Elizabeth Edwards and Bill O’Reilly An Unlikely Alliance?
EmailABC News’ Raelyn Johnson reports: Right winged cable host Bill O’Reilly played fairy godfather to Elizabeth Edwards, after members of the blogosphere clipped the wings of one of their favorite goddesses.
After Elizabeth Edwards took issue with MoveOn.org saying, “Someone who’s spent their life in the military doesn’t deserve ‘General Betray Us,’” influential progressive blogger Jane Hamsher posted an open letter to Elizabeth asking her to lay off MoveOn.Org.
“Here’s the rule. You never repeat right wing talking points to attack your own, ever. You never enter that echo chamber as a participant. Ever. You never give them a hammer to beat the left with. Just don’t do it,” wrote Hamsher, expressing her disappoint in Elizabeth given the support the netroots has thrown behind her and her husband, John Edwards’ campaign.
“She is telling this woman, Mrs. Edwards, you—this is what you do. You don’t ever, like she’s six years old,” said O’Reilly criticizing Hamsher’s tone during his show Monday evening.
“I think this stuff is dangerous," added O’Reilly. "I think these are fascist people. I think they’re Nazis. I think that they’re basically — when you have a person like Elizabeth Edward, and you’re talking to that person on a world wide Internet connection like this, I mean, come on.”
Those are pretty strong words from O’Reilly in defense of a person who wouldn’t accept an invitation to come on his show.
Following Elizabeth’s famed fight with Ann Coulter this past June, Elizabeth made an appearance on Good Morning America defending her call to Coulter to stop the personal attacks.
That same evening, O’Reilly had Coulter on as guest where during the interview he revealed an unsuccessful attempt to get Elizabeth on The O’Reilly Factor.
“We called Elizabeth Edwards. And we said, ‘you know we’re real interested in this personal attack stuff because we have a problem with that on the left. Would you come on, either sit, you know, on a set, or on the phone?’ ‘No.’ Now, I’m saying to myself, wait a minute, you call into a program that no one watches, alright. And you have a point, no one watches. She’s- nobody sees this. I’m giving you a forum where ten million people on radio and TV are going to see it and you say no."
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Isn’t it amazing how America’s corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack press likes to put labels on conservatives (calling Bill O’Reilly “right wing”) but fail to call MoveOn.org a far left-wing hate group or the NYTimes an ultra liberal political/newspaper.
It’s all because of the lack of Diversity within the corrupt liberal press.
How much lower can we go?
Posted by: perception5 | September 19, 2007, 5:46 am 5:46 am
Left and right never worked as political labels. They are academic terms meant to foster debate. Real politics has always been more complicated than left versus right. However, whenever we view things in a bipolar way, we act crazy. I don’t know how you solve this problem, but it would be a good step to admit that we have this problem.
Posted by: Sean O'Brien | September 19, 2007, 6:22 am 6:22 am
I think Elizabeth Edwards has hammered the final nail in John’s political coffin. Now that she is siding with every right wing nutjob, the Dem and Independent voters will really shy away from John now. She has put her foot in her mouth this time. She would have been better off not commenting at all rather than to choose right over left. No wonder Bill O’Reilly is so happy. All neocons should be happy over this one. Silence is golden when it comes to a political campaign. The Edwards will have no one to blame but themselves when they lose.
Posted by: Ron | September 19, 2007, 7:21 am 7:21 am
In this case if the platform is even then a Lefty must admit Bill is right. As for General Betray Us it is rough to say this to a military general. But the military must understand that it is not the President they serve but the people. It is the people’s congress, the people’s foreign policy, the people’s wars. When the people speak and governments, officials, and administrators fail to hear, they are no longer our’s. If Petraus believes that report there isn’t a betrayal. It is opinion. That is why Betray Us is way too strong.
Posted by: Dee | September 19, 2007, 9:45 am 9:45 am
No matter how long people like O’Lielly keep at it, their hypocrisy never ceases to stagger the imagination. All this proves is that O’Lielly hates MoveOn more than he hates Elizabeth Edwards. So what? It certainly doesn’t make him worthy of respect — nor does it make him any less of a sick, sad and comprehensively deluded hate merchant so typical of the right!
Posted by: TheDreaming1 | September 19, 2007, 10:10 am 10:10 am