Billy - serial slime and smear machine

This is one of the best things I've seen on the Internet in quite some time. BOR is yet to learn the one cardinal rule about an entity or group of people who continuously try to needle you - IGNORE THEM. The more O'Lielly melts down on the air about it, the more groups are only going to keep putting coins in the machine to watch you dance, Billy.

Anyway, this is BOR's response to a study by a group of Indiana University researchers who discovered that BOR likes name calling. (We need a study for that?) But, they concluded that he does it even more than probably most liberals thought possible.

The researchers found that BOR calls a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during his nightly screeds that begin his show, "The O'Reilly Factor."

"It's obvious he's very big into calling people names, and he's very big into glittering generalities," said Mike Conway, assistant professor in the IU School of Journalism. "He's not very subtle. He's going to call people names, or he's going to paint something in a positive way, often without any real evidence to support that viewpoint."

Sweet. But, there's more...

Using analysis techniques first developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, the researchers, Conway, Grabe and Grieves, found that BOR employs six of the seven propaganda devices nearly 13 times each minute in his editorials. (This includes his editorials on his hilarious Website, and in his newspaper columns.)

BOR's response to all of this - it's all Media Matters and George Soros. The people over at Media Matters must really take glee that they are getting so much free publicity. And Soros is simply doing what many other millionaires on both sides of the aisle have been doing for decades in this country - trying to influence political opinion. I'm not saying it's right, but until we finally get the real, concrete campaign finance reform this country so sorely needs, the political left has just as much of a right to do it as the political right does. I don't even have enough time (nor the willingness right now) to type all of the people who paid to smear President Clinton in the 1990s, and who have contributed millions to President Bush this decade. (Richard Mellon Scaife or Ken Lay, anyone?)

For those of you who have never visited the Media Matters Website, I have two thoughts: 1) What are you waiting for, and 2) the site is not overly political, other than to point out the wild inconsistencies in what the Republican right prints and broadcasts. I'm quite certain that Billy is just angry that there is an organization dedicated to pointing out his infinite lying and distortions. I guess if an organization were affecting my livelihood and ability to distort my propaganda that my network pays me to put out, I'd be upset, too.

Seriously though - Media Matters is a must click for any political aficionado who wants a daily dose of the facts behind the right's spin.

Here's the glaring stat that I found scariest of all: According to the 2005 Annenberg Public Policy Center survey, 40 percent of respondents consider BOR to be a journalist.

A real journalist!

Bill O'Reilly - giving hope to hacks everywhere.

Hat tip to C&L on this story.