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O’Reilly: ‘We can’t kill all the Muslims’

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November 12, 2009

Why do I go to law school? Well, it’s not so I can spend the day off in the library basement outlining torts. But maybe it’s for the story tips. Like this one from Sara, who picked up on a clip from “The O’Reilly Factor” during which Big Bill said “Islam is the problem.”

The portion of the transcript in question:

“Now let me play Devil’s Advocate here. Barack Obama wants to win hearts and minds in the Middle East, in the Muslim world, which is a good thing. And you know that, as a soldier, we can’t kill all the Muslims. So we want to win over as many hearts and minds of as many good, moderate Muslims as we can.”

Yikes. And I thought the comment from an Ohioan on NPR two years ago, about keeping those Muslims out of America, was bad.

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