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Posted: September 11, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Pat Roush © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The first words Bill O'Reilly ever spoke to me were, "So they are not coming back." That was earlier this year during my first appearance as a guest on his television show, "The O'Reilly Factor." I responded that, of course, they were coming home. I would never stop working for my daughters' freedom. But we all know that once Mr. O'Reilly makes up his mind on a subject, it seems like there's no turning back. Convinced that my two American daughters who were stolen from me almost...

[This is exactly as I received it by e-mail, seconds ago, from the Editor of the Redneck Republican Digest, sent to an affiliation of good folks (including some independents like me, and a few lapsed Democrats) that I have known for some six years now. The source URL is my own, because the form demands one and there is none for this message. But I can vouch for its accuracy.] I don't know if you guys are keeping up with O'Reilly. He complained about Ludicrous (a rap guy that gets pretty graphic I guess; let's just call him nasty to...

<p>Well, I've got many American lawyers angry with me, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo.</p> <p>Item, Alejandro Avila, the accused killer of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, was charged with molesting two 9-year-old girls two years ago, went to trial, and was acquitted.</p>

July 18, 2002 | Orange being the color of insanity, it's no surprise that it features so prominently in the overall look of CNN's "Connie Chung Tonight." No signature hue for this show, now in its third agonizing week, would make more sense. I'm not suggesting that Connie is actually crazy, but she does seem a little out of sorts. Listless, distracted, occasionally manic. Given to the occasional inappropriate remark. She routinely blanks out. Stumbles while straining to read her cue cards. Says "Thank you" and "Are you finished?" before interviewees have furnished their replies to questions she posed seconds...

West Wing VP Disses Cable Talkers Wednesday, July 17, 2002 Tim Matheson is a brave actor. It takes chutzpah to show your face after playing the werewolf sheriff on CBS's Wolf Lake! Hey, at least he's still recurring as The West Wing's Vice President John Hoynes. Come fall, expect more drama between him and prez Martin Sheen as their re-election campaign heats up. "[Creator] Aaron Sorkin [modeled their relationship on] the dynamic that Jack Kennedy had with Lyndon Johnson," Matheson tells TV Guide Online. "Johnson had a bit of an outsized ego and Kennedy had his group of intellectuals, and...

July 12, 2002 It was a race to crawl out of the Nielsen cellar on Thursday among the Big Four primetime networks. Fox failed to generate much heat with the debut of its news magazine "The Pulse" (5.2 million viewers) and the return of "Beyond Belief." ABC was scraping bottom with its 8-10 p.m. telecast of "Star Trek: First Contact" (4.2 million viewers) and even NBC couldn't draw much of a crowd with reruns of its regular Thursday slate. CBS won the night by a wide margin (9.3 million viewers, 3.4 rating/11 share in adults 18-49) on the strength of...

<p>For the second time in three weeks, a major media survey has found that Americans' news habits have not been fundamentally changed by the traumatic events of Sept. 11.</p> <p>On the heels of a Project for Excellence in Journalism study that revealed that network news was returning to a pre-Sept. 11 diet of softer content, a new Pew Research Center survey reports that the terror attacks and the war in Afghanistan have not significantly whetted the public's appetite for news.</p>

Is this guy's head getting a little large?

Bill O'Reilly may have to do major surgery - and fast - to save his faltering national radio program. Already, reviews of the program by listeners have been less than flattering. And now some hard numbers are beginning to show the cracks. NewsMax hears that "snap" Arbitron ratings taken by WOR, O'Reilly's flagship station in New York, aren't encouraging. A radio industry insider predicts that O'Reilly will drop out of radio within a year. While O'Reilly's WOR ratings show a "spike" of interest in the opening few days of the new show, the numbers suddenly took a nosedive. In fact,...

Anyone with an IQ above room temperature has to wonder what's up Matthew Drudge's nose these days besides his finger. The 35 year old ex-flower shop clerk and "Winchell wannabe" is having a devil of a time finding any story with meat. Stories about two headed billy goats and cloned monkeys are rather passé nowadays except for those moronic individuals who insist upon hitting his website at least five times a day. Such noble degeneracy keeps Matthew at the top of the heap in web traffic, even if he has nothing to offer but purloined stories from other publications. Then...

clinton Corners O'Reilly at Post-Talk-Tina-Brown Sutton Place Soirée: "Bin Laden not my fault." by Mia T   How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! --Alice's Adventures in Wonderland EW YORK -- Although bill clinton, like his wife, continues to subsist on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind (see the latest Jonathan Alter-Newsweek puff piece), bill clinton, always one to hedge his bets, has developed another equally revisionist but somewhat more bizarre tactic: corner and spin. If one should be unlucky enough to become a target...

Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly Clobbers CNN's Larry King The liberal media is dying. The latest Nielsen stats show that Bill O'Reilly, voted the "Most Trusted Journalist" in America by NewsMax readers, is now trouncing the competition. Each night O'Reilly averages more than 2 million viewers -- more than double the audience of CNN's Larry King. If you enjoy Bill O'Reilly, now you can read his special column each month in NewsMax Magazine. Newsweek named NewsMax magazine editor Christopher Ruddy as one of just twenty Americans "changing the way Americans get their news." Today, you can bypass the liberal media...

Donahue Heading for Prime Time?By Verne Gay STAFF WRITER April 3, 2002 MSNBC is expected to announce today that Phil Donahue will host a new 8 p.m. show, an addition that will reconfigure the network's prime-time lineup. Donahue, according to reports, will host a talk show without a studio audience-banishing any thoughts, perhaps, that he intends to revive his influential daytime talker that was laid to rest after 29 years in May 1996. The new show is to go up against "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel, and a Connie Chung-hosted show on CNN, which- she said last week-will...

<p>IF Bill O'Reilly's goal was to make some purveyors of shock culture look like total jerks, then his special airing tonight is a complete success.</p> <p>And the word "jerks" is actually too mild a description for some of O'Reilly's targets in the show, which is titled "An 'O'Reilly Factor' Special: The Corruption of the American Child," airing at 9 p.m. on Fox/Ch. 5 (not the Fox News Channel).</p>

The recent announcement that television talk-show host Bill O'Reilly is going to be launching a new radio program on May 8 left media watchers with one burning question: What in the world is he thinking? O'Reilly already makes a reported $4 million a year from his nightly television program, The O'Reilly Factor, on the Fox News Channel. He consistently bests CNN's suspendered colossus in the ratings. His non-fiction books have both attained almost instant New York Times bestseller status. Those Who Trespass, a novel that contains a fictionalized account of his media career, is being turned into a movie by...

      WOR ANNOUNCES THE ADDITION OF BILL O'REILLY TO THEIR LINEUPRadio 710, WOR New York, announced today that they will be adding The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly to it's regular weekday lineup of stimulating talk programming.  O'Reilly is host of the country's most watched cable television program, The O'Reilly Factor, on the Fox News Network.  "We're extremely pleased to add a talent the magnitude of Bill O'Reilly to the WOR family, " states Bob Bruno, Vice President/General Manager of WOR.  "Bill is a true professional, and his style will be the perfect compliment to the WOR lineup, and...

March 14, 2002 'The O'Reilly-Clinton Factor'? Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly has invited New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to co-host the debut of his nationally syndicated radio show, and if she works out the invite could be permanent. O'Reilly is set to hit the AM airwaves on May 8 which, incidentally, is the eleventh anniversary of the day Hillary's husband asked a certain Little Rock office gal to "kiss it". Mrs. Clinton is among several "very bright women" the TV talker says he would like to audition. "We're going to bring in the feminine point of view," the FNC...