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I was going to blog about this myself, but Crooks and Liars has all the links. I was reading this morning about pedophile William Devlin confessing to his attempt to kill Shawn Hornbeck, and Hornbeck convincing him not to by promising to do anything. The first thing that came into my head was O’Reilly’s assertion that Hornbeck didn’t want to escape because he had it pretty good with Devlin, a life that was more fun than the one he had with his parents. No matter how many times people called him on it, no matter how many demands were made from all corners of the media, he wouldn’t back down. He tried “explaining”, and he gave the world a “notpology” (I’m sorry you all have a problem with what I said, essentially) and now it has surfaced again, showing even more what a despicable person he is. Nobody has forgotten, and now his reprehensible statements are being re-aired, so O’R can’t possibly be ignorant of the lingering effect of having said, and defended, something so ignominious. So what will we get this time in response? I’ll betcha it won’t be anything even approaching an apology or retraction. It’ll certainly be worth waiting for, though.