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NEW YORK, NY – Leaving the side of Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, PhD Ape begins preparations for a three-day seminar aimed at settling fears of the Right Wing radio and television personalities over the coming Obama Administration. Continuing what has already been a very busy fall for the renowned Psychiatrist to the Stars, PhD Ape landed in New York City this morning for the seminar. Radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News talk show host, Bill O’Reilly are just two of the high profile “talking heads” expected to be in attendance.

Newsom expects layoffs due to city's $90 million deficit Mayor Gavin Newsom said city layoffs could start in the next few weeks as his office grapples with a budget deficit that could exceed $90 million."I can't defer bad choices," Newsom said.The mayor asked city departments to cut $75 million, but Newsom said new projections from the controller's office will lead to bigger cuts. It's too soon to say how many people will lose their jobs, the mayor said.The Public Health Department faces the biggest cuts because it's the largest department. Health officials revealed $10 million worth of proposed cuts this...

San Franciscans famously fought back against Bill O'Reilly - the conservative Fox news anchor who really, really hates our city - when he said back in 2005 that the U.S. military shouldn't defend San Francisco in case of a terrorist attack. "You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead," he said. Everybody from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Supervisor Chris Daly railed at O'Reilly, calling his comments outrageous. Not content to leave well enough alone, O'Reilly has now sent an underling to the city to make a documentary to show where, supposedly, the politics of President-elect Barack Obama...

Hi Bill, In your recent Townhall piece you posit that there are Republicans who feel that Governor Palin is too unqualified to lead, so it's better for them if they maginalize her now so they won't have to deal with her again in 2012. You couldn't be more wrong. Her assailants, from the Right and the Left (and the media..., ahem) have seen what she has done in Alaska as Governor. Huge Oil Company lobbies shut down. Oil revenues going into the hands of the voters. Powerful, entrenched "old boy network" mavens gone, castrated, or in jail... Democrats and Republicans....

Can someone please explain to me why Sarah Palin is still getting trashed a week after the election? I understand that the left-wing media hammered her during the campaign because they obviously favored Obama, and I also realize that scapegoating has become a national sport. But isn't enough enough with Gov. Palin? Apparently not. The fascinating thing about the latest round of Palin bashing is John McCain's reaction. A day after the election, Fox News political correspondent Carl Cameron reported on my TV program that some anonymous McCain staffers were frustrated because Palin didn't know much about the world. The...

Conservative radio host Mark Levin fired back at Bill O’Reilly Thursday evening after O’Reilly delivered a blistering diatribe on his own radio program earlier in the day, attacking conservative talk radio hosts for opposing a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry and calling them “idiots,” “charlatans,” and “right-wing liars.” “What a buffoon,” Levin said of O’Reilly, host of Fox News’ "The O’Reilly Factor.” “He doesn’t want to talk about socialism. He doesn’t want to talk about the beginnings of this scandal. No. The same guy who claims to have led the boycott against France that forced France to do...

Greta Van Susterin, as a woman who has fought her way through the mostly male ranks in the legal profession and the mostly male broadcast world, has become an ardent defender of Sarah Palin. So she scored the initial post-election interview with Palin, spending most of Sunday in her Alaska home with the family and taping a long interview. But even before the tapes were rolling she got into an on-air (VIDEO) argument with her Fox News colleague Bill O'Reilly over the coverage, especially involving their colleague Carl Cameron, who reported the latest UNSOURCED ALLEGATIONS against Palin last week. Cameron...

Tonight, Miller Time on Bill O’Reilly was particularly entertaining. Dennis gave his take on O’Reilly’s “vivisection” of Marvin Kalb, why the media is so obsessed with Sarah Palin (and why northeastern feminists hate her), why he was joyful to see Obama’s speech at Grant Park, about his love and admiration for President Bush, his hopes Obama will send AIG to time-out and… and, oh, yeah, he tops it off with a barn-burner about Barney Frank.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Police Cheif): If your intention in going inside the fire station is to trap her in a room and talk to her, that's not going to happen. JESSE WATTERS, "FACTOR" PRODUCER: I don't want to trap her. I just want to convey... UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How much clearer can I make it that she doesn't want to talk to you? Does she — do you have to make her talk to you? Is that your right to make her talk to you? WATTERS: What I'm saying is she's — her salary is paid for by the taxpayers. She maxed...

