O'Reilly admits he's character assassin to Wes Clark , quickly backtracks

Reported by Chrish - May 10, 2007 -

After a cordial disagreement over the correctness of Army General John Batiste (who retired SO he could speak out against Bush's handling of the Iraq war) making a commercial for VoteVets.org, things got heated as Bill O'Reilly attacked Wes Clark for accepting $75 thousand (WesPAC, actually) from O'Reilly's current number one enemy and target, George Soros. Clark was magnificent as usual.
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Turning to Clark and pointing a finger, O'Reilly declared he had a bone to pick - about Soros making a donation to WesPAC. Clark smiled and reminded BOR he brought that up last time, and BOR asked him if he had any clue how radical left this guy is? Clark defended him as the embodiment of the American dream and began to enumerate his democratizing works in Eastern Europe, but O'Reilly interrupted to bring up Soros' conviction in France and his trading in British pounds - memes which we are hearing repeated, but never fully explained, bumpersticker smears.

He demanded of Clark his positions on euthanasia, legalized narcotics, open borders, and other causes Soros allegedly supports, sounding a lot like Sean Hannity at his badgering worst. When he said to Clark "you're not going to answer me?" Clark responded that it was not relevant. Of course O'Reilly disagreed and repeated that Soros gave him $75K, to which Clark replied he'd gladly take it from a Republican too. O'Reilly groused that Soros compared the Bush administration to the Nazis, and when Clark said he couldn't defend everything Soros says, O'Reilly, starting to get ugly, said he can't defend ANYthing Soros says (he's pure evil, remember - can't let the foot in the door that he may have some good qualities). Clark immediately answered that he could and proceeded to itemize.

O'Reilly, squinting, said he's going to have "my guys" FedEx Clark a package of who this guy really is. Clark said "That's character assassination", and O'Reilly, wide-eyed now, replied "You bet it is!" Realizing what he just said, he started shouting, "No! It's facts!" Clark was talking about the American values Soros puts his energy and money behind - democratization, free press - and O'Reilly shouted "that's bull!" Famous refuge when he's losing. He started ticking off on his fingers all the causes Soros supposedly supports that O'Reilly must find un-American: open borders, legalized narcotics, euthanasia, blah blah blah.
Soros is "undermining the country abroad, wants a one-world government, as radical..there isn't a person in the country more radical than him. You took 75K from the most radical individual in the United States of America!"

Oh puhleeeze - hyperbole much?

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O'Reilly is really the best at what he does. Thing is, what he does isn't worth doing. Lying to morons? Get a real job, Bill.