Dear Viewers, As you know, I have been in LA (now home via the red eye….) While I was there, I interviewed a number of people for an upcoming special. The topic of the special you will have to guess, but here is my hint: #1 picture of Joe Rogan …
Read More »Janet Rejects CBS Offer
NEW YORK – JanetRejects CBS Offer|Star-Studded Pre-GrammyDinner |Jacko Cried? EXCLUSIVE: Janet Rejects CBS Offer Janet Jackson has decided not to accept the CBS offer to appear on tonight’s Grammy show. The network said it would allow her to present a tribute to Luther Vandross if Jackson apologized for her appearance …
Read More »A Little Help from My …
And now the most fascinating two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: AP-propriate Lead? CIA DirectorGeorge Tenet (search)may have mounted a spirited defense of his agency on Iraq and asked for more time to complete its work, but this is how the AP led its report on …
Read More »Richard Clarke Has a Credibility Problem
Richard Clarke (search)has a credibility problem. He told the commission investigating Sept. 11 that fighting terrorism was not as high a priority in the Bush administration as it was in the Clinton administration. But Clarke is on record as saying just the opposite. In his resignation letter to President Bush, …
Read More »The Energy Bill's Bright Side
Efforts to pass the energy bill that fell two votes short of clearing the Senate in November will resume this month. Filled with subsidies and tax breaks for special interests andpork-barrel spending (search), the overall bill is hard for limited government-types like me to swallow. It does have one potentially …
Read More »Dean a Fit for Dem Party Leadership?
WASHINGTON – A year ago, thousands of fans now known as “Deaniacs” were crowding into local pubs and coffee houses to declare their support for their favorite Democratic outsider for president. Now, after a major loss in the primaries and a transformation into Democratic cheerleader, former Gov. Howard Dean (search) …
Read More »How the Media Encourages Poverty in America
To watch “The Talking Points Memo” click here. Hi. I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. How the media encourages poverty in America, that’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. At the People’s Choice Awards last night, Eminem won best male singer. That’s no surprise, since the …
Read More »Friend or Foe?
Over one foreign intervention, Democrats and Republicans are more or less united: Intervening in Sudan to stop the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousandsSudanese (search). Even Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., who fervently opposed U.S. involvement in Iraq, has called for intervention in the Sudan. But leave it to our Egyptian …
Read More »Clint Eastwood Gets 'Mystic'
Clint Eastwood |R.E.M.| Leo’s Money Man Clint Eastwood Gets ‘Mystic’ “I’m just about the only person not running for governor of California.” That’s what Clint Eastwood said when he took the stage Friday night at the New York Film Festival. The occasion was the premiere of Eastwood’s new Warner Bros. …
Read More »Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
As you may know,Al Gore (search)has endorsedHoward Dean (search), saying he’s the best chance to beat President Bush in 2004. That may or may not be true. Certainly the polls are not conclusive, but Mr. Gore is entitled to his opinion and to his endorsement. However, he should have called …
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