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s Fox News Channel worth a buck? Affiliates will decide. Officials at the network are floating a proposal seeking a license fee of $1 per month per subscriber. The asking price represents a steep hike over its current rate, largely in the 25 to 30 cents range, according to distribution executives. The proposal, a copy of which was obtained by Multichannel News, also calls for a standalone 10-cent monthly fee for its oft-talked-about new business news channel.

Labor activist's speech gets attention of 'O'Reilly Factor' - A politically focused speech at a local high school in which the speaker said "Republicans hate Latinos" is gaining national attention as Tucson Unified School District officials struggle to defend the event. A day after Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer issued a formal response to questions from a state lawmaker who has been critical of the speech, he and others appeared on cable news to discuss the controversy. On the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," Pfeuffer, Republican state Rep. Jonathan Paton and a Tucson High Magnet School student also debated lingering questions...

RUSH: I don't know how we missed this. I really don't -- well, other than it's on page 28 of the report, but nobody talked about this, and I understand why now that I see it, and I also understand why this program is continually despised by elements of the drive-by media. My friends, I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a copy of a report by the Pew Research Center for the peoples and the press that was released on Tuesday, June 8th, of 2004, almost two years ago. "Online news audiences larger, more diverse. News audiences increasingly...

Tony in For BOR! Welcome snowflakes!

Jihad Unspun (which the U.S. State Department has decried as playing a "major role in disinformation") also published, as one of its bylined features, a speech by former Vice President Al Gore. A portion of that feature reads, "So long as their big flamboyant lie remains an established fact in the public's mind, President Bush will be seen as justified in taking for himself the power to make war on his whim." Does that mean Jihad Unspun's editors feel some ideological kinship with both Gore and some obscure writer who suggests nations should arm themselves with nuclear weapons? I cannot...

Nicholas Lemann has a very interesting piece on Bill O'Reilly. Fans, like Derb, may not enjoy as much as I did. But one thing I think everybody would find interesting is that O'Reilly wrote a revenge-fantasy novel in which a serial killer (and the cop who pursued him) was based on O'Reilly himself. ... ... In 1998, after the launch of "The O'Reilly Factor," but before superstardom, he published a thriller called "Those Who Trespass," which is his most ambitious and deeply felt piece of writing. "Those Who Trespass" is a revenge fantasy, and it displays extraordinarily violent impulses. A...

This past Monday night, Bill O'Reilly had Medea Benjamin, the founder of the "antiwar" group Code Pink, as a guest on his Fox News program, "The O?Reilly Factor." Code Pink is the organization that has been holding anti-troop demonstrations outside Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. every week, countered by a large turnout from the DC Chapter of Free Republic (God bless FR.) There are plenty of legitimate antiwar organizations whose spokepersons O'Reilly could have put on the Factor. Instead, he chose to put on the founder of Code Pink, which gave thousands of dollars to the terrorists in...

Published: March 21, 2006 5:20 PM ET NEW YORK After Bill O'Reilly on Fox News and on the Web called his paper "friendly to child rapists," Jeff Bruce, editor of the Dayton Daily News replied today, even though he said he knows what happens "when you wrestle a pig." But this O'Reilly charge was "so outrageous and such a distortion" he felt he had no choice. According to the Daily News, O'Reilly, through a producer of his TV show, has responded to Bruce's reply this way: "Previous attacks launched on me disqualify the Dayton Daily News from any serious debate....

Knowing what we know now, was the invasion of Iraq a wise thing to do? Yes No

Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert’s nightly conservative/O’Reilly-mocking show "The Colbert Report" invited on MSNBC host Keith Olbermann Tuesday night to double up on the O’Reilly bashing. It started predictably, before the word "Nazi" came out: Colbert: "Why do you have a problem with my hero, papa bear Bill O'Reilly? You guys have been going at it, hammer and tongs." Olbermann: "Well, Stephen, he's an idiot." Colbert: "You say that like it's a bad thing. I think he sees the world simply, okay? Without all your complicated facts." Olbermann: "We're both saying the same thing. He's an idiot." Did Olbermann really...

