O'Reilly's severe personal problems have long needed 100% of his attention
Repeating: He is personally and intellectually stunted, repressed and oppressing, deep in denial, provincial and colonialist in his obliviousness to other cultures and races, and deluded to think his escapism via opinions on anything besides his personal issues matter.
What brought this on was my flipping by just enough to catch him popping his veins yelling that climate change is "still open to debate," followed by whatever and whatever critiquing others. He needs an intervention, needs some kind of touchy feely retreat, some mental "trips" of some kind.
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He's a fungi! 
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