Larry Flynt Issues Call to 'Pray' for Death of Bill O'Reilly.

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http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200308/NAT20030805c.html


http://www.larryflynt.com/national_prayer_day.html




Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt has called for a "National Prayer Day" on August 5 to "pray for the death of News Channel host] Bill O'Reilly."

The pornography publisher and California gubernatorial candidate's event is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. PDT in Los Angeles, and
Flynt's political website offers a sample "prayer" describing in explicit and graphic terms how O'Reilly's death might come to
pass.

"Dear (God/Allah/Buddha/other entity of your choice), we ask you to afflict Bill O'Reilly with a brain aneurysm that will lead to
his slow and painful death," the "prayer" reads.

O'Reilly spokesman Robert Zimmerman told CNSNews.com: "We are not going to dignify it with a response." O'Reilly, the
host of The O'Reilly Factor, presides over the highest-rated primetime news program on cable television.

Louis Giovino, spokesman for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, called the Flynt event "an expression of
evil."

"If this wasn't Larry Flynt, we would think it was just another wacko looking for PR, but since it is Larry Flynt and given his
track record of hate, this is more than a sick joke, this is an expression of evil," Giovino told CNSNews.com.

Sean Carney, spokesman for the Flynt event, believes that O'Reilly uses "racist" rhetoric in order to appeal to the "common
man."