MORFORD: Let Us Blow Up Bill O'Reilly

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/16/5 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Of course the PR-sucking Fox News blowhard is off his nut. Again. Question is, Should you care?

It's almost too easy. He's too easy a target, really, Bill O'Reilly of the casually toxic Fox News, too bloviated and too silly and too undercooked, and no one whose opinion you truly value or with an IQ higher than their waist size actually watches him with anything resembling intellectual honesty or takes anything he says the slightest bit seriously. You hope.

Especially when he, like Pat Robertson ranting about how gays caused Sept. 11 or that Dover, Pa., is now a doomed and godless hell pit, given how the town fired every single one the imbecilic, intelligent design-supporting Repubs from the school board, especially when Billy goes off his nut once again and essentially wishes al Qaeda would attack San Francisco, well, it is up to us to merely look at him like Shiva looks at a sea slug -- i.e., a moment of compassion for his regrettable incarnation -- and then laugh and shake our heads and move the hell on.

I mean, what else do you want to do? Allow him credence? Give his infantile words any sort of weight and import? Let him slither into your heart like a worm and fester and burn? O'Reilly is, after all, the Right's most self-aggrandizing blowhard, one who still vilifies France like a child who hates broccoli, one who has, next to Rush Limbaugh, perhaps the worst spin in all of media.

[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

You've been warned!

[SmithL]

Morford calling anyone else a blowhard is just too funny.

[Tijeras_Slim]

it is up to us to merely look at him like Shiva looks at a sea slug

That's actually pretty good.

[trisham]

He draws big ratings, even here in the Bay Area.

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Maybe there's hope for San Francisco after all.

[RightCanuck]

Bwahahahahaha, Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, (wheeze) hahahahahahahahahahaha (etc)

[roylene]

What did BO say that caused such a fuss?

[mak5]

Aw, poor Markie...did big Bill hurt your feelings?

All he is saying is that if you ban the military from your city and don't let them recruit there, you shouldn't be looking to the rest of us for help when things go wrong.

Morford...just one more reason to hate San Francisco.

[SmithL]

Lookie, lookie:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520676/posts

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

The ONLY reason my relatives and I(Up here in Canada) decided to go with crappy Bell expressvue (The only satellite provider to provide FOX news) is because of FOX news and Bill O`Reilly...

We love him...

[cynicom]

O'Really has got to stop turning over rocks, every time he does ungodly things slither out.

[The Electrician]

Yes it is, isn't it... The thought of Morford taking somebody, anybody, to task over their use of "infantile words" is a joke...

[LongElegantLegs]

fire hoses of divine juice

Please, M, we don't need the details of your sex life.

[Emmett McCarthy]

The only thing good about O'Reilly is that these moron lefties think he represents conservative thinking so that keeps them running in circles, so, in that sense, I guess I'd say he's a "useful idiot".

[weegee]

I mean, what else do you want to do? Allow him credence? Give his infantile words any sort of weight and import? Let him slither into your heart like a worm and fester and burn?

I'm no O'Reilly fan but it sounds hear like the writer is talking about Howie Screamin' Deanin' Dean, Al Gore, Bill Maher, Jesse Jackson, or Al Franken.

[nutmeg]

FoxFan ping!

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[Sunnyflorida]

Next earthquake when San Franfeako calls for the National Guard or when some lesbo sailor falls off his sail boat, the NG and USCG should reply, "sorry, understaffed, you are on your own."

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!