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The overnight ratings are in, and Bill O'Reilly is snorting. Larry King? Whupped him again by 2 to 1. And Keith Olbermann? Please, don't even ask. ''MSNBC's off the air,'' chortles O'Reilly, in his dressing room. ``You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.'' No spin there. Bill O'Reilly is the undisputed king of cable news. Don't believe it? Just ask Connie Chung and Phil Donahue. Oops, you can't: The O'Reilly Factor left their slaughtered corpses behind, forgotten roadkill in a drive to the top that has made O'Reilly's Fox News Channel show...

"We distort. You comply"Even in a down economy, there are some business models that still work -- selling T-shirts comparing Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly to Hitler, for example. - - - - - - - - - - - -By Katharine MieszkowskiJune 26, 2003  | Nothing boosts lefty T-shirt sales like an officious, bullying cease-and-desist letter from Fox News. Agitproperties.com in Austin, Texas, sells "Faux News Channel" T-shirts that mock the Fox logo with the slogan "We distort. You comply." The company is an equal-opportunity network mocker -- it also sells "Pentagon News Network" T-shirts parodying the CNN logo....

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Sex, lies and videotape on the Internet, that's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Nearly everyday, there's something written on the Internet about me that's flat out untrue. And I'm not alone. Nearly every famous person in the country's under siege. Today's example comes from Web sites that picked up a false report from The San Francisco Chronicle that said a San Francisco radio station dropped The Radio Factor. If anyone had bothered to make even one phone call, they would have learned that Westwood One made a deal...

(Accurate as possible rendering of their discussion while edited on the fly.) O’Reilly: “What’s he even doing in this country?” Malkin: “Good question, Bill. You know, It’s a shame and it’s pathetic that so few people are even asking this question out loud. In fact, only you in the broadcast media and me in the print media have actually thought to put it down and put it out there. The San Jose PD confirmed for me after a simple phone call that this guy was an illegal alien but there’s still many unknown facts. Enrique Sosa Alvirez may not be...

I see an ad for tonight's O'Reilly factor asking where are the weapons of Mass Destruction. The ad is very dramatic and makes it look like Bill's gonna really start questioning where the WMD are tonight. Bill believes that everyone is accountable to him. He says though that when he says someone is accountable to him, he really meanas the audience. The ad is very dramatic, talking about the war, then that fades to black, and then silence with the words... WHERE ARE THEY??? Were reports of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction greatly exaggerated? Don't miss The Factor at 8...

June 2, 2003 -- TEMPERS flared over the weekend in a face- to-face, TV showdown between Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly and political humorist Al Franken. A visibly shaken O'Reilly appeared to have been caught off guard by a blistering attack by Franken in the midst of a usually sedate booksellers' luncheon in Los Angeles on Saturday. Franken, author of the forthcoming book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," accused O'Reilly - at length - of puffing up his credentials as the former host of the TV news magazine "Inside Edition." O'Reilly sat stone-faced during a detailed attack...

This was very entertaining when it played this afternoon. Al Franken is just a total d*ck, even by liberal liberal standards. BOR was getting pretty irritated, shaking his head and eventually yelling at Franken, with Franken's back-of-the-room chihuahua nonsense. And Pat Schroeder was trying to keep the peace, that was pretty funy. Oh, and Molly Ivins was on the panel as well, bragging how she makes a million dollars a year. I think something must have happened between BOR and Franken in the past, I do recall seeing Franken on BOR's show and he was just as annoying as he...

Did anyone see the altercation between Al Franken and Bill O'Reilly and some bookseller convention televised on C-Span yesterday? I heard it was a doozy. I searched on FR, but came up empty. Anyone see it?

This spring, white students at Johnson County High in Wrightsville, Ga., continued a tradition they have followed since desegregation. They held a prom separate from the school prom – for white students only. As did the juniors at neighboring Taylor County High. News of the separate proms reached Bill O'Reilly at Fox News, who angrily demanded that Gov. Sonny Perdue attend the official Taylor County prom in protest. As columnist Sam Francis writes, O'Reilly seemed miffed that there was no law or authority to stop this outrage: "You can't sue because the event is being held off-campus. It's a private...

