Is Bill O'Reilly brain-damaged?

(At the right is an alleged New York Times caricature of O'Reilly)

How many times have you asked the question, "How low can O'Reilly go?" Then you turn around and he reaches a new low. Perhaps he has brain damage. It's hard to explain him any other way. Of course, he does work for FOX News, which has nothing to do with either foxes or news.

Netroots Nation (formerly known as YearlyKos) just concluded its gathering in Austin, Texas. As John Stauber writes, Netroots Nation is "the annual conference for thousands of liberal bloggers, Democratic Party activists and liberal advocacy organizations...all designed this year to win the White House and solidify control of Congress."

Among the speakers at this year's event were Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and former Vice President Al Gore. Gore lauded the event and those involved and said he believed they were part of an effort "to reclaim the integrity of American democracy."


Bill O'Reilly, not understanding how a democracy works, and not caring how a democracy works, went livid at the very thought of something like Netroots Nation. But what really gored his ox was Al Gore, who he despises (probably because Al Gore makes O'Reilly look like the fool he is!).

Matt at Think Progress tells us all about it:

"On his radio show today, O'Reilly claimed that Gore was now associating himself with the most 'hateful group in the country.' ... 'And I'm including the Nazis and the Klan in here' ... He then claimed that attending Netroots Nation was 'the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering.'"

O'Reilly said that "Al Gore is now done. ... He is not a man of respect, he doesn't have any judgment. The fact that he went to this thing is the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering. ... K, he loses all credibility with me. All credibility."

As if anyone gives a rat's ass about O'Reilly's credibility! It's nonexistent.


Such hysterics would be funny if I wasn't wrong in my statement about O'Reilly's credibility. Unfortunately, too many people see him as credible, even though he's nothing more than a mouthpiece for the extreme right.

But, the extremists who have run our government for the last seven and a half years must be worried. Power is a hard thing to give up. But what these fools and tinpot dictators never do realize that while one can grab or steal or coerce power, authority is bestowed. And what is happening across the country is that the authority bestowed upon the extremists is being rescinded as their failures come home to roost. When their authority goes, power is not far behind. Unless, or course, one uses armed force.

Thank goodness O'Reilly doesn't have an army!