Missed the Stewart-O’Reilly interviews this week, though I’ve been reading all about it/watching it online. And what’s been most fascinating, as Sullivan hits on today, is how Fox edited the interviews - “to omit some of the best Stewart zingers, and protect O’Reilly from being fully exposed.”

My favorite bit that didn’t get in is this:

O’REILLY: Do you know any Tea Party people?

STEWART: Yes, I do.

O’REILLY: Really? Down in Greenwich Village there are Tea Party people?

STEWART: Down in Greenwich Village? Let me tell you something, Bill—I’ll give you four blocks of Greenwich Village, and I’ll put that up against four blocks around your house—

O’REILLY: Levittown?

STEWART: No, your house now.

O’REILLY: Oh, Levittown is where I was brought up.

STEWART: Well, you don’t live there any more brother.

This is the lie - because O’Reilly’s from “real America” he remains one in spirit despite the fact that he’s making $10 million per year and does not live in Levittown, either literally or figuratively.

You think O’Reilly is a regular guy, just like you? Dream on.