January 24, 2007
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Bill O’Reilly
Bill O’Reilly indicated on his Fox News program that sex abuse victim Shawn Hornbeck may have enjoyed his captivity and that is why he didn’t leave.
Here is the link: Link
Bill O’Reilly indicated on his Fox News program that sex abuse victim Shawn Hornbeck may have enjoyed his captivity and that is why he didn’t leave.
Here is the link: Link
Comments (116)
Thats fucked up!
My theory is Stockholm syndrome, if anything.
Doubt it.
Bill O’Reilly is obviously a sick, pathetic excuse for a human being.
I think that he was probably conditioned to believe that he couldn’t escape punishment from his captor if he told anyone or tried to get away.
No, probably was given anything he wanted but received more.
Bill O’Reilly should keep his opinions to himself.
I agree, it’s a very large probability.
yeah duh… they have a name for that… Stockholm Syndrome
I’m with CynaraJane on that one. Perhaps he shouldn’t make generalized statements about psychological conditions if he really has no clue.
Woohoo, second!
Wow… maybe Bill O’Reilly was just trying to play devil’s advocate or something, but that’s pretty callous…
i gave up on fox news when they claimed obama was a terrorist sleeper agent.
Bill O Reily should be put away somewhere far from people
Bill O’Reilly is full of shit.
Why is he trying to judge other people when he wanted to show his falafel to his producer?
The boy was most likly too terrified to leave or seek help.
Psst… it’s “Hornbeck”.
likely
And Ann Coulter claims that 9/11 widows enjoy their husbands’ deaths.
personaly i think that is a good possoblity, not because he enjoyed the weird sex from an weird old guy. but he was taken at age 11… deffinitly Stockholm Syndrome in my non-profeshinal opinion.
you have to stop watching fox news
Oh yeah? Well maybe Bill O’Reilly enjoyed… enjoyed…
Crap. I’ll get back to you when I think of something witty.
who knows..
no offense to people that like him, but i personally think Bill O’Reilly is the shittiest newscaster ever. EVER. at least in today’s society. why is Fox News one of the top news channels? do people realize how biased that channel is?!
Could Bill O’reilly have been kidnapped from home and held prisoner by some guy? It would explain a lot of his fascination with this ridiculous line of thought…
he is a smart man, why would he say that without knowing all the details?
I’ve never liked that guy.
Is he trying to be ignorant?
If it wasn’t O’Reilly who said it, someone else would have..no biggie.
He is just awful! And tot hink he tried to write a book where one chapter offered sex advise to kids…gag.
I watched the first part. I fail to see where Bill actually said that. And he totally one-upped that woman about the school thing
grrr….
Bill O’Reilly can of course go fuck himself.
What an insensitive jerk…
Being in captivity is sure to cause fear or trauma in the boy.
I really don’t like O’Reilly….at all.
I will not discount the possibility.
O’Reilly is a total ass
Sorry, but the man thoroughly ticks me off!
That’s so proposterous… he really owes him and his family an apology for that. I hate when people go around and play psychologist.
ridiculous.
Hes just trying for attention since Dennis Miller is…………..
bashing him and taking his viewers.
i wish somebody would beat the shit out of him…hes fucking ignorant and doesnt know shit about anything…
lol thats pretty stupid, but it does get you thinking…why didnt this boy just leave?
He’s an idiot. I have a feeling he sits around in his office thinking up ridiculous things to say and practicing his “serious face” so he doesn’t laugh during the show.
I heard the Kid even had a cell phone. I will admit this, It makes me think. Why did he NOT leave? he had the chance…..
Bill O’Reilly…he is definitely controversial. I could “speculate” he enjoys the controversies. I think the boy suffered from Stockholm Syndrome. I could “speculate” Bill thinks Stockholm Syndrome is a big fat lie…just like the PETA gay sheep.
Talk about opening mouth and inserting rather cramming a foot in the ole mouth!
Stolk HOme syndrome? We seem to have a symptom for everything dont we. Yup… no one can help doing anything they do becuase its something else making them. The Kid did not leave. WHY? i do hope it turns out he was kept in a closet.
Well it makes sense to a certain degree, the kid had almost uncountable opportunities to get away and didn’t, which naturally leaves the question why he didn’t?
doubtful. sex offenders require seperation & extra security in prison because the other prisoners find sex offenders disgusting. also, since Shawn Hornbeck has been in the news, he’s probably in solitary confinement, not as punishment but to protect him from other prisoners.
