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(Note: this report is a paraphrase based on memory, not tape. Any inaccuracies will be corrected down thread by me or other FReepers.)Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly responded on The Factor tonight to criticisms of his attacks last night on Free Republic and Hot Air by the sites' respective founders, Jim Robinson and Michelle Malkin. The segment last night was on reaction by right and left wing websites on the Judge Sotomayor nomination to the Supreme Court. Free Republic was singled out for an obnoxious comment about Sotomayor being diabetic. Hot Air was singled out for an impolitic strongly...

So the plan was this: Take seven urchins, ages 3 to 17, on an old-fashioned vacation without high-tech gizmos. A noble intent, correct? Well, you know what they say about good intentions. The road to hell is paved with them. Back in the pre-tech era, family vacations usually involved fresh air. But now, many American kids don't want to go outside unless there is someone handing out money. Many modern children stay indoors so they can feed their machine addictions. Why bother risking the elements when any kind of visual you want is a click away? The ferry ride to...

On his show Wednesday night, Bill O’Reilly returned to the Trayvon Martin case — in light of ABC News’ report that medical records support George Zimmerman‘s account of scalp injuries and a broken nose. O’Reilly emphasized — as he has in the past — that the case should not be tried on television. He brought in Martin family’s attorney, Benjamin Crump, to discuss. Obviously, O’Reilly said, this new evidence points to a confrontation between Martin and Zimmerman. Furthermore, all the pundits who were quick to place guilt on Zimmerman, he said, are now being challenged by the medical report. Crump...

You don't see much of President Carter these days. At 86, he keeps a rather low profile. But he does believe Barack Obama will win re-election next year, even though he seems to understand that Mr. Obama is in deep trouble. In fact, Carter believes the president is facing the same dilemma he did: JIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Sen. Ted Kennedy had decided to run against me, and some of the more liberal Democrats didn't want to see me have successes. So I experienced a little bit of what President Obama experiences every day; that is...

Earlier this week, I stated that it might make sense for the family of Trayvon Martin to get off of the media circuit. I saw no meaningful value in all of the television and radio appearances, since George Zimmerman has now been arrested and charged. At this stage in the game, the only individuals who benefit from additional media coverage are those who make a living by highlighting (and at times exploiting) grief-stricken mothers like Sybrina Fulton (the mother of Trayvon Martin). After seeing that Fulton was somehow advised to appear on “The O’Reilly Factor,” I’ve become deeply concerned that...

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly finally got his long-sought interview with former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday -- and used the occasion to ask a timely question about Newt Gingrich. "You worked with Newt Gingrich. Do you respect him?" O'Reilly asked about the Republican presidential contender and former House speaker, whose clash with Clinton led to a government shutdown near the end of 1995 and at the start of 1996. Clinton paused briefly before responding, "I respect his ability to think and do and I eventually hammered out a really productive relationship with him." O'Reilly was ready with a trickier follow-up:...

Bill O’Reilly’s ‘Lincoln’ Book Banned From Ford’s Theatre Because Of ‘Mistakes’ By Steven Levingston November 12 Of all the places you’d expect to find Bill O’Reilly’s new history “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever,” Ford’s Theatre — the site of the dreadful act — should rank right at the top. But you’d do better to search for the bestseller on Amazon because it has been banned from the theater’s store. The crime? O’Reilly and his co-author Martin Dugard have displayed a serial disregard for historical fact. For a purported history of the assassination — an “unsanitized and...

OTTAWA – U.S. talk show king Bill O’Reilly says the environment is a concern to all, but he’s confident a pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to the Gulf Coast of Texas will be approved. In an interview that airs Thursday and Friday night on Adler on Sun News, the cable giant suggests the economic spinoff from the Keystone pipeline will outweigh environmental sensitivities. “That pipeline is going to happen, I think,” O’Reilly says. His comments come as opposition to the pipeline picked up its newest Hollywood ally - aging heartthrob Robert Redford. In an interview with the New York Times, Redford...

Bill O'Reilly said on the O'Reilly Factor tonight, that Herman Cain and Ron Paul were pulled from his poll of Republican candidates at billoreilly.com because their supporters were "flooding" the poll. So, they had to be pulled from the poll and therefore declared Romney the winner. What a pompous S.O.B.

The Post Office is not able to repay $5.5 billion in loans from the Treasury Department. The huge cost of postal retirement benefits is one of the reasons an American institution may collapse. This is not the fault of the workers. They did their jobs and are entitled to what was negotiated. But public money has run out, and big changes will have to be made if the American economy is to expand. Jimmy Hoffa can huff and puff all day long, but if he succeeds in blocking economic reform, he will indeed blow the entire house down. President Obama...

