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Thursday, 14 October 2004

From The Smoking Gun, the actual text of the sexual harassment lawsuit:

During the course of Defendant Bill O'Reilly's [telephone] sexual rant, it became clear that he was using a vibrator upon himself, and that he ejaculated... Plaintiff was repulsed.

What makes me question the story is that Plaintiff apparently wasn't already repulsed simply by the fact she was talking with Bill O'Reilly.

I mean, please.

Now I just need to get Bill O'Reilly with a sticky vibrator out of my head somehow. Dancing elephants! Dancing elephants! Monkeys in cowboy hats playing canasta! Ah. That's better.

Meanwhile, from O'Reilly's website... just his rant and a press release from Fox, neither even mentioning the plaintiff by name, and framing everything in terms of his lawsuit, claiming a shakedown.

Oh. He's the victim.

Isn't O'Reilly the one always going on about the "culture of victimhood?"

Further down his page, notice that if you take the poll, unlike every poll I've ever seen on the Internet, O'Reilly doesn't tell you the results. That way, they never get a "wrong" answer.

I just bet Rush Limbaugh is glad there's something to make people forget his recreational drug use...

UPDATE: Thursday morning, O'Reilly appeared on "Live with Regis and Kelly," explaining his reasoning in filing a countersuit this way:

If I have to go down, I'm willing to do it.

Dude. Really. You're not helping yourself here.