LA Times Threatens O'Reilly With Secret Service

[dogday]

The Los Angeles Times is slamming Bill O'Reilly – for slamming the Los Angeles Times.


The newspaper has warned the "telephilosopher" to stop his "decapitation fantasies" involving Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley – or face trouble from the Secret Service.

It all started with a Times editorial urging the shutdown of the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and access to attorneys for detainees.
That set off O'Reilly. During the broadcast of "The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly" on May 17, he declared:

"How can they think this way? How can anyone think this way? You know: 'Shutting down Guantanamo and giving suspected terrorists legal protections would help restore our reputation abroad.'"

Said O'Reilly, "That’s like saying, 'Well, if we're nicer to the people who want to kill us, then the other people who want to kill us will like us more.'"


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/25/141947.shtml

[Kolesar]

1. yuck. Newsmax.

[sui generis]

2. stop threatening and grow a spine

initiate criminal investigation and litigation through the FCC and Department of Homeland Security and sue him in civil courts for putting the editor's family and journalists in danger from some nutjob who might potentially take him seriously.

We're not allowed to joke about bombs at airports. Why should we be allowed to joke about kidnapping and decapitating journalists?

[Skittles]

3. I agree

this goes beyond free speech

[dogday]

4. Absolutely, They Should Be All Over This

If any Democrat said these things, we would be hanging out to dry right this minute. Remember the Randi Rhodes skit?