From Salon:
Bill O’Reilly knows all about those liberal conspiracies to use “science” to slander intelligent design. But he’s not buying it.
O’Reilly once used the Earth’s tides as an example of how nature’s complexities could only be explained by divine intervention. Then, a viewer dusted off his old earth science textbook and informed the Fox News host that the moon causes the tides. Quite the gambit!
The Fox News hosts asks — and this is paraphrased: How’d the moon get there? How’d it get there? How’d it get there? And why doesn’t Mars have a moon, hmm?? (Mars has two moons.) Why doesn’t science have an explanation for the existence of the moon?
Actually, it most definitely does.
Original movie poster
(Video at Salon link)
From Salon:
All Bill O’Reilly did was ask an innocent question: How’d the moon get there? And the blogosphere erupted.
Sure, some could call O’Reilly’s query a little bit smug and didactic. But Stephen Colbert thinks the Fox News host gets too little credit. Some other things that can only be explained by God: Tivo, hot vs. cold water faucets, the cow that jumped over the moon and, of course, Bill O’Reilly.
(Video at Salon link)
HYSTERICAL RAISINS 
Anywhere but on Fox News, this would be a professional suicide.
Among the crazies, it’s a race to the bottom……
Indeed.
it’s getting very, very crowded down there.
journalists should demand that he be bound and gagged.
Colbert’s bit was hysterical. O’Reilly’s such a buffoon. And poster is perfect as the dumbest vampire story ever.
i watched the first twilight movie a few weeks, and i’m still pissed off that i’ll never get those 2 hours back. i thought using a movie that i disdain (okay, i never saw the sequel, but i bet it was just as insipid as the first) would illustrate my utter disdain of billO.
😀 Success 😀
😀 (we really do need a little bowing emoticon)
If you curious to see the second to see if it’s worse, don’t. It is worse.
i’m not tempted, not even if they show it free on cable (where i saw the first one). the story is boring, and the actors range from sullen to depressing.
All I ever learned about Twilight, I learned from JournalFen, who think it’s so ridiculous that they created a special community for it so that those who don’t want to be bothered with it can avoid it entirely.
http://www.journalfen.net/community/sparklefield/
it was so boring, and the actors had anti-charisma. there’s only one other movie that i hate as much as i hated twilight, and that’s pretty woman. ugghhhhhh!!!! i hate that movie!
Amazing that anyone thought that a romantic comedy with a prostitute was… a good idea.
it wasn’t the idea of a prostitute in a romantic movie that i minded. it was like a bad updating of my fair lady that failed miserably.
Mars has two moons? How was he supposed to know that?
He could read a book. Then again, you’re dealing with someone who can’t tell a falafel from a loofa.
😆 if only someone would invent a faloofa or a loofafel, his life would be so much easier.
mars has 2 moons? how’d they get there? how’d they get there?
I get paid millions of dollars to be a condescending asshole, an insulting bigot and for a continuous loop of ignorance. How ’bout that you pinheads? Huh? Could I do that if there was no God? Tell me that. How did I get here? Phhhhtttt!
how did i get here? where did all those morons who watch me come from? where’d they come from?
Now you should have known better than to watch a tweenie movie where the pubertyt challenged girls think it’ just so great to have a boyfriend, even if he’s kinda dead and even creepier than her father. Besides, you haven’t been twelve years old for several years now. But what of fate. The father of the bears is wearing….a brown shirt! How did it get there? Did the almighty look down and deem him to wear a brown shirt? Do the other foxers wear brown shirts when they are off camera? There’s just no other explaination. Should he have an armband and a strap? And how did they not get there??
i really should know better, but i was bored and there was nothing else on tv. next time there’s a tweenie movie on, and i’m bored, i’ll remind myself that tweenies think justin bieber is talented, and i’ll come to my senses.
billO looks kinda natural in a brown shirt, doesn’t he? 😆
It’s because of examples like this that I avoid (and dread) discussing subjects I know nothing about. It’s so easy to make an obvious idiot of oneself.
It might seem incredible that any 21st-century citizen of a developed nation could be ignorant of how tides work, but in my experience, religionists who reject science are often amazingly ignorant about what they’re rejecting. I’m continually amazed at how profoundly evolution-deniers misunderstand evolution (they think it’s a “random” process).
Twilight? I can’t stomach these wimpy, bloodless modern vampires. Give me Bram Stoker or Brian Lumley, or nothing at all.
it doesn’t take a phd in science to know that the moon controls the tides. he could have found that in a 5th-grade science book. now we know for sure what we always suspected–billO is not smarter than a 5th grader.
Well, duh….of course he doesn’t know the answer to this question….he’s just an average Joe who just happens to have a radio show to entertain other average Joes who don’t know the answer to that question. Now they can all come up with their own answers and try to write history.
wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that, where you can be so lazy that you don’t have to research anything, spew whatever bullshit comes into your mind, and get paid millions to do it?
You know what i’m gonna say because i already said it in the previous thread.
So instead, i’d like to dedicate this brief musical interlude , courtesy of B-52’s, to
Jesus, /nah, not grand enough/ Papa Bear:Dance THIS mess around, Bill.
the b-52s sang something other than love shack? 😉
and now OReilly is interviewing Obama today before the Super Bowl – and on the 100th birthday of the Patron Saint of Idiots and Teabaggers -Ronald Reagan
did you see it? billO acted like he was talking to one of his unpaid interns. so disrespectful.
He don’t need no stinking science! Apparently he can run on pure bullshit & has a seemingly endless source of it.
the bullshit runs from ear to ear, because there’s nothing there to block the flow.