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[apocalypsos]

Why the hell do I even bother listening to O'Reilly? (Oh, right, because I like screaming at idiots. And also, because I'm too lazy to change the radio station at work.) It's bad enough that the opening scares the hell out of me, because out of a bunch of people giving their opinion on him, good and bad, there's one annoyed woman saying, "Bill O'Reilly is the biggest liberal!" Compared to what?!

In any event, today's high point -- or low point, I guess you could say -- was when he interrupted his comparing abortion to euthanasia to rant that women who get pregnants and want abortions lost control of their bodies, they made the mistake of having sex, it's all their fault and now they should have to deal with this new person. Hell, even his simpering female cohost was like, "Dude, chill out." Of course, then he went and amused the hell out of me by saying over and over again that in the US, you can't tell the doctors not to treat you, then introduced a guest doctor who immediately told him he was full of shit. Hee. Listening to him get taken down a notch for not even knowing you could do that was vastly amusing.

Anyways, twelve hours of work today wasn't as bad as I'd thought it would be, although the dumbass who was treating me like an idiot on the phone gets no love. All he'd put on his package was Mount Vernon and a P.O. box. Since we can't deliver to P.O. boxes, we called to get a correct address, and he said it was Mount Vernon, the home of George and Martha Washington. I only italicize that because he had to have said it at least four times in the course of a two-minute phone call. And even then, I still didn't get a street address out of him and I had to look it up on the Internet. (There was also a very polite, "Oh, your driver should know where it is, because it's a very important historical place and he'll have to deliver a lot of things there." And when I say 'very polite', I mean 'incredibly assholish.')

Oh, and you know what I didn't realize until today? Tomorrow's the start of Lent. Well, obviously, my childhood Catholic education's gone straight to Hell. I probably replaced those brain cells with mental images of Johnny Depp naked or something equally useful. And you know, depending on how the finale of TAR turns out tonight, I might feel vengeful enough tomorrow morning to do something totally bitchy, like wake up to a breakfast of Hershey's bars and Smirnoff. *cackles*

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[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

women who get pregnants and want abortions lost control of their bodies, they made the mistake of having sex, it's all their fault and now they should have to deal with this new person

It's always refreshing when they cut the shit about OMG TEH BABYS and get right to their desire for control and punishment.

Did he happen to use the phrase "consequence-free sex" at all?

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

Have you read Al Franken's chapter on Bill O'Reilly? It's lots of fun.

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

I probably replaced those brain cells with mental images of Johnny Depp naked or something equally useful.

Oh thanks, now you gave me a mental image of Johnny Depp naked.

No, really. Thank you!

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

He said George and Mary Washington? *sporfle*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Urgh. I meant Martha, I just mistyped because I was running out the door from work. *toddles off to fix*

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Nonono! You should just leave it and say that the guy said it. :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

No, but not for a lack of trying.

[dadevilishsaint.livejournal.com]

One of the best written pieces on O'Reilly I have ever read! This guy is hilarious! When you are done with this one then you should red more of this guys views! :-)

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=bill_oreilly

[dadevilishsaint.livejournal.com]

erm *read

[sarff-nodwydd.livejournal.com]

Hey! Lent! You could give up Bill O'Reilly for Lent!

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Not being for the US, I obviously never had the pleasure of hearing this O'Reilly person, but after all your posts he fascinates me in a trainwrecky way.

women who get pregnants and want abortions lost control of their bodies, they made the mistake of having sex, it's all their fault and now they should have to deal with this new person.

Oh yes, that argument. Amazingly convenient that the 'responsibility' those fundies like so much only seems to fall on one party. What, the woman conceived with no outside interference? Someone call the Pope.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Hee. I like you O'Reilly digests - you listen to it so we don't have to. :D
But, seriously, what an arsehole.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

* your. Definitely your.

[cornfields.livejournal.com]

Hey... I thought WJFK took O'Reilly off and put the Sports Junkies back on. That's the rumor *I* heard, at least.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

They did, for precisely two weeks. They put the Junkies on after Stern until the Don and Mike Best-Of at two o'clock, but then O'Reilly had a hissy fit, and now the Junkies are on after Stern until one, and O'Reilly is on from one to three, and Joe's not hosting the Best-Ofs anymore, damn it.

The funny thing, though, is that that commercial they were playing starting a couple of weeks ago with "The lineup you've always wanted" is still playing (the one pointing out Stern, Don and Mike, the Junkies, and Ron and Fez), but now it sounds like it's pointedly ignoring O'Reilly. Now it makes me giggle when I hear it. :)

[cornfields.livejournal.com]

Heh... The poor Junkies! I actually like those guys, but looks like they can't win. DCRTV reports:

Stern Not Happy With JFK Cutoff, Junks Pass Buck - 2/7 - As expected, WJFK-FM cut off Howard Stern (left) promptly at 10 AM Monday to allow the midday Junkies a "hard" starting time. That's to give the former WHFS morning team a full three hours because of Bill O'Reilly's re-arrival to 106.7's middays, via the 1 PM to 3 PM slot. Just before he was silenced, Stern made critical mention of the enforced ending on his DC station, and he advised WJFK-FM's management not to make his listeners angry. He said that anger could also affect the Junkies, who Stern characterized as a local "tryout" show for him, once he leaves for Sirius in 2006. NYC-based Stern's Infinity-owned show often runs until 10:30 or 11 AM. On Monday, reacting to angry callers, the Junkies apologized for WJFK-FM's decision, the first such from an Infinity station, but said there was nothing they could do about it.

Damn. I haven't been to DCRTV in a while. I see WHFS is back, at least in Baltimore and on AOL Music.

And I can't believe that they insist on keeping O'Reilly on WJFK. The rest of the format is completely different: T&A and Sports. And then you have "Mr. Liberal" smack dab in the middle. In my mind's eye I can literally see the ratings slump. Literally. ;)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, you should hear Don and Mike talking about him. They keep calling him the new General Manager, which was funny yesterday because some guy in Silver Spring called O'Reilly and asked how good he must be at juggling responsibility with the radio show, the TV show, AND being General Manager of WJFK. (Which O'Reilly hit the dump button on right after the W. *snerk*) I died laughing. :)

I miss the Junkies now because I don't start work until one. It's freaking unfair, because they taunted me with them for two weeks and they're awesome, and now I have to sit through this fuckstick every afternoon again. Hell, I'd take two hours of Best-Ofs again at this point.

(I just have to say at this point that even with all of this, I'm seriously glad I'm not living in Northeast PA anymore. There weren't any radio stations up there good enough that I was this worried about the lineup, and now I've got DC 101 and WJFK to flip back and forth between. :))