Not only does he share my birthday (Pearl Harbor Day, if anyone wants to know), but there's just something about a white haired, bespectacled old Irish-American liberal talk show host that just gets my heart pittering and pattering.

Many of you younger folks may not remember this, but Phil Donahue was a talk show host. His show, "The Phil Donahue Show" was in fact the grand-daddy of all talk shows. His show wasn't of the white trash, baby daddy, chair throwing, Nazi transvestite on crack variety. It was, frankly, quite classy, and Phil was never afraid to speak his mind.

Oprah and all of those other folks owe their success to him and should bow at his feet.

Well, anyway, I recently came across this.

Apparently, Phil, in support of Cindy Sheehan (anti-war activist and mother of Casey Sheehan, an American soldier who was killed in Iraq) was on the show of my mortal enemy, Bill O'Reilly's "O'Reilly Factor" and in my opinion, served the wattle-necked, hot air windbag his blotchy ass on a platter.

Have a look-see:

Try here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170195,00.html

or here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/22/15422/2884