Ali Would Be Proud: Stewart Rope-A-Dopes O'Reilly

Let's get ready to rum-ble!

In the red trunks, fighting out of Fox News, 6'4" Heavyweight Champion of Spin, Bill O'Reilly! In the blue trunks, fighting out of Comedy Central, 5'7" soaking wet, Heavyweight Champion of Grin, Jon Stewart.

You can bet your Factor Gear that Bill O'Reilly will be showing clips of his appearance on The Daily Show on his The O'Reilly Factor Monday night, but he won't be admitting that he had been exposed as a shallow, labels-are-more-important-than-content, notso bold fresh piece of humanity.

Big Bill got whipped and never saw the punch that got him.

To the Factor Folks™, I'm sure Bill's venture into enemy territory was another example of just how their Looking Out For You No Spinster scored another knockdown.

Probably because they never understood the punch that got him.

Stewart was gracious as he always seems to be with those of dissimilar belief - except perhaps for his pummeling of Bill Kristol and that one time with John McCain. At least up to the first bell.

Certainly more amicable than he is on his own show when in disagreement with a guest, O'Reilly came on to promote his homage to himself tome, "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity." But you have to throw in the fact that The Factor is no The Daily Show.

First of all, The Factor doesn't have as much integrity as The Daily Show. When Stewart is making it up, Stewart admits it ("I'm not a news organization"). When O'Reilly makes it up, that IS The Factor.

When Stewart's crew takes an actual story and edits it to transform it into a joke READ THE REST OF THE BLOW BY BLOW RINGSIDE REPORT HERE

Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (www.greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com

Comments

[Saidas]

No it doesn't. If it read "Ali is proud" would indicate that he does approve (they don't know that). "Ali should be proud" has a different connotation.

[audata]

Ali is still with us, and his mind is sharp. He might be proud or is. The headline makes it sound as if he is gone.