Losin’ It

by digby

Via Oliver Willis, I see that Bill O’Reilly did a full-on Howard Beale tonight with Geraldo of all people.

In the entire, dark, black history of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, this is probably the craziest clip ever. A young girl was tragically killed by a drunk driver. But this was not enough for O’Reilly. Instead, because the criminal was an illegal alien he added this incident to his ongoing crusade against the brown people. Luckily Geraldo was on the show and he – to his credit – called out O’Reilly’s xenophobia for exactly what it was. This drove Bill O’Reilly insane. I was almost certain he was going to reach across the table and hit Geraldo.

It’s quite a show. (But then both these guys are clowns, aren’t they?) My money is on Geraldo, not only because he’s right, but because he’s had so much practice getting into physical fights on TV. O’Reilly’s a typical bully — lots of bluster, glass jaw.

Paddy Chayevsky is somewhere laughing and laughing and laughing.

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