Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Bill O'Reilly, a modern day reincarnation of Joe McCarthy?


(This cartoon by Bill Handlesman appeared in Newsday)

The following quote appeared in a July 20, 2004 review of OutFoxed by NYT film critic A.O.Scott:

Watching Bill O'Reilly's belligerent, boorish "interview" with Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the attack on the World Trade Center and who came to oppose the administration's military response to 9/11, is enough to make you wish that the ghost of Joseph Welch would enter the studio and inquire, at long last, after Mr. O'Reilly's sense of decency. But those days - when Welch undid Senator Joseph R. McCarthy on live television, and when that medium was new enough to bring a promise of transparency and truth-telling into the public consciousness - are long past.

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