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by Mark Finkelstein December 3, 2005 - 18:48. It's war, I tell you, war! On Fox News Watch, the Fox show dedicated to a review of journalism, [tiny] liberal talking head Neil Gabler just branded Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and John Gibson "demagogues." The topic was the "war against Christmas," and nerves quickly got frayed. Gabler's fellow lefty, Jane Hall, a normally staid presence, got exercised over what she saw as Jim Pinkerton's questioning of her religious bona fides. In a surprising bit of personal revelation, she declared herself a church-goer and insisted she would not take a back seat...

It's program ranker time. FNC had 9 of the top 10 shows on cable news in November, with Bill O'Reilly averaging an impressive 2,552,000 viewers. H&C was #2, Greta was #3, Shep was #4 and Hume was #5. CNN's Larry King was #7. He averaged 1,012,000 viewers in November. Notably, NewsNight with Aaron Brown averaged 795,000 viewers in November before it was yanked off the air; Anderson Cooper 360 averaged 632,000. The #1 show on MSNBC was Countdown with Keith Olbermann. It averaged a strong 462,000 viewers for the month, beating HLN's top program, Nancy Grace. Hardball was MSNBC's #2...

The federal holiday of Christmas is once again under siege this year by secular forces that want to wipe out any public display of America's Judeo-Christian traditions. And what a problematic situation this has become, especially for big business. Sears and Kmart will absolutely not mention the word "Christmas" in advertising this year. Wal-Mart will not either, along with scores of other retail stores. The reason these operations give for avoiding the C-word is that they don't want to offend anyone by mentioning a holiday they might not celebrate. These stores believe the greeting "Happy Holidays" is more "inclusive," although...

O'Reilly just tried to make up some nonsense (as always) about Iraq and Vietnam. O'Reilly's guest was Lt. Gen. Mcinerney, who explained to BOR that it takes years to develop good company, battalion and division commanders and this will take 5 to 10 years to achieve in Iraq.O'Reilly pontificates and tells Mcinerney that in Vietnam our advisors ran the South Vietnamese units and we just trained the Vietnamese footsoldiers and that worked pretty good and we should do the same in Iraq and the real problem is we don't have enough Iraqi "riflemen" to take orders from our advisors like...

Below find a list of the major department stores across the country and where they stand on using Christmas in their holiday advertising and other promotions. JCPenney: "Christmas" mentioned in print ads & other advertising Federated Department Stores (Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Filene's, Marshall Fields): "Christmas" mentioned in print ads & other advertising Employees are free to use any holiday greeting that they feel is appropriate Dillard's: "Christmas" mentioned in print ads & other advertising FAO Schwarz: Using "Holiday" this year in advertising materials Employees are free to use any holiday greeting that they feel is appropriate Toys 'R'...

by Mark Finkelstein November 30, 2005 - 07:13. To use a favorite phrase of ESPN's Dan Patrick, Bill O'Reilly was "en fuego" in his Today show appearance this morning The main subject was President Bush's scheduled speech today to discuss his Iraq strategy.Katie Couric described the impending speech as "very important" and asked O'Reilly what people need to hear from it.O'Reilly got matters off to an unexpected start by declaring: "I'm not even going to listen to the speech. Maybe that shocks people, but it really doesn't mean anything." He pointed out that it only takes six weeks to train...

Pleasing activist groups bent on revenge, San Francisco's Board Of Supervisors is now lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to pull the license of Bill O'Reilly's San Francisco affiliate KNEW-AM, according to Bay Area radio columnist Brad Kava. The move, in the form of an official city resolution, comes after the FOX News Channel host's recent controversial comments about San Francisco's increasingly extreme stances on issues such as military recruitment. Last month, East Bay-based protestors from a group called the Youth Media Council picketed Clear Channel Radio's (KNEW's owner) San Francisco studios, demanding conservative shows be removed from the airwaves. Sure...

Bill O'Reilly appreciates the mind of Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl — and don't get him started on her body. Liberal watchdogs at Media Matters are agog over O'Reilly's on-air ogling of the Harvard-educated law prof. On his 11/3 radio broadcast, O'Reilly called for a "full-body search" of Wiehl, adding that "she asked for it." On 10/26, he asked Wiehl to protest outside CBS studios in a bikini. On 11/10, discussing an executive who spent $250,000 in one night at a strip club, he told Wiehl "it might be worth learning how" to dance for a $10,000 tip, adding,...

