The Kidnapping Expert

Bill O is wondering why the 15 year-old didn't run away from his captor. He blames the victim, of course.

The True Crime Blog: Bill O'Reilly on the Ben Ownby/Shawn Hornbeck Disappearance: "..It takes a lot to nauseate me. To render me speechless, at least for a moment. But reading the exchange above did both. Reading what the loudest mouth in cable news said about the biggest crime story of the first half of the year, in reference to a 15-year-old boy... I was stunned, and deeply disgusted.

Bill O'Reilly has been in the news business for what, more than 30 years?

Forget the crap about Patti Hearst -- the comparison isn't just invalid -- it's insane. Not to mention that the only valid comparison to this case (most likely) was Steven Stayner.

But O'Reilly has been in the news for 30 years or more, covering all sorts of stories, and he's never heard of preferential pedophiles? He's never heard of brainwashing or complete intimidation? He can't do the math where a 6'4', 300-lb pedophile with a violent temper against a slightly-built boy from rural Missouri equals one having complete control of the other?

This broadcast by Bill O'Reilly stands alone. Bill O'Reilly's statements above make Rush Limbaugh ridiculing Michael J. Fox's Parkinsons Disease symptoms during the last elections look like a mild jab from Limbaugh to Fox, a joke that was just a little tasteless.

O'Reilly has outed himself, once and for all, as the bully and blowhard... "