Last night, Fox spitting-head Bill O'Reilly sat down with Florida news anchor Barbara West, who told O'Reilly that her daffy questions to Joe Biden represented "serious issues!" and that "we are running out of time!" O'Reilly thought that her questions were "fine," naturally. None of this surprises you, the reader, I'm sure. Fittingly, in the clip of the interview O'Reilly shows, West is shown gravely quoting Marx as if she were a serious adult, and asserting that widely debunked falsehoods -- like that Obama was a community organizer for ACORN -- are true, as well as making it sound like his efforts to compel the State of Illinois to comply with the Motor-Voter Act were done so as some sort of personal retainer to the aforementioned group. O'Reilly, naturally thinks that this constitutes toughness -- though I'm guessing that he'd probably himself punk out of any interview containing tough questions about loofahs. Similarly, I'd have to imagine that an interview with Sarah Palin that covered such topics as witchcraft and Alaskan secessionist parties and rape kits would be the equivalent of a tough interview, but I imagine that O'Reilly would likely label such a reporter a "pinhead."
Anyway, West paints herself, and her actions, as those of a "probing, penetrating" reporter. She even believes that she gave John McCain the same sort of thorough grilling that she gave Biden. Hey, why not watch for yourself! I'm sure all that coddling she gave McCain really stung him!
She should offer up an example of a prior probative penetration of someone on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum from Biden, then! I'm guessing however, that her Biden interview was a brief flirtation with penetrative probes, as I'd never heard of this lady until last week and am looking forward to forgetting who she was around about the time I finish this sentence. There. What we're we talking about? Bill O'Reilly's crazy loofah fetish? OH YEAH. He's one BOLD, FRESH, PIECE OF HUMANITY, that one!