The difference is that Bill O’Reilly really did explode on the set. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Colbert, O’Reilly both explode on the set
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:May 14, 2008
- Post category:Humor / Media / Videos
- Post comments:2 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
While I never had a lot of respect for O'Reilly, the unsurfaced footage of his tantrums have done more to destroy his image in my mind than any on-air diatribe. I can give a level of tacit acceptance of O'Reilly's televised kookiness because he has as much a right as anyone to craft their own silly little message. But this immature behavior really borders on despicable for me! To show so little respect for one's coworkers, to snap at the first sight of frustration, to turn in fierce anger at something one does not understand, really leaves me with a deeply sick feeling. I wonder how often he explodes like this?
And they're not finished having fun at O'Reilly's expense. See this post on SoupyTrumpet: http://soupytrumpet.com/2008/05/16/bill-oreilly-r…