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I just knew when I saw this scene that somebody was going to get whiny.
Bill O'Reilly lashes out at 'Law & Order' executive producer
Fri Dec 11, 1:34 pm ET
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly lashed out at "Law & Order" franchise creator/executive producer Dick Wolf Thursday night. The bombastic host, upset over how he was recently characterized on the long-running NBC drama, called the "far left" Wolf a "despicable human being" whose show is "out of control."
Sparking O'Reilly's ire was an episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" that aired earlier in the week, in which a crazed anti-immigration activist set out to murder the children of illegal immigrants. In one scene, a character named Randall Carver, played by veteran actor John Larroquette, is sitting on a park bench talking to Fin, the detective played by Ice-T. In defending the actions of the man who killed the immigrants’ children, Larroquette's character says, "Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, all of 'em, they are like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate...They've convinced folks that immigrants are the problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a broken health care system..."
After playing the clip of the "defamatory and outrageous" scene, O'Reilly slammed Dick Wolf as a "coward" and a "liar" before playing a montage of clips demonstrating his past defenses of "poor people who only want a better life." O'Reilly went on to explain that his "beef" isn't with illegal immigrants themselves, but rather with the federal government for doing little to control immigration and the "violent aliens who wreak havoc once they get here." He concluded by chastising Wolf for "distorting and exploiting" the issue of illegal immigration.
When contacted by Yahoo! News, a representative for Dick Wolf declined to comment on O'Reilly's accusations.
See Bill O’Reilly’s reaction:
- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News blog
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091211/en_ynews/ynews_en1030
Bawwwwww.
O'Reilly apparently doesn't recognize the difference between truth and fiction, a writer's opinion and a character's opinion. Yes, I get the strong feeling the L&O franchise is definitely more left leaning than right. (I always joke about the growing inclusion of "public-service announcements" in SVU.) So? O'Reilly's show is definitely more right leaning than left. Live with it, Bill. And just because a character says something means the writer behind it must mean it? (As if Dick Wolf even wrote the episode? Thought he was the producer or something. Why aren't'cha going after the writer, Bill?)
What about the characters in the episode who were ranting and railing about how nasty immigrants are and how their kids should die, do their opinions hold for Wolf's, too? Don't hear O'Reilly complaining about Wolf "defaming" the poor immigrants. How selective of him. Bawwwwww.
I do hope he only learned of the scene because somebody pointed it out to him, and not because he's, you know, a fan of the show or anything.
Somebody needs a thicker skin. Or else to stop watching shows he hates. I don't watch O'Reilly, for example! He's so surprised that maybe somebody doesn't like him? "Waaaaah Mommy, Dick Wolf hates me!"
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