Rupert Murdoch is working hard to contain the fallout from the hacking scandal that has engulfed his U.K. newspapers. His nightmare scenario right now would be the coming to light of anything to suggest that the bad behavior that was so (allegedly) commonplace at the News of the World also happened with any frequency in the U.S. That means not just interception of voicemails but also use of shady private investigators and improper relationships with, or payments to, law enforcement officials. How unfortunate for Bill O’Reilly, then, that new accusations against him involve exactly those things. According to Gawker, the...

Much has been made of the lack of media coverage surrounding the 2012 bid of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) despite his second-place showing in the Ames Straw Poll. So Bill O’Reilly wondered Wednesday why Paul won’t come on his show. “Congressman Ron Paul recently told Megyn Kelly that he’s being ignored by the media. Since Ms. Kelly is part of the media, that was a ... pretty interesting statement,” said the Fox News host. “When we heard it though, we immediately invited Ron Paul on the Factor. We don’t want anyone to be ignored. So far he has not accepted...

This is an addendum to my previous post "The Broken Clock Known As Bill O'Reilly." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2753425/posts I will NEVER, EVER watch that liar on TV ever again. This is straight out of the PMSNBC playbook! Stuff it, Baxter!

Recently, Poop-ulist Bill O'Reilly had this to say on the O'Reilly Factor: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "From the beginning I have supported the Tea Party because I believe it empowers individual Americans, which is always a good thing. Also, the Tea Party wants fiscal responsibility and a smaller federal government. Again, those are good things as well. But now the Tea Party has come to a crossroads. Some of its members simply do not want to raise the debt ceiling, and that could be catastrophic. Thursday, Standard and Poor's met with Republicans in the House to tell them there is a 50/50 chance...

Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News host who White House press secretary Jay Carney has singled out as a conservative voice of reason, offered Thursday to go to D.C. and referee the debt talks. “So now I am offering to broker the debt compromise. I’ll go down there. I’m ready to answer the call. Because I’m looking out for you. Not some crazed ideology or political party,” O’Reilly said. Earlier in the segment, O’Reilly bashed the president and congressional Democrats’ “spending madness” as well as Michele Bachmann and other tea party-affiliated Republicans, whose current stance is against raising the U.S. debt...

BillO channeled his inner Chris Matthews tonight when he accused the Tea Party of putting ideology in front of doing what’s right for the economy, which is according to him, raising the debt ceiling. And he’s specifically talking about Bachmann: "Earlier this week we interviewed Congresswoman Michele Bachmann who said she will not vote to raise the debt ceiling no matter what. Talking Points respectfully disagrees with Ms. Bachmann because if a debt deal is not reach Americans will suffer greatly. I know some of you don’t believe that, but here’s even more evidence." "Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned...

With President Obama now in full campaign mode, the question becomes: Can he win re-election despite some misgivings from the vast majority of the American people? A new Marist College-McClatchy poll delivers this bad news to the president: Sixty-four percent of Americans now think the country is moving in the wrong direction, while just 31 percent believe the USA is on the right track. That is the highest "wrong direction" number since November of 2007, when the country was heading into a deep recession.In normal times, that kind of poll number would be catastrophic for a president about to enter...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I have a good friend in New York City, who likes to listen to public radio up there. And he was astounded by what he heard on public radio this morning. Virtually every caller was criticizing Obama as though he were Bush. We are occupying Libya. We are establishing a base in Libya for US action. We are in there for oil. All of these criticisms from the audience of this far left public radio station in New York ripping into Obama and throughout the country. The American kook left and some of the mainstream left, it's...

In front of an Alaskan backdrop of mountains and a lake, Sarah Palin had a busy, busy night on television Friday. She found time to tweak a fellow Republican, dismiss the president, and scold a top rated Fox News talk show host. Palin opened by questioning New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's toughness and attacking President Barack Obama for naivete. After that, she preached about cutting various government programs to Bill O'Reilly before telling him not to interrupt her. All in a night's work. On America's Nightly Scoreboard, host David Asman informed Palin that Christie had told Fox Business News that...

So I just walk in from my dental appt., turn on the tv to FOX News, and say to myself, I bet the blowhard is still talking about his interview with B S (Barry Soetero). Lo and behold, he was still harping on it with Goldberg. I swear, the ego of this guy is astounding.