Liberal mole embeds himself within Fox News, emerges with the goods.

 

So this guy, Joe Muto, worked for the Fox News organization, specifically with Bill O'Reilly, for about eight years.

Now he has now written a book about his experiences called "An Atheist in a Foxhole."

A portion of which has been reprinted with permission by Salon.

In it you will learn some very interesting  new things, as wel las have some of what you assumed to be true reinforced, such as that Hannity and O'Reilly despise each other, O'Reilly also despises Rush Limbaugh, and essentially ANYBODY that he sees as a competitor or who  does not jump through the hoops he is constantly holding up.

A female at Fox also decided that Bill Maher could no longer appear on The Factor after making too many Sarah Palin jokes as well as demanding that he be referred to as "Pig Maher" when anything was written about him. (Interesting because there have been commenters HERE that have used that exact same label.)

It was also decided that Politico, whihc wrote an article that Roger Ailes did not like, would be referred to as the "left leaning" Politico from that day forward.

However here is perhaps my favorite portion, concerning O'Reilly: 

Bill took the e-mails — sent by our audience to OReilly@foxnews.com — pretty seriously, regarding them (not inaccurately, I’d say) as a direct gauge of viewer interest. Each morning, two unlucky women on the staff had the unenviable job of sorting through the e-mails and printing out a representative sample of fifty to sixty. Bill, to his credit, reads these personally. He selects a handful to be read on the air. If he likes some others but doesn’t consider them airworthy, he’ll instruct our lucky mail combers to send a signed book or some “kind words” — a response e-mail reading, Thanks for the kind words. Signed, Bill O’Reilly. I’d glanced at the show’s in-box from time to time and had been blown away by the sheer incoherence and illiteracy of some of the respondents. This would sometimes present a problem, for Bill liked his e-mails to be short, pithy, and not written by a complete moron. 

This was a surprisingly tall order on certain days. 

On one occasion, there was an e-mail that Bill really wanted to read on the air. One of the producers noticed that the e-mail was signed with an obvious gag name: Jack MeHoff. Clearly, that’s unreadable on television. But Bill liked the text of the e-mail so much that he couldn’t bear to cut it from the mail segment. After pondering for a bit, he decided on a course of action: “Let’s just change the last name to Mehoffer.” Despite producers pleading with him that the slight name change was not much, if at all, better than the original, Bill stuck to his guns, reading the letter with the modified name on air. The rest is YouTube history.

Indeed it is.

Gotta love that! The entire article is quite good, and I think I will pre-order the book for my Nook later on today as well.