My gods, how fast things turn. Last I looked up, if you (or, say, Michael Moore) suggested that some U.S. military actions might be about oil, you were impugning the president in his glorious spread of democracy, almost to the point of treason.

Now here’s O’Reilly casually advocating megamurder for precisely that goal:

But you don’t want it to reach the point where, we have to, example, you know, level cities like Tehran, kill hundreds of thousands of people, which we may have to do — which we have already done in Germany and Japan. OK? We have already killed hundreds of thousands of people on one day. Now, do we want to do that again? Of course not, but we may have to.

Example: If Iran takes over Iraq and then fosters a revolution inside Saudi Arabia, which Iran wants to do, and overthrows that kingdom and gets control of all the oil and says we’re not selling to the USA, we are going to level that country, because you, [caller], need gasoline to live. See? Now that’s the biggest example I can give you.

And O’Reilly’s audience wonders why so many people around the world, of so many political persuasions, so fear and loathe the American right.