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This week, Michael Devlin pleaded guilty in four different Missouri courts to charges of abduction, sexual assault and attempted murder involving two boys: Shawn Hornbeck and William (Ben) Own by. That brought to a close a case that riveted the nation back in January when police, who were searching for Ben, found him at Devlin’s apartment along with Shawn, a teenager who had been missing for more than four years. New disturbing details about the kids’ captivity emerged during Devlin’s court appearances this week. He admitted to tying Shawn to a futon in the early days after kidnapping him, making...

This morning, while researching stories following icwhatudo's article about the Frost family and S-CHIP, I noted a curious edit in Michelle Malkin's syndicated column in the New York Post. The credit given to posters at FreeRepublic.com for breaking the story was edited from the Post's version of the column. A check of other outlets publishing Malkin's column today showed that the Free Republic mention was not edited out by her other publishers. The syndicated version:After 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered the Democrat radio address, which was penned for him by Senate staffers, conservatives on the FreeRepublic.com forum and across the Internet...

Hi John, When Don Imus bit the dust, I did a post on Free Republic which asked rhetorically whether Imus' downfall was a Hillary hit job. Most folks doubted my theory, because the issue came to be defined by race AND because Imus was not necessarily a conservative. But Imus WAS a Hillary critic, and a harsh one at that, with a huge megaphone. It wasn't too far-fetched to see him supporting Obama, and later Rudy over Hillary. When I learned that Media Matters had fanned the flames that led to Imus' downfall, Hillary immediately came to mind, although the...

The dustup over Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly's remarks about black culture was much ado about nothing - and a reminder of the clanging hypocrisies and shameful silences that pass for public discussion of race relations in America. I've met O'Reilly only a couple of times and have no idea what makes him tick. But the comments, especially when heard in context, were obviously O'Reilly's awkward way of trying to enlighten a segment of his audience - and for that he should be commended, not condemned.

"...the idea that we're going to keep incarcerating, keep incarcerating...pretty soon we're not going have a young African-American male population in America. They're all going to be in prison or dead, one of the two"

Juan Williams defends Bill O'Reilly against charges of racism in Time Magazine, and angrily calls out O'Reilly's critics for calling him an Uncle Tom. He charges those critics with intellectual dishonesty for pulling one quote out of context to reverse what O'Reilly really said -- and he also accuses CNN for deliberately misreporting the incident in order to eat into O'Reilly's substantial ratings lead over CNN. It's a media meltdown! It started with Bill O'Reilly's grandmother. And it blew up into charges of O'Reilly being called a racist and me being attacked as a "Happy Negro" (read that as a...

RFFM.org Commentary by Daniel T. Zanoza, National Director Earlier this week, popular cable talk show host, Bill O'Reilly (The O'Reilly Factor--FOX NEWS) came under withering attack from some members of the dominant media for comments he made on his syndicated radio talk show. Led by Media Matters, a self-appointed far left wing media watchdog group, O'Reilly was charged with making racist comments towards African-Americans. Although Media Matters is clearly a partisan organization, some mainstream media outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, gave credence to the allegations--although most objective journalists cleared O'Reilly of any wrongdoing after a review of the FOX host's...

"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET) Host: Keith Olbermann Topics/Guests: ONE-ON-ONE WITH PRES. BILL CLINTON IRAQ: Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.); John Harwood, CNBC chief Washington correspondent; Wall Street Journal senior contributing writer NSA SPYING: Jonathan Turley, George Washington University law professor and constitutional law expert BILL O'REILLY'S CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS: Marvin Kitman, author of "The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly" Keith "Monkey Man" Olbermann launched into his usual lefty DailyKos inspired tirade. Democrats won't guarantee all troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the first term. Enter Sen. Jim Webb....

Jesse's on O'Reilly tonight for the first time!

