In their defense of “pro lifers” on Fox News last night, few were as defensive as Bill O’Reilly. This is understandable, considering he’s been at the forefront of the abortion disinformation campaign for decades. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“On Monday’s edition of “The O’Reilly Factor,” the esteemed host used his “Talking Points Memo” to distance his anti-abortion rhetoric — as well as that of the Republican Party — from Robert Dear’s attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in the oddest way possible: by reminding viewers of his complicity in the 2009 murder of Kansas abortion-provider George Tiller.

Dear’s actions, O’Reilly noted, are simply a function of the fact that he was “a long-time malcontent who had problems wherever he has lived,” and because in a free society such “disturbed individuals run unchecked, we have to report murder after murder after murder.”

He complained that Planned Parenthood’s President Vicki Cowart is “blaming the killings on harsh criticism directed at the organization after undercover videotapes exposed the sale of aborted baby body parts,” which is utter nonsense, because “Planned Parenthood is in the baby body parts business and deserves much of the harsh criticism directed toward it.”

O’Reilly likened Cowart’s attempt to call attention to “hateful language, hateful speech, [and the] environment created around the work Planned Parenthood does” to criticism of him following the 2009 murder of George Tiller by Scott Roeder.

“I reported extensively on Tiller and after he was assassinated by a man named Scott Roeder, some far left loons blamed me,” he said, adding that the doctor “was nicknamed ‘Tiller the Baby Killer’ by organizations who objected to his grizzly practices.” He failed to mention that the “organizations” in question were actually just “guests on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’” who picked the witticism up from the host himself.”*

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