What An Asshole That O'Reilly Is

In addition to being forced to admit (through legal pressure) that Molly Ivins is not a socialist, and that Eric Alterman is not, in fact, a smoking buddy of Fidel Castro, this humble son of an accountant ("who couldn't have come from any lower down on the social scale") got his ass handed to him by Georgetown law professor David Cole in a segment that was supposed to serve as a platform for O'Reilly's ongoing attacks on the leftists/secularists/traitors-in-our-midst at the New York Times.

Astonishingly, however, the nadir of the interview was not O'Reilly's (rare) failure to overcome his guests' mastery of what intellectuals like to call "facts" with subject-changing, invented data, and sheer decibel output. In fact, the low point, which never aired, came when O'Reilly (to his own surprise) broadcast a clip of 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean essentially corroborating the NYT report O'Reilly wished to claim was a distortion. To the apparent shock of his guests, O'Reilly cut off taping and called a mulligan on the segment so that he could badger Cole with innuendo about bias at the Times without getting bogged down in pesky little things like the complete and utter baselessness of his charges.

Look forward to regular O'Reilly Is An Asshole Watch installments in the future.