LAMB: I mean, is it fair to say you hate the man, or is this just an act? OLBERMANN: He’s so extraordinarily obvious and the antithesis of what I think broadcasters should do and what journalists should do and what people should do that he’s necessary, in some way... But, what he does on the air, everything is a simplification. It goes back to what we were talking about earlier, about inspiring fear in people, both in terms of what the world is going to be like, and also what the rest of the media is like. And I don’t...

And the winner is... "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp!" The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences would like to inform the world that this is the best movie song of the year, and you best believe it. Taking its place beside other best movie songs like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," "Moon River," "A Whole New World," and "Fame," the pimp song, performed in the film "Hustle and Flow," is now enshrined forever in movie history. You ain't knowin'? Actually, that's the refrain from the song chanted about seven thousand times within the body (no pun...

This morning my local morning radio guys were cracking on Bill O'Reilly for being a bit paranoid regarding Olbermann. They played a clip where a guy called in to his radio show and merely mentioned Olbermann's show, and O'Reilly cut him off and set Fox Security on him. I don't watch The Factor, so I totally missed this. Anyone else catch it?

As an American of Irish descent, Roman Catholicism has been in my family for hundreds of years. I respect the Church because I've seen first-hand the good that it can do. Worldwide, no organization does more for the poor and downtrodden than Catholic Charities. Thus, it was no surprise when Roger Cardinal Mahony spoke from his pulpit in Los Angeles on Ash Wednesday and urged compassion for immigrants. Surely, people seeking a better life in the USA legally should get help from the Christian community. But the Cardinal's message turned out to include illegal immigrants as well, and then came...

One of my favorite western movies ever is "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," a sprawling three-hour Sergio Leone shoot-'em-up where Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach star as weapons of mass destruction. I like this film because it's easy to understand: Three macho guys are looking for gold, and you better not get in their way, podner. The old American West was a place where men were men and women were, well, in short supply. I mean, covering thousands of miles in a dusty covered wagon wasn't exactly an enchanting experience for the ladies. Don't even...

CONSERVATIVES in Texas are using liberal activist George Soros as a "boogeyman" to galvanize their base, with the Free Enterprise Committee featuring the Hungarian-born billionaire in television ads. Soros, who spent over $25 million trying to beat President Bush in 2004, has lately taken aim at disgraced, doubly indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay by funding a series of harsh attack ads in DeLay's home state of Texas. Yesterday, the Free Enterprise Committee - which calls itself the "leading voice in the public arena fighting for the American system of free enterprise" - counterattacked with a commercial running for the...

Plagued as he is with elephantiasis of the ego, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly relishes attacks from the New York Times or any other A-list media. So, when New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof swiped Fox on Dec. 11 ($) for its many reports and commentaries on the alleged "war on Christmas," you could almost hear O'Reilly's psyche crack, its outer protective area slough off, and expand two days later as he evened the score by calling Kristof one of the "usual committed left-wing ideologues." Kristof returned to the riled O'Reilly on Dec. 18 ($) with a prayer for...

With their unending devotion to Al Franken, why have so-called "progressives" chosen to paint themselves into a corner? For their followers, why must he be portrayed as eternally perfect? While also not free of flaws, one sustaining quality in the conservative movement has been a willingness to cut loose damaging characters (even if sometimes a bit late). Though the right cherishes individualism above nearly all else, only occasionally does it get caught up in the cult of personality. For any political faction, why is that a mistake? Because it must successfully advance values and ideas, rather than promote imperfect people...

While it may not seem easy to keep Al Franken quiet on virtually any subject, we may have found a way: on national television, expose his outrageous compensation demands and watch him instantly clam up. One week after our report appeared here and was discussed on the O'Reilly Factor, Franken, his fellow staffers and Air America Radio itself haven't said a word about it. Nor have nonstop FOX-bashers such as David Brock's Media Matters even mentioned our documented findings. Included were revelations Franken made an increasing series of demands of the liberal radio network, at the same time it was...

I was just watching The O'Reilly Factor and he basically wiped the floor with Lawrence Guyot. Lawrence Guyot who I recently debated on Hate Crimes has always been a bullet proof vest for Jesse Jackson(who lacks the balls to appear on Fox) could not answer the charge leveled by Jackson that FoxNews is a tool of The Bush Whitehouse!