Colbert Takes Down Papa Bear

While I was on sabbatical last week, I watched in amusement as Bill O'Reilly branded DailyKos as everything short of father rapers and mother stabbers. Amused because the thought of Bill "Al-Queda Should Bomb San Francisco" O'Reilly, who allows Michelle "Lock Up the Japs" Malkin to substitute for him, chastize anybody for uncivil discourse sent my hypocrisy meter right off the scale. Amused because O'Reilly's rage was based 0n a handful of comments (some of which he didn't even understand*) from a blog that boasts dozens of diaries and thousands of commenters every day. That's hardly a solid indictment of the owner, powers that be, and vast majority of readers over at DailyKos.

But, no matter - Stephen Colbert is on the case:


Take that, Papa Bear!

Oh, and if O'Reilly's theory that "if it's in the comments on your web site, you said it" is correct, then he has advocated armed rebellion against the United States. Way to go! In that same vein, Glenn Greenwald collects several nasty comments from Malkin's sites as well.

* One of the comments that enraged O'Reilly was someone referring to the Pope as a "Primate." Aside from the fact that the Pope, like all of us (even Billo), is a primate, "primate" is also a term for the head of the Catholic Church in a particular area. The Pope, as Bishop of Rome, certainly fits the bill. Being a Catholic himself, you'd expect O'Reilly might know that.