Geez, I suppose I could have looked for another source of the transcript . . . . Drudge has an auto-refresh on this page that forces it to reload every 4 minutes. Perhaps he claims additional page views as a result, I don’t know. I do know it’s annoying.
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Michael Moore: Say ‘I Bill O’Reilly would sacrifice my child to secure Fallujah’
Bill O’Reilly: I’m not going to say what you say, you’re a, that’s ridiculous
Michael Moore: You don’t believe that. Why should Bush sacrifice the children of people across America for this?
Bill O’Reilly: Look it’s a worldwide terrorism—I know that escapes you—
Michael Moore: Wait a minute, terrorism? Iraq?
Bill O’Reilly: Yes. There are terrorists in Iraq.
Michael Moore: Oh really? So Iraq now is responsible for the terrorism here?
Bill O’Reilly: Iraq aided terrorists—don’t you know anything about any of that?
Michael Moore: So you’re saying Iraq is responsible for what?
The parts that lead up to this are just as illuminating: to O’Reilly, if you believe a lie — your own or someone else’s — you can use that as a defense. “I didn’t know it was wrong,” a standard of the pre-school set, is now standard equipment for world leaders as a justification for a thousand dead soldiers and a devastated country or two.