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Bill O’Reilly suggests parents at fault in Aurora massacre - VIDEO

Parents avoid costly babysitters to see movies says O’Reilly

CATHY HAYES,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 7:20 AM

Updated Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 9:30 AM

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Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor,"

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Fox pundit Bill O’Reilly has blamed the death of the youngest victim of the Aurora shooting on the cost of babysitters.

Speaking in the aftermath of the movie theater massacre that killed 12 people, O’Reilly questioned why children were at a midnight screening of the batman movie.

Veronica Moser-Sullivan (6) was killed during the midnight screening of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" early Friday in Aurora, Colorado. Her mother, Ashley Moser (25) was shot in the throat and the abdomen and remains in critical condition.

In a segment early on during O’Reilly’s show “The O’Reilly Factor” the host remarked, “I don’t want this to sound harsh to anybody, but the reason that these children were in the theater at midnight to see Batman was because their parents didn’t want to pay for babysitters because babysitters are expensive. So they take the children, the children fall asleep in the movie and the parent watches the movie. And the (six) year-old girl who’s dead – the mother of the girl was shot in the chest – you just heard her father.

“She survived. The story about this is that the mother, the father – and you heard the father – took the six year-old to the midnight movie. And they did that, as I explained, ‘cause they didn’t want to pay a babysitter, because babysitters are 15 bucks an hour, OK? OK? And there you go.”

The alleged shooter, James Holmes, a 24-year-old graduate student in neurosciences at the University of Colorado-Denver, was arraigned on Monday.

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peterson | Jul 26, 2012, 03:37 PM EDT

O'Reilly makes a a good point -- Good parenting is very rare these days !!

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merefalow | Jul 26, 2012, 08:45 AM EDT

its true,at last someone has recognized this fifth column highly organised secretive organisation which poses a bigger threat to the world than the mafia,free masonry,tony Blair and George bush, Mexican drug cartels,and global warming put together,act now before its to late.

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seanomelb | Jul 25, 2012, 07:55 PM EDT

You spoke paddy?? How do you greet Bull O'Reilly HEEHAW! HEEHAW!?

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paddyRanger | Jul 25, 2012, 05:50 PM EDT

as usual seanomelb has his head up a horses ass........moron

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irishpjk | Jul 25, 2012, 12:24 AM EDT

wtf The problem with O’Reilly is he forgets that there are some idiots out there who are not capable of getting the meaning of what he is saying, and the amount of time it would take to explain things in a way that they understand would take all day. By the way when someone says guns don’t kill the point they want to make is this, someone has to use the gun, so don’t try to blame the gun for the death. At the moment there are people out there saying this killer has social and mental problems and needs our help. Talk about trying to give him the death penalty is also upsetting many people, he should be tried, sentenced and have his sentence carried out within the next six months. But that would disappoint the layers and the news media, six years from now they will still be playing it up and the anti-gun people will still be trying to get their names in the media by talking about it. By the way how many of the anti-gun people own guns or have armed body guards protecting them, check it out you might be surprised.

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jamthecat | Jul 24, 2012, 11:58 PM EDT

Why is this idiot still being paid attention to?

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maryosullivan | Jul 24, 2012, 09:02 PM EDT

Seanomelb. that's not nice , the horses will be offended. but i get your point

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seanomelb | Jul 24, 2012, 07:02 PM EDT

Bull O'Reilly might appear on the "no spin zone"(Judge Judy) some day.He's a horses ass.

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Nicomax | Jul 24, 2012, 04:59 PM EDT

Parents ought to reconsider taking kids to the movies, especially in those states with no bans on assault weapons commonly found today in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Also I'm not sure why these demented, but damn smart killers, are not upgrading their weapons to bazookas and flame throwers. They would provide a much broader sweep of the audience.

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snakehips | Jul 24, 2012, 04:08 PM EDT

Oh then Bill, you can't blame the crazed killer, you blame the parents who had their child out late to avoid babysitting costs. You are a bigger horse's arse than I thought. You ought to stick to womanizing and cheating on your spouse, you are more proficient at that than you are at journalism. You fool!!!!!

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PiperMac52 | Jul 24, 2012, 03:55 PM EDT

As usual O'Reilly is taken out of context when he was simply stating the obvious. Get a grip on reality. Oh I forgot Liberalism precludes reality.

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dev4 | Jul 24, 2012, 03:03 PM EDT

let obama and his big government supply baby sitters just like you do in europe how is that working out

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hunter933 | Jul 24, 2012, 02:10 PM EDT

When will this guy and Hannity leave television?

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maryosullivan | Jul 24, 2012, 12:49 PM EDT

In addition to his other " talents" is O'Reilly now able to evaluate to actions of people he never of, never saw and I suspect will forget about when they lose their news worthiness?. Tell us, O'Reilly, of your responsibility in the murder of Dr. Tiller. By constantly referring to him as Tiller the Killer, you, who know all things, must have known you would set off someone who would and did murder Dr. Tiller. Also lets hear hear about the sexual harassment case brought against you by one of your employees, cost you a few million to cover that up, didn't it? Bet your wife was happy with that

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manhattan | Jul 24, 2012, 12:26 PM EDT

When did bringing the very young children to the movies at any time? One couple had a 6 month old and 4 year old with them. Same with church and have you been to a library lately? Remember when you had to not speak above a whisper? Now it looks and sounds like a day care center. Can't afford a baby sitter but can afford the movie? This b--tard is crazy like a fox. He is just a mean rotten punk who didn't get what he believes he is worthy of. Some cases really do not require a trial. Put him in solitary for the rest of his life.

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