Subject: Bill O'Reilly

• Bordering on Nonsense

  For those of you sensible enough to avoid watching President Bush's twenty minute attempt to distract the public from his other problems and shore up his sinking poll numbers address on immigration last night, the relentlessly evenhanded Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly (by way of Irvine) has neatly summed things up: Beef up the borders with troops and high tech wizardry but insist that it's not "militarization"; start up a guest worker program that's not called a guest worker program; intro

  May 16, 2006

• The Grinch Who Stole O'Reilly

  Our rootstacular music contributor, Buddy Seigal (who in another life is rootstacular musician extraordinaire Buddy Blue) sent this in to us a couple days ago, at which time we muttered into the curb, "If ever that Clockwork blog is up and ruining again, we'll share this with our vast reader." But we also felt duty bound to credit the original source, and although we found references to this Rep. John Dingell ditty from the usual suspects (like Wonkette, Democratic Underground, Kos), we could no

  December 20, 2005

• Hit Me With Your Chastening Stick, It's Nice to Be a Lunatic...

  The year's not over yet, but the funniest thread EVER can be found right now at Democratic Underground. But first we gotta back up--AND BEND OVER, MAGGOT! It seems there is this Internet company run out of a couple's garage in that enlightened burg of Bakersfield, known previously as the place where Mick picked up gospel music on the colored radio station, that sells a little something called a chastening instrument. According to Child Training Resources, their chastening instrument fulfills "th

  December 27, 2005

• Hugh's on First?

  Your favorite TV Time Tracker figured one of those knuckleheads at The Blotter would have already, uh, blottered this, but in case you missed it: Orange County's very own right-wing whackmaster Hugh Hewitt was on The Colbert Report the other night--and he wasn't even being punked like some other recent OC politicos were by a different Comedy Central faux news program. And damn if Baby Hughie wasn't reserved as host Stephen Colbert, who does the second best right-wing whackmaster impression on te

  April 26, 2006

• Papa Bear Coming to The Dick

  From the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Deathplace and Untruthiness Center: BILL O'REILLY SET FOR NIXON LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 28 TV, Radio Superstar coming to launch Culture Warrior One of the biggest figures in American media, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, has selected the Nixon Library for the West Coast launch of his 4th big book, Culture Warrior, at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 28. It's one of only three signings he's scheduled throughout the country. O'Reilly has authored three New York Ti

  July 18, 2006

• Bill O'Reilly and the Media Mobius Strip

  November 5, 2007

• The Wars Most Unusual Casualty

  April 17, 2003

• Spinning Out of Control

  July 8, 2004

• Kids Eat Free!

  December 23, 2004

• Musical Advent Calendar: Snoop Doggy Dogg, et al, 'Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto'

  Death Row Records--co-founded by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight in 1991--was, of course, incredibly influential in the world of west coast rap in the early '90s. And incredibly controversial.But not everything released on the label was quite as provocative as say, "Deep Cover." There was also 1996's Christmas on Death Row album, which boasted songs like opener "Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto"--not to be confused with, but likely inspired by the James Brown song of the same name--by Dat Nigga D

  December 11, 2008

• Amazingly, Hugh Hewitt Only Classy Local Conservative Pundit for Obama Inauguration

  The great tragedy of our local conservative yakmouth-gone-big Hugh Hewitt is that there is intellect in him. Yeah, he always seems to walk lockstep with wackos (see: Nixon, Romney, Palin), but the guy is well-read, fund-raises often for good non-political causes and isn't ultimately noxious. Silly, sí, but not noxious--especially when compared with his talk-show brethren.Yesterday was further proof of that. On his blog, Hewitt characterized President Barack Obama's speech as "a fine beginning"

  January 21, 2009

• Torture Memo Author Finds Friends and Foes at Chapman U

  Perhaps some of you have a conservative uncle who says stupid things. You know, like the U.S. is not in debt to China, or that Barack Obama is a socialist or that George W. Bush won his presidential elections. Mine recently repeated the Bill O'Reilly/Rush Limbaugh/Attila the Hun yarn about all the students and professors at UC Berkeley being flaming liberals. I tried to politely bring up the stuntmeisters known as the Berkeley College Republicans, who in 2003 famously held an Affirmative Action

  February 16, 2009

• Why Southern Hip-Hop Is the Same as FOX News

  May 1, 2008

• Capo Valley High's James Corbett Isn't the First Local Educator to Face OC's Cultural Conservatives

  April 10, 2008

• Monday - 11/26

  Rock Star Karaoke at Slidebar, Christmas Tree Lighting at South Coast Plaza

  November 22, 2007

• Shoot 'em Up

  Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy over there in The Kingdom

  September 27, 2007

• The Conservative Pundit's Nightmare

  Shock! Rapper Common links public and private issues with thoughtfulness!

