Fox Noise Meltdown

Bill O'Reilly's "interviews" follow a simple pattern: invite a guest on, introduce them, and then spend the next five minutes cutting them off and challenging their love of country. As we know, O'Reilly never debates the person he has on the show, never engages their points or responds directly to their arguments. No, O'Reilly doesn't do that type of debate because he simply can't win that type of debate. Rather, O'Reilly's m.o. is to debate a false caricature of the opposition. He pummels his guests with non sequiturs, shoving absurd statement after absurd statement down their throats until...well, until he decides to cut off their mike (see this clip at Crooks & Liars for a prime example).

But what happens when the guest refuses to take it? What happens when the guest refuses to shut up and throws his insanity back at him?

A complete and utter meltdown. That's what happens:


Geraldo Rivera pretty much sums up O'Reilly's entire career in one sentence:

Don't obscure tragedy to make a cheap political point.

One of the fathers of the girls lost in this tragedy fires back at crazy Bill:

The mayor and Tessa Trachant's father both said that making an issue out of immigration loses the focus that the girls were killed by a man that police said was driving drunk.

Ray Trachant said, "We need to heal, and to bring immigration, that's disrespectful to a family who's just mourning."