Just in case you missed it, liar & divider estraordinaire Bill O'Leilly was a (remote) guest on Oprah a coupla days ago. The topic: Abused Children.
Pick yourself up off of the floor for a show recap & to see what her legions on the Oprah MBoards thought about it.
Yes, I watched the program. You can imagine my dismay when I realized that O'Liar was going to be a guest as well. We all remember the Shawn Hornbeck case in which O'Liar surmised that Shawn must have liked something about his captivity and that's why he never escaped his captor. The bottom-feeder in his glory trying to cultivate his culture wars on the backs of innocent children. Right. Big surprise.
Well, you'd think Oprah's people would have been on top of this before inviting O'Liar to join this particular program. Oh & no one from this top notch staff knew that The Center for Missing Children had just dumped him as a keynote speaker because of his despicable comments?
Oprah's first guest was an adult man who had been kidnapped & sexually abused for 4 years in the 70's when he was 13. To her credit, O gave him the opportunity to express his anguish at what had been done to him and then asked him how he would respond to those who wondered why/how he had never left his captor. In his case, it was not only fear of a man 100 lbs heavier, who was scary as shit, and, oh...there was the gun & threats against his person & his family. Not that it really matters what the threat was when we are talking about a predatory adult taking control of a child. He said it is wrong to even ask the question. As a child, you are simply trying to survive any way you can.
Elizabeth Smart's father was next & she asked him the same question. He also reiterated basically the same theme. A child cannot be made the victim; the question shouldn't even be asked. They survive...any way they can.
Then came O'Liar who took this opportunity (without any background given to the show but with a whopper of a backstory to be sure) to bring up Stockholm Syndrome. This we know was his reason for uttering his famous slime comment about Shawn Hornbeck... the I don't believe in SS and the kid must've liked being with his captor cause he was free to leave, but didn't...and it couldn't be SS...cause that's not a real syndrome. Then he proceeded to cover his smarmy behind with both fat hands as relates to these comments about Shawn Hornbeck, by naming another reason why children/victims would stay with their abusers. Like he really believes there is one. Sha.....
I'm wondering why Oprah never had to ask O'Liar why he thinks kidnapped & sexually abused children don't leave their abusers. Hmmm. Seems like his whole opening shpiel was meant to take him off the hook before the question could be asked. I guess it's not just the MSM who are marching to wingnut talking points & direction any more.
To complete his worthless participation in the program he dragged up another of his topics du jour ... that it's all about the judges (especially in Vermont) who will not punish these despots and just fine them, like, $5 or something.
Thankfully, I am not the only outraged member of the peanut gallery. I fired off an email to Oprah when the show concluded to catch her & her staff up on the facts and to make her aware that her other guest's organization (ironically enough from The Center for Missing Children) had kicked O'Liar to the curb because of comments made on this same subject. As I perused C&L tonite, they made mention of the thousand+ comments on Oprah's message boards that seem to be a carbon copy of my own.
If I am any judge of character, the subject will come up again on Oprah and O'Liar's name will be mentioned. And if it doesn't... I may have to now and forever refer to Oprah as a born again Republic and close the door.
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