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    O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
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    Image of EddieTheDane EddieTheDane
    11/11/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    I was watching The Factor last night.
    Don't ask me why. I don't know. Why do you do things that are bad for you? Even asking a question like that is annoying.

    When he said what he said I chortled, then changed the channel. It was that remarkable, which is to say, only a little bit.

    I'm glad Gawker pointed out how insane this truly is. By now, I'm inured to the Right's jingoistic, violent, phony tough-guy stance. I guess I oughtta stop watching Fox.

    These assholes are so fucking stupid and crazy that their tiny brains can hold only two political ideologies - genocide or colonialism. The scariest part is that they represent 3 out of every 10 people you see as you go about your daily business. Maybe more.
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    11/11/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    "Look, what the Fuhrer is trying to do is win hearts and minds. Which is a good thing because we can't kill all the Jews." #billoreilly
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    11/11/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    You other people may be able to hear this type of crap without getting the irresistible urge to punch your TV (or your mointor), but I don't think it's fair that us Serbs have to listen to it once again after we already heard it from Slobodan Milosevic. Enough! #billoreilly
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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    11/11/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    That is one creepy quote. #billoreilly
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    Image of BaldwinPeriphetes BaldwinPeriphetes
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    The thing that's amazing is not this line of thinking, because it's logical from a certain America Uber Alles point of view.


    No, the thing that's amazing is that he only just worked out that the "kill everyone who opposes us" plan cannot work, more than 8 years after September 11 and after doing everything possible in the intervening time to alienate the hearts and minds of people who dislike America or the west in general, and bashing commie pink liberal UN-lovers who wanted to be diplomatic.

    Even more amazing, but not surprising, is that he has begun his campaign to win hearts and minds by telling the target he's only doing it because he can't kill them fast enough
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    "It's clear that the problem is Islam". Lt. Col. Ralph Peters is such a fucking patriot - the type of patriot that has openly suggested on multiple occasions that the Taliban should kill a POW that he concluded was a deserter. #billoreilly
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    Channeling a bit of Vietnam-era tee shirt poetics, "We want to win your hearts and minds -- or else we blow up your fucking camels." #billoreilly
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    We are not disturbingly well on our way to killing everyone in Afghanistan. The Taliban tries, though. Bill is actually leveling with his audience in a bullheaded, patriarchal way - an audience that likely wonders why we just don't kill 'em all and have done with it. #billoreilly
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/11/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: He's leveling with his audience that yes, of course, we WANT to kill all the Muslims, we just CAN'T.

    Bill O'Reilly: the Great Educator. #billoreilly
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/11/09

    @Atilla the Bun:

    This is actually a fairly novel, instructive viewpoint. Keep in mind these guys spent ever year from 1990 to about 2006 under the impression that America was an unstoppable juggernaut that the world would obey or be destroyed by. Bill is figuring it out with them. #billoreilly
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    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    Oh Bill, don't give up. We can kill every Muslim, just like you want.
    Don't be a quitter! KILL KILL KILL!!!!! And don't forget to get the babies, 'cause you know what they'll grow into. That's right, little jihadists terrorizing our pre-schools. Do you want little Faisal blowing up your kid's kindergarten with a diaper-bomb? Then get out there, freedom fighters, and take 'em DOWN!

    We'll "win" eventually, don't you worry. #billoreilly
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    11/11/09

    @Cicada: You know who wasn't a quitter? Hitler.

    I mean there's a man who came up with a final solution to his irrational hatred for Jews and took affirmative steps to seeing it through. You never heard of Nazi stormtroopers handing out MREs to Jews. No sirree. Hitler didn't know how to quit.

    O'Reilly is just a weekend racist. He doesn't have the hate-blackened soul to really see a campaign of genocide through. I'm not saying we should see Stalin-like results overnight, but how are we supposed to have our own Killing Fields with quitters like O'Reilly speaking out against genocide.

    He's a goddamn appeaser is what he is. #billoreilly
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    That gave me a chill, and not a good one. #billoreilly
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    Image of baylock baylock
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    Bill and his fellow wingnuts don’t seem to understand that when you bomb the crap out of a region off and on for 50 years, they tend to get pissed. Bombing them more is essentially like Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. #billoreilly
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    Gross. The arrogance and entitlement on display make me want to join a fucking jihad.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'

    More brain slugs. #billoreilly
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/10/09

    @onebadclam: haha i love these! #billoreilly
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    I recommend you start the problem drinking BEFORE you watch the clip. Well before. #billoreilly
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    Image of jbwan jbwan
    11/10/09

    In reply to O'Reilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because 'We Can't Kill All the Muslims'
    So, there's like a treasure located on the other end of a field. Most people walk though the cleared path to get to that treasure.
    One guy sloggs through a pigsty, industrial waste runoff, and a briar patch, but he still reaches the treasure.
    Should we be upset that he waded through crap to get there, or should we be happy that he got there? Because, well, maybe while he pats himself on the back that he got to the treasure, he might just turn around and see the nicely cleared path that everyone else took. He would then realize the error of his ways, say, "you know what, maybe taking that normal path to get here made more sense?"

    Oh who am I kidding. It's Bill O'Reilly. that dude lives in shit pile. #billoreilly
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