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"America has little to teach and much to learn," scandal-plagued Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., said in the 1990s to a Muslim audience including such extremists as professor Sami Al-Arian, Ahmed bin Yousef and Ramadan Shallah, now head of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad. "The O'Reilly Factor" dropped this bombshell Monday night on Fox News Channel. Not surprisingly, Torricelli refused to appear on the program and explain himself. What did he mean by his outrageous comment, and who exactly did he want to teach America a lesson? And what sort of lesson? The senator's chief of staff, Danny O'Brien, claimed that...

<p>Germany turns on America. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.</p> <p>No nation on earth has been kinder to Germany than the United States. American dollars rebuilt that nation after it had embraced the evil dictator Hitler. American forces protected the majority of Germans from the Russians, who would have enslaved East Germany, which they did, and would have done the same thing to the West.</p>

After listening to Bill O'Reilly on The Radio Factor for a couple of months, I am very curious to hear what fellow Freepers think of the show, based on O'Reilly's performance so far. -- Are the topics of no interest to you, or are they intriguing?-- Does Bill lean too much left or right, or is he fair to all parties?-- Is the show worth your time, or are you disappointed when you realize you have lost two hours of your day to the radio?-- Does Bill need to stick to TV, and stay away from radio, or should he...

The Scoop: Although anything original is generally worth a look in the summer, minimal support from lead-in Beyond Belief: Fact of Fiction, competition from CBS's still red-hot CSI (which even in repeats delivers significantly) and Fox's poor track-record in this genre are three reasons why The Pulse is unlikely to succeed. As much as Fox would like to think Bill O'Reilly is still a huge draw one look at the ratings for his occasional primetime specials and it's obvious the controversial loud-mouth is losing steam. Ditto for Geraldo Rivera, whose once prosperous ratings days as a syndicated talk show host...

August 2002 Spin This The trouble with Bill O'Reilly By Cathy Young To his detractors, Bill O’Reilly, the tough-talking host of the phenomenally popular Fox News show The O’Reilly Factor, exemplifies the meanness and vulgarity of public discourse. The leftist media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting calls his show "The Oh Really? Factor" and takes him to task on a regular basis for mistreating guests and clutching "at any straw to avoid admitting he’s wrong." To his admirers, O’Reilly is a scourge of liberal pieties, a commentator who cuts through elitist nonsense and upholds common sense. As...

So how many Freepers are going to watch the new newsmagazine show on broadcast Fox tommorrow? To get up to speed, see this previous thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/684085/posts. It's featuring Geraldo Rivera, Bill O'Reilly, anchored by Shepherd Smith. I also believe Laurie Dhue is going to be on the show based on some of the ads I've seen for it. I think I'll check it out. I wonder if it'll get off the ground.

O'Reilly: Bush Insider Claims Clinton Deal Torpedoed Pardongate A Bush administration insider has privately leaked word that a deal was struck between Democratic congressional leaders and the Bush White House not to prosecute Bill and/or Hillary Clinton on an array of charges related to the Pardongate scandal, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly claimed Friday on his nationally syndicated "Radio Factor" show. "A very highly placed source - and I mean this guy knows what's going on in the Bush administration - told me about a month ago that when President Bush took office he had meetings with all of the...

The O'Reilly factory: Radio talk show rolls off Fox commentator's assembly line by Dean Johnson Tuesday, May 7, 2002 <!CAT-TELEVISION!> He has been anointed television's fifth most powerful person by the trade journal Electronic Media, in part because his Fox News Channel program ``The O'Reilly Factor'' is one of the top cable news shows in the country. <!ENDSUMM!> He has had two books at the top of the New York Times bestseller list and a novel that Mel Gibson's production company has optioned for a movie. He writes a syndicated newspaper column that runs in nearly 200 papers across...

In his "Talking Points" segment Bill O'Reilly openly endorsed taking the war on terrorism directly to terrorist states, sponsors, and leaders and wiping them out in first strike tactics reminiscent of the movie "Swordfish" in which a shadow organization working within and without the US government continually singles out threats to the US and annihilates them. Furthermore, O'Reilly suggested Bush rescind the Executive Order 12333 that limits the assassination of political leaders by the US government. As far as I know, O'Reilly is the first journalist of national stature to endorse waging unrestrained total war and targeted assassinations on terrorists...

Does anyone know about Bill O'Reilly's radio show. I have a sister in Texas and the show has already been cancelled in her hometown. I find O'Reilly boring on the radio and increasingly so on TV. So its Rush for me!

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a big-spending, money-grubbing socialist who will run for the presidency in 2008 and lose. That according to Fox News Channel host and WorldNetDaily columnist Bill O'Reilly who lashed into the former first lady on last night's edition of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." "She's gonna run, there's no question she's gonna run, and you'll have a clear-cut choice," said the host of "The O'Reilly Factor." O'Reilly was the second of three guests on the program which also featured actor Freddie Prinze Jr. and singer Bryan Adams. The senator and her office have...

