Has Bush Lost O'Reilly?

We heard yesterday that Bush had lost Howard Fineman. Now Natasha at Pacific Views reports on Bill O'Reilly's appearance on The Daily Show

Bill O'Reilly was on the Daily Show last night, doing a reasonable job of sounding like an undecided voter, and presumably trying to make up for the 'stoned slacker' remark.

When the subject turned to politics, Stewart asked O'Reilly to name anything good the Bush administration had done. After praising the administration's intelligence community reorganization, O'Reilly said, "They promised us rich guys a tax cut, and they came through. Credit where credit is due."

Later, in talking about how out of touch politicians are with the world the rest of us live in, he sent another zinger Bush's way. "The Bush family doesn't care about outsourcing because they have $18 gazillion. [Outsourcing], so what?" He then went on to describe both candidates as "two silver spooners," and said that more regular people needed to get into politics.

Apparently, O'Reilly is sufficiently insulated from getting hit with a charge of being part of the liberal media that he can call Bush's tax cut for what it is, and names Bush first in the litany of wealthy politicians. That this is unusual should be all the proof anyone needs that the media is far from liberal, and barely pays attention to the deep vein of economic populism in the country.

That we should be reduced to waiting to hear these things from Bill O'Reilly, well I ask you, what's the world coming to?