Isn't it lovely irony that Ms. Colter is promoting a book on liberals being whiners and always claiming to be the victim on a show where O'Reilly is STILL whimpering about being the "real" victim in the Tiller assassination.
"No democrats stepped forward to defend me, and not many republicans, either"
Here's a nickel, Bill: buy a freakin' clue...
No, I saw the program. He pushes her fairly hard, always does. He is very clear that while he is not at all a pro choice supporter he also demands his guests either agree that we are a nation of laws, and if a law is broken it there should be punishment for it. He also makes them agree, or ends a discussion that they are in agreement that laws are in place and should be followed. By the same token, if a law is in need or not of reform or abolishing, the law of the land should be followed to achieve that. She was really just a prop for his point that he hated what Tiller did for a profit, not that he hated Tiller. Her? She wants everyone dead. bd
Isn't it lovely irony that Ms. Colter is promoting a book on liberals being whiners and always claiming to be the victim on a show where O'Reilly is STILL whimpering about being the "real" victim in the Tiller assassination.
"No democrats stepped forward to defend me, and not many republicans, either"
Media personality Ann Coulter appeared on Bill O'Reilly's television program this week to discuss the murder of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Never one to shy away from controversy, Coulter offered the following ethical assessment of the crime:
"I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester."
When pressed by O'Reilly on this statement, Coulter replied, "I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others."
Here's the clip in context. The salient portion occurs at the 3:35 mark.
Setting aside Coulter's tongue-in-cheek, rhetorical gamesmanship, the likening of Tiller's murder to a late-term abortion is an interesting tact. Her point seems to be: What really distinguishes the killing of a fetus from an out-of-the-womb homicide? Shouldn't we view them as one and the same?
That seems like a fair enough argument for those who would deny moral shades of gray. Either you're for a "culture of death" or you're against it. But, as O'Reilly points out, that metaphor seems to fall flat when Coulter playfully claims that she doesn't want to lay an ethical guilt trip on those who would shoot abortion providers (even while celebrating the idea of a "Hooray-George-Tiller-is-dead party").
The point is, of course Coulter wants to impose her values on America. She, like O'Reilly, has made a nice career out of doing just that. And that career is built upon headline-grabbing remarks like the one above, for better or for worse.
