QFE. Cannot stress that one enough.
The stock that people put into fucking AL FRANKEN's comments never fails to astound me. "so-and-so's a big fat liar...Al Franken said so! There's no liberal media bias, Al Franken said there's regular media and conservative media!" Since when did Stuart Smalley become the sole arbiter of journalistic integrity? Geez.
We live in a world were Bill O' Reilly is treated with respect by people who know nothing about journalistic integrity. Of course Al "I'm Smarter Than You Because People Say I'm a Political Satirist Even Though I'm just a Stupid Ass Pundit" Franken is going to be treated like the be all end all politcal genius of our times by people who wouldn't know an original opinion if it bit them in the ass.
You left out the part where he got a degree in government from Harvard. That doesn't make him automatically right about everything, of course, but you guys are acting like he's just some schmuck who used to be on SNL. People tend to either be ignorant of or ignore the fact that he has the credentials to back his opinions up. Just because he used to be a writer/performer for Saturday Night Live doesn't invalidate his educational background, which is considerable. I wouldn't discount Franken's assessment of O'Reilly and others simply because he has documentation to back his opinions up with, regardless of where he went to school.