So many conservative talking heads complain that people are always criticizing or "sniping" at them, apparently for no reason but their (liberals') own malevolence. It never occurs to them that they may do things that merit that treatment.

The Unfunny Factor Washington Post 041503 (excerpts)

While Emceeing a gala for "Best Friends," a charity benefiting inner-city schoolchildren, O'Reilly had to fill time during a delay.

Members of the "Best Men," as the sixth-to-eighth-grade boys in the program are called, were delayed getting onstage to perform a lip-synced rendition of the Four Tops' standard "Reach Out (I'll be There)." O'Reilly ad-libbed: "Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps."

Best Friends founder Elayne Bennett.... told [the columnist] "I didn't hear it, but it was absolutely a throwaway line."

That's pretty egregious.