Controversial Fox News talk show host Bill O’Reilly is asking ABC to fire Rosie O’Donnell after Rosie’s latest tirade against the U.S. Military and her comments about the recently captured British soldiers by Iran.

FOX News’ designated flamethrower, Bill O’Reilly, slammed Rosie on “The O’Reilly Factor” last night, calling her “nutty” and “irresponsible,” and suggesting that ABC should fire O’Donnell for her provocative remarks about Iran and the war in Iraq.

Rosie, who was not a guest on O’Reilly’s show, has been anything but gentle in expressing her feelings toward U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, going so far as to suggest on her blog that the recent kidnapping of British sailors was designed by the U.S. and Britain to help escalate hostilities against Iran. On “The View” this week, Rosie also challenged viewers to Google “Gulf of Tonkin,” a reference to the controversial naval attacks in Southeast Asia that led to the U.S.’s increased involvement in the Vietnam conflict.

Now, O’Reilly is calling for ABC to be “held accountable” for Rosie’s remarks, especially after the network axed Bill Maher post-9/11 for suggesting that the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center were “courageous.” ABC, for its part, had no comment this morning.

Be sure to vote for Rosie in Bumpshack’s Celebrity March Madness Final Four. Rosie is currently in the Final Four going toe-to-toe with Michael Jackson to see who will advance to compete against Britney Spears in the finals for the title of Hollywood’s Maddest Celebrity.

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

Larry Hardiman

A photo from Tony Blair’s youth is making the rounds in England and making noise for Blair’s disappearing hand. The photo is from the mid 70’s at the height of Blair’s youth. In the original photo Blair can be seen making an obscene gesture. He also appears to be quite drunk.

After the original version was unveiled on Newsnight last night, it was reported that the picture had never been seen in its full glory because it had always been cropped to avoid embarrassing Mr Blair.

In fact, it turns out his hand signal was removed by computer manipulation on the insistence of the clergyman who supplied the photograph and with the agreement of the news agency which distributed it to newspapers.

The picture first surfaced in 1994. Labour leader John Smith had just died and papers were casting around to work out who would succeed him.

Father Nicholas told Newsnight: “I suppose the BBC lawyers would be a bit worried if I was to suggest he was drunk in that photo. On the other hand, it’s probably more defamatory to say he was sober.”

He described Mr Blair as a student who was “averagely naughty, without being wicked”. He added: “It was all fairly innocent. Tony always knew how to keep his nose clean.”

I find this to be pretty funny. Tony looks like a confused Mick Jagger in the photo.  Blair is not very popular in England at the moment and something like this might actually turn the British on to him again, at least with the university crowd.
Now if someone would just morph this photo of Blair with one of Bush flipping the camera off. That would truly be funny.