From our Strange Interlude™ file:

In all the excitement over seeing Bill O’Reilly at BU’s Gala Alumni Weekend Hoedown, I  failed to mention the guy who walked up to me and said, “You’re Jay Severin, right?”

It was almost as rich as when Severin himself walked up to me at a holiday party several years ago and called me Alex Beam.

I’m pretty sure Alex wouldn’t be any happier about that than Severin was.

Numbers Racket

Also during his star turn at BU, O’Reilly said that six million people watch him every night.

Not to get technical about it, but the number is actually about 3.5 million.

That audience inflation has led the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider to formulate our official Bill O’Reilly Verbal Markdown©:

Reduce everything the Factor Actor says by 40%.

Happy calculating.