Once the kidnapper was charged with 50 counts of forcible sodomy on the boy, not to mention over a dozen more on another child, O'Reilly should have apologized.
The reason that O'Reilly isn't taking more heat is that so many Republicans have rushed to defend him. They spun, minimized the damage and, as usual, blamed those who quite appropriately called O'Reilly out for his heinous statement. In fact, this iVil thread just reached 469 posts: http://messageboards.ivillage.com/...
Attached is my most recent post no. 469 for anyone who cares to read it.
Today it's O'Reilly blaming a kidnapped child. Tomorrow it will be the Fox Republicans beating the war drum against Iran or some other state based on another trumped up "imminent" threat. Indeed, our DNI admitted just a few days ago that Iran, if left to its own devices, will not be able to develop nukes until 2015!
This has to stop. Let's keep the pressure on lying right-wing cheerleaders like O'Reilly and not let them slink away without a real apology when they make outrageous, disgraceful or unsupported statements.
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