Gimme some loofah, baby
Jan. 19th, 2007 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockI'm not sure which I'm looking forward to more, watching Stephen Colbert skewer "Papa Bear" O'Reilly as only he can, or the blowback the Big Giant Head is going to get for this latest gem:
On the January 15 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly said of Shawn Hornbeck -- who was abducted at the age of 11, held for four years, and recently found in Missouri -- that "there was an element here that this kid liked about this circumstances" and that he "do[esn't] buy" "the Stockholm syndrome thing." O'Reilly also said: "The situation here for this kid looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents. He didn't have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted." When fellow Fox News host Greta Van Susteren pointed out that "[s]ome kids like school," O'Reilly replied: "Well, I don't believe this kid did."
The following day, during his "Talking Points Memo" segment, O'Reilly responded to viewer mail criticizing his comments about Hornbeck. O'Reilly concluded: "I hope he did not make a conscious decision to accept his captivity because" his kidnapper "made things easy for him. No school, play all day long."
Of course what else would one expect from King Falafel? He's been accused of being a sexual predator himself so it's probably partially professional courtesy, and partially his own deep need to believe that victims of this kind of thing secretly enjoy it. Gods I'm kicking myself for not making it home in time for Olbermann's list of Worst Persons in the World last night. I'll bet it was a doozy.
On the January 15 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly said of Shawn Hornbeck -- who was abducted at the age of 11, held for four years, and recently found in Missouri -- that "there was an element here that this kid liked about this circumstances" and that he "do[esn't] buy" "the Stockholm syndrome thing." O'Reilly also said: "The situation here for this kid looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents. He didn't have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted." When fellow Fox News host Greta Van Susteren pointed out that "[s]ome kids like school," O'Reilly replied: "Well, I don't believe this kid did."
The following day, during his "Talking Points Memo" segment, O'Reilly responded to viewer mail criticizing his comments about Hornbeck. O'Reilly concluded: "I hope he did not make a conscious decision to accept his captivity because" his kidnapper "made things easy for him. No school, play all day long."
Of course what else would one expect from King Falafel? He's been accused of being a sexual predator himself so it's probably partially professional courtesy, and partially his own deep need to believe that victims of this kind of thing secretly enjoy it. Gods I'm kicking myself for not making it home in time for Olbermann's list of Worst Persons in the World last night. I'll bet it was a doozy.
