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Any day now, Birnam Wood will be marching to Dunsinane.

If you caught the Macbeth reference, go ahead and take a bow. In the particular version of Macbeth that we are privileged to witness, Bill O’Reilly has cast himself as the three witches (yes, all three, a task he is easily equal to). There he was, making evil sounds (in his case, speech) and dancing around the proverbial cauldron (in recent years it has become fashionable to have the three witches do their cauldron dance in the nude; if you have the stomach for it, go ahead and imagine the scene that way), and going: “”Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

Coming down to earth a little bit, Billie claims that John Edwards has been treated most fairly by Fox News:

During the August 7 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, after playing a clip of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards asserting that “Fox News … has a clear and long history of bias against Democrats,” host Bill O’Reilly responded that “John Edwards has been on the Fox News Channel 33 times,” and that, in reviewing those interviews, “[n]ot once could I find anything insulting, demeaning, or disrespectful to the senator.”

TPM has a nice little video presentation to explain why fair is foul. Apparently, among the Fox News folks who have treated Edwards with disrespect, one name that pops up repeatedly is … Bill O’Reilly.

Continuing with the Macbeth fantasy, when Birnam Wood doth come to Dunsinane, it will be greeted there by the Greeter-in-Chief. Having been recently lobotomized, he will grin like a (supply own favorite simile here) and go: “Got wood? Heh-heh.”

(Regular readers will recognize without prompting that the “heh-heh” is to be pronounced in the voice and manner of Jon Stewart imitating Georgie Bush. Why, oh why, is there no Emmy for “All-time Best Worst Impresson of A Political Figure”?)