney really had such a crew,” reporters like Hersh would have already been killed:

The other day, left-wing muckraker Seymour Hersh went on MSNBC and said he had information, provided by the usual anonymous sources, that Dick Cheney was running an assassination squad out of the White House.

I have but one simple observation: If Cheney really had such a crew, Hersh would have been dead a long time ago, and so would most everybody at MSNBC.

Update At Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard calls O'Reilly's column "fabulous" and "delicious," writing that he expects "O'Reilly to take a great deal of heat for his opening quip concerning Hersh and MSNBC, and for me to similarly be defamed by all manner of left-wing shill for having the nerve to repeat it."


90 Responses to “O’Reilly: If Cheney had ‘an assassination squad,’ he would have killed Seymour Hersh ‘a long time ago.’”

  1. the brown acid says:

    F-ing Bill O Reilly. Everything this guy says drips with authoritarianism. What a pathetic coward. F him and F Cheny too. shit.


  2. dbadass says:

    Sure but did he whine about his imaginary “war” on Christmas


  3. the brown acid says:

  4. dixie blood says:

    Why does the Boston Herald, any other newspaper for that matter, want to have anything to do with this facist, sexual predator? Don’t they give a sh|t about their credibility or is the Herald like the NY Post a reich-wing rag?


  5. Badger says:

    And…if Seymour Hersch is Right about this, then Mr. Cheney will be treated to a Bush Version of the Iran Contra Investigation.

    Remember that Reagan’s CIA Director, Wm. Casey ran a SECRET Operation outside of the US Govt. that illegally funneled cash to the Contras in Niceragua.

    Fortunately for the Republicans, George H.W.Bush overcame a 15 point gap in the polls ( thanks to Lee Attwater and Willie Horton), and Won Election in 1988.

    Bush I, supposedly “out of the loop” as Vice President, successfully derailed any REAL accountability from the Reagan Administration.

    It is Ironic that many of the players from the Reagan Administration may Now face accountability for their extra-legal escapades in Bush’s War on Terror.


  6. tko says:

    He must mean like Bush talking about bombing Al Jazeera. That kinda puts Dild O’reilly in the same category as Bush, semi-retarded, not to insult actual retarded people.


  7. kasinca says:

    BillO is the biggest lunatic on FAUX, well I take that back, it is close between BillO, Glenn Beck, and of course, Insannity Hannity.


  8. nellre says:

    kasinca:

    Beck and Hannity are much worse IMHO.


  9. spencers mom says:

    I’m surprised to see any paper willing to run what appears to be a wingnut’s wet dream assassination hit list. But since the Boston Herald was for years owned by Murdoch, and later one of Newscorp’s former execs, nothing comes as a surprise.

    PEACE


  10. Fred says:

    Even if cheney didn’t have a death squad, he would have liked to have had one and evenually would have.


  11. LibertyLover says:

    If I had to choose between an actual reporter with real sources and a real sense of ethics and a hack that pulls information from some unmentionable nether-region or makes it up as he goes along, I think I would choose the former.


  12. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    Reading the rest of his column (oh, yes, I took the brave step of reading Bill O’Reilley’s words; I’ll shower later), it appears that Bill-O was trying to be humorous. The rest of that column is imagined headlines that we will see, in which everyone blames Bush and Cheney for everything. It’s not particularly funny, nor well-written. O’Reilly does moronic, clueless outrage better than he does humor.


  13. And Yet... says:

    I must view things like some previous generation did, I guess. Why ITNOG is it ok for Bill O’Reilly to say anything like this in a public speech. Is it ok if I announce that if BillO had his own assassination crew they would have killed Al Franken & Olbermann a while ago? “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest? “(Becket).

    Be gone forever, BillO- I will this with my imaginary crew of assassins. Ed Schulz will finally bury Bill Orally’s FixedNews spew when he starts his new show on MSNBC.


  14. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    I’m concerned about the violence fetish people on the right (like O’Reilly) have. They seem happy when they imagine liberals and people who disagree with them (which includes most people with IQs in the three-digit range) getting killed or suffering violent, horrible deaths, especially at the hands of another person. They don’t just want to see liberals dead, they want to see them killed by someone on the right. Very disturbing, and unhealthy, as well.


