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With news of a possible Rosie O’Donnell show on MSNBC, Bill O’Reilly, a frequent critic of both, predictably led the November 6 "O’Reilly Factor" with his take.O’Reilly rehashed Rosie O’Donnell’s most inflammatory comments. Among them were her famous "fire can’t melt steel" September 11 conspiracy theory, calling terrorists "mothers and fathers," implying the British-Iranian hostage crisis was a…

Al Gore. Michael Moore. Robert Redford. On Wednesday, the actor/director became the third prominent left-winger to appear on "Good Morning America" this year and berate journalists for not being liberal enough. Redford, in his second GMA interview this week, Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep stopped by to promote "Lions For Lambs," their new anti-war drama. During the interview, co-host Diane Sawyer…

The Independent Television Service was established by Congress in 1988 with legislation directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to establish ITVS with "a national coalition of independent producer groups." Currently, CPB awards $15 million a year to ITVS, a one-sided, left-wing "independent" filmmakers’ organizing center. ITVS saw its purpose to be "a catalyst for change, a way…

In an interview in Elle magazine, actress Keira Knightley ("Pirates of the Caribbean", "Atonement"), lets loose on her frustrations with biased media. (h/t Matthew Felling) While I'm not sure how her politics skews -- she may be a leftie who thinks the media are too conservatively biased -- the British actress is spot on about the problem of subjective reporting:

What changes our exchange rate, and should we worry about it? BMI adviser Gary Wolfram explains.

Co-hosts prod guests about the R-word, select states with bad news.

For general debate and discussion. Possible talking point: Oil is now at $97.50 a barrel. Will it break $100, and what might that do to the economy?

In an editorial with the misleadingly bland title "Legal Loopholes in Iraq," the Times editorial page took a leap into left-wing logic Monday, referring to private security contractors like Blackwater as "mercenaries." "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refers to the lack of legal accountability that allows mercenaries working for the American government to kill Iraqis without fear of…

Just when you thought those holding on to the claim that the Iraq War is a failure had reached the intellectual bottom of the barrel, we get this from David Obey, as reported by Mike Soraghan at The Hill: Terrorists are ‘running out of people to kill,’ says Obey If violence is decreasing in Iraq, it may be because insurgents “are running out of people to kill,” House Appropriations Committee…

UPDATE: Mark appeared this morning on the G. Gordon Liddy show to discuss this and other issues. Listen to audio clip here.OK, class, someone tell us: what's been the attitude of the New York Times and the elite media at large toward democracy-building in Iraq?What's that, Johnny? That it was naive for George Bush to imagine that democracy was attainable in a Muslim country riven by religious…