On O'Reilly Factor, Bruce called Media Matters the "media Gestapo" and MoveOn.org "the political Gestapo"

Published: September 27, 2007, 12:34 am

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During the September 26 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly hosted Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce -- a self-described "openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush authentic feminist" -- to talk about what O'Reilly called "[t]he far-left Internet sites" such as Media Matters for America who "are in the business to smear any and all commentators who do not toe the liberal line." In response, Bruce said, "I think most of us who are in the public eye have got to call attention to the real story, which is the fact that a Gestapo has emerged in America. If you'll notice, the attacks on you mirror the attacks on General [David] Petraeus. And you have a media Gestapo in Media Matters, and then you have the political Gestapo in MoveOn.org." Bruce continued: "And the intention is the same. The intention is to smear an individual without any basis in reality, without any fairness, in an

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