Another Take On Outfoxed

Via Matt Welch, I came across this review of Outfoxed by his Reason colleague Jesse Walker. Like Matt, I agree with everything Jesse has to say, except for his description of Colin Quinn as smarter and funnier than anybody on FNC. Okay, that might be technically true, but Quinn is neither smart nor funny in his own right. Jesse has a pretty good precis of Outfoxed's best "O'Reilly is an asshole" moment:

And the film offers a solid summary of the Jeremy Glick affair, in which Bill O'Reilly, the buffoonish host of The O'Reilly Factor, "interviewed" a young man who had both lost his father on 9/11 and subsequently signed an antiwar petition. O'Reilly berated Glick rudely and, when the segment was over, he threw him out of the studio; afterwards he told progressively less accurate descriptions of what had happened until, 11 months later, he was claiming his guest had accused the president of "knowing about 9/11 and murdering his own father." (Glick had said no such thing.) The latter tale was well known before the movie came out, but Outfoxed does a good job of stitching together a tight and damning account of it.

[If Norm MacDonald had a show, now there would be something worth watching--ed.]