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Is General Electric, the parent company of NBC, doing business with Iran? And did they do business with the bin Laden family after 9/11? That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." Now you may remember former NBC correspondent John Hockenberry. He competed against us on MSNBC for a while and reported stories for "Dateline NBC," winning some awards. In this month's edition of Technology Review, a publication put out by MIT, Mr. Hockenberry makes a very disturbing charge. "In early 2002, [I] was in Saudi Arabia covering regional reaction to September 11. We spent time on the...

Is General Electric, the parent company of NBC, doing business with Iran? And did they do business with the bin Laden family after 9/11? That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." Now you may remember former NBC correspondent John Hockenberry. He competed against us on MSNBC for a while and reported stories for "Dateline NBC," winning some awards. In this month's edition of Technology Review, a publication put out by MIT, Mr. Hockenberry makes a very disturbing charge. "In early 2002, [I] was in Saudi Arabia covering regional reaction to September 11. We spent time on the...

Candid criticism, or sour grapes towards a guy who's lapping MSNBC in the ratings? In any case, David Shuster and the rest of the Morning Joe crew took out after Bill O'Reilly this morning in the wake of the incident in which the Factor host was, shall we say, energetic in his efforts to speak with Barack Obama at a NH campaign event this weekend. Read accounts of the incident here, here and here. Shuster called O'Reilly a "jerk" and "such a buffoon." View video here. [Recommend story on Digg.com]

NASHUA, N.H.--Bombastic Fox News host Bill O'Reilly got into a confrontation with an Obama aide after O'Reilly started screaming at him as he tried to get Barack Obama's attention following a rally here. The incident was triggered when O'Reilly--with a Fox News crew shooting--was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson "Move" so he could get Obama's attention, according to several eyewitnesses. "O'Reilly was yelling at him, yelling at his face," a photographer shooting the scene said. O'Reilly grabbed Nicholson's arm, said "move" and shoved him, another eyewitness said. Nicholson, who is 6'8 said O"Reilly called him "low class."...

Group calls for end to Christmas Culture wars The outrage by some people over department stores using the phrase “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” is a distraction from real moral and social issues, according to a group of concerned Catholics and evangelical Christians. The group has called for a “cease-fire in the Christmas culture wars,” and challenged conservative talk-show host Bill O’Reilly and others who have lashed out against a so-called secular “War on Christmas.” In an “Open Letter to Christmas Culture Warriors” published as an advertisement in the New York Post, Washington Times and the National Catholic Reporter,...

Ok is it just me or does O'Reilly seem to sometimes seem a bit creepy and unbelievable? What is exceptionally non-credible here is his ignorance on the slang term to copulate with someone else's maternal unit. NO ONE on the planet thinks O'Reilly honestly didn't KNOW what the term was. What is sad here is that MKH is brought on to be O'Reilly's Internet Cop - and the MILF story BARELY qualifies as internet news in any shape or fashion. I mean I don't think the kiddies are out there surfing an airline's price page for naughty air travel deals...

"It could be the worst movie I've ever seen" ... "[T]he out and out worst, most disgusting, most hateful, most incompetent, most revolting, most loathsome, most reprehensible cinematic work I have ever encountered." ... "It portrays the members of our Marine Corps in the most disgusting way imaginable." ... "This film is an atrocity. It is zero stars." ... "I honestly was close to vomiting when I saw the film." ... "It is a slander on the United States of America." ... "Everyone associated with this film ought to be ashamed." ... "Will it inspire future terrorists? Of course it...

Barbara Walters wanted "The View" audience to understand that she normally disagrees with Bill O'Reilly. But when it came to his views on child-rearing, Walters had to admit that she largely agreed with the Factor host. And that depressed her. O'Reilly, the father of two young children, appeared on today's View to promote his new book on child-rearing and related issues, Kids Are Americans Too. View video here.

Reese Witherspoon can't be pleased with the performance of her new movie "Rendition." It is a colossal bomb and will disappear as quickly as one of the movie's characters, courtesy of the evil CIA, of course. Once again, Hollywood is on a "let's make America look bad" binge. This is directly caused by loathing for the Bush administration, which the entertainment left sees as a combination of the Third Reich and Emperor Nero. Thus, a series of earnest "America is a human-rights violator" films are coming to a theater near you, and the odds are you will ignore them. Good....

Sure, Rosie O'Donnell's a 9-11 conspiracy nut. But she's also a big-time liberal and ardent Republican critic. That makes her our 9-11 conspiracy nut. So let's not dwell on her lunacy. That seemed to be Mika Brzezinski's operative logic on today's "Morning Joe." During the opening 6 AM schmoozefest, talk turned to the confrontation between Rosie and an "O'Reilly Factor" staffer [identified by NewsBuster Ian Schwartz as likely being producer Jesse Watters] that recently occured at an O'Donnell book-signing. Rosie had apparently declined to return phone calls from the "Factor" inviting her on, so Bill dispatched a producer to offer...

