Bill O’Reilly explains the universe

Bill O’Reilly famously “explained” the existence of “God” by pointing out that the tides go in and out. More recently, someone pointed out to Bill that the moon causes the tides. Here’s O’Reilly’s comeback, in classic know-it-all voice. How is it that the Earth has a moon and Mars doesn’t. Except that Mars does have a moon. Two, actually.

It must be fun, invigorating, to argue without evidence. It must feel so freeing, so powerful.

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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.

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  1. Avatar of Tim Hogan
    Tim Hogan

    "Just because Billo is an asshat doesn't mean there is no God." Tim Hogan

  2. Avatar of Ben
    Ben

    "Just because Billo is an asshat doesn’t mean there is no God, however it does suggest that God is a douchbag."

    -Ben

  3. Avatar of Mark Tiedemann
    Mark Tiedemann

    Tim, It does mean there is no god as O'Reilly imagines it.

  4. Avatar of TheThinkingMan
    TheThinkingMan

    His book, "Pinheads and Patriots" was actually an auto-biography.

    This guy is retarded.

    And the saddest thing of all is at LEAST half of this country actually believes the things he does, with absolute adherence.

  5. Avatar of Mark Tiedemann
    Mark Tiedemann

    It is still on YouTube and worth seeing—Al Franken's great take-down of O'Reilly at the Book Expo in LA in 2003.

  6. Avatar of Tim Hogan
    Tim Hogan

    Naaah, God is an optimist. God thought free will was a good thing but, asshats like O'Reilly disprove God's belief. I still think there's hope for Billo.

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