O'Reilly to Rice protester at Boston College: "[T]here are 3,000 people who can't go to your commencement this spring" because they died on 9-11

Bill O'Reilly invoked the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to dismiss Boston College (BC) professor and author Charles Derber's objection to awarding Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an honorary degree at her upcoming BC commencement address. Derber said that the honorary diploma could be seen as endorsing Rice for being "an architect of U.S. foreign policy and the Iraq war." O'Reilly responded that "BC and the Jesuits and everybody else ought to wise up and wise up fast" because "there are 3,000 people who can't go to your commencement this spring." Asking Derber if he "know[s] why" they can't attend, O'Reilly answered his own question: "[T]hey're dead." Read more