It is highly unlikely that we will know 100% what happened. We don’t even need to know. We just need to be thankful that Shawn is home with his family and they will help him get the help he needs to adjust and go on with his life.
And why does everyone thinks it’s so preposterous? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Stockholm Symdrome usually doesn’t occur until late during or after captivity, what about all the times within a year of his kidnapping he had chances? If it was me the guy would be crippled in the ifrst place but beyond that I would’ve run screaming bloody heck.
This IS a perfectly reasonable theory, just because it is distasteful does not neccessarily eliminate all chances of it being true.
Im with Asian, the fact that he didn’t run is passed, he’s back lets leave it at true joy over that fact.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Did you see the kids parents? I’d stay with the kidnapper than go back to those slack jawed yokels
has everyone forgot the boy was 11 years old when he was kidnapped?????
people like O’Reilly and whatshername who writes all those books; they’re just sick people.
Jesus Christ. What a friggin moron. He should get kidnapped and raped anally and see how he feels about sexual abuse.
No one can really say what they “would do” can they?
They haven’t been in that situation.
You never really know what you’re going to do in a situation like that. I myself am a strong willed person, but when it comes down to it, I don’t know how I would react if I was forced to be in “survival” mode. The kid was 11 years old. We can’t possibly blame him for not leaving. That’s ridiculous. I believe someone said it takes a year for Stockholm to set in; we don’t know what happened in the first year he was there.
im not saying its true, but its possible.
He’s pathetic.
i think hes a loser
For all of you who loathe ol’ Bill as much as I do, here’s the interview with Letterman that equalled verbal rape:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KWO5ub-c6R8&mode=related&search=
Um…Wow.
That’s fucked up. More so than other things I have heard lately.
bill o’reilly has no idea what he is talking about. shawn went through an ordeal that not many people live to tell about and i doubt that bill has ever been kidnapped and held captive for 4 years. hasn’t it occured to anyone a young boy who was stolen from his family was just scared for his life?!
RYC: yeah. I used to have the warm fuzzies for it and I still think I do, sometimes. A couple of good snow weeks will do that to you. but now it’s like ‘you? you’re back? hey, I thought I told you: WE’RE OVER. Done. Finito! You leave and come back long after you see everyone else you know and then you come to see me and you’re all fluffy and sleddable and trying to win me over??? Uh-uh.’ or that’s what the crazy part of me thinks. the one that talks to snow on a regular basis.
what a fucktard.
Honestly, it’s not impossible.
I’m thinking it was Stockholm’s syndrome. Plus, some of his neighbors reported they could hear him begging and screaming once in awhile.
Thats why I think its never the right thing to ignore a potential problem. I hate it when people choose not to take action because they “don’t want to be involved”. IF YOU SEE OR HEAR SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.
Also, i don’t think an 11 year old can enjoy being raped and threatened
He’s right.
My friend and I have been discussing a very serious question, and I would like to get your opinion on it.
Did Jesus poop?
That disgusts me. He should think about the family and how it would affect them, before saying crap like that. I can only imagine what that kid went through *against* his will.
And he looks like such an intelligent man. I have found there are those that don’t, can’t and won’t understand the trauma of molestation and the powerless feelings that keep a child trapped. Since the child stays they enjoy it and therefore it’s not a bad thing.
Gag with a spoon. (and yeah, I know, “that’s so 80s.)
It’s possible. That has happened before.
I hope he never gets a reason to enjoy being held captive.
Abuse and enjoyment are mutually exclusive. People get scared in abusive situations and don’t know what to do.
oh man -bill o’reilly can say anything and get away with it
O’Reilly is a big jerk at times.
yea… well look back at the comments people made when you mentioned he didnt leave… alot of ppl here said it was for the same reason…
just shows the cynicism of (online) people, and how very few views they hold are actually well thought out and fixed
How can anyone know what happened?
by the way Bill O’reilly is a blow hard.
It makes sense.
What a sad misinformed man.
Unless he has a Pd.D in Psych, he can go to hell.
’nuff said….
Poor Bill walked into this one! But That link cut him off when it said what they wanted to comment on. You didn’t post that he likened this to the Hearst case. Psychologists talk about this all the time-Stockholm Syndrome. The victim eventually identifies with the captor. Like this duck we caught under a laundry basket. He fought so much, UNTIL he realized it was useless. IN Humans, seems like our minds do tricks sometimes.
Bill used unfortunate language. Seems like almost no one saw the link. Seems like you are pretty sensational on this one.
Love and prayers for unfortunate family and the boy. Perhaps even the perpetrator.
