BUTTHOLE O'REILLY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ASSHOLE

Ah! This is great fun. A twenty year old clip of FOX News' Bill O'Reilly freaking out back when he was anchor of celebrity gossip show Inside Edition has been making the rounds in cyberspace these last few days. It's well worth the couple of minutes it takes to watch, if only because it shows that O'Reilly really is nothing more than a demented asshole with severe anger management problems. That is, it's not bad politics that makes him angry: he's just angry, all the time, and it appears that pretty much anything can drive him round the bend.

His right-wing fans, I imagine, just love it when he tells his liberal "guests" to "shut up," like when he "dress[ed] down" the left-wing son of a 9/11 victim, Jeremy Glick, back in '02. But it's all a bunch of crap. With O'Reilly, it's not the politics; it's the anger. The politics don't really matter. Just as long as he's freaking out, which is apparently the only talent he has. Actually, I suspect that most of his fans are really only into the anger, too.

Actually, I suspect that, for the vast majority of those who comprise the right wing, anger is all they've got.

Anyway, courtesy of Brave New Films, courtesy of AlterNet, here's the Butthole freaking out a couple of decades ago:



I really love to hate him.

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