LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
2010 Webby Award Winner for Best Political Blog
 
May 25, 2012
Log in / Register

 Choose a size
Text Size

Trending:     robert scheer     barack obama     chris hedges     gay marriage     ndaa
Most Read

Do the Bain Hustle

What We Learned About Wall Street and Big Business From Facebook's IPO

Armed Drones: Coming to an Airspace Near You

OSHA Struggles When Tower Climbers Die

Spending

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
 * NEW! * Why Bain Questions Matter
 * NEW! * OSHA Struggles When Tower Climbers Die
Do the Bain Hustle

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture
Better Than We Found It
The Good-Natured Dictator

Digs
Financial Meltdown 101

Truthdig Bazaar
Lords of the Land

Lords of the Land

By Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar
$ 19.77

more items

 
A/V Booth

‘Daily Show’: The O’Reilly Pinhead Factor

Email this item Email    Print this item Print   

Posted on Sep 28, 2010
comedycentral.com

Fox News mainstay Bill O’Reilly enjoyed a petal-strewn welcome on his return visit to “The Daily Show” on Monday to pitch his new book, but it wasn’t exactly a love-in between him and Jon Stewart, especially after O’Reilly’s unfortunate attempt at drone humor.  —KA

Comedy Central:

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Bill O’Reilly
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRally to Restore Sanity

Advertisement


New and Improved Comments

We are launching a major overhaul of our comments section.

In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread.

Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts.

Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with.

Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page.

BR549's avatar

By BR549, September 30, 2010 at 11:21 am Link to this comment

This was the most civil I’ve ever seen O’Reilly, although he’s still an arrogant ass.

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, September 30, 2010 at 3:57 am Link to this comment

So Stewart made the point: O’Reilly is the smartest bear in the Fox Noise zoo.  Also, it sounds like Bill-O ain’t too fond of Glenn Beck.  I’m guessing it’s because:

a) Beck’s beating O’Reilly in the numbers.
b) Beck’s a weird, strange putz who doesn’t know how to actually interact with other people.  For all his shit-head qualities, Bill-O knows how to do THAT!

Bill-O’s sharp enough to realize that Stewart is razor-sharp, lightning-fast, and able to slip in barbs while being “nice”.  And O’Reilly can handle it to sell his book.  Beck, like Rush Limbaugh, can NOT handle being questioned—he imploded on “The View”!

Report this
Shenonymous's avatar

By Shenonymous, September 29, 2010 at 3:08 am Link to this comment

It is marginally funny.  Stewart has a knack of slipping in barbs that
hit their mark.  O’Reilly’s head could fit through the eye of a needle.
He never says anything of very much importance.  Why Stewart even
booked him is beyond reason except maybe to show how vacuous
O’Reilly remains.

Report this
Robespierre115's avatar

By Robespierre115, September 29, 2010 at 1:42 am Link to this comment

Funny moments but…this was just pointless blithering. This is what “political debate” has been reduced to in America.

Not sound conservative, but sometimes we could learn something from the “good old days”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k9aTeoDBxw

Report this
Newsletter

Get Truthdig in your inbox


 
 
 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
Copyright © 2012 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.