Bill O’Reilly
Here’s a guy who sees himself as the infallible champion of all that is good and right. Anyone who disagrees with him in substance is instantly christened a “secular progressive” as if that is some kind of dark curse.
The truth is the darkness lives in O’Reilly. His “culture wars” seem to me a thin veneer for the unplumbable depths of his own insecurity and tortured imaginations.
Consider his ongoing apparent crusade against judges he perceives as easy on child abusers. When a real child abuser is caught, O’Reilly makes excuses for him and quite literally blames the victim.
Shawn Hornbeck was kidnapped when he was eleven years old. He was raped and brainwashed over a four year period. O’Reilly’s assessment? Hornbeck was asking for it. Being abused by his kidnapper was, according to O’Reilly, “a lot more fun than what he had under his parents.”
O’Reilly even trivializes it down to school avoidance. When one of his guests protests “some kids like school,” O’Reilly says “not this kid.”
What evidence does he have that before he was kidnapped Hornbeck didn’t like school, and disliked it so much that he would prefer a life of abuse?
Bill O’Reilly is the lowest form of predator because he attacks with impunity and masquerades his attacks as free expression protecting American culture. Under this justification he vilifies a 14 year old who has been held away from his family for a third of his life. The child victim is fair game in O’Reilly’s sick mind for ratings scores.
O’Reilly didn’t stop at suggesting Hornbeck felt better off with his kidnapper, he actually adopted the NAMBLA line that little boys “like it.”
The exact quote: “There was an element here that this kid liked about his circumstance.”
So while the kidnapper, Devlin, privately victimized Hornbeck, O’Reilly publicly victimized him.
This pattern of loudly positioning oneself as a defender of children, only to later reveal a view that children can like this treatment is a mark of people who were abused in childhood and later become abusers themselves.
Makes one wonder about O’Reilly’s mental condition.
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