Bill O'Reilly to Matt Lauer: Have A 'Telethon on the Today Show' If You Want Funding for 'Climate Control'

It's why Bill O'Reilly is consistently No. 1:

During his Talking Points Memo at the top of Wednesday's O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, host Bill O'Reilly called out NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer for denouncing Republican efforts to cut spending on things like "climate control": "Are you kidding me, Lauer? Funding for climate control? Nobody can control the climate but God. So give a little extra at mass or services."


As NewsBusters reported, on Wednesday's Today, Lauer lamented: "...some of the things the Tea Party and others on the far right are asking for – no funding for Planned Parenthood, no funding for climate control, public broadcasting." In response, O'Reilly remarked: "Funding for Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting when the debt stands at 14 trillion? Have a telethon on the Today show for those concerns. Raise the money privately. This is nuts. The country's nearly bankrupt. China holds more than a trillion dollars of our debt and you guys want climate control funding? I feel a cold front coming on."

Glenn Beck "Transitioning Off" FOX

Other than Beck succumbing to pressure from the Left, I just can't see why him and FOX would really be parting ways. I mean he's been saying for months that the advertiser boycott wasn't affecting him or his program. He just got through beating back King Soros and all his cronies in the lamestream media again and despite what some folks have been saying out there his ratings remain sublime, so what other reason could he really have for quitting and letting them win? This just sucks:

Completing a swift rise and fall from TV stardom, controversial host Glenn Beck will lose his once-popular Fox News show later this year, the network announced Wednesday.

Beck's 5 p.m. program, which earned scorn from liberals for its attacks on President Obama as well as its devotion to sometimes-obscure right-wing thinkers, was a top cable draw in 2009 and a signpost for the populist "tea party" movement in last year's midterm elections, which dealt a ballot-box rebuke to the White House.

But ratings plummeted and advertisers bailed as Beck — a cherubic, salt-and-pepper-haired longtime radio host who has compared himself to a rodeo clown — increasingly pursued a hard-to-follow agenda that many found too conspiracy-minded. He also chafed his bosses at Fox News, who faulted him for spending too much time on his far-flung business operations and not enough on honing his TV presentation.

Both sides cobbled together a diplomatically worded statement Wednesday that noted Beck would "transition off" his daily program but stressed that the host and Fox News had reached a new deal for future, as-yet-unspecified projects. Joel Cheatwood, a senior Fox News executive, was hired away to help run Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts.

Fox News and Beck both declined to comment beyond the statement.

Obama’s Own Adviser: This Spending Is 'Cancer' That Will Destroy America

Newsmax.com:

The threat of a government shutdown loomed Tuesday as a meeting involving President Barack Obama and congressional leaders fell apart without agreement and the two sides appeared to be further apart than ever.


The potential shutdown comes on the heels of a Treasury Department report showing the country is spending at an alarming rate, and Erskine Bowles, the co-chairman of Obama’s budget committee, describing the nation’s deficit as a “cancer” that could “destroy this country” if nothing is done.


After Tuesday’s meeting with Obama, House Speaker John Boehner declared that no deal had been reached. He also warned House Republicans “will not be put in a box” by being forced to accept a deal that they do not believe is right for the American people.


With Republicans up against their self-imposed, 72-hour advance notice requirement before they will vote on any legislation, the time for a compromise is running short. The current resolution to fund government operations ends Friday.


Bowles recently told the Senate Budget Committee that he is “really concerned” the nation’s grave fiscal woes are being ignored. One sign of the growing deficit problem: The Treasury Department reported that, in March, the federal government spent eight times the amount of tax revenue it collected.


“This debt and these deficits that we are incurring on an annual basis are like a cancer and they are truly going to destroy this country from within unless we have the common sense to do something about it,” Bowles warned.

Obama Announces Khalid Sheikh Mohammed To Be Tried By Military Commission

Anything that angers the terrorist-sympathizers on the Left as much as this does is the right decision in my book:

Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up Monday on trying avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen in civilian federal court in New York and will prosecute them instead before military commissions.


The families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks have waited almost a decade for justice, and "it must not be delayed any longer," Attorney General Eric Holder told a news conference at the Justice Department.


Using strong language, Holder blamed Congress for imposing restrictions blocking any detainees from being tried in the U.S., saying that the "unwise and unwarranted restrictions" undermine the U.S. in counter-intelligence and counter-terror efforts.


Asked by a reporter if he thought he knew better than Congress on the matter, Holder aid he is intimately familiar with the cases, more so than members of Congress.


"Do I know better than them? Yes. I respect their ability to disagree but they should respect that this is an executive branch function, a unique executive branch function," Holder said.


Those comments prompted New York Republican congressman Peter King to call for Holder to step down. "If he feels that strongly about what Congress has done... then he has a moral obligation to resign," King told conservative talk show host Steve Malzberg Monday.


In November 2009, Holder had announced the plan for a New York trial blocks from where the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed the World Trade Center. That idea was thwarted by widespread opposition from Republicans and even some Democrats, particularly in New York.


Congress passed legislation that prohibits bringing any detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States.

Glenn Beck Takes Down Howard Dean, Calls Him Demented

Source: Mediaite

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Howard Dean Tells College Students Fox News Lies - Then Lies to Them Four Times

Newsbusters.org:

The disgustingly sanctimonious Howard Dean gave a lecture at Carnegie Mellon University on March 24 wherein he once again attacked Fox News calling it a propagandist arm of the Republican Party that lies to the American people.


