O’Reilly: If Cheney had ‘an assassination squad,’he would have killed Seymour Hersh ‘a long time ago

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/22/oreilly-cheney-hersh/

During a speech at the University of Minnesota last week, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claimed that the Bush administration had employed “an executive assassination ring” that “reported directly to the Cheney office.” In an Boston Herald op-ed today, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly mocked Hersh’s claim, saying “If Cheney really had such a crew,” reporters like Hersh would have already been killed:

The other day, left-wing muckraker Seymour Hersh went on MSNBC and said he had information,
provided by the usual anonymous sources, that Dick Cheney was running an assassination squad out of
the White House.

I have but one simple observation: If Cheney really had such a crew, Hersh would have been dead a
long time ago, and so would most everybody at MSNBC.

Boston Herald link here:

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1160180&srvc=home&position=rated

(Warning, it is an O'lielly link)

[fascisthunter]

1. lol... no he wouldn't

he's too high profile.

also, who says he didn't try?

[tularetom]

2. No he wouldn't

Cheney would have fucked it up like he fucked up everything else.

[originalpckelly]

3. Cheney would want to, but couldn't. Reporters should stop relying on anonymous sources...

but only if the things they report on are transparent enough to do so. The problem with our system of government is that it's opaque. No one can get any information out of it on a regular basis. We shouldn't have to have investigative reporters like Sy Hersh, no one should have to have contacts with power in order to know how their government is operating.

These two, Cheney and Hersh, seem to have it out for one another, so I'd take everything Hersh says with a grain of salt. I find it very unfortunate that we simply don't have any other mechanism to know what our government is doing than something as unverifiable as secret sources.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Seymour knows to avoid small planes

[BeFree]

5. That's right

Cheney has never worked to get anybody kilt. He's as pure as the driven snow.

He'd never do anything to hurt anybody. He's not responsible for any of the dead in Iraq or anywhere. He cares. He's proved it time and again.

[Supersedeas]

6. if Bill O were the dictator -- he'd have him a list of dead journalists??

[Canuckistanian]

7. Why? Is O'Reilly suggesting that Hersh is a threat to Cheney?

Thereby suggesting that Cheney actually HAD something to fear from having uncomfortable facts revealed?

That's very telling.

[VampyreHunter]

8. O'Reilly

Wow, you guys really hate O'Reilly. :)

[chrisa]

9. What is there to like about him? nt

[GCP]

11. Yeah - he's a real culture warrior

Check this out:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html

[UTUSN]

10. Oh. I'm still waiting for O'LOOFAH's "apology to the nation" he promised

on the day before the illegal Iraq Attack, that he would apologize to the nation if no WMD were found.


His level of DENIAL is just so OBVIOUS (to everybody except him). Was it the nuns who stoked and stroked it into him, to drink the official KoolAid so willingly, easily, automatically?