Spare me, Bill

Recovering tabloid anchor O'Reilly's still trying to attack those for behavior he's been guilty of tenfold in the past.

On his latest show, he's still harping on the Huffington Post thing and he's taken it to an even more absurd level:

O'REILLY: You know, what's the difference between the Ku Klux Klan and Arianna Huffington? What's the difference?

HAM: Well, I think there's difference. But she actually -- I think things have actually improved because people like you and like myself speak out about these things and say that, "Hey, this is an --

O'REILLY: I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis.

HAM: She actually --

O'REILLY: I don't see any difference.

Yep. There's absolutely no difference between a Web site administrator not deleting a few random comments from a message board of hundreds and a fascist government that conquered Europe and exterminated millions of people.

Does anyone take this guy seriously anymore? Or is his entire audience watching for the pure train wreck entertainment value?


And HuffPo's James Boyce has this to add:

Because of all the people to compare to a Nazi, he picked someone who actually has experience with real Nazis.

[...]

Her courage comes from her mother, who I am sad I never met, and who in Greece during World War II stood outside her house and faced down Nazi soldiers to protect the occupants of the house. Can you imagine the strength, the courage that took?

Arianna's courage comes from a mother who stood up when others would have run, a single Greek woman who faced down real Nazis, real soldiers with real guns, real Nazis who killed millions of innocent people and came close to destroying our world, not blowhards with a falafel.