  15. spencers mom says:

    Wayne A. Schneider Says:

    I’m concerned about the violence fetish people on the right (like O’Reilly) have.

    Oh Wayne, don’t you know that’s wingnut humor? Violence, hatred, bigotry, lies, smears… I’ve got a stitch in my side from laughing so hard! OMG, add in some nooses hanging in their offices, and we’re all ROFL!

    Those wingers, they sure are a funny bunch!

    PEACE


  16. dbadass says:

    And I am a little concerned that it is pushing noon and Archie/Habib/Rebecca is still struggling to think up a new name…


  17. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    OMG, that is beyond the pale. Isn’t it time for the FCC to step in here? I don’t see how advocating violence on the radio can be a good thing or even permissible.


  18. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Thanks for performing that public service, Wayne.

    I have no doubt that Bildo was trying to be humorous, but it’s very telling, isn’t it, the directions in which his “humor” flows?


  19. fletc3her says:

    I can’t shake this image of Cheney in his undisclosed location watching the CIA torture a renditioned prisoner on a close circuit feed. Does Cheney instruct them on what to do? Does he quibble with the doctor about whether the prisoner is close enough to the red line? Does he eat while he watches? He doesn’t do it with glee. He doesn’t show enjoyment. He imagines that he is stoic. He does what needs he imagines needs to be done while the rest of America cowers behind their quaint Geneva conventions and Judeo-Christian morals. Even Bush is too big a pansy to watch it live, preferring instead to simply hear that what needed to be done was done. What does he tell his wife and daughters he was doing after he leaves the room? Does he feel guilty when the prisoner dies or does he just wash his hands and think of which cover story they will use this time?


  20. spencers mom says:

    fletc3her, what a grim picture you paint. But it leads one to wonder, does he self-pleasure while watching? That would be consistent with his pathology, but I wonder how his old ticker holds up under so much excitement.

    PEACE


  21. ralph the wonder llama says:

    dbadass Says:
    And I am a little concerned that it is pushing noon and Archie/Habib/Rebecca is still struggling to think up a new name…

    Well, he’s already used up Olbermann’s ex-girlfriend and several 70’s sitcom characters. But there are still several sitcoms he hasn’t touch. I suggest “Rerun” from What’s Happenin!


  22. thedeadparrott says:

    If I had an assassination squad, I know where I would send them.


  23. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    Wayne A. Schneider Says:
    I’m concerned about the violence fetish people on the right (like O’Reilly) have.

    That is a big concern for me too. When you have people saying things like “we have to get rid of Obama any way we can” and Michael Steel saying “Strap it on”, Glen Beck inciting his followers and Hannity having a poll on his site asking which kind of armed revolution did the listeners favor, we have a real powder keg going right now. Not only do we have a President who has received an unprecedented number of death threats we now have the right subliminally inciting it’s people to violence against anyone who doesn’t agree with them.


  24. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    spencers mom,

    I won’t lie. When I was a kid, I loved “Tom & Jerry” cartoons. I laughed when Jerry found some clever way to bash Tom’s face in. But even then, I knew it wasn’t real. I knew you couldn’t really do those things to people and they would be okay (or even live). I’m not so sure O’Reilly understands that. And I do truly believe that the thought of people like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, George Soros, and Ted Kennedy meeting violent deaths amuses O’Reilly, and brings a smile to his face. He really is a very sick man who needs psychiatric help and anger management training. But Murdoch will never force him to do that (as a condition of employment) because, as far as Murdoch’s concerned, O’Reilly is “great television.” What will Murdoch do when the next mass murderer cites Bill O’Reilly as his inspiration for killing people?


  25. Rich H says:

    It’s all fun and games – and humourous to O’Reilly until some unhinged right wing lunatic thinks that would make a good list to work from. Even then, he might still think it’s funny.


  26. 1984 says:

  27. spencers mom says:

    Wayne, I agree. We were a Roadrunner family, but we also knew that the Acme Explosives Company was as fictitious as the violence. It’s scary to imagine a liquored up, unemployed redneck listening to these buffoons and taking their suggestions to heart. Nothing good can come of it.

    PEACE


  28. youtube says:

    Bush and cheney won’t make me suprise whatever they do or they in their mind, anything possible.


