I’ve been hearing about Terry Gross’ interview with Bill O’Reilly for months and months, and now Boing Boing reports that O’Reilly may be trying to bury the interview. A lot of the interview concerned Al Franken’s book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, which satirized O’Reilly and other neoconservatives. The link from the Fresh Aire site includes a swaggering, bullying clip from O’Reilly’s show the next day.
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But the woman’s family are insisting that the militiamen will continue to occupy the hospital until they are compensated for the removal of her womb. The family is demanding 50 camels, which is the traditional Somali compensation offered for the death of a woman. The woman’s family say she is as good as dead because she can no longer bear children. This has been bothering me all day. I realize that this woman comes from a traditional culture, in a place where survival is everything. She would have died had a doctor at a free clinic in Mogadishu not removed…