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Monday, July 09, 2007

O'Reilly and the pink pistol lesbians

Over at Orcinus, David Neiwert has the strange, strange tale of a Bill O'Reilly segment that claims there are gangs of pink pistol carrying lesbians roaming the streets of America. It's so bizarre you really owe it to yourself to go read the whole thing.

Naturally, nobody can find stuff (like police reports) that actually suggest anything remotely similar is happening, most likely because it's all baloney.

Clearly, the pressure is getting to Bill-o. But I guess if the free market demands feverish, lurid tales that have no basis in fact, that's what the free market will deliver. Just don't tell me Bill-o is a journalist or even worthy of air time on a national network.

He's a kook; the electronic equivalent of the National Enquirer. Anyone who believes a word that comes out of his mouth is, sad to say, seriously deluded. If you wouldn't base your politics on the National Enquirer you shouldn't base your politics on Bill O'Reilly.

Next week, Bill-o recounts how, on the anniversary of the Roswell crash, he was abducted by space aliens and um, probed. Now that would be something the free market could get behind. So to speak.

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