GERALDO vs O’REILLY

This is what good tv is all about and I miss it!

In what must be one of the most bizzare TV moments in recent TV history, Fox News “commentator” Bill O’Reilly squared off Thursday, April 5, 2007 with fellow Fox celebrity “investigate journalist” Geraldo Riveria in a verbal wrestling match over something that remotely resembled the issue of illegal immigrants in the United States.

Like most of Fox’s ‘fair and balanced’ reporting, this debate had little to offer in terms of substance but was highly entertaining.

Starting with the usual twisted logic and hyperbolic setup that O’Reilly frequently employs, the debate revolved around his assertion that a fatal car accident in Virginia Beach Va. involving an undocumented drunk driver was a direct result of the city’s welcoming attitude towards ‘illegal immigrants from Mexico’.

O’Reilly admonished the town’s Mayor and Police Chief along with Virginia’s Governor for not “enforcing US immigration laws”, claiming their lack of action directly resulted in the deaths of two teenage girls. O’Reilly then started talking with Riveria to discuss the problem of illegal immigrants driving drunk (because that’s what drunk illegal immigrants from Mexico do, they get drunk, get into a car and drive around looking for gringos to slaughter!) and the deaths of the teenagers in Virginia…and the verbal melee began.

Normally this should have been a hard match to score with two esteemed intellects like O’Reilly and Riveria going at it. Having an etremely low opinion of Rivera, I was impressed to see him stand up to O’Reilly and articulate his point. Besides O’Reilly just looked so damn rabid as he spit and snarled, anything even remotely inteligent coming from Rivera would have looked like pure genius compared to the bombastic bloviating of the Loofah-boy.