  29. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    spencers mom,

    I loved Road Runner, too. I liked when they had the Coyote talk in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. One of the most memorable lines for me (and probably others, too), was when the Coyote was filling carrots with explosives, unaware that Bugs had towed his shack onto the railroad tracks. He start saying “Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.” Then you hear a train’s whistle in the background. “I rather like the way that sounds. Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.” Then, as he realizes the train sound is getting closer, he looks out the window, sees the train bearing down on him, and pulls the shade down. I would have done the same thing.

    But I fully understood it wasn’t real and never could be. O’Reilly probably figures Wile E. Coyote hated liberals, too.


  30. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    Rich H Says:
    It’s all fun and games – and humourous to O’Reilly until some unhinged right wing lunatic thinks that would make a good list to work from. Even then, he might still think it’s funny.

    Wouldn’t it be ironic if some crazy leftie decided to do to O’Reilly what he would like to see happen to people he doesn’t like?


  31. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    youtube Says:

    March 22nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    No disrespect intended, youtube, but would you mind trying that one again in English? I think I know what you’re trying to say, but I’m not so sure.


  32. jb says:

    We know you have tried, Bill, but you can’t kill the truth.


  33. Mosaic says:

    Such violent statements should be unacceptable to any civilized person. This neanderthal should be fined for saying such hateful, violent things.


  34. Trollspotter says:

    ralph the wonder llama Says:

    Well, he’s already used up Olbermann’s ex-girlfriend and several 70’s sitcom characters. But there are still several sitcoms he hasn’t touch. I suggest “Rerun” from What’s Happenin!

    Good choice. My vote would be for him to get all Sanford and Son and come back as “Big Dummy.” Truth in advertising and all.


  35. Xisithrus says:

    Remember when O’reilly threatened people with his security team?

    Good times


  36. Bad Eye says:

    Of course, just because Cheney likely had an assassin squad doesn’t necessarily mean that he intended to use it. Bill won’t be bothered with the simple fact that it is possible he did have one.


  37. Quizmos says:

    The futile rantings of a dead man walking!


  38. superid says:

    Bill O reminds me of some effeminate Argentinian fascist.


  39. hillary1 says:

    O’Reilly cracks me up. Methinks he doeth protest too much.


  40. wearechange says:

    that sounds like a death threat to me.


  41. Jackie says:

    In 2003 Dr. David Kelly who worked on the WMD project in England said Blair has cherry picked/sexed up information to get the vote to join Bush on the illegal invasion of Iraq. Days later Dr. Kelly was found dead his information would have stopped England from joining in the US plan. A quick investigation said he killed himself, but he wife saw no signs of him being upset and he was looking foward to testify about his findings. Blair quickly got involved in the investigation and asked that it not be in the Media. Several World Presidents have said they know attempts were made on their lives by the Cheney Assassination Squad. For those who don’t remember the US has always had Assassination Squads such as Prescott Bush who attempted to assassinate FDR. GOP developed the team that Assassinated JFK and of course Cheney knew about the Assassination Squad during the Iran-Contra Affair. It might be funny or a joke for people like O’Reilly and others but over the 8 years of the Bush Administration the US had assassinated people and Valerie Plame can count herself and her husband lucky to be alive.


  42. Uncle Fester Lurks says:

    Some how I think the evil dark lord Darth Cheney was aiming his death squads at leaders of foreign countries who might oppose selling their natural resources to big corporations in America. I doubt he’d use them to take out media people unless of course him and his puppet bUSH decided to call off the elections in 2008 and administered martial law in our country. This death squad thing does put an interesting spin on the anthrax attacks doesn’t it?


  43. Uncle Fester Lurks says:

    Of course the late, great senator Paul Wellstone could have possibly been Cheneyed.


  44. Laszlo Panaflex says:

    Illustrating clearly that Vladimir Putin is the model President for US conservatives.


  45. hanshiro says:

    Let’s revisit yet another Bill O’Reilly trademark smokescreen dissembling of propaganda after the fact. Remember the infamous Saudi flights after 9-11?

    O’Reilly once again tried to knock that baldly indicative evidence down in short order…

    One of Moore’s key indictments of Bush is his family’s cozy relationship with the Saudis, and he zeroes in on White House-approved flights of Saudis, including Osama bin Laden’s relatives, out of the United States in the days after 9/11. On this last point, Moore cites the investigative work of Craig Unger, author of House of Bush, House of Saud.

