O’Reilly, Churchill and “Poison Gas”
A famous quote from the Vietnam War, alleged to have been made by a U.S. pilot but actually uttered by journalist Peter Arnett, was: “…it became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” I was reminded of it when Bill O’Reilly on Friday May 8th destroyed Churchill in order to save him.
Intent on disproving Barack Obama’s non-quote of Churchill (“We don’t torture”; see “Obama, Churchill and Torture”), the Fox News Channel commentator, conducted an “investigation,” which turned out to be a phone call to a professor at Boston University, whose name I forget.…
