ITEM #1: Last week, on The Factor, O’Reilly attempted to marginalize Air America Radio two days in a row by claiming that they were meaningless and failed because they are currently only carried on “20 affiliates”. Never mind that when O’Reilly launched his radio show, he had enough money to actually pay stations to carry his show! But more notably, O’Reilly has a long term grudge with Al Franken, one of the AAR hosts, and can’t even manage to say his name on his “no-spin” program, spinning him as “Stuart Smalley” instead of using his real name. So O’Reilly continues to spin his own opinions about Franken and AAR by simply lying about them.

A quick check of the Air America Radio website, would have told O’Reilly that they are on “32 Stations Nationwide” according to the banner headline on the front page of their site. After his statement the first day we could have been generous and called it a mistake. Repeating it verbatim the next day, however, was no mistake. It was just spin.

ITEM #2: For the last several weeks O’Reilly has been going on about James Carville and Paul Begala working with the Kerry Campaign in an unpaid advisory capacity while continuing their role as co-hosts on CNN’s Crossfire. While, unlike O’Reilly, neither Carville nor Begala refer to themselves as journalists, but rather as admitted partisans who host the liberal side of a political debate show. At the end of last week O’Reilly huffed at one of his guests who challenged “the bloviator’s” claim as disingenous because Fox does virtually nothing but support the Bush campaign. O’Reilly then launched into a challenge asking him to “Name names!” about who does that at Fox, promising he would call them out if they did!

The answer (that the guest didn’t have at hand) is Sean Hannity who lent his imprimatur to the Republican National Party by narrating videos for the GOP Convention website. I wrote O’Reilly to name the name, but so far, I haven’t noticed any on-air corrections or condemnations for it. You can still hear Hannity at the GOPConvention website right here.

ITEM #3: As you may know, O’Reilly still has his silly on-going “Boycott” of France. Here’s a quick snippet on that from O’Reilly’s interview with Jon Stewart last week:

…And he didn’t have anymore to say on the matter as the subject was then changed. But Stewart makes an excellent point there. Why aren’t all those ridiculous French Bashers out there calling for a boycott of products from Saudi Arabia — who is also “supposed to be our friend” — instead? $1.97 a gallon says you know the answer. Hypocrites.