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For a country smack in the middle of World War III, we are certainly a blasé bunch. We're worried about how much fighting the people who want to kill us will cost and whether we have an "exit strategy" in Iraq. Craven politicians and crazed columnists are second guessing President Bush who, at times, looks like he's first guessing the nation's foreign policy. Since Mr. Bush, for some inexplicable reason, will not spell it out for you it falls on me to do so. There are around the world thousands of Islamic fanatics who want to kill Americans because they...

<p>If I were to take a wild guess, I'd bet that Bill O'Reilly and his colleagues at the Fox News Channel spent the weekend, as many of us did, reading Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."</p>

The recent lawsuit filed (and later dropped) by Fox News against Al Franken smelled of Bill O'Reilly. By pushing this lawsuit, O'Reilly succeeded in bringing priceless publicity to the kooky Franken, and at the same time, made Fox News look unprofessional. Man, I was embarrassed for them....O'Reilly must have pushed hard for this lawsuit for Fox News to even consider it. O'Reilly lets his tremendous ego get the best of him. I feel that he has reached the peak of his popularity. I would take Joe Scarborough on MSNBC any day of the week over O'Reilly(even if he is on...

Bill O’Reilly picked the wrong person to be a human punching bag when he invited Ann Coulter on his show. His purpose was to position himself as an independent and Coulter as a "right-wing pundit." But Coulter tried getting into the substance of her book, Treason, and O’Reilly was exposed as a know-nothing on the subject of Joe McCarthy. Rebutting phony charges that she is "mean," Coulter said, "I’m responding to 50 years of the liberal creation of a myth—turning an honorable American, a great American patriot, Joe McCarthy, into a virtual Nazi." O’Reilly responded, "I’m not going with that....

Anybody else watching O'Reilly tonight? I swear his last guest (someone called Moyer) must be a reader of Al Gore At The Movies reviews. Why? Because in Al Gore's REVIEW of Pirates Of The Caribbean , he went into a rant about how Disney World should warn families when they have Gay Day there so the children won't be exposed to some very sickening sights.

Porno Publisher Issues Call to 'Pray' for Death of Broadcaster By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer August 05, 2003 (Editor's Note: Contains an Internet hyperlink in the third paragraph some readers may find offensive.) (CNSNews.com) - Television commentators of all stripes have raised the ire of liberals and conservatives for years, but one is now the subject of a prayer vigil for his death. Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt has called for a "National Prayer Day" on August 5 to "pray for the death of [FOX News Channel host] Bill O'Reilly." The pornography publisher and California gubernatorial candidate's event...

The Billing of America Bill Clinton and I have a few things in common. He is making a lot of money these days mouthing off, and so am I. He came from rather humble beginnings, and I was raised in a working-class environment as well. We are both in the top income bracket, but here is where we diverge. Mr. Clinton loves paying taxes. I don't. Speaking before the Rainbow/Push coalition, Clinton criticized the Bush tax cut: "We are going to put half a million (children) out on the street so I can get my $80,000 tax cut. I must...

"We distort. You comply"Even in a down economy, there are some business models that still work -- selling T-shirts comparing Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly to Hitler, for example. - - - - - - - - - - - -By Katharine MieszkowskiJune 26, 2003  | Nothing boosts lefty T-shirt sales like an officious, bullying cease-and-desist letter from Fox News. Agitproperties.com in Austin, Texas, sells "Faux News Channel" T-shirts that mock the Fox logo with the slogan "We distort. You comply." The company is an equal-opportunity network mocker -- it also sells "Pentagon News Network" T-shirts parodying the CNN logo....

The American Library Association (ALA), our librarians, are entrusted with the books and reference materials chronicling the world’s development. Basically, if you are a librarian you have seen it all. Unfortunately, the librarians want everyone else to see it all also, even our children

A vanity here. Does anyone have a transcript of Art Torres' comments on the O'Reilly Factor June 17. Torres was absolutely ridiculous, and O'Reilly told him so. It was Torres at his best, but the FoxNews/O'Reilly site does not have a transcript of the show. Thanks for your help.

