O'Reilly To Media: Stop Pointing Out My Stupidity

I was watching "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight (well, just the last 10 minutes until I could switch to wrestling) and Bill'O was continuing to spin his Letterman appearance. His focus tonight was the media coverage the appearance got. He ranted about the negative way the appearance was portrayed in some papers (gosh, I can't imagine why). He singled out two newspapers- local papers New York Daily News and Newsday. He is therefore adding Newsday to his online blacklist of "media defamers" (meaning people like MSNBC's Keith Olbermann who accurately quote him, thereby revealing his insanity). The NY Daily News had already been on the list, but he added US News and World Report which shares the same owner as the Daily News.

Bill'O said that Newsday has become a "far left" newspaper, something he thought the Daily News has been for a while. The papers may be unfamiliar to those outside the New York area, but as a Queens resident, I assure you that neither could be remotely construed as "far left". The Daily News in particular is a traditionally conservative newspaper (read: not radical right like O'Reilly, but very much conservative). Newsday is even more so; it reflects the conservative/Republican opinions of its Long Island readers. Both papers endorsed Bush in the '04 elections, have cheerleadered for the war (even on extreme issues like torture), and have been extremely critical of Democrats and anti-war activists. These are conservative papers through and through. So for O'Reilly to call them "far left" says more about how extreme and radical Mr. O'Reilly himself is than the papers he is attacking.

Bill'O, before you boycott Newsday, please fulfill what you told them and retire please.

PS- Here's the Newsday article about the Letterman issue that somehow upset O'Reilly:
Bill O'Reilly gains publicity from verbal joust with David Letterman