    As anyone watching The O’Reilly Factor on Monday night knows, the right-wing attack on Moore and his sources, including Unger, has already begun. Bill O’Reilly’s guest was Michael Isikoff of Newsweek, who discussed an article he wrote which O’Reilly claims “seemingly contradicts any wrongdoing in the matter by the Bush administration.”

    From the transcript:

    O’REILLY: OK. Well, I know there will be some people who believe Michael Moore over the commission, but we don’t need to deal with those people.

    Later, O’Reilly says, “We don’t want to let the facts get in the way of Michael’s movie.”

    I wonder how much O’Reilly got paid to muddy-up the waters of public information. Apparently he’s still one of their go-to guys…

    Well, we wouldn’t want the facts to get in the way of The Factor. War Room called author Craig Unger today and asked him about this. Unger says he spoke with Isikoff while he was reporting the Newsweek piece, yet the piece still contained mistakes — the same ones he repeated on Fox News.

    “These are mistakes he made knowingly. He knows better,” Unger said.

    Isikoff says the Saudi flights started on Sept. 14. But as Unger reported in House of Bush, House of Saud, the first flight took place on Sept. 13, as commercial aviation was slowly starting up again but still restricted. Private flights were still banned. The St. Petersburg Times reported last week that Tampa International Airport has finally, after three years of denials from White House, aviation and law enforcement officials, admitted the flight took place. The flight in question carried Saudis from Tampa to Lexington, Ky., and was approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration. “If as Isikoff suggests, these flights were legitimate, why was it discussed in the White House?” Unger said.

    Isikoff also mischaracterizes what Unger says in the film about FBI interviews of the fleeing bin Ladens. This one is easy to check. In the movie, Moore sums up the Saudi evacuation process by saying: “So a little interview, check the passport, what else?” he asks. “Nothing,” Unger replied.

    Unger tells War Room, “I never say they were not interviewed. What I do say is this: Given that 48 hours earlier, 3,000 people had just been murdered, this was a time for a serious massive criminal investigation to begin and it didn’t happen. Instead, relatively speaking, Saudis were given privileges Americans were not allowed.”

    Unger continues: “You have to wonder why Michael Isikoff is trying to defend an administration that seemed to avoid launching such a really rigorous investigation at that point.”

    Unger has written a letter to Newsweek complaining about Isikoff’s story, and published it on his Web site. “I think it’s interesting they start to attack me now,” he says, “presumably they expect the movie to have an impact.”

    Of course, we now know absolutely that Moore was correct and O’Reilly’s diarrhea barrage was only to provide doubt in the public’s mind…..again.

    Even Snopes was carrying bush’s water.


  46. dixie blood says:

    Uncle Fester Lurks,

    I’m pretty sure Mike Connell was murdered by his fellow RePugniScums. See this link: http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=403 They say it was an accident. I say bullsh|t!


  47. John Barringer says:

    Badger Says:
    And…if Seymour Hersch is Right about this, then Mr. Cheney will be treated to a Bush Version of the Iran Contra Investigation.

    And we all know how much that little charade accomplished.

    Remember that Reagan’s CIA Director, Wm. Casey ran a SECRET Operation outside of the US Govt. that illegally funneled cash to the Contras in Niceragua.

    Casey was silenced (literally) and then probably murdered, probably by some of hie own people. He was admitted to the hospital literally hours before he was to testify about before Congress about Iran-Contra. He was said to have “brain cancer”. The first thing they did was remove the portion of Casey’s cerebral cortex which controlled speech. as far as I can recall, Casey never left the hospital.


  48. Rich H says:

    Hi John Barringer,

    I used to work for a fellow retired from the CIA and he a photo in his office of Casey that read (as best I remember) “thanks for all your hard work we couldn’t have accomplished this without your dedication” signed by Casey.

    I always wondered what he did.


  49. John Barringer says:

    nellre Says: Beck and Hannity are much worse IMHO.

    For now. This is the start of the “Glen Beck Effect”. Beck’s ratings are through the roof. An egomaniac like O’Reilly or Hannity can’t let that happen so watch them ramp up the crazy on their shows.

