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But let's begin tonight in Norway. Obviously what Norway's going through right now is just awful. People are upset, angry, outraged, although some people's upset, anger, and outrage, at least in this country, extends into areas that may surprise you.
FOX NEWS (7/26/2011): Why is the liberal press playing up the "Christian angle" in the Norway shooter case?
STEVE DOOCY (7/27/2011): The mainstream media was quick to paint the Norway terror suspect as a crazy person, and a Christian extremist.
MARY KATHARINE HAM (7/25/2011): They just sort of laid down this narrative every time there's a psycho out there.
ANDREA TANTAROS (7/25/2011): He's some fundamentalist Christian, that is not the case absolutely at all.
BRIAN KILMEADE (7/27/2011): They quickly labeled him Christian, when there's nothing religious about his approach.
LAURA INGRAHAM (7/27/2011): The idea that, in any way, he represents any mainstream or even fringe sentiment of Christianity is ridiculous.
Yes.... The massacre in Norway is a tragic story about the persecution of Christians. Look, I'm going to go out on a limb here. Laura Ingraham is right. The idea that this killer represents mainstream sentiment in the Christian community is ridiculous.
That being said, people drawing a connection between the philosophical underpinnings of his madness to a Christian crusader mentality are not doing it to get at you. The connection stems mostly from two things.
(1) The shooter's 1500-page crucifix-drenched call to reclaim Western Christendom from the infidels, and
(2) The shooter's Knights Templar 2083 PowerPoint video paying tribute to Christian crusaders from Charles the Hammer to Vlad the Impaler.
Now obviously, I would have more sympathy for the....
Obviously, I would have more sympathy for the Fox rapid response team's nuanced concerns, if their plea to distinguish violence proclaimed in the name of a religion from the practitioners and tenets of said religion were applied to, let's say, more than just one religion.
See, Bill O'Reilly's very clear as to why this Norway killer is not Christian.
BILL O'REILLY (7/25/2011, 7/26/2011): Breivik is not a Christian. That's impossible. No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder. ... There is no evidence this man was a member of a church. ... No evidence that he had anything to do with the Christian faith. ... We can find no evidence, none, that this killer practiced Christianity in any way. ... They call him a Christian because he says he is? Come on!
Come on! And let me say this in defense of Mr. O'Reilly. Isn't it enough for one man to have the burden of determining who amongst us is either pinhead or patriot? But to ask him to also separate Christian from heathen, it's too much of a burden! He's but one very tall man, or as I am convinced, a short man on another man's shoulders wearing an over-sized suit.
My point is this. Clearly, O'Reilly does not believe this killer's actions or profile qualify him as Christian. Which I would agree with. But his barrier to entry is somewhat less strict when it comes to linking the Fort Hood maniac and Islam.
BILL O'REILLY (7/26/2011): I'm saying that he was a Muslim terrorist because he carried a business card that said "Soldier of Allah". And he committed his crimes in the name of Allah.
See the difference? That guy printed up Soldier of Allah business cards! The other guy only printed up an Army of Christ manifesto!
I guess, the only connection is both psychos, for some reason, spent the day at Kinko's.
You know, I actually feel sorry for the pundits and anchors who have added this story to their file of grievances that are perpetrated against them. Not because I think they are actually victims of persecution, but because I know that the sense of grievance and victimization that appears to pervade their every waking moment is actually something they hate.................. in others.
SEAN HANNITY (1/5/2009): Liberals do make themselves out to be victims.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN (9/2/2009): ... victimization thing you guys on the left come up with ...
REP. ALLEN WEST, R-FL (7/20/2011): The liberals want to play victim.
MONICA CROWLEY (6/1/2011): They play the victimhood card all the time.
All the time! Victims play the victim card! Liberals play it even when they're playing Yahtzee, which doesn't use cards! It's annoying.
I guess the reason conservatives hate it when liberals play the victim card, is that it distracts from the real victims, conservatives.
BRENT BOZELL (5/26/2011): Where are we right now with this onslaught of personal attacks on conservatives?
SEAN HANNITY (4/22/2011): We take a closer look at all of those who have been victimized by the venom of the mainstream media's liberal bias.
ANDREA TANTAROS (5/26/2011): It is the last acceptable form of misogyny in this country, hatred, prejudice towards conservative females.
PAT CADDELL (5/26/2011): The last bastion of open racism is against any blacks or Hispanics who are bound to be conservative.