In my last few blog posts I have described the smears (character assassinations) leftists aim at those who disagree with them, and I gave some past examples as well as the current ones attempted against Bill O”Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. I described those who cannot argue on the issues but instead assassinate character as “Stalinists”, because this word is often used to describe those who practice character assassination. An obvious leftist who calls himself, “Optimizer”, then commented to complain that I called those who believed Anita Hill – “Stalinists”, which, of course, I did not do.

In the parable of the million monkeys banging on typewriters for a million years, the reward is supposed to be the complete works of Shakespeare. But have you heard the parable of the million interns? Here, the prize is Rush Limbaugh's head, and Bill O'Reilly's, and Brit Hume's, and pretty much any other prominent conservative or non-leftist who doesn't kowtow to the Democratic Party and its “netroots" army of Lilliputian cannibals. This, in a nutshell, is the vision behind a group most people have never heard of, at least not until this week, Media Matters for America. Nearly every day,...

To those paying attention, the ongoing smear attempts by Democrat politicians and their operatives of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are nothing new. We remember the “daisy” ad by Lyndon Johnson against Goldwater, the Ray Donovan affair, Bork’s video rentals and garbage riffling, the Texas pickup truck ad against Bush, and, of course, the famous fake memos put forth by Dan Rather. Coincidentally, one of the left’s most heinous smear attempts was of Clarence Thomas, and just this week his memoir has appeared containing his first public comments on the details of the “high-tech” lynching.

There are a lot of things that move race relations forward in this country that most people never hear about, but there seems to be more things that move race relations backward due to “race-colored” glasses, an abundance of negative racial stereotypes in entertainment, making condescending remarks and taking comments out of context to attack someone. Looking through race-colored glasses almost sent several Duke University lacrosse players to jail for rape, when in fact the charges against them were bogus. These same glasses tried a black teenager as an adult for a fight with a white student in Jena, Louisiana....

This week the George Soros financed, Hillary Clinton smear machine called Media Matters was exposed for the slimy liars they are – joining the other smear machine, MoveOn.org, in the consciousness of a nation that just listened to Ahmadinejad maintain that there were no homosexuals in Iran. What Media Matters did is what left-wing organizations often do: they cherry pick quotes and take them out of context to try to discredit conservatives.

Huge relief from sea to shining sea this morning. That college drum major who went missing last month, and for whom we all feared the worst, has been spotted alive! Turns out he had simply gotten a better gig. Check out the screencap. That's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being given the royal treatment as he visits fellow USA-hater Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. And sure enough, there's the drum major. I figure Hugo must have been watching ESPN a while back, dug the drum major's look, and used some of those oil revenues to make him an irresistible offer. That was just one...

Keith Olbermann this week has been happier than Ralphie Parker on Christmas morning over a left-wing group-generated controversy over Bill O'Reilly. But like the BB-gun-receiving protagonist of "A Christmas Story," lil' Keithie needs to know the dangers of (metaphorically) putting his eye out. After all, on September 9 on NBC's "Football Night in America," Olbermann made a cryptic crack that could be taken to be racially insensitive, if not racist. On Tuesday's "Countdown," Olbermann awarded O'Reilly both the "worser" and "worst" person in the world awards to his higher-rated competition at the Fox News Channel. O'Reilly, Olbermann thundered, is a...

This could be a first: Al Sharpton criticized for being insufficiently inflammatory; faulted for not shooting from the hip. At the opening of today's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough panned the Rev's "O'Reilly Factor" performance last evening, in which the normally obstreperous one was relatively subdued on the subject of his host's comments on Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem. Later, Scarborough escalated his criticism, calling O'Reilly a "moron," and accusing him of makng "racist" comments. View video here. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Al Sharpton went on Bill O'Reilly's show last night, and apparently said very little. WILLIE GEIST: Well, to be honest, I...

CNN co-host Kiran Chetry and CNN contributor Roland Martin, in a segment on TuesdayÂ’s "American Morning," discussed comments on race Fox News host Bill OÂ’Reilly had recently made on his radio show, and the question you might expect came up: "Is this going to be one of those Don Imus moments?" Chetry asked this question to Martin due to some blogs "buzzing" over OÂ’ReillyÂ’s comments about a visit he made to a "soul food" restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City with Al Sharpton. Martin denied that this was going to be OÂ’ReillyÂ’s "Imus moment."OÂ’Reilly, in a conversation...

The real story behind the MoveOn smear attack on General Petraeus is far left financier George Soros. He has given millions to MoveOn and other Internet sites that smear conservatives and traditionalists. If you want to know the full extent of Soros' intrusion into the political process, read Investors Business Daily's editorial today. Go to their Web site. It is downright frightening. Now the far left billionaire has bought politicians, journalists, an Internet character assassins. He wields tremendous power in this country. So much power that 24 Democratic senators were afraid to condemn MoveOn for its outrageous attack on General...