Bill O'Reilly Daydreams in Public

Bill O’Reilly: But if we go to Charleston South Carolina, I will have to protect you. And I will! I will! But I’ll have to protect you! Because they will come after you…

Jon Stewart: This is idiotic. Gawker.com

Gawker picked up some unaired clips of that Jon Stewart/Bill O’Reilly interview. This one (the seventh one down on the page) is perhaps one of the funniest, revealing as it does O’Reilly’s daydream of himself nobly protecting Stewart from an imaginary mob of frothing southern conservatives.

Look, I have no problem admitting that there are differences in general philosophy and outlook between, say, San Francisco and Greensboro North Carolina, but the notion that people in the south would be so incensed by Jon Stewart that they would attack him on the street is simply bizarre (not to mention insulting as Hell to southern conservatives.)