O'Rilley Suddenly Distancing Himself from Past Tiller Rhetoric

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner
First Posted: 06- 3-09 08:59 AM | Updated: 06- 3-09 09:20 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/oreilly-suddenly-distanci_n_210744.html


On Monday, Bill O'Reilly boldly defended his vicious attacks on the late Dr. George Tiller. "No backpedaling here," he told viewers. "Everything we said about Tiller was true."

Two days later, it seems O'Reilly is, in fact, backpedaling. On Tuesday night he claimed his previous references to George Tiller as "the baby killer" were merely standard reporting.

"I reported what groups were calling him. I reported accurately." The host then went on to 'report' the number of abortions Tiller had performed and estimated the doctor's income at a million dollars a year. (O'Reilly is paid over $10 million a year.

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My guess is that he has talked to his lawyer who advised him that he is in big trouble. What he said..are you ready...is...defined as libel and threatening...probably a law suit is coming...

His comeuppance has been a long time coming.

defend himself from himself and his rhetoric. Can you see O'Rilley saying in court that he was just reporting when the venom in his eyes is exploding on the screen. I would like to be in that jury room 5 or 6 years from now when they all agree this nutcase was calling for his murder. Yes, his day will come..

...not.

:eyes:

Journalist, my ass.

fire in a crowded theater...Bill's sued for 100 million and lost...

when the Tiller family takes all of his assets. Legally.

Hey, Bill: Words mean things, don't they?

He realizes how much he focused on Tiller on his show and how his comments could be seen as incendiary. Now he is just trying to cover his ass.

and Billo..the record is there for all to see..As we have seen...

Wrong thread.

to Tiller's murderer. I hope the Tiller family ends up owning NewsCorp.

but i was shocked that FoxNews legal even let Billo address the issue on monday, much less rationalize and parse it.

(Olbermann can at times be guilty of this, too.)

O'Reilly is always right. He tries to get people to listen to reason! He tries to give them their history lessons! The rabble who disagree with him are always "fanatics" with track record a mile long of deceit, dishonesty, plagiarism, blah blah blah. And calling women he disagrees with "Madam" isn't fooling anyone. In O'Reilly's world it's just a polite word for "bitch."