Our grassroots campaign to prosecute George Bush, Dick Cheney, and everyone who authorized torture is clearly working. How do we know for sure? Watch Bill O'Reilly freak out about it:

Our efforts are *this* close to making O'Reilly's head explode right on the air. I'm sure if we think creatively we can come up with an idea for an activity - online or offline - that would push O'Reilly over the edge. I welcome all (legal) ideas below!

Yeah, mistakes were made at Guantanamo Bay and other places while suspected terrorists were being interrogated. Every one of those mistakes should be examined. But those things happen in every war, by every nation. Again, the far-left press is treating America like a pinata, whacking it at every opportunity because they don't like Bush and Cheney.

Now there's an insane call for fishing expeditions to find something! that will lead to prosecuting the president and vice president. Again, this is poison! A destructive act toward America. Bush and Cheney protected America after 9/11 and they did it fast, so mistakes were inevitable. But they stopped the killing on American soil, did they not?

To his credit, President-elect Obama wants no part of the radical-left jihad to tear the country down. He says he's looking forward. And that is a smart thing to do.

But Talking Points despises -- despises -- those who, in the name of ideology, want to weaken the country, putting us all in danger. As loyal Americans, we owe the benefit of the doubt to leaders in a time of war, and both Bush and Cheney say flat out they did their duty.

[Clips of Bush and Cheney.]

It's also unAmerican.

Finally, all Americans want the economy fixed and their families kept safe from terror killers. That should be Obama's primary focus. Those who continue to run this country down, and divert attention from those things should be condemned by the rest of us. Condemned.

Now we're going to name names, coming up in the future, ladies and gentlemen. It's going to stop.

Update 2: David Neiwert nails it as always:

O'Reilly signaled early in the program that he was on the warpath against the filthy, disgusting, wretched vermin of the far left for their ongoing campaign to bring Bush/Cheney & Co. to justice for their war crimes. The flecks of foam were already visible around the corners of his mouth as he ranted:..

It obviously has never managed to make through the thicket of O'Reilly's coif, let alone his pea brain, that we're talking not just about whether or not a given act is torture but whether or not they broke the law. Last I heard, O'Reilly was big on the Rule of Law and Law and Order and that sort of thing. I guess he applies it selectively.

Prosecuting flagrant lawbreakers who violate their oath of high office isn't just about getting revenge. It isn't just looking backward. It's also about preventing future such acts by making clear that those who break the law will face the consequences. It's very much a forward-looking enterprise too.

But that notion would obviously make O'Reilly's head explode.