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F*@&ing Bill O’Reilly — How Does He Work?

Published by swansont on January 30, 2011 03:00 am under Antiscience, Politics

Bill “God-of-the-Gaps” O’Reilly. Here’s a follow-on to his bewilderment on how tides work. As long as there is one thing that science can’t explain (or he doesn’t understand), all is well with his world. It’s amazing to me that this argument makes sense to him.

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7 Comments so far

  1. Sean Carroll on January 30th, 2011

    This is too good to be true. Thanks for finding this.

  2. Christian Ready on January 30th, 2011

    Evidently I studied astrophysics from the wrong people.

  3. billkw on January 30th, 2011

    If I don’t understand it, it must be magic.

    Feynman does a good job with regressive “Whys” here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

  4. Chip Cherry on January 30th, 2011

    One long AAARRRGGUUMMEEENNNNTTTT FFFRRROOOOMMMM IIIIIIGGGNOORRRRANCCEE!!

    By the way Bill, Mars DOES have a moon. Oh wait, it has two!

  5. carl on January 30th, 2011

    Oreilly needs to shut up. He’s just digging himself a deeper hole! LOL! What an idiot!

  6. Neil on January 31st, 2011

    A complete moron with a following of millions. Go figure.

  7. imatfaal on February 10th, 2011

    That guy is living proof of Poe’s Corollary – how does anyone take him seriously?

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