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Sex, lies and videotape on the Internet, that's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Nearly everyday, there's something written on the Internet about me that's flat out untrue. And I'm not alone. Nearly every famous person in the country's under siege. Today's example comes from Web sites that picked up a false report from The San Francisco Chronicle that said a San Francisco radio station dropped The Radio Factor. If anyone had bothered to make even one phone call, they would have learned that Westwood One made a deal...

A few weeks ago in this space, I criticized Walter Cronkite for attacking the Bush administration over the war in Iraq. My analysis was that the former CBS News anchorman was coming at it from an internationalist point of view, putting the objectives and policies of foreign countries on the same level as those of the U.S.A. In this age of terror, when we are under attack, that attitude just doesn't cut it. The government of the United States must be proactive in protecting its citizens, and if the French don't like it, they can go eat snails. Well, guess...

Many people from just about every political persuasion nowadays are clamoring for an explanation as to why no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. After all, as Congressman Meeks said on Fox’s Hannity and Combs, on June 5, 2003, “it’s been 72 days since the beginning of the war in Iraq.” Bill O’Reilly is quick to add, “The Administration should be given a few more weeks” before being called upon to explain. Though, he has been saying that, every show, every day, for a few weeks now.

Prom Night – All White The No Spin Zone by Bill O'Reilly May 10, 2003 Put yourself in the shoes of a 17-year-old black student at Taylor County High School in Butler, Ga., about 150 miles south of Atlanta. For weeks you watch the news and see an integrated American military machine take apart Saddam Hussein's regime. You read on the BlackAmerica Web site that about 18 percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq were African-American. You see the country celebrating a great victory and waving the flags of patriotism. Then you come to school and find out some students in...

It is becoming clear to me that Bill O'Reilly is not on our side. Despite protestations to the contrary (he claims he is an independent), O'Reilly is a man of the left. Why? O'Reilly's political hero is RFK. In an interview with Kerry, he seemed like a John French Kerry fan. He was an attack dog when Lynne Cheney was a guest on his program. He was an attack dog when Marc Raccicot was on his show. He hyped the Rilya Wilson case and bashed brother Jeb on the eve of the Florida Gubernatorial election-- an election that the Democrats...

The liberals had been willing to allow years for the UN inspectors to search for wmds, but America was not allowed to wait for the bombs to stop exploding to find the prohibited weapons. Even the beloved Bill O’Reilly on April 29, 2003, condemned the New York and Los Angeles Times

Boycotts don't work, America cannot beat anyone in a war, the supply lines are too thin, Iraqi resistance is stiff, the Arab street will rise up, and my favorite, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" The bottom line is that the Left wants everyone to believe them, or in the case of the former Iraqi Minister of Information Baghdad Bob, believe anything but what is actually happening.....

We all make mistakes. And we all say things we regret sometimes. But tonight, many conservatives on Capitol Hill are shocked by a racially insensitive comment that was made by the most powerful figure in cable news — Bill O’Reilly. Lloyd Grove reported this column in his column “The Reliable Source,” which appears in “The Washington Post,” and talked to Joe. LAST SATURDAY, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly was emceeing a benefit for disadvantaged school children in Washington, D.C., something that he should be commended for. But apparently O’Reilly found himself filling time before an African-American boy’s group named “The Best Men”...

No pain, no gain? So let me get this straight. We know that for 25 years Saddam Hussein tortured, murdered and brutalized his people. Then in three weeks, coalition forces removed him and his thug pals from power. Then, a few days later, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets and beat themselves silly in a bloody display that made slasher flicks look tame. Do I have this right? Now you might think that these self-abusers would take a few days off from pain. How about a spring break from physical abuse? After suffering so long through the horrors of...

Oh, Canada, what the heck is going on? In a staggering display of in-your-face defiance, the Canadian government now says it will not turn over to the United States any members of Saddam Hussein's crew should they eventually show up in Canada, including the evil dictator himself! Canadian Minister of Defense John McCallum bluntly told the world that his government would give Saddam only to the World Court in The Hague. This non-provoked belligerence comes after Prime Minister Jean Chretien gleefully pilloried the Bush administration over fighting Iraq every chance he got. Chretien and his cohorts have made no secret...