Bill O'Reilly needs a history lesson.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by molly bloom
http://oliver-cromwell.ask.dyndns.dk/

Soon after forming his government Cromwell dissolved Parliament and made himself dictator. I believe the title he chose was "Lord Protector" or something similar. He made himself an absoluter monarch in all but name. However it would be a bit schizo to label him as his own henchman.

[Last Conformist]

Dan Bäckman knows his history better than this ...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


Soon after forming his government Cromwell dissolved Parliament and made himself dictator. I believe the title he chose was "Lord Protector" or something similar. He made himself an absoluter monarch in all but name. However it would be a bit schizo to label him as his own henchman.

He refused the crown of England- ergo, he was not a 'henchman' of the English or Scottish crown, so O'Reilly is simply plain wrong.

It's difficult to place any trust in someone who gets a rather salient fact about the history of the nations of the United Kingdom wrong, especially one which was to have such enormous consequences for the varieties of religion and the politics in the United Kingdom, United States and Ireland, and then who can't even tell the difference between 'slavery' and 'indentured servitude', so eager is he to meld both the Catholic Irish and Africans into one giant victimology.