By Beauty Damned

A Job Well Done

You really HAVE to love The Smoking Gun. A lot of the time they're the first to break the biggest news, because they get the actual documentation for every single story and they also have the wryest humor with regard to their postings. That's more than you can say about a lot of "news sources." I've been a loyal TSG reader for a couple years now, so of course, I heard immediately as soon as this sexual harassment lawsuit was filed recently against Bill O'Reilly (and QUICKLY settled, if I do say so myself!). Apparently, O'Reilly isn't fond of news sources that would actually dare to publish a full copy of the complaint filed against him. (He would much prefer Fox News's style of vague, half-assed reporting). I guess it would suck to have every blogger on the internet linking to that stark black and white lawsuit detailing just exactly what a sick, rotten son-of-a-bitch you are. (Whether or not her story is true is moot, we already know he's a sick, rotten son-of-a-bitch and that lawsuit was nothing more than a deeply satisfying kind of public retribution - call it a kick in the ass, very similar to the one Rush Limbaugh got - for his arrogant, self righteous shtick that most of us have been subjected to at one time or another). Ha! God does work in mysterious ways.

But Bill O'Reilly should know better than to carry a grudge against TSG for breaking out the public court records. They're just doin' their jobs after all, right Bill? Just like you're just doing your job when you sit up there in that little box with that little noose tied around your neck talkin' shit about everybody else under the sun. In fact, I'll bet you've probably even railed on Michael Jackson or any other person who you think deserved a few whacks, more than once yourself haven't ya Loofah-Mits? And you talk about other people perpetuating "nasty talk?" That's a laugh! Coming from the apparent King of Nasty Talk. Bill O'Reilly gives Howard Stern a run for his money. At least Howard comes out and admits that he's a perv. Bill O'Reilly pretends he has some license to verbally pound other people's faces in, but he doesn't like it when someone gives him a little taste of what it's like to feel degraded, belittled and publicly humiliated.

I saw you in Outfoxed, Bill O'Reilly. I saw you questioning that kid whose father died in the World Trade Center on September 11. You questioned him about his political views. I saw you berate him and tell him to "SHUT UP" over and over and over again when he politely disagreed with you. He sat there, patiently, tried hard not to allow you to stir him with your lambasting. I have never seen anyone treat a guest so horrendously on television in my life as you did there, granted I was raised without television, but I sincerely never thought that was the way a television host would communicate with someone who has been invited to their show. That's like luring someone into a dark alley way and then kicking the shit out of them, isn't it Bill O'Reilly? Did someone do that to you? Why do you do it to others?

So I give The Smoking Gun two high fives for blowing up that motherfucker's spot, for pissing him off and sending him this Christmas gift, AND for doing their job, the way the job should rightly be done.