I probably would have found anything funny at that point...

Sorry to get all news-n-government-y on everyone, but these things have been floating around in my mind.

While exercising the other day, I decided to pull the plug on my iPod playlist and listen to whatever was on Fox News, which happened to be Bill O'Reilly's show. Now, I'm not in his target demographic, not in the least, but I guess that I would fall under his term "folks" considering he continuously announces that he speaks for over 85% of Americans. While, yes, I'm used to being considered part of the "other 10%" for most of my life, I'd have to say that my moderate politics would plant me somewhere in that 85%. Surely.

Oh my. After watching 10 minutes of him, and maybe because of the endorphin rush from the workout, I couldn't stop smiling. He's hilarious in a sad, sad way. This guy is seriously the TV "news" equivalent of a manic-depressive blogger who updates constantly, or maybe a 12 year old chat room ninja flamer (the internet kind, not the gay kind), but probably more like a really fat, ugly exhibitionist who doesn't get the hint that locker rooms are supposed to be the quickest part of your trip to the gym.

In other words, the guy wants to put himself out there, to incite, to inflame, but he's got nothing. Nada. Zilch. He's just got drive and the ability to say that something is a fact when it obviously isn't. In elementary school, we ignored people like him. Now we give him a talk show, with sponsors and online polls.

Did we just give up on ignoring the crazy kid?

I'm not complaining, though. He got me through my workout...and gave me a laugh thinking about a world where people actually feel assaulted when someone says "Happy Holidays".