    And then there’s Bernard Goldberg and his “hit lists”.

    I’m actually pretty frightened. This is really going to push a lot more of these wingnuts over the edge.


  50. Badger says:

    John Barringer Says:

    And we all know how much that little charade accomplished.

    In 1992 George H. W. Bush pardoned six convicted administration officials, namely Elliott Abrams, Duane R. Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, Robert McFarlane, and Caspar Weinberger.[57]

    I doubt that Obama will pardon any convicted members of the Bush Administration.

    Elections have consequences. We’ll have to wait and see what Congress (Kucinich) and Eric Holder can Uncover.


  51. hanshiro says:

    The troubling aspect about this is that despite our government having shown plenty of examples of their complicity in any number of heinous operations, programs, pogroms, accessory to murder, genocide, black ops, Blackwater, torture, brutal butchery, civilian bombings, coverups, lies, assassination and summary execution;

    …the troubling aspect remains the American public’s inability not only to believe it and grasp the implications, but comprehend that in most cases, it has nothing to do with democracy, freedom, defense or justice.

    Just money and power.

    The sooner the general public groks the evidence and implications, separate apart from the subtle and overt jingoism of the MSM, the better chance our government has to realize a true version of the charade with which we’ve been continually inculcated throughout our culture.


  52. dbadass says:

    Hi Proud.
    Did you fail freshman English? Are you proud of that?


  53. SKdeA says:

    By looking at a sentence that contains the phrase, “while I am at I am calling for”, I think you may have nailed it, dbadass.


  54. Ape-Man says:

    Has Seymour Hersh been wrong before?


  55. pete says:

    Why, pray tell, would Cheney want to silence Hersh if he was just making stuff up?


  56. flex says:

    how come the evil O’Reilly gets paid to promote terrorism?
    because the sinister wingnut Fox news pays him.


  57. Ape-Man says:

    Faux promotes terror because it pays well. May that change.


  58. joe cantwell says:

    Proud Says:
    BREAKING NEWS….. The new Death Star will be built by Haliburton at the new Bush Library commanded by Cheney and staffed by Blackwater… Long live the Republic.

    *

    proud;

    portrait of an onanist

    trying to be

    a comedian.

    _-_

    good luck

    proud.

    :)

    open mike night

    is tuesday. doors open at 7.

    ;|


  59. texaslady says:

    The question is, are there some that enjoy beck’s ranting because they realize how insane he sounds or do they think as he does ? The same would go for O’reilly, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, Gibson are there so many crazies in the world that enjoy the nastiness spewed by these loons ?


  60. Bozo The Neoclown says:

    ““If Cheney really had such a crew,” reporters like Hersh would have already been killed”

    because we all know fascists hate the free press and prefer puppets like o’lielly…just stick your hand up their asses and spread your message.


  61. dbearton says:

    Bilbo, you are right. It is long past time for the FCC to step in and revoke faux news’ license for various violations of the law.


  62. Keith says:

    The Bible has been at the root of one million times as many murders as Catcher In The Rye! That’s even assuming CITR was ever at the root of a single one.


  63. CJP says:

    Assassination squads run out of the White House usually operate in foreign countries, generally by the CIA. They are not known for assassinating American journalists reporting in the USA, whether Seymour Hersh or Bill O’Reilly. However, between Hersh and O’Reilly — Hersh is a million times more reliable and truthful. If Hersh says that Cheney operated an “executive assassination crew” operating out of the White House, that sounds like a story worth following up. More often than not, Hersh turns out to be right. “Executive assassination” doesn’t normally include journalists or reporters.

    Please visit my Blog:
    “Conservatives Are America’s Real Terrorists”
    http://conservativesarecommunistss.blogspot.com/


  64. Keith says:

    Journalists were targeted and killed by the US military at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.

    from the wiki:
    “Former military intelligence linguist, Army Sergent Adrienne Kinne has revealed (Democracy Now – May 13th, 2008) that she saw secret US military documents that listed the Hotel Palestine as a potential target.”


  65. Keith says:

    G. Gordon Liddy was going to kill Wash Post reporter Jack Anderson because Liddy misunderstood something Nixon said and thought he wanted him killed. Someone realized what was about to happen and stopped Liddy. Recently, Liddy was given the Freedom Of Speech Award. How Orwellian!


