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Reserve a spot in Hell for Bill O'Reilly

The God of hellfire reserves a seat for the world's worst. That includes dictators, murderers, terrorists and music publishers who sell classic rock songs for beer and car commercials.

Hell is also a place where you'll find guys who blame the victim. The most popular news talk show in cable news is the O'Reilly Factor, where a middle-aged blowhard talks like a street fighter, cuttin' through the crap and spin and tellin' it like is. The intellectual content of the O'Reilly Factor is like a Hostess Twinkie. But who cares? O'Reilly puts liberals in their place and sticks up for America.

Bill O'Reilly writes a new book every few years, one of them called "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids," giving children some straight talk about growing up and staying on the straight and narrow. He also wrote, "Who's Looking Out for You?", a book that tells us which American institutions and personalities are screwing us and which ones are, uh, lookin' out for ya.

So it came as quite a surprise a few years ago when O'Reilly was hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit by one of his former subordinates who apparently taped this married man trying phone sex and proposing to perform some perverse sex acts in the shower with her. Read all about it here, and then run to the bathroom to throw up.

OK, so O'Reilly is a pervert who likes to hit on young woman even though he devotes much of his television show to attacking immoral Hollywood values and, of course, cultural progressives. But last week he took the cake in suggesting that a boy held captive for years by a child abuser probably enjoyed his captivity. This is the first time I have ever heard someone suggest this.

What about the Stockholm Syndrome, where the oppressed identify with their captors? Apparantly taking the view that psychological explanations are nothing more than liberal silliness, O'Reilly's not "buyin it," he thunders on national television. Transcript here.

I try to avoid using the F word in writing this blog. Here I will make an exception. Does anyone in his right fucking mind think that a 15 year old probable sexual abuse victim actually enjoyed his captivity and stayed with a kidnapper because he could stay away from school and run around and do what he wanted? O'Reilly thinks so.

Some pundits suggest that O'Reilly be taken of the air. Our favorite, Keith Olbermann, wonders why O'Reilly still has a job, stating on his rival TV show, "We've all gotten a lot of amusement from Mr. O'Reilly's baseline idiocy, but this is reprehensible. It reeks of perversity and inhumanity. Simply put, Mr. O'Reilly no longer deserves any place on the public stage."

I guess it's interesting to watch a celebrity lose his mind in public. It happens a lot with movie and rock stars as alcohol, drugs, too much money and huge egos get the best of them. We pay attention to this the way we stop and look at a car accident. "Holy crap," we say. "The car flipped right over and they're pulling the guy out with the Jaws of Life. Look at all the blood!" This is what we see when we turn on the laughable Fox News and watch the country's most pathetic blowhard self-destruct right before our eyes. O'Reilly tried to take it all back when he saw that the world wasn't laughing with him. Too late, Bill, you sick dog.

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Comments (3)

Dear Mr. Bergstein,

Thank you for what you care to write about.

No, no-one...

"...in his right fucking mind think that a 15 year old probable sexual abuse victim actually enjoyed his captivity and stayed with a kidnapper because he could stay away from school and run around and do what he wanted..."

You are not alone, keep on showing us the light!

Regards,

Alecs

Yacine Triaa:

I think it's a global phenomena,
Here too we have the kind of people who thrive on moral posturing. They're there to through judgments based on self righteousness. They speak out their ignorance and mental laziness as universal truths.
They give the half-cooked and trivial points of views the aura of authority.
Decency could save these peoples from their ignorance making then know when to keep silence.
The decorum and the right for every one to speak makes the big audience the only criteria to reach the ether.
It's not hard for any one to find someone on TV who speaks *their* truth, comforting him to keep his dumb ideas unchallenged.

Louise:

This might sound weird, Steve, but your blog made me cry. Thanks.

Louise

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