A Pinhead Bestows Some Wisdom On A Patriot, or Vice Versa

During a SpongeBob SquarePants commercial break last Friday, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly flipped over to the Fox Business Network and had been immediately distressed by something he heard the I-Man say to guest Michael Graham. 
 
“You said, ‘Well you have to say Muslim extremists killed us on 9/11,’” noted O’Reilly, who prefers to simply say that Muslims attacked America on 9/11. He wondered why Imus finds such a distinction necessary.
 
“Given a choice, it’s better to be clear and concise than it is to be ambiguous about anything,” Imus told O’Reilly, host of The O’Reilly Factor.
 
Though he didn’t object to Imus’s point, O’Reilly believes there really is a Muslim problem in the world, and cited the Muslim insurrections in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran as examples.
 
“These are all Muslim governments—they’re governments,” he emphasized. “They’re theocracies. It isn’t extremist; that marginalizes the problem. This is a Muslim problem.”
 
Assuming the “good” Muslims outnumber the “bad” Muslims 10-1, O’Reilly finds it peculiar that the “bad” Muslims still seem to run the show. “You’re never going to solve that problem—you’re never going to solve it—unless you acknowledge it,” O’Reilly said.
 
But Imus still viewed the issue differently. He told his guest that saying it’s a “Muslim problem” purports to include all Muslims, even innocent ones, like, for instance, Wyatt’s friend’s parents.
 
“By that same logic, you’d have to say we didn’t have a Japan problem during World War II, we had a Tojo problem,” O’Reilly said, referencing Hideki Tojo, Japan’s Prime Minister when that country bombed Pearl Harbor.
 
O’Reilly failed to realize that unlike Japan, Iran never declared war on this country, so Imus pointed it out to him, concluding, “You know who’s going to be the pinhead this morning? You!”
 
It has been nearly two weeks since Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg stormed off the set of The View in protest to O’Reilly’s remarks about Muslims, and O’Reilly hasn’t backed down. “Behar and Goldberg knew what I was saying, but they wanted to grandstand it, they wanted to make me seem like a bigot, they want to make Juan Williams seem like a bigot, when it isn’t even close,” O’Reilly said. “All we wanted to do is define the problem and put it into the proper context.”
 
In the midst of that heated debate, O’Reilly had also told the ladies of The View to “be quiet” and listen to him so that they “might learn something.” To that end, Imus offered some sound advice.
 
“There’s no upside, Bill, to telling any woman on this planet—Joy Behar or Deirdre Imus or Mrs. O’Reilly—to be quiet, they’ll learn something,” he said. “You can’t win that battle.”
 
The two agreed to disagree on the Muslim issue, with Imus graciously saying, “You’re entitled to be wrong.” Then, he broke some more bad news to O’Reilly: Glenn Beck has written another book.
 
“It’s entitled Broke,” Imus said. “You know why it’s called Broke? Because we’re buying all the Pinhead & Patriots doormats, and all of his books, and the Christmas Sweaters, none of us have any money left!”
 
-Julie Kanfer

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Extremely happy to hear that Bill O will be on Imus Tuesday Mornings,,I am hoping it will help folks to know a different side to Bill and his sense of humor! Great move FOX! The only network I get my news and yucks from...