Salon.com's War Room: Orly Taitz goes to war against Bill O'Reilly

[BurtWorm]

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/29/orly_...

It's an awful feeling, watching your heroes turn on you. That's how Birther leader Orly Taitz's followers seem to feel about a brief segment Fox News' Bill O'Reilly did earlier this week about the $20,000 sanction that a federal judge hit Taitz with a couple weeks ago.

The Birthers have been somewhat disillusioned with O'Reilly and some of his colleagues before -- there's the lack of investigative journalism done by the network that would prove, once and for all, that President Obama was in fact born in Antarctica, for instance. And O'Reilly previously mentioned the fact that Obama has already released proof of his birth in Hawaii; they weren't happy about that. But calling Taitz a "nut"? My God, it's like that whole "Fair and Balanced" thing isn't really true!

So e-mails have been pouring in to Taitz's Web site lately, denouncing O'Reilly and starting whole new branches of the conspiracy theory (apparently one of the legal analysts who participated in the offending segment worked, long ago, for Perkins Coie, the firm that employs Bob Bauer, the Obama campaign's general counsel -- and about 700 other lawyers, too). And now they're organizing a protest against O'Reilly, slated to be held outside the Fox News building in New York City on Nov. 11.

On her Web site, Taitz explained, "Keep in mind, what OReilly did, is more dangerous, more harmful then what some idiots like Rachel Maddow or Keith Obertmann (sic) did, since people believe O’Reilly to be fair and balanced."

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. But...but...but...O'Reilly is the DEVIL!

Asshole though he may be, he's come down on the correct side of this AND healthcare.

[damntexdem]

3. Yeah, but Oily Taint would be too much even for Satan to take.

So a minor henchman demon like O'Really finds it very difficult indeed.

[JuniperLea]

2. Ok, ok... Pots to the left, Kettles to the right...

All you crocks stay right were you are!

[Myrina]

4. "people believe OReilly to be fair and balanced" ???

WOW.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. I think we're just seeing the beginning of the nuttery

We're going to see Vince Foster like stories about bodies carried out of the White House in rolled-up rugs and Ron Brown like stories about assassinations. While extremely annoying, the birther conspiracy nuts are nothing compared to the nuts who grew an entire industry around Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1990s. I'm sure the nuts are just now hitting their stride, though, and won't disappoint us as to their extreme paranoia and delusion.