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Apparently someone wasn’t too happy with some of the “pinhead” bloggers who took him to task for saying that the tides were proof of the existence of God. It’s a good thing Bill-O had Stephen Colbert there to defend him.

COLBERT: Worse yet… worse yet the leftie blogosphere has ridiculed Bill by pointing out that the moon causes the tides and that we’ve known that for centuries. Well it’s humble pie time, people who took ninth grade science.

Father O’Reilly, take ‘em to Sunday school.

O’REILLY: How’d the moon get here? Look, you pinheads who attacked me for this, you guys are just desperate. How’d the moon get here? How’d the sun get there? How’d it get there? Can you explain that to me? How come we have that and Mars doesn’t have it? (inaudible) How come? Why not? How’d it get here?

COLBERT: Boom! Take that gravity huggers!

Huh? How come we have the moon and Mars doesn’t? Except for the two that it has? How’d the sun get there? Where does it go at night? How’d the moon get there? Why does the cow jump over it? What time is it? How come I have two faucets?

Hot comes out of one; cold comes out of the other; never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain that.

In fact, where does Bill O’Reilly come from? He’s on my TV, he’s off my TV. Then he’s back. Where’d he come from? Sometimes he’s on the radio and I’m watching him on the TIVO at the same time. You can’t explain that.

I don't want to give away all of the punchlines, so just watch the rest. Mediaite has O'Reilly's entire response to his critics here -- Bill O’Reilly Responds To ‘Pinhead’ Critics By Asking ‘How’d The Moon Get There?’. Needless to say they were a lot kinder to him than Colbert was.

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Bill O'Reilly apparently didn't take very kindly to Rick Sanchez making this comment after Fox was awarded a front row seat in the briefing room for the White House Press corps.

SANCHEZ: I understand The Associated Press. I even understand Bloomberg. But don't you have you to be a news organization to get that seat?

O'Reilly responded by attacking CNN for their terrible ratings in a game of "my ratings are bigger than yours are" and wrote off Sanchez's comments as just him being jealous of the mighty Bill O'Reilly and his huge ratings.

I won't dispute Bill-O that CNN's ratings stink along with the better part of their programming but as Rachel Maddow noted when O'Reilly went after her, higher ratings don't make you right.

I find it rather amusing that O'Reilly and Sanchez are going after each other since I don't consider either of them "journalists". Rachel Maddow doesn't deserve to be lumped in with either of them.

Sadly as a whole all of our corporate news shows with a few exceptions that are too far and few between sadly, are very long on gossip, distraction, fake balance and just a whole lot of crap that bears little or no resemblance to actual journalism. Fox of course being the worst of them where it's just all Republican propaganda all the time and they don't even try to hide it. Which is why of course you'll never see much more than a "my ratings are bigger than yours" rather than any kind of substantive response out of O'Reilly when someone lets one slip and points out how horrid they are. He can't make one and never will.