Ironically, during his one hour speech, the former Vermont governor committed some laughable whoppers of his own.


To give his audience an idea of what he considers real news, Dean actually said CBS's Katie Couric is balanced.


And then the lies began.


"The top one percent of Americans owns twice as much as the percentage of America than they did 20 years ago, and that of course has to come from somebody else, and it comes from the people who aren't in the top one percent."


Nonsense. The reason people at the top have seen such huge wealth gains in the past 20 to 30 years is because of an increase in stock, commodity, and real estate prices. This is what they invest in, and those investments - despite several bubble bursts - have done extremely well.


It really is a disgusting myth foisted upon the society by America's liberals that the rich take from the poor. The rich don't think about how to get money from the poor because the poor don't have any money to take.


But Dean was just getting warmed up, for he next claimed Republicans controlled the House and the Senate for six years while George W. Bush was President.


I guess Dean forgot that while he was governor of Vermont, a Republican Senator from his state by the name of Jim Jeffords defected from the GOP on May 24, 2001, giving the Democrats back the Senate.


As such, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress less than 4 1/2 years while Bush was in the White House.

RELATED: Fox's Greta Van Susteren Asks: "What's Up With Howard Dean?" 

Paul Ryan on Obama: We Don't Need a Good Politician We Need a Strong Leader

Neil Cavuto Calls Chris Matthews A "Pretentious Snob"

Mediaite.com:

Neil Cavuto noticed the intense coverage as of late for many potential Republican presidential candidates who are often dismissed by the mainstream media as being on the “fringe.” Cavuto suggested that the reason the media tries to laugh them off is because many are “seriously worried that these possible candidates aren’t jokes.”


Cavuto shared with his audience how when he started on Fox News, nobody took him or the channel seriously. Now that he and Fox have grown in prominence and credibility, he realized that the way he previously was treated is the the same way Republican candidates are being treated now. Cavuto suggested that the motto of the media is “if you can’t beat’em, laugh at ‘em and hope folks dismiss them.” Yet if all the Republican candidates are clowns, Cavuto wonders why do so many news outlets continue to cover them?


The most intriguing moment came with Cavuto’s not-so-subtle jab at Chris Matthews. Cavuto asked, “if one pretentious snob at another channel says Michele Bachmann looks like she’s hypnotized, what is behind her hypnotic appeal on your not so appealing show?” And more generally, he questioned “if Donald Trump is a flash-in-the-plan, why do you keep flashing the same plan?” Instead, Cavuto seems to suggest that even if the media tries “to make a collective joke out of all of them along the way,” one of these supposedly “fringe” candidates very possibly could emerge as the legitimate Republican nominee.

Good stuff.

Snooki Gets $32,000 To Speak At A College, Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison Gets $30,000

The sad state of our college universities (esp. on the east coast) around the country are pretty much summed up here:

Big hair scores big bucks in speaking fees at New Jersey's state university. A Nobel prize? Not so much.


Rutgers University on Friday defended spending about $32,000 to bring reality television star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to campus this week, despite several students questioning if it was a wise use of money.


That's $2,000 more than the school is paying Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison to speak at graduation on May 15.


"We have more than 200 events on our campus during the course of the year, everything from scholarly presentations to entertainment," Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas said.


"The students canvassed for who they wanted here and had the funds available," he said.


More than 1,000 people came to the New Brunswick, New Jersey, campus to hear Snooki of MTV's "The Jersey Shore" speak Thursday.


Student Hina Rehman, 20, said she found it "disappointing" her tuition money was going to fund the event.


"The fact that our school spent $32,000 to bring her is ridiculous," she said. "It's fine the money used here is meant for entertainment purposes, but I think we can get better entertainment than that."

Liberal Wisconsin Teacher Charged With Threatening Republican Lawmakers

CBSNews.com:

A 26-year-old woman is being charged with allegedly sending email threats to a handful of Wisconsin lawmakers during the state's contentious battle over collective bargaining rights earlier this month.


The woman, Katherine Windels, is being charged with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts, for sending computer messages threatening injury or harm, and for propagating bomb scares.


According to a criminal complaint filed in the Dane County Circuit Court, Windels, under the alias "Lisa Patterson," first sent threatening emails to State Senator Robert Cowles on March 9, stating that "Because of your actions today and in t=e past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me =ave decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and your republica= dictators have to die." (Spelling errors appear as in original complaint provided to CBSNews.com.)


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The email went on to outline a plan that involved "arriving at your house and=putting a nice little bullet in your head," as well as planting bombs "in various locations around =he areas in which we know that you frequent" - such as "your house, yo=r car, the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them becaus= that's just no fun."


In a second e-mail, sent by the same alias to 15 Wisconsin state Senators, Windels warns of having planted strategically-located bombs, and threatens, "you will be killed and your familes=will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."


"Please explai= to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then =t will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the def=cit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell," says the e-mail, the subject line of which reads: "Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!"


The woman, when questioned about the emails, said "I sent out emails that I was disgusted and very upset by what [Republican lawmakers] were doing," according to the complaint.


The report states that Windels told investigators she had not intended to follow through with her threats, and when questioned about a particular line in the email, she said, "I know I said that, but I don't know why I said that."

Somehow too, this crazy loon wasn't arrested. Can't imagine all the hype and controversy that would take place if this were a conservative woman threatening Democrat pols.