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Is Bill O getting worse these days, or am I just finding him more irritating? Dodd can't get more than a couple words in before O'Reilly starts turning red and going ballistic. Then check out how smug he gets with Dennis Miller.

"I didn't like to do that to a sitting senator, I have to tell the audience. It does not give me pleasure, but I certainly have to do it"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200708030008

"I mean, you know -- I mean, "You said that San Francisco should be attacked." The guy doesn't even know where I said it. He takes the propaganda that's handed to him -- I don't even think he's ever seen The O'Reilly Factor."

Notice he makes the issue not that he did/didn't say it, but that Dodd thought it was on TV while in fact it was on the radio.

lukpac wrote:Is Bill O getting worse these days, or am I just finding him more irritating? Dodd can't get more than a couple words in before O'Reilly starts turning red and going ballistic. Then check out how smug he gets with Dennis Miller.

I think it's a little of both. Watching the Colbert Report, one almost forgets that most of Colbert's seriously bizarre affectations--asking children to turn away before he shows something decidedly inoffensive, and so on--are things Bill actually *does*. Consequently, upon returning to the actual Factor material, the cognitive dissonance (doesn't he know how ridiculous this looks?) becomes overwhelming.

I followed this whole YearlyKos thing, and found it bizarre even for Bill. Worse than the Nazis? Hate like the KKK? Um, okay. And Bill, if a poorly 'shopped picture of Lieberman preparing to give Dubya a hummer is the "the most vile thing" you've ever seen on the internet, do I have some links for you!

I'm generally not a fan of Dodd, but he's right on the money: the disingenuousness of this last stunt is particularly over the top. Bill, remember, is Mr. Falafel--he's hardly a puritan. So asking the sensitive members of his viewing audience to "turn away" from the Totally Vile Scary Picture is strange on many, many levels.

Of course, the single best moment is when Bill proclaims that if HE were Lieberman, he would totally never speak to Dodd again.

The bottom line is that Bill O'Reilly is nuts. The other right-wing loudmouths may be dishonest, but the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh aren't truly nuts. Even Ann Coulter is at the very least exaggerating her insanity. But with O'Reilly it seems clear that there is something deeply wrong with him. He has no clue when he's become completely unhinged.

Perhaps the strangest part is that O'Reilly keeps encouraging his viewers to check out Daily Kos for themselves. Anyone who does so will see that his cherry-picked examples of "outrageous" comments are not typical. And it's not like those cherry-picked examples supported the Nazi and KKK comparisons in the first place.

"No, you're wrong, I didn't say it here" may be the greatest O'Reilly quote ever. Maybe he hopes to put Stephen Colbert out of business by making satire impossible.