Is Bill O’Reilly Evil, Stupid Or Crazy?

by digby

… or all three?

Last night I had the TV on in the background and I heard a promo for one of the Access Hollywood type shows about Caroline Kennedy. I didn’t know what they were referring to and so I asked Mr Google and what came up first? This unctuous, dishonest piece of rotting compost from Bill O’Reilly.

I knew nothing of this rumor and I don’t care about it. The reason that I’m noting this transcript is because of O’Reilly’s amazing intellectual gyrations. His inconsistency, sometimes in the same sentence, is so astonishing that you have to wonder why his head doesn’t explode. No wonder he’s so angry. The dissonance must be very painful.

Here he is, alone in discussing a scurrilous rumor on national TV (I honestly had heard nothing of this until I read this transcript and I watch a lot of cable news, including a fair amount of FOX.) He announced it, made a bunch of assumptions about what it meant, twisted the story into all kinds of knots that had no bearing on reality and then blamed “smear web sites” for doing exactly what he had just done. Brilliant.

But why would any credible journalist ever appear with him?

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