Gawker: do it live

Bill O'Reilly Promises More Meltdowns

Ryan Tate — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:35:36 EDT

On his show last night, Bill O'Reilly addressed the hubub over his old "Do it now!" meltdown, which has resurfaced on the internet. The Fox News host approached the topic with a sense of humor — how else could he play this, really, without looking like the same angry guy he was in the dated clip? — but also very briefly, and without the actual, unflattering footage. But O'Reilly did slip in an interesting, probably not entirely untrue joke about how he's had annual explosions since he joined Fox. And he offered to sell them. Someone, please, take this man at his word and at least try to buy some previously unseen footage, so we can all laugh some more with Bill about how charming and unharmful his on-camera rages really are.

O'Reilly Defended By Ejected Fox News Lady

Ryan Tate — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:32:50 EDT

You may recall Rachel Marsden, the former Fox News personality who had a scandalous fling with the founder of Wikipedia, who pled guilty in 2004 to harassing a Vancouver radio host and who who was ejected from the Fox News studio last year. Marsden's relationship with Fox seems to be on the mend — she was re-admitted to the studio in February — and she is clearly as big a fan of Fox host Bill O'Reilly as ever. In the comment thread on Gawker's post about O'Reilly's recently-resurfaced meltdown, Marsden said critics of his cuss-out just can't handle Papa Bear's swaggering machismo:

You people are obviously pussies who can't handle a real man. Bill's awesome. He's a straight shooter, and one of my favourite people in the biz. He's always been really nice, and good to me.

Got it: "Real men" throw temper tantrums when someone writes something on a cue card they don't understand, and they can be as mean as they want to other people as long as they aren't mean to you, Rachel Marsden. Sounds like someone is aching for another visit to the Fox News studios!

[Gawker via David Seaman]

Colbert's O'Reilly-Style Meltdown

Ryan Tate — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:26:14 EDT

Given that Stephen Colbert's act on Comedy Central consists mainly of imitating Bill O'Reilly, it was pretty much inevitable that he would mock the Fox News shouting head's recently resurfaced Inside Edition meltdown. Colbert's recreation of the cuss out, set on his own supposed TV show in the 70s, is at least as funny as expected — Colbert nails O'Reilly's freakout down to the silent, jacket-throwing temper tantrum at the very end — and includes a clever twist involving NBC's Brian Williams. Watch as Colbert cements "do it live" as a catchphrase, after the jump.