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On Friday, we reported that 51-year-old Charles Rust-Tierney, an attorney and former head of the ACLU in Virginia, was arrested and charged in federal court with possessing child pornography. Agents found videos in his home of little girls being violently raped by adults. We said we'd report back to you today on which news organizations covered the story and which did not. The two biggest left-wing outfits in the country — The New York Times and NBC News —ignored the story entirely. CBS News, CNN, and most of the big city liberal newspapers also failed to cover the Rust-Tierney arrest....

Okay, I know this is a vanity rant and I was prepared to let this issue go but Bill O'Reilly just keeps digging in with his spin in the no spin zone. Today, a caller took him to task for suggesting Shawn Hornbeck didn't escape because he was having fun. BOR shot back, calling the caller a liar and claiming that comment was taken out of context and being exploited by left wing sites. He claims that he was merely pointing out that Hornbeck didn't run when he had the opportunity to and that it was due to Child Sexual...

This has to be said, written about, yelled about, cried about and fixed, or we can all start learning to pray on rugs. We cannot fight. Specifically, we cannot fight a global war — against anything really — but we especially don’t seem to be able to fight one against terrorism. We, that is, the United States of America, are the greatest country with the smartest, bravest, most compassionate people on the planet. The problem is we have forgotten how to fight. We have elected presidents simply because they are not someone else, and we have elections in which we...

Guest hosting for Bill, Michelle duked it out with Immigrant Rights Activist and illegal alien apologist Enrique Morones on tonight’s Factor. Morones argues the crackdown on illegal immigration in cities across the nation is racist, adding law enforcement officials only go after “people who look like me” and not blue-eyed blondes.

A rabid left-wing, antiwar writer, William M. Arkin, billed as an expert on military affairs by the Washington Post and NBC News as a "military analyst,” has described U.S. troops in Iraq as "mercenaries” who are being spoiled rotten by U.S. taxpayers with the "obscene amenities” being sent them. His comments have ignited a firestorm among fellow journalists who fully support and admire the men and women serving in harm’s way in Iraq and Afghanistan. Arkin has become a prime target of Fox News Channel's Bill O’Reilly who has been crusading about media bias, and NBC's noticeable tilt to the...

As Barack Obama's poll numbers continue to fall, the controversy continues over whether his political opponents have been using racial code words to describe his candidacy. This brings up the question of why some language, such as Bush's reference to Obama as "articulate," is off-limits when talking about African-Americans. We'll talk about black and white in America in the first hour of the radio factor.

The Left's Definition of a 'Hero' By Michelle Malkin CNSNews.com Commentary February 07, 2007 Angry, left-wing Washington Post blogger William Arkin considers American troops in Iraq who believe in their mission "mercenaries" who are "naive" and should be thankful they haven't been spit upon yet. Curdled Democrat Sen. John Kerry thinks those soldiers, who volunteer for service, didn't "make an effort to be smart" and are "stuck in Iraq" because of their intellectual deficiencies. At the last anti-war spasm in Washington, liberal peace-lovers vandalized a military recruitment office -- repeating an act of destruction taken by rock-wielding thugs across college...

Is eight years old too young for a public school student to hear about homosexuality? Yes No

Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Alexandra, has produced a documentary entitled "Friends of God." It follows some militant Christians around and through interviews and displays demonstrates their mindset. Now, Ms. Pelosi's work is similar to the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Jesus Camp" which puts the children of militant Christians on display and that film illustrates intense behavior as well. With all due respect to the filmmakers, anybody can do that and it proves nothing. I could film militant secular progressives in S&M bars all night long. What does that prove? There will always be people on the fringe, folks who take things too far....

That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." The president had a pretty good night last night at the state of the union, don't you think? He delivered his speech well. Snap poll showed 78 percent of Americans liked what he said and he asked us to give his new Iraq strategy a little time. I think that's reasonable. But as "Talking Points" has stated, the battle for Baghdad must go our way or it is over in Iraq. If the Iraqis don't stand up this time and effectively fight for a free and peaceful country, then U.S....

Here's something fans and non-fans of Bill O'Reilly might be able to agree upon: He has no sense of humor. Never has. Never will. O'Reilly is to humor what okra is to ice cream. They don't mix and - one feels compelled to add - they probably never should. That's why last night's twofer pitting O'Reilly opposite his Comedy Central doppelganger Stephen Colbert was so noteworthy. Would they cancel each other out? Or, like some misguided high school science experiment, spontaneously combust? Much worse, in fact. Colbert's 10-minute appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor" was painful - a disservice to both...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Bill O'Reilly's criticism of NBC News as a liberal-leaning network is "really kind of sad and pathetic," the network's news president said on Wednesday. Steve Capus attributed the Fox News Channel host's criticism of the network to O'Reilly's ongoing feud with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. O'Reilly has said NBC News, as an organization, has gone sharply to the left. He cited the network's decision last fall to begin referring to the sectarian violence in Iraq as a civil war, a phrase the Bush administration has resisted. He made his displeasure clear in a recent interview with NBC's Andrea...

"1. Which prominent Democrat has admitted that he voted for Republican Gerald Ford in 1976, not for Jimmy Carter?" And 9 more.

From the very beginning, Senator Edward Kennedy was against the Iraq War. He did not consider Saddam an active enemy in the War on Terror. And Kennedy's basic tenet is and always has been negotiation until there's no question military force has to be used. President Bush is exactly the opposite. He believes the War on Terror is interconnected. Saddam was a terrorist enabler and the USA must be aggressive in confronting all components of international terrorism. So you can see, there is little common ground between the president and the senator. Tuesday, Kennedy announced he'll try to stop funding...

Is there no bridge too far for Joe Scarborough to cross in his defense of charges of liberal bias against his NBC/MSNBC employers? On last night's Scarborough Country, Joe adopted a position so sycophantish, even Keith Olbermann might have been embarrassed by it. Scarborough suggested that NBC News had done the right thing in assembling a panel on the Iraq surge composed exclusively of experts hostile to the President Bush's proposal. The shocking suggestion came in the course of a segment on Bill O'Reilly's revealing interview with Andrea Mitchell last week, during which he confronted her on NBC's liberal bias....

Should the USA send more troops to Iraq? Yes No

Gov.-elect Deval Patrick has clashed with the media in the past, but he’s apparently changing his tune, volunteering to do a regular spot on Margery Eagan and Jim Braude’s radio show on WTKK (96.9 FM). “You have invited me to come and make a regular gig,” Patrick told the duo on the air yesterday. “Let’s do that.” The details have yet to be worked out, but it was more good news for the pair, whose popular one-hour show expands to three hours starting Monday. Their new noon to 3 p.m. gig bumps cable king Bill O’Reilly’s radio show to nights...

In recent weeks there has been much commentary about the “War on Christmas.” FOX News host Bill O’Reilly recently spoke up on November 18 saying, “It’s all part of the secular progressive agenda ... to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square.” He then added, “because if you look at what happened in Western Europe and Canada, if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, because the objection to those things is religious-based, usually.” O’Reilly’s comments on his television show, The...

Bill went to Iraq.

Various guests, just a thread to discuss if anyone's (Ingraham fans, etc) interested.