There are two interesting things that came out of John McCain's last appearance on The O'Reilly Factor. One, he clearly lied about voting for Bush in 2000. Arianna Huffington said earlier this week that he told a table full of guests at a dinner they had together that he did not vote for Bush in the 2000 general election. Since then, there have been four other witnesses that corroborated Huffington's story to The Washington Post, New York Times and LA Times.

That's part of the reason why McCain looks and sounds so nervous below, which leads to the second interesting point. He has entered the maniacal laughter competition with Hillary Clinton. His laugh below is so forced and awkward that it's a little painful to look at. So, check out the video below and then tell us who has the weirder laugh, McCain or Hillary:




So, who gets your vote?

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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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Okay, as promised the next entry of my "live blogging" is many, many hours after the first. I just had my panel on ex-Republicans turned leeebrals (it was actually called "Left Behind by the Right"). It was star-studded. John Dean, former White House Counsel to Richard Nixon. David Brock, the man who started Troopergate against Bill Clinton but now runs Media Matters for America (they track conservative misinformation in the media). Eric Massa, retired US Naval Commander and a candidate in the 29th District of New York for US Congress. Arianna Huffington was supposed to come but she broke her ankle, so instead Roy Sekoff, the Founding Editor of the Huffington Post filled in for her.

They were great! Everyone had a different story of how they saw the light or felt abandoned by this new, radical version of the Republican Party. I got booed a couple of times when I stated my former (and current) conservative positions. It was all in good fun and people were obviously happy to hear about my conversion. I even got a laugh for a Jesse Jackson joke.

Last night's drinks with Young Turks listeners was also terrific. I know you're dying to find out -- no, I did not get laid (read my first post from the convention to find out more about my illicit intentions). But there were definitely some hot listeners there. I was proud. I was also proud of how cool our listeners were. They were all guys and girls I would have been friends with if we grew up in the same town.

You never know, I've grown up listening to Howard Stern and his fans are total nutjobs, so it could have gone the other way. But as it stands, I am happy to report that our listeners are the most perfectly well-adjusted people you've ever seen, lovely human beings and a little hot to boot.

Last night, we also saw Howard Dean speak. The man is strong. I love that. Dick Durbin sent in a videotape. I vote against that. I can see a videotape of a politician anywhere. I understand he couldn't make it, that happens. But in that case spare us the tape. Michael Savage did the same thing in The Talkers convention I attended a couple of months ago. And he looked like a sweaty tooth madman in that tape. He looked like he had someone tied up in the basement. Durbin looked better than that. How is that for damning with faint praise? He is a good man, just skip the tape the next time.

We still have Obama, Edwards, Hillary Clinton and almost all of the Democratic candidates left to go. And I still haven't had any deep dish pizza in Chicago. Check back in later.

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Many people who use the internet for news and information can sympathize with Michael Moore's anger towards the mainstream media. The last 10 years it seems television news is more and more difficult to watch, and honest voices believe it's hurting America.

As an outsider looking in, it's bizarre watching American news, it's easy to understand why people are starting to believe it's purposely trying to dumb down viewers. Remember the round the clock footage of the Anna Nicole Smith death, even The Daily Show spent 9 minutes covering it... The best 9 minutes of coverage on the topic, says I. You can understand why people out there agree, the Main Stream Media wasn't doing it's job during the lead up to this war (with exception to Knight Ridder) and they still aren't.

Here is an open letter Moore wrote to CNN on July 14th. He is angry with the state of the media, he is not alone, blogyoulikeahurricane.com has written an open to Michael Moore asking him to create a documentary about mainstream media.

The clip below is an excerpt from the July 15th edition of Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz. Huffington explains why Moore i mad. You can watch the full video here, but it's simply another example of crummy TV media... Two talking heads spewing out quick talking points, if you want to save yourself the headache you can read the transcript here.

Less then twenty days ago I created a similar post with a similar title, the only difference is this time it's Arianna Huffington and Keith Olbermann who are the claiming to have found the "New Low."

Earlier in the week 7 Afghan children were killed by an American air strike, NBC reported this story and Bill O'Reilly got visibly upset because he believes reporting on "bang bang" stories "helps the terrorists."

This video comes from Crooksandliars.com, Olbermann and Huffington take a look at Bill O'Reilly's "Serious Reporting."

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