A real Piece of work
June 12, 2008 at 4:32 pm by Joe BardiWho on earth would have the audacity to publish a memoir titled A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity? Why, it’s none other than Bill O’Reilly, whose tome will land in bookstores on September 23. Ironic, I know, since all things Bill-O seem anathema to literacy.
In retrospect, you should have guessed, right? Only the dean of Fox News blowhards could lack self-awareness at the level necessary to slap that title on a book jacket. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity is a title far beyond even Hannity’s usual self-absorption.
Is there a more egotistical title possible? Some alternate possibilities:
How A Bill Became The Law
Suck My Dick, and Other Helpful Hints
I’m Right, You’re Wrong, Now Shut Up
Lord of the Loofah
A Master Debaters Guide To Whacking The Competition
Jesus Is My Brother, and Dad Loves Me More
The Sweetest Smell: My Shit
How Stupid Can You Be? I’ll Tell You …
How Can It Be ‘The Greatest Generation’ If I’m Not In It?
Drink My Tears And Be Granted Eternal Life
Fuck You And All Your Liberal Friends
And Finally …
Old Yeller
June 12th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
“Suck it, Olbermann”
and, of course, in honor of his Current Affair meltdown:
“I Wrote It Myself! Fuck!”
June 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Just for some context:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
June 12th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I’ve always found it disturbing that O’Reilly is a contributing writer for PARADE magazine. So much for credibility.
June 13th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Really, Doobie? That pretty much fits in my book.
And Sal, how right you are. How could I have not referenced the meltdown tape?
Fuck It! I’ll Write It Live!!! By Bill O’Reilly.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Parade, haha ahaha ahah hhaaaaah hhaahh hah ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sorry couldn’t top laughing
June 13th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
This is why I read PoHo.
The media – right and left – panders to the ignorant who will buy their books and watch their crap.
As journalism goes, it completely sucks. As a business enterprise, if you can write Confessions of a Bunghole, and actually get people to buy it – more power to you!
June 14th, 2008 at 2:13 am
I didn’t realize Parade was a right-wing rag.
Thanks for the education, boys.
June 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I wouldn’t say that Parade is a right-wing rag, Doobie.
My girlfriend calls it “Grandma’s reading material.” I call it a steaming pile of shit disguised as a newspaper insert.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
What your girlfriend said, Joe, is my whole point: Parade is relatively “safe” to read, O’Reilly’s on the loony-fringe, yet they retain him as a contributing writer.
June 15th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Oops…I meant to say “PART of my whole point”.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Parade may be a lightweight publication but Creative Loafing isn’t exactly the pinnacle of journalism either — after all, how much of your revenue comes from printing squalid sex advertisements? — the cheap laughs and bottled bile you guys are putting out over Parade are one step above drowning kittens.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Hey, brilliant, our new slogan at CL: “More fun than drowning kittens — now with squalid sex ads!”
June 15th, 2008 at 11:45 am
and Parade is not a right-wing rag; just a rag
June 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
And congratulations on your Progressive Coalition Circle Jerk Award too.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:13 am
I prefer “cheap laughs and bottled bile”