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Excellent - Juan Williams is sitting in for Bill O'Reilly on the Factor, and is leading with the Warren Ballentine racist slur. Hitting it straight on.

Radio Talk Show Host Charged with Mortgage Fraud Warren Ballentine, 41, Durham, North Carolina, and formerly of Country Club Hills, Illinois, a lawyer who hosts a national radio talk show, was indicted on federal charges for allegedly engaging in two mortgage fraud schemes that defrauded lenders of a total of approximately $9.7 million. The defendant allegedly schemed with others to obtain more than two dozen fraudulent mortgage loans and represented buyers at multiple closings, knowing that they were fraudulently qualified for loans to purchase homes in Chicago, Illinois, and various southern suburbs. Ballentine owns the Law Office of Warren Ballentine,...

...Kerry called Bush's response to the last question of the debate Friday night - the president was asked to name three specific mistakes he had made and what he did to correct them but ended up doing neither... ...The president dampened the scowling expressions of the first debate, but several questions brought his emotions bubbling up... ..."I've got to answer this," Bush said as he cut off the moderator... ...Kerry showed a cooler and wordier bearing to the participants and television viewers... ...An instant ABC News poll suggested that the voters who tuned in for the Friday night debate picked...

We noted yesterday that Associated Press reporter Jennifer Loven, who authored a ridiculous hit piece originally titled "Bush Twists Kerry's Words on Iraq," is married to Roger Ballentine, who was Bill Clinton's deputy assistant for environmental initiatives and chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force, and is listed on John Kerry's website as one of Kerry's most important supporters on environmental issues. Reader Thomas Blumer has documented how Loven parrots her husband's liberal views in the guise of reporting on the Presidential campaign: In December 2002, hubby Roger Ballentine writes an article opposing the Bush "Clear Skies" environmental...

January 13, 2000; Thursday 5:34 PM Eastern Time SECTION: Washington - general news LENGTH: 397 words HEADLINE: Clinton Wants Biofuel Production BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: Aiming to replace fossil fuels with cleaner, renewable energy sources, President Clinton is proposing to more than double federal spending on efforts to turn corn husks, chicken droppings and other waste into power for cars and buildings, White House officials said Thursday. In his fiscal 2001 budget request to Congress next month, Clinton will ask for $439 million to fund research and grants to aid the production of ''bioenergy'' and other products such...

Here is a sampling of recent Loven quotes that have appeared on the AP Wire. HEADLINE: Bush claims Kerry and congressional liberals will hurt the economy BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer I like this juxtaposition to make Bush look bad. "Kerry has proposed paying for new initiatives by rolling back taxes only on the wealthiest Americans. Bush said, 'We're not going to let them tax anybody, because we're going to win in November.'" Why the use of the qualifier "only?" Obviously to make Kerry sound like a reasonable guy who reall yloves tax cuts as long as it...

By GARY D. ROBERTSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. -- The state Board of Elections decided today to ask a federal court -- rather than the U.S. Justice Department -- to sign off on a state Supreme Court ruling that threw out new legislative districts. The 4-1 vote will result in a review by the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia to determine whether the April 30 ruling protects the rights of minority voters. Republican senators said Democrats pressured the board to send the order to a panel of three federal judges in the court. Senate leader...