It’s obvious that Bill O’Reilly only read half the story (shame on him). I read that Shawn Hornbeck was forced to participate in the kidnapping Here is the link http://www.kmov.com/topstories/stories/kmov_localnews_070123_devlinshelp.117deb25.html
We should ask Elizabeth Smart why someone would want to stay with their captor even if life is terrible. She’s the only one that really knows or understands.
Despite all his college, I doubt Oreilly ever had even one class in psych so what does his opinion matter-its clearly not his area of expertise.
Lemme say first Bill O’Reilly is a manipulative, slimeball, son of a bitch, but thats been documented too.
But yeah, I think the people who say Stockholm Syndrome are right(im not sure honestly if thats the name).
I think we all know by now that Bill O’Reilly makes his living being a total douchebag.
I was absolutely peeved when I heard this. How can you accuse a CHILD (because that’s what Shawn was, and still IS) who was snatched from his family at eleven of purposely not contacting his parents because he was living out a “Tom Sawyer fantasy”? It’s absolutely the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard from him. Shawn was terrified of contacting his family because Devlin threatened to kill his parents. You think he would REALLY take that chance, especially when an eleven-year-old mind believes it’s absolutely true?
I think only clinical psychologists should be diagnosing people with mental disorders and such. You can always expect some big mouth to say stupid things about something for which they are completely clueless about.
What a sick thing to say – makes me wonder about him.
I chose to look at the comments just because I knew people would take this as an opportunity to slam Bill O’Reilly.
His idea isn’t new; a bunch of people posted that when Dan first brought up the subject. But, since it’s from Bill, it’s retarded?
I think the guy’s okay. I haven’t studied the info that much because I really don’t care. He’s entitled to his opinion.
That’s really sad. People are getting bored with the situation, so O’Reilly decides to make a little more interesting. you know that it’s just a ratings stunt.
Jesus! leave the kid the fuck alone. Hasn’t he been through enough?
i think that he was confused and scared!!
…and Bill O’Reilly proves he is a disgusting pig once again…
Right, just like every other abused person enjoys the abuse and never stays out of fear or helplessness. I don’t know what to think about Bill O’Reilly.
o’reilly wished he could have been hornbeck .whatta little friggen fag.
I cant stand oreilly.
truly there’s only one person who can say why he stayed. And I dont think he’s told any news outlet….
What an idiot. that’s all I have to say.
sex abuse victim.
Eugh.
Anyway, that was a REALLY stupid thing for O’Reilly to say.
**Shawn Hornbeck was sex abuse victim?
Anything’s possible I suppose.
How in the world could anyone think that?
I DESPISE him.As well as “Fox News” in general, it is an evil corporation LIKE WALMART. He seriously needs to jump out that roof in the picture.
Oh man. This is a case where Bill O’Reilly really needs to shut his mouth. People who get kidnapped can often become attached to their captors, because they’ve become completely isolated from the outside world. It doesn’t make it any less of a crime on the part of the kidnappers. . .And that poor kid is going to have so much emotional crap to deal with and work through in the coming years. He can probably really do without anyone’s commentary on what he SHOULD have done. Blech.
Stockholm Syndrome.
The end.
bill o reilly is a sick man.
He could have just been trying to play the divil’s advocate… ?
i agree with cynarajane…he is a sick excuse for a human being…he is just a freak
It is possible to believe that you are enjoying something when you truly are enjoying yourself at all. The situation could be destroying his viewpoint on sexuality, his innocence, and cause all kinds of mental issues. My prayers go out to the young man and his future.
Bill O’Reilly can suck a dick. I think Shawn was brainwashed.
<3.
-Paigey.
Oh! I had no idea he was a psychologist. You learn something new everyday.
Eh, I disagree. I think it was fear more than anything related to what O’Reilly said
If you watch the video, it’s not really that bad, what he says. Out of school with drugs? Hell, lots of kids would enjoy that. It just happens that saying a comment like that as its being BROADCAST to the entire USA is not ONLY
INSINUATING THE KID IS HOMOSEXUAL (which renders him to be thought of as a homosexual in the future and not a victim of abuse)
but ALSO
slaps the mother across the face for having raised him in a manner that would make him enjoy it (not that raising him differently would have that much of a difference in a situation like this) so her reputation is ruined. Not to mention it just makes the whole case seem trivial!
-David
bill oreilly will probably say anything for the sake of television. dirtmouth.
> Anybody check Mr. O’reilly’s garage or basement for a captivity cell?? Sounds like a gravely mis-anthropic mindset on the part of Bill….
Peace
i believe it