Outspoken conservative Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has declared war on the New York Times after what he called, "a vicious piece of propaganda," written by Times Editorial Page Director Andrew Rosenthal.
Rosenthal's piece titled, "The Nativists are Restless" published on January 31st, aimed at O'Reilly and other "harsh" Republicans who Rosenthal believes have been continuing a relentless campaign against immigrants who are now being exposed that the Republican tide has gone out.
The war of words started last week when the National Press Club, a Washington group that speaks for the future of the Republican Party reported that its November defeats in Congressional races stemmed not from having been too hard on foreigners, but too soft. The group released a report, "arguing that anti-immigration absolutism was still the solution for the party’s deep electoral woes."
Marcus Epstein, Executive Director at the American Cause is another one of the "extremists" and is responsible for putting together the conference in question, wrote today on Vdare.com, “My analysis made very modest claims. I merely reported, in their own words, the stated positions on immigration of the Republican and Democratic candidates in each seat the GOP lost.”
"This is nonsense, of course," wrote Rosenthal, "Americans have rejected the cruelty of enforcement-only regimes and Latino-bashing in opinion surveys and at the polls." Rosenthal believes that this sect of the Republican party is racist and white-supremacist, "Google the words “Bill O’Reilly” and “white, Christian male power structure” for another YouTube taste of the Fox News host assailing the immigration views of “the far left” (including The Times) as racially traitorous."
O'Reilly responded harshly to these accusations on his program last night, "I could post that Andrew Rosenthal completely distorted Bill O'Reilly's view on illegal immigration, because Rosenthal is a dishonest far-left zealot who uses hateful tactics, like implying people with whom he disagrees are racist. I could post that, and then you could Google "Rosenthal" and "illegal immigration" and it would be there -- uncensored. Now if Rosenthal doesn't know that, he's stupid. If he does know it, then he's dishonest and intentionally misleading Times readers.”
Crooksandliars.com, a progressive website, supports the Rosenthalian ideology about right wing racism and immigration, the website heralds the editorial piece as "superb".
Check out O'Reilly debunk the calims made by Rosenthal here.
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