I'm listening to Mr. O'Reilly dig his hole a little deeper. I don't believe he is a racist. I do believe he panders and wants everybody to like him. He only comes across looking like a comedian who isn't getting any laughs. I bought a Roberta Flack album when I was in college. I don't have to tell people that to convince them I'm not a racist. The Great Oz Has Spoken

The morning after CNN and MSNBC began salivating over a potential “Imus moment” pushed by a far-left group to suppress Bill O'Reilly over a supposedly racist remark, CBS and NBC on Wednesday advanced the liberal group's cause with multi-part segments on the topic. But while NBC's Today at least provided some balance and proper labeling, CBS's Early Show, with “In Hot Water” and “O'Race Factor” on screen, aired a story which failed to identify the ideology of Media Matters and followed with Julie Chen pressing the only guest to agree O'Reilly's comment was racist and that he must issue an...

NEW YORK - Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said Wednesday his critics took remarks he made about a famed Harlem restaurant out of context and "fabricated a racial controversy where none exists." He criticized the liberal group Media Matters for America as "smear merchants" for publicizing statements he made on his radio show last week. O'Reilly told his radio audience that he dined with civil rights activist Al Sharpton at Sylvia's recently and "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference" between the black-run restaurant and others in New York City. It was just like a suburban Italian...

Even after the Juan Williams "idiots at CNN" rebuke, CNN still pressed on about Bill OÂ’ReillyÂ’s race remarks, and a guest on WednesdayÂ’s "Newsroom" took the language being used against OÂ’Reilly and Williams to new lows. Syracuse University professor and blogger Boyce Watkins appeared on the CNN program, and compared OÂ’Reilly to a murderous movie villain and to Iranian president Ahmadinejad. "If the villain in a movie comes up and says, 'I love you very much,' that usually means he wants to kill you. The fact is that Bill O'Reilly is a guy who has made a career demeaning, degrading,...

After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly told a radio audience he "couldn't get over the fact" that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia's and other restaurants. "It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun," he said. "And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all." O'Reilly said his fellow patrons were tremendously respectful as he ate dinner with civil rights activist Al Sharpton. The comments were made during O'Reilly's nationally syndicated...

Less than a half-hour after Kiran Chetry and Roland Martin speculated whether OÂ’ReillyÂ’s recent comments on race would be the next "Imus Moment," the cast of MSNBCÂ’s "Morning Joe" mocked the Fox News host. Co-host Mika Brzezinski put on her best Meryl Streep imitation after a clip of OÂ’ReillyÂ’s comments were played. "Oh, my God.... Wow... That's attractive," and also made an audible Al Gore-style sigh. Guest host Willie Geist went further. "Also, using the term 'blacks.Â’ I don't think anybody's said that since like 1973." Come again? Brzezinski, Geist, and host Joe Scarborough discussed OÂ’Reilly at the top of...

Did the police overdo it with the Tazer guy? Yes No

Ron Paul and Bill O'Reilly had a lively debate about foreign policy. I think that O'Reilly, while granted he kept interrupting Paul, got the best of him in this debate. In the final minute or so, while O'Reilly did falsely accuse Ron paul of opposing the Afghan war from the beginning, Paul did come back & call for the withdrawal of American soldiers from Afghanistan. O'Reilly also got Paul when O'Reilly made the distinction between Saudi & Iranian policy toward terrorism...the Saudi government does not sponsor terrorism, unlike Iran. Also around 3 minutes or so left, didn't Paul condone the...

This is a link to a 5 minute 45 second segment from the 10 Sept. 2007 O'Reilly Factor. O'Reilly and Ron Paul debate several elements of our current Middle East policy, pivoting mainly on Iran and Iraq. O'Reilly is his normal rude and interruptive self, but promotes the more-or-less conventional reasons to stick to our guns and also to beware of a very dangerous Iran. Ron Paul, on the other hand, demonstrates his immersion in Truther mythology while doing his bang-up impersonation of Barney Fife.

Ron Paul 60 Minutes and Bill O'Reilly Appearances Could Slash Odds FurtherAt 8 to 1 odds of becoming the next US President, Republican Ron Paul must be a happy camper.  Too bad the mainstream media hasn't quite picked up on his grass roots popularity just yet though. But good news has come to the Ron Paul camp.  Media sources have been abuzz all day long Monday of the 60 Minutes camera crew arriving at Ron Paul's Washington office early in the morning.  Whether there will be a story on Dr. Paul or simply a general segment on the Presidential candidates...

<p>A good chance to see Ron outside the debate format. Not good.</p>