Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Lighten Up Francis

Bill O’Reilly needs to get over himself.

I saw the video of his "incident" with the Obama staffer, and he comes across as a self-important, loudmouth (translation: asshole).

Of course, the fact that O’Reilly ran the tape (and bragged about it throughout his Monday show) would indicate that he disagrees with my assessment.

The people whining about it need to relax too. The 6 foot 8 bodyguard wasn’t injured or even intimidated in any way. It’s hard to tell from the video if the bodyguard was blocking the Fox News camera deliberately or not. But, he’s clearly smirking back with a WTF expression when O'Reilly goes off on him.

I’m sure there was a PR/ratings motive on Fox/O'Reilly's part as well.

Of course, another prime time cable commentator, and mediocrity, Keith Olbermann, ran the very same video on HIS show too — I guess when you’re in 7th place, you have to try harder (that's right, I'll use any excuse to take a swipe at Keith O).

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