Pardon my language here…

but these people are just fucking idiots. In the news…

Wearing a flag pin. Is this really news? Apparently so. Fox is chiming in on this here and here and the others follow suit.

Bernie Goldman thinks that women and minorities have pushed newsrooms “further and further to the left”. Maybe I’m just confused because I’ve kind of always thought that the “newsroom” should be non-partisan and I don’t really see how women and minorities factor into this. He then goes on to say that they should “start an affirmative-action program for conservative journalists”. I think he might need a little refresher course on what journalism is.

This one is just great because apparently, according to O’Reilly pretty much every news outlet is part of the “far left smear machine”. The AP? Really? I’m kind of flabergasted. And you know Bill is going to take people to task. Snap.

O’REILLY: And I mean it. Smear stops here. Over. End of this. You’re all on notice out there. I’m coming for you. First victim, tonight on the Factor, in addition to Jesse Jackson: The Washington Post. I’m going to play a tape tonight that’ll blow you out of the water — blow you out of the water. Coming, that’s number one.

Had enough. It’s going to stop and I am going to be the cop that stops it.

Now, a lot of my advisors are saying, “Oh, you know, let the story die. Don’t keep talking about it.” Now, look, I don’t care. I don’t care what uninformed people think about me. I do not, because, I believe, down to my toes, that the American public is essentially honest. And I will point to you an aol.com poll, in motion right now, where 60 percent of the public thinks this is the biggest fraud in the world — says I didn’t do anything at all wrong. Sixty percent — even though the setup on it is anti-O’Reilly.

Now, this is — has nothing to do with Fox, nothing to do with — these are just folk, more than 100,000 of them voted on this thing, all right. The folks know what’s going on. It doesn’t matter if you’re conservative or liberal. Most Americans are essentially honest people. And what else can they do? You got the radio program unedited on BillOReilly.com. You want to listen to it? There it is.

Now, I’m going to do a quick “No-Spin” news and then we’ll get back to it — and I’m sorry if I’m boring some of you. I know you’d rather talk about, you know, other items, but I can’t get across to you how important this is and how my campaign to hold the corrupt media responsible is going to help your life. Because no longer will these smear merchants be allowed to get away with it, as long as I’m in the chair. As long as I’m here, I’m hunting them down. And that means everybody.

You smear somebody and you can’t back it up, you’re gonna get it. Now, I don’t care about issues. You want to go somebody after issues, you go right ahead. Go right ahead. You want to criticize me, disagree with me? I like that; that’s why I do this radio program. You go after somebody’s family, you go after them and smear them with defamation that you can’t back up, I’m coming to your house.

I’m coming to your house. You’ll have a camera up your nose. OK? Everybody got it out there? I hope everybody’s got it, because I’m mad as hell and I’m not taking it anymore — to quote [late playwright and screenwriter] Paddy Chayefsky. What movie is that from?

I’m not sure that Bill O’Reilly has ever seen the film Network. I think he might wanna re-watch that one. What an ass. I don’t know if he reads Media Matters. I don’t know if he realizes that they put long transcripts on there or that they have the audio or video on the site. Does he not realize that we have this technology that allows people to record audio and video for prosperity? See what I mean? Idiots.

Totally unrelated. UCB Season 2 is out and my new favorite show on television is Mad Men. Awesome.