O'LOOFAH: Bodyguards, Retirement in 2 Yrs? (Weasels-out)

[UTUSN]

This article is a case study in psychological denial, paranoia, self-delusion, self-aggrandizement, blaming OTHERS, and just plain SELF SELF SELF. Awww, the poor baby wishes EVERYBODY ELSE would "stop the viciousness". And, awww, he can't check into a hotel with his family----I suspect he rather LIKES that part so they won't hog the loofahs.


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http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-etlede4473201oct18,0,1133689.story?coll=ny-entertainment-headlines

What's hate got to do with it?
Plenty, because media firebrand Bill O'Reilly spawns enmity in all that he does - and he's sick of it

BY VERNE GAY
STAFF WRITER


.... One usual suspect behind this rising tide of hatred, he says, is the Liberal Media Establishment, infuriated because it "can't marginalize me." But whatever the reason, almost exactly a year since he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with former Fox News producer Andrea Mackris - the anniversary is next Thursday - the embattled life of O'Reilly has become an increasingly strange and scary one.

As O'Reilly puts it, here are the facts: There are death threats. He has to hire bodyguards. He can't check into hotels with his family. People on the street with cell phones are stealth paparazzi, capable of snagging a picture one minute, then posting it on the Web the next. He adds that during the past year he's had to "even get more stuff to make it more difficult for people to get through the wire. Who wants to live like that?"

And as a direct consequence of the lawsuit - which was settled for undisclosed terms and which both parties agreed to never speak of publicly - O'Reilly must have a third person present whenever he conducts a rare interview like this one, or talks to someone on the phone. (Dave Tabacoff, executive producer of "The O'Reilly Factor" is the minder on this early fall day.) "Anyone can accuse me of anything and it's on a Web site." So little wonder that when Bill O'Reilly is asked about his future after his current contract ends a little more than two years from now, he blurts out one word even as the question is asked: "Retirement."

Only so much he can take

"I might. I might," he adds. ....

But how many enemies can any one man have? O'Reilly calls the ongoing battles "tremendously wearing and debilitating," adding, "I don't need the approval of the press, but I just wish they'd stop the viciousness. It's reached a level of almost comical proportions and it does affect people around me and they do get upset. I keep it from them as much as possible, but there are some very, very bad people out there and we're dealing with those people."

Still has some fight

One wonders, though, whether this means the warrior is about to shed his chain mail and lay down the crossbow. Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, says, "The lawsuit didn't do much to tarnish him, and while he says he's tired of the fight, the fights are the things that define him, he doesn't fill the role of everyman champion."

Indeed, three weeks before newsman Peter Jennings' death in August, he offered to step in the ring for his old friend. In an e-mail to Jennings, he made an offer, he says: "'If you want me to take care of anybody for you ...' I was serious. If he felt there was someone who he felt had done him or his family or the nation wrong, I would have done that for him."

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Here's chickenhawk O'LOOFAH receiving the VFW Errect Loofah Award
"DON'T DEPRECATE MY NEPHEW'S MILITARY SERVICE!!!!!"

[tabasco]

1. I think more people pity O'Reilly than hate him.

He is only taken seriously by gullible idiots. He is such a cowardly moran, he thinks everyone is out to get him.

I just ignore him and Faux altogether.

[peekaloo]

2. Please.

I hope that offer he made to Jennings provided PJ with a good larf.

I'm wishing he brings some shit to The Daily Show tonight and Mr. Stewart hands him his ass.

[Loonman]

3. Stewart can't talk about loofahs, falafel or vibrators, though

I hope Jon brings up Franken. O'Reilly freaks at the mention of Franken.

[shenmue]

4. He is going to leave?!

Oh, joy!

:evilgrin: :bounce: :party: :toast: :beer: :thumbsup: :loveya: :woohoo:

There is hope! There is!

:7

[marmar]

5. Whatever...

Go fuck yourself, you self-aggrandizing prick.

:nopity: