Irony is dead: Bill O'Reilly edition


	Irony is dead: Bill O'Reilly edition

jklugman

4-19-2007 5:50 PM

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bill o'reilly, hypocrisy, fox, fox news, denver, joanne ostrow

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4-20-2007 3:02 PM

The Equalizer

If you can't handle the heat Ms. Ostrow, don't write the pathetic column. BTW what exactly is an "undocumented immigrant"? Oh, that's right, it's the pc, leftist, lying definition of an ILLEGAL ALIEN!

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