Since its inception in the mid-90's as a Drudge-driven, anti-Clinton, GOP content provider, FOX News has been home to the craziest mother******* on TV. Even their name is fake; FOX doesn't do news--they do right-wing talk radio in front of cameras.
The most recent addition to their stable of the unstable is Glenn Beck, whose ratings have skyrocketed, thanks to the FOX News base audience: a motley collection of broadly-drawn paranoid conspiracy theorists, racists and paramilitary types. But I think the addition of Beck is causing fellow FOX imbecile Bill O'Reilly to lose whatever's left of his mind.
Two O'Reilly items, both from ThinkProgress.
First, here's O'Reilly on Death Squad Dick Cheney's reported assassination ring and its potential effect on journalists with whom O'Reilly--and Cheney--disagree; then, a prime example of an O'Reilly flunky's harassment of a blogger with whom O'Reilly disagrees--here and here.
I know that Glenn Beck's ratings must be a huge threat to O'Reilly, who has long been the FOX News numbers leader. O'Reilly seems to be joining Beck--and Sean Hannity--in cranking up the crazy meter in the Obama Era.
And here I'd thought they'd already pinned the needle.
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