Friday, September 05, 2003
Speaking of O'Reilly (or shall I say 'O'ėeilly'?), I saw the funniest thing the internet has hosted since the Arnold crank calls: a Booknotes-televised discussion between Al Franken, O'Reilly, Molly Ivins and Pat Schroeder as moderator, available here.
This was taped sometime in the late spring, before FOX News went and embarrassed itself by suing Franken for the use of "Fair and Balanced" in his book title. From about 35 minutes into it, onward, O'Reilly and Franken have at each other, with O'Reilly coming off somewhat worse (at one point telling Franken to "Shut up!!") Franken does appear to have been looking for a fight, so I'm guessing that there was some prior friction between the two. Still, he is at least funny and somewhat civil to O'Reilly, who repeatedly blows his top.
This is well worth the 90 minutes; although the first half is free of conflict, it does have a nice presentation by Molly Ivins, who keeps her cool throughout.
This was taped sometime in the late spring, before FOX News went and embarrassed itself by suing Franken for the use of "Fair and Balanced" in his book title. From about 35 minutes into it, onward, O'Reilly and Franken have at each other, with O'Reilly coming off somewhat worse (at one point telling Franken to "Shut up!!") Franken does appear to have been looking for a fight, so I'm guessing that there was some prior friction between the two. Still, he is at least funny and somewhat civil to O'Reilly, who repeatedly blows his top.
This is well worth the 90 minutes; although the first half is free of conflict, it does have a nice presentation by Molly Ivins, who keeps her cool throughout.
