When Freedom of Speech Goes Too Far
Monday, October 16, 2006
By Bill O'Reilly
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,221042,00.html There's a group in America putting forth that President Bush is behind worldwide terrorism and engineered the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Of course, there's no evidence to back that up. One of the slandermen, Kevin Barrett, currently teaching a class at the University of Wisconsin. So the taxpayers of that state are paying this crazy guy. Obviously, there are no academic standards at UW and Chancellor John Wiley should be ashamed. Now last night, a former University of Minnesota professor, a friend of Barrett's, who also believes the president is a murderer, came on "The Factor". And I hammered him:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: You can't get any legitimate news organization in the world to put stuff anywhere because it's all bogus. And I don't care whether you're a Marine officer. You're disgracing the Marine Corps by what you're doing. You hate your country. You accuse a man of a murder — of being a murderer, President Bush. And you know, if I were Bush, I'd take a look at you, professor. I'd definitely take a look at you.
Just like Sami Al-Arian.:spray:
(END VIDEO CLIP)
In response to that segment, we received thousands of e-mail's, including this one from Vera and Jim Boucher, who live in Modesto, California: "Bill, we feel very strongly you were very rude to Jim Fetzer. Yes, he is an idiot, but he deserves civility." The Bouchers are partly right. I was rude, but they are wrong that Fetzer deserves civility. He deserves condemnation.
Far-left secular progressives may not make judgments, but I do. And my judgment is that anyone accusing a fellow American of mass murder better have undeniable facts to back it up. I am fed up with these America haters hiding behind a free speech. Ward Churchill calling those Americans killed on 9/11 Nazis — does Churchill deserve civility? Barrett and Fetzer putting forth that America is behind worldwide terrorism, that we are a despicable country? Do these men reserve a cordial response? They do not. These are dangerous loons, whose rantings should assign them to obscure Web sites, not places of respect at major universities. The culture war in America is raging. And this is a perfect example of it. Would the University of Wisconsin or Colorado allow a KKK instructor in the classroom? How about a Nazi sympathizer? No, they would not, but if you want to defame your country, Christians, Jews or white people, send your resume to these schools. They're happy to entertain that point of view. Every American needs to wake up and smell the hatred. Your country is under assault from without and from within. The culture war is on, big time. And that's The Memo.
"PROFESSOR IN TERROR INDICTMENT WAS A BUSH SUPPORTER" "Sami Amin al-Arian, the University of South Florida professor charged with being the US leader of a Mideast terrorist group, was an influential figure in Tampa's small Muslim community whose political activism landed him in a photograph with President Bush during the 2000 campaign. ''He was a Bush supporter,'' said Robert McKee, an attorney who is representing Arian in a legal dispute with the university. ''As close as the election in Florida was, Sami may have put him over the top. He got out the vote in the Muslim community in Florida, and now Bush's attorney general is going after him.''...A photograph taken during a campaign stop in the Tampa area shows George and Laura Bush, both smiling, flanked by Arian, his son Abdullah, and three women wearing Islamic scarves. Newsweek magazine published the picture in July 2001. Asked about the photo, White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said yesterday that Bush met Arian and his family at a strawberry festival in Florida. ''Then-Governor Bush just walked around greeting people,'' Buchan said. Arian did not contribute money or volunteer work to the Bush campaign, she said. Her account differed from Newsweek's in its July 16, 2001, issue: ''It was one of the coolest moments of his life. Abdullah al-Arian was finally old enough to vote for president, and George W. Bush singled him out in the crowd. Bush called the college student `Big Dude' and posed for pictures with his Arab-American family - an ethnic group politicians have long ignored.'...Remembering his campaigning for Bush in Florida and the president's thin margin of victory there, Sami Arian was indignant. ''We certainly delivered him many more than 537 votes,'' Newsweek magazine quoted him as saying." 2.22.03
http://www.bushwatch.com/samibush2.htm 
Above: Bush "takes a look at" Sami Al-Arian.
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