Comments on: Bill O’Reilly Skewers Think Progress Blogger Amanda Terkel For Attacking Rape Victim Alexa Branchini

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:28:37 +0000

Michael,

I’ve already seen the whole segment. If anything, leaving the Mel Gibson discussion out of it makes the whole Jennifer Moore comments look better, not worse. So example 1 is Mel Gibson getting drunk and making antisemitic remarks. Responsibility for making those remarks? Gibson. Example 2, Jennifer Moore gets drunk and is raped and murdered. Responsibility for getting raped and murdered? Moore?

One is the “actor” the other is “acted upon”. The two aren’t at all comparable, and the fact that someone would choose to list both (an antisemitic tirade vs. a rape/murder) in the same discussion as if they were displays an amazing lack of discernment.

By: Flap

Flap — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:57:35 +0000

Right you are Michael.

But, these Left-Wing folks don’t care about the context.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:36:31 +0000

Well, with out knowing the Mel Gibson part, she did take the comment out of text. The part of the program this was in was referring to people getting all out drunk and making stupid decisions, and how people are getting into trouble. This girl seperates from her friend in New York, completely drunk, and dressed provocatively. If she wasn’t wasted this might not of happened.

He was also talking about personal responsibility. Most people in a big city are smart enough to not get blitzed without having someone with them. Especially in a large city like New York. She was 18, and he also put a little blame on the parents, and called the acts regarding what happened to her horrible.

The segment starts approximately 36 min. into the show.

http://www.billoreilly.com/radiofactorlisten?epid=NDA0Nw==

By: Flap

Flap — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:13:13 +0000

#5 at Comment #8

By: Duck

Duck — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:05:50 +0000

So Amanda Terkel’s original post:

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News Hounds points out that on March 19, Fox News host Bill Oâ€™Reilly is slated to speak at a fundraiser for the Alexa Foundation, a group committed to supporting rape survivors:

[[Some excerpt from the Alexa Foundation about Bill O'Reilly]]

In the past, however, Oâ€™Reilly has made controversial comments about an 18-year-old woman, Jennifer Moore, who was raped and murdered, implying that it was partially her fault. Oâ€™Reilly called her â€œmoronic,â€ adding:

Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. Sheâ€™s walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now sheâ€™s out of her mind, drunk.

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That is pasted directly from the website. Now, reading it, I have yet to read anything that criticizes the Alexa Foundation. In fact, the only sentence about the Alexa Foundation is “…Bill O’Reilly is slated to speak at a fundraiser for the Alexa Foundation.”

Is there a paragraph I’m missing? I can see Amanda Terkel attacking Bill O’Reilly, but I don’t see anything about the Alexa Foundation. Unless you mean attacking Bill O’Reilly is the same as attacking the Alexa Foundation.