Whigga Please!

Bill O'Reilly is so full of it! I think he needs to retire because he can no longer pull off that "moral/holier than thou" attitude now that he was found to be cheating on his wife via unrequited phone sex with a younger colleague. And perhaps the prospect of seeing the Bush administration - all it stood for and all Bill touted it to be - go down in flames is just getting to be too much for him. But puleese! Spare us the "I don't like being famous" crap! As much as he promotes his books and "No Spin Zone" gear, he's trying to be a household name.

The embattled life" of Bill O'Reilly "has become an increasingly strange and scary one," Verne Gay says in a fascinating Newsday cover story today.

"Gauging the animus against O'Reilly has always been a rough art, but by his own estimation 'it's gotten worse. Now it's so bad that I spend an enormous amount of money protecting myself against evil.'"

That's why, when the king of cable news is asked about the future after his current contract ends a little more than two years from now, he blurts out the word "retirement."

He is working on a book, "Culture Warrior," but says it'll be his last. He has ruled out a political future. "He insists that he finally sees the road ahead, and it probably leads out of Fox News headquarters and away from the scorching spotlight -- forever."

"I don't need to do the show anymore [and] I'm as famous as I need to be. I don't like being famous," he says.

How about he's just finding it harder to peddle that hot air!