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The O’Reilly Factor originally appealed to me because it was one of the very few semi-conservative prime time news programs on TV, but I now consider Bill O’Reilly to be far more liberal than conservative. For the past two years, I have regularly watched his show and frequently disagreed with his position on a number of issues. I put up with his misperceptions only because I considered it to be nothing more than that we had differences of opinion. However, when recently, he repeatedly attacked the legitimacy of the Vietnam War while attacking the Swift Boat Veterans credibility, I detected...

History has shown that the neutral position is the most dangerous position to take. Unfortunately for Bill O'Reilly, the host of Fox News' O'Reilly Factor and the target of sexual harassment lawsuit, his attempts at reasonableness are neither liberal enough for the hard left nor conservative enough for the solid right. Conservatives bite the hand that feeds them when they fail to recognize that O'Reilly, in his position as an independent moderate, provides the perfect doorway through which a maturing, political aficionado can pass as he discovers the dangerous liberal slant of the mainstream media. (Certainly, a budding neo-con does...

In a culture that sexualizes women constantly, the line between water-cooler chat and harassment is increasingly thin. Bill O'Reilly, the conservative talk-show host whose "The O'Reilly Factor" is the highest-rated cable news show, has been sued for sexual harassment by his former producer Andrea Mackris. Mackris alleges that on many occasions, both in person and over the phone, O'Reilly engaged in lewd and lascivious conversation against her will. She goes so far as to state that O'Reilly unlawfully engaged in, and gratified himself with, phone sex, with Mackris on the other end of the line. To be sure, O'Reilly enjoys...

Feel free to slap Candidate Kerry. It sure feels good.

(KRT) - Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, the nation's top-rated cable news host and a brash advocate of personal responsibility and self-control, was sued for sexual harassment Wednesday, reports The Los Angeles Times, by a producer on his show who says he repeatedly pressured her to engage in phone sex and frightened her with lewd "monologues." The suit, filed by Andrea Mackris, a 33-year-old associate producer on ``The O'Reilly Factor,'' quotes O'Reilly as speaking to her in highly explicit terms about vibrators, oral sex, masturbation and a fantasy in a Caribbean hotel room shower. The suit also quotes O'Reilly as...

Despite lurid charges of sexual harassment, Bill O'Reilly hasn't lost a single newspaper client for his column, and the man who heads the syndicate that distributes the column says he stands behind the top-rated host of "The O'Reilly Factor." "I'm behind him 100 percent," Creators Syndicate President Rick Newcombe told Editor & Publisher (E&P). "I think this is politically motivated. Bill is a lightning rod for criticism because he has strong views and can be very critical of the other side. He's a big target." Andrea Mackris, an associate producer on O'Reilly's Fox News Channel show, filed a lawsuit accusing...

Subject says it all...O'Reilly just came back and said on live television: "I am so sick of talking about the war in Iraq, I know it's important and all but we need to talk about something else more important." Great Bill...bet the soldiers love hearing that. Bill playing both sides tonight..first Sinclair guy he gave some hell to for airing Stolen Honor...now he is blowing Lanny Davis on live TV.

During the debate Edwards was just being a usual idiot, he was rude and interupted cheney, presented false facts, tried to say cheney dodged the israel question, made arrogant looks which the press attacked Bush for, and instead of flipping the paper over like he had been doing in the end he made a loud rip while cheney was talking, not even fox said anything about that.

Free this poll on who the Oreilly factor favors, http://billoreilly.com/

I saw this on the "Jimmy Kimmel" late night TV show last night. They played a clip of Bush in a TV interview with O'Reilly. He asked Bush about the flood of illegal Mexicans and Bush said "When I was Governor of....uh." "When I was Governor of uhhhh...ummmm..uh" "When I was Governor of ummmmm....uhhhh....uhhhh." O'Reilly said; "Mr. Bush, they're not going to like that answer." He had the most disgusted look I've ever seen on a TV interviewer.

Bill O'Reilly's interview with President Bush Monday evening resulted in his highest-rated show of 2004. The Factor averaged 4.58 million viewers for the hour. 4.74 million viewers tuned in for the first 15 minutes of the show (which included the interview), and the vast majority of the audience kept watching for the whole show. Part two will air tonight. Other Monday ratings: Total day: FNC: 1,215,000 / CNN: 446,000 / MSNBC: 273,000 Primetime: FNC: 3,022,000 / CNN: 716,000 / MSNBC: 437,000

In addition to "Tour Of Duty", I wonder if OReilly has reviewed info on Kerry-Viet huddles in Hanoi and Paris,Kerry portrait in Hanoi Museum's Legion Of Heroes,Kerry VVAW testimony, etc. Being a friend, He should be able to wangle an interview with "MASSACHURIAN CANDIDATE".

* * * * Advance Praise for Tour of Duty * * * * "Doug Brinkley succeeds in humanizing John Kerry, something the senator often has trouble doing himself. Tour of Duty is an incisive look at a man who would be president." --Bill O'Reilly Pub date January 6, 2004

At Barbera Walter's Retirement Party - the lovefest was on for Dan and Martha. Gag!!!

Bill O’Reilly of Fox News last night observed plaintively, “everything has changed” in the field of journalism “because of the Internet.” The result he feared is the “redefining” of politics. Everything he says on air, he complained, “is taped by the far left websites” who then try to “trip him up” by quoting what he has said. This unfortunate development is “almost isolating” politicians. His guest, Larry Sabato, agreed that “reporters complain” they can’t get interviews with candidates. As one of those Internet journalists who refer to what people have REALLY said, rather than simply making it up to fit...

Letter to Fox by me: Sent to: Speakout@foxnews.com - Doubt BOR would read I like Fox News - big time. I really used to look forward to the No Spin Zone. But lately, and I mean for several months now, I really believe Bill O'Reilly has lost his edge. On what may be two of the biggest stories of 2004 - The CBS Forged Memos and the Swiftboat Vets for Truth, Bill has simply dropped off of the credibility scale. Swift Vets - Bill blasted these guys as lying mudslingers, period. Kerry's record is established, and these guys are just...

Could someone fill me in?

Laura Ingaham was just on Bill O'Reilly and she cleaned his socks. Best Quote, "Bill, those people weren't right wing when they were buying your books and making your show Number 1, why are you calling them right wing now?" Stopped him dead. It trully was an INTERVENTION to let the Big O know that the people that made him are well aware that he is sucking up to the liberal elites that he parties in New York with. The women on The View despise him but he just can't see it cause they "SMILE IN HIS FACE, ALL THE...

I'm done with O'Reilly. I just heard him defending Dan Rather saying something like "in this country you're innocent until proven guilty..." While I agree with that, I've got a real problem with the fact that he doesn't seem to have the beliefs when talking about Kobe Bryant and Scott Peterson. Kobe was accused by a slutty whore who is obviously seeking to profit from her situation. Peterson is probably guilty as hell, but if you can't prove it then you can't prove it. Why the double standard, Bill?

There are a lot of amazing elements to the CBS/National Guard document story: CBS's initial "how-dare-these-internet-bloggers-question-us!" hubris, Dan Rather's refusal to see the writing on the wall, and Kerry's supporters' sheer stupidity in fueling this story in the first place. But when "no spin"-meister Bill O'Reilly chose to weigh in, it wasn't what you might have expected--namely, Bill didn't blast the elites at Viacom who are allowing the story to fester due their failure to take responsibility for the fishy documents. Instead, O'Reilly took the occasion to blast "right wing conservative talk show hosts" for pushing the story of the...