New York anchor Sue Simmons is the latest to join the TV News Bad Behavior Club. During a broadcast, she said to her co-anchor, "What the f*** are you doing?!" without realizing she was still live. The uncensored video and her apology are on NewYorkPost.com, along with lots of gossip about her being a lush. The best quote they got, from a former colleague: "Sue Simmons likes the sauce and she can be cranky about it."

The Democrats going on Fox News Channel is a terrible idea for many reasons. They legitimize a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party by agreeing to the fiction that they are a real news organization. They field twisted and slanted questions that set them up for answers that will later be used against them.

Obama fell into this trap last week when he told Chris Wallace that the Rev. Wright controversy was a legitimate political issue. He is trying to be nice to a Fox News anchor, which is just stupid. He is going to use it against you! And he already has. Wallace used Obama's statements to justify several more questions he asked Howard Dean about Rev. Wright this weekend.

But the one reason I never found persuasive for not going on Fox is that the Democrats can't handle it. But there's some chance I'm wrong about that. You can't go and talk to Bill O'Reilly if you're not prepared to challenge him on the obvious bullcrap he's going to toss your way. And that's exactly what Hillary Clinton did. She went in unprepared and pretty much lost a debate on torture. Watch below:





One of our viewers, Tony Daughtrey, made a good point after watching this on our show. O'Reilly keeps calling waterboarding a dunk in the water. You know who else we used to dunk in the water to get confessions? Witches.

Does O'Reilly think we got reliable information out of those women by dunking them in the water during the Salem Witch Trials? Remember, they almost all confessed. So, I guess they must have all been witches after all.

There's a reason why we don't torture people anymore. It's barbaric and useless. They'll tell you whatever you want to hear -- I did it, Iraq is connected to Al Qaeda, I'm a witch, I'm a terrorist, etc., etc.

Finally, we invaded Iraq based on the faulty intelligence we got from one of the guys we tortured. You can read about it here. That wrong information cost the lives of countless people. Is it too much to ask Democrats that they at least learn that one fact and bring that up the next time someone attempts an asinine defense of torture?

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Drudge is reporting that Hillary is scheduled to appear on The O'Reilly Factor tomorrow.

Egad, why would she want to go and do a thing like that? After all the horrible things he's said about her, doesn't her going on the show amount to a huge display of masochism?

Bill O'Reilly has officially lost it. On Thursday night's broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel he compared Arianna Huffington to the KKK and the Nazis. And it wasn't even close to subtle; he just flat out said she was like the Nazis -- on several occasions. You can't quite believe how bad it is until you watch it. You can watch it for yourself here.

This is beyond despicable. And he keeps making the same inane argument over and over. He claims that any comment left on any blog means the person who wrote the blog or edits the blog is personally responsible for the comment. How profoundly stupid or deceitful can a person be? Everyone who has ever read a blog knows that the commenters do not speak for the writer. In fact, they are often quite opposed to the writer.

The most vicious comments can be found on any conservative, liberal or moderate blog if they allow open comments. Commenters have called me every name in the book in my blogs. Am I responsible for what they call me? Come on, how stupid is that? Either Bill O'Reilly is the dumbest man alive or he is being grossly disingenuous.

Then he takes that fake outrage about some comment left on the Huffington Post and uses it to hideously smear one of the most respected political commentators in the country. Maybe I'm being naive but I really think he has gone way too far this time. I think he jumped the shark here.

I can't imagine that Fox would ever take any action against O'Reilly because they couldn't care less about civil discourse or simply doing what is decent and right. But this has to effect O'Reilly's credibility with everyone else. If he has any left at all.

And if all this wasn't bad enough, it turns out Arianna Huffington's mom actually stood up to real Nazis during World War II. O'Reilly couldn't have picked a worse target for his hateful speech. Plus, this wasn't some commenter to O'Reilly's show or website; it was O'Reilly himself who made these atrocious comments. This time, for once, he should be held responsible for them.

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On "My Damn Channel," comic genius Harry Shearer has distilled the essence of several leading TV personalities into this six-minute series of clips of the talking heads in the moments before they go the air. Watch Ann Coulter chewing her Nicorette gum, Bill O'Reilly muttering "struggle, struggle, struggle," Katie Couric futzing with her scarf, and you just know, suddenly, who they are deep down.

Bill O'Reilly continues to be tacky, now getting his blond women mixed up and then joking about it.

Media Matters reports:

During the February 11 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, discussing opposition to Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) presidential campaign within the Republican Party with Fox News contributors Kirsten Powers and Margaret Hoover, Bill O'Reilly mistakenly said, "Trust me now, Powers," when talking to Hoover. Hoover replied: "Get my name straight, will you? I'm Hoover."

The things Bill O'Reilly says about Daily Kos are so irrational, it seems like no one can honestly believe it. Is he so dense that he doesn't understand that anyone can post a note or a picture on these open sites? Or does he know that obvious fact and he uses it for shameless propaganda anyway?

He seems to have no conscience. He seems completely unaffected by the gigantic hypocrisy that there are worse comments left on his own website and virtually every conservative website and blog in the country.

