Keith Olbermann blogs about Bill O'Reilly:

[Shopaholic]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

Some excerpts:

"It's not about the sex. OK, it is about the sex.The late comedian Bill Hicks once observed that anybody who made a huge public stink about their own public morals, or about somebody else's lack of them, was almost inevitably hiding something in their own past or present... Dear old Hicks completely missed Bill O'Reilly. He would've enjoyed this, as he enjoyed seeing any moralizing knuckle-rapper hoist, as my Grandmother liked to say, on his own petard. . . Goodness knows we're going to have some time to talk about such comparisons. When Bill O'Reilly called this "the worst day of my life" this morning on the Regis & Kelly show, I'm guessing he thought the days would somehow get better as they marched in this petty pace. I'm guessing he's dead wrong. This one's going to go on for months.

Why is Fox so publicly convinced that O'Reilly will be vindicated by what are almost certainly extant, high quality tapes of these conversations between O'Reilly and Mackris?. . . But how would Fox know this? Its only source would be O'Reilly. And he might be absolutely convinced she was a willing participant, not a harassment victim— and damn wrong. You may recall who it was who convinced Fox to go ahead and sue Al Franken, thus ensuring the success of Franken's book and setting up the first occasion to my experience in which a plaintiff was literally laughed out of court by a judge. Bill O'Reilly's judgment may not be what it seems— and that's written by somebody who has assumed for the last 20 years that he didn't have any judgment to begin with. . . Lastly: why, in his public impersonation of Christ fresh off the cross here, has O'Reilly not said “This isn't true?” Or “I can explain this?” I mean, honestly, whenever somebody accuses me of being difficult to work with or of changing jobs quickly or even of stuffing the ballot box in the Playgirl poll, my first response is not to insist that I'm the victim of an international political conspiracy."


By all means, read the rest of this blog--it's great! BTW--Keith now has his own blog at countdown.msnbc.com!

[realFedUp]

1. O'Reilly was on Regis already?

Wow, that got set up fast....must
have a great lawyer and PR firm.
Spinning the potential jury already.

[Shopaholic]

2. I think O'Lielly was already scheduled to be on--to flog (so to speak)

his new children's book.

[realFedUp]

3. Oh....well, how ironic.

[gatlingforme]

4. I read the court papers on his "family values" theme. Perverted.