Discussing the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) objections to the Dover, Pennsylvania, school district's plans to include “intelligent design” theory in their high school biology curriculum, FOX News host Bill O'Reilly declared: “Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin. Castro probably is. And so would Mao Zedong.”
On the January 19 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly read portions of the statement about “intelligent design,” which the Dover Area School District requires its biology teachers to read, and complained that even this statement does not directly mention God:
O'REILLY: They won't even tell you in the statement what intelligent design entails. They won't mention a creator, a deity, a God. You know why? Because the ACLU then can haul them into court and cost them $100,000 to defend themselves. Fascism, fascism, fascism. Okay? Ah, drive me nuts! Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin. Castro probably is. And so would Mao Zedong.
O'Reilly has previously labeled the ACLU a “fascist organization” and “the most dangerous organization in the United States of America right now ... second next to Al Qaeda.”