So, here's my question:



















Okay, answer (c) is a little biased. But at least I am kidding around about it, whereas O'Reilly would have that as a serious option without a hint of irony. I will accept (c) answers to mean you disagree with me and agree with O'Reilly. Am I not merciful?

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The Young Turks have been following the insane Bill O'Reilly smear campaign against the Dailykos.com. Turns out our good friend Stephen Colbert has also decided to support Dailykos.com. It's shaping up to be a battle of old media vs new.

This saga has been going on for awhile now (and continues), and the Young Turks already summed up the absurdity. Chalk this one up with the million other acts of douchebaggery that O'Reilly commits each year. I'm starting to believe that sane Americans are now just using the Internet.

I like the Young Turks. They are pissed, and they are trying to do something about it. Kudos fellas.

Enough.

In this video you can see that O'Reilly clearly says that whatever is on your site represents you completely (longer version here). He smears Daily Kos by pretending that a few, random readers' comments represent the opinions of the people who run the blog. So, of course, we struck back.

We found plenty on O'Reilly's site that speaks very poorly of him. Watch the video below to see the heinous quotes that apparently O'Reilly agrees with -- hey, it's on his site!



Bill O'Reilly's website is now being investigated by the Secret Service. Nice work Falafel Man.

Now, take a look at how Fox News Channel has attacked all progressive blogs. It's Propaganda 101. Notice how they have their news anchors also involved -- by asking "questions." It's their favorite trick. This is yet another reason why they are not a real news network.



You can take action in stopping Fox's propaganda by getting involved here.

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The primate error on Fox's part (the one you see in the video above) is not that big a deal, it's just funny. The real problem with O'Reilly's buffoonish attack against Daily Kos and Jet Blue is that it is based on pure fabrication, propaganda and ironically, spin! What happened, I thought it was the no spin zone?

Here's how O'Reilly spun this story out of whole cloth:

Recently I shared an incredibly mind blowing Bill O'Reilly clip about the non-issue of Lesbian Gangs. The claims made by Rod Wheeler were questioned and here we have a statement of apology from Mr. Rod Wheeler from his official website...

Bill himself also made an (weak) attempt to apologize to Rashad Robinson from GLAAD.

I came across a link today. It was a photo gallery about Human Trafficking, a truly brutal reality that exists in most, if not all, western countries. Yesterday, there was a huge bust, a valiant deed done by the men in blue to get these swine off the street. Fact remains Human Trafficking is a form of slavery and is a huge problem. Probably too big of a problem for any of us to solve, let's find something to distract ourselves with shall we.

Fox News personality Michelle Malkin recently had a guest -- a porn website operator who is taking pictures of legal aged girls and posting them on the internet. Love or hate Fox News you will get a great chuckle out of this clip. It's fair to suggest she is even more angry then Keith Olbermann is with the Bush Administration.

*clip thanks to Newshounds

This isn't the first time they have covered this story. Bill O'Reilly in June talked about this guy and they concluded that he was not breaking the law and that he is just a "skeezy guy", and that mothers should hide their children from him. They covered this story for an excuse to scroll half naked ladies across the FOX NEWS screen for 5 minutes. In my opinion, this is bullsh!%. It's no different then the Lesbian Gang story -- just an excuse to scroll the word "Lesbian" across the screen. What's better then getting people mad and horny at the same time?

Hold on AOLers! I've read the comments in the previous Bill O'Reilly posts and it sounds like you are still divided. It appears many still believe that Bill O'Reilly is a responsible journalist and a culture warrior. Well I am prepared to show you another example of why Bill O'Reilly should not be considered a credible news source.

** Edit, Thanks to readers Emails I learn't that the footage O'Reilly used to illustrate Lesbian Gangs, was actually a youtube video of a random "Chick Fight" - The dialogue of the video indicates they are fighting over "A Man."

You know, there is a lot to fear in this world and I think we all can agree that the fear of underground lesbian gangs indoctrinating our children is not one of them. I am a straight man and this story blew my mind. I wonder what Gay people think of this, I checked out the Gay website afterellen.com and I quote...

I could analyze how ridiculous and unsubstantiated Wheeler's claims are, point out their similarity to the outrageous stories the Nazis made up about the Jews back in the day, or question how such clearly inflammatory and inaccurate assertions based on distorted information got past even Bill O'Reilly's fact-checkers, but other bloggers have already done so quite handily (see here, here, here, and here).

Sometimes you have to wonder who these faces with names are that Fox News use as "experts" during programs like this. The blog "Unfit for Print" looked into Rod Wheeler for us.

after checking out this "detective's" website - Rod007.com, no joke - his, um, credibility as a crack investigator is a little dubious. Rod only claims to have served "several years" as a homicide investigator and fraud investigator. Not five or ten or twenty, but "several" years. One of his other claims to legitimacy as a crime expert is his experience working in "corporate security and safety management" at Boston Market (a McDonalds chain), which kinda sounds like "security guard." And his "what people are saying" page is mostly made up of praise from other Fox reporters.

Well.. if you are still afraid of Lesbian gangs continue watching the O'Reilly factor. I am sure you will eventually get a follow up on this story and maybe we can learn how to properly defeat the lesbians before they get to your children.