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fivethirtyeight.com - 11/21/2008

Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism?

— fivethirtyeight.com — Nate Silver [NS]: Do you stand by all the statements in the survey as being unambiguously true?... John Ziegler [JZ]: I stand one hundred percent by the notion that there is absolutely zero ambiguity as to what the right answer is to any of the ... (more) Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism?

White House

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washingtonmonthly.com - 11/28/2008

Nobody likes O'Reilly

— washingtonmonthly.com — NOBODY LIKES O'REILLY.... Journalist Michael Wolff has a new biography on Rupert Murdoch that'll be published soon,... and Michael Calderone, who got an advance look at "The Man Who Owns The News," reports that the New Corp. CEO isn't fond... (more) Nobody likes O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly

Roger Ailes

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thinkprogress.org - 11/19/2008

O’Reilly surrenders to the War on Christmas: Touts his ‘holiday reading list.’

— thinkprogress.org — For years , Bill O’Reilly has been ranting about an alleged “ War on Christmas ,” claiming... liberals are unjustly replacing “Christmas” festivities with “Holiday” festivities. News Hounds notes that O’Reilly ... (more) O’Reilly surrenders to the War on Christmas: Touts his ...

Bill O'Reilly

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Hate crimes and illegal immigration: O'Reilly reverses the reality
Orcinus — ... Latinos to beat up because of the failures of the federal government? That seems to be O'Reilly's logic here. Isn't that blaming the victims? And doesn't O'Reilly preach "individual responsibility" for minorities who commit crimes? O'Reilly finishes up his tirade by demanding that Barack Obama adopt a "zero tolerance policy" towards illegal immigrants. Better the rest of us develop a "zero tolerance policy" for Bill O'Reilly's hatemongering. [Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars.]

Lou Dobbs doesn't want to deal with his own culpability for hate crimes
Crooks and Liars — ... in which a group of young whites went in search of Latinos to harm has raised serious questions about the relationship between immigrant-bashing rhetoric and the surge of anti-Latino bias crimes nationally. And the mainstream purveyors of this rhetoric -- particularly pundits like Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs -- are denying their culpability in the only means available to them: By distorting the reality of hate crimes themselves. In O'Reilly's case , this entailed conflating hate crimes with ordinary (and completely unrelated) crimes. And in Dobbs', as we saw on his ...

Hate crimes: It's time to finally pass a federal law
Orcinus — ... Prevention Act’ so that more lives are not lost in senseless attacks,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO. “The wave of hate unleashed by the polarized debate over immigration has led to an increase in violence and hate groups targeting Latinos. These recent deaths are a direct outcome of the anger and hatred spurred on by people who mischaracterize all Latinos and the institutions that serve them as a threat to our country.” No doubt Lou Dobbs and Bill O'Reilly will promptly find ways to distort this debate. But they need a little reality ...

Immigration and hate crimes: Forde case shows how 'respectable' nativists like FAIR help whip up the violence
Crooks and Liars — ... and O'Reilly have been patently disingenuous in running away from their culpability. Meanwhile, FAIR, CIS, and the rest of the John Tanton Network have done likewise. And as ...