Jessica Alba isn’t one of my favorite celebrities, but I like her a hell of a lot more after she said exactly what she thinks about Bill O’Reilly. On Sunday night she was at the Declare Yourself ‘A New Birth of Citizenship’ Inauguration kick-off event, where some Fox News goons came up to her and started prattling on about republicans and Fox and former President Bush.

Alba was clearly trying to be polite when they asked her if she had any words for Bush, to which she replied “Goodbye!” with a huge grin on her face. But then they decided to push her even more and asked Alba if she had any words for Bill O’Reilly. And then she called him an a-hole, and all was right with the world.

Jessica Alba, attending one of the Inaugural shindigs, was the victim of one of those Fox News ambush crews that wanders events where liberals are numerous and tries to get them to say something dumb so Bill O’Reilly can make fun of them later. She told them exactly what she thinks of Bill O’Reilly.

Reporter: Bill O’Reilly says hi. You wanna give him a Factor Inauguration Shout Out?

Alba: No. He’s kind of — [Laughs] He’s kind of an a-hole.

As is their SOP, the crew badgered her to give examples. (Examples? You want examples? We gotcher examples right here, dude.) And she was smart enough not to take the bait:

Reporter: How so?

Alba: I don’t know how he does it. I guess he was just born that way, for some reason.

Reporter: Can you give me an example? Come on.

Alba: No, because that means admitting that I actually have watched Fox.

Of course, O’Reilly showed off this clip proudly and smugly, no doubt to show his audience how “nasty” those Hollywood liberals are. Not that any of them have ever been caught wishing publicly for a terrorist attack on San Francisco, but hey. Nasty is in the eye of the media-megaphone holder.

[From Crooks and Liars]

Good for her. O’Reilly, of course, showed the clip and tried to act all smug and superior about it, though it was unclear what he felt smug and superior about. An actress hates you… as do a lot of people… and you’re right and better than everyone else how? It definitely wasn’t one of O’Reilly’s better arguments. But kudos to Jessica for saying what she thought. And when you watch the video, she actually said it quite nicely, everything considered.

Thanks to TMZ for the story idea.

Here’s Jessica at the Declare Yourself ‘A New Birth of Citizenship’ Inauguration kick-off event in Washington DC on Sunday. Images thanks to WENN.