Interesting video clip from last night's Comedy Central "The Daily Show," wherein host Jon Stewart lampoons "Faux News" talking head buffoon Bill O'Reilly, who, in one fascinating uncut segment, brags about Faux News "celebrity ambushes," and then inexplicably launches into a smarmy self-righteous rant about "defending" celebrities' "rights to privacy":
Seeing is believing:
We only mention this because some folks are saying, that in the absence of any definable leadership within the now disarrayed National Republican Party, morons like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly (and Sarah Palin, of course) represent the intelligentsia of U.S. Republican Party leadership.
Speaking as an old-guard GOP warhorse, with ideological roots going back to genuine intellectuals like Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley, we'll just say this:
It only hurts when we laugh.
