It's Bill O'Reilly Day!

Or so it would seem. Ever since CNN picked up on Media Matter's coverage of O'Reilly's comments about Sylvia's, a restaurant in Harlem owned and operated by a black family, this thing has just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And today, five days after the story first was posted on Media Matters for America (MMFA), all of MMFA's leading stories are about it.

If you've just come out of a coma and don't know what I'm talking about, this is the original story as posted on MMFA.

Now, I admire MMFA a great deal; I think they provide an important service to those of us who try to watch the news to be informed, not to be lead by the nose, and I don't think its their fault that this story has gotten so huge. O'Reilly pretty much did it himself, as he usually does, leaping up on his cross and screaming about his "out of context" victimization.

And Fox News can safely ignore all the real news by defending him. I begin to wonder if O'Reilly doesn't say this stuff on purpose, knowing that someone will call him out on it and he'll then be able to flood the news cycle with repetitive and inane invective against MMFA and/or liberals in general.

"[I]f Bill O'Reilly got caught robbing a bank he would say he was taken out of context," sayeth MMFA Senior Fellow Paul Waldman. You should check this out, if only to hear that fabulous line out loud.