{"id":5016,"date":"2009-04-01T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/01\/oreilly-on-letterman\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:00:29","slug":"oreilly-on-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/oreilly-on-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Reilly on Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highlights:<\/p>\n

Part I: <\/strong><\/p>\n

The first couple of minutes is Letterman making numerous jokes at O’Reilly’s expense. Nicely done.<\/p>\n

1min 30 sec. Rush Limbaugh as new face of the Republican Party. O’Reilly takes credit for Limbaugh’s success.<\/p>\n

3 min 50 sec. This is Letterman throwing out phrases he had apparently practiced earlier in the show (“Oh yea?” “Whatever!” and so on) much to the amusement of the audience.<\/p>\n

4 min 50 sec: Letterman lays out the fact that O’Reilly lies. Regarding Sean Penn. Linbaugh, I mean O’Reilly starts to take it up a notch.<\/p>\n

6 min 30 sec: O’Reilly claims to have had a conversation with Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n

7 min 45 sec: O’Reilly claims to be a journalist. The country does a spit take.<\/p>\n

8 min 55 sec: Letterman compares O’Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. to Championship Wrestling.<\/p>\n

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\nPart II:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starts out with discussion of Al Franken.<\/p>\n

0 min 44 sec: O’Reilly backs off dissing Al. Fear is in his voice.<\/p>\n

1 min 00 sec: O’Reilly claims that there should be a new election but this time with outside observers because cheating is known to happen.<\/p>\n

1 min 22 sec: O’Reilly claims that the court process for Senate will continue through Franken’s entire term.<\/p>\n

2 min 40 sec: They start talking about George Bush<\/p>\n

2 min 45 sec: Greg goes to bed.<\/p>\n

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