  September 6, 2007

• Through With Bars

  June 26, 2003

• !Ask a Mexican!

  Three-question edition

  March 29, 2007

• Letters

  'Theres a joke in Puerto Rico that says the only reason Hitler ordered that the Jews be killed is because he didnt know Cubans existed'

  December 14, 2006

• Radical Chick

  You cant tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

  November 16, 2006

• Looking for Muslims in the Comedy World

  May 25, 2006

• Not Another Xmas Movie

  December 22, 2005

• Commie Girl

  December 15, 2005

• Season 2, Episode 8

  January 13, 2005

• Diary of A Mad Year

  2004 regurgitated

  December 30, 2004

• Eight Days

  December 30, 2004

• Eight Days

  December 23, 2004

• Season 2, Episode 1

  November 4, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 24, 2004

• Burning Bush

  April 15, 2004

• Proclaim This

  April 8, 2004

• The New Woody Guthries

  March 11, 2004

• The Presidents Conservative Critics

  February 26, 2004

• The Vegas Line

  February 12, 2004

• Through With Bars

  July 3, 2003

• Street Justice

  June 19, 2003

• Monopoly Man

  April 24, 2003

• Wanna See Something Really Scary?

  November 7, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 15, 2002

• Excited!

  August 2, 2001

• True Lies?

  July 5, 2001

• WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

  John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive folks--if that's even possible--that I'm forgetting.After the partisan Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation that had been running the place turned over the keys to the National Archives--w

  June 10, 2009

• And Speaking of John Dean in Orange County . . .

  UPDATED WITH CORRECTED GENDER FOR ONE MAN, JOB DESCRIPTION FOR ANOTHER (THANK YOU, REV. TAYLOR). Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, whose June appearance drew 300 people to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and the wrath of the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation, is returning to Orange County next month."The Fullerton Public Library proudly presents an author talk with John W. Dean, best-selling author of Worse Than Watergate," states the fli

  July 21, 2009

• Piercing Through the Bill O'Reilly-Keith Olbermann Fued

  ​Perhaps the blood feud between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann can be resolved with a simple game of darts.That's what an Israel-based graphic arts website seems to believe with the portraits it has bound for the cable TV blabbermouths who go head-to-head--and toe-to-toe--on Fox News and MSNBC respectively.

  September 2, 2009

• OC Register's Steven Greenhut To Take On Sacramento

  A headache for liberals soon arrives in Sacramento ​Earlier today, Art Pedroza at OrangeJuiceBlog reported that Steven Greenhut, the longtime senior editorial writer and columnist at The Orange County Register, has accepted a job in Sacramento. Though he didn't have the details, Pedroza was right. Greenhut told me tonight that he is opening a news bureau and investigative journalism program in the state capital for the Pacific Research Institute, the free-market, individual liberty organizatio

  September 16, 2009

• Is Obama Our Nixon and Fox News Our New York Times?

  ​Is Barack Obama this generation's disgraced Orange County favorite son Richard Nixon?And does that make Fox News the Dick-era equivalent of the Pentagon Papers-publishing New York Times?Well, Bebe Rebozo, see if you can follow the bouncing twisted-logic ball . . .

  October 14, 2009

• Gnome if you want to, gnome around the world

  Anyone who's swung by lately has noticed the large dumpster alongside the curb in front of Casa de Clockwork, the Andy Gump outhouse just on the other side of the back fence, the dueling radios wafting Bill O'Reilly from the contractor's truck parked out front and mariachi music from his crew's little portable out back. Damn, you must be thinking, those do constitute improvements at that fleabag Clock flophouse. But, no, those aren't the actual improvements; those are just some of the bonuses th

  January 13, 2006

• Will You Protest Bill O'Reilly for Orly Taitz?

  Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly devoted a short segment on The Factor to Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz a few nights ago. Nothing in depth; just featured two ladies with no perceivable qualifications other than their intellect discussing the $20,000 judicial fine recently levied on Taitz. There didn't seem to be much sympathy for the "eligibility" cause: Ever since, Taitz's blog has featured a steady stream of letters from outraged followers. Thank goodness they're turning their words into action by or

  October 29, 2009

• Orly Taitz and Barbara Coe, Together Again

  ​Well, this isn't shocking. Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., the key anti-Obama lawyer that has had every single one of her lawsuits challenging the President's eligibility dismissed, will be speaking at an upcoming meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform.You remember CCIR, Gustavo's favorite bashers of Mexicans, Muslims, gays, vaccines and reality. It's actually where Taitz first met Rev. Wiley Drake, one of the first plaintiffs in her lawsuits (they've since become es

  November 4, 2009