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The recent bared-teeth snarlfest between Bill O'Reilly and Al Franken has provided the perfect antidote to the final dog days of summer. Never have two more deserving people found each other - just in time to make one look like a silly bully and the other a best-selling author.The two have been embroiled over Franken's new book: "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right." The cover includes an unflattering photo of O'Reilly, who is, do we need reminding, the most popular anchor in cable TV.

In the matter of Fox vs. Franken, Fox News Channel claims that comedian-commentator Al Franken is "shrill and unstable" and "increasingly unfunny." Franken, in turn, says Bill O'Reilly, Fox's biggest star, should be called "Bill O' Lie-lly" and spoofs its slogan, "We Report, You Decide" as "They Distort, We Deride." At the center of all this name-calling and elbow-throwing, which has spilled over from publishing into television and the legal system, is Franken's new book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" (Dutton, $24.95). Fox filed suit last week, saying it...

Calling a political activist such as Al Franken a satirist, as did the the New York Times, is a "sick joke," says Fox News' top-rated news analyst Bill O'Reilly. Writing in an op-ed piece in the New York Daily News, O'Reilly charges: "Attempting to smear and destroy the reputations of those with whom you politically disagree is not satire. If that were the case, Richard Nixon's Watergate plumbers would all be writing for 'Saturday Night Live.'" Noting that Fox News Channel would soon celebrate its seventh birthday "awash in publicity and success," O'Reilly observes: "From virtually nothing, the organization...

Calling Al Franken a satirist is a farce In a few weeks, the Fox News Channel will celebrate its seventh birthday awash in publicity and success. From virtually nothing, the organization that employs me has risen up to become one of the most powerful news agencies in the country. This is a stunning achievement, but it's also one that has engendered bitterness and controversy. Fox has succeeded by mixing a populist-traditional, pro-American editorial posture with lively debate that includes voices the traditional network news organizations would never allow airtime. The accusation that Fox is a conservative network is pure propaganda....

Out Foxed A lawsuit against Al Franken isn't very fair and balanced. Friday, August 15, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT It's not easy siding with Al Franken. After all, the "Saturday Night Live" comic turned political commentator has always accorded this newspaper a prominent spot in his pantheon of villains, and we fully expect that honor to continue in his soon-to-be-released book. So it will likely come as a surprise to Mr. Franken that we think Fox is doing itself no favors by suing him for trademark infringement and unfair competition. That's right. In papers filed with the State Supreme Court...

Joined by an outraged Bill O'Reilly, a top legal scholar called on Congress to impeach the California judge who ruled in favor of the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), saying that the city of San Diego could not do business with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) on the absurd grounds that it is a "religious organization." Appearing on last night's "O'Reilly Factor," Professor John C. Eastland, a Claremont Institute Scholar, said that impeachment is the appropriate remedy for the inexplicable ruling of Clinton appointee Judge Napoleon Jones ordering the city to oust the local scouting group from...

Larry believes that while he may be the American poster boy for sleaze; he openly portrays himself as a “smut peddler,” Californians will overlook his penchant for pornography. WorldNet Daily reports Larry as saying, ‘“California is the most progressive state in the union,’ Flynt told the Los Angeles Times. ‘I don't think anyone here will have a problem with a smut peddler as governor.’”

Porno Publisher Issues Call to 'Pray' for Death of Broadcaster (CNSNews.com) - Television commentators of all stripes have raised the ire of liberals and conservatives for years, but one is now the subject of a prayer vigil for his death. Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt has called for a "National Prayer Day" on August 5 to "pray for the death of [FOX News Channel host] Bill O'Reilly." The pornography publisher and California gubernatorial candidate's event is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. PDT in Los Angeles, and Flynt's political website offers a sample "prayer" describing in explicit and graphic terms how O'Reilly's...

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HUSLTER Magazine invites you to join us in prayer. On Tuesday, August 5th at 12:45pm, we have organized a special gathering to pray to God for Fox News Channel blowhard Bill O'Reilly's death. The service will be held in Los Angeles at Cornerstone Plaza, 1990 S. Bundy Drive. Located on the corner of Bundy Drive and LaGrange Av e. DISCLAIMER: This serious gathering will truly take place, however if O'Reilly dies, it must be God's will. For more information, please contact: Sean Carney 323-651-5400 ext. 7361 ------- [The link includes a graphic which includes the text "O, Lord, may his...

