Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Sixty Percent

If you haven't seen David Letterman's smack down of Bill O'Reilly, the fine people at Media Matters have you covered.

5 comments:

Otto Man said...

I can see your point, Joe, but I think that's why Letterman did it. He always wears the "dumb guy" label proudly, and he showed people that O'Lielly belonged in that category too.

Debating him gets you nowhere, as other people have found out. Comparing his crusade to a call to put diapers on horses, well, that gets him laughed at like he deserves.

Noah said...

One of my personal favorites in the interview:

"O'REILLY: You're going to take things that you've read?"

Wait...wait...isn't that where the whole premise of his argument about the Christmas "threat" came from anyway?

Worse than that may be the opposite of that. God forbid we read and form an opinion! We should all just watch his show and get our opinions there!

I sure have mine...

Otto Man said...

One of my personal favorites in the interview: "O'REILLY: You're going to take things that you've read?"

That was definitely my favorite, too. Reminded me of the Bill Hicks routine where he's reading a book in a Waffle House and the waitress asks him not "what are you reading?" but instead "what are you reading for?"

"Well, well, it looks like we got us a reader...."

ORF said...

My personal favorite was the bit about the horse diapers. I don't much care for Mr. Letterman's show because I find him generally un-funny and otherwise irritating, but sometimes it's worth it for the zingers like that!

Isaac Carmichael said...

It was nice of Letterman to give O'Reilly the benefit of the doubt like that. No way in hell it's any less than 75%.