Bill O’Reilly is marking an anniversary this week. Mr. O’Reilly’s program on the Fox News Channel, “The O’Reilly Factor,” in March reached a milestone of 100 consecutive months as the most popular program on cable news. To celebrate, he granted a round of interviews and appeared on “The View,” “Good Morning America” and other programs. On Tuesday night Mr. O’Reilly sat down with David Letterman on “The Late Show,” where the two sparred about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Penn. – From NY Times
NPR “liberal” Juan Williams was on The Factor, spouting nonsense: “Let me just tell you this. If you think about liabilities for President Obama that are close to him, Joe Biden is up there. But Michelle Obama’s right there. Michelle Obama, you know she’s got the Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going. If she starts talking, as Mary Katherine suggested, her instinct is to start with this ‘Blame America,’ you know, ‘I’m the victim.’ If that stuff starts to come out, people will go bananas and she’ll go from being the new Jackie O to being something of an albatross.”
And then Bill O’Reilly responds, “She’s not going to do that.” Wait, what?
Um, who is Stokely Carmichael? According to The Wikipedias: “was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “Snick”) and later as the “Honorary Prime Minister” of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements.”
Jessica Alba had a few choice words for Bill O’Reilly on the red carpet of the Jan. 18 Declare Yourself party in Washington, D.C. When asked by a producer of The O’Reilly Factor if she had an Inauguration shout-out for the controversial show host, Alba said, “No, he’s kind of an…kind of an a–hole. A little bit.” Well, you know, she’s kinda right…