High-res Somewhat miraculously, O’Reilly agreed that the [Iraq] war was “something that should not have happened in hindsight,” but he also justified his support for it. “All the reportage was that Saddam Hussein did have these weapons,” he said. Letterman didn’t want his rhetorical victory to go unacknowledged, stood up and asked O’Reilly to give him a high-five. “C’mon! Up high! Get up here! C’mon, Billy, let’s go!” he taunted. O’Reilly clearly was not amused. “We’re having a good conversation, sit down,” he ordered, sounding like a short-tempered dad quelling a car full of rowdy kids. LATimes

Somewhat miraculously, O’Reilly agreed that the [Iraq] war was “something that should not have happened in hindsight,” but he also justified his support for it. “All the reportage was that Saddam Hussein did have these weapons,” he said.

Letterman didn’t want his rhetorical victory to go unacknowledged, stood up and asked O’Reilly to give him a high-five. “C’mon! Up high! Get up here! C’mon, Billy, let’s go!” he taunted.

O’Reilly clearly was not amused. “We’re having a good conversation, sit down,” he ordered, sounding like a short-tempered dad quelling a car full of rowdy kids.

LATimes

High-res How Bill O’Reilly Tried to Get His Wife’s Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O’Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department’s internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man’s lady. Continue reading… Gawker

How Bill O’Reilly Tried to Get His Wife’s Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops

Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O’Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department’s internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man’s lady.


Continue reading… Gawker

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“A balanced deficit deal that includes some new revenues isn’t just a Democratic position. It’s a position that has been taken by everyone from Warren Buffett to Bill O’Reilly. It’s a position that was taken this week by Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, who worked together on a promising plan of their own. And it’s been the position of every Democratic and Republican leader who has worked to reduce the deficit in their time, from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton.”

President Obama’s Op-ed in tomorrow’s USAToday

Oh my lord! BillO mentioned, by the President of the United States, in the same paragraph with the likes of Buffett, Reagan and Bill Clinton on heady matters such as these? I can see his ego balloon from my house.

“Ailes also faced internal resistance to Beck’s rise. Sean Hannity complained to Bill Shine about Beck. And it didn’t help matters that O’Reilly, who had become friends with Beck and can’t stand Hannity, scheduled Beck as a regular guest, a move that only annoyed Hannity further.”

The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election. - NYMag

Here’s one edit, of many, from BillO vs Stewart

Edited:

Stewart asked about Sarah Palin as a possible presidential candidate: 

Stewart: I am not a particular fan of her style of rhetoric. I think she’s too thin skinned. 

O’Reilly: Sounds like Colbert.

Stewart: Colbert, I would actually endorse for President. 

She [Palin] is much more reminiscent to me, much more of a television personality than a politician because I think that her inability to get past slights, it makes it very difficult. I could just imagine her at night, just, with the hands going (hand wringing) ‘Did you see that thing that Maher said or that Stewart [said]?’

O’Reilly: Newt Gingrich?

Unedited:

Stewart: …I could just imagine her [Palin] at night, just, with the hands going (hand wringing) ‘Did you see that thing that Maher said?’ Or ‘that Stewart [said]?’

O’Reilly: Yeah, I think she’s, she’s sensitive. There’s no doubt about it.

Fox News did make it obvious throughout that there were edits, but when O’Reilly moved on to Gingrich, it was smooth. You would have never known that O’Reilly stated his opinion on Palin.