O'Reilly named "Worst Person" for "hypocritical" well-wishes for
 
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:23:03 -0400


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<p><b>O'Reilly named "Worst Person" for "hypocritical" well-wishes for Cindy
Sheehan </b></p>
<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200706080001?src=item200706080001">http://mediamatters.org/items/200706080001</a></p>

<p>On the June 7 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Countdown</i>, host Keith Olbermann named Fox
News&#39; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=item200706080001">Bill
O&#39;Reilly</a> the "winner" of his nightly "Worst Person
in the World" segment for, as <i>Media
Matters for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200706070001?src=item200706080001">documented</a>, commenting
"on Cindy Sheehan&#39;s retirement from the anti-war limelight"
and saying, "I
don&#39;t like to see any American suffer the way I think Ms. Sheehan has
suffered, from losing her son to being personally attacked. And we wish her
well." Olbermann observed: "In August 2005, O&#39;Reilly said she
was guilty of conduct, which, quote, &#39;other American families who have
lost sons and daughters in Iraq
think borders on treasonous.&#39; Two months later, he issued a fatwa, a list
of cowards who would not appear on his show and among them, Cindy Sheehan --
but he doesn&#39;t want to see her personally attacked."</p>

<p>As <i>Media Matters</i>
has documented (<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705230003?src=item200706080001">here</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200704260003?src=item200706080001">here</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703260002?src=item200706080001">here</a>, and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703130008?src=item200706080001">here</a>), O&#39;Reilly has
frequently been cited during Olbermann&#39;s "Worst Person"
segment. O&#39;Reilly recently <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200706050003?src=item200706080001">received</a> "Worst Person" honors
for claiming that attorney Andrew Speaker acted on
"secular-progressive" values when he traveled by airline despite
his tuberculosis, adding
that "[t]raditional-values people put others on a par with themselves.
That&#39;s a Judeo-Christian tenet. Love your neighbor as yourself. Secular
progressives put themselves above all others. That philosophy says, &#39;Me first,
then I&#39;ll worry about you.&#39; " </p>

<p>From the June 7 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Countdown with Keith Olbermann</i>:</p><blockquote>

<p>OLBERMANN: But the winner is:
Bill-O. If anybody&#39;s wondering who&#39;s really speaking on one of
those anonymous "Fox Noise" spokesman-issued that say a
hypocritical statement that ends with &#39;We wish them well,&#39; Billy
just gave it away.</p>

<p>On Cindy Sheehan&#39;s retirement
from the anti-war limelight, Bill Orally actually said, quote, "I
don&#39;t like to see any American suffer the way I think Ms. Sheehan has
suffered, from losing her son to being personally attacked. And we wish her
well."</p>

<p>In August 2005, O&#39;Reilly said
she was guilty of conduct,
which, quote, "other American families who have lost sons and daughters
in Iraq
think borders on treasonous." Two months later, he issued a fatwa, a list of cowards who
would not appear on his show and among them, Cindy Sheehan -- but he
doesn&#39;t want to see her personally attacked. </p>

<p>Well, maybe he just forgot he called
her a coward or a traitor. I mean, if you or I were as full of crap as Bill is,
would we really remember each time we messed our pants?</p>

<p>

Bill O&#39;Reilly -- today&#39;s
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