O'Reilly Disses the Daily News

Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly went into a tear against former People Paper editorial board member Carol Towarnicky on his show Tuesday night over this column in Tuesday's Daily News,  a tongue-in-cheek attack on his battle against the politically correct movement that's taken the Merry Christmas out of the holiday season. "Joseph Stalin, Mao and Fidel salute you, Carol," O'Reilly said after reading Towarnicky's statement that "No religion should be in the public square not even when the overwhelming majority of citizens practice it." "John Adams would be appalled. James Madison would have canceled his subscription to the Philadelphia Daily News and Ben Franklin might have moved out of Philly. All the founding fathers encouraged spirituality in the public square and opened all of their meetings with a prayer," said the host in his nightly Talking Points memo, some of which can be read here.