An inventory of O'Reilly idiocy

media matters puts together a compendium of the latest o'reilly testaments to a single-digit iq...

O'Reilly: "There's a very secret plan ... to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511300007

According to O'Reilly, the "secular progressive" movement has three elements:

* First, progressive financiers George Soros and Peter Lewis "pour money into the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union], they pour money into the smear websites, you know, they buy up a lot of media time."
* Second, "the ACLU is their legal arm. ... [T]he ACLU runs around the country suing everybody and intimidating people."
* Third, "the smear websites are their media arm."

O'Reilly said these three elements operate "in tandem":

O'REILLY: [Y]ou use your left-wing smear websites to go after anybody who stands up for Christmas. If you stand up for Christmas, they come after you. So the tandem intimidates. The tandem intimidates. Suing on one hand; smearing on the other hand.
Fox betrays Christmas crusade, sells "Holiday" ornaments for your "Holiday tree"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511300006

Despite O'Reilly's specific criticism of those who use the term "holiday tree" instead of "Christmas tree," an O'Reilly Factor ornament for sale at the Fox News store features this tagline: "Put your holiday tree in 'The No Spin Zone' with this silver glass 'O'Reilly Factor' ornament."
O'Reilly: "I don't believe Paul Krugman gives a fig about the troops"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511300004

O’Reilly: He's a Princeton professor who writes for The New York Times. I don't believe a word he says about anything. I think he's a socialist who hates the country. And, you know, when I see his byline, I just go, "Oh, next."
Today's All-Spin Zone: NBC gave O'Reilly forum to compare advocates of withdrawal from Iraq to Hitler appeasers
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511300009

Today host Katie Couric lobbed O'Reilly a softball, asking "What is your biggest fear about a premature withdrawal?"

From Today:

O'REILLY: These pinheads running around going, "Get out of Iraq now," don't know what they're talking about. These are the same people before Hitler invaded in World War II that were saying, "Ah, he's not such a bad guy." They don't get it.

my son works with someone who listens to o'reilly religiously (pardon the pun)... i have to ask myself, how can someone who surely has a functioning brain listen to such drivel for more than a nanosecond...?

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