Friday, October 18, 2002

In my last post, I said that the Pepsi/Ludacris story was old news. Apparently I was wrong: Pompous ass Bill O'Reilly, on a roll after his successful browbeating of the soft-drink maker, now wants to impose his right-wing-nanny-state values on VH1 because it intends to air "Music Behind Bars," a documentary about imprisoned musicians.

O'Reilly didn't initiate the campaign against VH1, but he did turn it from a protest into a fatwa, devoting two episodes of his O'Reilly Factor to the upcoming documentary and calling for the resignation of Christina Norman, the president of VH1. (It's not clear whether he truly considers her resignation to be an adequate abasement or whether the right-wing reeducation camps just haven't been set up yet.)

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