Don't let me raise your expectations but...
I am hyperventilating here. I think the 3 minutes of this clip after the lead in are the funniest 3 minutes of TV I've ever watched.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ECbO6jZRzhs
FYI, O'Reilly has been accused of sexual harrassment a number of times, including by his former producer-- just google "o'reilly" and "falafel." (He literally said on his show "please do not believe anything you hear or read," which I believe is his credo.)My point is, I took Colbert's opening comments about Jon Stewart to be a very low blow against O'Reilly, and I don't think I'm too far off base here.
[edit] I think at the late hour I exaggerated a bit. But I thought about the video while I was at work today, and at some point was struck by a thought. Watch O'Reilly on Letterman, and then watch him on Colbert. O'Reilly has never seemed particularly quick on his feet to me, but notice how much of what he said on Colbert was also said, either by him or by Letterman, on the Letterman interview. "You pinhead," "What is it that you do?" "What time is your show on, 4am?" (That is actually from Colbert on O'Reilly--oops, in retrospect, maybe more of these are. So my memory is not that great. So sue me. Fine. Watch Colbert on O'Reilly, O'Reilly on Colbert, and then O'Reilly on Letterman, 1 and 2. Then you will see that O'Reilly really does not have any original thoughts.
If you do watch the Bill on Dave action, I have something else to point out, kind of an encapsulation of what Bill O'Reilly does every day. He claims to have a "million examples" (okay, quotes are silly since it's been months since I watched this and he probably said it differently-- oh well) of ways that secularists are taking God out of schools. He reads one to Letterman-- that a school changed the words to some Christmas songs to remove all mention of God, at the request of the administration-- to which Letterman replies to the effect that Bill is full of crap, that he doesn't believe his examples and isn't interested in hearing them. Someone did their research and called that school (sorry, I don't have a citation), and the school replied that no, there was no policy to remove God from their Christmas songs. Every year they have a play, and they change the words to ALL of their songs (whether or not there is a mention of God) in order to GO ALONG WITH THE PLOT. During other recitals/plays/concerts during the year, there are many mentions of God. So, even though O'Reilly sat and read the lyrics to a familiar song which did indeed have references to God changed, the details he gave about school policy, and thus the relevance of this example in his argument, amount to deceptive invention.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ECbO6jZRzhs
FYI, O'Reilly has been accused of sexual harrassment a number of times, including by his former producer-- just google "o'reilly" and "falafel." (He literally said on his show "please do not believe anything you hear or read," which I believe is his credo.)My point is, I took Colbert's opening comments about Jon Stewart to be a very low blow against O'Reilly, and I don't think I'm too far off base here.
[edit] I think at the late hour I exaggerated a bit. But I thought about the video while I was at work today, and at some point was struck by a thought. Watch O'Reilly on Letterman, and then watch him on Colbert. O'Reilly has never seemed particularly quick on his feet to me, but notice how much of what he said on Colbert was also said, either by him or by Letterman, on the Letterman interview. "You pinhead," "What is it that you do?" "What time is your show on, 4am?" (That is actually from Colbert on O'Reilly--oops, in retrospect, maybe more of these are. So my memory is not that great. So sue me. Fine. Watch Colbert on O'Reilly, O'Reilly on Colbert, and then O'Reilly on Letterman, 1 and 2. Then you will see that O'Reilly really does not have any original thoughts.
If you do watch the Bill on Dave action, I have something else to point out, kind of an encapsulation of what Bill O'Reilly does every day. He claims to have a "million examples" (okay, quotes are silly since it's been months since I watched this and he probably said it differently-- oh well) of ways that secularists are taking God out of schools. He reads one to Letterman-- that a school changed the words to some Christmas songs to remove all mention of God, at the request of the administration-- to which Letterman replies to the effect that Bill is full of crap, that he doesn't believe his examples and isn't interested in hearing them. Someone did their research and called that school (sorry, I don't have a citation), and the school replied that no, there was no policy to remove God from their Christmas songs. Every year they have a play, and they change the words to ALL of their songs (whether or not there is a mention of God) in order to GO ALONG WITH THE PLOT. During other recitals/plays/concerts during the year, there are many mentions of God. So, even though O'Reilly sat and read the lyrics to a familiar song which did indeed have references to God changed, the details he gave about school policy, and thus the relevance of this example in his argument, amount to deceptive invention.