On O'Reilly tonite, John Kyl said that the Senate Intelligence Committee had also been briefed on the Bin Laden hijacking "warning" that the White House is coming under fire for. I finally was able to get on-line and look up the members of the committee. Here are the members: Democrat: Bob Graham, Florida Carl Levin, Michigan John Rockefeller, West Virginia Dianne Feinstein, California Ron Wyden, Oregon Dick Durbin, Illinois Even Bayh, Indiana John Edwards, North Carolina Barbara Mikulski, Maryland Republicans: Richard Shelby, Alabama John Kyl, Arizona James Inhofe, Oklahoma Orrin Hatch, Utah Pat Roberts, Kansas Mike DeWine, Ohio Fred Thompson,...

Anybody hear what I heard on Bill O'Reilly's "No-Spin" radio show?I happened only to catch the final five minutes of his "interview" with Peter Jennings, but so cozy from what I heard was O'Reilly towards Jennings that someone at the station at any minute would have had to hose down the pair.O'Reilly referred to Jennings as a "stand-up Guy" -- and continued his praise to the affect that "at least" Jennings always "said what he meant." Mr. 'No-Spin' then said he "had no problems" with those of different views or opinions -- as long as they honest or truthful about...

~ Radio Wars – O’Reilly’s Payola Strategy ~ By William A. Mayer - Editor & Publisher May 9, 2002 Pompous loudmouth Bill O’Reilly has attempted to break into the radio spotlight with an all-out kamikaze blitz never before seen in talk radio. The details, as so often happens these days, were broached by the “alternative” media, in this case the irrepressible, indefatigable Matt Drudge. Drudge revealed that nearly $600,000 has curiously changed hands at precisely the time New York’s WOR and LA’s KABC made their decision to carry The Talk Factor. This does not include the 200k that Drudge says...

Cable host and now talkradio broadcaster Bill O'Reilly was pushed over the edge this week after the DRUDGE REPORT revealed exclusively that $300,000 was promised to O'Reilly's New York City flagship station WOR-AM to carry the program. Although VIACOMCBSINFINTYWESTWOODONE radio head Joel Hollander publicly denied to reporters that compensation was being paid to affiliates for carrying O'Reilly -- behind the scenes on Tuesday, Hollander threatened to pull the payout guarantee to WOR, blaming the station for the DRUDGE REPORT leak! Meanwhile, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, Los Angeles' KABC-AM is receiving $250,000 in outdoor advertising from VIACOM in exchange for...

When it comes to national talk radio, conservatives are king -- for now. Bill O'Reilly, the right-leaning, top-ranked cable television host, is debuting "The Radio Factor With Bill O'Reilly" nationwide Wednesday. In Chicago and in about 100 of his 205 markets, he'll be competing head-to-head with Rush Limbaugh, right-wing pit bull and the undisputed heavyweight champion of the talk world. Then you have such political and cultural conservatives as Dr. Laura, G. Gordon Liddy, Sean Hannit, Neal Boortz, Mike Gallagher, Matt Drudge and on and on and on. So whatever happened to the liberals whom conservatives like to claim run...

What is it with Matt Drudge these days? Is he just jealous of Bill O'Reilly, or trying to get more attention by causing a stir between O'Reilly and himself? IMHO, Drudge is irrelevent, so what he says doesn't hold much credance. You could just say that he is trying to gain media attention, or something to that effect, but really what he is publishing these days is not "breaking news" but rather old news previously published by easily accessible news organizations. To gripe on Bill O'Reilly is wrong, and to myself means that I will be visiting Drudge's website less...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WEDNESDAY MAY 08, 2002 22:53:12 ET XXXXX O'REILLY RAGE AFTER STATION PAYOUT IS REVEALED; WESTWOOD ONE THREATENS TO PULL CASH; FOX NEWS HOST ADVISES: 'DRUDGE SHOULD BE KILLED' **Update** Cable host and now talkradio broadcaster Bill O'Reilly was pushed over the edge this week after the DRUDGE REPORT revealed exclusively that $300,000 was promised to O'Reilly's New York City flagship station WOR-AM to carry the program. Although VIACOMCBSINFINTYWESTWOODONE radio head Joel Hollander publicly denied to reporters that compensation was being paid to affiliates for carrying O'Reilly -- behind the scenes on Tuesday, Hollander threatened to pull...

This is a discussion thread for "The Radio Factor," which debuts today. What do you folks think?

Wednesday May 8, 2002; 10:40 a.m. EDT Fox News Channel talk star Bill O'Reilly laughed off allegations that his radio syndicator was paying stations around the country to carry his new "O'Reilly Radio Factor" show, agreeing with syndicated radio veteran Don Imus during a Wednesday morning interview that the practice was common. Imus wasted no time getting to the controversy, grilling O'Reilly on the charges at the top of the interview: IMUS: So then Matt Drudge has this story about Westwood One paying some radio stations to carry your program. And we laughed because that's done all the time. It's...