O'Lielly declares "secular fatwa" on NYT Rich and Keller. [View All]

[edbermac]

From the January 3 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, which featured Fox News' Fox & Friends co-host E.D. Hill:

O'REILLY: All right, that's the no-spin news. And there's a whole bunch of stuff going to happen next week with the Alito hearings in the Senate and all of that. But conjecture is conjecture -- we don't do it -- let's just deal with reality. Last night on the TV side, I issued a fatwa -- do you know what a fatwa is?

HILL: Yeah, a religious edict.

O'REILLY: Yeah, but it wasn't religious; it was a secular edict --

HILL: Okay.

O'REILLY: -- against the --

HILL: It was an O'Reilly edict.

O'REILLY: -- the "hate-Bush" press, the personal attack people. And I said if you continue to do it, then we're going to lay out what you do in your life on the air. Now, I don't want to do that -- I don't want to do it, and I made it quite clear that I don't want to do it -- but enough is enough, and it has to stop, and it's going to stop.

The New York Times is the worst offender. They just will attack people personally when they -- they don't have to. Stay on the issues. If the American public feels that the Bush administration is dishonest or corrupt, the American public will deal with them through their senators and congresspeople. And they have in the polls already. You don't need to go in with cheap-shot garbage, and false reporting, and stacking the deck, and all of that. You know, let's be fair.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601050001

Sounds more like a fart-wa to me...