I watch O’Reilly frequently when nothing else is on the boob tube. I also catch Glenn Beck, Hannity and whoever else happens to be on FOX at the time I am bored. FOX is sort of my fall-back when I can’t find anything else to watch. Sometimes I’ll flp over to CNN, but it is simply not the same news channel it was back before 2001.

That does not mean I agree with the folks on FOX (including O’Reilly). It is entertainment, not news. I depend upon the internet and a wide variety of opinions before I make judgements about news items. But O’Reilly has taken to attacking Hot Air for their coverage of the Sotomayor nomination.

Now here is the comment that O’Reilly comments on:

Unqualified, militant and socialist. NEXT, please. The GOP has to block any of Husseins extremist picks.

dogsoldier on May 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM

This is NOT the blog post or the authors comments. It is simply a readers comment. In the interest of free and open debate, blogs have a comment section so that people can express themselves openly (unlike on the O’Reilly show). To assert that the blog, Hot Air is out-of-line is simply ludicrous. Read the Hot Air post and then make up your own mind.

Here at BCR, our position on Sotomayor has nothing to do with her gender, race or politics. She simply does not understand what the Bill of Rights is all about. Do I want someone charged with protecting my rights who does not believe that the Bill of Rights applies to the States and local governments? Absolutely not! In the meantime, someone tell O’Reilly the difference between a blog post and a comment in the comment section.