Only if he had said it in the Pit.
You are correct. I am filled with shame.
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Bill O’Reilly has just enough hair to cover tiny horns. Coincidence?
Maybe he needs to start taking Oxycontin and chill the fuck out. .
Bill O’Reilly lost it a long time ago. If he ever had anything to offer in the first place.
I hear him occasionally and I can never stop laughing at his “secularization of America” rants. Hasn’t anybody ever explained the concept of separation of church and state to him? Or does he just ignore that concept as a “humanist attack on our country?”
The worst thing about him is that once in a while, for just a moment, he says something sensible. Of course, right away he’s back in the froth pit.
Drudge provided cites to back up his claims. Did O’Reily?
Christ. You know O’Reilly makes some good good points on occassion. And he does show some of these ultra left wing nutcases for what they really are: ideologically driven idiots who have lost all touch with reality. That being said, he doesn’t help his image any when he pulls this kind of shit. Actually makes me a bit sad. But then I realize that he isn’t a personal friend of mine and the “I don’t really give a shit” mode takes over.
You know what they say…we teach best what we most need to learn…
I’m just pleased as punch that Harry Potter outsold O’Reilly.
Nuts, to you, Bill.
Could you be a bit more specific, Munster? Like precisely which ultra-whacko nutcases he exposes? Or does he twist the words and thoughts of entirely sensible persons who think we are a nation of sheep being led by jackals? Or maybe just persons who suspect that the Bushiviks aren’t doing such a bang-up job?
Another interesting flight of paranoid narcissism is the delightfully equine Laura Ingrown. I have heard her on her radio show express her ire at the conspiracy by B. Dalton and Borders Books to keep her book from being sold. No, seriously. But, at least when she talks about Franken’s book or Clinton’s, her tone carries the bitterness of deep greviance and rejection, which sweetens the moment.
I don’t know how reliable NewsMax.com can be considered, but here’s a transcript of the O’Reilly/Imus conversation:
Sounds more like they were intentionally making stuff up as examples of how outrageous Drudge was trying to make them look.
Her book is absolutely TERRIBLE. I paged through it a few days ago. Picking a page at random at first, I immediately hit upon a story we’ve discussed on the dope before: the biology prof who said he would only give you his personal recommendation if you could say you agreed with the theory of evolution. While we can discuss the merits of this particular stance, and we did, she wildly distorted the situation itself, saying that what you needed to do was DENY THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Yeah, that’s a fair characterization of the situation. The rest of the book is more of the same. Are fans of hers so criminally stupid that they don’t realize that she leaves out key facts and totally misrepresents others in almost every case she makes? At least with some right wing pundits, they at least most of the time stick to some basic facts, even if they spin them hard.
Somebody check the time, and call it. I agree with Diogenes.
and gobear
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While we’re piling on here, did anyone else witness Peggy Noonan pull a complete Ann Coulter on Hardball today? It’s a classic. Good ol’ Chris just wouldn’t let go. He even jetisoned his last topic to give Peggy more time to do her jig on TV.
You know who wrote a pretty good book was Tucker Carlson. His book, Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News is really an interesting, entertaining and informative look behind the scenes at the cable news industry. He’s partisan but not vicious and he mocks a few conservatives (like Bill O’Reilly) as well as the expected liberals. His book isn’t really even that political. It’s just a kind of memoir of his experiences at CNN and the personalities he’s come in contact with. One of the more illuminating anecdotes was a story about when he went to Jerry Falwell’s home to do an interview. Carlson was expecting the fire and brimstone idealogue he knew from televison but when he actually got there all Falwell wanted to talk about was television. What shows he had been on, all the people he was friends with, including liberals (I believe Geraldo was proudly cited as a personal friend), how he had been on every network and cable talk show, etc. He dropped a lot of technical terms and tried to sound like a real TV professional. He showed almost no interest in discussing anything political or religious. He simply lived to be on TV.
Carlson has a lot of weird little stories like that and he tells them with good humor. I highly recommend his book, even for liberals. It’s just a guy talking about his exeriences without a political chip on his shoulder and without the black or white polarization of every political issue. I don’t think it got a lot of attention but it’s much better than the books put out by the Ann Coulters, Bill O’Reillys and Michael Moores of the world.
Tucker comes off like the kind of guy it would be really fun to have a few beers with.
Dio…as a friend, you know…I’m really beginning to worry about you…
Bow ties. That’s the giveaway. The bow tie is symptomatic of a deep seated desire to be seen as eccentric and “different” absent the courage to be authentically wierd. He’s an intellectual chihuahua, a whippersnapper destined to be a curmudgeon.
Sure, lets take him out for few beers! Slip something into his drink, and take pictures of him in bed with that really ugly cousin of yours! Whats his name, Chuck?
If you’ve read books by all of three of these, then you surely have too much time on your hands!
BTW, I agree with 'Luci about the bow tie thing. (Need to get those Queer Eye guys over to Geroge Will.) Tucker has always struck me as the guy who ran for class president in high school and really thought it mattered whether or not he won.
Yes! My gosh, what was that. Confroted with the fact that there is no know connection to Saddam an 9/11, her reaction was unbeleivable.
She reminded me of a kid sticking his fingers in his ears and screaming “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you!!”
Chris Matthews, who’s er, shouting style I can’t always apperciate, had me applauding on this one. I oly wish all of America was watching…
Hey, I wear bow-ties. I just haven’t learned how to tie them myself, yet.
Uh-oh. That’s even worse!
I’ll put money on Tucker knowing how to tie his. Three different ways.