New Yorker columnist Hendrik Hertzberg has taken to his blog to fire the latest shot in a drawn out battle between himself and Fox News talking head Bill O’Reilly. It all started when Newt Gingrich said on The O’Reilly Factor: “I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants impose its will on the rest of us.” Hertzberg used the quote in a article and few days later O'Reilly accused the writer of taking the quote wildly out of context and calling him a “far left zealot.” Then a Factor producer accosted Hertzberg outside his home with questions about the article. Wait, there’s more. Now, on his New Yorker blog, Hertzberg has published an entertaining email exchange between the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, and another Factor employee while also defending his own use of Gingrich’s quote: “I don’t think it was at all unreasonable for me to infer that the targets of Mr. Gingrich’s ‘fascism’ remarks were the mainstream gay-rights movement in general and the opponents of Proposition 8 in particular.” Some may want them to take a cue from the UFC and settle this in the ring.
Read it at The New Yorker
