Nicholas Kristof / Bill O'Reilly Feud Heats Up

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Nicholas Kristof/Bill O'Reilly Feud Heats Up
By E&P Staf

Published: December 18, 2005 11:45 AM ET

It all started exactly one week ago when New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, taking note of Bill O'Reilly's focus on keeping the Christmas in Christmas, suggested that the Fox personality might honor the season better by exposing the continuing genocide in Darfur, which the TV host has allegedly "ignored." O'Reilly responded by denouncing Kristof as a "left-wing ideologue."

Today, in his column, Kristof replied in kind, while disclosing that he puts up a "Christmas" tree himself, not a "holiday" tree.

"Perhaps I'm particularly sensitive to religious hypocrites because I've spent a chunk of time abroad watching Muslim versions of Mr. O'Reilly - demagogic table-thumpers who exploit public religiosity as a cynical ploy to gain attention and money," Kristof explained. "And I always tell moderate Muslims that they need to stand up to blustery blowhards - so today, I'm taking my own advice."

Then he went on to call O'Reilly "a self-rightheous bully in the style of Father Coughlin or Joe McCarthy," suggesting that perhaps he was a leftwing plant meant to make conservatives look bad.

"So I have a challenge for Mr. O'Reilly: If you really want to defend traditional values, then come with me on a trip to Darfur," Kristof concluded. " I'll introduce you to mothers who have had their babies clubbed to death in front of them, to teenage girls who have been gang-raped and then mutilated - and to the government-armed thugs who do these things.

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[acmavm]

1. O'Reilly go and see something first hand? Get the real facts? Have to

actually get off his fat ass and do something? Maybe run the risk that he might actually get to the truth of something for once?

That's funny.

[MnFats]

2. kinda fun to watch the pack of dogs snarl and yap at one another...

they reserve the worst invective for one of their own who has strayed....

[xchrom]

3. why is he lecturing moderate muslims about anything --

i mean great if blows o'really out of the water.

but lecturing muslims? puhleez.

[Toots]

4. Why not

He knows of better ways for people to live and has the ability and credibility to lecture on it. The moderates must overcome the hold that radicals have on their lives if they wish to live a better life. How many more teachers should be executed for teaching girls? Who will stop it, Bush*?