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O'Reilly Stands Firm on 'Nazi' Swipe
Bill O'Reilly may have stepped over the line when he said there's no moral difference between Arianna Huffington and a Nazi, but he's not backing down just yet.
Here's a portion of the script from tonight's O'Reilly Factor that I've obtained in advance. In it, he's responding to a letter from a viewer who writes, "I lost many members of my family to the Holocaust and the meaning of their deaths means more than a comparison to a meaningless blog."
First of all, I appreciate your letter, sir, and have thought about it. If you look back at what happened in Germany -- you cannot escape the similarities between what Hitler and his cut-throats did back then ... and what the hate-filled blogs are doing now.
From the late 1920's to 1933...when Hitler became Chancellor...the Nazis used vile propaganda to demonize Jews and others in the eyes of the German people. They used newspapers, radio, leaflets and rallies to build up enormous hatred towards your family. Today, we are seeing the same thing on the 'net. There is no difference. When Arianna Huffington allows people to say that Nancy Reagan should suffer terribly and then die -- that is completely unacceptable and no different than what Dr. Joseph Goebbels and others were putting out there. Again, I thank you for your thoughtful letter.
And here's Huffington's response to O'Reilly's original comments, which she relayed via a spokesman: "If having a few ugly - and anonymously posted -- comments appear on HuffPost, which were removed as soon as we become aware of them, caused O'Reilly to compare me to Nazis, I can only imagine what he'll come up with when Right is Wrong (my new book) comes out.
Who else but Arianna would turn a slur into a book plug?
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