We just left Governor Palin’s house….it was an interesting afternoon with the Governor and her family. Our goal was to find out a bit more about the Governor — we have seen her on the trail but that is not the most natural way to get to know someone. We talked about many things - family, campaign, energy, women, Senator Clinton, moose, snow machines (and yes, I went for a 75 mph ride on the ice with Todd and then I drove it myself on the ice), the day she got the call from Senator McCain…governing Alaska, and much more….)...

NewsBusters.org - Media Research CenterOn Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith discussed the ‘Potomac Primaries’ with Democratic Strategist Dee Dee Myers and Republican CBS Political Analyst Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush Administration Communications Director, who said of John McCain’s conservative critics: "The more that we see kind of the crazies like Ann Coulter out attacking John McCain, the better Republicans feel about their chances in the general election." This attack upon conservatives critical of McCain, who include Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, and others, was prompted by Harry Smith asking about Mike Huckabee’s continued support in...

Bill O'Reilly's calculate move to have Chris Cameron come onto his show with unnamed and unsourced gossip was for one reason and one reason only! Mr O just wants to get Palin on his show. Palin would get huge ratings right now, and he knows it. So--what does he do? He airs baseless gossip, and claims he is just reporting news. It is merely up to Palin to come on air and dispute it. I AM ON TO YOU BILL! Save your "news" for protecting Edwards and Jesse Jackson!

Bill O’Reilly’s “No Spin Zone” was full of spin in his "Talking Points" opening Thursday night. He desperately tried to make the case that covering gossip from unnamed “insider campaign” sources was actually news. He even went so far to claim that not covering the childish snipes from losing, out of work campaigners would be “suppressing” news. ...snip The real news here was that the Palin children have shown more grace, dignity, and maturity than McCain staffers....

I am just getting around to write about this from last night...but did anyone view The O'Reilly Factor last night? Bill had Frank Luntz on there to go over the dial reaction to Obama's infomercial and Bill's appearance on Letterman and The View. When O'Reilly asked Luntz what will he do once the election was over...Frank slipped in a few words that O'Reilly never called him out on. Luntz said that they were going to continue wiring people up through November 4th for reaction and then will wire people up through Barack Obama's first 100 days in office to get...

On "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight, Bill O'Reilly asked for people to email him at oreilly@foxnews.com with any questions about the candidates that have not yet been answered and he will raise them on Monday night's show (so he says.) What questions should we email to O'Reilly regarding BO? (Any McCain questions you'd like answered? What about minor candidates?)

Is Scott Rasmussen spinning big time for Obama or losing his marbles? Maybe both. Last night he told Bill O'Reilly that Pennsylvania is the only state that Kerry took in 2004 where McCain has any chance of winning. He really should do less TV and more reading. His own poll shows McCain within the margin of error in New Hampshire, a state that Kerry won. And that poll was done over a week ago.

Freep this poll: Has the Factor's campaign coverage been... Pro-McCain Pro-Obama Just right  

Many of you have been wondering what in the hell Karl Rove has been doing with his goofy looking electoral map on the O’Reilly Factor. Karl is acting like he believes most of what the pundits are saying. After watching closely last night, I’m convinced that O’Reilly, Drudge, Rove, et al. know exactly what is going on. Karl is sitting on a royal flush and trying his best not to smirk. The guy is a genius. Listen, Karl Rove has access to the same internals we do. In fact, he has a hell of a lot more information at his...

Tonight on The Factor, Dennis Miller was on and had a few choice words for the knuckleheads in West Hollywood who have an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a noose. Real bright bulbs, these guys. The guys also hash over what’s to come in the next few days, and joke about going Trick or Treating Friday at that home in West Hollywood.

On the O'Reilly Factor Dick Morris just said this campaign is "tied, with six days to go." He believes there are no "undecideds" at this point, just people who will vote for McCan but don't want to tell anyone. He said that seniors are getting very nervous about Obama's scumbag friends and his tax-and-spend plans, which McCain is hitting. He also said that seniors are getting scared of health care rationing, which is "the unavoidable result of suddenly adding 50 million new insureds to a system with zero new doctors and nurses." He raised the specter of people over 55...