Here is the O'Reilly article on the big liberal conspiracy to bring Bush down so Hillary can win in 2008. And I also have the transcript of Morris and O'Reilly talking about the issue and O'Reilly's article on it. I have just one thing to say, Bill you need mental help, please get it fast.
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Hurting Your Country
By: Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, Jun 02, 2005
So how did the USA go from being a beacon of freedom to a champion of the gulag? How exactly did that happen? Well, pull up a chair, here's what happened.
After President Bush won re-election last November, there was much consternation among some powerful anti-Bush Americans. They were stunned that John Kerry lost and feared that if Bush succeeds in his second term, the Democrats would lose again in 2008.
Then came the successful election in Iraq, and the fear on the left multiplied. If Iraq turned out to be a success, Mr. Bush would become a hero. So the need to undermine the Bush administration became more intense than ever. But how to do it? Social Security wasn't emotional enough, particularly for young voters. What could be done to hurt Bush?
Then came the revelation--let's torture the President.
The New York Times had already primed the pump, running more than 50 front-page stories on the abuses at Abu Ghraib. Then came reports from the International Red Cross that more abuse was happening at Guantanamo. The American Civil Liberties Union was already challenging detentions there and so a strategy was sealed: the Bush administration was full of torturers and human rights violators. It was ruining America's reputation throughout the world. Bush was a villain.
It was easy to get that thesis out. The left-wing websites fed anti-Bush columnists like Bob Herbert and Richard Cohen information and the drumbeat intensified. There was torture and abuse and murder all sanctioned by the evil Bush administration. Article after article appeared and soon some TV people followed along. It didn't take long before the torture seed was fully sown.
Full Story:
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SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR 8:00 PM EST
June 2, 2005 Thursday
DICK MORRIS, POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, there's nothing but relevance. Deep Throat was the first whistleblower. And politics was the first institution on which the whistle was blown.
Now we've so institutionalized whistleblowers, we have statutes protecting them and outlining their rights. And every institution has had its own Watergate. The Catholic church, the journalistic profession, television quiz shows. Everybody has had their Watergates with their whistleblowers.
But Deep Throat was the first. And I understand later tonight from your promo, you have the judge on saying that...
O'REILLY: Yes, right after you. This guy could be criminally involved.
MORRIS: I think this guy deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor.
O'REILLY: But -- right. And it's interesting. We have a new poll question to tell everybody about. But Americans are divided on this.
MORRIS: Yes.
O'REILLY: Is there any similarity in your mind to Linda Tripp?
MORRIS: Oh, yes, sure. Sure. The whole idea of somebody that takes their career or their life in their hands and risks it for what they think is right, whether it's liberal or conservative, is a very important idea.
And, you know, I worked in the Clinton White House. So people always assume I know all about space aliens, or whatever, or the government secrets. And did the government really plan this or do that? Or did Bush know about 9-11? Because of Deep Throat and the whistleblower, you can't do stuff like that anymore.
O'REILLY: No. You can't.
MORRIS: Because somebody's going to blow the whistle and be...
O'REILLY: Somebody will find out and leak it to the press. So you believe that what this guy did set the tone for political behavior up until today?
MORRIS: Exactly.
O'REILLY: OK. Now let's get on to something that's very, very important. My new column, I just finished, it's on billoreilly.com.
MORRIS: It's a good column.
O'REILLY: Both Dick Morris and I write for The New York Post. It'll be in The Post tomorrow. Outlines a very brilliant strategy to undermine the Bush administration...
MORRIS: That's right.
O'REILLY: ...all right, by using torture allegations.
MORRIS: Yes.
O'REILLY: All right? And I want everybody to read the column, if you can. Go to billoreilly.com. It's there right now. Do you believe that strategy is true?
MORRIS: Yes.
O'REILLY: Or am I crazy?
MORRIS: No. Well, I don't know if you're crazy or not, but...
O'REILLY: Well, thank you.
MORRIS: ...that's a broader question.
On the narrow question of this one, you're not crazy on this issue. Yes, clearly, this is a deliberate post-election strategy to take Bush down. And the problem is that George Bush, the family doesn't like politics. You know, they're in politics.
O'REILLY: They don't like confrontation.
MORRIS: Yes, they don't like campaigning. They don't like going toe to toe. If you have to, you will.
But now the election's over. And they figure, hey, politics is gone. Bill Clinton had a rule. Never sleep under the same roof with an unanswered allegation. The minute the allegation comes out, you answer it. And you go on the offensive against it.
And during the campaign, Rove and Karen Hughes and all those good folks there did a great job of doing it. But now they're saying the election's over. And therefore we don't have to do it. And it ignores the fundamental fact, which is the war in Iraq is being waged in American public opinion.
We're not going to lose in the streets of Baghdad. We're going to lose if the American people lose patience with this war, like they did in Vietnam.
O'REILLY: All right, but there's a bigger question that I deal with. And that is putting Hillary Clinton in the White House in 2008. The strategy is to combine the human rights groups and the ACLU with the left wing Web sites, who feed stuff to the anti-Bush columnists in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, the Boston Globe, and all those papers.
MORRIS: You could call it a vast left wing conspiracy.
O'REILLY: Well, it's very well coordinated. To create the impression that we, America, are the bad guys.
MORRIS: Right.
O'REILLY: We are the torturers. We're the gulag people.
MORRIS: Right.
O'REILLY: It's working.
MORRIS: Yes. And it obviously works in with al Qaeda and al Jazeera and all of those.
O'REILLY: Sure, because they pick up that stuff right away and circulate it. Right.
MORRIS: But Bush has got to answer this.
O'REILLY: He's not. He's not answering it. He just denies it.
MORRIS: The idea you had yesterday, I think, is the best, which is that you set up a commission to investigate it.
O'REILLY: Right.
MORRIS: When something like this happens, a politician has a choice. He can be the prosecutor or the defendant. If he says I just deny it, it's not true, and all that, he's the defendant. But if he says I want to get to the bottom of this, and if there are some sadists...
O'REILLY: Yes, we'll find them.
MORRIS: ...(INAUDIBLE), and obviously there are a few.
O'REILLY: And if there are a better way to handle the detainees, we want to hear about it.
MORRIS: We'll find it. And we're going to get to the bottom of it.
O'REILLY: Right. Isn't this brilliant, though?
MORRIS: The left is doing a brilliant job. It's capitalizing on the (INAUDIBLE) of the Bush administration.
O'REILLY: This -- I understand. But I have to give the devil his due. This is dishonest.
MORRIS: Yes.
O'REILLY: It's absolutely dishonest. It's brilliant -- how they want to dismantle the Bush administration and then leave the door open for Hillary to walk in 2008.
MORRIS: Bush doesn't get it.
O'REILLY: No, he doesn't.
MORRIS: That this is not about politics. This is about winning the war. Because in the last analysis, in any democracy, a foreign war is a war for domestic public opinion.
O'REILLY: You got to sell it. Right.
MORRIS: When domestic public opinion runs out, you get -- you lose the war.
O'REILLY: OK. Dick Morris, thanks very much. Again, that column is on billoreilly.com in The New York Post and hundreds of other papers from coast to coast. And we hope you do read it. Thanks again.
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