Why I Hate Bill O’Reilly with a Fiery Passion that Burns Brighter than 10,000 Suns: Part 1,452,595

Think Progress (emphasis theirs):

Recently, Bill O’Reilly has heaped praise on Pope John Paul II. Here is O’Reilly on the Factor last Thursday:

But I do know that I’ve studied this pope as well as I’ve studied anybody. And I can’t find anything, anything that this guy didn’t walk the walk. You know, right down the line. Nobody’s perfect, but this guy was close in his personal behavior and the way he conducted himself.

O’Reilly was not so kind, however, when the Pope expressed his opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He launched into this diatribe on the March 12, 2003 edition of the O’Reilly Factor:

But as I’ve said before, I believe also that John Paul is naive and detached from reality. If America does not lead an attack on Iraq, once again, Saddam remains in power and is free to use his anthrax and other terrible weapons as he chooses.

So the pope does not seem to be concerned about that or about Saddam’s behavior in general. Once again, he must know Saddam is a killer. He must know he’s oppressed his own people using murder and torture. He must know that.

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Summing up, Jacques Chirac is our enemy, and the pope, well, I don’t know what to think.

Damn, I totally detest that guy.

Meanwhile, if I recall correctly, O’Reilly actually supports civil unions for the LGBT community, which surely means he would have had some issue with a man who called gay marriage “part of a new ideology of evil.” Usually Bill doesn’t take too kindly to people who cast his views in with an ideology of evil.

Ah, well. Dear, dear Bill O’Reilly: whore, liar, and fair-weather friend.