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| All content taken from The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. Each weeknight by 6 PM EST a preview of that evening's show will be posted and then updated with additional information the following weekday by noon EST.
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"As you may know, if you criticize a minority group in America you will be labeled a 'bigot.' If you criticize a woman you might be labeled a 'sexist.' But if you hammer white men, you could wind up with a great media job. Enter New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, one of the few Times columnists who actually writes interesting stuff, whether you agree with her or not. Today Ms. Dowd did America a big favor by writing a column titled 'White Man's Last Stand,' which says what the New York Times basically believes: White men have screwed up America; they need to get out of power to be replaced by minorities and liberal women. Dowd wrote that it was 'a disgrace' that President Bush appointed two white men to the Supreme Court. Didn't President Bush want to appoint Harriet Miers to the court? Last time I looked, she is not a white man. According to Ms. Dowd, white men are bad and conservative women are stupid. This clearly indicates what the left-wing media is doing - marginalizing all with whom they disagree and demonizing entire groups of people they see as evil or dumb."
The Factor asked Fox News analysts Monica Crowley and Alan Colmes to assess Dowd's column. "This piece was not only racist," Crowley said, "it was also sexist. She went after Sarah Palin in the most disgusting and revolting way. When you read Dowd's piece, what comes across is that we are no longer a meritocracy, but all is based on affirmative action principles." But Colmes actually defended the double standard under which white men can be freely criticized. "There has always been a white power structure. There has never been a Hispanic on the court and out of 111 justices, only four have not been white men. When you are a member of a group that has not had power, there is a different paradigm." The Factor accused many in the media of manifest prejudice: "There is a strategy on the part of the left-wing media to say that white men have screwed up America and we need to throw them out." |
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| As The Factor reported Tuesday, the investment bank Goldman Sachs - which paid no federal income tax last year - stands to reap hundreds of millions of dollars if the "cap and trade" energy bill becomes law. Fox business experts Terry Keenan and Tobin Smith gave their analysis of the legislation. "This will kill our international competitiveness," Keenan said, "and Goldman Sachs will make boatloads of money. Their lobbyists in Washington would put the tobacco lobby to shame, and the worst thing is that we the taxpayers backed $22 billion in Goldman Sachs debt." But Smith accused The Factor of cherry-picking statistics. "You're being selective, Bill. Look at the taxes Goldman Sachs paid from 2000 to 2007, it was substantially above other corporations. This is an investment bank and they are in the business of making money from their investments." The Factor insisted that Wall Street's influence is pernicious and growing: "It's gotten worse under Obama than it was under Bush. 'Cap and trade' is going to hurt the little guy and Goldman Sachs is going to hurt the little guy." |
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| Los Angeles police, who now say Michael Jackson's death may have been a homicide, are investigating the role of Jackson's physicians. Entertainment reporter Harvey Levin entered the No Spin Zone with the latest on the case. "There is a lot of risk for the doctors," Levin said. "We are told that the LAPD is looking at Dr. Conrad Murray, who was at the Jackson house. There were drugs found and we are hearing that the anesthetic propofol will be listed as the primary cause of Jackson's death. We are also hearing that Jackson's downward spiral of drug addiction started in 1984 when his hair caught on fire and he became addicted to painkillers." |
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| There are more developments in the murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings, the Florida parents who had 17 children, most of them adopted special needs kids. Seven male suspects have been charged with murder, and another 'person of interest' has now turned herself in. "It is still a mystery," Florida radio host T.J. Hart told The Factor, "because a home invasion usually involves one or two people and is lightning-fast. They did make off with a safe, so robbery is a motive, but we also understand that some of the suspects have spent some time on that property, and the woman who was just brought in was a real estate agent who had properties near the home. So it's still a mystery what the motives may have been other than robbery." The Factor predicted that more revelations are forthcoming: "You invade a home with nine children in there? It just doesn't add up, and I think there is more to this story than the simple heist of a safe." |
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| The Factor invited Dennis Miller, who was in Japan when Michael Jackson died, to provide his belated observations. "This is a pretty simple equation," Miller said. "At the end of the day you can only put so many drugs into that frail a vessel. I view Michael Jackson as a Tennessee Williams character - Blanche DuBois if she could moonwalk - and this was inevitable." Miller criticized the sudden lionization of Jackson by some black opinion makers. "I think of people like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks staring down the gun barrel, and I am not going to do a disservice to them and ascribe that sort of nobility to what Michael Jackson did." Finally, Miller turned to politics and the resignation of Sarah Palin. "I'm happy for her, I hope she sells a book, makes a buck, and stays out for a while. The kicks they put on her were so vile that some of her detractors are going to be buried in unmarked graves." |
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| Britain's National Health Service has published a pamphlet encouraging school children to enjoy sex and have "an orgasm a day." London-based reporter Neal Sean explained more about the pamphlet and its rationale. "This was aimed at a town in the north of England," Sean said, "where they have a very high teen pregnancy rate. This pamphlet is actually advocating that perhaps children should engage in masturbation. It has shocked the nation, it hasn't gone down well at all." The Factor reminded viewers of a similar episode on this side of the pond. "Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders did the same kind of thing fifteen years ago and she had to resign. The problem is in the secular view that children have 'sexual rights,' the right to do whatever adults do." |
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| Wednesday's Patriot: A Chicago entrepreneur named Jim Andrews, whose business "Felony Franks" hires ex-cons who want a second chance. And the Pinhead: Al Sharpton, who claimed Bill "attacked James Brown when he died." The Factor set the record straight: "I never criticized James Brown when he died, ever! So the reverend's a pinhead and might take note - we only book honest guests on this program." |
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Barbara Samardich, Nevada City, CA: "Mr. O'Reilly, thank you for exposing the cap and trade con but you are missing the point on global warming. Carbon dioxide emissions do not pollute so this is a complete scam."
Bobby Keesee, Ballinger, TX: "Bill, you say you believe in global warming because of the stats. But warming cycles have occurred all throughout history."
Dr. J. Richard Jaconette, Battle Creek, MI: "Mr. O'Reilly, good, concise reporting on cap and trade. The best estimate is that it would lower the earth's temperature by just a fraction of a degree. Why would any responsible person vote for that?"
Jim Darlington, Charlottesville, VA: "I cancelled my subscription to Newsweek. I felt the magazine had become 'Demsweek.'" |
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