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Bill O'Reilly Still Pushing Anti-Abortion Rhetoric - Abortion = Baby Killing

Posted by Priscilla -25.80pc on May 25, 2013 · Flag

Any good propagandist knows that "words matter." And as propaganda is the raison d'être for Fox News, Fox talkers know the value of using an incendiary, emotionally charged term when a more reasonable term could and should be used. The use of incendiary, emotionally charged rhetoric is nowhere more important than in the 'pro-life' community who, in order to shame and vilify abortion providers and women who have abortions, use terms like "baby killing" to describe the legal termination of a fetus as "killing" and abortion doctors as "killers." This vocabulary contributes to a climate of hate in which abortion doctors are murdered, as happened to Dr. George Tiller who was frequently denounced by Bill O'Reilly as a "baby killer." Tiller is gone; but O'Reilly still maintains, as fact, that abortion is "killing babies" - a point made during his interview with the attorney for Dr. Gosnell. Gosnell was found guilty of murdering babies after birth. Abortion doctors, unless adjudicated otherwise, are performing a safe, legal procedure. Big difference; but not for O'Reilly whose toxic words shouldn't matter, but sadly do.

O'Reilly's interview with Gosnell attorney, Jack McMahon, was far less contentious than the haranguing that he took from an unhinged Megyn Kelly. But despite the almost avuncular tone of the interview, the intent of both interviews was the same; i.e., to shame McMahon for defending a man who, according to the Fox News sensationalist coverage, was on a par with Hitler. The coverage was part of Fox's pander to the anti-choice zealots whose conflation of Gosnell with safe, legal abortion buttresses their crusade to ban abortion. Kelly set up her interview to revisit anti-choice talking points about the horrors of Gosnell's clinic (with no discussion of what drove women to it) and, in the use of the talking points, reprimand McMahon for not denouncing Gosnell. Although O'Reilly was more subtle, he did manage to articulate the requisite anti-choice agitprop in attempting to shame McMahon for supporting a man who, according to O'Reilly, not only criminally killed babies; but, in also performing legal abortions, is still a killer.

O'Reilly immediately engaged in a "gotcha." He used McMahon's complimentary comments, about the Gosnell jury, to suggest that McMahon is "convinced" of Gosnell's guilt. McMahon responded that the jury did its job but that he doesn't believe that the state established that the fetuses were born alive. To O'Reilly's question of why Gosnell did the illegal late term abortions, McMahon spoke of the desperation of young girls - something that you didn't hear much about during Fox's tabloid coverage. O'Reilly seized on that comment to ask if Gosnell was being a humanitarian. When McMahon said that Gosnell was trying to help the girl, used in the example, O'Reilly worked in the anti-choice shaming agitprop by asking if Gosnell had any "conscience about the children he aborted."  After McMahon praised Gosnell's character, O'Reilly continued: "But didn't you ask him, 'Hey do you feel bad for the kids that you terminated.' Because he got charged and convicted on these three but there are hundreds that he did." 

To McMahon's defense of Gosnell, O'Reilly cited claims of those who worked with Gosnell. O'Reilly wanted to know what was in Gosnell's mind because "those babies will never exist on this planet." (And if the women went to other abortion doctors, the net result would have been the same, hello.)  When McMahon said that there's a difference between abortion and killing, Bill went full tilt pro-life propaganda: "Abortion is killing the fetus, abortion is killing the fetus." (Medically, it is the removal of the fetus, "killing" is a value judgment imposed by those who oppose abortion and certainly not embraced by the legal, medical, and pro-choice religious traditions).

O'Reilly was skeptical of McMahon's belief that Gosnell was singled out because he was black. When McMahon said that O'Reilly is a fool if the doesn't think that there is racial injustice in the criminal justice system O'Reilly spewed this bit of hubris which will live in Bill O'Reilly infamy: "Oh, I might be a fool because I always go on provable facts, not speculation." (His unfounded accusations about Dr. Tiller were "provable facts?" Really?) Civil rights activist Bill O'Reilly told McMahon that if he had any evidence of racial targeting of doctors, he wanted to know so he could "do a story on it."

So there you have it ladies. If you are in a situation in which carrying a pregnancy to term is unfeasible, for whatever reason, Bill O'Reilly says you're a baby killer. And you know he's right because he knows what's best for your body. Nuff said. 

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Lyle Edwards commented 2013-05-29 16:39:07 -0400 · Flag
Drew, I don’t know any “pro-aborts” so I don’t know what they don’t like. But to say punishment is irrelevant to the wrongness of “butchering babies” is ludicrous.
Lyle Edwards commented 2013-05-29 10:48:08 -0400 · Flag
Drew, just for the record, I’m anti-abortion. You answered my question though when you indicated women or girls who get an abortion should be treated as murderers and receive the harshest punishment possible. It’s not changing the subject to discuss punishment due to the severe behavior “baby killing”.
Princess Peach commented 2013-05-29 10:21:12 -0400 · Flag
If you’re “for” abortion then you’re “pro” abortion.
Lyle Edwards commented 2013-05-28 21:10:43 -0400 · Flag
Princess Peach, I know no one who is “pro-abortion”.
Lyle Edwards commented 2013-05-28 21:08:30 -0400 · Flag
Drew, can I assume you think if a woman or a young girl gets an abortion, she should get life imprisonment or the death penalty, same penalty as killing a baby after it’s born?
Princess Peach commented 2013-05-28 11:41:30 -0400 · Flag
“Medically, it is the removal of the fetus, “killing” is a value judgment imposed by those who oppose abortion and certainly not embraced by the legal, medical, and pro-choice religious traditions"

They’re just removing it? That’s all? What about when they shove a pair of scissors into its neck? What about when they put the solution on them to make them dissolve? That’s just “removing” them?
Princess Peach commented 2013-05-28 11:35:38 -0400 · Flag
Abortion is exactly what he says it is: killing a baby. I understand that makes some people uncomfortable and it should. But that’s the whole point of an abortion; to kill an unwanted baby. I don’t understand why the Pro-Abortion people try to spin what’s happening. Calling it by different names doesn’t change what it is and what happens. A woman becomes pregnant with a baby. Not a kitten, not a puppy, not a new pair of shoes: a baby. When she decides that she doesn’t want the baby (reason is irrelevant to the action) and she doesn’t want to just have it and put it up for adoption then she makes the choice to “terminate” the child. How do you do that? How do you “terminate” the baby? There’s only one way: Kill it. That’s what it is. The doctor KILLS the BABY. That is an abortion. Trying to change the terminology doesn’t change the action.
Lyle Edwards commented 2013-05-27 04:58:59 -0400 · Flag
Drew, if abortion is “baby Killing”, could you tell me what the penalty should be for women who hire to have their baby murdered. It would seem to me the penalty for that crime should at minimum, be life in prison or the death penalty.
Antoinette commented 2013-05-26 14:22:12 -0400 · Flag
Will Billy ever do a story on sexual harassment in the workplace? He has expert knowledge on the subject.
Sandman2 commented 2013-05-26 13:38:17 -0400 · Flag
Civil rights activist Bill O’Reilly told McMahon that if he had any evidence of racial targeting of doctors, he wanted to know so he could “do a story on it.”

O’Reilly once opined on his radio program that “if anyone has any evidence that I’ve lied or misled the American people, please send me the evidence and I will correct the record.”
12 years I’ve been sending him evidence so that he can “correct the record.” So far nothing has been corrected. Anymore, I’m not very hopeful about his honesty in this regard!
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