"Ultimate inhumane treatment of a child"? That's absolutely horrible, regardless of what the kid was saying.

Not only was using a child like that unethical, it was unwise. Now, Bill and the rest of his cohorts can just sit and blast the fact that a child was made to say this, and not actually rebuke any of her points.

Congratulations, parents of child. You've just given conservative pundits everywhere a good reason to continue with their one-sided tripe.

About Bill O'Reilly's comments, as I've already said : relax, it's just Bill O'Reilly ! You know, as a Frenchman, if I had to take into account every little thing he said about my country or my people, I'd become totally insane...

I like the line where he says he hates the media except for the Chicago Tribune. The CT is consistently coming under fire for a lack of research, not double-checking their sources, AND has worked with a near conflict of interest regarding the sports world.

Seems fitting that it would be a paper that O'reilly is attached to.

So employing child actors is a form of child abuse? Looks like Disney has some answering to do.

You'd think that someone who specializes in child abuse could think of something worse than having a child read some lines.

"You’d think that someone who specializes in child abuse could think of something worse than having a child read some lines."

They are putting her eternal soul at risk. That is far worse than her getting sodomised by a half dozen old men.

'What about the first ammendment. what if she was speaking the truth. And if not than how could this be child abuse. eather im blind or moronic but i see no child endangerment.'

Well, look at it this way, if this is child abuse by making her read someone else's opinion from a script, then every nativity play in the country is also child abuse by Bill's description of it.

Pretty low for someone to use their child to send a message they don't have the balls to do themselves.

"I must say, that was the most adorable response to an O’Reilly argument in the history of responses to an idiot. This video, however, was also the stupidest response in the history of an idiot arguing with a child. "

Priceless. Thanks a lot guys for posting this up, since I really can't bear to watch O'Reilly unless absolutely necessary. And by necessary, I mean forcing me to upon threat of death. Linked this over on dtoid: http://www.destructoid.com/little-girl-responds-to-o-reilly-bill-acts-li...

wow I saw this on youtube the other day and thoguht it was funny. What's even funnier is how they are using the media to make the girl look bad because she, or whoever put her up to it becuase they disagree. On top of that they are fear mongering to make it look like child abuse? WTF.

This isn't about child abuse. It's about O'Reilly's over-inflated ego being bruised by some little girl and some band I have never heard of. To be honest, it's akin to some message board troll getting his ass handed to him by a forum regular. Rather than ignore it because it hit home, he has to dish out a shitty rebuttal.

Boo-fucking-hoo, Reilly.

[...] Link to GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » 8-year-old Slams Bill O’Reilly for Blaming Violence on Games, Music [...]

I'm a conservitive and I can't stand O'Reilly a lot of the time

I may not like a lot of the things that he is also against, but the way he trys to justify his opinion is not only degrading, but just insulting to moderate conservitives everywhere

Well, had O'Reilly stated that it was bullshit and given his opinions why he considered it so, then there'd probably be a whole different set of responses, but the fact is he DID call it child abuse, which means he'd rather try and promote a knee-jerk reaction than actually debate her points.

For my part, I'm in the UK, so I wouldn't give a damn what she called either party btw.

"If the kid was paid to say all liberals are donkey rapists and will burn in hell, there’d be all kinds of bitching"

Oddly enough, I don't think that would be the case. i think the liberals would proceed to respond to the dokey rapist allegations, and the quantifiable dangers to society as a whole. I dare say the liberals would accept burning in hell as a fair consequence for mule abuse, if that indeed is what's going on . . .

I sent this letter via email to Fox News. I don't expect to hear back, or fully expect to have my words twisted about.
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To Whom It May Concern:

I happened across a digital video of this report: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjc9g1-4ytI&eurl). I would like to point out a couple of inaccuracies contained in it.

First, this video was not created as political propaganda by the girl's parents, or "nuts" as Mr. O' Reilly terms them. It was a professionally filmed video using a child actor. It was created for a music group, whose message is summed up therein. Also, the original video of the girl states this explicitly at the summation of the video. I was able to confirm this in less than five minutes using web searches (Google/YouTube).

