Bill O’Reilly – 2nd Most Powerful Man in America?

Of course, you all know Bill O’Reilly.  He’s the guy who tried to prove that God exists by saying “The tides come in.  The tides come out.  You can’t explain that,” despite the fact that there is, actually, a perfectly good scientific explanation, and has been since the 1700s.  He’s also the

Loofah Lover Bill O'Reilly

guy who convinced millions of American’s that liberals were waging a war on Christmas.  He was also the accused in perhaps the most comical sexual harassment lawsuit ever.  There was a phone conversation, on tape, in which he was trying to talk all sexy like and suggested that he would like to insert a loofah, a fibrous shower brush which is long and kind of dick shaped, into her vagina, but he got confused with the words and called it a felafel, which is crushed chick peas rolled into balls and deep fried, served with mixed vegetables  in a gooey sauce inside a piece of pita bread, and would be a really gross and unsanitary thing to insert into any bodily orifice other than one’s mouth, for the purpose of eating.

The girl eventually dropped the lawsuit, because Billo paid her a shitload of money.

Anyway, Bill was talking to a reporter from Newsweek the other day when he said this:  “I have more power than anybody other than the president, in the sense that I can get things changed, quickly.  I don’t have to go through the legislative process; I don’t have to do any of that. I can just bring it to the people, and say, look, this has gotta be dealt with.”

Kind of an arrogant thing to say, but the scary part is, I think he’s right.  Maybe not 2nd most powerful, but still, seriously powerful.

He’s incredibly stupid.  He’s anti-science, a bit of a paranoid religious kook and a bona-fide sexist pig.  But, there are apparently millions of Americans who like that kind of thing.  It’s a serious problem.