What a great season for comedy, irony, and HYPOCRISY! The Bush-inspired era of the Right Wing Cultural Civil War has produced some of the best satire material since Clinton got a hummer in the Oval Office — and the most amazing clash of theology versus reality since the Spanish Inquisition!
First, it was Right-Wing Shill Bill Bennett, Mr. American Virtues, who turns out to be a gambling addict.
Then it was Rush Limbaugh — Right Wing Protector of American Values and "JUST SAY NO or go to prison" — who turns out to be a drug addict hustling illegal prescriptions from his maid.
Gosh, what's next? Catholic Priests who fondle little boys? Oh, wait, never mind...
AND NOW there's Right Wing Superstar Bill O'Reilly allegedly talking nasty to a female employee — (Who does he think he is: Justice Clarence Thomas?!)
O'Reilly is quoted ver batim in a multi-page lawsuit filed on Wednesday. (BTW: From the looks of this lawsuit, the woman apparently had the ol' tape recorder running during many of these conversations. Surely the Right Wing Nuts will use this as justification for calling it "entrapment", a "set-up", etc. — which — conveniently and hypocritically — didn't apply in Clinton-Lewinsky's infamous Blue Dress incident.)
Bill O'Reilly!? FOX NEWS' most POPULAR HOST?! Wha?
This is the same Bill O'Reilly who recently published a best-selling book, "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids," which is marketed as "...the unvarnished truths about sex, money, smoking, drugs, alcohol and friends". (The book was No. 40 in amazon.com sales Wednesday.)
I wonder if Rush helped write the chapter on drugs?
Conservatives apparently have an unlimited tolerance for hypocrisy within their own ranks, just as long as the message stays the same and serves the goals of the GOP and the Christian Far Right. The rule for "Who's Yer Daddy" Cheney, President Pinocchio, and other GOP Values-Mongers seems to be: "Do as I say, not as I do."
Like the example of Reverends Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker; it doesn't matter if you pick up prostitutes on your own time — as long as you preach the word of God when you're on the clock.
Article comments
1 - Bryan
I am a big Fox news fan and a Big O'Reilly fan. I am going to wait until more evidence comes out.
$60 million is a shit load of money for just a sexual harassment case. So I am curious for more details.
So before you rant any further, why don't you wait as well.
If its true, I am no longer going to watch the O'Reilly factor and maybe stop watching fox. But I want to see facts before jumping to conclusions.
Remember Kobe Bryant. Yea, well he may have had sex with her, but she wasn't willing to get on the stand herself to say he raped her, hence the case being thrown out. So I am curious to see where this goes.
2 - Claire Robinson
O'Reilly is a television personality paid by an omni-media corporation to espouse his views, enhance ratings, and gain viewers. Anyone who takes their "position" from him is doing this country a disservice.
Rush is worse. He is blowhard hypocrite as I have said before.
This country deserves what it gets if it individually, or collectively, takes its "position" from one media star.
Read, read, read...read the platforms, read the facts, go to town meetings, listen to the candidates in non-media controlled settings NOT the analysts after the fact...then make the choice. The forefathers did not anticipate omnimedia and its power. They couldn't. We shouldn't either.
Claire
3 - Claire Robinson
I neglected to say that I am an O'Reilly listener and I agree with much of what he says....but he does not dictate my position, my thoughts OR my vote.
Claire
4 - Voxxy
The answer to this question is easy: O'Reilly is a blowhard. He is no right winger, he will take whatever position is necessary to stir the pot, create controversy, and get him publicity.
5 - Shark
Wait a minute!? Let me get this straight:
You're a Fox news fan and a Big O'Reilly fan....?
And yet you're interested in "evidence"...?!
Boy, aren't we the rare one?
6 - andy marsh
I wonder shark...did you write a similarly scathing article about dan rather when his fiasco broke???
7 - Bryan
why are you questioning my need for evidence?
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or serious.
btw - I don't let Fox dictate who I vote for, I just agree with their method of providing information to people. When I watch, I don't feel like I am being fed conservative shit down my throat. I feel like I get multiple views to an issue and I am free to make my own decision.
I prefer fox over other media outlets because I am drawn to them more. I like how they speak, I like how they present information and that is the only reason I watch them. However, I won't go to CNN and say to myself, "Those DEMOCRATIC KERRY LOVING FUCKERs". Absolutely not. Everyone can provide their own point of view on the news and its up to us, as Americans, to weed out the shit (which we shouldn't have to) and get the facts (which is extremely hard to do in any media prescence).
8 - Hal Pawluk
"When I watch, I don't feel like I am being fed conservative shit down my throat."
No shit?
Wow.
9 - Bryan
I must clarify. The biggest zing on the net about Fox is how they shove conservative shit down your through. I am just staying that when I personally watch, I don't feel that way.
10 - Shark
Flaccid gag reflex?
11 - Jim Carruthers
I never thought I'd pine for the talk teevee standards bar set by Morton Downey Jr.
12 - jack e. jett
another pervy right winger....which would be fine if he weren't such a freaking hypocrite.
to compare bill o'reilly to dan rather is like copmparing nicole kidman to charo.
jack e. jett
13 - RJ
Like I said, O'Reilly is finished...