TONIGHT ON O'REILLY, one of my favorite LBJ profs, Bob Auerbach, a one-man crusade against Alan Greenspan. I'm thinking he'll get on well with Mr. Bill, who, as Fox Fans know, is just looking after the folks, as the powerful protect themselves. Since I may be the only person in this building who watches the Factor on a very regular basis, I tried to give Bob some tips. I advised him to answer all questions and push Greenspan's interest rate hikes as the economy crumbled last year. Which is probably what he was going to talk about anyway. I tried to reassure him that not everyone gets torn into pieces. If O'Reilly agrees with you, he'll just tell you you're a good American.

When I agree with O'Reilly, I just think he's being a good American. This happens more often than it doesn't. When I disagree with O'Reilly, I tend to think he is just saying stuff to appear to be more moderate than he actually is. He wants to be able to position himself as a centrist. (Just the other night he got some Jesse Jackson flunky to agree that the Factor was not conservatively biased, in contrast to the rest of Fox News.) I guess what this means is that deep down, I believe that Bill O'Reilly really agrees with me about everything, but won't always admit it on TV. What a strange thing to think.