I'm not alone

Last night, Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points touched on the topic I waxed eloquent about yesterday. Here is a brief synopsis of what he said.

"A few weeks ago I spent time with a senior citizen whose two sons were killed on September 11th, 2001. Every day this fine man and tens of thousands of other Americans wake up and confront the pain of irrational loss. But liberal newspapers today are full of editorials that say the Bush administration is violating everybody's rights in fighting the war. But c'mon, whose rights have really been violated? The answer is obvious - those who were murdered six years ago and their families. The government under Presidents Clinton and Bush knew the danger Al Qaeda posed, but didn't take action until after the attacks. Even worse are citizens who continue to put us all in danger by misusing their freedom. Spotlight 1: Hollywood director Brian DePalma, whose film 'Redacted' shows American soldiers raping an Iraqi woman and killing civilians. That vile man and his vile film will have an effect - imagine young Muslim men sitting there watching a Muslim woman raped. If even one of those men enters the fight and kills an American, it is on Brian DePalma. Then we have the deniers, the loons who spit in the face of 9/11 victims by saying America attacked itself on 9/11. It's truly sad the country is so divided on the sixth anniversary of 9/11 - many are blind to the danger, some simply despise their own country. All in all, it is tragic."

The Factor was joined by author and retired USAF officer Robert Patterson, who denounced Brian DePalma and his movie. "This film is anti-American and anti-military, and DePalma has crossed the line into propaganda. You know this is going to play on Al Jazeera and it's going to fuel the fire." FNC's Ellis Henican agreed that DePalma is fomenting hatred, but defended his right to do so. "I don't like his message and I worry about the impact, but we have to answer it with effective speech in the other direction. Trying to ban it only makes it stronger." The Factor pointed out that anti-military films were taboo during previous wars. "Freedom of speech ends when you put another American in danger. If a movie chain books this film, I'm going to ask every VFW member to go out and demonstrate. I have seen vile things, but this is the worst."

Here's is DePalma's defense of the movie.

Talk about giving Muslim men more fuel for their fire of hatred against Americans. Ok. I'll stop before I go back through what I said yesterday. But you get my point, right?