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Yesterday morning, Bill O'Reilly was a guest on The View and got into such a heated exchange with Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg that those panelists walked off the set. Watch the confrontation unfold NOW.

Last night, meanwhile, the Fox News host addressed this "fiery debate" on his Talking Points segment.

  • Leaving the Set
  • O'Reilly on The View

Admitting that "I am often offensive, everyone knows that," O'Reilly defended his belief that a mosque should not be built near the site of 9/11 by saying:

“No one I know wants to insult Muslims, but many are tired of the political correctness surrounding the 9/11 attack. Did we say, in World War II, ‘We were attacked by “Japanese extremists”? [...] No: we said we were attacked by ‘Japanese.’”

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Bill O'Reilly appeared on The View today. But he wasn't exactly treated like a welcome guest.

As soon as the topic turned to the proposed mosque around the site of 9/11, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar got into it with the Fox News anchor. He argued that 70% of the country was against the Muslim center and that it was "inappropriate," albeit clearly constitutional, to erect.

They argued that people should be smart/tolerant enough to differentiate between a religion and the extremists within that religion. At least that's what we think both sides said, as voices were raised and opinions flew until Goldberg and Behar actually stormed off the set...

Said Barbara Walters of the incident: "We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands and screaming and walking off stage. I love my colleagues, but that should not have happened."

Watch the video and choose a side in this feud:

 

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Bill O'Reilly hosts the highest-rated cable news show on television.

As a result, one would hope the Fox News anchor would use such a pulpit to tackle important, practical issues facing the country. Instead, he chimes in on the latest celebrity gossip headlines in order to conjure up controversy and make headlines for himself.

First, he took issue with Jennifer Aniston's comment that science allows older, single women to have a baby these days via in vitro fertilization. O'Reilly referred to this harmless, factual point as "destructive to our society."

Now, the talk show host has set his sights on Justin Bieber and the photo shoot he did for Elle with Kim Kardashian. Said O'Reilly:

"I wanted to be a baseball player [when I was 16]. I didn't want to hang around with Kim Kardashian...I had a baseball bat and a bat and [a pair of] ice skates! That's what I was doing... if a 16-year-old girl was pictured with a 29-year-old man in any of that, he'd be in big trouble."

For Elle

By sitting a few feet in front of Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber is clearly helping to destroy society, right, Bill O'Reilly?

Added Republican strategist Margaret Hoover, a panelist on The O'Reilly Factor: "I think it's gross. It's a 16-year-old having an affair with a celebutante!"

It's actually just a 16-year old sitting next to, and running along the beach with, a celebutante. But why would Fox News let facts get in the way of an imaginary scandal that increases ratings? Sarah Palin doesn't do that with the First Amendment.

There's no reason to think the network that provides her talking points will do so any time soon.

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After Bill O'Reilly basically disparaged her and called her destructive to society, Jennifer Aniston has clarified her recent comments about single motherhood.

Doing so, she had some choice words for the Fox News personality.

"Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth," Aniston told People.

The star of The Switch continued: "And, of course, many women dream of finding Prince Charming (with fatherly instincts), but for those who've not yet found their Bill O'Reilly, I'm just glad science has provided a few other options."

Lonely Girl

Jen's new movie is about a woman gets pregnant via a sperm donor. The actress said women no longer have to wait for the perfect guy to start a family.

"Women are realizing it more and more, knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," she said, promoting the film. "Love is love and family is what is around you and who is in your immediate sphere."

Perfectly reasonable, especially within the context of the work of fiction she was talking about. But Bill still took offense and made more out of this.

On The O'Reilly Factor, the host called the actress's comments "destructive to our society," and accused her of "diminishing the role of the dad."

"Dads bring a psychology to children that is in this society, I believe, under-emphasized. I think men get hosed all day long in the parental arena."

Whose side are you on?

 

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Bill O'Reilly.

You have to give the Fox News host credit for speaking his mind, and not everything that comes out of his mouth is outrageous, but sometimes ... come on man.

His newest target is Jennifer Aniston. The actress, famously lonely pathetic haggard miserable single at 41, recently said she doesn't need a man to have children.

"Women are realizing it more and more, knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," she said at a press conference for The Switch.

"Times have changed and we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you waited too long."

Bill O' No You Didn't!

Bill takes serious exception to Jen's point.

Personally, we didn't interpret that as a call for premarital, unprotected sex and single-parent child-rearing, but some people over at Fox News Channel did.

"She's throwing the message out to 12- and 13-year-olds, 'Hey you don't need a guy. You don't need a dad.,' O'Reilly said. "That is destructive to our society."

Really, Bill? Teens are going to have sex and raise kids without a man's help because Jennifer Aniston says it's easier these days than in generations past?

Apparently. Fox's Gretchen Carlson said, "She is glamorizing single parenthood."

In The Switch, Aniston plays Kassie, a single woman seeking a sperm donor. An adult who made a conscious choice to raise a child alone, and likely thought about the consequences first ... a little different than what Bill's implying right?

