Martin replied calmly, "This isn't about us, this is about you."
"No, this is about you," O'Reilly insisted. Changing his tune about the apology now, he said, "(Thomas is) not getting (an apology) from me because I'm not sorry about anything I did."
O'Reilly continued harping on Thomas throughout the show, including his later segment with Goldberg.
Speaking of Martin, Goldberg told O'Reilly, "A man needs a humorless feminist like a fish needs a bicycle... Here's my political analysis... Screw them."
Goldberg went on to characterize O'Reilly's mockery of Thomas as a witch as "good natured." Goldberg said, "When you made a good-natured joke, I very seriously said that Helen Thomas' 15 minutes were up during the Lincoln Administration (and O'Reilly had laughed). And you know what? If they want to take shots at me. And if they want to take shots at you, they need to know one thing. They're throwing spitballs at battleships. Bring it."
"But they never learn," O'Reilly said with frustration. "I should send Media Matters a little valen(tine). ...I want to send them a cake but I want something to be inside the cake, and I might be putting in (unintelligible)."
Goldberg added, "You should send them flowers, black dead roses."
"But they never learn, Bernie. They're still doing this crap and the poor lady who came in (Martin), who's a very courageous woman, buys into this nonsense. She doesn't know it's a George Soros generated – you know, not conspiracy but, you know."
Goldberg said, "They're humorless. They're humorless. Bill, They're humorless and they're unimportant and they're unserious."
I don't know about unimportant but humorless? I had a great laugh out of this and I'm a serious person!
By the way, perhaps in solidarity, Sean Hannity also attacked Helen Thomas last night, during his "media mash" segment. He criticized her "with all due respect" for referring to "our enemies" as "so-called terrorists" in her question to President Obama during the news conference.
(Click here and scroll to the bottom to see the Feb. 11 broadcast where Courtney Martin of The Women's Media Center confronts O'Reilly, during those few moments when he didn't interrupt her.)
Originally posted at NewsHounds.us.
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