  66. Keith says:

    Possible the planes of Wellstone and Connell were disabled by Electromagnetic pulse.


  67. E Z Rider says:

    bill o does know cheney well by making a statement like that.
    What he doesn’t know is what cheney REALLY has control over.
    The rest of the world knows, but we all know bill o’s mental capabilities.


  68. labman57 says:

    Once again, O’Reilly is projecting…


  69. curious says:

    Another Republican loud mouth. Another call for someones death. These conservatives must have taken a blood oath. What is it about death that they love so much? And what is so lacking in their politics and philosophy, that they want to destroy anyone with an opposing idea? Surely if a idea is good or relevant it will stand on it’s own without violating someone else’s right to speak.

    O’Reilly is like most neocons. Especially the ones that have never in their lives fought a war, or struggled to survive. They are happy to tell others what they themselves cannot or will not do. To foist their fascism on others. We never seem to run out of these pathetic, empty people that speak only hatred. His heart must be the size of a grape.


  70. OutstandingInMyField says:

    Proud Says:
    BREAKING NEWS….. The new Death Star will be built by Haliburton at the new Bush Library commanded by Cheney and staffed by Blackwater…

    Oh that’s a relief! In that case it will cost 300 trillion dollars and fall to function.


  71. OutstandingInMyField says:

    fail to function…though it may kill random innocent people at an intersection in Iraq.


  72. ralph the wonder llama says:

    curious Says:
    Another Republican loud mouth. Another call for someones death. These conservatives must have taken a blood oath. What is it about death that they love so much?

    Good question, and I’m sure there are more than a few answers.

    But my feeling is that it’s just a function of their binary minds. We’ve all seen how conservatives gravitate toward black/white, either/or scenarios. It’s what makes them feel comfortable. If it’s not one extreme, it’s the other extreme. You’re either with us or agin’ us.

    So I’m thinking that when they’re faced with people whose ideas they detest, their instincts tell them to go for the extreme. Just kill ‘em. Simple. Clean. Emotionally satisfying (if you’re a right-wing psychopath, that is).


  73. wizard2000 says:

    Why would an “executive assassination ring” being run out of the right-wing Bush administration be any surprise?

    Back during the 1980s, the Reagan administration backed right-wing death squads around the world, with this secret (and highly illegal) policy apparently being run out of Reagan’s vice president’s office. And Reagan’s vice president? George H.W. Bush, former head of the CIA, therefore perfectly suited to run a clandestine operation involving right-wing death squads.

    So, maybe this has become a Republican Party tradition, get a doofus front-man elected president, but place the real power of the presidency in the hands of the vice president, out of whose office the most shadowy of shadow right-wing policies are practiced. Torture. Assassinations. Secret surveillance. All highly illegal. All highly right-wing. All signs of a highly paranoid mental illness. Of which, apparently, Bill O’Reilly has loads of. And Limbaugh. And Savage. And Cheney. And Bush.


  74. Purple State says:

    dixie blood Says:

    Why does the Boston Herald, any other newspaper for that matter, want to have anything to do with this facist, sexual predator? Don’t they give a sh|t about their credibility or is the Herald like the NY Post a reich-wing rag?

    The Herald is hardly a beacon of political neutrality in Boston. They employ Howie Carr, who could easily be a Rush Jr., to write about the “moonbat” liberals in Massachusetts in the same way Bill wrote his article; short incoherent sentences that are all mockery. The paper continually tries to destroy the Democrat governor’s reputation and second-guess his decisions on the budget. And one of their senior “sports writers” constantly rips on Obama during the 6AM morning AM radio show.

    I’m not surprised by the Herald running that crap in their pages at all. It’s a filthy rag.


  75. The Moderate Squad says:

    Noel Sheppard imagines he has “nerve” for repeating something BillO said? I look at it this way: Let’s say a retarded child told me that Monopoly money was real, so I went to the store and demanded they take said Monopoly money for the goods I wanted to purchase. Does that make me “nervy,” or just more retarded than the first kid?


  76. green says:

    Yeah, none of this should come as any surprise considering what we have survived the past eight years — and going back so much further. This deserves our attention and our outrage.


