WATB of the Week: Bill O'Reilly claims, 'There was no cheerleading of President Bush on this network'
crooksandliars.com 10/15/2009 — DOWNLOADS: (31) PLAYS: (137) Bill O'Reilly was helping lead the chorus of whining that erupted on Fox News yesterday in response to Anita Dunn speaking the truth about their right-wing propaganda operation. He opened with a Talking Points Memo segment ...

O'Reilly: CNN, MSNBC "delight in showing Iraqi violence" and "are actually helping the terrorists"
mediamatters.org 10/13/2009 — During the "Talking Points Memo" segment on the June 12 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor , host Bill O'Reilly responded to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism , which found that Fox News spent less time covering the Iraq war ...

Every which way but loofah
salon.com 10/13/2009 — Oct. 13, 2004 | Popular right-wing talk show host Bill O'Reilly, star of "The O'Reilly Factor," and the company he works for, Fox News, were slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit today by Andrea Mackris, an associate producer on his show. (The ...

Bernie Goldberg on The Factor Slams “Some” at Fox News: “They pretend to be journalists . . . they then state as facts things that aren’t facts at all.”
newshounds.us 10/1/2009 — I think we've got a Top Dog tonight! What started out as a typical Bill O’Reilly cry-me-a-river Fox News pity party on The O’Reilly Factor veered wildly out of control when O’Reilly’s BFF Bernie Goldberg “went rogue” and called out “some programs” ...

Hume: ISG "did not reject the president's policy on Iraq"
mediamatters.org 10/13/2009 — On the December 10 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday , Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume falsely characterized the Iraq Study Group's report as a "stay-the-course document" that "did not reject the president's policy on ...

The war the times forgot
mudvillegazette.com 9/29/2009 — John Burns, on Iraq : "As for where the balance lies in all this -- whether it has in any sense been worth it -- that's an issue for history..." And that is certainly true. Somewhere in that history should be an acknowledgment of Burns' contribution to its documentation. There are lessons ...

Happy Bill O
gawker.com 10/13/2009 — Five years ago today, a luminous young producer at Fox News named Andrea Mackris enriched all of our lives just a little bit by suing a lecherous fathead named Bill O'Reilly for trying to rub falafel on her private parts. The good people at The ...

O’Reilly Targets Massachusetts School for First Day of “War On Christmas” 2009
newshounds.us 3 days ago — They can’t even wait until Thanksgiving is over. “Patriots” that they are, Fox News have leapfrogged right over our national holiday, which is still a week away, in favour of an early Christmas holiday present of faux outrage for their howling ...

Correcting George Will on Iraq -- By: NRO Staff
corner.nationalreview.com 9/9/2009 — In his latest column , about Iraq, George Will writes: “More than 725 Iraqis have been killed by terrorism since the June 30 pullback of U.S. forces from the cities.” That’s an annual death rate, on the Iraqi population of 28 million, of ...

The last of the few: the Marines leave Iraq
mudvillegazette.com 10/1/2009 — Looks like America's 1st Sgt. at Castra Praetoria (greast posts there - go check 'em out!) might have the honor of being of being the last Marine milblogger from Iraq . Here's why... ***** Six-year Legacy of Marine Corps Regiments in Iraq Followed by an Army Brigade Story by Cpl. Meg ...

Iraqi shoe thrower in Switzerland to rest: lawyer (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 10/14/2009
AP - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has arrived in Switzerland to recuperate from his time in prison and launch a foundation to help civilian war victims in Iraq.

Wounded Soldiers Return to Iraq, Seeking Solace — NYT > Politics 10/15/2009
Veterans are returning to scenes where they were maimed to get psychological closure, the first time such visits have been tried while a war is still in progress.

Investigators find flaws in Army body armor tests (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 10/16/2009
AP - The Army made critical mistakes in tests of a new body armor design, according to congressional investigators who recommend an independent review of the trials before the gear is issued to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. brigade won't go to Iraq, speeding withdrawal — Reuters: Politics 10/16/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Friday that it has scrapped plans to deploy a 3,500-member Army brigade to Iraq in January, accelerating a U.S. drawdown as the White House weighs sending more troop to Afghanistan.

Talk to the Editor with John Yemma for October 15: Iraq — Christian Science Monitor | Commentary 10/15/2009