http://www.xyre.org/2008/05/12/bill-oreilly-loses-it/ Ancient writings, current events, and my other whims Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:35:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.xyre.org/2008/05/12/bill-oreilly-loses-it/#comment-332 Sylvia Tue, 13 May 2008 17:28:37 +0000 http://www.xyre.org/?p=155#comment-332 You know what? I'm not sure the teleprompter is even actually malfunctioning, or if it is, it's not what's really upsetting to O'Reilly. What seems to be making him apoplectic--once he's able to produce a sentence coherent enough to tell us--is the phrase "to play us out", which he has not yet in his professional television career assimilated into his mental vocabulary, and whose existence, like the existence of anything he doesn't understand, makes him <i>violently</i> angry. You know what? I’m not sure the teleprompter is even actually malfunctioning, or if it is, it’s not what’s really upsetting to O’Reilly. What seems to be making him apoplectic–once he’s able to produce a sentence coherent enough to tell us–is the phrase “to play us out”, which he has not yet in his professional television career assimilated into his mental vocabulary, and whose existence, like the existence of anything he doesn’t understand, makes him violently angry.

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