Here are links that confirm the video's source:

http://www.thebastardfairies.com/Site%202/THE%20BASTARD%20FAIRIES%20Meme...

http://www.myspace.com/thebastardfairies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8x14cLGh5o&eurl

Taken from above: "OFFICIAL STATEMENT: THIS VIDEO FEATURES A TALENTED YOUNG ACTRESS PLAYING A FICTITIOUS CHARACTER. IT IS A COMMERCIAL FOR THE BAND 'THE BASTARD FAIRIES' AND DIRECTED BY AN AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKING TEAM."

Second, the "Child Advocate", Wendy Murphy, that appeared next to Mr. O' Reilly is mistaken. There is absolutely no child abuse contained in that video, implicit or explicit, as defined by the Federal Government.

See: http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/define.cfm

I would politely suggest that Mr. O' Reilly's news team finds better 'experts,' perhaps one less shrill and hysterical, and one who is familiar with what is considered to be child abuse by our Federal Government. Unless Wendy Murphy is making the claim that all child acting is abuse. You will find that this claim, apart from being absurd, puts her in an actionable position because child acting is strictly regulated by the film industry so as to not harm the well being of the child. If that video is child abuse, then the makers of the movies, "Goonies," and, "The Sandlot," had better be locked up.

I am confused that a senior news personality, who sells his persona as a dedicated, "no-spin" news source, would run this segment as a serious news piece. The piece was not researched, and left out certain facts. Mr. O' Reilly used this glaring omission to further his own agenda - I dare say this type of broadcasting is "spin" of the purest sort.

I realize that Mr. O' Reilly finds that video's message offensive. That is perfectly reasonable; the double-edged sword of Free Speech cuts both ways. However, instead of disagreeing using a reasoned argument, Mr. O' Reilly has simply set the video up as a "Straw Man," doing nothing to counter it but attack the medium, leaving the message wholly intact. I'd be willing to bet that the free publicity Mr. O’ Reilly has provided the band has given that video a voice to be reckoned with, and assured that many millions of children and teenagers will have access to it's message.

Thank you for your time.

*sigh* I've really got my work cut out for me come Christmas when I have to point out everything wrong with O'Reily's "arguments" to my relatives that like his poor excuse for news reporting.

So was I the only one who stopped watching after the I-Podinator graphic showed up? It really worries me when conservative pundits use something like that (for a serious "report") without realizing that it makes them look extremely crazy.
If it weren't for the fact that there hadn't been a story that could use it yet, I could've sworn that they just stole the graphic from the Colbert Report.

@Ohma

I kept watching, but I did bang my head on my desk in hopes that I was in some twisted nightmare where ignorance and stupidity were allowed to run rampant and that would wake me up. Unfortunately I was still in the real world, so now I just have a headache.

I disagree that religion has been the sole cause of violence. While many wars have been fought over religion, many others haven't. However, I applaud this brave girl and I don't think she was coerced into saying that. Video games weren't around when the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan killed bunches and bunches of innocent people. She's absolutely right. I think this girl believes this and is a hero for saying it. I started to defend violent video games very strongly when I was twelve, so I think that an eight year old can also have strong opinions about this.

To say that she was coached and that this is child abuse, is ridiculous. Just because she's young, doesn't mean that she can't have an authentic opinion about this. Also what about all the people that have convinced crazy people, who have gone on killing sprees, to say that violent video games made them do it. Jack Thompson, and anti-game acitivists, coerce people into saying things. This girl shouldn't be shrugged off as wrong because she's young. I have one thing to say about this girl's intelligence level and awesome comments on this issue that most adults can't even figure out. *APPLAUSE*

Personally, I find the use of child actors (Amateur OR professional) to be a contemptible and manipulative way of promoting any message. I agree that O'Reilly's response is asinine and out of touch, but that doesn't make this little promotional stunt any more appealing. In this incident, BOTH sides are wrong.

Religion HAS caused more violence then video games supposedly have and continues to, just look at the middle east war between shi ites and sunni and the crusades. I'm not saying go ban religion because there are peaceful religions (like Buddhism) and most religious violence comes from people distorting or completely ignoring the original intent of the religion.

