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Last year, I was privileged to work with Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer on an ongoing blog investigative series about beleaguered Air America radio's finances. Brian has continued to dig and dig deep on the story. He has a new report here and will discuss it tonight on The O'Reilly Factor. Brian asks: "Did Al Franken's outrageous salary demands hamper Air America's ability to repay the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in 2005?" Excerpt: During the same mid-to-late 2004 period when Air America parent Piquant LLC was quietly considering how to resolve the still-undisclosed scandal, Franken was demanding...

Finally, a major media personality has the guts to express what many in the US have long felt: Left Coast cities such as San Francisco are anti-American to the core. Bill O'Reilly, speaking of the Irrelevant City's hostility toward military recruiters, said on Tuesday's Radio Factor (transcript from the Political Teen): O’REILLY: You know, if I’m the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, “Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you’re not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine....

...Gauging the animus against O'Reilly has always been a rough art, but by his own estimation "it's gotten worse. Now it's so bad that I spend an enormous amount of money protecting myself against evil."...the embattled life of O'Reilly has become an increasingly strange and scary one. As O'Reilly puts it, here are the facts: There are death threats. He has to hire bodyguards. He can't check into hotels with his family. People on the street with cell phones are stealth paparazzi, capable of snagging a picture one minute, then posting it on the Web the next. He adds that...

Bill O'Reilly just ripped Clinton and Company a "new" one!!

Micelle Malkin guest hosts O'Reilly Factor. Nothing follows

MANASSAS, Va., April 26 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Sen. Hillary Clinton and others whose public positions run contrary to Catholic teaching have been invited to deliver commencement addresses and receive honorary degrees at Catholic colleges, despite the U.S. bishops' ban on such honors. "We are blowing the whistle on any Catholic college that blatantly disrespects the bishops by defying their clear command and teaching," said Patrick J. Reilly, President of Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), a national organization dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity at America's 220 Catholic colleges and universities. "After decades of scandal at secularizing colleges, last June...

<p>There appears to be some controversy as to the accuracy of this transcription. The areas of contention seem to be over whether the state mentioned was Utah or Idaho, who mentioned "bazooka" and whether or not O'Reilly said "skirt" once or twice. Hopefully, someone taped the show and can provide an accurate transcript. Refer to posts 403 through 454.</p>

President Bush said in a television interview airing tonight that he does not regret flying to an aircraft carrier in May 2003 and announcing an end of major combat in Iraq -- under the banner "Mission Accomplished" -- despite the subsequent deaths of some 900 US military personnel from ongoing turmoil in that country. ADVERTISEMENT According to excerpts of the interview with Fox News's "The O'Reilly Factor," Bush said twice that he would "absolutely" still don a Navy flight suit and make the declaration if he had to do it over again -- a comment that Democratic rival John F....

Hi.  I'm Bill O'Reilly.  Thanks for watching us tonight. Another victory for the ACLU (search) in its war on Christianity.  That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." Take a look at the county seal in Los Angeles because it's about to change. [The County] Supervisors voted 3 to 2 to cave in to the ACLU's demands that the small cross on the right be removed, and it soon will be, even though it's been there for 47 years.  The ACLU's Los Angeles director, Ramona Ripskin (ph), says the cross makes some Angelenos feel, quote, "unwelcome," unquote.  Sane people point out that the...

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly.  Thank you for watching us tonight. John Kerry's dilemma, that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points" memo.  A new "Newsweek (search)" poll says President Bush's job approval rating has slipped to 42 percent, the lowest of his tenure in office.  However, the same poll says that the president and John Kerry remain tied in their race for the top job. Now you would think Kerry would be surging ahead because the president is saddled with chaos in Iraq and punishing prices for gasoline, but that's not the case.  Why?  Two reasons. First, Senator Kerry's...

A new Gallup Poll says George W. Bush is the most polarizing President in the history of its surveys on the subject. It's hard to believe that the good ol' Texas guy is more divisive than, say, Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, but apparently he is. Gallup says 91% of Republicans like the President, but just 17% of the Democrats do. In a bad news situation for Mr. Bush, Gallup also sees independent voters shifting away from the Chief Executive. What's in play here, I believe, is the increasing polarization of the country, not just the policies of President Bush....

