Bill O'Reilly Sucks @SS!

I've never liked the man. That's the truth.

(Glenn Beck, another conservative TV personality, but one whom I respect a bit more, suggested the other night that if we're going to provide commentary on politics, we ought to at least disclose our biases, which he does, and I do, too. We all know I'm not a conservative, that I vote Democratic, and now, that I've never liked Bill O'Reilly)

Also the truth: I have for a long time been concerned about the fact that 1/4 of the homeless population in this country are military veterans. I've written about it before. It makes me sad and embarrassed to be an American that the men and women who serve this country come home to...well, no home.

John Edwards has also spent a lot of time talking about the plight of our veterans and vowing to make changes to save them. The other night in Nevada, he repeated this message:

“In a country with as much wealth as America has, for us to have as many as 200,000 veterans who go to bed under bridges, go to sleep under bridges, or on grates, and who are homeless... This is immoral, and it’s wrong. And we, America, we have a responsibility to do something about it."

Bill O'Reilly, on his show, said in reference to John Edwards' comments, "Well, we're still looking for all the veterans sleeping under the bridges, Ed. So, if you find anybody, let us know....". Clearly, O'Reilly takes issue with the statistics about the number of homeless vets. In fact, he argued,

"They may be out there, but there are not many of them out there, OK. So, if you know where there is a veteran sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it."

Last night, John Edwards spoke to a group called US Veterans, a non profit organization that reintegrates homeless vets back into society. The room was filled with homeless vets. Said, John to them,

“I heard that, last night, Bill O'Reilly, who's a talk show host, who's heard that I have said this about hundreds of thousands of veterans who don't have a place to live, and were homeless. And he challenged me about whether that's true or not, whether, in fact, we have that many veterans who don't have a place to live, and some of them are sleeping under bridges. Well, he ought to start by coming to Las Vegas, if he wants to know what's going on.

America has the responsibility to do something about this. We do. And the fact that this talk show host, Bill O’Reilly, is willing to speak out that blatantly, when he has no idea what he’s talking about, is an example of how America doesn’t understand the problem, doesn’t understand how serious this issue is.”

Get him, John! When's the last time Bill O'Reilly went to the "other side of the tracks" in search of homeless vets? When was the last time he offered one of them a place to sleep? When was the last time he offered to foot the bill for a vet's medical bills? Bill O'Reilly is so far removed from us Regular Joes that, as John says, he has no idea what he's talking about...in which case he ought to keep his big, fat, stupid mouth shut.