Quote of the day: O'Reilly would go after blogosphere 'with a hand grenade'
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In a Wednesday interview with political strategist Larry Sabato and Brown University political scientist Wendy Schiller, Fox News conservative commentator (some might say that's a redundancy) Bill O'Reilly said he's glad President Bush doesn't seem to be an avid blog reader. The state of affairs on political blogs on both the left and right, he thinks, is pretty sordid.
"I have to say President Bush has a much healthier attitude toward this than I do," O'Reilly observed. "Because if I can get away with it, boy, I'd go in with a hand grenade."
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