  YOO-HOO O'REILLY: Regarding the spoils of war, you are wrong hillary clinton is a loser BIGTIME   And finally one big stealth winner in the Iraq war: Senator Hillary Clinton. She simply disappeared after voting for military action last fall, dodging all direct questions about the war but making it clear she did not side with the peace movement. Say what you want about Hillary, she has no use for losers. Bill O'ReillyThe Spoils Of War BillOReilly.com Wednesday, Apr 09, 2003   Is your problem insufficient homework -- (with a name like O"Reilly you don't watch Irish TV?)… inadequate...

Tonight on The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly addressed the arrest of Florida State University Professor Sami Al Arian. Bill O'Reilly's guest was Fox news analyst Mansoor Ijaz. Bill O'Reilly pointed out that he had been under heavy attack over the past year from the Muslim community for originally breaking the first arrest of Professor Al Arian, but had kept quiet over the ongoing debate. Sami Al Arian was arrested on terrorism-related charges and Bill O'Reilly said that if he was innocent, Al Arian should be fully exhonerated and given full backpay. In the closing remarks of the segment, Bill O'Reilly...

Interview With Author Bill Hawkins, Immigration Reform Proponent Dan Stein 02/24/2003 Fox News: The O'Reilly Factor O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly. In THE FACTOR "Follow-Up" Segment tonight, last week, we told you that the Ford Foundation has donated almost $60 million to immigration groups that want to keep American borders open. Two footnotes: The Ford Foundation has nothing to do with the Ford Motor Company. And THE FACTOR factor wants all Americans, no matter where they come from, to have freedom and a happy life. But we also want to be protected from illegal immigration. Joining...

Bill O'Reilly points out tonight that the Pony Corporation (think ugly athletic shoes) is now pushing pornography on our kids through commercials featuring porn stars. The only stores that carry Pony merchandise are Modells, Foot Locker, and Sears.

Michael Swetnam is a guest

Article by the fellow who will be on O'Reilly tonight... THE MORALITY OF ABORTION By Rev. Mark Bigelow I believe that we progressive clergy must reshape the debate over abortion to focus on the moral and ethical dimensions of the decision to terminate a pregnancy. Too often we have referred to abortion as a tragic choice or a last resort when it is, in fact, a moral decision, made out of consideration for the needs of the family, the community, and the wider world in which we live. In the struggle to establish a legal right to abortion, abortion rights...

Although the Left is trying to pretend otherwise, perhaps O'Reilly is the reason why Bush won last year's election and the Republicans did so well in this fall's elections. Liberals are wary of Bill O'Reilly's success with the O'Reilly Factor, and they should be. O'Reilly is influencing an important and massive demographic - TV watchers. Unlike most conservative pundits and politicians, O'Reilly appeals to all types of people with his honest, straight talk approach and slight independent streak. Consequently, he is tremendously popular. He is perhaps the first conservative TV pundit to attract as many viewers as some of...

NEW YORK (Variety) - Defying the general malaise in post-9/11 news viewership, Fox News Channel displayed energetic third-quarter audience growth compared to the previous year, while other cable news outlets showed a predictable -- but significant -- drop. Spanning the period of July 1 through Sept. 26, Fox News jumped 24 percent to an average audience of 629,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. CNN, on the other hand, dropped 26 percent to an average of 518,000 viewers. Recently remodeled CNN Headline News, which is now challenging the overhauled MSNBC for third place, fell 17 percent to 226,000 vs....

Carl Limbacher of NewsMax.com will appear on Bill O'Reilly's top-rated O'Reilly Factor tonight to discuss the new NewsMax book, Catastrophe, which he co-authored with NewsMax.com editor Chris Ruddy. Limbacher will discuss the book's explosive revelation that former President Clinton passed up a golden opportunity to extradite Osama bin Laden in 1996 - and Clinton can be heard admitting to this shocking failure on an exclusive audio tape in the possession of NewsMax.com.