Classic Case of Projection

On August 8, 2006, Bill O'Reilly said the following (as reported by News Hounds):

The far left in America is dominated by haters, people who despise their own country and want to injure those with whom they disagree. These smear merchants are now all over the mainstream media and have spread like lice on the Internet.

This is a laughable quote because this is exactly what Bill O'Reilly does day in and day out just with the names changed. He hates liberals. He attempts to injure those with whom [he] disagree[s]. He's also a smear merchant extraordinaire.

So this quote is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

In addition, it puts on display one of the most insulting ploys used by the far right. They routinely say that those people who disagree with them hate (or in the quote above, despise) their own country.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

People on the political left might hate or despise what people on the political right are doing to America, or they might hate or despise the policies advocated by the people on the political right but they don't hate their country. Indeed, they are trying to protect it!

So, the next time a Republican tells you that their opponents (or liberals) hate America, laugh in their faces and show them how much disdain you have for such a sleazy tactic.

After all, its the far right that has within its membership, people who want to repeal the U.S. Constitution, replace our government with a theocracy and impose biblical law on the United States. If you define America by the values currently contained within the U.S. Constitution, then these people must hate America too. After all, they want to scrap the whole thing…

Ken