THOMAS PETERS (2/5/2010): The last acceptable prejudice is anti-Catholicism.
LAURA INGRAHAM (4/23/2010): Christianity, or Christians, are actually the last acceptable people who can be discriminated against.
S.E. CUPP (5/13/2011): Conservatives are alone on college campuses, and they're out in the woods.
GRETCHEN CARLSON (12/2/2010): Christians feel alone at Christmas right now, in this society that we live in. Because we're supposed to be tolerant of every religion. Oh, except Christianity.
Gretchen, if you ever feel alone at Christmastime, head over to a Chinese restaurant. They're jammed. They're very crowded. (wild audience laughter) It's kind of a funny... see, what happens at Christmas, is there's not a whole lot that's open, so Jews ultimately... just... go ask Bernie Goldberg or Bill Kristol. They'll tell you what I was talking about. I'm sorry, I had no idea.
I had no idea. No, it's true. Don't... stay with me. I had no idea that life for conservatives was so difficult in this country. Tell me a little bit, if you would, about the bad people holding your kind back.
SEAN HANNITY (11/18/2010): Liberals do not believe in free speech.
ANN COULTER (2/15/2011): Liberals don't care about blacks, they don't care about women, they don't care about gays.
UNIDENTIFIED BLACK MAN (10/21/2010): Liberals are godless people, they don't believe in God.
TAMMY BRUCE (3/14/2011): I mean, liberals love dictators.
BERNIE GOLDBERG(11/15/2009): She has five kids. Liberals don't have five kids.
BILL O'REILLY (7/12/2011): On the far left, those kooks, they're insane.
GLENN BECK (4/8/2011): The left is uniting with Islamists.
NEWT GINGRICH (5/16/2010): ... the secular socialist left ...
MIKE HUCKABEE (6/26/2010): ... far-left-wing reptiles ...
GLENN BECK (8/5/2010): ... progressivism is a cancer ...
ERIC BOLLING (7/14/2011): ... and the radical liberal left ...
BILL O'REILLY (1/17/2011): ... far-left hate machine ...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN (12/4/2010): ... the blame America first crowd ...
LAURA INGRAHAM (10/22/2010): ... totalitarian tactics of the left ...
SEAN HANNITY (7/18/2011): ... so vicious, it's so mean, it's so cruel, and I don't hear this coming from conservatives about liberals.
(wild audience laughter)
You don't?? You should watch the show tonight! We made a big montage of that!
That, my friends, that's my favorite, that one right there. "so vicious, so mean, so cruel, and I don't hear it coming from conservatives about liberals". (blows a kiss)
That is, if I may say, some of the most free-range organically grown disingenuous ideologically marinated un-self-awareness I've ever seen in the wild. But you know what? It's woken me up to the reality of what some people face in this country, just for their political beliefs.
You know, if you want to learn more about the hateful hyperbolic name-calling and malice-mongering that people on the right face every day in this country, visit your local library, and check out some of these informative titles. While you listen to the list, I'm just going to enjoy a little snack.
BILL O'REILLY: And joining us now from Washington, syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, the author of the book Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
FOX NEWS: The author of Liberal Fascism, Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg is here.
GLENN BECK: Grab a copy of my new book Arguing with Idiots.
GERALDO RIVERA: Ann Coulter, she is the author, most recently, of Godless: The Church of Liberalism
GLENN BECK: He [Andrew C. McCarthy] is the author of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America
SEAN HANNITY: [John Gibson's] How the Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History
STEVE DOOCY: [Joe Kernen & Blake Kernen's] Your Teacher Said What?! Defending Our Kids from the Liberal Assault on Capitalism
BILL O'REILLY: With us now, New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser, whose new book is called Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America
I'm not done. Keep going.
GLENN BECK: [David Horowitz's] Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
STEVE DOOCY: [Tim Groseclose's] Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Destroys the American Mind
SEAN HANNITY: [Larry Schweikart's] 48 Liberal Lies About American History
FOX BUSINESS: [Ann Coulter's] Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
STEVE DOOCY: [Ann Coulter's] Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
DON IMUS: [S.E. Cupp's] Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity
SEAN HANNITY: [Terence P. Jeffrey's] Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life
GLENN BECK: [David Horowitz's] One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy. (gasp) Boy, the titles of books are just getting so long now.
I know those books sound bad, but consider this. Without books like those, what would we get our grandparents for their birthdays? We'll be right back.