Anyone catch O'Reilly's program last night? In one segment, he had on two guys - one was an ex CIA whom I have seen before on FNC. They both said - one - the citizens of the United States need to wake up and realize what and who we are fighting and - two - the Bush administration needs to be better at articulating what the stakes are. Both said this President is kicking arse and taking names but is horrible in explaining what it has done, what is going on, and what it plans to do. I tend to...

Once you've disarmed honest citizens and evicted the military, what do you do for an encore? Well, one San Francisco supervisor thinks you try going after the host of the #1 cable show in America. Three days after the election, San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly told a CBS television affiliate that he planned on introducing a resolution demanding that Fox News executives fire Bill O'Reilly. What had O'Reilly done to put the supervisor in such a snit? He expressed his outrage at the city's proposition to ban public schools from allowing military recruiters from public school campuses. On his radio...

Were my eyes deceiving me? On tonight's O'Reilly Factor, clips of Ted Kennedy making an anti-Wal-Mart speech were shown. One of his props was a posterboard chart, titled something like "The 10 Commandments of Customer Service" for Wal-Mart. Although it was difficult to see, it appeared that each one started with "Though shalt..." Can anyone confirm this, or did I misread it?

COMMENTARY Bill O'Reilly vs. The People's Republic of San Francisco By Jim Kouri Nov 13, 2005 The bad boy of cable news, Bill O'Reilly, touched a raw nerve when he angrily told his substantial audience that as a result of their latest anti-American legislation, San Francisco deserved to be struck by rabid terrorists. O'Reilly's anger was on display on national television for all to see after residents of  San Francisco passed two ballot initiatives: one prohibited military recruiters from visiting schools, while the other banned citizen ownership of handguns. What really got the goat of the popular host of Fox...

Helping the Kids of U.S. Military People Killed in the War on Terror Friday, November 11, 2005 By Bill O'Reilly Helping the kids of U.S. military people killed in the war on terror, that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." Most Americans appreciate the sacrifice the American military is making in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all over the world. The war on terror is intense, dangerous, and misunderstood, especially misunderstood. Just today, The New York Times editorialized this way: "[The administration doesn't] want a full accounting of how American soldiers and intelligence agents have been turned into torturers."...

Not everybody took Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's on-air comments this week about terrorists bombing Coit Tower as the hyperbole that fills the talk-radio ether. One of the ticked off was San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly, who Friday called for O'Reilly to be fired. "For an anchor on a major station, Fox News, to be saying those kinds of things, it's just not OK," Daly said Friday. "It was just over the top." Agreeing with Daly was San Francisco firefighters union president John Hanley, and not just because the hose-shaped tower is a tribute to firefighters. "Who is this guy,...

Conservative Broadcaster Bill O’Reilly is making no apologies for his inflammatory comments about San Francisco. "I'm from New York,” O’Reilly said on the radio Friday. “There are dozens of people in my neighborhood, on Long Island, who are dead because of 9/11, and you people are telling me you're not going to allow military recruiting out there. Hey, it's serious, and I think you guys need a wake-up call." O’Reilly is upset about the city’s proposition discouraging public schools from allowing military recruiters on campus. On his national radio show Tuesday, he said San Francisco should not get a nickel...

You know you're reading an unfair attack article when they're too scared to even use a byline. Today someone at MSNBC relied on partisan activists Media Matters to go after Bill O'Reilly for saying "that it was A-OK for terrorists to wipe the city [San Francisco] off the map."That's not what he said at all. I was listening when he said it. The article reads: At issue are comments from O'Reilly's Election Day broadcast radio show about a San Francisco ballot measure opposing the presence of military recruiters in city schools. "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Supervisor Chris Daly is firing back at Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly for comments he made on his radio show Wednesday that encouraged al-Qaida to "blow up" Coit Tower. O'Reilly reacted to San Franciscans' approval of Proposition I, which discourages military recruiters on public high school and college campuses. He advised President George W. Bush to react by withdrawing any military protection for the city. "...If al-Qaida comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to...

Does Bill O'Reilly have it in for the city by the bay? San Franciscans have been in an uproar this week over apparent comments by the host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" that it was A-OK for terrorists to wipe the city off the map. At issue are comments from O'Reilly's Election Day broadcast on his syndicated Westwood One radio show about a San Francisco ballot measure opposing the presence of military recruiters in city schools.

Conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly is ready to scratch San Francisco off the map of the United States. Gone. Coit Tower? Terrorists can blow it up, and the rest of the country shouldn't care. The Fox News talk-show host and one-man conservative media juggernaut has concluded that the United States and San Francisco just don't go together anymore. Voting to oppose military recruitment in public schools and to ban handgun ownership, as San Franciscans did Tuesday, means the city should be cut off from federal dollars. And then some. "You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I...