Bill O'Reilly brings the crazy

By Heraclitus

You really need to see this video (just scroll down a little on that page -- or read the whole post; it's good!). Like I've said before, it increasingly looks like the Murdoch-Rove conservatives aren't just shitting the bed, they're shitting the bed in the lunatic asylum. Watch as Bill O'Reilly becomes bizarrely apoplectic, convulsing and shouting at, of all people, Geraldo Rivera (?). You know something has gone horribly wrong when, as a viewer, you hear Geraldo tell O'Reilly, "You need to cool your jets," and you find yourself nodding in agreement (and cackling maniacally). Also, I don't think I've heard the word "bull" used so many times since the fifth grade.

Wise-crackery aside, though, I am a bit surprised by this video. I always thought that shills like O'Reilly and Limbaugh were purely cynical, and that the latest round of rabble rousing about illegal immigrants was just, well, rabble rousing, but that the various GOP anamatrons knew that their corporate masters wanted a continual supply of cheap and ready labor. But it seems, from O'Reilly's fury, that he really is as racist as his message suggests (though I suppose it's always possible that he just lost it when Geraldo challenged him). When an illegal immigrant kills two teenage girls while driving drunk, and your anger is directed at immigrants rather than drunk drivers...well, something is wrong with your mind and your heart.

Join me now in singing the praises of Mr. Rivera: "There was nothing in Al Capone's vault... but it wasn't Geraldo's fault..."