I've been watching the O'Reilly factor for the Obama interviews, and I have to say I have a lot more respect for him now than I did in the past. He's an opinionated bloviator for sure, but no more so than most of the people I hang out with here on this forum, maybe myself included. And he does seem to have a sense of fairness about some things that cuts through some of the crap.

Anyway, before the Obama segment #4 last night, he talked about this idiotic lipstick on a pig BS. He said he didn't think for a minute that Obama intentionally meant any kind of insult by the remark. He said he did not think that was Obama's style. And he said that Obama is smart enough to know that it obviously would have hurt him to make such a statement --- as it obviously has hurt him. So it was unintentional, but he should have known better than to even use the word lipstick. Then he said the media has picked this up and is blowing it out of proportion for their own purposes because they love controversy. He agreed with Obama that this kind of thing is "catnip for the media." In the end he said that if the McCain campaign continued to push this thing for much longer, it was going to have blowback and hurt them, because people see through this kind of BS pretty quickly and they get sick of it fast. Once they get sick of the cynicism, they blame the people pushing it along.

I watched the whole 24-hour news media run around in circles all freakin' day long yesterday chasing this non-issue, and it was freakin' Bill O'Reilly who had the most intelligent thing to say on it all day. What kind of alternative universe have I stepped into? There must be a rip in the space-time fabric.