Back on topic I think that it is scripted since I highly doubt a little girl would come up with that conclusion. I also think that person could get his point acorss better if he said it himself, unless he speaks with a lisp or is a cigarette addict who speaks with a hole in his throat, still though that was too painfully scripted.

@Father Time

Read the other comments. This was scripted. Specifically it was a paid actress doing a promotional thing for a band. Somewhere along the way the specific disclaimer that that's what this was got chopped off of the video.

"Using a child in propoganda is child abuse"? Wait wait wait. Politicians do that all the time when they stand kids up around them and say "I'm trying to protect the children" when they pass video game legislation. Is that child abuse? What a bunch of hypocracy. Hell, I even saw one politician surround himself with kids so the press wouldn't say some really 'horrible things' about some 'misconduct' he did.

Someone give Bill a nice Boot To The Head. I guess now that he's "won" the War On The War On Christmas, he has to find some other way to torture people.

Oh this is grand, the only one to rebuttal against O'Reilly's stupid views are a bunch of left wing assholes who have some stupid band and apparently think anyone who is a Christian or a republican is evil and stupid?!?

So the only way to battle stupidity is with even more stupidity?!?

Sorry for the double post, but the true irony is that Bill has probably just earned these people a record contract, so rather than fighting what he percieves as 'immoral society', he's probably doing a great deal to promote it.

If you ever watched charmed, there was a epesode where a person was protesting taxes. In order to do so, the only way anyone would ever listen to her, was if she was to get naked.

Its pretty much the same thing here, except for the naked part. Billy paid attention, but unforutantly made the parents to be evil.

...Do you americans hace THIS as news!? When I saw the face of Terminator and the comment of "the rise of machines being a menace to mankind", I doubted if his words would have any credibility. O_o

I saw the video of the girl and I was surprised when I found out she was an actor. I was all like, "Wow! That kid's good!"

Granted, I don't jive with everything she says (i.e. Religion as the scapegoat for the source of violence), but I do agree there's a WHOLE lotta stupid going on.

And good ol' Billy's the Grand Pumba of Stupid.

Get that girl a real job.

Bash religion for the violence in society? That's going way too far now; however, don't blame the girl for being an actress, blame those half-assed i-want-to-be-noticed-for-political-views-and-interest ids for writing that mess in the first place.

It's not religion; it's politics.

Religion has become too far a big influence on politics: obviously some independent is going to go and spread his misfortune to hook up some supporters on his idea.. using a worthless waste of effort on his opposable campaign.

I'm a truly saved Christian, and an avid Gamer. I'm not on the streets killing people. It's the insane people that kill people.
Save a mad man - prosecute a Christian.

They have to hate Bill O'Reilly just because they can't save the world.

For a lawyer with a long history of abuse cases, Wendy Murphy knows very little about what actually constitutes abuse.

Check Here for a brief summation of her legal career. It seems she has a tendancy to interpret events in the most deviant way possible. Even when reality is quite clearly the opposite.

So republicans are responsible for all the wars and violence too eh?

Considering that the federalist party which has since spawned into the Democratic Party was responsible for a majority of the early wars, I find that laughable

ah Blustering bill'o what can I say..the fact you let a child "actor" get to you should say it all....

Grimm22
republicans tend to go to war for the stupidest reasons dems tend to do it as humanitarian aid one is the dems usealy have plan not always but most of the time the reps prefer subterfuge and endless quagmires.

Part I find most amusing about this besides the actors statements is o'reily said "We know who these parents are" so either A) He really didnt know and lied or B) They knew it was a band making fun of him and decided to try and lied about the actual facts anyways. Damned if you do damned if you don't o'reilly.... lmao

Jatone, just to clarify I was being sarcastic in that comment. The whole situation demonstrates just how far out of touch with reality these people are.

That shrieking expert's reaction gave me the impression that they were about to go linch the girl's parents. It's a shame they don't go after pedophiles with as much zeal as they do people who teach their kids to think critically.

An actress is hired to make a video. What's the big deal?

She's a kid.

So kids act in film and television all the time.

Making her say those things is child abuse.

What, and a kid in a horror flick isn't?

Sorry Mr. O'Reily, but your argument fails to do anything but make me laugh. Hard.