Bill O'Reilly on people who "did bad things" and "deserve the exposure" on the INTERNETS.

Bill O'Reilly: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Social Network and Leadership in America

May 18, 2011 | O'Reilly Factor | Bill O'Reilly

Fair-minded Americans should feel very sorry for Maria Shriver and her four children, caught up in a terrible scandal generated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Internet and the media are going wild over the fact that the former California governor fathered a child with a former member of his household staff. That apparently happened more than 10 years ago.

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For the country, this story and the John Edwards scandal before it illustrate a stark reality in America: that the Internet can tear human beings apart because there are no boundaries. Thousands of websites spew forth horrendous stories about all kinds of people, especially those seeking political power.

Schwarzenegger and Edwards deserve the exposure. They did bad things. But all of us make mistakes, not at that level, but we make mistakes, and that makes it tough for anyone to run for political office. Office seekers now know that if they have made a significant mistake in their past life, it will be rammed down their throat. Do you want to put your family through that? Many smart and patriotic Americans do not. Therefore they stay out of the public arena.

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Under the banner of freedom of speech, there is no solution to the Net. It is a free-fire zone on every single human being. Cowardly sociopaths hide in the weeds in their basements, ready, willing and able to say the most vile things, even if they're untrue. And there is absolutely nothing -- nothing -- a person in the public domain can do about it. There is something very wrong with that, but, again, there is no solution.

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