I hate Fox News part 85- also, go 100th post!

This post would be a lot sweeter if it wasn't devoted to such idiocy. But such is life...

Media Matters- O'Reilly blasts "smear merchants" and "vampires" criticizing Mel Gibson; Rivera smears Olbermann, Stewart, and Colbert

O'REILLY:I think it's sadistic now. I think it's crossed the line. I should mention the networks, but I'm not going to do it tonight. There are certain people who, you know, know they can get a number just beating the living daylights out of this guy. I think the points have been made. And it's into the sadistic area. Am I wrong?

...RIVERA: But remember, he tried to run away and resisted arrest. If he was a gangbanger or a, you know, a guy from -- that wasn't such a big macher over there, believe me, he would not have just been charged with these three misdemeanors.

O'REILLY: Maybe, maybe not. A lot of people get cut slack. It just depends on what's going on.

A: If it had been Ludacris, you would have been for nailing his ass to the wall.
B: I know your mother's Jewish, Geraldo, but please save the Yiddish for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

...O'REILLY:Nobody can make an excuse for what he did. It's inexcusable, OK? No excuses made. That point is on the record.

But there comes a point where the media and individual Americans start to enjoy the suffering of rich and powerful people.

RIVERA: I agree, I agree.

O'REILLY: All right? They wallow in it. They can't get enough of it. They've got blood all over their mouth, these vampires, OK? They're in the media, these people. This is what they live for.

Yeah, welcome to America. It's been this way since, um, forever. Try looking up some political cartoons in the Revolution- era newspapers. I'm betting those guys didn't mind "rubbing in" the fact that George III's kingdom was going to shit. Also, I'm pretty sure it's been this way in most of the rest of the world, too. You think Egyptian slaves didn't whoop it up when they heard the Pharaoh got leprosy or syphillis? I've got an obelisk to sell you.

O'REILLY: That's wrong. It's morally wrong. It's maybe not as bad as what Gibson did, but it's approaching that. Because there comes a point where every human being does stuff wrong. Everyone. We all do wrong things.

*Cough* Falafel-gate.

O'REILLY: And anybody celebrating your suffering is a bad person.

Really now? That's good to know, Bill. Are we to assume that you'll be delivering your hand-written apology to the Clintons in person?

...RIVERA: ...What do I give a damn about these cable people who talk about you or me or Mel Gibson? What do they mean to us?

O'REILLY: But we've had this argument before.

RIVERA: But they mean nothing.

O'REILLY: You're right.

RIVERA: They can't even get a rating.

Actually, I'm fairly sure that Olberman, Colbert and Stewart are kicking O'Reilly's ass- to say nothing of Geraldo's illustrious "talking-mustache-hour".

...O'REILLY: I think we should call these people out. I think we should call these people out.

RIVERA: Then call them by name, then.

O'REILLY: No.

RIVERA: Then don't, then don't --

O'REILLY: Because then you give them more publicity.

RIVERA: Then just say, "It's that schmuck from MSNBC who's doing that," and call him that.

...O'REILLY: I want to get this clear. Nobody will be allowed to apologize for Mel Gibson except Mel Gibson on this program.

...RIVERA: You know, Comedy Central is now a big hit, Stewart and the Colbert guy.

O'REILLY: Yeah, they do OK. They do OK.

RIVERA: They make a living putting on video of old ladies slipping on ice and people laughing. That's their life. That's their life. They exist in a small little place where they count for nothing. The history will be made by those who have affirmative thoughts, who make, you know, innovative suggestions in life and are inclusive.

That's right, 100 years from now no one will remember Jon Stewart's 9/11 speech or his "I'm not your monkey" moment, they'll remember great moments like "Capone's vault". And what a wonderful world it will be. Or something.