Bill O'Reilly (political commentator) "I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time." Beginning in 2005, he periodically denounced George Tiller, a Kansas-based physician who specialized in second- and third-trimester abortions, often referring to him as "Tiller the baby killer". Tiller was murdered on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist. Critics such as "Salon"s Gabriel Winant have asserted that his anti-Tiller rhetoric helped to create an atmosphere of violence around the doctor. Jay Bookman of "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" wrote that he "clearly went overboard in his condemnation and demonization of Tiller", but added that
Assassination of George Tiller nor local police arrested him in the days leading up to the murder despite reports and evidence offered to both that he vandalized a women's clinic the week before and the day before. In a telephone call from prison, Roeder confessed to the press that he had shot and killed Tiller, and declared that he felt no remorse. In the six months before Roeder's arrest, he said, he had worked for an airport shuttle service, a party-rental shop, a convenience store and a property management enterprise. After his arrest, Roeder's ex-wife, Lindsey Roeder, claimed that Roeder had been suffering from