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Didn't get all the way through the papers this weekend, but further to a post I made last week, Heather Mallick's column made me laugh quite a lot (she was interviewed on The O'Reilly Factor).

And then he asked me if I was a socialist, and I said, "Certainly," and it was as if I'd said I like donkey semen in my latte instead of milk. He then went into a mad rant about lefties like Mr. Doyle and how I was a typical Globe columnist. I said, no, truthfully, I think I'm regarded as "idiosyncratic" (the first six-syllable word ever spoken on the O'Reilly show), and he erupted again.

It was like talking to a manic child who had eaten 800 cherry Pop Tarts for breakfast. He kept interrupting, so that no point could be made that could win a reply, much less a reasoned response -- not so much a gabble of sound bites as a howling from Bedlam.

I gather Bill O'Reilly is going around saying he doesn't hate Canada. That's nice, then.