HUSLTER Magazine invites you to join us in prayer. On Tuesday, August 5th at 12:45pm, we have organized a special gathering to pray to God for Fox News Channel blowhard Bill O'Reilly's death. The service will be held in Los Angeles at Cornerstone Plaza, 1990 S. Bundy Drive. Located on the corner of Bundy Drive and LaGrange Av e. DISCLAIMER: This serious gathering will truly take place, however if O'Reilly dies, it must be God's will. For more information, please contact: Sean Carney 323-651-5400 ext. 7361

Anything goes on the Internet these days, and the feds are clueless about controlling the raging high-tech crime wave and egregious privacy violations of every kind. Was anyone surprised when Web thugs revealed the name of the 19-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Kobe Bryant? Was anyone surprised that one Web site even printed bogus topless pictures of the young woman? The FBI says $455 million was reported stolen through computer scams in 2001. The U.S. Internet fraud complaint center received documentation that $18 million was lost to fraudulent Net commerce in 2001.

Greetings Mr. O'Reilly, If you're not just playing dumb, and really don't know where the WMD are, may I suggest that you get Kenneth R. Timmerman (of Insight Mag.) as a guest on your show --- SOON! This is the second night in a row I watched you parroting the Democrat mantra, demanding that Bush tell us where the WMD are. You appear to be out of the loop. That's not good that someone in your position is so much in the dark about what's going on. I've provided you some succinct excerpts and links to what Mr. Timmerman wrote...

Bill O’Reilly Calls For Federal Cyber Police FOX News Channel show host, and occasional Conservative Bill O’Reilly called for a Federal Cyber Police on ABC’s Good Morning America today. In the 7:30 to 8:00 segment of the ratings-challenged morning show, O’Reilly told substitute hostess Elizabeth Vargas, “It’s a crime what happening on the Internet. You have websites misidentifying this young woman in the Kobe Bryant vase. You have criminals selling hard drugs. You have scammers working out of their basements in Terra Haute, knowing that they can promise to sell anything and then not deliver, and no one will do...

Blasts at liberal 'traitors' win US book war Big publishers cash in as right-wing polemics sell in their thousands Lawrence Donegan in San Francisco Sunday July 27, 2003 The Observer Two large American publishers are to launch off-shoots to capitalise on the latest literary phenomenon gripping the United States: the right-wing diatribe. Hillary Clinton's autobiography leads this month's US bestseller lists, but over the last year it has been books written from the opposite end of the political spectrum - many of them accusing her husband of everything from treason to destroying the American way of life - which have...

<p>This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, July 22, 2003. Click here to order the complete transcript.</p> <p>Watch The O'Reilly Factor weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the Radio Factor!</p> <p>BILL O'REILLY, HOST: With us now is one of the most successful right-wing pundits, Ann Coulter, the author of the bestselling book, Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.</p>

Just finished watching Ann Coulter interviewed on the O'Reilly Factor -- and it was manifestly clear that, like so many critics, interviewers, reviewers, and other TV talking heads, NONE OF THEM (now to include O'Reilly) HAVE READ THE BOOK!It's absolutely amazing that this pack of Coulter-critics criticize first, but read (if at all) later. O'Reilly made it manifestly clear when he associated Sen. McCarthy with the House HUAC Committee that he had failed to read the book -- because Coulter spends an enormous amount of time in the book explaining that this is one of the most common and egregious...

<p>O'Reilley tried to link McCarthy with the House Un-American Activities Committee, and forcefully reminded him that he was called Senator for a reason. It was great.</p>

SAVAGE WARS: Michael Savage is gone - and MSNBC is a better network without him. I watched about five minutes of his show a few weeks ago and thought he came off as supremely arrogant, uninterested in engaging in serious debate and doomed to fail. I guess it was only a matter of time before the guy self destructed. Even though a network spokesman said the decision to fire Savage was an "easy" one, the folks in MSNBC's programming department should be taken to task for putting Savage on the air in the first place - and not just because...

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...