The 70-year-old author of "A Round-Heeled Woman: My Adventures in Romance and Sex" was a guest on The O'Reilly Factor tonight. Three years ago the author, a former English teacher, placed an ad in a magazine seeking men interested in sex and conversation. Over the course of a year she claims to have had sex with five men. Today, three years later, she has written a book describing her experiences. During the course of the interview she explained the meaning of the subtitle. The old expression is a reference to a woman who "tips over." At the end of the...

It's getting old, but Neal say's "We'll just sit around and see if Bill O'Reilly takes this on...graduation parties and ceremonies for black students only".

Recently, the New York Times ran a featured article by Christopher Noxon in the prestigious New York Times Magazine entitled "Is the Pope Catholic ... Enough?" (March 9, 2003) This article, which was listed as news on the New York Times Web site, dripped with sarcasm as it sliced and diced Mel Gibson for directing a movie on the last 24 hours of Jesus’ life entitled "The Passion." The article was pointedly aimed at poisoning people’s attitude about Mel’s movie "The Passion" and about Mel himself.

Segregation is wrong. That includes segregated proms. And Bill O’Reilly has just spent a week condemning the white juniors at Taylor County High School, Georgia’s governor, and anyone who offered an excuse for holding a whites only prom. Now you would think that four decades after the civil rights movement, after universal condemnation of white racism, in an era of political correctness few people would be willing to stand up and defend an all-white high school prom. Yet listening to O’Reilly’s radio program, a surprising number of people did just that. The question is why? The only one who seems...

Taylor County's uneasy tale of 2 proms By CAMERON McWHIRTER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution BUTLER -- In this corner of peach country, the biggest thing happening in early May usually is the Strawberry Festival in Reynolds, the next town over. But for the second May in a row, this county seat of 1,900 residents has drawn international media attention and sparked arguments that reached the Georgia governor's office for, of all things, its high school prom. Make that proms: one all-white, the other integrated. Last year, for the first time since Taylor County High School integrated three decades ago, the organizers...

Perhaps the most obvious sign that the war on terrorism has changed the whole game for cable news networks was the recent decision by MSNBC to award a weekly talk show to a man named Michael Savage. Savage, whose politics are as far to the right as any commentator this side of G. Gordon Liddy, runs the unfortunately named program "Savage Nation." Positioned at the center of a set that would embarrass the host of a public-access cable TV show, Savage gestures and grunts and mocks his opponents (Democrats, hated liberals, anyone who is ambivalent about the Bush administration's diplomatic...

Oh I can dream can't I. Where oh where are the tough pols who give it back to the witch-hunters!

Tonight, Bill has continued his jihad against Georgia Republican Governor Sonny Perdue. O'Reilly, who recently made what many considered an anti-black remark, has launched a full frontal assault on Perdue. Inexplicably, Bill O blames the GOP Gov for an all-white private prom that recently occured in Baldwin County Georgia. Of course, if the Governor could prevent the white kids from having a private prom, we would be living in a totalitarian state. Bill is clearly seeking to destroy Perdue to deflect from his racially insensitive faux pas. Perdue's Black Female Press Secretary was on The Factor tonight and Bill was...

Freep this poll on Bill O'Reilly.com Bill is going to send the results to the White House!!!!! Does President Bush owe you an explanation about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

WASHINGTON – Major war operations in Iraq are over. And President Bush scored big in last night's prime-time speech. But rather than talk about the war or the road ahead for peace, former President Bill Clinton this weekend will take a shot at Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Fox network over family values and network television, WORLD magazine has learned. In a debate with Bob Dole on Sunday during his weekly appearance on the CBS program "60 Minutes," Clinton will say: "Fox, the network full of conservative Republicans, has reality shows. You and Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh haven't...

Actress/anti-liberation of Iraq activist Janeane Garofalo went on a rant on Thursday's The View against Fox News, mocking the intelligence of their reporters and denying she has anything to apologize for after promising Bill O'Reilly she would apologize to President Bush if her predictions of disaster in Iraq did not come true. "Just because a statue falls down -- that's a great photo-op - - doesn't mean that the war or the conflict is over," Garofalo argued, and the "Anglo-American conflict with Iraq" is "not going to end anytime soon, contrary to Fox News's idea of what the news is,...