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Bill O'Reilly blames late night comedians for destroying Sarah Palin's reputation. Yeah, okay.

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Son the Factor yesterday O'Reilly invites Bernie Goldberg on to talk about how Sarah Palin was destroyed by the mocking she received from the comedians on late night television.

Essentially his take is that because many people get their information from sources other than cable news programs, you know like Fox, they had a skewed version of who Palin was.

O'Reilly: "There are two things at play that I want to bring to your attention, Number one you get a mass approach, so the perception is that a certain politician's a moron. And then they all gang up. And not only do they gang up on the politician, usually a conservative, but it goes out on all the websites now. And so it isn't just the three million watching Jimmy Fallon, or Kimmel, or Letterman, it's all over the world. This person's a moron, and here are six people saying that person's a moron in a variety of different ways. The impact then can destroy, can destroy."

Goldberg disagrees with O'Reilly saying that Palin is still around.

O'Reilly: "Have you seen her approval ratings, have you seen her approval ratings Bernie?

Goldberg then goes on to point out that Palin had much to do with her own low approval ratings, because she said things that "were not Aristotle-like."

He agrees with O'Reilly that the liberal media is harder on conservatives, but says that Palin damaged herself with her statements and gave them the ammunition they could use to "smear her" on their various shows.

You know I could lay out a litany of stupid things that Sarah Palin has said or done in the past that made her the laughingstock she is today, such as quitting her job as governor, starring in a crappy reality show, writing a poorly received book defending Christmas, and so on, but I doubt there are too many people who know that better than all of you.

I think that what Bill O'Reilly, and the rest of his Fox News cohorts, need to understand is that the reason people laugh at conservative politicians is NOT because liberal talk show hosts pick on them, but because the crop of candidates they have come up with in the last several years have been one dangling wheat stalk shy of being a regular on "Hee Haw."

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