bill o’reilly

A couple of friends of mine have said something like this in days past, and I completely agree. Ashley Todd should be off-limits because anyone who cuts backwards letters into her face, let alone making up stories about being beaten up and then lying to the police, for political or any other reasons, is not right and needs help. Especially when it appears this is part of a behavioural pattern. People, just leave her alone already. What I feel for Ashley Todd is not derision, but pity.

On the other hand, I fully support going after “journalist” Barbara West of WFTV-TV in Orlando for her amazingly asinine interview with Joe Biden. Going after her is legitimate because she is trying to defend herself and Bill O’Reilly is helping out (her defence apparently consists of “I’m a journalist”). In case you’re one of the few people left who hasn’t seen this interview, I invite you to behold as Joe Biden lays the smackdown on this “journalist”:

This video seems to be going up and down all over the Internet, so we’re posting it here to seed it as widely as possible: classic footage of Bill O’Reilly goes totally nuts it on the set of Inside Edition when a teleprompter malfunctions. Warning: F-bombs and full heads of hair.

Link to download the QuickTime .mov of the amusing incident is here (3 MB).

Bill O’Reilly is up to his old tricks again, pushing an Obama staffer at a rally at a New Hampshire school, causing Obama’s Secret Service agents to get involved in the fray. I’d been wondering what happened to the O’Reilly of the late 1990s-early 2000s. Well, good news: he’s back, apparently! Now imagine Fox’s—and O’Reilly’s—reaction if it had been a more mainstream or left-leaning television personality, like Anderson Cooper or Keith Olbermann. Just ponder that for a second. Imagine the letters of apology, the resignations, the anger management courses, the right-wing hysteria over the uncontrollable left-wing media. Now compare that to the reaction we’re going to get to this incident. That’s what I thought.