Bill O'Reily - the new McCarthy!

[flygal]

What is with him and his hatred of the ACLU?!! What a fricken idiot.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/newmccarthy

snip

I was reading an old transcript of a piece about Joe McCarthy's anti-communist witchunt hearings and I was surprised to find that some of his comments sounded awfully familiar. I did a little googling, and I think I figured out why:

MCCARTHY: A few days ago I read that President Eisenhower expressed the hope that by election time in 1954 the subject of Communism would be a dead and forgotten issue. The raw, harsh unpleasant fact is that Communism is an issue and will be an issue in 1954.

TONY SNOW (sitting in for O'Reilly): This morning, the president pounced on a quote in Sunday's New York Times Magazine where Senator Kerry called terrorists a nuisance. (October 10, 2004)

MCCARTHY: You know the Civil Liberties Union has been listed as "a front for, and doing the work of," the Communist Party?

OREILLY: here is no question the ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror allies. (July 25, 2005)

[Tiggeroshii]

1. McCarthy was at least a Senator when people found out about him

O Reilly's just a lousy butt anchor

[shenmue]

2. O'Reilly is completely insane

What the hell is he talking about?

:o :crazy: :silly: :wtf: :freak: :argh: :dunce: :spank: :grr: :nuke: :thumbsdown:

[tsuki]

3. McCarthy was insane.

[jedr]

4. Mc Carthy believed in what he was doing;

As destructive as it was. O 'Reilly lies for money....He could care less what he says, it's better money than Entertainment Tonight. A true whore!

[KG]

6. no, he did not believe -

McCarthy was a drunk, a phoney and a liar - his red-baiting witch-hunt was an opportunistic ploy he came up with when he thought he would not be re-elected. in others words, just another RW scumbag.

[jedr]

7. All true, but Bill is still a whore

[blindpig]

5. In his fever dreams

In actuality he's a double nothing, a cheap jack hustler who prays at the temple of Mammon.

[GRLMGC]

8. Not as powerful

O'Reilly is important in his own mind.

[UTUSN]

9. All Wingnuts Hate the ACLU Until It Defends THEM n/t