You tell us: Is she sending a bad message or should Bill lay off?

 

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Ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is steamed, and rightfully so, over some blatantly tasteless Down Syndrome mockery on last weekend's episode of Fox's Family Guy - a low blow clearly inspired by her own mentally challenged child.

But man, does she love any excuse to run her mouth.

On The O'Reilly Factor, Palin reiterated how offended she is at the Family Guy quotes that ridiculed her family (as they do everyone and everything else).

In between about 37 plugs for daughter Bristol's Facebook page, Sarah righteously saddled up on her high horse to promote Sarah Palin defend son Trig.

She also demanded that White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel resign for using the term "retard" but defended Rush Limbaugh for the same thing.

Her defense of Rush is perhaps the most puzzling. Why not say he was wrong to use it too? Is this woman for real?! Check out her interview below:

Whose side are you on?

 

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For the second night in a row, Jon Stewart appeared on The O'Reilly Factor.

While there were still no verbal blowups between The Daily Show anchor and Bill O'Reilly, exchanges turned a little more fiery than they did during round one of the interview.

Among the topics broached below:

  • The threat of nuclear weapons;
  • Sarah Palin's warped idea of "real America."
  • The trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York City.

Stewart's quick take on these issues: Fox News ratchets up fear on the first; where one lives is irrelevent to one's status as an American; and there are valid concerns regarding the third, but one of them is NOT that we'll suddently be a terrorist target. How come?

We already are.

Watch and then vote below:

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While it came across more like a conversation between two reluctant friends than an epic battle between good and evil, Jon Stewart appeared on The O'Reilly Factor last night.

The Fox News host tried to engaged The Daily Show anchor by referring to his audience as “stoned slackers who love Obama,” but Stewart didn't take the bait. He merely responded with a chuckle and carefully laid out President Obama's first-year strengths and weaknesses.

It was a nuanced, fair explanation, the kind Fox News viewers must have been utterly confounded by. Watch an exchange between the hosts below:

It's clear Stewart appeared on the wrong show, as he admitted O'Reilly was the "sanest" voice at the network, although he added: “That’s like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.”

Put the Comedy Central star against Glenn Beck, however, and we'd imagine the sparks would fly. Stewart made multiple references to Beck's - how shall we put it? - unique style of BSing viewers with whatever sob story would garner the most ratings.

The biggest laugh of the interview? When O'Reilly claimed Beck did not have a right-wing agenda.

Because these two almost got along too well - Stewart saved his most damning critique for Fox News, saying it sells "the clearest narrative" and works fans into a tizzy via a passion-based, "cyclonic" barrage of information that spins reasonable arguments into outrageous claims - we need to ratchet up the intensity between each's supporters.

Whose team are you on?

 

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Whether he's debating whether Miley is a skank or comparing Michael Jackson to O.J., Bill O'Reilly is never one to shy away from hot-button, pop-cultural topics.

This time, the Fox news host is irate at Law & Order: SVU and its producer Dick Wolf after what he felt was a defamatory reference about him on the NBC drama.

This week's episode involved an anti-immigration activist who set out to kill children of illegal immigrants. A character named Randall Carver, played by John Larroquette, defended the activist's actions to Fin, the detective played by Ice-T.

Larroquette's character says, "Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly ... are like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate. They've convinced folks immigrants are the problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a broken health care system."

Bill slammed the "defamatory and outrageous" scene and said Wolf as a "coward" and "liar." He insisted (via a montage of clips) that is problem isn't with illegal immigrants themselves, but with the government doing little to control immigration.

He also took an irrelevant, but funny shot at NBC's ratings.

Check out the clip and see what you think ...

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Last night on the "Talking Points" segment of his Fox News program, The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly was simply “fed up with all the adulation” over Michael Jackson.

Among Bill's observations on the day of MJ's memorial service:

  • Jackson’s "incredible selfishness, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on himself while singing ‘We Are The World’" should make anyone nauseous.
  • Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other African-Americans are shamelessly “playing the race card” by claiming Jackson as one of their own in death.
  • “If (Jackson) were a white guy,” his behavior would never be tolerated.
  • “You don’t become an African-American icon” if you bleach your skin.

As bad as that was, his guest, "media critic" Bernard Goldberg, was worse.

Goldberg first defended U.S. Rep. Peter King, who has come under fire for calling Jackson a “low-life,” a “pedophile” and a "child molester" over the weekend.

The New York Republican is enraged at people extolling the virtues of Jackson, putting at least part of the blame on media coverage that is "too politically correct."

The icing on the cake came when Goldberg said, “Then again, to many black people, if you remember the reaction after he was acquitted, O.J. Simpson was a hero.”

Here's O'Reilly's "Talking Points" and an interview with Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill, who tried his best to dispute some of the above comments:

What do you think? Are these guys way out of line, even racist? Or are they the only ones taking the media to task for glorifying Michael Jackson?

 

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