Globe and Mail (Heather Mallick): "My Fox Trot with Bill O'Reilly"

Mallick had been invited to discuss her column defending sanctuary for US deserters.

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Mr. O'Reilly is not a smart man. He's like one of those old guys you see on the street ringing a bell and shouting about eternal damnation. He talks to his trousers. You know the type. They let wasps nest in their hair so they can lure weasels, trap 'em and eat 'em slow over the summer.

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And then he asked me if I was a socialist, and I said, "Certainly," and it was as if I'd said I like donkey semen in my latte instead of milk. He then went into a mad rant about lefties like Mr. Doyle and how I was a typical Globe columnist. I said, no, truthfully, I think I'm regarded as "idiosyncratic" (the first six-syllable word ever spoken on the O'Reilly show), and he erupted again.

It was like talking to a manic child who had eaten 800 cherry Pop Tarts for breakfast. He kept interrupting, so that no point could be made that could win a reply, much less a reasoned response — not so much a gabble of sound bites as a howling from Bedlam.

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The whole degraded debacle and everyone's reaction to it, including mine, reminded me that Americans now have to cope with a new surrealism in public life. In the 1936 Spanish Civil War entries in a diary I read long ago, by someone who may well have been Stephen Spender, the writer describes an O'Reilly-esque scene. "A man squats and defecates in the street, without comment." Re-reading these diaries decades later, Spender writes, "What on earth did I expect him to say? Olé?"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040501.wmallick1/BNStory/International/?query=Heather+Mallick

he has not seen it. I don't even know if they read their e-mails but this is too good to pass up.

from the article:

We were supposed to be discussing American deserters fleeing to Canada; instead, he went off on some wild thing about the mayor of Vancouver injecting people with heroin and unless Canada shapes up, "we" will boycott you and destroy your economy, just like "we" did to France.

I said France seemed to be doing fine. He implied that France now looked like Dresden in 1945. I hadn't heard that.

I said the United States couldn't boycott Canadian goods because it would be mutually damaging. "We're your biggest trading partner."

"No, you're not." (We are.) Naturally, I wanted to reply, "Yes, we are," so that he could say "No, we're not," and then I'd say, "Everything you say bounces off me and reflects back on you, so there," but I couldn't regress that far. Mr. Doyle would have been shrieking.

I often wonder why liberals *ever* agree to appear on Faux. I guess its just because we're suckers for an opportunity to convert a heathen, even one we know we can't.

I love their responses to O'Reilly, they are perfect! Thanks for the link, it put a smile on my face to start the morning!

O'Blowhard is a buffoon :)

that is EXACTLY what O'Reilly does. No reasoned debates with him - it's all screaming righteous indignation that someone doesn't fit into the narrowly defined conservative roles he idealizes for EVERYONE.

and he says "Dolly Who?"

Everyone up there is cool. Fox News is in its rightful place as the hopelessly biased laughingstock that it is, instead of the #1 "news" network. They leave gay people and pot smokers alone, and actually give a damn about poor people and the enviroment. Canada is a bitter reminder of what America could be like if only there wasn't a rethug party.