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Topic: No Spin zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Right wing radio has created clouds of controversy over Kerry, but have the attacks gone too far? Bill investigates the right and wrong of talk radio, (Bill says)don’t miss this!

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Bill O'Reilly read a letter on air from "Jack Mehoffer", which is awfully close to the ol' gag name "Jack Mehoff." Watch the video to decide if this is a gag or just an unfortunate name. (((VIDEO AT DAILY RECYCLER)))

How Would You Like to Meet This Guy? BERLIN (Reuters) - A man caught having sex with a blow-up doll in a busy public shopping arcade had to be physically parted from his rubber lover and escorted away, said police in Stuttgart Wednesday. The 38-year-old man was caught with his trousers down early Monday evening after alarmed witnesses alerted the police. "It was real, he was caught in mid-action with the doll," said a press spokeswoman. Police said that they had considerable difficulty separating the drunken man from his partner.

At 2:30 p.m. every weekday, Bill O'Reilly descends from his office on the seventeenth floor of the News Corp building in midtown Manhattan to the Fox News Channel's basement bunker deep below street level. There, he moves with a studied, gunslinger's stride borrowed from his hero, Clint Eastwood, past long rows of office pods where teams of producers cook up the cable network's daily lineup of "fair and balanced" programming. Working a stick of gum in his jaws, he moves, unsmilingly, past the Hannity and Colmes pod, the Greta Van Susteren pod, the Shepard Smith pod, until he arrives at...

Last night, Fox News Commentator Bill O’Reilly launched a broadside on a new blistering Television Commercial produced by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth saying that sharply criticized Kerry’s service in Vietnam. Literally, the first words out of his mouth were about the “brutal attack ad” and he introduced the segment about the ad that “savagely attacked” Kerry. He kept up his endless denunciation by saying that he promised to deliver the “fairest election coverage” and said he covered left wing slander and now this ad as if to say it is right wing slander. Bill O’Reilly, if my recollection serves...

Ann Coulter's website says she'll be appearing on the O'Reilly Factor tonight at 8. Michael Moore is also a scheduled guest. Any shot that O'Reilly will sit back and let these two duke it out? Or should I put down the crack pipe?

No one can deny that Bill O'Reilly is a massive media success. However, contrary to the beliefs of some, he is neither conservative nor crazy. He is, instead, a complete fraud – a blowhard as devoid of principle as the iconic strawmen he sets up and knocks down with mind-numbing regularity. In other words, he is just another media whore, selling not ideas, but himself. Mr. O'Reilly has mastered a confrontational style, which works as long as he is in control of his opponent's microphone. His usual tactic is to ask a question, cut off his opponent halfway through the...

Al Franken has developed a successful career as a comedian and writer for ''Saturday Night Live" and in Hollywood. Earlier this year he took to the radio airwaves as a liberal alternative to conservative talk shows. Here's an edited version of answers he gave Media Nation's Seth Effron. How many markets are you currently in? The show is [available] in 17 markets [and San Diego is about to be the 18th]. In New York [City] we jumped to the second most-listened-to radio show in the 25-54 demographic. I made sure I talked this through with Michael Harris, who is the...

FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 112 W. 27th Street New York, NY 10001 ACTION ALERT: Fox News Spins 9/11 Commission Report June 22, 2004 The Bush administration's long-running attempts to link Iraq and Al Qaeda were dealt a serious blow when the September 11 commission's June 16 interim report indicated that there did not appear to be a "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and Osama bin Laden, and that there was no evidence that Iraq was involved in the September 11 attacks. But if you were watching the Fox News Channel, you saw something very different, as the conservative cable...

"Give Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly credit for even attending Monday night's lefty celeb-glutted premiere of Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' - even if he walked out of the 110-minute Bush-bashing movie halfway through," the New York Daily News said today. The paper reports that on his radio program last week, O'Reilly compared Moore to the National Socialists' master of deceit: "Joseph Goebbels was the minister of propaganda for the Nazi regime and whose very famous quote was, 'If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.'" But when Moore caught O'Reilly escaping the schlockumentary early, "O'Reilly blushed,...

Watching BO last night. I know - why punish myself. Well, I happen to like parts of his show. He does, at times, bring up subjects that no one else wants to touch. Lately though, he has not. Anyway, at the end of the show, when he ran the letters, there were many letters concerning his latest interview with AC. Most of the letters ran in favor of BO. I find that difficult to believe. I read his book - THOSE WHO TRESPASS - not to long ago and my opinion of him and news people in general has really...

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Talking Points Memo & Top Story The truth on terrorism President Bush continues to believe that the war in Iraq will eventually make Americans safer, but is this case strong enough? We're fighting terrorism as a nation divided... and defeat is not an option. Bill speaks with David Keene, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, for another view on America's war.

Will Al Franken issue a retraction in the paperback version of Lies ... now that Bill O'Reilly has displayed the ACTUAL DEED / MORTGAGE from his boyhood home, and it clearly says "Levittown, New York"?? A pdf image of the deed/mortgage is viewable at www.frankenlies.com (Scroll down to '#18') ...

Bill O’Reilly, host of the O’Reilly Factor show on Fox Network, describes his show as the “no spin zone.” Guests on the show don’t get much slack to slant their cause or issue in the most favorable light. Most of the time, Mr. O’Reilly confronts them in mid sentence. However, way back in February, Mr. O’Reilly had Kevin Jennings of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN) on his show. Mr. Jennings was touting his organization’s high school curriculum on gay marriage. Not only did Mr. Jennings engage in spin, he did so under the watching eyes of the...

Listen To Howard Stern's Interview With Al FrankenDescription of interview compliments of Marksfriggin.com "Al Franken Comes In. 03/30/04. 8:40am Howard came back from break and brought Al Franken in. He said he's a fan of Al's even though in the first page of his book, ''Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right,'' he insults him. Al came in and Howard said he looked like he'd just gotten out of bed. Al said he starts his own radio show tomorrow at noon. He will be doing a 3 hour show then. Howard...

Occasionally I write about myself in this space when knowing a little about my biases or background is helpful in understanding how I've reached a conclusion. But does anybody really want to hear all about how arduous the job is --- from a woman calling me a "prissy little queen" via email for daring to insult Clay Aiken, to network execs thinking I was overly harsh or unfair? Didn't think so. Yet that's exactly what's happening in the media world, as talk personalities such as Howard Stern and Bill O'Reilly increasingly segue from host to vein-opener, making their particular platforms...

A new Gallup Poll says George W. Bush is the most polarizing President in the history of its surveys on the subject. It's hard to believe that the good ol' Texas guy is more divisive than, say, Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, but apparently he is. Gallup says 91% of Republicans like the President, but just 17% of the Democrats do. In a bad news situation for Mr. Bush, Gallup also sees independent voters shifting away from the Chief Executive. What's in play here, I believe, is the increasing polarization of the country, not just the policies of President Bush....