O'Reilly apparently finds it odd that Kansas murder suspect is a
 
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:08:04 -0400


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<p><b>O'Reilly apparently finds it odd that Kansas murder suspect is a
"white-bread guy"  <br /> </b></p>
<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200706080005?src=clip200706080005">http://mediamatters.org/items/200706080005</a></p>

<p>On the June 7 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly Factor</i>, host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=clip200706080005">Bill O&#39;Reilly</a>
said of Edwin Roy
Hall -- the man <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200706080005&http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/07/missing.teen/index.html">charged</a> with
murdering 18-year-old Kelsey Smith after abducting her from the parking lot of
a Target store in Overland Park,
 Kansas: "[T]his guy who is charged has a
child and a wife. You know, he&#39;s
like white-bread guy. And we&#39;re all going, &#39;What is that?&#39; " </p>

<p>According to the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200706080005&http://www.bartleby.com/61/66/W0126660.html">American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</a>,
the adjective "white-bread" is defined as: "Blandly
conventional, especially when considered as typical of white middle-class America."</p>

<p>From the June 7 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly Factor</i>:
</p><blockquote>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: "Impact"
segment tonight: Kansas
police say 26-year-old Edwin Hall murdered 18-year-old Kelsey Smith after abducting
her from a Target store. And in
Connecticut,
a 15-year-old girl, Danielle Cramer, has been found in a hidden vault inside
the home of Adam Gault and Ann Murphy,
and they have been charged with a variety of crimes. Now, last year, more than a thousand children under 16 years
of age were murdered in the USA,
and about 5,000 kids were kidnapped. But only about 300 of those cases were
full-fledged abductions. Nevertheless, assaults on children remain very
troubling in America.</p>

<p>Joining us now, reporter Jane
Velez-Mitchell, whose
new book is called <i><a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200706080005&http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&amp;pid=534224">Secrets
Can Be Murder: What America&#39;s Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves</a></i>.</p>

<p><b>You know, we have a
nation of 300 million Americans. And proportionally, we don&#39;t have a lot of
these crimes. But, you
know, when we do have a young lady going to a Target store -- and we have her on video. We&#39;ll
show that little video in a minute.
And some guy just --
and this guy who is charged has a child and a wife. You know, he&#39;s like white-bread guy. And we&#39;re
all going, "What is that?"</b></p>

<p>VELEZ-MITCHELL: <b>What is going on, Bill?</b></p>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: Right.</p>

<p>VELEZ-MITCHELL: <b>We have a right to ask.</b> I mean, a 26-year-old guy married with a small
kid. Now, we understand
he did have some money troubles. Often that can be a stressor or a trigger. But
the bigger question, obviously, is why this is happening in society to even one
girl? And the answer is, sadly, we are creating in our society with
the media, the movies,
and the television today a hunter-prey relationship between men and women.</p>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: All
right. Let&#39;s -- let&#39;s --</p>

<p>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Men are the hunters.
Women are the prey. And it&#39;s in movies,
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