  77. green says:

    OT – I finally got a job back in my field after being unemployed for 3+ years. Today I participated in a peace march and tonight I’m indulging in champagne. Cheers!


  78. OutstandingInMyField says:

    Since I seem to be the last one here, please accept my congratulations green.


  79. JethroQWalrusTitty says:

    I’m so glad I’ve been IP-banned from Newsbusters.

    Sometimes I’d go there and the ignorance displayed was so mind-numbingly …stupid, that I couldn’t compose myself well enough to refute the idiocy. But of course, when I rightly pointed out where they were wrong in their stories OMG NOOES! BAN!


  80. TRDaggett says:

    I wonder how much BO spends on security?

    When miserable, hateful people like BO-RushBo-Savage-et al [ad nauseum...] live through hate(unless they’re sociopaths?) they have to be looking over their shoulder constantly.

    & How can people tune in to these dregs of sub-humanity and watch them mock people like M. J. Fox?

    What poetic justice it would be for them to experience a similar fate (although I wouldn’t wish that on anyone!). Maybe in a “A Christmas Carol” kind of way..

    What is it in their audience’s psycho-social makeup that allows them to accept that behavior and continue to tune in?


  81. TRDaggett says:

    And Green that’s great news, congratulations! Very happy for you. – Cheers!


  82. TRDaggett says:

    PS: Many thanks to you [Wayne A. Schneider] for taking that brave step and reporting back!

    And to the others (like those at MediaMatters) who sacrifice themselves similarly for the greater good, many thanks..

    We who would rather crawl naked through a field of nettle than read/view/watch the lies and verbal bile of that subset of inhumanity salute you!


  83. EugeneDebs says:

    BLC Says:

    O’Reilly: If Cheney had ‘an assassination squad,’ he would have killed Seymour Hersh ‘a long time ago.’

    Now that right there’s funny, I don’t care who you are!
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ignorant punks like you always think death threats are funny. Its because you are sick depraved morons without a shred of decency.


  84. EugeneDebs says:

    Proud Says:

    You are the quintessential moron. You are plain stupid. You have the IQ of a carrot and you call Biden stupid? The best you ever do is chanell Bozo the Clown. When will ignorant pieces of garbage like you stop projecting your inadeqacies on decent people?


  85. EugeneDebs says:

    Proud Says:

    Breaking News. Proud is still as stupid as brass bubblegum. Still an ignorant classless troll. Still without a functioning brain. Still a sad and pathetic loser


  86. EugeneDebs says:

    BLC Says:

    I think it would be safe to say “JethroQWalrusTitty” never proved anybody wrong……
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    No it is NOT safe to say unless you have amazing mind reading powers which we both know you dont. It is safe to say for a liar and a fool like you who doesnt care BEANS about truth or reality but that is another story. Wingnuts are easy to prove wrong especially the really stupid ones like YOU.


  87. ctcadguy says:

    Who really believes Bruce Ivins was the Anthrax killer?

    His wife and friends as well as work collegues do not.

    The Anthrax attacks = Inside Job.

    Also – who really believes Mel Carnaham, JFK Junior and Paul Wellstone were all killed ny small plane accidents right before the 2000 election?

    Rethugs are nothing but old time fascist Nazi’s.

    Sieg Hiel!


  88. LizCoro says:

    I thing if anyone googles ‘Seymour Hersh + awards’ one understands the usual JEALOUSY dripping from the ignorant splotchey faced pervert . .

    Falafel anyone?


  89. ctcadguy says:

    Micheal Connell, the Rethug IT Consultant, died in a Plane crash right before his testimony on Vote stealing in Ohio.

    Sounds fishy to me.

    Just like the deaths of JFK Junior, Mel Carnaham and Paul Wellstone right before the 2000 election.

    Obama will be killed if he does not watch it.


  90. s3n says:

    dbadass Says:
    Sure but did he whine about his imaginary “war” on Christmas

    That’s funny until you realise you’re putting Seymour Hersh on par with that.
    After all, the score between assassinated Santas and assassinated reporters is all tied up 0-0.

    You’ve all been on the intertubes long enough to recall the same things from Hersh back in 2004, about other stories that he’d be breaking soon. Zip since.



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