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As if it has become some Pavlovian response, O'Reilly continues with the meme that the torture - O'Reilly prefers to use the term "waterboarding", as it doesn't sound as bad as it actually is - provided actionable intelligence and "saved lives". The "record" that O'Reilly is referring to is more than likely the script that he is reading off a teleprompter.
It has been shown time and again that the continual and sadistic "waterboarding" of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed didn't provide this "life saving" intel that O'Reilly is peddling as fact. And Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator, stated that the non-agressive interrogation of Abu Zubaydah provided actionable intel as well revealing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the "mastermind" of the September 11th attacks as well as Jose Padilla's "dirty-bomb" plot.
These are facts that O'Reilly, and virtually all within the conservative realm, are more than willing to ignore.
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In terms of Dr. Tiller's murder as well as his abortion clinic, O'Reilly is attempting to reframe the debate and distance himself from his own rhetoric that eventually lead to Tiller's assassination.
No one is saying that abortion, late-term or otherwise, isn't a difficult and troubling issue to deal with. As I've stated before, I know of no woman that has been forced into ending the life of her unborn child. O'Reilly's claims that Dr. Tiller performed the abortion procedure for "trivial" reasons is suspicious at best. The reason is, is that we have to take his word for it. Save the one time that he blatantly, and with malice of forethough, exploited a young woman and her story of her own late-term abortion performed by Dr. Tiller.
Abortion is a final alternative for woman, as no-one is "pro-abortion". Women have, and should continue to have, the right to choose.
O'Reilly's ham-fisted attempt to draw some sort of equivalency between how progressives/liberals/democrats view waterboarding and abortion is not only laughable but patently false. Of course, he knows this, but this is the type of schtick that keeps his ratings high.
As O'Reilly flows through "Jessica's Law" and the murder of Pvt. William Long, attempting to show that progressives/liberals/democrats are guilty of rank hypocrisy when it comes to Human Rights, it becomes clear that it's not that people don't talk about these issues - that progressives/liberals/democrats don't see issues like abortion, murder, and the protection of children are important - it's that they don't report them "enough".
O'Reilly thinks that since Fox"News" saturates their programming with these issue ( and ultimately ignoring other stories ) it means that, if others of opposing ideological perspective don't act in the same fashion, that Fox holds the moral high-ground.
Ultimately, this all boils down to who does and who doesn't believe as O'Reilly does, who watches his program, and who is willing to believe any and everything he says.
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