Don't hide behind the Law!

Does O'Reilly - ex school teacher - journalist - commentator- historian - bloviator par excellance - an expert on just about everything else - know that we are 'A NATION OF LAWS, NOT OF MEN'?

Last night (6/8/2009) O'Reilly, in what may be a classic, even for him, in an attempt to justify attacking the late Dr, Tiller's Medical Practice of late term abortions he compares that to America's torturing of prisoners.

He starts off with his 'Talking Points Memo' where he claims that America 'waterboarded three, three, detainees after 9/11. (There is no proof that not more than 3 were waterboarded). Liberals thereupon say America is a 'Torture Nation'. (O'Reilly does not mention torturing at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, nor the practice of 'Rendition'). Then he claims to have evidence that Dr, Tiller destroyed viable fetuses for trivial reasons. 36 states outlawed or severely restrict late term abortions he reports, but what difference does that make? Kansas, where Dr. Tiller worked, does not outlaw those abortions, so what the doctor did was perfectly legal. He then claims those abortions are always brutal and 'rarely necessary'. (Is than his Medical Opinion?) Then he goes off on 'Jessica's Law' which mandates mandatory 25 year prison sentencing, but some media don't want that, (for good reason, since all cases are not the same, and mandatory sentences should really be eliminated and 'guidelines' used instead). He brings up media coverage of the killing of Pvt. Long when he claims he 'misspoke' when he claimed that CNN did not cover the story. He didn't misspeak, he outright lied, and now still tries to justify that.

When Juan Williams points out what Tiller was doing was lawful, and torture was unlawful, O'Reilly's reply was "Don't hide behind semantics and the law". Mary Katharine Ham pipes in, not on subject but on the morality of abortions.
You need to watch the exchanges among the three.