View From the Bushes

Well as usual, despite all the bad karma I have accumulated over my life, it turns out I didn't need a new power supply. Actually, the problem was that the power button had broken -- probably while I was trying in desperation to get it to turn on. Any time a problem doesn't cost me any money, then that's good. In any case, enough about my karmic issues. I was out buying some food last night and I heard Bill O'Reilly on Fresh Air with Terry Gross and let's just say that I was not impressed.

As I mentioned before, I try to avoid political discussions in the blog -- mostly because of the fact that I'm always right and everybody else is always wrong might make everybody else feel bad, and though I can't imagine anything better than that, my wife tells me that it's a bad idea. But I really enjoy FoxNews. In many ways I agree that it's preferable to most of the other cable news outlets. I especially enjoy FoxNews Sunday (with Tony Snow), but everytime I've seen or heard Bill O'Reilly, he comes across as the most sanctimonious, thin-skinned, rude jackass I've ever encountered.

I didn't think I could have more disdain for any "political" figure than I already had for James Carville (who, by the way, is obviously the model for LotR's Gollum), but O'Reilly may have passed him in my personal rankings. Maybe it's the fact that Terry Gross is the most calm, soft-spoken, non-confrontational five-foot nothing interviewer in history, and he treated her like she'd accused him of the Rape of Nanking. Actually the behavior that bothered me the most came at the beginning and end of the interview. To be fair, in the middle he acquits himself much better. Anyway, that's it for my rant, I now return you to your regularly scheduled whining at it's normal time.

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