Bill O'Reilly and David Letterman - followup

I had written about David Letterman's surprising attack of O'Reilly when Bill was a guest on his show. Now, from Newsday it seems that Bill O'Reilly is getting good publicity from this event:

Bill O'Reilly gains publicity from verbal joust with David Letterman
As the saying goes, you can't buy publicity this good, and maybe Bill O'Reilly should put David Letterman on his Christmas card list next year.

Reaction to the CBS talk show host's Tuesday night encounter with Bill O'Reilly on "Late Show" spilled across morning TV, cyberspace and radio yesterday, but much of it - no surprise - came from O'Reilly himself, who went on the offensive last night on "The O'Reilly Factor" and during his noon radio show.

On last night's "Factor," he declared that "the culture war plays out on the David Letterman program!" then added that "right now there are two main issues dominating the culture war in America: the role of God in the public arena and the war on terror." Then - no surprise - he replayed much of Tuesday's verbal joust with Letterman on his own show, interviewing guests like veteran journalist (and Fox contributor) Juan Williams who said, "some of the horrible things [he said about you] - I'm surprised you don't have a black eye this morning."

Earlier in the day on radio, O'Reilly blasted Letterman as a card-carrying member of the "secular progressive movement" - telling his listeners, "I just went [on to 'Late Show'] for a few laughs [but] in the back of my mind, I said, 'well, you know, Letterman might want to go...here."

And for those of you just tuning into this flap, "here" is where he went: O'Reilly's jugular.

Heh...