From Media Matters for America:

Media Matters keeps an eye (and ear) on our right-wing lunatic friends in the media: O’Reilly, Coulter, Limbaugh, and their vile ilk. Belatedly, I learned today via our friends at Morons.org that Media Matters revealed that Bill O’Reilly had single-handedly saved SpongeBob from the evil Dr. Dobson and his anti-gay warriors. Who knew?

From the February 16 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:

THOMPSON: Buster does not get any more explicit than someone she would see outside of the house. And here's the rub on all of this: the people who are making the most complaints about this -- it's kind of the same mentality of the people who are complaining -- you know, speculating that SpongeBob SquarePants is gay. It's corrupting what was this kind of innocent little TV show: SpongeBob, Buster, Teletubbies --

O'REILLY: OK, but wait. There's one big, big fallacy in your argument, with all due respect. I agree with you on SpongeBob, and we mocked that, and, as soon as we did that, it went away -- and people say to me, "O'Reilly, you do X, Y, and Z" -- I saved SpongeBob single-handedly. All right? As soon as I ran it on [FOX News'] The [O'Reilly] Factor [on January 24], Dobson and his crew shut it down. Did you notice that, doctor?

THOMPSON: No, I didn't notice that direct correlation --

O'REILLY: It was over the next day. Believe me, all right? I saved SpongeBob's reputation. SpongeBob's my best friend now.

Gawd, America is so fortunate that it has a man of Bill O’Reilly’s shy, unassuming modesty looking out for its interests. I know I feel fortunate (and perhaps slightly nauseated).