more O'Reilly

Media Matters covers the story that I mentioned a couple days ago, and adds some more information about O'Reilly's remarks on the subject. I found this paragraph interesting:

Additionally, O'Reilly asserted that "CNN and MSNBC put [coverage of the Iraq war] on because they want to give the impression that the war is a loser and Bush is an idiot," adding: "Now, that may be true. The war is a loser, and Bush may be an idiot. OK, I'm not -- that's for you to decide. But that's why they're doing it." O'Reilly claimed that the reason he doesn't "do a lot of Iraq reporting" is "because we don't know what's happening. We can't find out."

So O'Reilly admits that he doesn't know what is happening, and is thus unfit to comment, and that he can't find out, and is thus an incompetent reporter. Also Bush may be an idiot (not that he'd say that himself, perhaps because he is unfit to comment and incompetent at investigating). But he's quite sure that CNN and MSNBC cover Iraq because they want to give the impression that the war is a loser.

Seriously, how is this man not doubled over in pain at the stupidity of his own ideas? He knows that the people who know more about him about Iraq think it is a losing effort, and yet he finds something sinister in their reporting of the facts that support this idea.

O'Reilly also stated that he "can't speak for Fox News" but that his program does not "highlight every terrorist attack because we learn nothing from that. And that's exactly what the terrorists want us to do. I mean, come on, does another bombing in Tikrit mean anything other than 'War is hell'? No, it does not."

He completely refuses to consider the idea that reporting on violence might be relevant to analysis of the war. He recognizes the possibility that the Iraq War might be "a loser" but doesn't want to say one way or the other. I wonder how he's going to make that determination without knowing anything about it and without accurate coverage of the ongoing violence.

All this would just be further evidence of his being so completely brainwashed into some kind of "America is always good and right and doing God's work" mindset that he can't recognize the logical conclusions of his own partial thoughts. But then he throws in this, making him once again look like pure evil:

Media Matters has also documented O'Reilly's previous expressions of indifference to the situation in Iraq. During the September 25, 2006, broadcast of his radio program, O'Reilly declared: "I don't care what Iraq was, I don't care what it will be," and added that he "[c]ouldn't care less" about the country.

We destroyed their country, killed hundreds of thousands of their people, and committed numerous other atrocities, and he doesn't care about it at all. Evil.